I am unable to do the magic eye things, my eyes just don’t focus on that way. Good thing I never am required to
I can barely whistle, it sounds like a light breeze. I can barely snap my fingers, its more a soft thump than a snap 90% of the time. But hey, I can burp and pop my ears on command, so I’ve got that going for me.
Couldn’t admit this to myself until my 40’s, but I have a serious mechanical handicap. Doesn’t stop me from trying!
We had standard tests in elementary school and I jammed out in the 90+ percentile on most subjects. The last part was called spatial reasoning. Here’s 3 shapes, if you put them together, which shape will they make. Stuff like that. Tried really hard, couldn’t do it.
I can take things apart pretty well, and I’m good at creative solutions, just can’t get the thing back together.
Oh, holy crap, I have the same. I was looking at a Scientific American print magazine a long time ago and in the back there were 2 quizzes. One said take these letters and make as many words as you can, and I knocked that out of the park, so easy. The other was a series of images of pairs of 3d models - like the ball-and-stick things used to show molecules. They said some are mirror images and some are the same, and they were rotated in different ways. Basically said find which are mirrors and which aren’t, how many can you find in 5 minutes.
None. Not in any amount of minutes. I looked at them for an hour, until I was crying, my brain would not see it. I also can’t read maps unless they are facing the same way as I am, oriented with the actual world, but that must be common because phones do show them that way now.
Funny, i have a really hard time with maps unless they are oriented with north up. The modern gps orientation drives me crazy
Mad as hell when my phone map orients North. Who asked you do do that you sumbitch?! 😂
Wait, now that I think on it, I think I got it backwards. See what I mean?! Fuck I’m confused as to direction. Give me a compass and tell me which way is home.
Got lost in the swamp last spring. “OK, just go north to this waypoint. STAY north.” Took me forever, crawling through mud and sticker-vines, over and under deadfalls, checking my compass every 20’, lost the foregrip on my antique shotgun, crawled out 20’ from the edge of camp. Home!
You FEEL me! I’m in the woods and on the water, every week. I go places others do not. I got a “mechanical” compass at all times, a compass on my Casio, a compass on my phone. Not like I can read them for shit, but I can at least get pointed, roughly, the right way home.
I refurb crappy guns for fun. I’ll tear a 50s shotgun down, get it all cleaned up, wood redone, all that, and then have to call my 22-yo friend across the street, “Hey Dave! Can you come look at this?” He puzzles over it for a few and everything snaps back into place.
Yeah in the city I grew up in, I can find my way like a taxi driver, it’s exciting when I get lost because it doesn’t happen much, and my kids used to think it was funny that once we had been to a venue somewhere by car (like a gym meet in another city) I could always get there again without looking at a map or address, I HATE the audio navigation while driving, would rather wander, I’m not easily turned around on city streets, I am well oriented in the world but
Out in the wild? Useless. I had a friend though who was so good at knowing which way she was facing, you could blindfold her and spin her (like for pun the tail on the donkey game ) and she would walk always in the right direction, could feel where north/south were even while blind.
I find this interesting. I know the OP’s question specifically asked for things that don’t affect you day to day, but do you find any kind of daily activities difficult? Just random thoughts… Folding clothes? Parallel parking? IKEA furniture?
Funny enough, I can parallel park! When I was 16, so many decades ago, we were told we had to do it to pass the test, so I memorized the directions and practiced. Came time for the test, I knocked it out so perfectly the instructor was like, “OK, ya got it, next test.”, before I even finished! Quite proud of that BTW!
Wasn’t until my 40s until I cold instinctively tell left from right, horizontal to vertical, still take a split second to think on it. At least I don’t have to snap my left hand, only one I can do it on, to find left vs. right!
Day to day? I have loads of crappy guns that I’m experimenting with. Love the hobby so much because it stretches my spatial recognition to the very limit without being too frustrating. For example, I was shooting, or trying to shoot, a little .22 rifle today. The bolt won’t close all the way. For the fucking life of me I cannot see why it no longer moves far enough forward. One day I’ll take it apart and put it back together again, it’ll just work, and I’ll have no idea why.
And no, I cannot fold a fitted sheet. My mother could make one flat as a pancake and wrap a gift like it came from a robot. Me? Nope.
I can parallel park fine (but am kinda old and used to have to) and was not dyslexic or anything - I think part of my problem with that puzzle was that you can take a p and flip it to be a b or q or d, the whole idea of them starting out as mirror or not didn’t compute somehow, lost between my eyes and brain.
Maps, yes, it used to mess up my life but no more, now that you can rotate them. I used to take paper maps and lay them on the ground with north pointing north and could not easily read MapQuest on my work computer because my desk faced south. If I had to navigate while my ex was driving he would laugh at me for holding the map sideways or upside down but it was much easier to read upside down words than a map that was upside down in relationship to the world.
My fingers are very stiff. If you grab your index finger and gently push it backwards, I’ve never met anyone who can do that less than me without hurting.
Can’t whistle loudly. I can barely do it quietly. I certainly can’t do that badass thing where you put fingers from both hands into your mouth and blow.
I hate when people “show you how to do it”, they’re always showing you the back of their hand, like that’s supposed to help.
I can’t whistle at all, despite numerous ppl in my life taking so much time trying to coach me
I once told someone, “I can’t do it, but I’ve seen people demonstrate it. You have to push your tongue back so it curls up, and…”
Then I demonstrated what I was shown, and it worked!
And then I was never able to do it again.
This video from Smarter Every Day did it for me! https://youtu.be/aoXJfuPaFF8 (06:35)
I can’t roll my r’s. I speak pretty decent Spanish (took 5 semesters in high school), but have never been able to figure out how to roll the r’s, despite years of trying on and off to figure it out.
It’s never a problem. On the rare occasions that I actually need to speak Spanish, nobody cares that I can’t roll my r’s.
You might have a physical limitation, I’ve met native people who can’t roll their Rs, it’s still fairly simple to understand as long as you’re pronouncing them as Rs, or something close/distinct enough, e.g. English R (How an English speaker pronounces the R in for example Row)
Is it a tongue issue ? a girl I knew in school couldn’t do the english “th” because the leash below her tongue was too short
Could be! I’ve often wondered if the problem is something I can’t really overcome with practice. I’ve watched many tutorial videos over the years, but my tongue just ends up doing nothing when I try to practice.
I have the same problem, except one day I figured it out! I was rolling rrrs all day! But the next day I woke up and could only sort of do it. And now I can’t do it at all again, despite trying to learn.
Funny thing, I learned to roll my Rs by pretending to purr like a cat.
My problem is I learned french first so all my fancy rrrs are throaty out of habit :/
I have this same problem and my wife is actually from Mexico City and I travel to Mexico pretty often.
It’s really fun though, I refer to our chihuahuas as “los perritos” but it sounds like “little farts” due to my pronunciation. Her family loves having me read things in Spanish poorly as if I don’t know the language (which is hard!).
Choreography. I can’t follow other people’s motions to save my life.
My right sinus cavity is smaller than my left sinus cavity
Wanna do an exchange? For me it’s the other way round. Do you also have the full package with smaller nostril and ear canal?
I had that fixed less than a year ago. It has been great!
ITT: People who think that never having learned to do some niche skill is a weakness.
It’s a schooner!
Ha ha! You dumb bastard. It’s not a schooner, its a sailboat.
Hey OP, I used to have that same weakness, but this tutorial actually allowed me to see the magic eyes things https://www.magiceye.com/faq-items/help-how-do-i-see-in-3d/ the two dots made it easier for me to know when I was focusing correctly.
As for my weakness, I can’t whistle loudly, I’ve tried all the methods people use, but wasn’t able to learn any of them.
Just tried lol, it didn’t work. My eyes don’t seem to focus well enough to find whatever is hidden in there.
some people have mentioned. on occasion. that my spelling and grammar may not be perfect. My artistic ability is really limited to. Can’t think of others but many likely do effect my daily life. My wife could likely give me a good list to work off of.
Auditory processing disorder makes it really hard to deal with multiple people talking.
I work from home, so
I absolutely hate this. If I’m working on site, about 99% of the time I have noise-canceling earbuds in. No I actually want to write my code without having to stop and find my place every 30 seconds while Janet and Kevin talk about their weekend excursions for half the day.
I’m struggling to even write this comment while my family is nattering away in the next room, fuck writing code while people talk
I have 3
I cannot juggle. I don’t generally lack in hand-eye coordination (not that I’m overly-gifted with it either, but I’d generally say that I’m at least average,) and I understand the theory of it well enough, I’ve even been able to teach people to juggle successfully, it’s just that I, myself, cannot juggle.
I’m also a reasonably handy, technically-minded person, again not an absolute wizard, but if I crack a gadget open, with a couple Google searches and how-to guides, I can usually understand more or less how things work and how to fix them if they’re broken.
But something about sewing machines breaks my mind. There’s something going on right around the bobbin that just doesn’t make sense to my brain and doesn’t seem like it should work, but it apparently does, because I’ve successfully used a sewing machine and can confirm first-hand that they work.
Lastly, I don’t like needles. It’s not a horrible phobia that sends me running for the hills, but something about needles sleeves me out like nothing else. I can suck it up and get my necessary vaccines and such, but I do kind of have to give myself a little internal pep-talk first. It’s not a fear of pain, I have pretty solid pain tolerance and needles really don’t hurt that much at all, it’s specifically needles that weird me out. If there was an option to get my vaccines where a doctor would shank me with a scalpel and rub the vaccine into the wound, I’d absolutely go for it.
I am with you on sewing machines, I have run it slowly while watching and it still breaks my mind. I don’t understand how the stitch can hold, what it looks like it’s doing would just unravel. It’s like it defies physics.
Absolutely. I watched a great video explaining how it does it and felt like I understood for five minutes, and I know it’s something about putting loops through loops through loops forever, and yes it absolutely does unravel if it’s not secured at both ends, but the way it threads the new loop through the old loop with a wheel that keeps turning in the same direction all the time, that is just pure magic and has no right to be possible in regular three dimensional reality.
Needles make me faint. They don’t hurt too much, but… If I see one going in, the next thing I generally see is people crowded around trying to revive me. Hell, I just started to see stars! I’m lying down, for eff sake! It’s not blood either, I’ve been first on the scene a few times now and given first aid to some pretty messed up injuries. I had a headache injection once, and the doctor mixed the drug with a giant needle as a stir stick, and he didn’t even get the real needle out before I was face down on the floor.
Luckily I don’t have it quite that bad I am just very uncomfortable with it.
Sprained my knee really badly once and the doctor used a giant syringe to drain some fluid after the swelling hadn’t gone down much after a couple weeks. Really didn’t like that, wasn’t even close to passing out, but can’t think I’ve ever been more uncomfortable.
Similarly I’ve also been on-scene with some pretty nasty injuries, and I work in 911 dispatch, I’m generally not bothered by too much.
I too have the needle fear whenever I get vaccinated or blood drawn I get super anxious and I have passed out a couple of times… then I also have several tattooes. I can’t explain why those do not bother or scare me.
I can’t snap my fingers
Tough life for those with charisma and a personal butler.
I have trouble making up context in conversations. I just don’t have that many daily convos that require adquiring context
