Hello again! Today I ask you all to share a random fact about you that seems to make you special or unique. Maybe you're neurodivergent, maybe you're bilingual: whatever's special about you, share it with us!
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I have ADHD and a cow fell on top of me when I was 6 years old
I’m a 53 year old female and I work construction.
I'm currently learning German on Duolingo. The school I'm going to next year has German as a language, so I wanted to get a head start because I need to be decent or good at something immediately in order to not get annoyed by it.
I have osmophobia (phobia of smells). I feel repulsed to strong smells, mostly artificial ones. So I can't stand any perfume or deodorant. They make me feel nauseous and give migraines.
It sounds like you have fragrance hypersensitivity and allergies to some synthetic fragrances or even herbal ones. Research carefully what the products you can use contain so that you can better define what you cannot tolerate. I suffer from this myself and the most recent example was when I came to the stairwell of our apartment building and a really strong smell of laundry detergent came up from the basement laundry room. I was still sneezing at home and when I have to dry the sheets downstairs, I put them outside to air out and even then I wake up with a stuffy nose and itchy eyes. I am apparently condemned to use allergy medicine all year round. It would be heavenly if scented detergents were banned in the shared laundry room of our apartment building. Sorry for the long opening, but if you have any questions about scent sensitivity, I'd be happy to answer them!
No one says my name right first time.
I feel extremely lost in life.
i got my foot stuck in my couch when i was five and whenever i’m nervous i blurt out dolly parton songs
Im able to remember the layout of smaller buildings/houses perfectly just being there once.
Same. I once drew out the layout - both stories - of a house I hadn't seen since I was 5. The only thing I got wrong was one closet and I just had it on the wrong wall, it was across from where I had put it. I have to say it's a pretty useful skill. though mine isn't 100% perfect but it's close. I average 98%.
I can do a flawless impression of the Venom voice, I like to use it for saying mundane stuff or singing silly songs. My friends love it (I'm a 26 year old woman).
I am a trained painter and bookbinder. I can imitate different types of wood, gilding, decorative painting and even imitating marble etc. I can bind books by hand without machines. It's a useless skill these days, though. Of course, necessary for repairing old books that require a gentle hand. For example, in books after the Second World War, there was clearly a shortage of good glue in Finland, and to remove the glue, you mainly need surgical tools and fine sandpaper, one folded page at a time from the back. The glue resembled solidified caramel.
I have a mountain/Eiffel Tower of FUNKO pops on top of my dresser, I’m knowledgeable about comics, I like to draw, I’m on BP daily, I have 2 BP accounts and occasionally use both for some reason..
I write graphic horror stories. If my parents found them they would think I'm crazy.
I dropped a 50lb barbell on my big toe when I was 5. Had it removed at 29 from that injury.
I know a lot about chemical, biological, and nuclear weapons. I can tell you how easy it is to make some of them - and how difficult it is to actually employ them :)
I know a lot of random history facts. My friends give me grief for it all the time.
I am a huge geography/history nerd. No clue why. Also, I can answer almost any question having to do with the NFL.
I have a weird fondness for playing cards. Idk why, I just draw the symbols on my leg all the time and I love collecting different art styles for them. I want to make my own playing card deck sometime
So um I was almost named Sebastian, but instead, my parents decided "you know what, Caleb is cooler". Also, I could probably host a lecture on the titanic and you would walk away knowing something new, spent like 6 years obsessed, and now I have an unnecessary amount of knowledge
I’m a 34 year old trans woman and i am bisexual
Hey! I'm also trans and bi (tho i usually say I'm gay cause either have a strong preference)
I'm going to give a few since if I don't I will probably make an irl conversation awkward.
I have one white eye and one blue eye, a metal back, Inattentive ADHD, and apparently can't feel pain when I'm supposed to.
I didn't know it was possible to have a white eye- that's very cool!
I speak both English and French. I’m also a Canadian, I could go on and on about how beautiful Canada is, the healthcare system is free, we have created a delicious dish of french fries, gravy, and cheese curds, it’s called Poutine, and it’s delicious. If you ever want to visit any country, you should come to Canada, but be careful not to startle the cobra chickens, because they will attack you. Cobra chickens are Canada Geese by the way, but their nickname is very appropriate and fitting for these aggressive birds.
I am a living breathing creature... Idk
That I can remember specific dates and times of when famous people died. I can remember anything especially long term because I have an amazing long term memory.
I am autistic
I am double jointed in my fingers, elbows and ankles.
I just finished Grade 8 piano
I am almost 13
There's no such thing as double jointed. You have hypermobility in those joints.
I can make female friends super easy but not guy friends
I am building a website named after myself to celebrate classic rock and scary movies. The only ads will be for T-shirts and coffee mugs i designed
Today my laptop fell on my face while I was watching YouTube in my bed. It did not fall flat, it landed on the edge. My nose turned purple.
Life is fun !
Random fact about me: I never had trouble scraching my back. It is all within my reach.
Same for the second one. My arm can go all the way around my back and can touch my bellybutton so I can reach anywhere on my back easily
I have the ability to “replay” what someone just said in my mind. Literally, if I want to, when I hear a sentence or a musical phrase that someone just said, I can hear it again in my head. I can even speed it up or slow it down, so I mostly use this weird power to figure out what someone said without asking them to repeat it. IDK if that’s something everyone can do or if it’s just me, but it’s cool either way!
I was hit in the back of the head with a t-shirt from a t-shirt cannon at a football game.
The funny part is that it didn't hurt, it just made a cool noise.
I am from New Zealand, born in Hong Kong, have lived in America, is living in Japan and can speak Japanese. I also am a history nerd.
I weigh around 70 pounds more than I did when I graduated high school 30 years ago. In all fairness, I am in better shape now than I was then. I also like myself a lot more than I did in high school.
I actually like marzipan.
I’ve basically made a whole manga series in my head. I just haven’t gotten the motivation to actually start making it 🫠
More people know me by my reenactment persona name then by my real name. Because of this, I use my real name here on BP as disguise...
I'm way too emotional. Like there's so much around me that easily upsets me or makes me wanna cry. And oftentimes, I can't help it.
Hey, your waters run deep. That's a good thing. Embrace every teardrop. I'm the same way and I wouldn't trade it for a hard heart no matter how much easier it would make things. I like it, that I care. It hurts me not to care, I have tried that and it's worse.
I have a lot of knowledge about Mummies and I'm still learning about more cultures that had mummies every day. I have to reign myself in because a lot of people think they're creepy. On the same note while I know a lot about Egyptian mummies - I know more about other mummies around the world. I feel like Egypt gets all the mummy hype and there's just so many out there. I haven't kept up on the Egypt side of things so a lot of my knowledge is older information.
I have a lot of random knowledge in my head and will always warn people to double check me cause some of it is older stuff. I have such varied interests and research so much random stuff that I've got a lot rattling around in my brain. Researching is one of my hyper focuses that is a hobby of mine. I will start up looking up some information on a recent(ish - 2019) sacrificial site found in Peru - and some how wind up reading some research paper on the origin of Garden Gnomes, before bouncing off to the real story behind the raft of the medusa then reading a scientific study done on a specific genome to CRISPR technology and some work they're doing that I'm keeping an eye on. So yeah....it's pretty varied. Side note: I'm cautious about CRISPR. I see what they want to do but I have concerns.
I'm good doing character voices. My 3 favorites in no specific order: peter griffin, quagmire and hank hill.
I get goosebumps all over my body every time I am right in the moment of doing 💩💦
Sorry for the eschatological fact.. but I honestly wonder if this happens to other people too
People all me a FURRY but I don’t mind
I’m not as gay as I let in. IM EVEN MORE SO
I have hypermobility in my fingers and elbows
I have rainbow hair
Also a cow once put my entire hand in it's moth while I was on a field trip (we were feeding them some hay) it didn't bite me just sorta sucked on my hand
I’m learning Icelandic which is the hardest language to learn.
I am pretty sure I am hyper observant and my dad always told me while growing up that my writing was better than most of the stuff he’s read from his adult students.
I have new obsessions everyday :)
I’m the youngest in all of HIGHSCHOOL
Im the youngest in all of junior high(grades 7-9), im 12 now but im the youngest by months
I am a furry and my best friend is a furry, but my costume was so old, i need new one :(
uhhhh I like to do cheesy pick-up lines and I have the best comebacks to "f*ck you" and I flirt with my best friends (QPR)
Another person in a qpr. Nicee- I consider mine closer to romantic tho
My 2 favorite things to watch on TV are soap operas & football.
Once I read a fun little fact I remember it at the most random times and just throw a random fact out there.
I’m like, not highly educated, tried to though, but if there was a master degree for useless fun facts I would have it 😜
When I was 2 I fell out of the upstairs bedroom window and fractured my skull. No lasting damage thankfully.
I would love to hate my neighbor. But, that just takes way too much energy. I know because I have tried. Now, I just do my best to avoid the hell out of him.
Most randomest:
I watch 13 reasons why
Im allergic to corn, eggs, gluten, dairy, nuts, oats, preservatives and artificial products, large amounts of sugar, my own sweat, cats, common outdoor allergies, grass, and some that I'm forgetting.
oh, and i have 3, 7 season tv series planned out in my head and i love them.
and i have severe anxiety and depression that comes and goes
i have severe scoliosis (curved spine) like my spine is in the shape of an s and i'm getting surgery and everything. yes it hurts lol.
i want to be a singer, and i play guitar, piano, and ukulele and have been in choir for 7 years. i'm also a total theater nerd, which makes sense cause my mom is a theater teacher. i have GAD and social anxiety, and i'm an introvert. i also have depression and (in the process of diagnosis) adhd. i like dying my hair as well :)
sorry that was not a "fact" that was like 12 but thanks for reading lmao
I have a secret twitter account where I've started to share most most bizarre thoughts as i feel like im a burden on my friend when i do this to them.
I have a severe phobia of needles and am in therapy for it, but if i get cancer or anything else that means ill need injections or blood work it would be a death sentence as i will refuse help.
I used to have the same orthodontist as Tom Holland!
I'm 45, i never had girl friend or sex.
I voted for Free Ponies and never got one.
I love lamp
Not too many fans of Anchorman here then 🤣
I like to study Japan in my free time
In 2003 I was one of 5 incurable cases of MRSA. Well, the cure was amputation of my left leg.
Last year in school, I was the only one named Ghaniyah.
I have no bellybutton. ponder on that.
i love reece’s pieces don’t hate on mee
I can't whistle or snap but I can repeatedly crack my knuckles, I only get carsick if I'm not sitting upright, and I read a lot (if you need any book recommendations, tell me your favorite genre and I'll come up with something)
I can enlarge my tongue till it fills up my whole mouth. Thank you.
