jdl wrote:If it's plain pizza (pepperoni is okay), or chicken, chips, crackers, any kind of cheese or bread, any kind of drink at all, candy, fries or potatos, then it is okay with me. There's some other stuff that I can't think of that I like as well, but it's pretty much just the stuff above that I like. If it's not very similar to any of that, then chances are I probably won't want to try it.
No pork or poultry? Or beef?
I have no issues staring down from a high building. I can stand on the "bottomless glass floor" in a cable car and look down. But if I were on a rooftop with nothing between me and empty space I would most certainly be
very scared of tripping and falling. Does that count as acrophobia?
jdl wrote:Oh, and I have a fear of dying painfully.
I think we all do, to a certain extent. I'd rather die peacefully, in my sleep. But does that fear give you immense pressure (like you think of it and you get scared on a frequent basis)? Sorry if I'm coming across as meddling, I'm just curious.
Jutomi wrote:I have to say, I have a reflexive fear of bugs; Like, if one just suddenly appears on my arm, I get scared.
Though, usually, two seconds later, if I flung the creature away, I sometimes wonder... "Why did I just do that?"
For me, when a bug lands on me, I swipe it off immediately. Although I'm not bothered by houseflies/fruit flies and mosquitos (I just kill them), if a beetle or a moth or a butterfly comes at me, I freak out. Needless to say I run immediately whenever I see a bee or a wasp.
Jutomi wrote:I tend to have a fear of losing myself.
I don't want to ever change for the worse, in any way.
Sometimes I act a bit paranoid about it, though, so...
there's that to learn about me.
High-five!
I feel that I should have my own personality, and not be influenced by others. I have never felt the need to be in with the "cool" crowd, so I basically act like myself.
Jutomi wrote:Oh, and I'm all so slightly shy.
Really? Doesn't seem like it on this forum
StinkerSquad01 wrote:...I don't like cleaning dishes.
Who does?
Muzozavr wrote:I happened to try to eat a doughnut that turned out to be COVERED with ants and they all started running inside my mouth in all directions.
Yucks! That must have been horrible.
StinkerSquad01 wrote:I hate social situations like parties. I don't know if it's just that I'm an introvert, or maybe there's something else there. I've taken an Autism spectrum thingy test online, and it said that I could be autistic. Who knows?
YES ME TOO.
I find social events pointless. I would never want to go to a party, with drunken bodies everywhere, as most of them end up.
Although I'm not an adult yet, I am under the impression that social events get even worse in the working world--one is forced to put up a facade of "political-correctness" and play a game of concealment and pretence.
So yeah, you can definitely see that I'm an introvert.
As for school...
I guess I have been fortunate enough to have not actually suffered such serious bullying. Sure, there are of course insults, name-callings and the occasional scuffle, but those can be shrugged away and forgotten rather easily. This type of extreme bullying is rather new to me, and you people have my respect for enduring all these. Stay strong, you guys!
billy bob wrote:School, learning, teaching, class, anything like that brings me extreme negative association killing any motivation. One can understand after being subjected to this as a child. I never even got bullied, my problem was the teachers absolutely hated me for no reason whatsoever, and I absolutely hated the work. See? I just called it "work". Even that in itself is wrong. Learning about a subject should be something you want to do. If it isn't, get them doing a subject that they do want to do! I mean, don't get me wrong, you do have to put some effort in, unlike in computer games nothing in life comes on a plate. Perhaps it could be made a bit more fun than just sitting in the same place everyday filling in worksheets, afraid if they've got it right or wrong. It's quite remarkable how they crush the passion for gaining knowledge.
And you have to understand that this is the most important stage of our lives, our childhood shapes who we become! Yet most studies are dismissed and we carry on with the traditional way of doing things which is not beneficial to society.
Indeed. Granted, for Math and Sciences there are application questions, but for the rest, to do well, one simply needs to vomit everything he has learnt and memorised onto the exam sheet. Learning becomes a chore instead of an enjoyable thing, since the education system only teaches students what they
need to know.
... but not really.
