Are you quite tough?

[Telekinetic-Potato]

My friends been teaching me to snowboard and every time I get up after I eat shit, he looks at me all crazy and is like "how do you keep getting up so fast"

Lmao, like my parents used to beat the shit out of me, that's how.

He said a lot of people just give up which I thought he was just trying to amp me up.

If I catch an edge, that takes me a minute. I don't know any of you ever been?

[Phoenix98]

Fairly tough.

Fought more people then I can count, sustained more injuries then I can remember, dealt with things no one should have to.

To name a few

1# Been in multiple street fights and have been fighting/doing martial arts for over 20 years.

2# I've been punched in the face so hard a piece of cartilage tore its way out of my nose but was still attached so I ripped it out and reset my nose and went back to fighting. Almost had my nose broken several times.

3# Cracked my head open probably 6 six times

4# Had 2 concussion one of which they had to take a staple gun to my head and staple it back together.

5# Been shot in the face almost point blank with a air gun firing metal BBs.

6# 2 life or death experiences one of which the doctor told me it was a miracle I was even alive.

7# I have scars all over, burn scar by my eye from hot oil, scars on my hands from training to my hands n knuckles were bleeding, small scar on my nose from where the cartilage came out, other multiple scars from having my fingers and hands sliced open by knives.

8# Have had to deal with sustaining multiple chemical burns on my hands ( lol my poor hands )

So yeah you tend to toughen up a bit after having stuff like that happen to you.

[Telekinetic-Potato]

Lol your life sounds like an action movie. Cheers mate. Gotta respect anyone who's cheated death more than once!

[Phoenix98]

Less like an action movie and more like just bad luck and bad decisions lmao but thanks..

[GuyAnswersGirls123]

I get surges of adrenaline which help me through a lot of things and I've been skateboarding vert since the age of 7.

For example, I once won a skateboarding contest after hanging up on a frontside air and fracturing my left humerus. Then got back up and finished the contest as well as driving myself back home with one arm.

Yet for the rest of the day and the following day until I drove myself to the hospital, I was groaning and whimpering like a baby. I'm not so tough once I'm lying down. Yet I can usually get back up in the heat of the moment.

[GuyAnswersGirls123]

My parents didn't beat me too much (just my mother with the belt and not in a bad way). Yet when I was a boy in Japan, when boys fell and hurt their knee and cried or complained, adults would say, "Stop crying/complaining! If you're going to cry and complain over such a tiny thing, what are you going to do when you have to get your leg amputated in a war?"

We were trained like that and I think that helped a lot to teach us to endure pain and difficult situations in life.

[Telekinetic-Potato]

Hahaha, that's not too far off from how I was raised. That's an insane accomplishment by the way, I don't know how up for the drive I would have been after though.

[GuyAnswersGirls123]

Cheers! I actually didn't feel the pain that much on the drive. It hurt most when I fractured it with shocking pain trying to walk it off and limping if I remember (even though it was my arm that broke, I was limping for some reason trying to hop and walk off the pain). That was an epic surge of pain. Then the most pain was when I hit the sack and lied down and all I could think about was the pain.

That's always been the case for me with injuries. I feel the pain most right after and then when I get into a comfortable place when I lie down or sit down. My brain sort of shuts it off in the middle of those two with an adrenaline surge.

[GuyAnswersGirls123]

I wish I took some pictures of me skating when I was younger. I was camera shy and took it for granted that I could do it forever and take pics any time. But I have this one little photo from a magazine with a little contest I won (only mini-ramp). I had to borrow oversized pads to enter so they were falling off my knees.

Skating is my lifelong passion but I have a really bad knee now and got type-2 ankle sprain in January just bailing to the flat-bottom as well as a missing big toe on my left foot, and prone to arthritic flares these days from all my former injuries (I found cherry juice helps along with Ibuprofen). I might have to give it up or slow down soon. Yet I keep going as long as I can and if I have to stop, I'll look for something else fun and thrilling.

[Telekinetic-Potato]

I think I kinda get the opposite. When I dislocated my hip, I thought I just sprained it. I mean it hurt like crazy but I tried to walk it off. 😂

But a few hours later, I couldn't move my leg almost at all.

But I think when you hurt yourself bad, your knees tend to go weak. Probably cuz your whole body's in shock so maybe the leg muscles go weaker.

[GuyAnswersGirls123]

I never thought it that way! It makes sense to me because I also kind of get weak in the knees if I climax while standing up. 😅 Hip dislocation sounds so awful to me as well as acute hip injuries in general. I fortunately haven't suffered any yet but sometimes I get joint pain around there on the left side and I can feel things sliding around the hip joint.

[Telekinetic-Potato]

That's a cool Pic. Everyone's gasping lol.

I'm going to have to try the cherry juice. Sometimes my hip can be a real bastard. You got some real battle scars. It's cool you deticate yourself to that and became so proficient at it. Hopefully I can get good at snowboarding without hurting myself too bad. I really love doing it. Snowboarding and longboarding, I imagine skating is similar. Really good feel once you get the hang of it.

[naartjie]

It’s one of my insecurities tbh. I am strong. My hands are soft but they hit hard. My brother does boxing and is a strong guy and there’s been times he’s even made comments about how strong I am. I could definitely win against most girls in a fight.
I don’t look to be a strong person I don’t think but surprisingly am.
Did my grip strength at work and got told I got the same as most of the guys where the girls (not the massive Samoan women) got what they all usually get

[Telekinetic-Potato]

I hope you find a guy who's into that. I definitely appreciate qualities like that in a woman.

[NathanDavis]

yep... 25 years in contact sports

I however have a weak spot, my left knee especially, sometimes likes to lock itself the wrong way, and although very rare... every time that happens is just fucking scary, lol

to unlock it... and I've never felt like coming back to the field right away, I do take the day off

[Juxtapose]

My autism dulls my sense of pain. Yes, autism can affect your sensory experience.

[Telekinetic-Potato]

I feel attacked 😂

[Juxtapose]

Haha that it is some sort of sign of autism or you actually have it and find it funny?

[Telekinetic-Potato]

They told me I had it as a kid but wanted to put me into all these programs. I just wanted to figure out how to assimilate with normal people so I kinda just didn't think about whether I had it or not... I guess I never gave anyone the opportunity to properly diagnose me.

[Telekinetic-Potato]

But yea, I laughed my ass off

[Juxtapose]

Well you seem fairly well adjusted and whatnot so you did a good job! Did it feel like you were masking your true nature?

That is funny though, I certainly wasn't expecting that revelation any more than you were expecting my comment.

[Telekinetic-Potato]

At first it did. I spent years trying to reconsile those feelings. I would highly recommend reading the 48 laws of power. Especially the very beginning before the first law. It kind of covers this topic in a way that I think is both empathetic and straightforward. The book was written by a guy trying to climb the Hollywood ladder which of course requires skills that won't come naturally to someone with social hindrances. The rest of the book will reframe your past experiences in a way that will change you for the rest of your life.

Personally, I found that a lot of "being normal" is about experimenting with how to present yourself. Figuring out how to balance the various aspects of who you are and what you believe in so that you're not betraying yourself as much as possible. And it helps to think of this process as ongoing self improvement to decide on a starting point.

You'll never be able to just get up one day and have the social skills to totally and truly be yourself and navigate the world effectively at the same time. So it's going to require a little letting go and being willing to accept that you need to start from somewhere to get where you want to be.

[Gabriel-Chicanito]

When it comes to it-wht I've been known for.

[butterly248]

Nope 😂