1. Drive. I never thought I'd drive. I only learned a few years ago.
And I only drove alone for the first time (without another licensed adult in the car telling me what to do) last year, when I got my own vehicle.
2. I never really thought I'd go on the computer, either.
There was a computer in my house for a long, long time before I ever touched it.
I wasn't the least bit interested in learning how to use it.
Books were my thing. I disliked the computer intensely, the way it distracted my loved ones and kept them from spending time with me.
Then a few years ago, I started using just the word processor part, for my writing (before that I was using an electric typewriter; it became obsolete, and they quit making ink cartridges for it, so I really had no choice).
After that, I gradually started using the internet, and the rest is history.
3. Having a bank account, paying taxes, using a debit card, etc.
I never thought I'd be "in the system".
I wasn't, for a long time.
It all seemed too complicated.
My husband shared my views.
We both worked under the table for a long time, and only dealt with cash, and hid our savings in a book or in various other places (just recently, I opened a book I hadn't read in ten years, and a twenty-dollar bill fluttered out; a remnant of the "good old days").
I guess, in a way, having such a limited formal education made things that normal people did seem too complicated for me. My husband was the same way. We're both highly intelligent in some ways, but there are a lot of things we didn't understand, didn't want to understand, and/or were too lazy to go out of our way to learn about.
But we have gradually caught up, and now we do all the things that normal, working-class people in their mid-30s do.
I never thought I would live a normal life, and I know that people who knew me never thought I would.
It's pretty cool, actually. Things like driving are still such a novelty to me, it makes life pretty fun. I'm sure the thrill will wear off eventually, though. :lol: