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[–] [email protected] 1 points 24 minutes ago

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 😂

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 hour ago

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!

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 hours ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

Whistle.

I can't for the life of me. No tongue twisting or fingers in my mouth help at all.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 1 hour ago)

I know some people have some success with whispering the letter Q or the word cue / queue very slowly while breathing out.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 hours ago

That’s because printers were not made by humans, but god to punish us for our sins.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 hours ago

2d platformers. My brain just doesn't process all of the buttons that I have to click in the right order.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

Being able to visualize anything in my mind. Salty as fuck about it.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 1 hour ago)

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.