Post a random fact about you

I have so many allergies that when I went to I inquire about getting a tattoo, I was advised against it due to the high probability I'll react badly to the needles and/or ink used. I want all my dolls to be heavily tattooed so I can vicariously enjoy tattoos through them!

 

Alongside the doll hobby, I also do photography.. Okay, not entirely uncommon in and of itself (especially since there is an entire section of the board here devoted to it!), but my specialization isn't taking pictures of dolls...it's taking pictures of bands performing live. I focus on concert photography, with a fair steady list of artists under my lens so far, and more planned for this year.

It's not necessarily easy budgeting for both, but I can say that I use much less space (and somehow less money!) for both of those hobbies than I did for costuming and cosplay, which I did for over 10 years...

 

I have the same problem! I’d love to have tattoos, but I’m terrified that I’d constantly have a rash or something from it. My allergies are such a pain. I have to carry an epi-pen and inhaler with me everywhere I go.

 

Random fact about me...……….I used to show Shetland Sheepdogs in the 1980's

 

Allergies are such a pain! And I find I become more sensitive or reactive over time and have recently had to overhaul my diet to accommodate them! It is good to hear your experience!

 

I am over $100,000 in debt! Fun fact!
I've given up on ever paying off my student loans in my lifetime so I just make my monthly not-even-denting-the-interest payments, budget for my hobbies, and await the sweet release of death

 

My relaxed facial expression is usually perceived as grumpy, mean, upset, angry, and a whole lot of other words! I'm not a very talkative person in real life and my face is usually emotionless (normal). Basically everyone I meet thinks I don't like them or I am having a bad day. People are really intimidated to approach me and I'm often told that I look scary/mean if someone manages to talk to me. When I was in school, several teachers would call on me randomly (sometimes even during a test) to tell me to stop being mad or ask what was wrong. People really try to pressure me to constantly smile just so they can feel more comfortable seeing my face. I don't want to smile unless I have a genuine reason to smile, but that doesn't matter to them. Even if I inform someone that it is my natural facial expression, they refuse to believe it and assure me that they know I am angry. It's not very fun. I even got yelled at by an older co-worker for five minutes today because she saw my face and thought I was throwing a tantrum like a child. In reality, I was just quietly walking to my desk. I definitely feel for other people who have to deal with these annoying misunderstandings.

 

I collect Wigs

 

Ive been a fan of metal/rock music since I was only 4yo and I still do til now!

 

I think cheese is disgusting.
I can't touch it (but something like mascarpone is okay) and it looks so gross to me when it's melting like it does on a pizza.
I don't know why I have this repulsion.

 

I accidentally cut my eyelid off my left eye when I was about 3. I remember about a minute before it happened and afterwards hating the stitches.

 

I can't smell but I can taste.

 

I work in a motorcycle gear and accessories store as a manager/leather craftsman.

 

So many interesting people here!

Umm let's see... one of my favourite hobbies is reading poetry aloud ~ I love how musical the words can become just by being spoken in the right way, with the right tone and pace. My favourite poem to recite is The Bells by Edgar Allan Poe: it looks like weird repetitive nonsense on paper but when spoken it suddenly all makes sense

 

I’m a guy. I collect many dolls including Barbie, Jem and Spectra. . And I’m obsessed with Wonder Woman

 

I enjoy living with minimal stuff and happening around me. And I don't mean these plain white modern flats that have had everything Marie Kondo-ed. We once talked with my man it would be cool to sell our own top floor flat and buy a riverboat with solar panels (we live in a seaside city and it would reduce our work travel by half!). Bathroom is the one thing I'd miss, especially as a woman.
Right now I don't even have internet at home (I have no TV etc, and when I need internet on big screen I just plug my phone to my computer). I once had a cat, but I ended up giving him away because I felt caring for something so dependent was giving me stress rather than love. (Doubt I'll ever get kids either.) I think I last bought clothes or other accessories for myself, uh, during last holidays?
However, some months I spoil my dolls with more than I spend on all my expenses, and I love it when they have all kinds of luxurious props and outfits and accessories.

 

Many years ago, I was on my college's fencing team. (I fenced foil)

 

I've been working on an app and I'm really excited about it! I'm also allergic to zucchini and that is my only known allergy

 

I have mydriasis - I was born with permanently dilated pupils! They make me look like a shark! So I have to wear sunglasses a lot because light gets in and is painful. Because my pupils are huge some people have thought I was stoned (which has caused some trouble) and some people have randomly commented that I have beautiful eyes (which is nice) but they can't put their finger on what it is about them.

 

I used to write and perform slam poetry

 

I like blank, white dolls a LOT! They are full of potential to be anything and I guess I ’see’ it better when they are blank. Also, they seem serene, angelic almost. Very soothing to look at in changing light. I think I will always want one blank doll head or faceplate. Souldoll old white and Unoa Fairy skin are my 2 favorite tones.

 

I’m 31 and I still live happily with my parents on their farm. We have cows, chickens, and fresh produce from my moms huge garden. We barely eat anything store bought.

 

In 1 year I lived in 3 different countries

 

My grandmother was a Spiritualist reverend and pastor, and as a result I grew up pretty well entrenched in the religion. Even though I became an atheist as a teenager, I still firmly believe in a lot of Spiritualist teachings - just not generally the way the NSAC teaches them.

 

I draw indie comics!

 

Fun fact I didn't know how to pronounce "enveloped" until a few days ago. I just thought it was like envelope but with a d at the end.

 

Random fact: I love dyeing my hair!! I change it nearly every month.

 

Random Fact:
I have a very not so small obsession with enamel pins Q^Q

 

I always wanted to be a doctor but ended up an accountant also worked as a special effect technician in a theatre.

 

I'm 32 and I worked for several years in a funeral home

 

I smell the DMSO of a fresh stem cell transplant right now. It smells like creamed corn.

DMSO is a preservative used to save some kinds of stem cells along with cryopreservation before they are infused like a blood product to cure cancer (hopefully). You excrete it through breathing. Interestingly enough, I found out some people voluntarily take this preservative as an alternative medicine for pain.

The world takes all kinds of people.

 

I’m the host of an OSDD system with nine members! We were diagnosed earlier this year but apparently have been living like this for many years just being extremely confused about everything.

 

I really like Turkey sub sandwiches. Makes me feel like I'm eating with my dolls somedays.

 

A few months ago I saw a shooting star for the first time, and made a wish. It has been granted.

 

I'm a unitarian universalist

 

I am an artist on the side and I'm debating on going freelance

 

I have a post-op club foot and it used to make me sad until I discovered how cute, comfy and stable vans are and that I can have a high heel & sandal shoe collection in the form of dolls shoes. I am now totally fine with having this condition

 

I'm trying to make it as a novelist. I used to jump from story to story, never finishing any, but I'm trying to keep it to one at the minute. To show I can write a full book first of all. And to have one to ship out to publishers.

 

I worked for 5 years at Mattel Toys in the Barbie department as a sample maker and then design assistant.

 

I've been using the same sewing machine since I was 10 years old It's an old refurbished Brother, and I've used it to make everything from doll clothes to cosplays. It's sweet to think about how 10 year old me and 30 year old me both used it to make doll clothes

 

I sing in my church choir. I sing tenor, even though I'm a female, so I sit in the men's section. I don't mind cuz I get to sit next to a cute young guy named Trevor.

 

I'm allergic to tuna?

 

I have synaesthesia but didn’t realise until someone laughed at me for saying their drink smelled blue.
To me smells, tastes, emotions and some sounds have colours, textures and shapes in my mind.

 

I've made hundreds of gowns in the past 35 years, in real life for brides, and in my hobby for dolls.

 

I recently saw some puppet theater shows (the only ones after abandoning the genre with childhood) and they were super great!

 

I am obsessed with Halloween. I have so much décor. Have decked out the entirety of the work office with spooky goodness even though Fall doesn't officially start until Thursday. Close enough!!

 

I have partial to mild facial blindness. I legitimately have a hard time telling people apart if not for their hair, bodies, and voices.

Surprisingly, I think BJDs have actually helped!

 

I was always jealous of the kids who had summer birthdays when I was little (because they don't have school on their birthdays, and it is usually hot enough for them to wear any outfit they wanted without covering it in a winter coat!), so I celebrate my birthday twice per year.

 

I'm really anxious too, so I rarely talk in public. People would ask me if I knew English because i didn't talk or ask where I came from because i rarely talked. I remember I had to take an English learning class in 1st grade up to a few years when i already knew English. I apologize a lot to people too.
When I'm really nervous or stress I speak in gibberish.

I don't think I am face blind, but i have a hard time telling people apart and lots of people look alike. I can't tell the person is the same person if they changed outfits or hair style or something that I use to identify that person. I get people mixed up all the time. I think random people are waving to me, but it seems they somewhat know me I'm not sure what to do so i pretend i didn't see them or I slowly back away and leave. I think it's because I'm not paying attention to their faces, but I'm paying attention to everything else and so focused on my surroundings I don't properly learn who the people I've met are. I am really hypervigilant and focus more on the dangers outside and look for a nearest exit rather than pay attention to a person's face. My sister is like that too. We can notice a person is very angry and they are hiding it, but no one else notices or that someone is cheating with someone else. My sister could tell these two people were cheating, but no one else could tell.

What is tongue tied?

I like turtles. ❤️

 

Continuing above post because there is a limit of 10000 characters that I exceeded:

I thought DID was the same as multiple personality disorder, but the name was changed.

I've been told I feel emotions really strongly and that I'm not normal.

I didn't know cleaning jobs paid that much.

I like certain bugs as well. I like ants, dung beetles, and other bugs.

That's interesting. I don't like the sun.

That's really interesting. Sorry about you being in pain though.

I like being in dark rooms rather than bright rooms. I walk around in the dark without the lights on, but there is dim night lights. I have to have at least one dim light on now, so i don't step on my puppy.

I'm sorry your pet died. That's interesting about the medical paper thing.

Sorry you are suffering. My sister works 70+ hours and is always drained too. I feel bad for her. She works a lot like my parents. She never spend time with me now and always angry. Her coworkers are incredibly rude and make her cry and angry often.

I hate when people are angry and screaming too. It is stressful and scary. I thought it was normal because that's how it was always in my family until I saw a Korean tv show called The Return of Superman. My sister still wants to take care of our parents when they get old even though they weren't very good parents. I want to go to Korea and Japan too. I like cute stuff a lot too. You don't have a computer or a phone then how are you online. Oh nevermind i realized you said your own, so you must be sharing or using someone else's. I tend to overshare. I don't really watch anime, but I watch a lot of Kdramas.

I hope you get better and feel better. I don't have friends too, but i prefer that sometimes.

 

Continuing because of limit:

I don't finish a lot of stuff too, but I think that's OK.

Do you take photos of Kpop concerts or just bands?

There loan forgiveness I heard or something.

I hate when people force me to smile too I like not smiling. Smiling hurt my face and I think you should only smile when you feel like smiling. I must have a mean looking resting face as well once i was looking at someone eating their food because i was curious what the person was eating and later the person screamed i was a B***h so everyone in the cafeteria could hear. It was really random. I felt guilty because i made him angry and upset.

That sounds interesting. Was it fun working dor Mattel?

There is a Kdrama and a webtoon on that. It is called A Girl Who Sees Smells. Here is webtoon link if you want to read it:
The Girl Who Sees Smells | WEBTOON
Now a major (K-Drama) adaptation.
After Sae-ah loses her parents to arson, the accident leaves her with the ability to see smells. Another fire puts her in the path of police officer Pyeongan Kim. Though he doesn’t believe in her ability at first, the two team up to solve cases, and he quickly realizes the power Sae-ah holds. Although her ability helps her solve all kinds of crimes, she’s yet to solve the biggest mystery of them all: who killed her parents?


The Girl Who Sees Smells

I never read it.

That's good bjds helped you. There is a character with face blindness in the webtoon The Girl Who Can See Smells.

That's nice to celebrate your bday twice a year. I was always jealous of people who celebrated holidays. I love holidays, but my family don't celebrate holidays often.

I guess one interesting fun fact about me is I had a feeding tube for a few months and a nurse got really angry and yanked out the feeding tube out of my nose. It bled for a long time. She was a friend of my aunt. I didn't think much of it because i was used to being treated badly and thought it was normal. i didn't know my sister and i were treated so badly by everyone in our family until later when i was watching a korean tv show called The Return Of Superman and it dawned on me that we were treated really really really badly.) Since that day i have constant nose pain that used to be dull. As the years go on it hurts more, but the pain comes and goes. When the pain gets really bad I end up crying. I've been trying to figure out why my nose hurt so much. Could my nose get scar tissue from that experience and it led to my nose pain?

 

Correctly. I just said it that way as a joke, because the name was changed due to the fact that it's no longer classified as a personality disorder, but a dissociative disorder; so the actual treatment for it is different

 

I once played an unscripted Rosanne Rosanna-Danna on a late night tv show in Seattle when I was 14. I was paid with record albums.
I played an unscripted talking tree during Christmas at the Meier and Frank department store for kids not encouraged to believe in Santa.
Very random facts, lol.

 

I have extremely strong smell aversions to many commonly used smells, like baby powder, vanilla, and lavender.

 

Does that mean you are sensitive to fragrances because I am too. Things like essential oils, scented candles, perfumes, hairspray, certain types scented shampoos, certain types of scented loitons, lavendar, etc make me feel sick, dizzy, out of breath, and I oddly start twitching if i am exposed to it for too long. Another odd thing is certain smells in the air make my skin react and I get itchy. It sometimes leads to hives, but no one believes me when i mention that. Mcdonald gives me really bad itchy hives that last for days.

@AlisonVonderland
Oh I see. Is it like sensory issues because i have sensory problems too with sounds. I think it might be only with sound. I don't do well in a crowded area with lots of things happening and lots of sounds.

 

@Forever We Are Young I am very sensitive to smell, sound, and physical feelings. The smells cause a lot of phychological distress when they bother me but I do not get physically sick.

 

My best friend in my life who passed many years ago, had no sense of taste, and was sick if people wore perfumes. Since then, if anyone tells me of their sensitivities, I always take it very seriously. I rarely wear but the lightest of scent, if any. I'm lucky to have no allergys, but damn-it-all of I haven't had 7 (and still going) YEARS of intense hot-flashes. My Dr. tells me he doesn't want to prescribe anything as all options are known to cause cancer? Finally after much complaining he prescribed Venaflaxine. (Helps a little.) No one in my family has had but the slightest of hot-flashes, if any. I wonder if any one believes me. But my man knows, he sees me get very red and break into a sweat for no reason, many times a day and it's exhausting! Anyway, you all have my sympathies for these personal trials you endure, and I believe you!!

 

I can touch my nose with my tongue!

 

I thought of another random fact. I really love wreaths I try to only get one if it's small and easy to store and clean but the fact remains. I want to collect more of those vintage plastic candle wreath centerpieces again... I have one hanging on the wall in the bathroom.

Edit: on smells. I am sensitive personally but not to mean that I don't like smells. I wear smells on me to help ground me and calm myself and I have smell based rituals with candles and incense. I can empathize that someone can't handle anything of course but that's not me.. I just don't like to smell weird stuff I don't like. I only wear light scents though so I hope it wouldn't bother a typical person in public. I don't appreciate people who perfume bomb a room when they pass through.

 

My dear you have my sympathies! I’m also on Venaflaxine for that very reason and because the joys of hormonal turmoil also rebooted my depression very severely as well as giving me dreadful allergies. I don’t think anyone realises just how painful hot flashes are until they experience them, I know I didn’t. Feeling the build up of pressure is almost as bad as the hot feeling and sweats.

I’m another person who cannot tolerate certain smells, some make me feel dizzy or nauseous, others give me headaches, some bring on allergic reactions and others cause me anxiety as my synaesthesia will throw up strange sensations or confusing shapes and colours in my brain.

I suppose I could say that another thing about me is the previously mentioned allergies. Allergy patch tests revealed that I have allergies to certain chemical compounds found in fragrances but the worst result was that I have what is known as ‘Balsam of Peru’ allergy. It’s a rather misleading name but is so called as Balsam of Peru, which is a naturally occurring plant sap, contains so many chemical compounds known to cause reactions that it’s ideal to use for patch testing.
What it boils down to is that I am allergic/potentially allergic to many of the chemical compounds found in plants that produce fragrances, are used as spices, produce waxes or resins, and citrus fruit skins (the skins contain the highest concentration of oils) as well as any chemical compounds that resemble them closely enough for my immune system to take offence. In other words I’m allergic to just about everything as so many products we use contain compounds from or derived from plants. Although over the years my system has recovered a bit and my reactions aren’t as bad as they were I still react to any products containing Clove oils, Lavender, Cinnamon, Vanilla and Rose, eating bread is hit or miss due to certain additives, orange oil blisters my skin, I cannot drink anything with certain fruits outside in sunshine as the combination blisters my mouth, I cannot use any sunscreen on my face, have to be careful with toothpastes and most toiletries, have to be careful of any medications with benzo compounds, cannot eat anything with chorizo in it and as I’ve started reacting to Kiwi fruit I have to watch for a rather dangerous cross reaction….latex allergy. Cross reactions occur with compounds from related plant species or compounds that resemble reactive ones closely enough and Kiwi/latex/banana is one such issue. I also have to be careful of new clothing as quite often the fabrics are treated with formaldehyde and such to prevent excess creasing. One pair of jeans I got left me with a horrendous rash all over my legs and stomach for example.