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quasimemetic
16 years ago
I've seen memes like this, but I guess I'm ignoring the rules of most of those? Here's some random facts about me that people are sometimes surprised by.
* I have a notch in my left ear, which turns into a raised line that goes almost all the way across the ear. It's from being attacked by a dog; leaving aside the numerous stitches on the top of my head (where I now have a couple tiny hairless spots), it took at least seventeen stitches.
* Tapping or slapping me on the back of my shoulder triggers an intense flight or fight response in me. I used to just swing around and hit people when this happened as a kid. I don't know why it happens....
* I spent the first six years of my life in Boulder Creek, California. I had the stump of a redwood tree for a "treehouse". We moved to lower NY in '89, and I still think the trees here are too small.
* My favorite colors are Purple, Orange, and Green, preferred in that order. However, I also wear a lot of blues and browns. I usually say that my least favorite color is Pink, but this is kind of a lie.
* I never had a coming of age ceremony of any type.
* My lucky number (referenced in some of my screennames) is 49. This is because I noticed one day that my favorite TV channel (Cartoon Network) was #49 at the time, and so was the shortbus I took to school. 7x7=49, and 4+9=13, so I'm sure there's some numerological significance to it.
* I used to always mispronounce "mispronounce", and often still do.
* My ancestors are Polish, Lithuanian (from Kovno or near it), Romanian, and French (and possibly Spanish and Russian, maybe technically Moldovan). In every case, my ancestors were Jewish: Ashkenazi, Litvish, Ashkenazi, and Sephardic. Both my parents have had Israeli citizenship; my mother was born there to American parents.
* I'm named for two great-grandparents and a grandparent, all deceased (Ashkenazi tradition says you never name a kid after a live relative, it's like wishing death on them). My last name is actually one my father adopted when he came here to honor the family which protected his during the Holocaust, as he tells it. My names mean "Beloved", "A Gift", "Greatest", and "from Rome".
* I have two older siblings from one of my father's previous marriages; I've only met my half-sister, and since then have met her eldest daughter briefly. Both live in Israel and have numerous children, my sister with more six or more.
* I have never been to a religious service other than a wedding or funeral. My family used to have a Christmas tree at the same time we were lighting the Hanukkah menorah.
* I am mildly allergic to "trees, grasses, and flowers", and very allergic to mold, feathers, dust, cedar, and marijuana. I start showing severe cold symptoms and experience painful swelling in my sinuses which makes it difficult to remain upright if I am near enough to any of those to breathe in particles.
* I smoked a cigarette once, didn't enjoy it at all, and never found a reason to do it again. I don't understand why people continue to smoke long enough to develop an addiction.
* I have been professionally diagnosed with Asperger's syndrome. I consider it neither a flaw to be corrected, nor an excuse to behave inappropriately with neurotypical people.
* I'm (mostly) vegan and lactose intolerant. I choose not to eat any animal products except honey, mainly due to the manner in which farm animals are treated in most large farming operations run by US corporations, and that it is not a biological necessity for me to eat meat with the availability of alternatives. I would consider eating meat and eggs again if all the producers switched to conscientious, cruelty-free and environmentally sound methods. My reasoning tends to vary between being hyper-sensitive to suffering, and considering that meat from unhappy and unhealthy animals tastes like utter crap.
* I would eat eggs from chickens raised by people I know to be treating the hens well. I would probably keep my own chickens for this reason if I ever had room, probably Araucanas for the blue eggs :3
* I dislike ostriches and actively encourage them as an alternative meat source over cattle for environmental and economic reasons, as well as the fact that they are stupid, stupid birds.
* My vision is about 20/1600, roughly as acute as that of a newborn human infant.
* I have phobias of needles and sub-dermal parasites. Bot flies are a good way to terrify me to the point of writhing on the floor.
* I have a notch in my left ear, which turns into a raised line that goes almost all the way across the ear. It's from being attacked by a dog; leaving aside the numerous stitches on the top of my head (where I now have a couple tiny hairless spots), it took at least seventeen stitches.
* Tapping or slapping me on the back of my shoulder triggers an intense flight or fight response in me. I used to just swing around and hit people when this happened as a kid. I don't know why it happens....
* I spent the first six years of my life in Boulder Creek, California. I had the stump of a redwood tree for a "treehouse". We moved to lower NY in '89, and I still think the trees here are too small.
* My favorite colors are Purple, Orange, and Green, preferred in that order. However, I also wear a lot of blues and browns. I usually say that my least favorite color is Pink, but this is kind of a lie.
* I never had a coming of age ceremony of any type.
* My lucky number (referenced in some of my screennames) is 49. This is because I noticed one day that my favorite TV channel (Cartoon Network) was #49 at the time, and so was the shortbus I took to school. 7x7=49, and 4+9=13, so I'm sure there's some numerological significance to it.
* I used to always mispronounce "mispronounce", and often still do.
* My ancestors are Polish, Lithuanian (from Kovno or near it), Romanian, and French (and possibly Spanish and Russian, maybe technically Moldovan). In every case, my ancestors were Jewish: Ashkenazi, Litvish, Ashkenazi, and Sephardic. Both my parents have had Israeli citizenship; my mother was born there to American parents.
* I'm named for two great-grandparents and a grandparent, all deceased (Ashkenazi tradition says you never name a kid after a live relative, it's like wishing death on them). My last name is actually one my father adopted when he came here to honor the family which protected his during the Holocaust, as he tells it. My names mean "Beloved", "A Gift", "Greatest", and "from Rome".
* I have two older siblings from one of my father's previous marriages; I've only met my half-sister, and since then have met her eldest daughter briefly. Both live in Israel and have numerous children, my sister with more six or more.
* I have never been to a religious service other than a wedding or funeral. My family used to have a Christmas tree at the same time we were lighting the Hanukkah menorah.
* I am mildly allergic to "trees, grasses, and flowers", and very allergic to mold, feathers, dust, cedar, and marijuana. I start showing severe cold symptoms and experience painful swelling in my sinuses which makes it difficult to remain upright if I am near enough to any of those to breathe in particles.
* I smoked a cigarette once, didn't enjoy it at all, and never found a reason to do it again. I don't understand why people continue to smoke long enough to develop an addiction.
* I have been professionally diagnosed with Asperger's syndrome. I consider it neither a flaw to be corrected, nor an excuse to behave inappropriately with neurotypical people.
* I'm (mostly) vegan and lactose intolerant. I choose not to eat any animal products except honey, mainly due to the manner in which farm animals are treated in most large farming operations run by US corporations, and that it is not a biological necessity for me to eat meat with the availability of alternatives. I would consider eating meat and eggs again if all the producers switched to conscientious, cruelty-free and environmentally sound methods. My reasoning tends to vary between being hyper-sensitive to suffering, and considering that meat from unhappy and unhealthy animals tastes like utter crap.
* I would eat eggs from chickens raised by people I know to be treating the hens well. I would probably keep my own chickens for this reason if I ever had room, probably Araucanas for the blue eggs :3
* I dislike ostriches and actively encourage them as an alternative meat source over cattle for environmental and economic reasons, as well as the fact that they are stupid, stupid birds.
* My vision is about 20/1600, roughly as acute as that of a newborn human infant.
* I have phobias of needles and sub-dermal parasites. Bot flies are a good way to terrify me to the point of writhing on the floor.
