You would be surprised how many times I have heard that in reference to myself.
It seems that things which I consider doing and then think, “why not?” Make other people cringe in horror and give me the evil eye and back away, quickly even.
Sometimes it makes me feel I must be a mutant freak. But, all the reasons they come up with for not doing whatever it was just never occured to me. Besides, most of them seem like things I could cope with, if they came up. 
Did anyone else get on Noah’s Ark under the category of mutant freak? Raise your cloven hooves please.