anyone else "scary strong"?

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I'm usually seen as strong for someone that doesn't work out beyond cardio. I always felt it was this intensity/willpower thing.
Like with the OP I always picked up the things that other people didn't expect. (with the weight on the legs of course and not on the back)

I am built like a twig, but i am significantly stronger then i look

When I did some stacking at K-Mart I surprised myself by lifting boxes that required more than one person to lift. I thought I was pushing myself at 15kg but I kept lifting heavier and heavier loads. Maybe up to 30kg.

Wow really, super strength? I've always been really weak. I'm 6 feet tall, 115 pounds, male, and I can bench about 95 pounds. Maybe that's above average for someone with my body type; I wouldn't know because I've never met anyone as skinny as me.

I am 6' 2" 130 pounds

Yes and no.

I'm not like that usually.

But as a teenager, I had a period where I could get so intensely worked up that my dad said I ought to be a football player (American football that is). He was much, much bigger than me (and had actual experience playing football) but I could head-butt my way past him and outrun him in a sheer panic despite the fact that I was rather a small teen girl (like 110 pounds or so, around 5'1"... my dad was OTOH described by someone else as a "big, burly man" and quite tall). One time after he managed to get me to the ground one of those times, I was screaming and a neighbor called 911. When the paramedics came, they took bets on whether or not I was on PCP because I was so strong in my terror and adrenaline. I'm not proud of the sorts of things I did back then, but I did them. I also had the ability to ignore pain signals from my body and therefore lift things much heavier than people expected of me. I was rather proud of that ability, but it wore out my body in terrible ways that still cause me physical pain.

These days I'm a weakling who can barely do a lot of ordinary things before my muscles give out. Bipap/ASV therapy for severe central/obstructive sleep apnea has given me more stamina than I had a few months ago (oxygen is really, really important for the body in ways most people don't even think about), but I still have very little and still have a muscular disorder that causes me serious problems. My body is falling apart in other ways and I never try to lift anything anywhere near as heavy again because the combination of muscle weakness, potential dislocations that are more likely because my already-loose joints combine with the weak muscles in unpleasant ways, respiratory issues, and nerve issues, just don't let me do that kind of thing anymore. My body is pretty shot and I am lucky to do the things I can do... and I haven't even quite hit middle age yet.

but I wouldn't say I'm scary strong, just pretty strong, at a restaurant I worked at I didn't have any trouble picking up 3 60lbs cases of potatoes at a time. when I worked at walmart I never had any trouble moving pallets (some of which weighed as much as 6000 pounds) by myself, even though most of the other people did.

I run into problems with that because I tend to underestimate my strength, I break things because I don't realize how hard I'm twisting/pulling/pushing/squeezing something.

Au contraire.

I'm fairly fit, even a little muscular. My triceps and quadriceps are virtually rock hard, my trapezius are well developed and yet, I'm weaker than most of my peers. I can lift heavy weights, but I have a real hard time lifting large things. Yeah, I find it difficult to lift a damn mattress, thanks to my lack of balance.

But I'm incredibly resistant to pain.

I'm also scary strong. I can carry two 50 lb bags of empty cans and bottles down the stairs with me.