I am unable to do the magic eye things, my eyes just don’t focus on that way. Good thing I never am required to

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    some people have mentioned. on occasion. that my spelling and grammar may not be perfect. My artistic ability is really limited to. Can’t think of others but many likely do effect my daily life. My wife could likely give me a good list to work off of.

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    Couldn’t admit this to myself until my 40’s, but I have a serious mechanical handicap. Doesn’t stop me from trying!

    We had standard tests in elementary school and I jammed out in the 90+ percentile on most subjects. The last part was called spatial reasoning. Here’s 3 shapes, if you put them together, which shape will they make. Stuff like that. Tried really hard, couldn’t do it.

    I can take things apart pretty well, and I’m good at creative solutions, just can’t get the thing back together.

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    It’s not relevant to my daily life but it is sometimes a significant limitation.

    I’m one of those that passes out at the sight of blood. A little scratch or something won’t send me but actual injury or a lot of medical stuff will get me.

    About half of the time I get an injection or blood drawn I’m out. They use those high chairs so the nurses have more ergonomic access to the patients? Nope, I get the recliner, because I’m liable to fall out of that high chair and beat my head on the floor and now the nurse has a big heavy mess to clean up.

    Two of my four doses of the Covid vaccine I was out. Was pretty sure it was going to happen each time and I was right twice. Still got all four.

    I’ve done it to my dental surgeon almost every time I’ve seen him. Has a nasty habit of playing a video tape that explains the risks of tooth removal, and I seldom retain consciousness through the part about possible nerve damage. They tend to leave you alone in a room while this video plays. Even if I stay conscious I go weak and can’t really move under my own power, it’s really fun to be alone like that.

    I’m careful to warn everyone who works in the shop with me that - if you are injured - I’m not going to be able to drive you to the emergency room, you’ll have to wait for and pay for an ambulance. So put on your safety glasses and partake in my large collection of push sticks.

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    I can snap with my left hand but not my right. I’m right-handed so in theory my right hand should have enough dexterity to do it?

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    I can’t whistle so always called my kids with a trill sound (like a loud Spanish RR, not Arabic ululation) and it is also my recall sound for the dogs. But I really can’t whistle. Can sort of make a sound but it’s laughably mockably wimpy.

    Can’t catch at all either, can throw reasonably accurately most of the time but an object coming at me never goes where my hands think it should. I am shamed by my penultimate daughter, who despite nearsightedness worse even than mine was, and a strong drive to be non-athletic, can pluck anything out of the air, has both lighting fast reflexes and intuitive hand eye coordination. But it doesn’t really affect me other than occasional embarrassment - I just pick whatever it is up off the floor after it hits me.

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      You and my dog sound like you’d have a lot in common. He lets treats bounce off his head and then just eats them off the ground after.

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    I physically cannot focus or think too hard on something for too long (somewhere between 1-2 hrs), otherwise I would get physically sick. It was so bad for me as a child that I stopped watching movies… but these days it seems no more than a fun fact for my therapists

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    Turns out I only have one kidney. Went in for a scan of my bladder (which was fine), and the nurse doing the scan just casually mentioned it. I had no idea. I was 43 at the time.

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    I can barely whistle, it sounds like a light breeze. I can barely snap my fingers, its more a soft thump than a snap 90% of the time. But hey, I can burp and pop my ears on command, so I’ve got that going for me.

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    I never learned to ride a bike and every attempt has been met with injuries as soon as I build a modicum of confidence. But I can rollerblade like nobody’s business, so I got that going for me.

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      How do you slow down / stop with rollerblades? I had the reverse experience: any kind of hill, I’m fine on a bike but I always crash on rollerblades. I would love to learn though.

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        I’ve never really thought about it. I’m not a fancy skater – my skates do have brakes, so my technique isn’t such that I have to plan for never using them.

        If I have the width I’ll slalom down hills to bleed speed - even doing little loops up the hill at the turn of each switchback to bleed off speed. If there’s not enough room to slow down, I might bomb though if it’s safe to do so (because that’s why roller blading is so fun, anyway). I might skate on one foot and drag a wheel behind or make my toes point toward each other slightly, just out of parallel - the greater the angle, the more drag the out of alignment wheels produce. I often tend to drag a wheel or use the brake, then spin to stop, before resuming.

        There are other techniques for stopping or slowing down, but those are my go to’s.

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      I had a dream I was rollerblading last night… the last time I put on roller blades was in 2006!