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What "simple things" can't you do?

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fireflame

Member
Socialize,date,drive. I do not have any manual for socializing or dating and i always felt like an alien visiting a new planet in this area. And i am overwhelmed by stress when trying to get a driving license.
 

Voidwolf

Member
I can't whistle a tune. I can whistle if I take some time to adjust my lips and tongue just right to get the sound out but I can't do anything passed that.
 

stenbumling

Unconfirmed Member
Folding fitted bed sheets nicely. Don't bother with the instructive .gifs and youtube videos – it's completely impossible.
 

Crispy75

Member
Throw overarm. Never been able to get anything near the power/aim as underarm. It hurts if I try and do it like I see other people do it.
 
I can't use chopsticks. :/

I've been trying for so many years. I make a concerted effort to learn to use them. I just don't have the dexterity and people's suggestions are nonsense to me. I especially hate "hold it like a pencil." Clearly, I hold a pencil very different from chopstick aficionados.
 

Roussow

Member
Click/snap my fingers. I wish I could, it looks so cool. I've just substituted any time that motion would be appropriate with overly-animated finger guns.
 

Duxxy3

Member
I can't backup a car for shit. Neck doesn't like turning to the right and peripheral vision in my right eye kind of sucks.
 

Friggz

Member
i might be the worst person on earth when it comes to remembering names.

I will forget your name before we even finish shaking hands.
 
Simple things as in most people are able to do, but not you.

I can't ride a bike.
I can't swim.
I can't solve a rubix cube.

What says you GAF?

I also can't ride a bike.

I also can't ice or roller skate

Pretty much any sort of thing the requires you to keep your balance.
 

Izuna

Banned
Ride a bike, never had one as a kid.

Swim, I was mostly in hospital as a kid so I missed school.

Asian squat with my feet flat.

Eat mayonnaise.
 
I can swim but very poorly and not for very long at all.

I can't ice skate

I can't build a computer. I know I can but I never have. My biggest hurdle is not knowing what pieces work and don't work with others.

I can't touch my toes, my flexibility is very poor my entire life. Even when other people tell me they're not flexible we compare and I end up being worse than them
 

Seirith

Member
Remember names, I forget names of people I have known all my life, except my parents, brother and husband. Everyone else, I forget it.

I also have to think which is left or right.
 
I can't ice skate

I can't build a computer. I know I can but I never have. My biggest hurdle is not knowing what pieces work and don't work with others.

...I wouldn't consider these two things "simple".

I'm among those who has bunny eared his way through life with his shoes.

I have to inhale air to whistle instead of exhale.

I also serious troubles explaining any type of thought I have verbally. It comes out out of order or something to that extent. It's great for off the cuff humor, but I have to really stay on my toes when I need to get something across and think what I want to say carefully before hand.
 

RoadHazard

Gold Member
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This is the "standard" method.

Hmm, is this the standard "handedness"? I do it starting with a loop on the left, then go around and through from the right. I am left-handed when using a pen, but almost everything else I do as a right-handed person would, so I never considered that I might be doing this in a mirrored fashion from most.
 

kamineko

Does his best thinking in the flying car
I can't stop taking lithium

I also can't use motion controls because I have tremors. In another ten years, I probably won't be able to write legibly
 

Madrin

Member
Remember the topography of roads and highways. Giving directions is a nonexistent skill for me, even in an area I've driven through hundreds of times. I can't do the whole "You take a left at Abernathy Road then a right at Buford Street then turn onto Highway 9" type of thing. The fact that every other adult seems to have street names memorized is a kind of astounding to me
 
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