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.

Spreadsheets. My friends have to create them for me, but I can still break them.
I find it near impossible to get information from them.
I feel inept.

Also being tidy. So unbelievably difficult.

@VictVictorianScreenTime it's surprising how many people struggle to work out the daylight saving thing. I was at a meeting last week where everyone was very academic and pretty high powered and they were having to say 'spring forward, fall back' to work it out. It's the bit where you try and think if you get an extra hour or lose an hour that baffles me!

I clicked on this thread to basically write your post word for word OP 😂

I can read a map I guess, but Joey from. Friends style ie I have to be 'in' the map!

I also can't listen to directions like if someone is saying how to get somewhere I will just about remember the first instruction but not the rest no matter how hard I try to listen and retain it. I swear my brain actively tries to sabotage me so if someone says 'turn left' my brain will be like 'hahaha no they mean right'

When I first learned to drive, if I approached a roundabout from a different road to the one I know, I'd genuinely not realise it was the same roundabout or if I did I still wouldn't know which way to turn because all the perspectives/landmarks look different 😂

My DH is incredible with directions but has the language thing instead.

If I won’t to know which is my right side I mentally pick up a pen.

Oh yes locks even simple keys

Women only groups, small talk, having a job more than 1.5
Excel if you need for more specialised tasks
Accountancy

I cant ride a bike ...

I am so glad I started this thread. People can be quite dismissive I find if you can’t do what they think is easy. I started it because of a mini spat on another post “jeez just check on google earth”. I don’t drive any more but if I need to go anywhere on foot I print out the AA route finder.

Before the days of SatNav I was driving to my son who lives near Heathrow. I managed to drive right into the airports. I never told anyone. I have a friend who, on leaving Bluewater managed to drive three times across the river.

Sat nav’s - just can’t get to grips with them, but am fine with maps normally.

whistling - just can’t do it

lighters - me to

Walking on snow and (especially) ice - scares the living s..t out of me, (don’t mind fresh snow)

I can’t draw in even the most basic way! Even copying something, I just can’t do it.

i also can’t get my head round anything technological. Like coding - how on earth does putting in random combinations of letters and characters make a website look a certain way?

I'm great at directions though 😁

Cling film. I think it was invented by Satan.

My Mum is 'car blind'. She just can't distinguish between shapes and makes of cars. She called me on my mobile a few weeks ago because she couldn't find the car I was waiting in for her. She must have walked past it with me in it.
She can distinguish everything else and knows how to identify hundreds of plants. Just not cars. She's not even reliable on her own car which she has had for 8 years. They just all look the same to her, apparently.

She's also hopeless with anything that can even loosely be described as technology.

Map reading and directions here too. I have zero sense of direction and often have to do a "test run" if I'm going somewhere new (obviously can't do this every time though)

Also blowing / tying balloons and untangling delicate things (necklaces etc)

I was at a work event in Nottingham (which I don't know at all) before the days of SatNavs. Got horribly lost trying to get out of town. The next day, got an email from a colleague in another organisation who was at the same event saying, in complete seriousness, thank you for getting me back to the motorway, I followed you. I can only assume he is hard of seeing if he didn't notice we around the same roundabout three times and past a hospital at least four.

Riding a bike - I can go along in a straight line, but can’t take my hands off the handlebars to indicate reliably, can’t stand on the pedals, can’t push away from the kerb until my bum is on the saddle and my right foot on the right pedal, you see all these people put their left foot on the left pedal, push away with their right foot behind them, swing the leg over and then sit down, just how?

OTOH I have a superb sense of direction. DH is TERRIBLE, zero sense of direction, has to have gone somewhere multiple times before he gets it, can’t read maps to save his life, has absolutely no grasp of where all the major towns and cities outside our immediate area are. Whereas that is all totally instinctive to me, my DS is like me and DD is like DH.

The temperature.

I just don’t understand what’s classed as hot. I watch the weather forecast but don’t know what the numbers mean at all. I have to ask DH if it’s going to be summer dress with no jacket weather.

Singing in tune. I would LOVE to be able to sing but just make a terrible noise.

My map reading and sense of direction are bitchin' though.

Where do I start?
Sense of direction
Technology
Languages and pronounciation
Reverse parking
I am an intelligent person though !

@ForPearlViper I'm with your Mum in the "Can't do technology" camp, computers in particular. It's just not obvious to me what you have to click on, like it is to pretty much everyone else I know.

Also can’t sing in tune.

Umm. Doesn't everyone have to say "spring forward, fall back"? I (good example for this thread ) don't understand how there could be another way to think about it, IYSWIM. Don't laugh  but I'm genuinely surprised if there is a different thought process out there in the general public. I always assumed it could only be "grasped" or understood as a concept (other than maybe be an extremely intelligent 1% of the population).

I'm now scared how much other stuff I don't know that I don't know, if that makes sense. I think I'll get my coat

Add me to the no sense of direction gang, and I don't know my left from right without doing a writing mime to see which one I write with or not....

Also, I can't hold a note for the life of me, can't learn a language to an advanced level despite living abroad for years (the shame of that!) and have a massive problem recognising people's faces which is frequently very embarrassing. I sometimes wonder if these failings are connected.

I am sure I have read on here and elsewhere that the lack of direction / spatial awareness can be linked to dyspraxia .
I have a hopeless sense of direction . Can be in a shopping centre and walk out of a shop and go back the way I have already been . Don't notice until I see a shop I have already been in .

I can sort of follow Google maps in the car , but get very confused with e.g five lane roundabouts . I quite often have my phone re- routing when I have gone the wrong way . I do frequently swear at it , especially when it proclaims loudly - proceed to the route !!

Can't parallel park even if my life depended on it . Really struggle with reversing and driving any distance . I live in fear of being on narrow roads and not having the right of way and having to reverse back over any distance .
I could take a million driving lessons - but just don't think my brain is wired that way .
Really struggle with Google maps whilst walking - never know which way I should be facing . I only realise that I have gone the wrong way when the travel time increases rather than decreases ....

Not being able to read maps/no sense of direction is insane to me (cartographer by trade) but I have so many of my own faults.

I often confuse orange and green, I am not colourblind.
I cannot do languages, my brain is just not wired that way.
Same with music, absolutely hopeless, you can play me any piece of music, I have no idea what the instruments are.

Can't reverse park at all. Struggle with tying laces - I can do it but it doesn't come easily even after all these years.

Years ago I turned onto a one-way high street, worst still, it was only for buses so I couldn't even turn round to get out. I pulled into a side street (dead end 🙄) and was sweating trying to think of a way of getting off this damn road. Id been sat there for at least 10 minutes, trying to look calm to passers-by, like I totally meant to be there when luckily a taxi pulled in so I followed them down this weird little labyrinth alley I didn't know existed and led me to freedom. I could've cried with relief.

Made even more ridiculous because I was following a sat-nav and actually know the area very well!!!

I hate driving.