@snow: Make us some of them sometime. ;)

@ Lost_Ninja: I remember I attempted a roundhouse kick once... only to injure my tailbone/coccyx xD

I learned that I can make anything sound wrong. >_> Kinda funny xD

@Gaara: Give us an example of what you mean by "make anything sound wrong". 8D

im proud i learned drawing x3
* did some freebies and got a whole fanclub now >.<
tough i have been working on art like 3 years now

Playing piano.
;D
Thanks to my awful school system.

Playing the flute interested me and so I'm trying it out during my free time. I finally learned how to put the flute pieces all together, hold it properly and play a note correctly. Boy, was it hard at first. Nothing was coming out. I wanted to cry many times.

But when I learned how to do it, I was amazed how easy it was to blow a note. Now to play an entire piece, err, that's something else and should be reserved for another post (lols).

I learned that I could actually draw :D and that was this year. I was very surprised. I really sucked at the beginning, but after taking drawing in school, I became pretty good. I'm not the best and probably won't ever be, but it was nice to know that I could draw a flower and have it look like a flower, lol

i learned a song today on guitar that i thought id never be able to play :)

i dunno if that counts or not..

I recently learned to code my own profiles on GaiaOnline xD I figured out how to do it by trial and error and absolute guesswork, but now I have a bunch of really nice profiles for my accounts. I started in November 2008 and my best prototype came out in January 2009. After that, I used the prototype as the base template for all my other profiles and ended up making some really nice - but admittedly simple, due to my whole 'self-teaching' bit - profiles for myself.

I have a lot of Adobe Photoshop skills that I'm terrified are getting rusty due to the fact I don't have Photoshop here at home (Took a class in high school and really excelled in Photoshop and Dreamweaver - which until I see it again couldn't even begin to remember how to use xD; ) Im looking forward to buying a new computer - and Photoshop. ^^

recently the new skill i just learned is a skill to do multitasking without lose my concentration :D

0= I learned that I can actually draw sort of. Well, draw better than I used to. I can almost draw decent looking hands.

learning to sleep anywhere at any time.

I learned how to make my own figures with modeling clays and stuff. I haven't done it yet, but I have been itching to.

I also learned how notice the background music in movies. Most of the time I never realize it's playing at all!!

i'm an artis.
that's something i've realized long time ago,
but only lately i've seen HOW much of an artist i really am...>__>'
don't ask...

Originally Posted by nanxi

I don't know how long I've had this ability, but I just recently noticed that I can instantly tune out anything like bad music playing in stores =3

I totally wish I had this ability!


@ Clover, for me that would be a super power! I wish I could sleep anywhere.

I learned to throw knives and cards o.o
It's fun XD

I've learned to..... do accounting? I know, a boring skill but a skill all the same!

I went to see a woman on the day she was told her husband had died. He had been abusive and violent but he was all she had. She was angry, abusive and aggressive towards me but she needed help. I went back a few times. Each time she'd swear profusely. I think over time I realised she was trying to make me reject her as others had throughout her life. I took the district nurse and OT to see her and they all refused to go back because of the abuse. Over time, the neighbours that had been frightened of her husband, came in to see her with me. They remembered her from when they were children in the local area. Together we got her registered with a local doctor (not so easy with someone who is housebound and curses at every nurse who crosses the threshold). We introduced slowly, a care package and a more sturdy OT! Cleaned the place up. She came to life in an unbelievable way. One morning I had a call from the care agency telling me her carer had found her dead in her chair (the nice new chair the OT had provided). My office was minutes away so I went up to meet the carer at the flat. We waited together for the ambulance to come. I honestly thought that the last couple of years of her life had been good ones where she had made links that she hadn't been able to for years - and it was partly through my stubborn insistence that abusive language can be used as a defence mechanism.



More recently, I was allocated a man with severe depression. After a couple of weeks it was clear that he was deteriorating quickly. It was the first MHA assessment I did after I got my warrant. He had seen me come into his home and then he saw me in a completely different light when I had to sign the section papers and tell him he was detained. Unsurprisingly he was incredibly angry with me. I gave him some space and then eased my way back. On his discharge, I saw him three times a week at home, then twice and still now see him weekly. The visits and the time have seen him through a diagnosis of cancer and his own mother's death. While not 'cured' he is functioning in a way that have been unbelievable a year ago - of course it isn't just down to me, his medication has changed too but I have been able to see him through that.



A couple of weeks ago, I was asked to carry out a MHA assessment in a hospital ward. The man concerned was unwell but although the doctors were happy to detain him I felt we needed to at least explore other options. He wasn't sectioned and he went home with support. That was a decision I took and I was glad that I felt able and confident enough to challenge the medical opinions.



Honestly, I could go on, the more I think about it, the more I think about the positive stories and the times things work out. Actually things work out a lot more than they don't work out.

I taught myself to cut off my empathy, somewhat. I normally only use it, in class when we are talking about the holocaust or 9/11 or genoside. It keeps me from bursting into tears.