Post a random fact about you

@Blodeuwedd .
Yikes! That's awful! A life of constant diligence for you!
(I hope you have no resin allergies!)

 

I really love dresses, but I refuse to wear them lol. I also am in love with knitted sweaters and would live in them if I could (thankfully winter is coming !)

 

I've had Tinnitus all my life (constant ringing in my ears). Most of the time I forget about it because I'm so used to it, but occasionally it gets loud enough that I really notice it.

 

I have a few tattoos of my favorite anime/manga characters!

 

I hate naming things so none of my dolls or dnd characters have names.

 

I was born on a holiday. Anyone else?

 

When I was born, my birth certificate had a different surname to my father's. The short story is - same Chinese word for surname, but it has different pronunciations in English depending on dialect/language. When I was born, my birth country had a law that I had to be given a certain English spelling for my surname - which isn't the English spelling of my dad's surname (even though it's the same Chinese word).

It caused no end of confusion and unnecessary hassle when we lived in different English-speaking countries. ("Erm, can you prove you are this child's parent? Why don't your identity documents show it?") At age 6-8, my birth country dropped this dumb law. So my parents were able to legally change my surname to match my dad's.

 

I have trichotillomania (a constant behaviour where one's has the urge to pull out hair).
Mine is eyelashes. Because of this, i avoid wearing eye make up because i will feel something on the eyelids and my lashes start tingling

 

I really love hot chocolate

 

I have a very strong sense of smell! often times I can smell things the rest of my family can't lol, that doesn't mean I hate strong scents.. just nasty ones lol so if someone smells bad it drives me nuts T.T I used to ride the bus a lot in my college years and in the summer it was bad!

 

I have this too. Mine is eyebrows.

 

omg me too Christmas Eve

 

I have a similar disorder, dermotillomania. It's easy to "turn on," and so hard to stop.

Though I'm not Jewish, I still think it's cool I was born on Yom Kippur.

 

I'm 35 and I'm doing a Creative Arts Hons. Never too old for brain food!

 

I scored N2 on the JLPT. That's the Japanese Language Proficiency Test which measures Japanese fluency. N2 is the second highest score. I worked really hard for it!

 

I have really bad insomnia. It's 4 am now and I am wide awake. I usually fall asleep right when the sun starts coming up and sleep for only about 3 hours.

 

Same My middle & high school years were the worst. But luckily mine has improved over time, with lots of help.


I can pop my left thumb & shoulder in & out of joint, and have since I was a little kid. Nothing like slight body horror from a 5yr old

 

I really like body modications and thought I'd look cute with them, so I got my tongue split in half (tongue bifurcation), and silicone horns implanted on my forehead.

 

I have a lot of trouble with my sensory issues and I'm basically on the verge of a meltdown from being so physically uncomfortable at any given moment
As it relates to dolls (I've thought about it by now) I think this is why I like to make them loose clothes, because that's all I can ever wear.

 

I have an Eidetic or photographic memory. Everyone thinks it means I’m smart but I just remember and recall information by visualizing it.

 

That is so cool, I really had my heart set on splitting my tongue at one point... but I chickened out. How was your healing? The closest I got to body mods, was breast implants! Does it count? No, huh?

My random fact is that I'm developing my own video game wheeee

My second random fact is that I can't visualize. I can think of a concept of something, but I can't create a mental image of anything or anyone, no matter how familiar I am with it. I could access a list of data I know about it, and I don't have trouble recognizing things or people I'm familiar with when I do see them. I can also be creative in my own way, but I can only make up data about things. I have to actually draw or photobash the thing based on that data to have any idea what the thing I made up could look like. Likewise, I can take in facts from a conversation, but when someone says "picture this" I say I can but I can't picture a single thing, I'm just collecting the facts for any required replay or analysis It's like a big word soup in my head, only not really cuz I can't see any letters or other symbols... it's like an audio book soup, with the volume muted, that I've memorized.
But I can see my dreams. I can also imagine tastes, smells, sounds and emotions with good clarity. I'm just brain-blind! I honestly thought that was how everyone thinks, until very recently I'm learning that most people can really see things in their mind when they try I wish I had that power because most of my hobbies are visually creative ones. I guess I came to like those hobbies so much because I can't imagine visuals, so making something is the only way I could ever see something of my own creation. Why is this new knowledge stressing me out so much lately I wish I could go back to believing that I was on the same basic level as everyone else

 

It totally does count to me! It's body altering :p

My healing was ridiculously easy. It was healed within 5 days. I was also lucky I had no pain, except for the initial procedure, and I had no numbing or pain killers.

Eating and talking sucked for a week though. I couldn't move my tongue since it was so swollen, and I had to make calls and barely anyone understood me

I considered breast implants actually, but oddly enough the healing process on that kinda scared me. It looks so intense in comparison to everything else I've had done.
How long did it take for you to recover?

 

Thanks for sharing your story. Wow!! You must have a high pain tolerance, and be super brave, to go through it with no sort of pain killers. A week of recovery only? I guess it's true that the mouth heals quickly! And now you've got your cool split tongue!!! So you went to a body mod artist for it, right? When I was researching it, it seems like you can't be put under at a hospital I would be soooo scared! Did the procedure take very long? For my implants, I was under the knife for about two hours. By now, can you move the two sides of your tongue independently?

My healing process for implants is quite slow in comparison.
First week I could hardly do anything except nurse my little ice pack baby and get up for little walks to avoid blood clotting. I also had a bad reaction to my prescribed pain killers, so I couldn't continue taking them. My pain peaked around 5 days after surgery. But the ice pack helped a lot, I just had to keep it filled all the time. For the first two weeks, no lifting over 15 lb or reaching above the head. It's basically T-rex arms for that time. Oh yeah, and you have to sleep sitting upright, which was not easy But I was okayed to sleep on my side after two weeks.

The pain and swelling from surgery decreased gradually. I was well enough to fly at three weeks, but my chest still looked huge. As the surgical pain and swelling went away, then it switched over to nerve pains Random zaps or pinching sensations that last a few seconds, and touching some spots felt like getting shocked! But most of the time felt fine. The nerve pain was gone around the 5 month mark, and those electric spots became numby spots, until the 7 or 8 month mark, then everything was back to normal sensation. Around month 4, my left implant had dropped into the correct position. My right one on the other hand... took until month 11!! Almost a year! I was so worried because it sat high and felt firmer than the other... until one evening I came out of the shower and voila, it was suddenly in place, and soft! My surgeon, of course, kept telling me that for some patients, the muscles on the side of the dominant hand take a long time to relax... He was right after all!

Now everything looks and feels right. So I guess my FULL recovery took 11 months I think the average full recovery is about 6 months, but the average go-back-to-work recovery is a couple of weeks. But everyone heals at a different pace. If I had a job, I don't think I would have been working at two weeks!! I think my healing was particularly long compared to people I've talked to, or read about their experiences online... but there ended up being no complications so yay Apparently, salines tend to heal faster than silicones, and over the muscle faster than under. But of course, I got silicone unders. Although the recovery was long, I couldn't be happier with the results

Fun fact about silicone implants!! Spend the day out in the summer sun, and your boobies will gather all the heat, which feels great for a swim. Spend some time out in the cold, and inside your boobies feel like cool ice packs, so nice when you come back in and huddle under a warm blanket

 

I was born on a holiday, Yom Kippur.

 

Holiday birthday friends! I was born on an Easter Sunday!

 

Today I learned what a yaeba was - basically the Japanese word for a snaggletooth canine. I have a natural yaeba and was always glad it wasn't removed or fixed (never wore braces). I like my lil fang.

 

My eyes are gray. Not blue, flat out gray. They do reflect the colors of the clothes I am wearing.

 

For 5 years, I was completely unable to eat anything with buffalo sauce due to an aversion brought on by the stomach flu. Now I'm obsessed with it LOL

 

I just recently had to stop eating animal products for health reasons... but I wouldn't say I'm a vegan.

 

Some random facts today:
I love ice cream, but am picky about it. Also I love okra in any form. (I might be hungry right now )
I love the smells of plants like tomato leaves and rosemary.
I really hate the ocean (view). I think it's ugly, depressing, and smells bad.
I always talk to cats when I see them outside, but I try not to bother them if they are not sociable
One more: My vision has not been correctable to 20/20 in longer than I can easily remember.

 

@AlisonVonderland same on ice cream, i didn’t like it for years then one day recently i randomly felt like having some but it definitely has to be the right kind!

the ocean thing too… so i used to spend a lot of my summers as a kid in france and one beach we went to there was a really bad seaweed smell… i still remember it now xD i didn’t wanna get out of the car and played on my DS instead

a fact about me… i used to dye my hair all the time and then during covid times i stopped bothering to do it… the other day i finally caved and dyed it for the first time in 3 years!!

 

I think sweetened milk tea tastes better with leeche jelly than with boba.

 

I love glitter

 

I drink condensed milk by itself delicious!!!!

 

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I was born on a Saturday, which is actually a big thing for Greeks! According to our traditions, people born on a Saturday (Sabbato) often have a closer connection to their 'sixth sense'. They are thought to be able to witness spirits and apparitions, but those, though they might hurt 'normal' people, will never ever cause them harm. It's also said that both their curses and wishes have a tendency to come true a lot more often and more strongly than others'.

 

Royal Milk Tea for life! I will have to try this combo. It sounds amazing.

 

I really dont understand why so many people LOVE the movie Hocus Pocus and I'm just like meh I seem to be the only person who just isnt bothered about it lol.

 

I am (apparently) the worst person in the world to watch rom-coms with. I make fun of the characters the entire time. I have been forbidden from watching rom-coms with IRL friends.

 

I love video games, but in contrast, I don’t watch a lot of movies or series at all! I think it’s because I like to be involved in the story and affect it, rather than watch it.

Some of my favourite video games include the metal gear solid series, the final fantasy series, the yakuza/ryuu ga gotoku series, omori, nier replicant, the resident evil series, the silent hill series and much more that i’ve probably forgotten

 

I used to watch movies and TV series all the time when I was a teenager and I would get really invested in them. Then suddenly… I don’t know what happened but I just stopped watching any movies or TV series at all.
I think maybe I just started getting more interested in music instead.
I still play a lot of games though my favorite video game series of all time is the Fallout series especially the earlier ones.

 

I'm back after years of inactivity! Also, I'm a trans man.

 

My favorite toy when I was a child were Tamagotchis. I also had Pixel Chix and a few other similar toys but Tamagotchi was definitely my favorite. I kind of want to get one of the new ones.

 

i'm an Audiophile... on a Budget;

 

I love 80s Japanese music!!! It's kind of taken over my life.... also I just got a new puppy a couple weeks ago!! She's a full grown dog but still a puppy mentally. Lol.

 

I wish I could have a career with animals.

 

Work takes up so much of my time that whenever I am not at work, I don't want to talk about work.

 

I nearly always wear black but all my dolls clothes are very colorful

 

I one day want to try going to an escape room

 

One day I want to collect salt and pepper shakers.
I always picture one day that I have a small house of my own and there is a little place by my kitchen where I can display those salt and pepper shakers that I haven't even collected yet. The vintage ones like little chickens and modern ones like for Halloween theme... All kinds of shapes as long as they are tiny and odd

 

I used to ride and train horses and I worked as a barn manager for upper level facilities for 15 years!

 

I’m currently obsessed with Stephen King’s Multiverse.

 

While studying abroad in Germany, I spent two weeks working (“interning”) at a beachside hotel near Barcelona. I was 18, and it was a blast.

 

I was a character in two major publisher comics...one as myself, and one I was the model for.

 

I just got back into watching dragon ball abridge by team4star, my favorite character is Cell

 

OMG, I love Cell in Dragon Ball Abridged! I'd say that my favorite character is Goku (as with regular Dragon Ball) because he's just so... simple, you know?

 

my fave in the original is Vegeta, Bulma and future Trunks. Hehe thats a girls name.

 

I've been to every U.S. States but Hawaii and Alaska.

 

My hobby outside BJDs is book design and making zines. I love to collect artist’s books, zines and anything similar

 

My random fact about me today is going to be that I frequently think up silly things I could write in this thread and then I don't write it down and when I come back online I have no idea anything interesting about me again.
But idk my childhood favorite food was green giant frozen creamed spinach and I'm angry they don't seem to sell it anymore.