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 have trouble making up context in conversations. I just don’t have that many daily convos that require adquiring context
Regardless of age, weight, or overall fitness, I have never been able to touch my toes when bending over from standing.
I trained a whole year when I was 18 to be able, gasp, to touch ground (/my toes), after some initial warmup I did it repeatedly!
My kinetherapeut today: no one is stiff like that, we’ll have you in shape in no time…
Guess I have really long legs or something 😁
Thick latinas, oh wait, you said not relevant…
I have double vision (diplopia).
It’s kind of a super power when I think about it… but not really.
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.
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
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.
Turns out I only have one kidney. Went in for a scan of my bladder (which was fine), and the nurse doing the scan just casually mentioned it. I had no idea. I was 43 at the time.
Have you ever woken up in a motel bathtub full of ice?
Now that you mention it…
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.
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
I never learned to ride a bike and every attempt has been met with injuries as soon as I build a modicum of confidence. But I can rollerblade like nobody’s business, so I got that going for me.
I can roller blade (in-line wheels), but roller skate? Impossible. Last time I tried was a disaster, I just can’t get the hang of them.
I know – same! I fall constantly on traditional skates.
My wife is the opposite. She can’t figure out in-line skates, but traditional skates just work for her.
I had a dream I was rollerblading last night… the last time I put on roller blades was in 2006!
How do you slow down / stop with rollerblades? I had the reverse experience: any kind of hill, I’m fine on a bike but I always crash on rollerblades. I would love to learn though.
Most common way is to put one foot behind and angle it perpendicular to the way you going, this cause friction between the wheels and the surface causing you to slow down. Experienced rollerbladers can do this with both feet at the same time.
I’ve never really thought about it. I’m not a fancy skater – my skates do have brakes, so my technique isn’t such that I have to plan for never using them.
If I have the width I’ll slalom down hills to bleed speed - even doing little loops up the hill at the turn of each switchback to bleed off speed. If there’s not enough room to slow down, I might bomb though if it’s safe to do so (because that’s why roller blading is so fun, anyway). I might skate on one foot and drag a wheel behind or make my toes point toward each other slightly, just out of parallel - the greater the angle, the more drag the out of alignment wheels produce. I often tend to drag a wheel or use the brake, then spin to stop, before resuming.
There are other techniques for stopping or slowing down, but those are my go to’s.
If there was a sidewalks width path going down a hill with grass on the sides, could you go down it? Or would you have to go another way?
I crashed pretty hard doing that but I didn’t know how to slow down.
I’ll have to get some rollerblades and try those techniques on a road.
In that instance. I’d probably drag a wheel, or use the alignment of my feet to slow myself down, paired with an occasional spin stop.
That sounds super cool
I guess I also want to add that when I go out, I’m always in a helmet, knee and elbow pads, and wrist guards.
You never quite know what’s going to happen out there —
A few years ago on a wide trail, someone in front of me panicked right as I was about to pass them and they moved directly into my path. I had to bail off the trail to try to “run off” my momentum, but they stepped more into the way and caught my skate with theirs just before I could get a foot down. I wound up in a semi-uncontrolled fall that saw my wrist guards taking the brunt of a tree I was going to dodge if I’d had my feet.
Last year on a freshly paved road, my wife let out blood curdling scream from behind me as we were bombing down a hill. I swung into a power slide to stop but instead of sliding, my wheels just kept traction and I suddenly found myself heading for a curb at about 20 mph with only a few feet to maneuver. It was bad, too. Curb, couple feet of grass, then broken and uneven sidewalk, followed by mangled and rusty metal fence. Clipped the curb and went down hard on my pads and helmet – cracked my helmet on the sidewalk. Walked away fine. (Buy good helmets and always replace your helmet after a crash.) My wife was fine. She hit a small rock and panicked. Didn’t even fall.
I can snap with my left hand but not my right. I’m right-handed so in theory my right hand should have enough dexterity to do it?
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.
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.
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.
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
