A cool memelicious thing about you, not me

[womzilla]

I got this from my sister-un-law, trueheart:

I know little about some of the people on my friends list. Some people I know relatively well. I've read your user info, or we have something else in common. Some of you I know a little and look forward to getting to know over time.

I'd love it if every single person on my friends list would volunteer a personal nugget of information that might be evidence of a defining trait. Yes, even those people who think I know them reasonably well. Then post this in your own journal if you like.

Comments

[janetmiles.livejournal.com]

I can't not read text. That is, if there's something with text on it within eyeshot, I read it. Books, newspapers, cereal boxes, signs, graffiti, tattoos, other people's paperwork, bumper stickers, t-shirts; you name it, I read it. I can also read upside down, as long as it's a relatively standard typeface.

[supergee.livejournal.com]

That's one of mine, too.

[kightp.livejournal.com]

I can read handwriting upside down, too. It's a "skill" I picked up (she says, somewhat shamefacedly) when I was a newspaper reporter.

[kalimac.livejournal.com]

I can read upside down, but not sideways. Someone is reading a book, and I'm peering on from in front with their consent, reading it quite contentedly upside down, and then they try to be courteous and turn it sideways, and I can't read it any more.

[dougo.livejournal.com]

That's why I hate the CNN crawl. Far too distracting.

[davidgoldfarb.livejournal.com]

I bet a lot of sf fans / book people have this one. I know I do.

There was an interesting article in Science News a month or two back about "hyperlexia"; I read it and thought, "Wow -- there's a word for what I was like as a young child!"

[supergee.livejournal.com]

Not knowing that was an actual word, I suggested it as a term for the "handicap" of excessive intelligence, so we could get special schools and maybe even parking places. Now of course they'd just mainstream us, which was my problem to begin with.

[lone-cat.livejournal.com]

I can also read upside down, as long as it's a relatively standard typeface.

AFAIK, I acquired that as a normal part of being able to read. At least, I can remember looking at a kiddie-placemat that had questions or riddles on it, and feeling insulted because the answers (which were upside down) had been put where I couldn't help but read them. My parents reactions could be summed up by "Inconceivable!"

[epi-lj.livejournal.com]

As a corollary to this, it bugs the snot out of me when women wear t-shirts that have written across their breasts, "STOP STARING AT MY BREASTS."