I truly appreciate that madam, as clique as it sounds, we all need reaffirmation on occasion. It helps to provoke creativity in thought from a specific individual’s aspect, ultimately allowing that person to grow, but also instilling that you won’t be judged or dismissed because the audience doesn’t have the patience enough to decipher your words, it’s not that they don’t care, we all are busy with our own life which is definitely understandable. I’m grateful that they’re people willing to give chance for patience. In a general sense, being short and concise is the goal, but often leads to the other party feeling as if your standpoint is right over them, which leads to emotional responses and we all know where that leads us lol, we’re all human. In all actuality we are just trying present our perspective, the issue is having the writer being concise in explanations, but also the level of patience of the reader willing to decipher and grasp the fundamental message and not prematurely dismiss a response. Difficulty lays with a practice of moderation on both sides
I taught all three of my sons (at a very young age) to come when I whistle, because it means I need them with me NOW. I whistle with thumb and middle finger making an “O” and placing “O” on tip of tongue, VERY LOUD. It has come in handy many times (one son was lost at a water park, another in a mall), they always came. Twice it saved me from harm. When i was pregnant with my youngest, someone attempted to mug me. I was near home and whistled. My two boys came running, one with a clothes iron he grabbed on the way out the door. I was so proud, and the mugger got away with none of my stuff. To this day (my youngest is 27), all three of my sons come running when they hear me whistle. That’s my coolest talent. Also, I am a bit of a precog occasionally.
My high school friends and I used to have our own whistle communication system where whoever started it (in a specific tone), another would respond in a specific response tone. This helped us to find one another in crowded spaces. I always had to stay with others since I can’t whistle to save my life (literally it seems according to your cool story!).
I did think of something even weirder… All my life, I’ve never really had friends. One or two people would stay in touch for a few years, then alone again. (probably my fault) Now, at the age of 57, I have found a wonderful GROUP of people that I hold very dear. I would do anything for them, anything I could do. The thing is I don’t know where they live or even what their true names are. I am so weird. TDR and TYT have given me a cadre of people that I care so much about, and they are almost make believe! Yet, if one asked, I would be by their side in a heartbeat, no matter how far away. Now that is weird, even for me
I love that our community is truly helped people to build community. Having reliable, caring people in our lives is proven to be paramount to our health and happiness. This means that YOU are helping to bring that to others’ lives as much as they are yours. Isn’t that beautiful!
Lol my dad has a signature whistle to this day if I here I look over my shoulder, I was always an explorer so he needed signals to find me if I got lost lol
As far as what people have reacted to, I have hyperhidrosis, which is a genetic, uncurable, disease that causes extreme excessive sweating. I don’t want to and shouldn’t need to elaborate further on the kinds of problems this causes for a teenager in highschool, or anyone in life for that matter. Something I personaly feel is the coolest thing about myself is my fascination and obsession with World War Two, and similar/related areas of history, but especially WW2.
Well my man, seems like you a great intro and outro perspectives on societal views, hope your well, I know you must had crazy circumstances you’ve come across, much less everyone else.
The weirdest thing (although there are more things about me that could be thought as weird), and I am serious about this, it is the fact that I have a favorite webpage and even weirder the fact that I rarely visit that web page: Impacts - TYT.com
You read that right: I don’t even visit my favorite web page, but it is, by far, my favorite. How could that be? Well, it is easy to understand once you realize that I love that it exists. It is a representation or evidence that TYT is more than a just another show (impacts is not the only evidence of this, but hey: I am just talking about my favorite web page), they try and succeed in bringing positive change to the world.
As you may have already noticed by my username @fourthwall_dragon, and as set on record at the Official Dragon Scroll, I have an inclination for the things occurring in the real world, I do my statistical analyses without ever forgetting that what I observe (data-wise) is an attempt of describing what occurs in the real world… or the fourth wall, if you may.
So, it doesn’t come as a surprise that my favorite web page is one that portrays positive change in the real world. But that just covers the weirdest: I don’t visit my favorite web page, but I think I have cleared why that isn’t as weird after all… But, is it the coolest thing about me? It certainly qualifies as one of them. But, why? easy! as I previously mentioned, I highly regard the reality we inhabit and share. So, what makes it cool is that by supporting TYT, either by direct $ contribution or if this takes the form of insights: Why TYT should scape the ad revenue model - an exponential trap (TYT seems already aware as they are aiming at membership as revenue stream… I wish they did this in a more sophisticated and effective manner), engaging with the community in any of the chats, or any other way we can get to be ab active participant for what ends up being shown at my favorite web page: Impacts - TYT.com, as a part of this impactful community and by extension, being part of history.
And
there is plenty of room for improvement so that even more impact could be made, for a better SEO and take more advantage of recommendation algorithms for the website
but I will soon be sharing a lot that can help TYT be more impactful than it already is: There is A LOT of untapped potential that seems to go over TYT’s middle management head.
Well, I have aphantasia, so that’s kinda weird 
I bow down to you! (And would love to hear some stories!) I live in Minnesota, too, so hey neighbor. 
Oh, I bet there’s a lot to unpack there! 
Lol, there is!
You are meant to be here! If you were that strong as a fetus, I can’t imagine the power you hold now. 
Can you picture someone else’s face in your mind if they are not in front of you but you have seen them before?
(Just so we’re not confusing anyone too much…), normally people can visualize in their mind’s eye, to varying degree (see image below). For those that can’t visualize, this is aphantasia (empty head on the right). For those that visualize vividly, this is hyperphantasia (vivid apple in the head on the left). Most people might be surprised how greatly this visualization skill can vary (and change), and that some people even can’t visualize. Some people (with unrecognized aphantasia) may be surprised to learn that anyone actually visualizes at all.
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Nope, not even my loved ones. For instance, I’m now thinking of my wife’s face, and I vaguely recall details, yet I still can’t actually visualize her. From my perspective, my internal experience of this exercise is that this is only about my ideas of her face, and not actually about any (potential) visualization.
Wow, that’s fascinating! The visual helps me understand the varying degrees, too. I would fit into the first category (hyperphantasia). It makes me think of eyewitness testimony and how it’s so unreliable. I wonder what category most people fall into. Thank you for your explanation; I appreciate your time and candor! If you don’t mind me asking one more question, does this also affect your dreams?
I don’t mind the questions at all But, I don’t really have much confidence in my complicated answer, unfortunately. Short answer, no, aphantasia does not affect dreams. Long answer…
For me personally, I used to have or remember dreams more vividly, but I wouldn’t attribute this decade long decline to my aphantasia since I have other sleep issues; that said, I could be wrong, and those other factors actually might interact with aphantasia more than I know. (And that said, I’ve quite recently been noticing a tepid reversal in that previously declining trend, which I feel like attributing to meditation practices, and maybe drugs which are decriminalized in Oregon). So again, my experience of aphantasia affecting my dreams is a tad complicated, and uncertain, if doubtful.
But to better answer your question in general, dreams are involuntary visualization, and to my understanding, and in my experience, dreams are not considered to be affected by aphantasia, since aphantasia applies to voluntary visualization (and dreams are not voluntary, generally; … for more complication, I’ve recently been able to lucid dream, which is kind of a voluntary dream, but my lucid dream didn’t last and I’m not sure if my aphantasia disrupted my dream as it became lucid, or if the disruption was more from other factors).
You may also be interested in this reemphasis; we’re talking about …
… as in, with mindful practice people can improve their voluntary visualization skill (perhaps more so in cases not as extreme as mine). And more meaningfully, some people notice a decline in their ability to visualize as they get older, and it bothers them, and it may have been averted if they were mindful about exercising their visualization. So, like, if I ever have kids, I would attempt to help them gain awareness of their visualization, and maybe play games with them to help them practice and ultimately improve their skill. You may have heard of people with a mind palace; they visualize huge spaces where they store and recall memories. Or consider photographic memory. These types of things are in part skill based, and quite useful. So for example, I could imagine creating a game playing something like hide and seek in a mind palace.
Further tidbits, aphantasia is correlated with things like memory, emotions, autism, etc. Anyway, I guess I’ll stop rambling 
Thanks, that’s super interesting! 
Hey everybody! Something kinda weird and pretty cool about me is I’m a (fraternal) twin, and my middle name is A and her middle name is B because I was born first and she came out second. Before we were officially named, our parents and the doctors referred to us as Baby A and Baby B, so it just kinda stuck and they became our legal, official middle names! Did I mention my parents were hippies?