Ask Lemmy

Machines speak to me.

Not literally of course. In my youth I discovered that I could hear changes in the sound machines make a LOT earlier than anyone else. Even people who spend hours every day with said machine and that was the first time I had been around it.

I can do it even to this day. I have worked in IT for the past 30 years and the number of hard drives I've predicted to fail and then they went on to fail is well into the thousands. All because I walked past the rack in the data center and heard something "off". For those that work in data centers you know just how f'ing loud they are.

My wife's last car was a 2003 Camry that I almost never drove. She was backing out going to work and she saw me give her car a weird look. She stopped, drove back into the garage and told me to look. At that time we had been together almost 10 years so she's seen my ability numerous times. I looked under her car and sure enough the flexible connection between the exhaust manifold and exhaust system had a small hole. It wasn't enough to be loud, it was just enough to change the note the car made. Even being told what to listen for, my wife could not pick out what was wrong.

For the record, while I've never been diagnosed it's a given that I'm neurodivergent.

I have an internal CAD. It's very useful when building something like a deck for my home. Technically, I show no one this. They only see the end result.

I can perform oral sex basically indefinitely. I'm just happy to be there. It's like my favourite place.

Edit: I guess I show it quite a bit. Just not to most people

I can be happy, depressed and horny all at the same time.

I can calculate IPv4 subnets in my head with ease. Usually when I set up a network I use 26, 22 or 20 bit masks and it drives my co-workers nuts.

I’m ADHD. I’ll find a new one by next week.

Never had a problem falling asleep. Bed, couch, chair, floor. Indoors, outdoors, as long as it's not sweltering hot or freezing cold I'm out in under 10 min.

I can do a pretty decent Smeagol impression, complete with moving about on all fours. There really isn't a time and place for that to emerge, sadly.

I can wiggle my ears one at a time and can click the little tendon over my knuckles to produce a tiny snap and if it's close to your cheek it feels like a micro flick and kinda hurts (doesn't hurt my knuckle but feels like a little zing if I do it on someone's face)

I'm good at drawing detailed gore.

I can tie a knot in a spaghetti while it's in my mouth.

I'm a super smeller, and I've trained it well and made myself some party tricks. For example, I can identify a coffee down to the grow region and altitude based on the scent of a fresh cup.

Also I can roll myself up into a little ball and be very compact. I used to date someone with a thing for contortion, I don't think I've really shown it off since.

Speaking Spanish. Haven't needed it in years and my actual grasp of the language is tenuous at this point but every native speaker I interact with says my pronunciation is great. Understanding the differences between English and Spanish phonetics helps a ton in that regard.

I suck a mean dick. 😤

I can fold my lips out over themselves to make a perfect "giant plastic clown lips" look.

Its usually not well received.

I can bend my knees backwards to about 200°. It's just not that interesting + difficult to show off in normal pants + gives away that I'm secretly a horse.

Tuvan throat singing

Alpha bravo charlie delta Echo foxtrot Golf Hotel India Juliet kilo lima Mike November Oscar papa Quebec Romeo Sierra Tango uniform Victor whiskey x-ray Yankee Zulu

All in one breath, transcribed via voice to text. I die a little inside whenever I hear someome say "A as in Apple"

I can write on a blackboard with both hands simultaneously, my left hand mirroring the right one.

And talking of blackboards, at some point I mastered drawing doted lines with chalk in a single stroke.
Like this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l789l6np-qA

Edit: I can whistle painfully loud using my fingers, when I was a kid it was a rather common skill. Not so much now.

Overtone singing. I can do Amazing Grace because the melody fits within the available notes, but I don't like that song. Usually just sing random melodies to the dogs & they give me the head tilt.