I tend to fart a lot.
To those who don’t believe there’s the perfect someone out there for everyone… Serendipity strikes again!
That I was a cheerleader in college (I’m a male).
Dude I found a couple Youtube channels about stunting that have been interesting and fun to watch when bored. It takes a TON of skill to do that.
That’s fun! How long did you cheer for? The whole college experience?
Yeah, and it was a very cool and fun experience.
No dessert for me thanks. I just ate - now’s the worst possible moment to offer me even more food. I’ll have a plain coffee though.
I’ll have a plain coffee though.
Right there with ya. I’ve got a wicked sweet tooth, but the only thing I want after a nice dinner is a small cup of black coffee :)
That I am physically strong. I am skinny and don’t have a lot of obvious muscle but to the surprise of many I can lift heavy and stand my ground arm wrestling.
When I was in university I could beat anyone in an arm wrestle except for the army guys, and it was never that clear to me why.
actual active military? could be that they had to workout/exercise often, ped usage?
My actual age.
I worked with a girl many years ago who was about 22 years old at the time. We worked a job where employees come and go all the time. She did not look very youthful, but she was very self aware. One of her favorite things to do was ask new hires how old they thought she was. Most people guessed late 30s to mid 40s and were mortified when she told then she was in her early 20s, but she always got a kick out of it.
I’m a devout Christian.
I think most people assume that if you’re not loudmouthed about it, it must not be important to you. Others have just had so many negative experiences with Christianity. I have complicated feelings about that.
+1 here especially after splitting from our local church building to launch a house church. The culture around us seems to only want acquaintance-level relationships but I want what I read in the Acts church with real brotherly love and living life with one another.
Also we have 10 kids so constantly get asked if we know what causes that… (answer: yes, adoption).
Ditto atheism. I don’t believe in souls, afterlives, free will, any of it. But because I’m not constantly trying to debunk theists people have assumed I’m at least agnostic.
Are you in a religious country? I don’t think I know a single person who actively practices religion
Pretty religious. Muslims are probably the most visible adherents, with Eid.
its mainly because people who are very outwardly “christian” tend to lean MAGA, or annoying evangelical types, telling you what is wrong and wasnt.
I can put my foot behind my head. People just don’t exact it from a 1.78m dude.
Weird Al can do it too and he’s a little bit tallerYou might already know this, but one word to look into: hypermobility
Source: I am also bendy.
People always assume I’m pretty smart because I work with computers and such.
I usually prove them wrong pretty quickly.
Same, oh wow your printer is too complicated for me to figure out!
It is well known that printers require regular blood sacrifices to power the arcane magic they were originally created with. Being able to take information already output to the screen, and bring it back to put on paper required a terrible deal with powers beyond human comprehension. That deal is still at the core of modern printing.
Refusing to engage with a defiant printer sounds pretty smart TBH.
People always underestimate how nerdy I am. I am quite the professional in my career and people overestimate my social skills lol
Copied from my women’s stuff answer:
That my mom is dead. I’m not old enough for people to really consider that that stage of life might have happened to me yet.
Also, that I’m hard of hearing. I’m in my early 30s, speak well, and don’t look disabled. It’s honestly like a superpower how fast people forget when I tell them I’m a lip reader or am (or am not) wearing hearing aids. Sometimes them speaking louder and to my face lasts a whole 2 sentences.
I’m hard of hearing, but only in the last ~8 years and I didn’t realize how much I’ve come to rely on lip reading to supplement my loss of hearing. I was watching people on YouTube and I couldn’t understand them because it was quiet so I started watching and realized they were speaking French and how that made it so I couldn’t understand them at all because I don’t know French lip reading even though I can understand spoken French fairly well. But yes some people just can’t speak louder for some reason
Wow, all of those apply to me as well.
Welcome to the deaf motherless club of lemmy. First order of business is explaining that we aren’t all grandmas
I wonder where I could find more members of the club. I should try searching “motherless”!
I have no sense of smell.
I have an identical twin. Or that the much shorter person next to me is…that identical twin lol. Yes twin is six inches shorter! We’re still identical! Turns out when you’re born 4lbs and 2lbs, the 2lb baby does not catch up in height and stuff!
That I’m a virgin
Everyones surprised I’m actually a dog
On the Internet no one knows you’re a dog
I have low affect so it’s usually along the lines of “Wow, so you aren’t going to wear my skin like a mask. You’re actually nice. I never would have guessed.”
