What are you bloody brilliant at?

[JustASmidgen]

Inspired by another post about what people can’t do.. what CAN you do?

I can:
Whistle through my tongue when it’s rolled up
Play the piano and guitar by ear (not at same time)
Remember birthdays
Balance on one foot for a VERY long time without wobbling

All useful life skills, as you can imagine.

Type, fast and accurately, I am a medical audio-typist

Planning, organising and anticipating needs. I seem to be able to picture time in my head in a different way from other people. I’ve spent a lot of my life wondering why everyone else is so disorganized, but now I think I just have a freaky memory/way of picturing things in my head!

Driving and parking. It's a very odd thing because I'm dyspraxic and my spacial awareness in general is dreadful - I'm a total menace in charge of a pram or a shopping trolley. Yet, somehow, I can park perfectly in the smallest of spaces. I can drive anything, including large vans, and park them to the accuracy of about an inch either way. I have been known to park perfectly straight in spaces so small I have to climb out of the boot because there's not enough room to get any doors open. If I'm with someone else who's driving and they make a fuss about parking I can take their place and park their car perfectly even if it's not familiar.

It's not something I tend to tell people about but if I have a passenger in a car it's something they tend to comment on, and not something I understand at all given that I'm widely known as a super clumsy person.

Folding a piece of paper perfectly into 3. Had a job in an office when I was 18 where I had to fold about 1000 letters and put them in envelopes so the address showed through the little window. The skill has never left me 20 years later.
Remembering song lyrics. (but not useful and important things like who politicians are etc).
Moving my eyes separately from one another (this one's a good party trick).

Anything to do with newborns and young babies. I've got 4 of my own, I've worked in childcare, have been a kinship carer for a friend's baby and I have also fostered babies.

Learning languages. I find it unusually easy to pick up new grammar and vocabulary and I seem to have an exceptionally good ear for accents.

Knowing a lot of songs from the 80's by a line or two of the lyrics. My teenage sons will ask what song goes .... and I usually know. Recognising different garden birds by their song.

Hmm I can:

Parallel park well
Make really good roast potatoes
Make babies and toddlers laugh
Untangle very tangled things

They all come in handy from time to time!

Data entry and processing. Set me off on a process, and I can reliably double the normal output. One colleague tried to shadow me, and came away saying, "erm, she just does it really really fast?".

Then on top of that, I'm the queen of lazy automation. If I can make a system for it, I do, and can generally knock 20-40% of the process time.

Then I'm still faster than a normal person at completing the process :D

Reading people's emotions and I make a really good omelette

I can recite a lot of poetry. Not useful at all.

Not brilliant but…
Remember phone numbers
Make lovely dumplings
Sketch

Speaking and listening. I’m a speech therapist and love having a conversation with people. I love hearing peoples’ stories, apparently I’m a very calming influence.

I need you in my life around Christmas time they are all amazing skills

Take my bra off without taking my top off 😀.

Oh I'm great at this. Whenever I go for a scan iv took mine off before they even finish their sentence of a private room and their always like oh ok that was quick

Cope with emergencies. If there’s a car crash I go really calm and start directing people and organising, doing first aid..

however if there’s a leak in the house I go to pieces

I once had a bet with a man that l could do this. Probably a wine filled mistake as l was in a pub at the time 🤭.

Poker face - listen to people telling me things without betraying what I am thinking, and winkle structured information out of them when they are rambling incoherently. Can't play cards for toffee though.

Sleeping. World class

The other thing that I'm bizarrely good at is working out complicated annual leave entitlements. I quite like doing them for some reason, whereas they seem to fry a lot of people's brains!

I'm generally quite good at a lot of stuff that other people seem to find difficult, because my brain works in a particular way. Unfortunately, I'm really bad at some of the stuff that other people seem to find mysteriously easy. My adhd brain is quite odd, really!

i know how to add and subtract and multiply and divide in lots of different ways so whatever country or time you learned in I can fix your mistakes
(maths teacher )

Give me any date from the year of my birth up to the present day and I can tell you what day of the week it fell on usually in less than a minute.

Pole dancing and somehow getting people to tell me their whole life stories when I’ve only just met them 😂. Very useful in my line of work (the life stories not the pole dancing) but sometimes I just don’t need to know!

APA referencing. Very niche but I can do it in my sleep now, including tracking down really obscure details from ancient publications that everyone else has deemed unfindable.

In everyday life, I am very good at catching random dogs that are giving their owners the runaround in the park. I once caught a very scared German Shepherd that was loose on the M4 motorway, got her up the escape steps and got a lead onto her after the police had failed miserably, and ended up being roped in to get her into the back of the van because the two policemen were scared of her couldn't manage it. She jumped in with me as good as gold, and was back with her very worried owners the next day.

Oh, and I make the best cheese sauce in the world.