What “normal” thing can’t you do?

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I can’t click my fingers. I’ve tried many years but I can’t click.

I can whistle. Not very well but I can.

I cannot touch my toes without bending my knees. Never been able to

Hula hooping.

Whistle. Roll my r's. Play chess.

Another who has never been able to do a handstand or cartwheel. The suggestion that I should is much rarer now that I'm middle aged than when I was in primary school and all the other girls did them in the playground!

I also can't play tennis (or any other sport with any kind of racquet or bat). By that I don't mean I can't play it well- I mean the only time I hit the ball (other than very very occasionally happening to be in the path of the ball by chance) is when it's my serve. There have been a few holidays/work away days where someone has suggested a game and no-one has ever believed that I genuinely can't play at all- until they see

Whistle
Roll my Rs

Oh I also can’t do handstands, forward rolls, backward rolls, cartwheels etc!

I can’t swim

I can't grip anything between my thumb and fingers on my right hand. This means I can't hold a knife "properly"

I've been told it is because I had polio as a baby over 70 years ago.

Eat in moderation. I’m either starving myself or binge eating in cycles. It is exhausting.

Anything involving manual dexterity.

Pour milk into a cuppa with my right hand (despite being right handed for everything else in my entire life)!

Hello to everyone else who has dyspraxia!

I can’t drive, ride a bike, play any sport, I have never been able to do a handstand or cartwheel ( fortunately as an adult this is no Lon and expectation).

Ok, contenscious one here
i am one of a huge number of people who cant

1. use standard scissors


2. use standard can openers


3. write easily in a notebook or ring binder


4. Use a normal crochet or knitting pattern


5. Sit and work at standard pedestal desks


6. play a standard guitar


7. Use single edge peelers


8. use single edge fish knives

I am left handed. The world is often back to front for us.

Make an omelette without it becoming scrambled eggs!

Ride a bike, tell left from right, catch a ball, ice skate, basically anything that requires coordination.

I can't close one eye and keep the other one open. Meaning I can never do eyeliner or false lashes as both my eyes close and I can't see what I'm doing!

I also can't use a fork and a spoon at the same time (as in, one in each hand). I just can't seem to get the co-ordination of it!

I also can't whistle.

know my left and right

I still use my hands sometimes

same and neither has ever been a problem.

me either, have never been able to do any of those or climb a gym rope, walk a balance beam or vault even using a spring board. Luckily my schoole were quite advznced in their thinking and us non gym types could choose other activities like yoga.

Dictate numbers!

Also left handed. I learnt to use normal scissors in my right hand tjough

I can't blow bubbles with bubblegum, hoola hoop, or roller skate. This was a much bigger deal when I was a teenager. Oh and I can't see pictures in my head.

Wheelie.

I can only wink with my left eye and as I'm right handed I thought it would be my right one .

Drive
Leapfrog, cartwheel, handstands - not even as a child
Catch a ball, or anything thrown at me.
Sing in tune or whistle

I don't really want to keep listing, to be honest. It would take up half the thread! I'm a fairly malfunctioning human who fails at most basic life skills but happens to be good at one thing that is in-demand enough to keep me employable. And DH and DC love me. That's all I need.

I can click my fingers though!

Loads of things!
Eat without spilling unless I cut things into minuscule pieces,
Ditto drinks, I use straws a lot and even then I end up spilling,
Ditto cleaning I'm always ruining clothes with bleach,
Learn my times tables, I can remember songs and poems from my childhood word perfect but some of the tables just won't stick. In fact loads of maths evades me,
Poach, fry or boil eggs,
Cook rice,
Cook the right amount of anything,
Batch cook-see above,
Wink my right eye,
Raise one eyebrow,
Throw and catch,
Do swimming breathing,
Concentrate when loads of people are talking or in a big group when one person is talking- I zone out and miss things,
Visualise things,
Concentrate on tasks without headphones in,
Drive- the zoning out doesn't help,
Read just a chapter of a book I have to read it all in a day or two or it bugs the life out me.