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.

Fasten the clip on my bra at the back. I have to fasten it at the front, then twist it around.

Making and maintaining friendships.

More to add. I can't picture how anything will look , which means I am completely unable to plan the layout of a room, home improvements, or even decorating. In what I think is a related issue I can't describe people either -I would fail at describing even my husband or my own children to a photofit artist.
And I struggle to recognise people out of context. Friends, family, famous people, anyone who isn't where I expect thek to be.

Righty tighty, left loosey.

Yes, yes, and yes! Why isn’t everyone permanently petrified of getting behind the wheel?

What does it mean to screw something left or right? Because if the top bit heads left the bottom bit goes right ?

Plaiting hair! Mine or someone else's makes no difference, I find it IMPOSSIBLE!!

Top bit!

Mental arithmetic. I’m Ok with the easy stuff, half, double, add the 10. But anything else I can’t do it without a pen and paper. And don’t really know how to work out a percentage that isn’t 10%.

I can’t work out currency, or time differences.

curling hair with straighteners, even had lessons at the hairdressers, just doesn’t happen when I try it.

multi step directions, I can’t retain anything past the first two things.
parallel parking is hit and miss. It’s pure luck if I manage to get the car parked up. It wasn’t taught when I did my test. Im great at reversing round a corner though.

im not great at following google maps on foot, but I think that’s google not me.

Cook creatively or from memory. I have a few recipes I have learnt but generally I have to look up a recipe to follow, even for something most people would find simple. I am incredibly embarrassed about it and completely avoid cooking in front of anyone outside of my immediate family.

Locks and keys. I frequently have trouble unlocking my own front door and when I do manage, I struggle getting the key back out of the lock.

Any unfamiliar lock or key and I have no chance.

Turning to the right it would be like going the correct way round on a clock, left it would be going backwards round the clock

I am exactly the same. I think it is because I cannot conjure up an image in my head and hold it for more than a brief moment.

As well as being unable to visualise, I cannot draw to save my life, other than a few things I have learnt a ‘formula’ for and even those I can only draw that exact way. Most children draw better than me!

Can’t put my hair up without it looking rubbish. I am so jealous of those that can make it look so effortless.
Can’t crotchet but can knit.

Oh! I feel you!

however I’m in search and rescue so it’s something we have to learn. It took me months and months more and I spent so many hours in it. 😂

Loads of stuff. I wonder whether it's a condition at times.
No sense of direction ,no matter how easy.
Can't work a dishwasher.
At school I couldn't put up the table needed for graphics class and nobody could understand why I couldn't do it.
Couldn't get a colleagues baby into the pushchair as couldn't work out what strap went where.
Maths and in particular percentages and working out what 1/8 is etc.

Loads more.
As I say, I've always worried about myself to that extent. My mother always used to tell me I lacked common sense.

Excel spreadsheets. They are the work of the devil

Eyeliner. I think it looks wonderful on other people and I so wish I could put it on. But I can't.

Directions.
Excel spreadsheets.
Lighters as someone upthread said.
Also recipes. I could make something a thousand times and still need to refer to the recipe each time.

I’m very good at languages, reading and writing, have a great memory for dates, facts, passwords, numerical things like phone numbers and remembering people’s faces and names from years ago etc. But I just can’t grasp the above!

Jigsaws…..I bloody hate them with a passion. I’m pretty sure it’s because my Dickensian father used to buy us them as kids and make us do them. I have a complete mental block with them, that and the off-side rule. For the same reason

Numbers and dates. It takes me ages to copy down phone numbers because I get everything middled up. Likewise sort codes and bank account numbers. I regularly go to a cashpoint and the pin number has disappeared from my brain.

The worst of it is that I work in an historical setting where I’m supposed to remember 1,000 years’ worth of events and I get the blasted dates of these things wrong every single time. Or at best I can remember just one of them at any point and the rest go pfft into the ether.

AND I retrained into said historical setting to get away from having to work with Excel spreadsheets with endless datasets and calculations that I had to check obsessively for my stupid mistakes. You just can’t win.

I’m so glad you said all this. I’m sure I’m undiagnosed dyspraxic. I cannot reverse in a straight line (or just in the right direction) and my spatial awareness is rubbish. I turn to look over my shoulder when reversing, turn back again and I’ve forgotten what way I’ve been turning the wheel. It didn’t dawn on me that this could all be dyspraxia.

Tidy a cupboard. Give me a pile of stuff and some shelves and I won't know where to start.
I worked with a wonderful woman who could bring order to our chaotic cupboards in no time.I was full of admiration.

Driving. Just terrifying and I have no spatial judgement.

applying blusher
looks like I cought too much sun on one side