Ask Lemmy

It's a good attitude to have, to focus on what you have.

I read a book about a holocaust survivor and how little life was worth in the camps. Now I feel genuinely grateful for a warm bed and no wars around here.

Though I'm disadvantaged in a lot of ways, I have a really good job with a solid team and a fantastic wage structure. It's also union and wfh. Super lucky and grateful.

When I was in grade school we had a self-directed math program called Individually Prescribed Instruction or IPI. In the program you would take a pre-test and based on the results do a set of exercises. Then you took a post-test to close out that section. What I realized is that since the exercises are self directed we had unsupervised access to the exercises and the solutions. When given the pre-tests I would look up examples in the exercises with the solutions to figure out how to do the questions. I then proceeded to speed run the whole IPI curriculum. This gave me a leg up in math. I proceeded to get a 100% on my Algebra regents and just generally crush it in math. Ended up getting a uni degree in math and physics. This opened many doors for me later in life.

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Huge dick.

I can walk.

I’m not from a native english speaking country, but my parents taught us siblings english first before we learned the local language. There were some minor issues (i.e. other kids won’t talk/play with us because we couldn’t converse well), but it paid off in the long run because we are generally more fluent than the average person from our country, and we have neutral accents when speaking english. It helped a lot working in the corporate world.

I have thick thighs and a good understanding of Linux :3

My therapist said I'm persistent.. Guess that could be mine.

Born and raised in Scandinavia, life here is amazing in almost all aspects.

A really good immune system. I get a cold maybe once every two years and they only last for about three days. I also don't get fevers (nobody knows why), which I know is kinda paradoxical but my immune system somehow is really good at dealing with infections despite this.

I have known some wonderful people who have helped me to grow into a person I don't entirely hate. Most of the time, I'm depressed, but I feel privileged to know people who remind me of things that are worth fighting for.

Wicked smaht. And generally good genes - no family illnesses or anything.

Tall. Forever slim no matter what I eat. Stable supportive family.

Autism ?

My dad died back in 2016 when I was 25 so I got an early inheritance to invest at a good time.

Absolute, fanatical concentration.

Having travelled a lot, I feel I was born into what I consider a great country just as it was starting to pull itself out of poverty. Pure chance.

I got a good education and college was essentially free.

I have a lot of kids and work really hard at being a good dad so I am surrounded by love. I am very lucky that I am married twenty years (some better than others) to someone who still loves me and who I still love. Some days that love is all that keeps me going because fuck me I am exhausted haha.

I feel uncomfortable typing all that out but it's a good exercise in thankfulness so thank you.

A lot of people saying white + male, I'm not white but I'm light skinned in a country where colourism is a social plague, random people literally call me "whitey" and "blondy" despite me literally having a black mother, when I tell them I'm not white they reply "yes, you are", and I'm like "OK, mfer, apparently you know better than me to what ethnic group I belong". Can't say I haven't benefited from it, the police has almost never given me shit (they did once to be exact). I'm also a heterosexual cis man, and even tho I was born and raised in the poorest district of a big city my father always told me to cultivate my intellect, so I learned multiple languages (English being one of those), went to community college, taught myself software development, etc. I didn't have the biggest head start in life, but compared to my friends in the hood, and women and immigrants across the whole country I simply cannot complain.

Born in Europe, Not an immigrant, financially stable, free education, not part of any significant minority

English teacher who made me write a 500 word essay every day for a semester.

White + was lucky to get a good job early on + parents had enough capital in their home to guarantor for my home loan at 28.

I am helping many needy peoples.

I have an IQ of 123 in spacial recognition.

I dunno. I feel I get worse and worse at things the older I get.

Being born in our times.

I guess being white male, and 198cm/6foot6 Though this is a curse also.

I am very comfortable with my own company also, and never get bored so many things to do and learn!