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Post by swankivy on Sept 10, 2010 22:14:19 GMT -5
Can You?
Ivy can't figure out how to jump even though it's easy for most other people. Is there something you can't do which is usually unique in any group? Anything from physical talents (like rolling your tongue or touch typing) to mental/perceptual abilities (like adding sums in your head or distinguishing colors) can apply here!
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Post by SHO! on Sept 10, 2010 22:24:47 GMT -5
The thing that comes immediately to mind is my trouble with learning things through audio alone. Give me a written word, something I can peruse my way and I'm good, but when things are given to you aurally only and you are getting them dictated by the way another mind has ordered them to make sense.
Sometimes friends get annoyed when they tell me stories and I stop them for details that they think make no difference. However, I know that I will have trouble remembering any significant part of the story without these details. That if I had told the story I would have automatically given them.
Trying to learn something phonetically is almost impossible for me. I know I will probably almost never get it. When I really like a song and want to learn it I find the lyrics or painstakingly copy them down line by line by hand so that I can see them and read them as I sing along until I commit them to memory.
I have no idea why I have this blind spot in my learning capabilities. It would definitely be interesting to find a reason behind it,
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Post by synesthesia on Sept 11, 2010 9:57:57 GMT -5
Math
My brain just doesn't work mathematically. I'm horrible with large numbers, I can barely read them.
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Post by swankivy on Sept 11, 2010 10:49:44 GMT -5
My thing I'm bad at is navigation. I guess there are a lot of people out there who can't find their way around without some assistance, but I can get lost in a small building going to the bathroom, and can't find my way back to places I've been dozens of times. I can follow a map or written directions if they're explicit, but if any choices are involved--even something as simple as going out of a station and finding the nearest bus stop--I'll get lost. I just have no sense for it at all. If I remember how to get someplace, it's almost always because I put it into a word-based system (like memorizing long strings of directions) . . . I might've even counted steps to figure out when to turn. People think I'm exaggerating when I say I have a bad sense of direction, but I'm not. . . .
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Post by blondiviolette on Sept 12, 2010 5:20:45 GMT -5
There are just so many things I am bad at - where to start? LOL. Well, I've never been good at physical things. Crafts, making things with my hands, following instructions on some big model project for example. Even at the age of 7 or so in Japanese class we were all making sushi rolls and the teacher was explaining how to make them perfectly and I couldn't follow the directions right and ended up in a panicked state and crying, the teacher said I worried too much. So I can be bad with following instructions to create something and that's always scared me the most with classes or a job, what if we have to do something in a team and can't do it when everyone else can. Sometimes even if someone explains how to do something time and time again, I still screw up and don't fully grasp the concept even when trying my best and then they get annoyed, so that's always been difficult and a cause of great pain. That's why I like to be fully self-reliant with projects so as it's only my fault if something goes wrong, not bringing trouble to someone else. Also, mathematics is a weak point. Pretty bad at figures but definitely getting better at adding up sums in the head whilst checking out grocery or shopping prices for example. Speaking in general is another thing most people seem to be good at. I often find myself not knowing exactly what to say whereas others appear to have an easy time with this. People label me as shy and that can be true, but I don't purposely disconnect from others and always run away from social interactions; sometimes it is just hard to get the words out, to know what to say rather than wanting to not talk to anyone. Nah, no good at touch typing. Hate it, waste of time, had a hell of a time in class trying to do the hand thing, teacher was annoyed, people are better off just typing how they feel comfortable not in some 'exclusive' way. But I CAN roll my tongue with ease, BOOYAH!  |
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Post by Corinne on Sept 12, 2010 13:04:17 GMT -5
Interesting question!
Something I can't do which is usually unique in a group? Ride a bicycle. I have a deep-rooted, irrational fear of riding a bicycle. I almost cried last summer when my father tried to teach me—I always get these vivid mental images of the bicycle tearing up my legs when I fall. =P
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Post by SHO! on Sept 17, 2010 21:28:44 GMT -5
My thing I'm bad at is navigation. I guess there are a lot of people out there who can't find their way around without some assistance, but I can get lost in a small building going to the bathroom, and can't find my way back to places I've been dozens of times. I can follow a map or written directions if they're explicit, but if any choices are involved--even something as simple as going out of a station and finding the nearest bus stop--I'll get lost. I just have no sense for it at all. If I remember how to get someplace, it's almost always because I put it into a word-based system (like memorizing long strings of directions) . . . I might've even counted steps to figure out when to turn. People think I'm exaggerating when I say I have a bad sense of direction, but I'm not. . . .  The next time we go somewhere, some place far from "base point" I want you to lead. ;D It'll be fun!  |
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Post by SHO! on Sept 17, 2010 21:51:47 GMT -5
There are just so many things I am bad at - where to start? LOL. Well, I've never been good at physical things. Crafts, making things with my hands, following instructions on some big model project for example. Even at the age of 7 or so in Japanese class we were all making sushi rolls and the teacher was explaining how to make them perfectly and I couldn't follow the directions right and ended up in a panicked state and crying, the teacher said I worried too much. ...that's always scared me the most with classes or a job, what if we have to do something in a team and can't do it when everyone else can. Sometimes even if someone explains how to do something time and time again, I still screw up and don't fully grasp the concept even when trying my best and then they get annoyed, so that's always been difficult and a cause of great pain. That's why I like to be fully self-reliant with projects so as it's only my fault if something goes wrong, not bringing trouble to someone else. Also, mathematics is a weak point. Pretty bad at figures but definitely getting better at adding up sums in the head whilst checking out grocery or shopping prices for example.  I love math and math loves me. Science too... yummy.Nah, no good at touch typing. Hate it, waste of time, had a hell of a time in class trying to do the hand thing, teacher was annoyed, people are better off just typing how they feel comfortable not in some 'exclusive' way.
Luckily years of... practice... *cough* have given me pretty quick hands. So even though I'm not typing conventionally I am still keeping up with the rest.But I CAN roll my tongue with ease, BOOYAH! |
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The next time we go somewhere, some place far from "base point" I want you to lead. ;D It'll be fun! 
I love math and math loves me. Science too... yummy.