i have an hour left of my shift and no patients to see
what better time to get to know everyone with the new year when i’m bored out of my mind :)
drop any interesting facts about yourself.
any hobbies, interests or a random fact is appreciated
could be outside of gaming or related to gaming
i’d love to read them
Yeah idm
I was born in the UK
Lived in Pakistan for over like a year (spread over a span of 5ish years)
Moved to Oman for a year
Moved to South Africa for 3 years
Then Saudi Arabia for 3 years
Then back to the UK where I am now
I moved around a lot during my childhood since my dads company moved him around, but then I moved to the UK with my mum to make sure my studies don’t get interrupted
Also those 3 years in South Africa I went to an American school, so I developed an American accent which you can still hear when I speak (I was like 9 or 10 in ZA, and I’m now 19)
I went to a private school from year 7-11 so we had a few people with American accents so it was kinda alright, although I was the only British national with one
Whenever I’m speaking to someone new they ask me if I’m American, but when I went to Canada on holiday people said I had a British accent, so I guess maybe it’s a relative thing
I am slowly bulding up an army of children to take over the world as their king.
(not really)
Ive worked with lots of kids as a tutor, babysitter, and camp consulor and one of my favorite bits is too refer to myself as King (My Name) and refer to them as my loyal servants=which they love-they love making swords/shields/knives/crowns out of paper and having pretend fights for my honor-so somewhere out there theres around 100+ kids who refer to me as King (my name)--(I have later seen many of these kids in public that have run up to me reffering to me as King and asking if they can do anything for me)
Actually, it happened when I was 4 years old so not much memory of that. Interestingly, my most vivid memory is of the time I woke up from said coma in the hospital. I remember the sounds, the lights, the details of the windows, the colour of all my surroundings and how BRIGHT everything was for the first couple of seconds, and how long I lay there before anyone realised I woke up (it was around 2 minutes). Not many of my memories appear in my mind in colour, but that one does. Also my memories from before I went into a coma were almost wiped I would say. I remember much less of my early childhood than most other people, despite me having an insanely good memory. I do remember vividly the night I was admitted to hospital though, which was only a couple of weeks before I slipped into a coma. Very strange. But no, no memories of the coma, but if I had to describe what it felt like, it was like floating in a dark water filled pod, you know the sensory deprivation tanks? Something like that is the only description of what little I remember of it.
yeah that's fucking crazy. that must be pretty traumatic. i remember i almost died when i was like 6-7 from drowning in a pool that's probably one of my most prominent memories. how much of early childhood are we talking? because i don't remember much either, maybe like 5 standout memories from age 9 and below so if we're speaking that range i have to be in the lower end as well. also, not really too related but i wanna throw it in because i've been noticing more recently but i have TERRIBLE time recollection. things that happened a year ago, i may think happen like three years ago. or if i think something happened like five years ago it happened maybe a year ago. people keep correcting me on this it's crazy how many times it has happened. i think it's due to covid
sensory deprivation tanks
no ngl that's kind of an obscure analogy idk what it feels like to be in one 😭
thats fucked tho. i was hoping it was a little more recent. i've been getting more interested about people's near death experiences / hard drugs and usually they try and describe their version heaven. just wanted to see if you had a story like that to tell :)
Yeah sorry I don't really remember the details of it because I was so young. It happened due to a severe asthma attack I had back then. I still don't really appreciate the gravity of the situation. My parents were infinitely more stressed about it than I was. According to them, I was quite calm and tranquil before it happened which was so confusing, and I got really lucky because the doctors moved me from the ward to the intensive care unit just before it happened. If they didn't, I would have come out of that with at least some brain damage, if it didn't kill me. It seems so surreal. I talk about it like it happened to someone else because I still can't fathom that I went through that. Anyways, it's an interesting story that I can use as an icebreaker if I need to. Other than my health conditions, I'm a very boring person 😅
To answer your questions about my childhood; after my asthma attack, I can remember hundreds of memories between the ages of 4 and 10. However, I can only remember around 10 or 15 individual specific memories from ages 4 and below. Ik most people don't tend to remember ages 1-3 anyways, but it's still so strange that from the moment after I woke up, I can recall so many memories but almost none from before. Idk though, it might just be coincidence. But yeah my long term memory is very strong, as many people around me irl have confirmed over and over again. It's so good that I often find myself correcting my parents and older brother about things that happened when I was younger, and I constantly reminisce about times where certain experiences I gave had when I was older have reminded me of things that happened when i was much younger from like a decade ago.
pokemon tcg player. hope to move out of america as soon as possible because as much as i love this country, it feels like a default location. ie a great place to grow up but not exciting enough (for me at least) to sustain me for my whole life. i really hope to live somewhere else for my late 20s and maybe even 30s before returning to the us.
i LOVE watching the most ass shows in the world its so funny and is nice thing to do when i get overwhelmed or stressed out it slowly taught me to not take life so seriously and most of those shows are mind numbing too so its chill asf
i learned english as a 2nd language passively while watching yt in specific i used to watch the annoying orange as a kid
i would but most of them are so mind numbing i forget about them as soon as i am done like when you finished ur exams and comeback after your break and have no clue what anyone is talking about when your looking for a show think middle school girl's favorite drama/romance or a show that gets a insane amount of hate for being cringey/bad look for shows with alot of seasons and kids shows that are made for legit 5-8 yr old
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