Is there something that you just cannot get to grips with, while others find it easy.

[Lytlethings]

For me, I have no sense of direction and cannot read a map or compass.

My family joke that I can get lost in my own house. When I go to a hotel, a toilet in a shopping centre or the like I have to verbalise the route. I say it over and over turn right, turn left etc. if DH is with me I sometimes forget and he watches with amusement as I try to figure out which way to go. SATNAV was the best invention ever for me.

I could never find my way back to a. Terminal or bus station in an unfamiliar place.

Languages

I've been trying to learn French for 15 and basically can't do it

The sounds are too tough

Madness!

I'm a terrible swimmer too

Walking and wearing sunglasses or listening to music or literally any other activity sometimes even talking 😂

Photocopier at work. I have had it explained countless times but I still don't understand the wretched thing.

Maps for me too. I still manage to get lost while following the walking directions on Google maps. I have no sense of direction.

These things are "brain" things as in either you can easily or not to a varying degree.

I'm the languages thing, I have auditory processing difficulties.

DH is the map thing which is unusual for men.

I have no sense of direction - just got lost walking the dog in a wooded park - thought I was heading south but no heading north! I can read a map though and see it on paper and I'm like 'oh that's where we are'. Whereas my son just needs to go somewhere once and he can always find it again. And I'm terrible at remembering names.

Google maps on foot is beyond crap.

Maths
Maps
Terrible sense of direction

Making a brew. I don't drink tea or coffee myself and I feel a lot of pressure when making it for other people. Especially coffee. Instant or not. How brown should it be? Is that enough milk?

I make a good hot chocolate though

I can't work lighters.

Fine with matches or those long pointy sticks for lighting candles but actual lighters?

Nope. My brain does not compute!

Parking. Can’t reverse into a space. Can’t parallel park

Slicing bread - can either cut a 2-inch wodge or else I cut it at crazy angles. I don’t know why it’s beyond me, it can’t be that hard!

Just generally tolerating the agonising pain of everyday existence. 😉

I'm exactly the same as you OP
I panicked when I'd gone up to an all you can eat buffet, my sons went to a different counter then back to our table.. I walked round for ages as I just couldn't find the table
The first week I moved( knew the area) I had to ask a stranger the way back to my flat!
I struggle to find directions everywhere
I'm also embarrassing bad at maths, but can budget to the nearest penny

I'm actually crap at nihilism

Absolutely this, if I can't drive in, I'm not parking there, really quite embarrassing since I drive a Mini.

Driving. I am reasonably intelligent, have four degrees, speak five languages well, have written award-winning books and hold down a job that requires high levels of knowledge and confidence in public speaking, but I appear to have no spatial awareness.

I also have no numerical memory. I have an excellent verbal memory, but ask me to recall a single-digit number, or our car reg, and I'm lost.

I don't cope well with winter.
I have SAD and get horribly depressed from September till March.

I cannot get into my brain how we only ever see one side of the moon.

DH explained it to me with a tennis ball and ping pong ball. I have watched all the YouTube videos.

While I understand it when I see it, as soon as I don't think of it for a while the reason why goes from my head and I have to learn it over again. EVERY TIME.

Anything involving understanding where I am in relation to the world. So I'm shit at directions, bad at all sports requiring any coordination, I can't tell left from right without looking at my hands.

Eggs. Whatever way I cook them it goes wrong.

I’m not brilliant at telling the time from analogue clocks- I can do it but not quickly. Likewise with telling right from left- I have to do the secret writing thing.

Also find it hard to grasp the daylight savings time change if I think about it too much.

And it takes me an inordinate amount of time to figure out someone’s age based on their year of birth. Even a ball park idea.

That's me! I don't have a SatNav as it doesn't help.

Me neither. I'm a pretty competent person generally, but I cannot get the hang of those things. My primary aged kids can manage them fine...

Omg @LLytlethings I have the same problems with my sense of direction - I can get lost anywhere, even places I've been to many times. I always assume other people are going to be better than me at this, but it's surprising how many people also struggle. I am now quite calm about it but back in the days when we only had paper maps and people's rubbish directions I could take a very long time to get somewhere new and could get very panicky. I also have a problem with locks, keys, handles etc and can really have problems if the lock needs a sort of 'knack' to open it. I once had to wait for an hour outside a holiday home we were renting because I just couldn't get the lock to work. Dh turned up and did it in one go. I'm actually quite clever and practical in lots of other ways!