Something you’re just good at with minimal effort and/or you learned much more quickly than average.

For me, it’s paper snowflakes. My brain just seems to effortlessly figure out what cuts to make to the paper wedge to make it turn out exactly how I want it. Largely useless, but good fun and was a much-needed ego boost when I was a kid :]

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Writing sestinas. A lot of people tell me it’s the hardest form of poetry, but for me it’s always been the go-to.

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Write one right now about this thread as proof

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I’ll link to one I’ll make in a bit, Lemmy’s layout/format isn’t great for something layout-specific.

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I can cook minute rice is 56 seconds.

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I have unusual muscle control - I can make my eyebrows and knees dance, plus I am a regurgitator. Not as good as Stevie Starr but enough to have a disgusting party piece. I am disappointed that I never mastered the art of the flatulist.

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I can make my balls dance.

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Oh yeah, that too. I’ll sometimes do it when standing wait for something, like a lift. Hopefully it isn’t obvious from outside my trousers.

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Drawing, painting and sculpture in general. I guess with AI advancing as it is, these skills are becoming more and more useless every minute but that’s what I got.

I’ve sat on a potter’s wheel twice in my life and both times the instructors seemed impressed at the results. “It’s said people like you were potters in a past life”. But I didn’t become a potter or ceramist in this life, so…

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