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.

Driving on multi lane type motorways, where you have to get on and off, be in the right lane. I do it frequently but do a breathing exercise to keep me calm. I find it petrifying. And everyone else does it so easily!

Oh god yes! I can just about parallel park due to living on a street with right parking and being forced to, but for love nor money I can’t reverse into a parking space

You sound very similar to my cousin who has dyspraxia. She is also definitely not stupid but finds these things very difficult.

I still struggle with my left and right and always have to check which hand makes an L! I just don’t remember which side is left and which is right! It’s never stuck.
I’m fine in general and good with directions internally in my head, but I couldn’t say them out loud as I’d not be able to say quickly which way to turn and is just isn’t automatic in my head and I have to think about it every time, but I know how the directions look!

Reverse parking - I haven't done it once in 30 years of driving

Knowing the difference between Microsoft word, excel, power point, whatever the other ones are. I don't fucking know.

Generally working a computer. Struggle a lot. Fine with an iPad or iPhone

Following spoken instructions

Knitting and crochet although I can tat and do macrame. But the worst thing is that I struggle to learn stuff off videos. I have got a machine embroidery machine and I'd really like to buy a program that would enable me to design my own embroidered images but there are NO books or even PDF's of tuition for the program. I ask about written instructions and diagrams and keep getting told oh there are LOADS of videos. No one seems to understand that videos are no use to me. Moan over.

did you have trouble learning to tell the time from an analogue clock as well? Because this is me.

Maths. I can do up to the 12 times table no problem at all, but anything else I'm crap at. Even trying to add stuff up as I'm shopping I lose count half way.

Knitting

Crocheting

Reading maps. I also can't follow the reverse of a direction. So trying to find my way back to the table in a restaurant or pub is a nightmare if I've gone to the toilet or to the carvery. In fact my sense of direction in general is absolutely shite. I could probably get lost in a field.

Driving on unfamiliar roads. Though once I know where I'm going I'm fine.

Poaching eggs

Talking. I know exactly what I want to say, but as soon as I try and speak it just comes out as mumbo jumbo half the time

Recognising faces. My Mum can call me in a shop and I literally have the follow the sound of her voice before I can find her. Even more embarrassing I was stood talking to my late great Aunt for ages once when she called into work to see me and I couldn't work out how she knew my Mum and Dad. Until she said who she was. Mortified!!

I can't see things in my mind (aphantasia). Like a previous poster said, it makes me hopeless at interior design - just no easy way to try out different ideas in my head.

I think it also makes me get very stressed when there are lots of overlapping conversations - I feel like I can't think because all my thoughts are words.

To make things worse, I have a very very bad memory for the specifics of conversations, especially difficult ones. I think this is probably trauma related, but I find I just totally forget everything about, for example, arguments that I have had with my husband. It's just gone. Sometimes positive memories too.

I'm great at reading and following maps, but without a map I've got no sense of direction at all. I worked in central London for many years and frequently got lost on my lunch break.

I also can't drive. After a year of lessons, plus practice in my own car, I still had absolutely no idea what I was doing. I eventually sold the car and resigned myself to getting the bus forever.

I have wondered about dyspraxia. Dyscaluclia almost certainly too.

Like the OP, I have no sense of direction - I get a bit confused for a few days if the furniture is moved around.

However, I have astonishing spatial awareness: I can gauge the volume of anything to within a fraction of a gnat's chuff by eye and the space into which I cannot reverse park has yet to be invented.

Ironically, I love maps and have a massive collection of them.

Crochet, knitting
Anything that involves hitting a ball with a bat/racket etc.

It's righty tighty, lefty loosey. Dh taught me this as I was the same.
I'd spend ages going back & forth or even worse, tightening more when I'm trying to loosen.

For me it's geography, just can't get the hang of North, East, West, South.
Not sure how I passed it at school.

Yes, it's when I get out of the car, switch to walking mode and am told to "head south-east" 😬

OK, I know the basic N. S.E.W route of a compass and it's literally on the screen!
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But it's completely disheartening when it constantly recalibrates, adding minutes and miles onto your route.. and passers by are watching you mess up making wrong turns😵‍💫

Also drawing

Me too. Unless it's chit chat, I need to write it down.

I feel exactly the same way. To me, driving is taking as much responsibility for others' lives as being a physician, yet so many people do the former while they wouldn't dream of the latter.

I took many lessons and was almost ready for the test, but never scheduled it. It made me miserable and anxious even thinking about driving. To accommodate this disability, I have always lived in places with good public transport (two big cities and now a smaller city in a country with famously great public transport). When we were younger, DH would make noises about how much more space we could have in a suburb, but it wouldn't have been feasible with just one of us being able to drive.

Trigonometry.

Problem was that not having an understanding of the basics made all my future maths levels soooo difficult.
Wish I could have gone back to that year at school and gone through it again.☹️

It’s interesting how many people find driving/parking stressful or scary. Reverse and parallel parking are my super powers. I once got my horsebox into an incredibly tight spot to park it, in one movement, and was so impressed by myself that I took photographs from several angles just for my own enjoyment 😅

Another thing- Walking on ice scares the excrement out of me. I pad along like a penguin and am amazed how many people just walk on it like normal and seem to stay upright. How are people not terrified of slipping over?

Reverse park if there isn’t also a space on either side of the parking space. I think that’s a confidence thing though - because I reverse park every day at work and never go over the lines so would almost certainly be fine if there were cars either side of the space I wanted to go into, but I just can’t bring myself to try it. I also rarely parallel park unless absolutely necessary. I struggle with which way to steer whilst reversing.

My husband drives completely confidently and actually enjoys driving to new places - I can’t understand that at all - I am grateful that I can drive but I never enjoy it and always find it stressful, city driving in particular (I avoid this as much as possible)

I can’t braid hair - my daughter has beautiful long, thick hair - I’m going to try again this week using a YouTube tutorial!

I can speak several languages though, and I can do an excellent poached egg! Bring water to the boil, then turn down as far as it goes, so that the water is barely even moving. Crack egg into water. Do not do anything with the water or heat level, just leave it for a couple of minutes (in our house it’s the amount of time it takes to toast a piece of bread) then remove egg from pan with a slotted spoon. Ta da! You can do several eggs at once using this method, just space them out round the pan and leave them. Husband cracks his into a ramekin first then pours gently into pan. No need to spin water or add vinegar or anything, simply does it!

You're the opposite of me!
I did figure skating for years as a kid, the awareness doesn't leave you. I still know how to fall well if needs be, but it now hurts a lot more than when I was shorter and lighter.
Absolutely scared of driving.

For me it's not absolute, but I have it to a degree. I know exactly who I got it from - my late father, as my mom is great at recognizing everyone.

I recognize people I work with closely and if I see them regularly. But so many casual acquaintances, neighbors and coworkers from other teams look alike, I don't dare use their names! I told DH that, if we meet someone in the street and I don't introduce him, it means I don't recognize the person and he should go ahead and introduce himself.

I cant walk on ice either. I love winter / the cold but icy pavements scare me

I’m glad others have said about the responsibility of driving a car. I’m okay driving myself and my kids, but won’t give lifts to others. I immediately feel anxious and responsible for their lives.