I was maybe 4 years old, and dad took me to his uncle's house and we tried out his 3wheeler. Dad was sitting behind me telling me how to drive it and he said ok press with your thumb to make it go and I did (pressed it all the way in, and fast) and we went over backwards. Nobody got hurt and we got back on and rode. He must've thought I was doing good, so dad got off and told me to go drive around by myself. I was going along and then got to the field and it was bumpy, which made me grip tighter, which made it go faster, which made it more bumpy, which made me grip tighter, which made it go faster... going full out, right toward a barbed wire fence, dad running after me screaming. I cleared my head and thought about how to avoid the fence and knew I had to loosen my grip and thumb, and did without falling off, and narrowly avoided a disaster. Dad said "don't tell mom".
Or else, I was doing one of my skydive from 10,000 feet and I was crooked and started a literal death spin. I saw the world go round and round, faster and faster, and knew this wasn't good. I couldn't get out if it and just went limp. Now I am on by back, belly up. I really started to panic then, and was desperately reaching for something to hold on to, but of course nothing was there. The jump master was able to stick close to me through this, and I looked at her and she made the motion to arch. So I went limp again and did the hardest arch I could do. So now I'm in the shape of a bridge (belly up), and ever so slowly, I lift up and over myself into the correct belly down position and now I feel ok. Jump master signals for me to pull (at a very high altitude) and so I did even though I was then ready to work and didn't want to pull yet. So I had a long, long ride down under the chute and landed perfectly. That jump master was almost crying. She thought I was going to die and she said she has never seen anyone spin that fast. She went into a room by herself and I got ready and went up again.
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