Post a random fact about yourself

I have OCD (clinically diagnosed, not this "I'm such a neat freak" crap). I've had depression from the age of 14, and it developed from that when I was 18. For the next few years it became increasingly worse. Every day I would spend literally hours in the bathroom washing myself, I couldn't touch or pick up anything without using a cloth or tissue, and I couldn't eat anything but dry rice and cereal. I also only left the house a total of maybe a week in the span of 3 years. I repeated everything I did over and over. There were times I became so trapped in that cycle that I felt it would never end and I'd be stuck there forever until I died. I was suicidal and cried every day from the helplessness and frustration. I lived with my mother and grandmother, and neither of them could understand what I was going through. They believed that I was doing all of it consciously and thought I could just decide to stop if I wanted to. Thankfully I never had to admit myself to hospital, and with the help of antidepressants and the support of my boyfriend, I turned myself around. I still deal with OCD every day, I still have my repetition and my rituals that often don't make sense even to me, and it's worse some days than others, but I can live normally around it.

Living with depression and OCD for years, I know what it's like to have an invisible condition, to have people not comprehend it and treat you like you're crazy or faking it. I know what it's like to feel broken, and how hard it is to have even your loved ones not understand and not be able to help you. I'm still too ashamed to tell my boyfriend the details of my OCD. I don't want him to know what it's like, and I don't want to think about it or have to remember it, either. But I do hope that everyone here with an invisible illness (mental or physical) at least has something to lose yourself in to distract from the pain, or someone you can go to for comfort, even if that person doesn't fully understand what you're going through. I find that escapism and a security blanket can often be the greatest tools to help you get through the hard times. That and the knowledge that you're not alone. Even if you don't have someone nearby to hold you, remember that you'll always have us to talk to and laugh with when you're feeling down.
 
I have no sensory memory or imagination. This is basically the opposite end of the spectrum from people with photographic memory/imagination. I always thought phrases like 'picture X' were just metaphors, and it took me until I was 23 before I realised that no, most people actually can 'picture' things in their mind in a way I cannot. There haven't been too many studies done on this, but one that was done suggests that about 12% of people might completely lack sensory imagination like I do.

The best example I've come up with so far to help people understand this is to say this: picture a triangle. What colour is it? If you can answer that question, you have a visual imagination. Whatever you're doing there, I can't do. If you asked me the same questions, I'd have no answer, because there's no triangle in my mind to have a colour.

This also means I never get songs 'stuck in my head' (which is another aspect of sensory imagination/memory) and probably crave food in a different way to most people (as I can't remember what food tastes like in a sensory way).

Luckily, it's apparently very easy to compensate for having a lack of sensory memory/imagination. A lot of people seem to find it hard to imagine doing various things without using mental imagery (for instance, those 3D rotation questions so popular on SAT/IQ tests, or creative things like writing or drawing), but I do just fine at them (and actually have numerous creative hobbies I'm quite proficient at). I just have to approach things a different way because I have a different set of tools to work with :D
 
- I daydream a lot and can find myself being called out of a daze by people who ask me what I was staring at for 30 mins.
- I am not a huge people person but I love to go to the mall (every now and then) and people watch.
- While watching people my inner voice changes to a narrator for national geographic and seems to like narrating what I am seeing in a documentary style type pattern.
-I know ever word song and movement from the movies Labyrinth, Last Unicorn, and Pokémon the 1st movie.
- I try not to watch sad animal movies. I was for bidding to watch Old Yeller by my mom cause I kept crying every time I watched it. I could not finish Marilee and me or Haichi and lets not go into detail about where the red fern grows. Heck I bearly get through Black Beauty and homeward bound and free Willie with out crying and those movies are not as sad and the others.
 
Since everyone else is posting multiple stuff I'll go for it.

I can sleep in total darkness or semi darkness, but I sleep better having a nearby lamp on. I have no idea why.
I'm 37 and I sleep with a stuffed animal too. Just one. She's a large snow leopard plushie I replace with the same brand once a year (allergy issues otherwise) then donate the old one to charity (she still looks like new).

I hate being called by my last name.

I'm one of those people who loves talking about her 3 cats and think of myself as an apprentice crazy cat lady (not old enough and I don't have enough cats to be called a full blown crazy cat lady, lol). I do try to limit that since few other people want to hear about my cats.

I wish I liked cooking and it tastes fine when I do cook, but I hate cooking. I'm of the opinion when I'm hungry I want to eat RIGHT NOW and not wait any length of time for a meal. Now if only I could find a boyfriend who loved cooking. Lol.
 
It's kinda hard thinking of "facts" about yourself, I've found~ reading others' really gets me thinking about things though.

-Have won 2 talent contests in college by playing this song on the piano
http://www.vgmusic.com/music/other/miscellaneous/piano/dparture.mid

-Was mostly a tomboy up until middle school, now I'm balanced by wearing skirts but with full leggings and boots

-Get along with the boys irl, tend to have more guy friends. May stem from a childhood of being betrayed by friends back when I only hung out with girls, being bullied for being a lesbian when I was pretty much asexual and wasn't interested in either gender at the time I was being picked on

-Had eye surgery in 2nd grade so I wouldn't end up seeing in tunnel vision

-Two celebrities own my custom ponies, Ryan Matthew Bollman (Children of The Corn II) and Lana Parilla (Once Upon A Time) and my Yu Yu Hakusho BJD Yoko is getting signed by his voice actor by my customer

-I'm on my way to making custom pony sales a solid income, my hard work over the years is heading down the path of paying off as I hire someone to market my work~ some of the free marketing they've done already has boosted my sales~ This has been a goal of mine I've been working towards for the past several years~ I'm stubborn, and don't give up easily~

-Have been attached to ponies my entire life

-I'm grateful for the things my stepdad taught me while he was alive, to play the piano, be on time to places, how to drive, ride bike, how to be a responsible adult and how to get jobs~ he gave me a lot of vital guidance to be able to make it on my own~ I see a lot of people these days that didn't have someone to teach them these things~

-I learned to read piano music by playing the xylophone in band~

-I'm at conflict with whether or not I want to draw. I have 2 1/2 years of experience under my belt, so my work is improved from when I first started out but still have a lot of flaws that bug other people. For this I'm constantly quitting but my mind keeps coming up with more drawing concepts that I feel I must put on paper.
The same people that claim my work bugs them, do say that I need to keep drawing anyways, practice, the like~ the whole thing about "different tastes" drives me batty up the long bus though.





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-I have a horrible phobia of the little toaster movie. I had a bad childhood experience that related to the movie and ever since then I can't stand it. I actually faint if it comes on the tv.
-I love glitter. I painted my pony room with glittery paint :lolpony:
-I always get nervous telling people this but this is such a non judgemental group so here it goes! I'm a furry. I'm one of those weirdos who associates with a special animal. I love the furry community and most of my friends are furs.
-I've had purple hair for 11 years now!
-Because I'm disabled I don't work. I make my money selling toys. I love making people happy by matching them with a toy they've always wanted :ponylove:
-I'm also not afraid to dumpster dive. I can't do it as much because I have a comprised immune system.
-I have to wear a medical mask when I go outside. I don't want to get sick! I'm not a germaphobe but I have to be extra careful!
-I love crafting! My favorite place to shop is Jo-Anns and especially love fall time because they put out scented pinecones :ponylove:
-I l-o-v-e to swim! It's the only time where I don't hurt. When I'm in the water I can move and use muscles and I can't do that on land. I actually want to be a professional mermaid one day!
-I also love star gazing. There's something so beautiful about the night sky. I love celestial things because they look so pure and untainted. Nothing can ever ruin them or make them corrupt.
-My favorite holiday is Halloween. I love getting lots of candy and making treats for my friends. I also don't like it much but every year my fiance and our friends go see Rocky Horror Picture Show. My Bubbie even dresses up like Eddie. He has a lot of leather jackets and can rock the greaser look. :lolpony:
 
@Moondream lol, I've been a furry longer than a collector actually! I used to fursuit, but since I started to need glasses to see, it became too unsafe.
Don't be nervous about saying you're a fur. I doubt it'd sound any weirder than someone saying they like to knit. :satisfied:

-I eat waaay too much oatmeal and cereal.
-That said, pancakes are my favorite breakfast food.
-I like dogs a lot, but I get nervous around ones I don't know.
-I taped motivational and comforting pictures around my workspace to look at
when I'm having a hard time at school.
-I'm a cosplayer who currently has 3 pony-related ones under her belt. (G1 Bow Tie, Heart Throb and Star Hopper if you're curious)
-I can't stand loud noises! They're painful. /u\
-If you haven't noticed, I'm in love with these pony smilies. :lolpony:
-Also, I'm polykin + fictionkin.
 
pikapal said:
I love scented pine cones and crafting too. Do you like the cinnamon pine cones?

Fact about me:
I'm very afraid of large flightless birds like ostriches and emu.
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Oh I love the cinnamon pine cones! Nothing says Christmas time like making a scented pinecone wreathe ^^

I can understand why you're afraid of big flightless bids! They can kick so hard they can knock you out. I wouldn't want to be anywhere near them either!!
 
- I have a horrible fear of the Chick-fil-lay Cow or people dress up as characters like this. I don't hate them but those kinda of costume just scar me.
- That being said I have some furry friends and I love to see there pictures of their costumes and you can tell how hard they and other work on them. I just cant take seeing a person dressed up in person.

_ I am also terrified of Clowns. My mother dress me as one for Halloween when I was like 4 I cried the whole night till they finally took me out of the costume. Worst Halloween ever. Even the Horse ride at the Carnival we went to that night did not help. Though I was Ragged Ann when I was 6 and I loved her. I kinda was more into it cause of Paranormal shows. I saw the Warrens and Annabelle the doll and I feel in love with it.
- I have a Large Dollmore Lusion doll named Annabelle yes after the above doll.
- My none Spirited Haunted dolls All have name ***. with some kinda Paranormal mystery I love.
- I love strange unsolved mysteries Lizzie Borden, Viscilla Ax murder, Jack the ripper ECT.
- I went to the The Myrtles Plantation a few years ago and I honest to God felt at home Like I had been there before. Take it for what you will. I really hated to leave I cried on the way home.
 
I have a couple:

I can't swim. When I was 2 I almost drowned, and when I was 4, our swim teacher made us jump off the diving boards twice each class, including the first session. I've pretty much gotten over that now, so I don't know what's stopping me.

I like to sew, embroider, quilt, draw, sing, act, craft, learn... whatever, but I'm not good at dancing! I have to see an example a few times before I can do a step, and then I just don't remember it.
 
pikapal said:
I love scented pine cones and crafting too. Do you like the cinnamon pine cones?

Fact about me:
I'm very afraid of large flightless birds like ostriches and emu.
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Heh. There's reasons to fear them. I've had a couple and they can kick the blazes out of you, as Moondream said. Mine though, she did me one worse. It was very rude of her. Her name was Kardanilia, Kardi for short. Once I was petting her through a cattle panel fence and I guess my breasts were poking through as I leaned into it and... she bit one. having them smushed in the death vice for a mammogram is nothing compared to the searing pain of an emu biting your boob.

Oh the words that I said! I'm a pretty bad cusser as it is (although I'm very well behaved here) but that day I invented new, horrible words that burned the air and passing ears. My curses probably still ring in the woods to this day! Kardi didn't seem even ashamed. Bad bird.

There's my weird fact for the day! Emu assault victim!
 
Yeah those birds scare me because whenever I used to watch Jack Hannah as a kid he'd stand by those birds and they would usually kick him on the show. And I had a bad experience with an ostrich at the county fair as a child. It didn't bite me or anything it just scared me.

Fact:
I liked game shows so much as a child I aspired to be a game show host when I grew up. This lasted well into junior high.
 
-My hero growing up who was not my dad ( love my dad) was Robert Bakker the Paleontologist.
-I have honest to god gotten into a shouting match with my TV when the Paleontologist Jack Horner and some of his theories of the T. Rex.
- I really really really LOVE JAWS I cried like a baby when they shot him. I saw it when I was five and my mom thought it scared me. I was like No why did they kill the poor shark. After that I think my mom gave up on my Movie taste lol.
-I also really really love Godzilla. I want him as a pet when I was little. That would have been so cool. I also wanted jaws but that another story,
_While I have said I was Asexual I have had a few crushes mostly on non real beings from movies and TV or books. My 1st one that was a real person was
KING TUT when I was 7 or 8.
 
- I feel nauseous whenever I eat eggs. It doesn't matter if they're hard boiled, scrambled or fried, or baked in a quiche. It helps if I only eat the whites, but it still makes me feel a little sick. And yet I LOVE French toast! I can eat 4 slices of that and have no problems.

- I've had crushes on a lot of fictional characters from books, games, movies and TV series, and only a few celebrities (always the one guy in the boy band who turned out to be gay). In 6th or 7th grade, I even told my female classmates that I had a boyfriend named Tobias (a character from Animorphs) to try and make the boy I liked jealous. It didn't work. Then in high school, when other girls decorated the covers of their ring binders with pictures of actors and singers, I had manga scans and anime screenshots of bishounen. For years I was guilty of writing Mary Sue fanfiction, until I discovered the problem with that and switched to yaoi.

- I'm an incurable nail biter. If I'm bored, stressed, or concentrating/trying to think, and my hands are idle for any amount of time, I end up chewing my nails. I love how long nails look and feel, but I always have to wear false nails because I can never leave my own alone for long enough.

- I'm not just a sweet tooth, I am physically addicted to sugar. I drink about 4-6l of Coke in a week, I eat a lot of cookies and chocolate, and I add sugar to plain cereal and even to already sweetened drinks. I am also obsessed with high carbohydrate foods like potatoes, white rice, pasta and white bread. I am very likely to get diabetes with the amount of sugar in my diet, yet I metabolize everything quickly and weigh in at a stable 50kg (110lbs). I have never been overweight.

- I have hair that falls down to my waist even when in a ponytail. I hate brushing it, but I also feel too sorry to cut it back to shoulderblade length.

- I have misophonia. I can't tolerate snoring (it literally drives me insane and makes me want to lash out violently), sniffing, or people making noises with their mouths (i.e. clacking tongues, eating noisily etc.) I also hate dogs barking.

- I hate interruptions. I also have a problem with taking breaks when I'm busy with something – even if I'm hungry or need to go to the bathroom, or if my controller needs to be plugged in while I'm on the playstation. I also don't like stopping when I'm in the middle of doing something. It's frustrating and feels a lot like when someone's talking to me but then gets distracted and doesn't finish their sentence. I often never come back to something if I stopped partway through, I prefer to start over instead.

- I am a terrible procrastinator and also extremely forgetful.
 
-I can drink up to 2 pots of coffee a day by my self
- I only need 4 hours of good deep sleep a night
- I am a speed reader
-I narrate my life sometime like cooking or putting things together
-I love peppermint stickw
-I have always had my own Christmas tree sense age 7 in my room
-when I do pass on into the next world I want to be mummified.
-I love Old black and white Horror movie. Boris Karloff, Bela Lugosi, Vincent Price, and the stop motion work of Ray Harryhousen my favorite being the mummy and the creature from the black lagoon.
 
* I always use indoor slippers
* I have NO sense of direction
* I have a tendancy to always bump my feet into something (by standard I loose aprox one toenail a year and I have lots of scars on my feets)
* I seem to be a "spider-magnet" and I hate it!
* My worst nightmares usually involves being in a vehicle that's going too fast and won't stop
* I really, really, REALLY want to get an aquarium to buy some fantail ryukins but I don't have the space at the moment.....*so sad*
* In my world Ice Cream always beats any other types of candy, snacks or pastrys!
 
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