#postmeme

1) I am disgustingly good at learning things to a “just beyond a beginner” level, and then intermediate if I’m interested, that’s across the board. My Dad says I’m a sponge and always need new information, which is true. I have genuinely pissed people off unintentionally through excited mimicry of their party pieces (like this, the look I got... still feel bad haha but it’s such a good sound)

2) I am very good at “and then” stuff, seeing possible permutations, how things interplay and likely outcomes. I can keep a lot in my head when I’m healthy and mesh them together. It means I’m ace at “world building” or “theory building” given a scenario, and helps at work when coding. I can draw parallels between seemingly random things and spot connections where a solution to one problem might help another.  3) I have grapheme-colour synaesthesia, which means when I see numbers and letters they have a colour to them (they’re black, but it’s like an extra glow of another colour triggered by my brain insisting they have that colour). Tied with that is seeing words I’m hearing like a ticker tape along the top of the screen like the news, or words I’m about to say like an autocue. It’s the same with instruments in music, they’re kinda “visible” in the same space but more as shapes? Synaesthesia helps me remember things! But means I say things bizarre things like “Israel? Yeah that’s what I meant when I said Argentina” because the colours are similar! 4) Probably shouldn’t be proud of this but - I’m queen of doing “just enough” or “more than the other person” so I can spend time on my own stuff. I wrote fanfic throughout my GCSEs pretty much every lesson other than art and spent my entire A-levels addicted to online gaming and still got top marks - not as top as I should have apparently, but you get to a point of diminishing returns with studying - why study 20 more hours for 3 more marks that aren’t gonna matter because a grade is a grade? So I played MapleStory instead (Ice-lightening mage, as it was typoed). Good times, got carpal tunnel. Second perfect example at my ability to appear amazing - I was described on school reports as “conscientious” from a little kid and only bothered to look up what it meant when I was about 15. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯