What is something you don't like, that you wish you did like? and why

Social interaction. It would be nice to not just be so exhausted talking to people. It would be nice to not dread the idea of sending someone a text, like it's some insane mental effort and not the smallest thing. It would be nice to not be lonely but totally unwilling to do what it takes to correct it.

Running. It's the cheapest, easiest form of exercise, but it absolutely bores me to death and i just can't deal with it after 5 minutes.

I don't mind most other forms of exercise, it's just that they all require more time, effort or resources. Going to the gym requires a gym membership, basketball requires friends, etc.

Socializing. There are lots of benefits to being connected, but I just can't stand people. People are the worst, and yeah, that includes me.

Gym exercise.

Cilantro. Fucking soapy-assed tasting bullshit. I want to like you, but genetics won't let me.

Embarrassment humor. It's always sunny. How I met your mother. Arrested development. I think you should leave. I can't stand cringe.

The sound of dogs barking. If I liked that, I‘d be so happy every single day. I‘d wake up and go to sleep to a sound I enjoy. As it is, I will have to move and rent is even more expensive now, just depressing.

Exercise.

Seafood. So many people love it, so many cultures' cuisine centers around it, but OMFG I can't stand the taste.

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People, cause love and friendship.

Programming. I have a bunch of ideas that are actually useful for my job, but I can’t seem to keep track of the necessary steps to write the code. ChatGPT has helped me create a couple of programs: a discord bot and a very complex (for me) application that brings in NASA data that automatically runs through Stable Diffusion. The code interpreter is amazing… but there’s too much context I’m missing for these things to be truly fun the way I imagine them to be.

Bananas.

Healthy ✔️ Comes in its own container ✔️ Tasty ✔️

I try one every year thinking this will be my year.

Unfortunately the texture kills me

Getting up early. Ideally even exercising before breakfast.

Career growth. Works keeps telling me for years about how they want to promote me into a new role, but I keep turning them down. Like bruh yeah it's more pay but it's more hours ya know.

I'd rather finish work 5pm everyday then stay back till 8pm for a few grand more which is even worse after tax.

Social connection. It would be nice if I could be confident and good at making friends with strangers. I have no idea why I feel so lonely when in the crowd and even more lonely when I'm alone.

Math. I'm embarrassingly bad at math, like can't do it in my head, don't get the math meme jokes, can't add fractions even on paper bad. I took 3 remedial math classes in college before they let me take the one that actually counted for credit. Just thinking about doing math gives me anxiety. I know I could get all sorts of better-paying jobs if I was better at it, but it's like my brain refuses to learn it beyond the basics. I really envy anyone who's good at it.

Begin social, wishing to meeting people, not just strangers but friends and family, and feeling good to spend time with them. Because be a grumpy lone wolf dosnt pay off.

Coffee, it's just too bitter for me, and by the time I get it tasting okay, it may as well be a dessert. People seem to form half of their personality around how much they love coffee, it makes me feel like I'm missing out.

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Lovey dovey feelings. My wife would be much happier if I was more open with them, and it wouldn't be so much work.

The Elder Scrolls: Online. TES is easily my favorite game series and I'd absolutely love to soak up all the lore available in ESO.

But I just can't stand an MMO. I don't like seeing other people everywhere. I get that you can solo most of it.

It also just feels less focused on "live another life in another world".

Ive tried it a few times, and there's a lot that's intriguing about it story-wise, but I always end up putting it down pretty quickly. I'm hoping it clicks with me at some point.

Reading novels (or just fiction, in general). Not sure why but I simply lost the ability to do it a few years ago. Still like to read a couple of nonfiction books every month, but feel like I'm missing something lately

Meat - I'm a vegetarian, though I take a lot of interest in cuisine, and while I may not eat meat personally, it's undeniable that it's a core ingredient for so many beloved dishes across the world. Maybe one day lab-grown or plant-based stuff will be able to serve as a common, cheap, and indistinguishable substitute, because I do want to appreciate all the food the world has to offer while sticking to my ideals as much as I can.

Tomatoes.

Tomatoes are in so many recipes, they're healthy, supposedly can even make good snacks.

ABSOLUTELY disgusting. Flavor, texture, smell, all of the above are just repugnant. I hate that's the case.

I Think You Should Leave. I feel like something is wrong with me. On paper it should be right up my street and two of my closest friends (both of whom I have a near complete overlap with in comedy tastes) are massive fans but I just don’t get it? I get the jokes but I just don’t laugh. I feel like Bart in that episode of The Simpsons where he sells his soul when I watch it.

Beer

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Weed. Every time I try it, I regret it. I feel like with alcohol, I might be uninhibited, but feel in control internally. With weed, I feel like I can’t complete a thought internally and I hate it.

Onions. I wish to God I liked onions. Food is so hard for me sometimes because I can't stand them in almost every form. I travel a lot, and the hardest places not to offend anyone food-wise has been southeast Asia. So. Many. ONIONS.

Sports. I'd be able to have conversations with neighbors, brother-in-laws, etc.

Sauces on foods. No, hear me out! Since I was young any kind of sauce on my food really bothers me. I just can't enjoy it and usually don't eat at all or pick around it if I can't get it removed.

Nearly every menu item and nearly every cuisine includes a sauce, and it's often prepared with the sauce in an unremovable state.

Fortunately it's easier these days than when I was young to order it on the side, so I can just not eat it. But it's a mild inconvenience that I'd never wish on anyone (except my enemies).

IPA beers. Most of my friends like them but despite all the different IPAs Ive tried, not a single one of them was particularly enjoyable to drink.

I was really hoping I'd enjoy Baldur's Gate 3. Apparently D&D is something I'm virtually allergic to, I hated the dice, controls, camera, dice, aesthetics at the start, FOMO and the wrong kind of "genre savvy" fucked me up about content getting locked out - basically I immediately hated all of it enough to put me off.

Shame, because it does seem like a seriously awesome game, just not for me.

Going to the gym... I know it's good for me, I know I should be going but I can't help but feel that I'm wasting my money, only to be doing something less productive that I don't really enjoy doing...

Also watching shows, ik one-piece is probably good, I'm not watching 1000 episodes of anything, no matter how good it is

Tomatoes. I like all kinds of things made from tomatoes but cannot stand them in their original form. I try them from time to time, big ones, little ones, all kinds, just to see if my tastes have changed, but so far nope. It’s especially odd because it don’t feel this way about any other kind of fruit or vegetables.

Pickles. I love fermenting things (beer, bread, yogurt, cheese, jalapeños) but cucumbers are gross in any form.

Coriander/Cilantro.

I have the soapy gene and it would make me look like a total maniac.

Money. When it comes to motivation when job searching, it's probably one of the last things in my priority list. Not really motivated by it, it's just that I value ease of travel, environment, hours, stress amount (or lack there of) way more, and I probably could achieve more and grow more as a person if I was after positions that offered more money. As things are right now, however, I'm completely fine just taking it easy.

Tropical fruits like mangos, pineapples, and coconut (not a fruit i know). They look and smell good and other people really like them but I can't stand the taste

Vegetables. And fruit. They're obviously very healthy - essential even. I have them in almost every meal, but I hate the taste of all of them. Apart from potatoes I suppose, but all the others.

Whiskey. I can be pretentious about good beer, bread, chocolate or coffee, but I’ve just never tasted a difference between whiskeys. Granted I haven’t made too serious an attempt but it Hardly seems worth it. How can I finish becoming a snob if I don’t like good whiskey?

Waking up to a new day.

Star Wars. I'm literally the only Gen Xer I know who didn't grow up a huge fan of the first three movies and didn't care for all the toys associated with them. That continued into adulthood--I never got the hype for the newer movies or the modern series.

Mushrooms.

Mayonnaise. It's on or in a lot of stuff. I just can't stand it.

Engineering. Programming. Any kind of field with good jobs or stability.

I don't know how to articulate it properly, but I can't care about anything that is human-focused. I tried engineering and it made me extremely uncomfortable; like my soul broke apart and got put back together in the wrong way. Doomed to be a poor af zoologist/plant biologist :(

Exercise in all forms

Its boring and tedious.

Strength training?

Life up that heavy thing. Great. Now put it back. Repeat 9 times.

Its nice for people who enjoy it. I find it to be .. literally the most pointless thing you can spend your time doing.

One of my best friends has a strong Japanese accent, the other has a strong lisp, and I'm still not used to either one, and I feel guilty for it.

Math and by extension programming. It makes sense. Then I fill in the numbers, it enters my brain and then just goes to a garbled mess. I get lost in a for loop. WTF...

Peanut butter. Somehow, I like peanuts well enough, but I can’t stand peanut butter. It’s literally the only food I avoid, and the only food I had a rough reaction to while pregnant. I’d like to at least not hate it, but I have such a gut reaction to eating it, I don’t see a future I would ever get over it.

Japanese Natto. Look it up, it's fermented soybean. I can barely be in the same room as it. Yet my Japanese wife and toddler seem to love the stuff and it's healthy and easy to prepare--- when I'm not gagging.

Star trek

I wish I liked eating a ton of raw veggies.

Some people can't handle popcorn ceiling. That's just hard cottage cheese.

I can't handle the kind of "3d Holographic" that was all the rage in the late 90s early 00s.

Did you get a "holo" from your Harry potter brand chocolate frogs?

Then run an index fingernail over that affront to decent human sensibilities and feel what I say.

If I could not respond that way to that stimulus, my life would be improved.

I live by the ocean and sea food is disgusting to me. I see people fishing all the time and I know they're eating good. That smell is such a turn off.

Tomatoes. They help with cancer prevention but I just can’t fucking stand them

Tomatoes and also fish

A lot of different types of meat. I just don't like how most meat tastes. I'm not vegetarian or something, so I feel like I'm missing out something, but no matter how often I try it, I just hate the taste (especially the taste of pork).

Gardens of the Moon

Banter. Lots of friends/acquaintances do it, but I always fail to see the fun in it since 85% of the time people will go overboard and say insults in disguise of a joke.

I can count on the fingers of one hand the people I felt confortable with doing this

Coconuts or water melon, y'all seem to be enjoying it so much...

Maths. It's my field of study and I'm reasonably good at it, but I'm no more able to find joy in a nice definition etc. It's just boring.
Even if I study some out-of-syllabus topic I know that is interesting, it doesn't interest me.

I wish I liked football and basketball so I had something in common to talk about with most people.

Beans and Mexican spices. I know damn well that I'm missing out on a whole dimension of culinary experiences but they both make me viscerally gag.

Sticking to one champ in League of Legends and cilantro (fucking soap gene).

Doing taxes.

Mayo (and creamy dressings, to most extent). It's on by default for most of the things I like when eating out, especially fast food.

Myself.

People. Because they are such a disappointment.

Why would I want to like something if I don't like it? I really don't understand this question.