Some Weird Facts About Me

1. I had a habit of stealing small things from places that no one would notice missing. Like one time 8 year old me stole a panda themed card from a stationery store, then I would steal small sticky notes and candles from a guesthouse my family used to stay in. I don’t do that anymore thankfully but I won’t lie I get the urge sometimes when I see someone’s pen lying around unguarded.

2. I used to have a wild imagination as a kid. I would make up stories about the pictures in my old family house. Like one picture in particular, it was a heavily edited picture of a younger version of my mother which was black and white with extremely pale skin and butterfly wings. I was scared shitless of that picture and I would sleep facing away from it every night. The story I made up for it was that the woman in the picture wasn’t my mother but an evil witch with a thousand demonic cronies and she would come in my dreams sometimes to torment me.

3. This is kinda related to the previous one but I grew up kinda lonely so I would make up lil people in my head to talk to and ask opinions from. They eventually faded as I grew older and became part of my internal monologue.

4. I was obsessed with books growing up, I could finish a 150 page book in one sitting but eventually this ability faded as I grew older because of the lack of input I was being given and my own internet addiction.

5. I used to get straight cut Dora the explorer bangs but I stopped getting them because people told me that it makes my hair look like a wig that doesn’t fit me.

6. I have mild facial blindness. It takes me quite some time with someone before I can start differentiating their features apart from other similar looking people. Of course, people with unique looking features tend to leave a more lasting impression in my mind. But a lot of people look the same to me. I even have a tendency to forget what colour clothes someone was wearing unless those clothes were particularly noticeable, so I often use their hair and silhouette to identify them in a crowd.

7. Sometimes I have a hard time understanding what people are saying even if there isn’t much interference, it takes a lot of ‘huh?’s and ‘can u repeat that I can’t understand u’ before my brain finally clocks in what they’re saying, I feel so rude sometimes :’)

8. I like to stare at grass sometimes and wonder how it evolved to be at this point