My unique and totally worthless talent is the ability to make up the craziest crap on the fly. Conversations are never boring with me except when they are. I'm also possibly one of the loudest introverts you'll ever meet. So while I can get my point across fairly well in type, talking is a feast or famine. Either I'm super quick with comebacks or I have days where I just don't feel like talking. Which is fine. I'm also a fairly decent non-fiction writer.
In high school I was failed on an essay because she felt only a professional writer could've written it. Not a teenager. Essentially a not so nice way of saying "you're too stupid to write this." I still get the warm fuzzies when I think of it.
In the same vein I've read lots of older fiction and non-fiction so at times if I'm not careful I slip into speaking what essentially amounts to early 1900s quasi-academic style of speaking. In other words my vocabulary sometimes slips into a different time period.
This was a big problem when I first started working with criminal offenders in 2014. I literally didn't even speak the same language as Crips from Oakland lol. I was way too formal. Anyways eventually I adopted some of their coarser phrasing but it's now mixed with the weirdo speak which makes it even stranger.
And of course working with Firefighters hasn't helped either lol.
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