I have the “oh so you hate waffles” meme saved for use around here.

I make sports ball jokes. I am also contemplating getting season tickets to my “home team”.

YES to pager sized phone!

I have little hands and don’t want thumb tendonitis

Absolutely not

https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-60416058

These people permanently changed their bodies in ways that will have lifelong impacts (as one example they can never have an MRI) just to be abandoned.

Several disease conditions including fatal low blood sugar levels mimic being “fucked up” and you can’t know with out at least asking.

I was actually hoping that the form factors would be a compact phone that would fit into women’s pockets that unfolded to a “standard” phone size (I also have a mini but it is clearly on its last legs)

https://youtu.be/BirJMnMcfBs?is=01s0JMZ-r9OqOgRM

A few years ago my nephew wanted the whole family to dress up as the Mickey Mouse club house group and he assigned me to be Minnie Mouse. I built a costume from off the shelf clothing (and a set of ears). I’m going to wear it until he’s in high school at least.

Or when my cat gives me headbutts.

I run with the “formerly gifted child” crowd. There’s a few things that I think can come from the pressures of being seen as a “fast learner”. The main is that the first part of learning is often the easiest and the place where most progress is seen. However if you want to truly master a topic the rate slows way way down. Former gifted children often have an internalized pressure that everything should proceed at the same speed forever. It’s neither possible or sustainable and mostly leads to burn out.

Additionally there is a tendency of people to stick with the stuff that seems easier or comes more naturally. You see this a lot with academically talented kids dropping out of sports or music quickly because it’s hard for them. This builds an avoidance of persevering through difficult work. Again to master a given topic, even if it’s in their typical skill set they are going to have to slog through parts that are hard and uncomfortable.

I personally seek out teachers or tutors who struggle for B level grades because they’ve had to put work into understanding material rather than just being like of course this thing works this way.