What's something people don't tend to notice about you, but if people knew it, would know you a lot better?

I am passionate about landscape photography. I love old barns and farmsteads and steam locomotives. I value people over money, fame or power.

I am very reserved, more than I might like to be.

I can’t do arithmetic in my head. I’m a CPA. I’ve taken higher-level—college and graduate school—math classes, and I did very well in them. But, if you ask me to add a couple of numbers or multiply them, I need to reach for a pencil and piece of paper. It’s just “one of those things,” and I don’t try to fight it.

I’m a muggle, even among muggles.

@Primobabe Hey, can you change me this $5 for two $10s?

I get stressed easily. I value learning above just about everything, so when I am under pressure to learn something I take it very seriously and can get quite stressed. However if I don’t have that pressure I lack motivation – so its my destiny in life to be a little stressed all the time, and I just need to learn how to deal with it.

I’m at my happiest when it is raining or snowing. unless I have a hot date with a speed boat and a tube

@jonsblond Heh, at first I thought you had written “speed boat and a lube”, then I moved closer to the monitor and realized I was wrong. Funny what whispering can do :P

@bob_ I was thinking it looked naughty somehow, but I thought “what can you do with a tube?”. Never mind, don’t answer that. ;)

I have brain damage (literally) due to trauma and my rote memory is shot to shit, sometimes my concentration is iffy, and my ability to do math is pretty much gone.

Many people are displeased with what they think is lack of willingness to remember various things, disinterest in what they are saying, etc. when I forget something. What it really is is inability to remember things without extensive mnemonics on my part and repetition.

My “memory” consists of my wife, an extensive series of notepads, and years of retraining myself to regain some slight ability at rote memorization.

I have a mild issue with hearing. I’m tone-deaf enough that I sometimes have trouble understanding what people are saying if they speak in a certain frequency range, which is why I either need to pause for a moment or have people repeat themselves.

@bob_ You bet! And, I’ll trade you this boring picture of Benjamin Franklin for that really cool picture of George Washington.

@Primobabe XD

I’m a vegetarian not because I think that eating animals is wrong I have no issue with it but because I disagree with the way most meat available to me is obtained. I’m not even necessarily talking about animal cruelty. I mean natural evolution has all but stopped for animals that are raised exclusively for food. Also, I recognize that being a vegetarian is a choice and it is a deviant diet so I do not expect other people to cater to my food choices. However, I also expect people not to be offended if I choose to make a sandwich rather than eat what they have made.

I love sex, and I’m really good at it. I just don’t get to practise that often.

I try to treat other people the way I would wish to be treated.
That doesn’t always happen, and sometimes I feel hurt.

@zenele Are you telling us that it doesn’t count if you’re alone?

@Primobabe I’m not telling you anything. You decide.

Race ya to 2000 lurve.

They don’t seem to notice how observant I can be. I’m very still and quiet in most situations and many people either think I’m retarded or backwards arsed shy. I’m not shy. hehehe They are almost always surprised that I catch the subtle nuances of our interactions.

@Silhouette They are almost always surprised that I catch the subtle nuances of our interactions.

I’ve always believed in paying attention to the quieter people—they’re the ones who are listening, observing, and thinking. Nobody ever learned anything by talking on and on, but people become very wise by noticing and absorbing.

@Primobabe Silence makes some people nervous and they unintentionally reveal more than they know. They blurt or give away their inner thoughts with their body language, this has always fascinated me.

@Arisztid you are lucky to have such a wife.

@NRO Indeed. :) She is even tolerant that, after the head trauma, it took me 4 years to remember her birthday and I still cannot remember our anniversary. :P Hell, I forget MY birthday.

That I wear a mask for the world, one that smiles all the time, one that makes me appear to be the happy person, the one who never gets sad, or lonely or unhappy, or stressed. I learned through the years that if you appear to be happy and coping well, that people leave you alone and stop asking if you’re ok.

Depression is a hellish thing that eats you up from the inside, cuts you off from the rest of the world. It makes you desperate for company, for someone to understand how you’re feeling, make the pain go away, but instead of allowing you to reach out, make a connection and explain, it makes you pull up the drawbridge and keep everyone away. No one sees that inside you’re dying a little bit at a time and you can’t make it stop. Thing is that you are the only one who can change anything. You need to reach out and make somebody listen, because if you let even one person see you without the mask it can change everything, it can start to make things better. You’re not alone then.
hugs everyone xx