Here ask if something you're not sure about is normal (Serious)

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My question:

Is it normal using cutlery always hurts? Every single time I use knife, fork of spoon for anything else but scooping something soft, it hurts. It’s been like this my entire life. Are people really in pain every time they eat without anyone speaking of it???

i have never heard of someone feeling pain as a result of handling cutlery

Thank you. I wish I knew like a quarter of a century earlier. xd

Do people just like… walk up to strangers and talk at them? And people are okay with this???

What the hell.

You don’t walk up, usually you have to be in close proximity for a reason (waiting for a bus, in line for something, etc). Then you simply make a comment about something and probe for a conversation. It’s quite fun and you meet some very interesting people this way.

Imagining some rando coming into the bus stop and talking at me makes my bones itch.

We can smell people like you from a mile away.

It’s like cats picking the only non-cat person. We will specifically pick you out. Welcome to the conversation.

But genuinely, it’s not directly coming up to a person. It’s more like you’ve both been sat there for 10 minutes, and there’s some sort of event that someone can comment on, like a person tripping on the sidewalk, it raining, etc.

I think this should become common again. How can we build class consciousness and solidarity when everyone is meant to be in their own little bubble of smartphone and airpods?

We should walk up to them and talk to them about how the boss is stealing from their pockets

I bike everywhere on a step-thru bike and older people love to walk up and talk with me about it. I’ve just come to accept it and advocate for more people to take a bike ride instead of a drive and I have seen more older people on step-thru bikes in my town than when I first moved here so I hope I’ve encouraged people to try riding again even if it’s just casually.

Sometimes yes. I travel home to my parents by international bus and I talk to people sitting next to me sometimes. Or they talk to me first.

The other day I saw a guy in the street working on a van, converting the back seat and trunk into a place to lay down a mattress. I have been thinking about doing the same for a while now so I asked him some questions about his progress. It was a nice talk.

It’s not like I’m going around bothering random people. Or so I hope. And if you’re not a being a complete creep most people are fine with a chat every now and then.

It has happened to me a few times so I think it’s normal. At least in my country.

Its a cultural thing, some places do, some places dont.

Glasgow for example is known for having a culture where everyone talks to one another on public transport. Its actually pretty great tbh.

One of the most unnerving things about being in the US is people with open carry starting up conversations with me for my accent. So the US doesn’t feel as different to us foreigners as back home. But it does feel threatening, thanks to the random arsenals people like to wear on their hips.

Some places. The place where I climb I talk to strangers way more than anywhere else.

You might have a metal allergy

Have you tried using wooden or plastic chopsticks?

Are mutated earworms normal? Like you hear a song in your head but it significantly differs from the real song. I’m not talking about misheard lyrics – it’s like at one point I forgot all of the song but a fragment and my brain inartfully filled in the missing parts and then hit save on the resulting mess, which became part of the permanent collection and can’t be excised by hearing the original song.

For some reason my memory is convinced that sk8terboi goes “she was a boy, he was a girl, can i make it anymore obvious”

I often think of a song far too frequently and end up distorting it sort of for fun. For example, I’ll reword boyz n the hood.

My question is: does anyone else almost perpetually have a random song stuck in their head, like a radio but often repeating lyrics.

No, that’s not normal. Do your hands hurt when handling other tools like your smartphone, keyboard, scissors, etc?

Smartphone, keyboard no. Scissors yes to a point where I need to take breaks cutting my nails. I think it’s metal that’s the issue, because I also cannot wear metal jewelery. I’ll look into finding non-metal cutlery once I find housing. Maybe non metal scissors too. Thank you. :)

Do you have issues grasping objects, particularly small ones? Buttoning pants/shirts, picking up change, turning doorknobs. Things like that?

Does the metal sting or something? Or is it more like muscle cramping from handling something small?

Is it all metal or, what I going to assume is stainless Steel?

Is stainless steel not metal.

I have had the issue with any cutlery I ever used in my life.

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