1) I almost drowned when I was 8, and don't remember how I got out or exactly what happened after - I got afraid of water ever since and won't typically go in water much deeper than my height (this includes lakes, deep swimming pools, beaches far enough from the coast).
2) I got a head injury at 4, rammed into a pole on the back slide of a slope, my brother rammed into me, and me in the pole, in one of those 2-seated sleds
3) I have an extremely good memory, yet can't remember most of my childhood. I could cite you stuff about videogames in extreme details, my school stuff (history, maths etc) but not how I was when I was 6, or 14.
4) I can put numbers to alphanumeric orders of letters and vice-versa, I also developed this with regards to keyboard order (q=1 w=2 etc). I can do it almost in real time, it's scary to some (I can converse that way relatively fast).
9 - 3 1 14 - 3 15 14 22 5 18 19 5 - 20 8 1 20 - 23 1 25 - 18 5 12 1 20 9 22 5 12 25 - 6 1 19 20 (This is: I can converse that way relatively fast, dashes represent spaces) -
keyboard version (qwerty only): 8 - 23 11 26 - 23 9 26 24 3 4 12 3 - 5 16 11 5 - 2 5 11 5 - 2 11 6 - 4 3 19 11 5 9 24 3 19 6 - 15 11 12 5
5) Animals typically love me, yet I've not been in contact with that many. I prefer cats.
6) I learned English as a second language and speak it fluently, and have since 10th grade (enough so that my English as second language grades were perfect in 10th and 11th grade).
7) I use both 'styles' of orientation when moving about. I have a mental map and rely on landmarks both, but I can't read maps. I have to have physically explored a place and I go by memory.
I have expensive states (lolita fashion where ONE outfit can cost you 500+$ for example) yet live a minimalist lifestyle and have been used to poverty.
9) I like to collect things (not everything, only some things) and am a perfectionist (bad combination, financially anyway).
10) I managed not to even hear of transsexuality before I was 22.
11) I lack common sense and knowledge people take for granted is sometimes something I don't know (and that's not jargon). I didn't know what a blouse was until my 20s, what a petticoat was until I got one myself, at 24.
12) I defy social norms consciously or not (sometimes I'm unaware of them).
13) I never punched anyone even in good fun.
14) I can read doctor prescriptions with no problem.
15) I've wasted a keyboard by puncturing and erasing some of the keys.
16) I walk in a weird way.
17) I declared bankrupcy for over 20,000$ Canadian 3 years ago. I worked in cheap-paying jobs to get the necessary credit. I learned my lesson, but what's weird is how I got so much credit in the first place.
