What normal things can you not do?

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I can’t blow up a balloon. It hurts my ears
I can’t click

I’m another can’t burper! 🙋‍♀️

The Star Trek Vulcan salute - the one where there is a gap between middle and 4th fingers.

I don't drive - I dare not!

I can’t drive either. I did try to learn when I was a teen, but to be honest, I get distracted so easily it’s probably a good thing I don’t drive

I do have AuDHD though

Wait what?
I can't move/wiggle my toes separately either. I just always assumed everyone was like that!

Just tap the lid hard on the work surface, they come open really easily once the pressure has been released.

My step brother taught me how to burp on command when I was around 13 or 14. I still remember how proud of myself I was when I did it for the first time. My mum wasn’t quite as impressed though. And I can still do it.

I can’t swim. If I go underwater I can’t open my eyes or not hold my nose. I can’t crochet (have tried so many different ways of learning, but I can knit). I can’t roll
my Rs (spectacularly unhelpful being married to a Welshman). And I lose the ability to tell my left from my right the second anyone puts me under pressure.

I can peel a banana with my toes. They are also freakishly strong. I’m a bit weirded out that there are people who can’t move their toes independently.

This is the bees knees. https://www.amazon.co.uk/Rikon-Strain-Free-Gripper-Opener-Bottles/dp/B000CO256G/ref=sr_1_28?crid=12QLU097T4KSH&dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.yHnIqHzPQ6riimsAoh2w_NRDeUe-qO4N4t0ukeCDnW-6pFwg1CRdub4zYGq13Gu2hI2DJXSftIil6CU8vlTPKvVofwEuQ3LvkraYvrGO81Ex8ACix_pfGV9XDwQxth5nZTY1SPPm9PZ0CNNE2CxJiCcuV27TYGP1k3h1ei7WyRPSlys7aW8nQPpCGkwqISLYNOg-NS6FOYVZ63AX68FntpHsvAepyRwT8Vwe5v_NvRk3XsRQfclm3omdBn14D6MRvMe7DEeZxHaDk5Qc0NhcJpnUUDewk9FDDEC0mh634TLp1Z6FZ-1WlgfntnWB_GcONn54Or6PJwzkzekTkGUp9d29r8S-s8_xYUYyuO_dyw2xMbWpxf1gDKpXNa4TgVHzTsrpLqpUknEW6TZgiq54RJ5FXQ4wzOnXHcE7rkyCYC7T-NOUAkWf-RNHqpz-H96d.wgUaFc9pwQVnMP1pXuHZLkyrDPNDIz91-SHVODrCSl4&dib_tag=se&keywords=jar%2Bopener&qid=1737673528&sprefix=Jar%2B%2Caps%2C121&sr=8-28&th=1

Have you tried German knitting?

Wait what?
I can't move/wiggle my toes separately either. I just always assumed everyone was like that!

I can pick things up with my feet. If I spill a liquid on the floor I drop a cloth over it, use my foot to move it then pick it up, bend my knee so my foot is under my bum and take hold of the cloth in my hand.

My carer calls it, "crazy monkey feet", I can crack them as well.

Open a blummin black bin bag.

Make good scrambled eggs.

Poach eggs

Drive video games.
I can drive a car totally competently, but driving computer games baffle me. We're not talking about these.

What helped me with the left and right was when I started wearing a wedding ring as that was my left hand. I do have to check sometimes, but it definitely has helped ( plus I wear my watch on my left wrist )
( of course , any ring would have done, but I'm not into wearing jewellery much)

I can't wink.

Whistle
Remember numbers
Play chess
Knit or crochet although I can thread a needle
Skate (ice or roller)

I'm the other way...I float too well so trying to swim underwater or dive to bottom of pool is really hard for me!

I thought of another one. Those recaptcha forms
where you have to verify you're human by filling in letters and numbers, I can never ever read them properly! I always get them wrong.

Isn't it strange how something relatively easy for some people, just doesn't process in others at all!

I get random "blind spots" mainly with tech/screens. It is helpful to know there are other people that can't do random stuff.

Great thread OP Also glad to find I am not the only one who can't blow up a balloon.

Swivel it round lower down near your waist. Once it is round the right way pull it up.

Fellow bra Swiveller!

I’ve tried to put mood boards together but it just turns in to an ‘eclectic’ mess. I can't make up my mind what colours or styles I like. I don’t know where to start. My house has no style, it’s just furniture placed in the usual places.

I use a vegetable peeler. The type that has a handle and a pointy blade. I find the bit of the lid that curves slightly and put the point of the peeler under it and gently push it up. You can hear a pop and the lid opens easily.

Hope that’s not too confusing an explanation but it works 100% of the time for me.

Seeing the comment about jars made me think of a similar one: getting the sellotape off tins of sweets.

I get a magnifying glass out to see exactly where the sellotape starts and ends. It shreds and it takes me a good 5 minutes to open the tin.

I know it's better for me and my teeth if I don't eat them.

But am I just missing a really obvious trick?

They should be banned.

I've got the same problem. People look at me like I'm an alien - perhaps I am. It's so strange and really frustrating. Any ideas why it won't work for us?