The "It may be common sense for some, but..." thread

[umbreon241]

I can't swallow pills.

I don't know why, it makes me squeamish. I don't like to think about the thought about it. Its hard to explain, but it just makes me uncomfortable. My parents get ticked off at me and they've even tried putting them inside of food. Continuously they say, "its like swallowing M&Ms!", but that doesn't help. Rather, it makes it worse. I think I might be afraid of choking or something, but whatever the reason is, I cannot get a pill to go down my throat for the life of me.

I have the same problem; I've gotten around it by quickly chewing up the pill and using water to help get the pieces down. It doesn't taste very good for a couple of seconds, but it's not really all that bad.
I think part of it might be because I don't swallow anything else without chewing, so my mind doesn't want to let me swallow something whole even if it is as small as a pill.

I take two pills every night (one for pollen allergies and the over for asthma). What I do is pop the pill under my tongue and get a glass of water. Drink the water with the pill in your mouth. It makes it so much easier.

I tend to pronounce words very differently. Like in Health class, I pronounced marijuana "marri-jew-ana".
And crayon I pronounce like "cran". It's really hard for me to tell the difference between "cran" and "cray-on" verbally.
Plus I'm terrible at picking up on jokes (unless they're perverted. Blame my friends for that) and facial expressions, and tones of voice. Like I can't imagine how I would talk if I was acting angry or sad. Happy, maybe, confused, yes. Anything else I can't do.
Pretty much I fail at little social cues. :tard:

[Raneth]

I tend to pronounce words very differently. Like in Health class, I pronounced marijuana "marri-jew-ana".
And crayon I pronounce like "cran". It's really hard for me to tell the difference between "cran" and "cray-on" verbally.

I do that too. I pronounce the name "Jeremy" as "germy." Small wonder I've never much liked that particular name.

The little regional dialects have always interested me, and I also tend to get really confused when weird ones come up. For example, if someone from the UK tells me to put something in the "bin," I'll spend an inordinate amount of time looking for a plastic bin before figuring out they mean garbage.

[Aureliette]

Manual can openers are evil.
I'm 18 and I still cant use one without mangling the can so bad that it has to be opened with power-tools. My mom has tried to teach me many times, but I can never get the damn thing to cut through the lid.

Finally for my birthday my parents bought me an electric can opener that's idiot proof, so now I wont starve to death!

[BBkat]

Manual can openers are evil.
I'm 18 and I still cant use one without mangling the can so bad that it has to be opened with power-tools. My mom has tried to teach me many times, but I can never get the damn thing to cut through the lid.

Finally for my birthday my parents bought me an electric can opener that's idiot proof, so now I wont starve to death!

I learned how to use one a long time ago because I had to use it to open cat food tins (this was before the pull tabs).

Now riding a bicycle, I cannot do that. I never really liked trying to ride one and thus, never learned. I prefer walking anyways.

[Leania]

Aureliette wrote:Manual can openers are evil.
I'm 18 and I still cant use one without mangling the can so bad that it has to be opened with power-tools. My mom has tried to teach me many times, but I can never get the damn thing to cut through the lid.

Finally for my birthday my parents bought me an electric can opener that's idiot proof, so now I wont starve to death!

I'm the exact opposite, I'm 28 and can only use the manual can opener because I can't get the electric ones to work. They just spin and if I remove my hand the can drops. I

I sometimes have a difficult time understanding things that others seem to get. For example, knitting I had to have someone next to me showing me how to do it, but once I knew how to do it, I could figure out how to do the stitches by trial and error. Same thing with making decorative knots, videos work wonders.

[Pyromania11]

I go to a very good school, and up until seventh grade I haven't been able to spell of. Yes I know it is the word of, but i spelled it ove.

[Intempestivity]

Fake-liking people.

I suck at it.

I work in the corporate world, and it's full of office politics. And I can't hide my feelings very well--if people upset me, they know it. I can't do the whole fake nice, fake happy, fake polite thing. I just can't. It makes me feel sick inside. I also can't let it slide when my co-worker screws up--I call him out on it every time, because it annoys me. Not to grass him up, but just saying "Um ... did you check this when you did it? Because ... there's about five mistakes. And it's going to head office."

I'm sure it makes me rather difficult to work with sometimes (people probably think I'm an absolute cow), but I do my job very well--it's just the social aspect of office politics that I screw up. I've never been very good socially, anyway.

[stealthxstar]

stealthy is bad with dates. (not like birthdays, but historical dates/years.)

they never stick

[aleniakalain]

I've troubles at understanding when I should be sensitive about a topic and when I don't have to.
I'm not very good at being sensitive...or better yet, I sometimes am sensitive about topics that for most people aren't and I'm not sensitive about some topics that people are usually sensitive about.
There are times in which my friends would say something and in my head I know rationally that I should be supportive or sensitive about it but I just am not and so I shut up not to sound cold. For istance there have been episodes in which a friend of mine would tell us how they did something stupid and that they now regret, and while my other friends would support them and tell them how sorry they are, my mind would go "well...you actually kind of brought it on yourself" instead.

[flamekaat]

... my mind would go "well...you actually kind of brought it on yourself" instead.

I genuinely prefer people who speak their minds this way then people being falsely sympathetic. And if more then one person is thinking so then I'm afraid it was a bonehead maneuver and whomever did it did bring it on themselves. and it should be more like "I love you dude but GAWD that was stupid and cause I love you and want whats best for you as your friend DO NOT do that or anything else like it again ok?!?!?"