Things you are just unable to/just cant do and others think you’re being silly

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For example: I just can’t be a passenger in the back of a car. I wouldn’t even contemplate it if the car had no rear doors. The claustrophobia would send me into sheer panic.

Burp. Either intentionally or accidentally

Swim breast stroke. I stay totally static like my arms are propelling me forward and my legs are sending me backwards.

Roll an 'r'

Snap my fingers. It just sounds like nothing

Sleep on planes. I've been in First, Business, Club, Upper you name it. I've been in the epitome of supposed comfort in a plane several times, some as part of an ultra long haul flight (27 hours) and not got as much as a micro nap. Nothing.

I can't roll my R's

I cannot pick cats up. The second my hands are on them it's like they stop being cat-shaped and having skeletons, and somehow lose all structure, like a slinky.

Walk in flip flops: my feet “claw” at them to keep them on, and ache after a short distance. I can’t understand why they’re so popular.

Put together one of those cardboard archive boxes. I've tried for 25 years.

I can't either.
It frustrates me because everyone else knows without thinking, but I have to really think about it.

Thanks!

Although I'm curious about the arguments with your husband. What are they about? Whether the condition exists?

Swallow large pills - I'm terrified of choking. If I try, my heart races and my throat closes up.

I'm really worried how I'll cope if/when I get properly Ill.

Another one here who can't burp at all. Even doctors won't believe me. I also can't catch or kick a ball, parallel park or eat any kind of cooked fruit - I hate the mushy texture!

No not at all.

Things like we'd be driving in my home city and I couldn't give directions until I was actually at the junction because whilst I knew the way when we were there, my brain couldn't picture it until it was....there...

Or when we were renovating and I couldn't picture what he was describing.

It was frustrating for him, because he's super visual and frustrating for me because I didn't understand what he was saying.

When I discovered this, he'd draw pictures for me, or put the sat nav on instead.

Me too.

Gosh - even more interesting.

I wonder if there's a difference between mentally 'seeing' and an anaphasic's 'memory' of an image, or ( to use a silly analogy) a video? How are you when map reading?

Love the renovating example too. Nice to have an involved partner.

Can’t wear those toe post flip flops. Aaarrrgh. The feeling between the toes

I have to look at my hands. Every time

Same here! I google earth a journey I have not been on and google earth all parking near to look for options

I cannot read a map. At all.

I can follow Google maps, but beyond that....nope.

Probably unrelated but I have awful geography skills.

Cannot be in the same house as someone who is vomiting. As for being in a car with someone who even feels sick- makes me go cold at the thought!

Oooh! That rings some bells. Here's an article which I (as an amateur artist, worker in computing, possibly slightly autistic not diagnosed) found fascinating:

www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-68675976

"It has also been suggested aphantasics are more likely to have autism"

"for Prof Zeman, "the big surprise" was aphantasic artists, who told him their struggle to visualise imagery gave them an extra incentive to make art, by using the canvas as their mind's eye."

Do report back what your daughter thinks, if you can.

@@JustFrustrated

Isn't that interesting. Were you taught to map read and just 'didn't get it'?

@rainfallpurevividcat Same . I can do heights if it is enclosed but even the lowest bridge with sides which I could fall over are too much.
I tried to cross over to see this little garrison thing once, narrow little stone path over the empty moat, not a bit high at all and six year olds were running across it. I was mortified, wondering if i could crawl over as the fall wouldn't be so bad.
Beautiful old London theatres terrify me when I have to go to the upper tiers.
I really feel like I will fall over , whatever it is.

I know not the point of the thread but me too! I used to be really calm around wasps but in the last few years I've been stung several times when minding my own business, not realising they are there. I'm now actually quite scared of them!

I'm another that can't do phone calls. Took me ages to learn to drive but am quite competent now.

I can't drink soluble aspirin/paracetamol. I don't drink fizzy drinks either. I once had a really bad headache at Xmas away from home and had my whole extended family trying to help me drink a glass of soluble paracetamol. Just could not swallow it down. It was quite comical really. Huge tablets I have no issue with.

@deviantfeline and @Femunculus
I listened to a podcast yesterday about people not being able to burp:
https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/177-gleeks-and-gurgles/id941907967?i=1000529681246
In short, it's possibly an accidental learned response as an infant and can be righted by a botox injection to the sphincter in the throat (I may have remembered this slightly wrong - sorry, had I known I would need the info I would have paid more attention).

I also struggle to phone people I don't know. I'm on day 3 of trying to phone a garage to book my car in.

I can't go on a downwards escalator. I fell top to bottom when I was a child and I am terrified. The only ones I can use are if they have a long straight bit first. Going up is fine it's the stepping on and looking downwards.

I'm ok with left and right but east and west I have to think about.