I cannot navigate without a map. I can learn specific routes to places after lots of repetition, but if I try to figure how to get somewhere by sense of direction and knowing where things are alone I will very likely have no idea where to go.
I'm the opposite. Hand me a map and I'm absolutely clueless. But if you tell me "xyz place is by [redacted] theater" I'll be able to find it a lot faster than looking at any sort of map. Only works in my hometown, though.
I feel like that one is pretty common. My daughter is very frustrated that her friends could navigate anywhere and she's clueless. Smart as hell in most regards, but can't navigate
Are you neurodiverse? It can be a sign of dyspraxia, autism, ADHD and dyslexia. Loads of people are neurodiverse but have no idea
Being able to visualize anything in my mind. Salty as fuck about it.
Same, or at least I can't "hold onto" anything I try to visualize. I can manage a brief flash of a vague image. I wonder if it's related to my near complete inability to recognize faces.
Well, considering most people look the same or very similar to me, I'd say yes, it's related.
The condition is called aphantasia, in case you didn't know and want to read more, but not much is known about it.
Edit: Another thing I realized sometime last year is that I have trouble remembering where I left things, constantly looking for something. Turns out people usually visualise where they left stuff.
Same. I can barely even dream, something most aphantasiacs can at least do regularly.
Sorry to hear that, that must suck, I at least occasionally dream visually. One "funny" episode that ties to that: Recently I was in a half-asleep state and saw some visual stuff in my mind and I was so excited that my aphantasia fixed itself just like that and that excitement woke me up and I realized what happened.
Have you looked into dyspraxia? It can be a sign of it. I have it and can't visualise for shit.
Whistle.
I can't for the life of me. No tongue twisting or fingers in my mouth help at all.
I know some people have some success with whispering the letter Q or the word cue / queue very slowly while breathing out.
This advice is brilliant!
My girlfriend can whistle, but only the one note. I can't figure out how to explain to her how to change note.
My mom is kind of like this. She can change the note, but only a semitone or so in either direction.
Practice in front of a mirror and keep your face muscles relaxed.
I can visualize the entire plumbing system of a house in my head and I can build, rotate and disassemble 3D objects in my mind but for some reason I simply cannot figure out how electricity works. I've watched every single "electricity for dummies/visual learners" video on youtube and none of it makes a difference. I've just accepted I'll never be able to understand electricity.
It's just like water; that's why power lines are so high up. It prefers flowing downhill. That's also why outlets have two sockets. One is for the device that needs power more (the bottom one). The top one goes out first in a brown out.
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Honestly though, thinking of circuits like water in pipes does get you quite a long way.
Most people I know can snap their fingers. I cannot. When I do, it barely makes a sound.
I came here to say this!! People have tried to teach me but I just can't do it.
Troubleshooting printers. I have a bachelor's in physics and 8 years of experience in IT and management. I cannot (and refuse to) fix a printer
That’s because printers were not made by humans, but god to punish us for our sins.
I can't keep my shoes tied to save my life. I feel like a toddler. They will come untied within 5-10 minutes of tying them unless they're double knotted.
I've done my best to get rid of shoes with laces in my life because it's both humiliating and so frustrating
To be fair, most people don't know how to tie their shoes. They think they do but they're doing a "granny knot" which is much more likely to become undone than the square knot they're intending to do. Some of my shoes still have the same knot I tied when I first bought them.
If you do end up in shoes you need to tie. The issue may be that when you tie your shoes the knot is a granny knot instead of a square knot. To make the square knot,
take both strands Pass left around right Make a loop with the left and wrap the right lace over and around and pull through as a bow.
You can check if you got it, depend on if the bow is straight across side-to-side. If the bow ears are crooked or up-down, it is a granny knot. You can undo the last step and wrap the opposite direction. Hope this helps!
Look into products like “lock laces”. I can tie my shoes but I hate doing it (I’d rather slip my shoes on and they never stay tied or tight anyway). Elastic laces with a cinch works great.
I’m not good at video games. I love playing them but can’t play anything past the easiest levels or beginner settings. Getting destroyed and trashed talked online by 12 year olds is embarrassing 😂
Me neither! That's why I watch twitch a lot haha
Anything musical. I can't sing on key and can't keep a beat to save my life. I'm not tone deaf, I can hear pitch and I know how to read music and can do it all in my head, but can't translate it to my mouth or fingers.
2d platformers. My brain just doesn't process all of the buttons that I have to click in the right order.
Combination locks. Tell me to memorize a sheet of numbers, fine. Tell me to open a combination lock combination 03-03-03, I need the locks manual on hand.
Using modern video game controllers. Desktop and mobile games I can do, but I feel like I must be in the bottom 1% for skill with a controller among my peers.
I cannot paint a wall without making a complete mess. I have even managed to get paint in my car during a project.
Planning and visualisation.
I feel like what is described in the first Dune book - an animal.
I only react, I don't plan, and I can only really empathize with something/someone if I experience it myself.
Also, I can't cry, not without some cheesy ass music playing in some really sad scene in a movie/show.
Anything athletic; unusual in the fact I'm healthy/slim/etc. Name a single sport or exercise and I wouldn't even have the basics down. Except for any aquatic activities which I just never got the hang of (can't even swim), when taking physical tests at school which were often timed, I'd do what my teacher would call trolling the grading system by starting out laggy/slow, followed by performing a nanosecond better each time to fulfill expectations.
