You have not lived until you have met a full fledged savant . A man lived next to me for years. Could not really function in real world. Not creepy - but it is very strange, hard to understand and pretty mind blowing.

My one brain cell convincing me i could totally be a morning person if i just tried harder. the betrayal was real.

Americans voting for fascism.

The green flash at sunset. I thought it was a made up thing from pirates of the carribbean, but then I was on the beach in Puerto Vallarta and joking about seeing it. I pulled out my phone to take a joke video of the last direct rays of sun dipping below the horizon, and a second before I hit record, I looked up, and it actually happened right then and there. Like a green laser, so fast, as if the sun had just been washed away with that green light. I'll never forget it. A couple people on the shoreline cheered.

PTSD. It is debilitating.

You always see in movies and TV women screaming in agony during childbirth, and I figured it was exaggerated for dramatics. Obviously I knew it would be painful, but I didn't think it would be that bad that I'd be screaming in pain. I have a high pain tolerance in general.

Yeah, no. Contractions were the most intense pain I've ever felt. I had back labour, which I've heard is worse than regular contractions. It felt like my spine was being crushed. Screaming was involuntary.

Doctors being *that* wrong. like something could be soo bad in your body and doctors could just straight up fail you.

i thought people who didn't trust doctors were hypochondriacs because if it were that bad it must be unignorable, right? Then I finally got a diagnosis after 7 years in severe chronic pain. Turns out the whole time it could have been caught with a CT scan but all the doctors i'd seen prior didn't want to "over test".

Presbyopia.

I was 40/41 when on a totally random day I looked at my phone screen and couldn't read a thing.

Now I'm 43 and it's gotten so bad that I have to take off my glasses to check my phone (prescription glasses for myopia).

Panic attacks. I knew they happened, i didnt think they happened Like That.

Sleep paralysis.

You know those people who always seem to have some crazy thing happening in their life and it seems absolutely unbelievable? They take a Lyft and the driver gets road rage and stops in the middle of the freeway. Their HVAC breaks and as soon as they pay it off they have to replace all their pipes and as soon as they pay that off they have to replace their roof and as soon as they pay that off… During Covid they quarantined and meticulously cleaned and then got COVID the first time they left the house. They got a new job and their dog gave birth live while they were giving a presentation so they delivered puppies while presenting.


It all sounds like utter BS until you are that person and then it feels like a curse. No one believes you until they are in the audience of the presentation, in the Lyft when the driver wigs out, at your place when the house falls apart comically, etc.


It’s constantly one thing after another. You become nervous when things start to go well because it never seems to last long. The moment the knot in your stomach goes away is when everything falls apart. Everyone assumes you are making it up, you are the problem, or you are the unluckiest person alive, but in the end, no one really wants to be around walking chaos.

Predicting the weather based on aches and pains.