What are you f*cking good at that you'd never say but are secretly proud of?

[Iwonder777]

For me, it's putting people at ease.

I've not got the best self esteem but by goodness I'm authentic.

What are you good at - even if you'd never let on!

Not losing!
I am highly competitive- I actually won my DP!

I am not physically strong, not particularly fit. When somebody tells me I can't do something I have a strong enough will to muster up fitness or strength from somewhere to do what they said I can't do.

DP and I were acquaintances, we were in a pub, him with his friends and me with mine. I was having a stupid arm wrestle with a man twice my size and full of muscle. I was losing, just as my hand was about to touch table, DP said beat this guy I will take you out. Within 5 seconds I had found some strength and beat this guy.

DP actually frowned when a dr said I couldn't do something without it being severely dangerous. He knew the something inside me had to prove this DR wrong. I did it with no struggle and no complications.

Anybody who knows me can actually manipulate me to do pretty much anything because they know all they have to say is 'you can't do it'
I have tried to resist and tried to say 'yeah, I probably can't or shouldn't...but the inner voice starts screaming and throwing the bitch of all tantrums.

Stupid? yes...
Useful? Sometimes
Weird? Most definitely

I’m wondering how some of us know we can do such amazing things, like, how does a young 40+ y.o. Know that she can cart wheel. And Carby, you are a Legend.

I can flip across my top teeth and make a great popping sound - nobody I have ever met can replicate it. I was told that my blowjobs are 'very professional'! Must be something to do with my freaky tongue...
This is not really a skill that I can boast about in RL!

Cats always seem to love me - even ones where people say "careful he doesn't like strangers etc' are sitting on my lap 5 minutes later with no encouragement! Luckily I like cats or it could be scary!

For the BJ experts.....

'Stop! Stop! you're no good at it'. said no man ever

'Oh yeh! you are so goooood at it' ..... praise leads to a repeat performance

People always talk to me and tell me stuff about themselves. It seems like a compulsion as it happens everywhere - at the bus stop, randomly in shops, paying for food etc. I don't even know what to do to invite it, and other people even comment on it! It comes in handy for my job to degree, but I tend to get the entire story (when sometimes the edited version would be preferable!)

I'm also pretty good at reading people and getting the measure of them, to the extent where I can play through scenarios I think will happen, and then they do. I don't think this is a particular talent though - I think I'm just a bigger picture thinker / player (so I'm good for assessing the impact of change at work).

I have a visual memory and can remember whole pages / paragraphs of Guidance etc for work by closing my eyes and thinking about where I saw it and then it's like it's there in front of me to read from.

Oh, and I know my way around a menu! I'm good at picking tasty food!

I know

I also have people telling me their life stories after a few minutes and I don't know how it happens. I am also a good judge of character, which I don't really know how to explain but I can usually tell who the bad ones and who the good ones are even when other people think the opposite about them. I've been proved right many times.

I'm also pretty good at reading people and getting the measure of them, to the extent where I can play through scenarios I think will happen, and then they do.

Yes this is much better than the way I said it.. getting the measure of them.

I find it really easy to see the big picture and make connections between seemingly unrelated things. For years I thought it was a failing and only in the last 10 years or so have come to realise it is a skill. It is recognised at work now and am finally in a job that matches my skills.

Some sing, some dance, I fold fitted sheets.

That is indeed impressive.

Remembering which page a quote was on.
Tetris packing.
Untying knots.
Baking, not in a bake off way, more basics but they’re good. I make a damn fine Victoria Sponge, Chocolate cake, Custard Tart etc

I'm obviously good at being pedantic because ...

To all those who have said they are good at "proof reading", I need to tell you that it's actually "proofreading" (one word not two separate words)!

@BlueHarry I don't know how else to explain it, but it's like interpreting people's personalities and reactions quite quickly.

Quite often my OH will tell me something and I'll say "oh blah blah and then he'll do this and he'll say this and he'll justify it like this" and he'll go "Oh no I don't think that will happen"... a few days later he's like "Yeah he did do that and he said exactly that and when I asked why he said exactly what you said..."

I thought a lot of it was women's intuition as I can spot an abuser (or a personality that means that way) a mile off. To the extent if we're in group settings that particular person may be quite noticeably different towards me. My OH thinks it's because they sense that I "see" them and that whilst they may have everyone else in the room buying the personality they're projecting, they haven't fooled me. Funnily enough he's got better at noticing it by noting how people are towards me, if that makes sense.

Making birthday cakes/baking
Interior design/d.i.y
Putting my phone down and then losing it, I'm really good at that

@8dayweek I understand what you mean and funnily enough my dp has said something similar to me about people knowing that I see them! Do you ever meet people who you can't quite read? Like there is something you can't quite put your finger on about them but you know something isn't right? I do sometimes, and I always feel a sense of unease around those types of people.

@BlueHarry Yes! I'm known for not shying away from difficult conversations etc at work and I'll see anyone (all the ones tagged as violent and what not) but once I had to see someone that I just could not read with certainty and it made me really uneasy. I'm certain he was an abuser (totally dead eyes, could tell he needed to control the situation, simmering anger / resentment, kept using my name, trying to "force" eye contact) but there was something else that I just couldn't "get". My (male) colleague said he was a fantasist / bullshitter, but I thought it was more than that (and also that he projected differently to a man). Only time I've asked not to see someone again.

Would not be surprised if he turned up on the news as serial killer or something!

I'm rubbish at everything

League of Legends (online MOBA game, big in esports etc)

As a mother of 2 in my 30s in an industry that the top players are mostly under 21 I'm actually very proud of how well I play! Other players are often shocked when they find out my age etc

I’m very good at looking after chickens.

Eidetic memory. I can recall the entire outfit DH was wearing the night we met. I can recall every question on my GCSE History paper. Still remember the full names of every one in my class at school. What my Mum wore to every wedding she ever attended. Just about most things to be honest, it can be annoying.

Stealth. I'm really good at creeping up on people

Acrobatics. I don't do it much any more but I just have the right body type.

I think I give good advice too, people often have a lightbulb moment when I'm talking to them.

Calming people down
Good listener
Good at my job
Very loyal

Eating 🙈
I need to loose weight

I've definitely got the resting bitch face thing going on, I can get strangers to leave me TF alone with ease.

I also have a good "coming through!" stride in the corridor when I feel like it, i.e. when I get fed up of stepping aside for men as they seem to generally expect right of way.

I make a bloody great cup of tea. But I would say that wouldn't I!

I am quick & on the ball in a crisis situation (though hopelessly anxious in the face of some ordinary life experiences, oddly).

Reading 90% of people like a book with ease. It unfortunately means I tend to see social machinations very clearly and know what's going to happen in a group/ with someone's reaction very easily.

Unfortunately I'm not amazing at doing anything about negative situations even though I can see them a mile off.

DP says I read minds but really I'm just good with facial/body cues

Oh and bullshitting in academic essays. I got an A on a 5000 word essay I wrote in 23 hours. I got a B on a 2500 word essay on a book I had never read.

Wrote my thesis in 6 days