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I have excellent time sense. I could set a 15min timer on the kitchen microwave, then go into another room. Often I'll get up and walk into the kitchen just as the timer beeps. Useful, but hard to monetise. Oh, and white privilege.
I can walk.
Born and raised in Scandinavia, life here is amazing in almost all aspects.
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.
Eventually I get to die and my suffering will end.
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.
Same. My partner calls me a fortress. She is frequently coming down with colds, like once a year at least. And covid twice. Meanwhile, I haven't got noticeably sick since the first lockdowns.
Hope that doesn't just mean I'm contagious af. I keep testing negative on the RATs anyway
Wicked smaht. And generally good genes - no family illnesses or anything.
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.
Autism ?
Interesting. How do you think thats your advantage?
I'm HFA, so sometimes lack of empathy, sometimes better understanding of things in general, a little bit like "the good doctor", can be rather strange to neurotypical, but it often does the job
Absolute, fanatical concentration.
My hair turns copper-gold in the summertime when I'm out in the sun for a few days in a row.
i live on one of the richest, most developed countries in the world with a good social system and universal healthcare and retirement.
My dad died back in 2016 when I was 25 so I got an early inheritance to invest at a good time.
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.
I don't feel any part of me that itches to make posts like this on the internet, and I appreciate that advantage.
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.
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.
Born in Europe, Not an immigrant, financially stable, free education, not part of any significant minority
I am helping many needy peoples.
English teacher who made me write a 500 word essay every day for a semester.