Anyone else not 'good' at anything?

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I haven't got a chip on my shoulder about it. But I have tried all my life and always ended up distinctively rubbish or very average after trying very hard.

Never been good at anything. I'm piss poor at so many things, despite effort. I'm not down about it, I get my tone might read that I am but I'm not!

I'm good at 'gift of the gab' in getting out of tricky situations. For example, I got caught shop lifting at 17. I had to go back of the store in a small office space and give them my name and address. I didn't lie about those details. And made the security staff feel as if I was the most honest and apologetic person, told them I'd just lost my job from chronic illness and just wanted to feel normal again, and when I'd sweetened them up enough, I pretended to have a fit (they called an ambulance, next day rang me to tell me I was welcome back anytime and they were so so sorry).

I am not 'proud' of it, although I find the calculation impressive. I'm ashamed of that but that and similar events (of a non illegal nature!) are the only things I have to show for myself

Never been good at maths, sports, music, singing, drama. Although I enjoyed most of all that.

Anyone else similar?

and by the way you are good at english because your spelling is good, you explain yourself well op, and you have managed to attract 100 plus posts to your thread, good going... that means maybe you are better than you think and you just need to believe in yourself, fake it till you make it is what alot of people do

This is exactly EXACTLY how I feel. I'm absolutely fine at most things. I can do most things reasonably competently but I am not good at any single thing. I would love to have something I'm really good at. My sister is crafty and can sing, she's fab at her day job and is an amazing parent, her children are beautifully behaved. My brothers all have very fancy jobs, famous colleagues/friends and Wikipedia entries etc.

For me it's magnified by my DH who is extraordinary - very very clever with an immensely hard job that he just keeps getting promoted in. We're the same age and whilst my career is fine and I'm happy, he is on a meteoric rise within a huge company. I really struggle with that.

I worry that I'll put too much pressure on my DC to really excel at something or even everything. I try to value them as they are, and how wonderful they are just being them. I really struggle to place any inherent value on me just being me - I require external markers and external validation to prove my worth, and yet on the very rare occasions I receive some I either ignore or downplay it...

Those of you who said that they are not good an anything: You are exceptionally honest.

Not me - I lie all the time, but I'm not good at that either so usually get caught

I could have written this OP. Except it does get me down, being a failure.