1) I’m a 5 minute cat detector, due to an extremely strong allergy (although it has gotten better).

2) When I was 4 years old my parents asked me if I would prefer a little brother or a little sister. I replied I’d rather have a dog. It somehow took the wind out of their sails, since I never got either sibling or dog and had to wait 30+ years before I finally go a dog.

3) In spite of the story in 2), I was a fertility expert at 4 - we had friends of the family visiting, married 2 years previously, and somehow the conversation went to their yet unsuccessful attempts to have a child. I embarrassed my mother by explaining in sufficient detail how these things worked. It was worth it though, as a few months later they were expecting. I don’t remember this at all, but supposedly I was very proud that my advice had worked.

4) I have my mobile phone ringtone set really low, so I don’t hear it if I am concentrated on work or a conversation. Most people I have worked with really cannot understand this, but it makes sense to me. If I am working well, or in a conversation with someone, I don’t want the phone to interrupt!

5) I find it hard to remember numbers, and often also mathematical formulae. The number thing goes for phone numbers, but also for a lot of the physics and mathematical constants which we always use - quite crippling. It took me years to remember the basic trigonometry rules, I used to have to rederive them on a side piece of paper. That pattern went on - I can go through the reasoning again, but can’t remember the exact final result without going through it. I suspect it made my studies harder than necessary!

6) On the other hand I can remember almost every fiction book I have read, what I though about it, and where I got it - which library or store etc.

7) I’m better at starting things than finishing them, will put the 7th entry later