Ask Lemmy

Resolving IRQ conflicts on ISA devices

I have hyperphantasia, which means that I'm able to visualize things in my mind in a way that it looks exactly the same as it would in real life. If I see a puzzle that requires spatial reasoning, I can rotate it and manipulate it in 3D space in my mind.

I can vomit on command at most times without sticking a finger down my throat etc. I feel like that scientifically inaccurate dinosaur from the original Jurassic Park.

I can see magic eye pictures instantly. Like, at a glance.

I haven't flown a plane in years.

I'm very good at remembering people's birthdays. I stopped "using" it cause I think it creeps people out a bit, but at least with people I like it's always nice to remember to congratulate them without relying on social media.

I'm shit with names though.

I remember about 80% you tell me about you (if I’m listening) I won’t tell you what I know about you in order to not creep you out.

I'm a really good driver. Like rules of the road and all that, sure, but I also have some training in rally cars, am decent on a race track, and am generally a top 5 finisher in whatever Sim race I enter.

Wish I could afford to enter an IRL series.

walking into a room and forgetting why I entered

Sex.

I use it once every fifteen years.

What I do have are a very particular set of skills. Skills I have acquired over a very long career. Skills that make me a nightmare for people like you.

I am able to recite toy commercials and obscure TV theme songs from 90s kids shows with surprising accuracy, many decades past consuming them - Crossfire, Creepy Crawlers, James Bond Jr. Denver the Last Dinosaur... I'm your guy. I don't watch these things deliberately to learn them and haven't seen them since organically seeing during childhood, they just start playing in my head on the smallest triggers, music and lyrics, verbatim.

This is what the inside of my head is like, all the time

Sling staff.

Lock picking.

Skydiving.

Laying ceramic tile.

I can create massive research papers overnight.

I am reasonably acrobatic. I only get to use it when people are drunk and get the sudden urge to watch someone do a backflip.

1. marshmallow roasting (I can perfectly control the level of browning on the outside and melted-ness on the inside)
2. paper snowflake making (I can make them very intricate and come out exactly how I visualize them)

pretty shit at everything else though. I fat-fingered my skill points allocation hard.

Balloon animals.

I can hear high frequencies that supposedly only kids and teens still can. The most recent time it was 'useful' was (spoilers) a magic show in Vegas a few years ago.

Otherwise my hearing is terrible.

I know kung fu (wing chun). I am however years out of practice, and also glad its not something i use very often.

I know how to do home canning, and making sure it's safe. I just don't get to do it often because it's energy intensive on the me so it's something I do about twice a year.

Unscrambling mixed-up words. I can usually do 5-letter ones on sight, 6-letters might take a minute, or at least a few seconds. Recently while watching Young Sheldon I was surprised to see a closeup of a Jumble that Meemaw was working on - which I'm still not sure was real because one of the words was POINT, which can also be PINTO. The Jumble people are usually careful to avoid words with multiple solutions, because certain letters in each word become the source for a longer final jumble, so having them unambiguously in the correct positions matters.

artificial / forced burping. i used it a lot as a kid to graciously avoid broccoli and other dinner socializations.

the gracious part only works on family though.