If you look back long enough, you start to notice the strange little things that were always there. Not the big milestones. Not the obvious moments. The quieter details— the ones that didn’t make sense at the time, but somehow explain everything now.

I don’t usually sit around listing facts about myself. Feels a little like writing your own trading card. But every now and then, I start connecting the dots— and realize some of them are… weirdly specific.

So… here are some (just some)… little-known facts about me…

I was a published artist at thirteen—before I even knew what that meant, before I understood that some people spend a lifetime trying to become the thing I accidentally was.

During my time in college, I found myself on national TV—part of a children’s Christmas show in L.A.— bright lights, staged smiles, a kind of magic that feels bigger in memory than it probably was… but still, it happened.

I once spent an entire afternoon with Shaquille O’Neal at UCLA—just talking, hanging out like it was normal. And somehow… I walked away without a single photo, despite having a camera in my hands. To this day, that might be my greatest failure in photography.

Earlier in this journey on this floating rock, I could take a long rifle and hit the inside of the “O” on a stop sign from a thousand meters out— steady hands, sharp eyes… or maybe just a little bit of luck. These days? Well… let’s just say some skills don’t age as confidently as the stories. I don’t have a long rifle anymore, so… there’s that. 

And there’s also this thing about me— hard to explain without sounding a little off.

An intuition… always on. Like a quiet alarm system running in the background, catching shifts before they happen, feeling things most people miss.

I don’t really understand it. Never have.

I just know I didn’t come up with it alone—I got it from my mom. She had that same way of knowing, that look that said she’d already read the room before anyone spoke. It’s not loud.
It doesn’t ask for attention. It just sits there… watching, listening, tapping me on the shoulder when something’s not quite right.

And then there’s how I learn— or how I used to… and almost still do… Sort of.

I picked things up fast. Scary fast. Like my brain didn’t bother with the usual steps—just skipped ahead and filled in the blanks… mostly accurate too.

Now… it’s more selective. Some things click instantly, like they were waiting for me all along. Others stand their ground, arms crossed, making me earn every inch.

I wouldn’t say I’ve slowed down. It’s more like my mind got picky—deciding what deserves the speed and what gets left behind.

And somewhere in all of that… I’ve come to understand something—

I’m probably neurodivergent. Undiagnosed, yeah—but that doesn’t make it any less true.

I’ve lived in this mind long enough to recognize its patterns— the focus, the drift, the way it sees things from an angle that doesn’t always line up with everyone else. It’s not something I feel the need to prove. It’s just something I know. No paperwork. No official label. Just a lifetime of moving through the world a little differently than most.

And lastly—and probably the strangest thing about me—

I have a knack for remembering completely useless information. Movie lines I haven’t heard in years. Random song lyrics that show up uninvited. Obscure little facts with no clear purpose, no real place to go.

It all just… stays. Like my mind is some overstuffed archive, a big, heavy book filled with things no one really asked for.

And maybe it doesn’t make much sense— all of it sitting there together like that— but every now and then, something from those pages slips out at just the right moment… and suddenly, it doesn’t feel so useless after all.

Maybe that’s what all of this really is—not a list, not a collection of random details—but a pattern. A series of small, strange truths that, taken together, quietly explain a life.

Not perfectly. Not completely. But enough.

Maybe none of it is as random as it seems.

Maybe it’s all just pieces—scattered, uneven, sometimes forgotten—waiting for the right moment to make sense.

And maybe that’s all a life really is… learning how to recognize your own pieces when they finally fall into place.

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