What Is Your Biggest Self-Taught Subject or Skill?

[Debater Slayer]

I have major health issues that would normally require medical help and supervision, but by proper specific diet restrictions and my Guru's Grace and Help, I am still able to do without doctors

The recent Self invented skill is a natural way to do a kind of "dialysis equivalent".

I don't like to be dependent on doctors for my health, hence I go to extremes to figure out new ways, and it's also kind of my interest, hobby to invent things myself

I wish you good health. Take care and do whatever is necessary to protect your health.

 

[9-10ths_Penguin]

What do you consider to be the most extensive or specialized subject or skill that you have mostly or entirely learned on your own?

I started a similar thread a while back, but the question still greatly interests me. I'd like to read about others' experiences here.

Car repair, probably.

This was out of necessity, from going a long time only being able to afford cheap cars and not being able to afford a mechanic.

This was all before YouTube, so I picked up what I needed mostly from Haynes manuals, though for my Chrysler minivans, I was lucky enough to be given the factory service manual by my uncle (who didn't need it any more after he got rid of his last minivan).

My first major car repair was the head gasket on my Plymouth Reliant. My second major car repair was also the head gasket on the same car a month later: the Haynes manual didn't mention anything about not reusing head bolts.

 

[stvdv]

Accepting myself for who I am. I never lived up to my mother's expectations.
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I never lived up to my father's expectations

And I reached the same point as you:
"Accepting myself for who I am"

That gave finally Peace. Though it did not occur in a split second. I saw the light (I just need to accept who I am), but before it really sunk in, took many years

 

[stvdv]

I wish you good health. Take care and do whatever is necessary to protect your health.

Thank you

Very true. Health is my greatest wealth. Without health, life really becomes a challenge (less easy).

 

[Wildswanderer]

What do you consider to be the most extensive or specialized subject or skill that you have mostly or entirely learned on your own?

I started a similar thread a while back, but the question still greatly interests me. I'd like to read about others' experiences here.

Brain tanning.
Not kidding.

 

[stvdv]

Focus on your strengths. Ditch habits. Beat temptations. Set and reach goal(and repeat).

Yes.

Those are indeed my main challenges, and actually, I find this kind of living the most intriguing and fulfilling way of life.

I must admit that I can't beat all temptations at once. I did try, and succeeded for 50 days, but then I fell back. So, now I go slow and gradually. Go a bit more easy on myself

 

[stvdv]

Brain tanning.
Not kidding.

Got my curiosity

And I had to google that. Never heard of it

The tanning of animal skins with animal brain mass is an almost forgotten method and is rarely practised today. Historically, brain tanning was mainly done by North American Indians who also used smoke as a way of preserving the skins. This leather was also called "Indian leather" and "buckskin".

 

[stvdv]

I taught myself how to play the guitar.

Congratulations

I tried, but failed in this area

I really would have liked to play the guitar, but finally I could accept "this is not meant for me", so I leave this for others

 

[stvdv]

Heres one of my more recent poems: Trigger warning: use of restraints, ableism, abuse, forcing an autistic to act neurotypical, and denial of bodily autonomy

Spoiler: Poem

Title: Behavior is communication
My body's never belonged to me.
It's never been mine.
What's autonomy?
When others decide.
When they insist you act against your nature...
Act in ways that cause you pain.
You can never say no
They grabbed my hands
To stop me from flapping.
They lifted my head to force eye contact.
My body has never been truly mine.
What's autonomy my friend I ask you?
When your body's been used against you?
Sensory overload, I started to rock
To hear the yelling tell me stop acting like a freak.
I meltdown
Folk much bigger then me restrained me.
Could've been avoided
Bruises formed
Dont you know restraints are dangerous?
What's autonomy I ask again?
When no one listens no one hears?
When they grabbed your hands to force movements that are unnatural?
When they harm you against your will
For simple things not your fault?
What's autonomy I beg you please answer...
When your whole life others decided through force how your body should behave and you can't say no?
When your whole life your body has never been your own?
When behavior is to be controlled to never truly act like yourself?
When trauma of the past holds you prisoner with fear thus even when safe you cannot act like yourself?
I am me I am me I belong to me I say
I'm tired of fighting tired of it all
I am safe now
But still can not act like myself.
I try to unmask I try for freedom
But the pain holds me back
WHAT IS AUTONOMY???
When to others it never mattered!

Most of my poems are dark and emotional. It's my niche. Im not good at writing happy stuff never have been

Thank you.

I really can relate to:
WHAT IS AUTONOMY???
When to others it never mattered!

 

[Quagmire]

Got my curiosity

And I had to google that. Never heard of it

Oh, I thought that was when you went to the beach without a hat.

 

[The Hammer]

What do you consider to be the most extensive or specialized subject or skill that you have mostly or entirely learned on your own?

I started a similar thread a while back, but the question still greatly interests me. I'd like to read about others' experiences here.

Adulting

 

[The Hammer]

Sex.

 

[stvdv]

Oh, I thought that was when you went to the beach without a hat.

That was all I could think of also
And those sun rays need to be really strong to go through the skull

This one, I had no clue whatsoever

 

[The Hammer]

Oh, and cooking. If we want to be really mundane

 

[Debater Slayer]

Sex.

I knew it! Life screws everyone.

 

[The Hammer]

I knew it! Life screws everyone.

That it does, that it does

 

[Shadow Wolf]

Probably fixing electronics.

 

[Shadow Wolf]

Oh, and cooking. If we want to be really mundane

I couldn't imagine being a self taught cook. I'm always reading and watching stuff to learn from the best, and from others just to learn different ways of doing things.

 

[The Hammer]

I couldn't imagine being a self taught cook. I'm always reading and watching stuff to learn from the best, and from others just to learn different ways of doing things.

That's still self taught imo. I've never been formally trained, or had anyone sit down and show me how to make things. I read cookbooks and experiment at home. And recently started watching and getting tips from food network shows. But I started with just cookbooks and my own innate sense of what looked and tasted good.

 

[Shadow Wolf]

That's still self taught imo. I've never been formally trained, or had anyone sit down and show me how to make things. I read cookbooks and experiment at home. And recently started watching and getting tips from food network shows. But I started with just cookbooks and my own innate sense of what looked and tasted good.

I don't know. I see it as a citation sort of thing. It's still something you are learning from another person. Granted that does limit what self-taught can be by a lot, but citing proper sources and giving due credit is the fair and right thing to do.