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 I don’t know what Roblox is. I do know what discord is, but I seem to be unable to use it correctly? Also, although I have downloaded some stuff from GitHub a few times, I can never remember how to do it the next time, and the layout and UI make zero sense to me, every time.
I’m with you on github for sure. I assume people who use it regularly think it has a decent layout but to me it seems so random and disjointed that I can’t imagine how that’s possible.
As someone who uses GitHub everyday, I don’t think about the layout at all. The uploading, downloading, version control etc is all done with terminal commands or desktop tools. So separate from the website (but my code still ends up on there).
If I ever have to go to GitHub.com in a browser it’s only to copy a repository URL and I always marvel at how ugly and convoluted that website looks.
I thought I was the only one! Every time I experience the exact same thing.
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.
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.
This video from Smarter Every Day did it for me! https://youtu.be/aoXJfuPaFF8 (06:35)
I can’t whistle at all, despite numerous ppl in my life taking so much time trying to coach me
It’s not relevant to my daily life but it is sometimes a significant limitation.
I’m one of those that passes out at the sight of blood. A little scratch or something won’t send me but actual injury or a lot of medical stuff will get me.
About half of the time I get an injection or blood drawn I’m out. They use those high chairs so the nurses have more ergonomic access to the patients? Nope, I get the recliner, because I’m liable to fall out of that high chair and beat my head on the floor and now the nurse has a big heavy mess to clean up.
Two of my four doses of the Covid vaccine I was out. Was pretty sure it was going to happen each time and I was right twice. Still got all four.
I’ve done it to my dental surgeon almost every time I’ve seen him. Has a nasty habit of playing a video tape that explains the risks of tooth removal, and I seldom retain consciousness through the part about possible nerve damage. They tend to leave you alone in a room while this video plays. Even if I stay conscious I go weak and can’t really move under my own power, it’s really fun to be alone like that.
I’m careful to warn everyone who works in the shop with me that - if you are injured - I’m not going to be able to drive you to the emergency room, you’ll have to wait for and pay for an ambulance. So put on your safety glasses and partake in my large collection of push sticks.
I can curl my upper lip on the left side, but the right side can’t do it. I can’t raise one eyebrow either.
I can only curl the left side too!
What the fuck, same here
I think we are on to something
Choreography. I can’t follow other people’s motions to save my life.
I can’t make upside down hand eye goggles. Image for context below.
Dude…I know I used to be able to do this but it’s been decades.
I can’t do it anymore. It feels so awkward and strange and hurts my tendons just trying it…Whuuuut?
I feel like I might break my hand even trying to do this :P
I learned this from The Aquabats!
I can’t whistle so always called my kids with a trill sound (like a loud Spanish RR, not Arabic ululation) and it is also my recall sound for the dogs. But I really can’t whistle. Can sort of make a sound but it’s laughably mockably wimpy.
Can’t catch at all either, can throw reasonably accurately most of the time but an object coming at me never goes where my hands think it should. I am shamed by my penultimate daughter, who despite nearsightedness worse even than mine was, and a strong drive to be non-athletic, can pluck anything out of the air, has both lighting fast reflexes and intuitive hand eye coordination. But it doesn’t really affect me other than occasional embarrassment - I just pick whatever it is up off the floor after it hits me.
You and my dog sound like you’d have a lot in common. He lets treats bounce off his head and then just eats them off the ground after.
This is really funny considering there’s a Bob’s Burgers episode about exactly that. The wife, Linda can roll her Rs but can’t whistle, while the husband, Bob can whistle but can’t roll his Rs. It’s a whole plot.
My oldest kid is 30 now, so this precedes the show by quite a few years, it’s pretty funny but it did help when they were in a pack of loud kids. And yeah both my ex and my husband can whistle LOUDLY, but I cannot at all.
A near-complete lack of rhythm and profound tone deafness. I can’t keep a beat to save my life, and my singing sounds like the wails of the damned. But like damned chimps or something.
Anyway, all music is sorcery as far as I’m concerned.
Yes! And because of all that, I am profoundly ignorant as to how music works.
Due to an old eye injury, I do not have a functional drain tube for my left eye (that channel that drains from the corner of your eye and into your nose).
Normally it’s not something anyone notices, but in cold headwind and anything else that causes my eyes to water, it looks like I’m crying my heart out but only with one eye.
I physically cannot focus or think too hard on something for too long (somewhere between 1-2 hrs), otherwise I would get physically sick. It was so bad for me as a child that I stopped watching movies… but these days it seems no more than a fun fact for my therapists
I can’t snap my fingers
Tough life for those with charisma and a personal butler.
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 99% of the time I have noise-canceling earbuds in
I’m struggling to even write this comment while my family is nattering away in the next room, fuck writing code while people talk
My eyes dont work together so i dont actually see depth. I can kind of assume depth with paralax and shadows, but i didnt realize until i was in my 20s that people saw stuff like a 3d movie. For some reason (best i can come up with is the exaggerated differences) i can see 3d in vr headsets (stereoscopes) and red/blue 3d. When real-d came out, i was very confused because it just doesnt look 3d to me at all. Edit: Magic Eye doesnt work for me even a little. My brother can do it and i have tried to the point of tears, with tutorials and everything.
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.
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 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.
