Here’s the rules:

1: Post something you have never done that you think many people do. 2: Read the other posts, if you have done that thing, upvote it. If you have not done that thing, downvote it. 3: If you believe the person is lying, call them out on it in a reply. 4: If you are called out, give the full story. 4a: If you see a thread containing the full story, boost the person you think is right and truthful.

Person who has the most upvotes when the thread dies wins.

  • weeeeum@lemmy.worldEnglish
    152·
    2 days ago

    Never have I ever been stung by a bee, wasp or hornet. I’m not scared of bees either, ill walk right up to them and check em out. I’ve grabbed bees and pulled them out of water, I’ve let them trot all over me and I don’t mind, neither do they.

    • PM_Your_Nudes_Please@lemmy.world
      3·
      2 days ago

      Same. I was just kind of a boring kid. Went to parties, but was just never interested in getting wasted. Saw all of my friends getting blackout and puking their guts out 15 minutes later, and wanted no part of it. My first drink was actually on my 21st. And it was just enough to get buzzed, not even wasted. It turns out “just say no” is really fucking easy when you’re autistic; Peer pressure just doesn’t work on you.

      Once I started drinking, I quickly realized how many young people have binge drinking tendencies as a result of their younger drinking habits. Kids drink to get wasted before they get busted. There’s a time limit on how long they can drink, so they binge to get drunk as quickly as possible when it’s available.

      Ironically, now I homebrew mead and apfelwein.

        • PM_Your_Nudes_Please@lemmy.world
          2·
          1 day ago

          Yeah, something like that. Dump five gallons of apple juice and two pounds of glucose into a carboy. Add champagne yeast, cap with an airlock full of vodka, and let sit for a few months.

          The result is an extremely dry apple wine that’ll kick your ass. If you’re not a fan of dry wines, just add a splash of sprite or 7-up to the glass to back sweeten it.

      • medgremlin@midwest.social
        2·
        2 days ago

        I’ve just always been some variant of the “mom friend” and after I turned 21, I was still the DD most of the time.

      • bizarroland@fedia.ioOP
        1·
        2 days ago

        Quick note, saying that “because you’re autistic peer pressure doesn’t work on you” is largely true, but there is a flip side to that, in that once an autistic person give in to something they can become monomaniacal about the thing they got into.

        Most of the time, this just means that they develop a very deep understanding and fondness for things like vacuum cleaners or B grade horror movies or whatever happens to be the thing that latches on for them. But on the other hand if the thing they pick is unhealthy, this monomania is a recipe for going off the deep end.

        I have a couple friends who are on the spectrum and one of them went really off the deep end with drugs and ended up getting into heroin.

        We all tried to put a stop to it but they would not listen to our “healthy” peer pressure. It took another one of our friends who had also gotten into heroin ODing and dying in his bathtub to snap him out of it.

        I said all of that to say that if your friends begin to caution you that they think a behavior of yours is unhealthy, step back and give them the benefit of the doubt and really evaluate what you’re doing and what they’re saying.

        It could save your life or prevent it from becoming dramatically worse in some way.

      • medgremlin@midwest.social
        1·
        1 day ago

        Not even a sip for me. I was offered small amounts of champagne or wine at special occasions, but I never drank any because I could smell the alcohol on it and didn’t want to.

      • medgremlin@midwest.social
        6·
        2 days ago

        Nope. The first time I drank any alcohol ever was on my 21st birthday. My Dad made me a gin and tonic with Bombay Sapphire, and that set the standard for the kind of alcohol I will drink. It’s a good thing I’m a lightweight because I only drink the expensive stuff. (The cheap crap burns too much.)

  • agent_nycto@lemmy.world
    6013·
    3 days ago

    Never have I ever been to a modern sporting event. Football, soccer (or other football to some of you folks), hockey, baseball, whatever.

    I’ve been to things which some would argue are sports like jousting, but never a basic sport event.

    • Notyou@sopuli.xyz
      2·
      2 days ago

      As someone that doesn’t care for sports. I’ve been to a few. High school level to AA to professional sports people. Hockey, baseball, football, and even NASCAR. I would say, I enjoyed it live more than on the TV, but that’s because of the people watching. I don’t watch sport on TV, but I did when I was younger and trying to get into them. My family likes sports.

      I happen to get into these events for free/work, so that’s why I went. I wouldn’t pay for a ticket for them, but as a way to kill some time and people watch, it was fun.

  • TriflingToad@lemmy.world
    708·
    3 days ago

    Never have I ever eaten a hamburger/cheeseburger/steak

    I purposely don’t because it’s an interesting talking point for breaking ice.

    • Ezek@sopuli.xyz
      4·
      3 days ago

      Same here, it would be impossible since middle schools don’t exist where I’m from

      • 93maddie94@lemm.ee
        3·
        3 days ago

        Yeah I wasn’t sure how to word it because I know that different places have different naming mechanisms. But from 6-18 years old I was homeschooled. There was a co-op or two where I technically did classes with others, and I did a year of Cyber school before it was cool but most of my education came from me self-teaching from textbooks and “curriculum”.

      • 93maddie94@lemm.ee
        3·
        3 days ago

        Homeschooled 1st-12th grade with the exception of 4 months of public school in first grade.

      • 93maddie94@lemm.ee
        1·
        3 days ago

        Homeschooled 1st-12th grade with the exception of 4 months of public school in first grade.

    • 93maddie94@lemm.ee
      1·
      3 days ago

      I was homeschooled from first grade with the exception of 4 months in public school for first grade

  • ResidentCoffeeCat@lemmy.world
    7822·
    3 days ago

    I have never had a serious injury requiring medical help (broken bones, concusssion, anything that should have you going to the ER, regardless of whether or not you actually did)

    • PM_Your_Nudes_Please@lemmy.world
      2·
      2 days ago

      Alternatively, I have had several injuries that should have gotten stitches, but have never been in the ER. Growing up poor in the US means you end up rawdogging your injuries.

    • medgremlin@midwest.social
      3·
      2 days ago

      I end up going to the ER way more than I want to. It’s really annoying; if you walk into an urgent care or a regular doctor’s office (besides my regular care providers, they’re used to me now) and say you think you have a kidney infection or other kidney problems and you just need antibiotics, they just go “NOPE” and yeet you out the door to go to the ER. So far, I have been successful in preventing them from calling an ambulance for me.

    • tamal3@lemmy.world
      3·
      3 days ago

      I just broke my first bone! The x-rays were exciting, and the tech emailed me the pictures!

  • pemptago@lemmy.mlEnglish
    15725·
    4 days ago

    Never have I ever read a single book or watched a single movie of the Harry Potter series.

      • RandomVideos@programming.dev
        91·
        3 days ago

        In the first grades when teachers asked my class to order words based on the first letter, i either managed to figure out which letters came sooner in the order based on previous answers, guessed randomly or got lucky and didnt get chosen(its also been a while since then and i dont remember, i only remember that once that i was hoping i wouldnt be picked while looking at the previous exercises and planning out what random guesses i would say for the order i wasnt sure about)

        After that, the only other time i needed to know the order of the alphabet was for an IQ test which was required to be diagnosed with Aspenger Syndrome, where i just randomly guessed

        I also managed to not learn left/right for years, which caused more problems, but i managed to learn it thanks to the english political compass(every time i need to know which direction is left/right, i have to think of an image of the political compass to figure out which direction is right, translate that in my native language, check if the direction i needed was right and if not, i know its the opposite direction. I also dont know how to directly translate between left in both languages, but knowing that its the opposite right. I know right because of its second meaning that is present in both languages

        • RBWells@lemmy.world
          3·
          3 days ago

          Left and right I have to think about, but North, South, East and West I can always find. I learned to read before learning the alphabet, but learned it with the song.

        • Albbi@lemmy.ca
          2·
          3 days ago

          That’s fascinating how you learned all the letters but never put them into an ordinal system. Definitely presents an alternate thinking mechanism than I think most people use. Must have been very tough on you in school as most schools don’t handle people who think differently very well.

          The left/right thing is probably much more common. I think it’s interesting how you use the political compass as your visual reference. I for a long time couldn’t remember which political party was left or right, but found I was very good at just ‘knowing’ left and right, as well as the cardinal directions n/s/e/w. My friend who was horrible at telling left from right would hold up both hands and extend his index and thumb. Whichever hand formed an “L” was his left hand and he used that all the time.

          • kryptonite@lemmy.world
            2·
            16 hours ago

            I always hated the advice to make an L with your hands to see which one was Left. No one ever specified whether you’re supposed to have your palms facing you or facing away, so it’s ambiguous.

            When I was a kid, I would picture a dining place setting because I knew the fork was on the left.

            • Albbi@lemmy.ca
              2·
              3 days ago

              I’d say most people would learn the alphabet and the order together. The order (and song) is a helpful mnemonic to learn the letters faster.

  • AliSaket@mander.xyzEnglish
    12222·
    4 days ago

    Never have I ever watched/read anything relating to Lord of the Rings.