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What normal things can you not do?

289 replies

Soubriquet · 23/01/2025 12:10

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

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dynamiccactus · 24/01/2025 12:41

LaurieFairyCake · 23/01/2025 18:27

Can't open jars anymore

It really fucking hurts

As well as the peeler tip, you could try knocking it gently on the floor to release the airlock.

I also struggle to get some types of coffee packets open.

Piloom · 24/01/2025 13:30

Oh, have just thought of another one. I'm the only one in my household who can't touch my nose with my tongue. DH and DS, both of whom can, find it hilarious to ask me to do it and mock my pathetic attempts to stretch my tongue upward. I say they're the freaks.

Auburngal · 24/01/2025 13:35

IbizaToTheNorfolkBroads · 24/01/2025 06:57

Poach eggs

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

I couldn't poach eggs until I bought a couple of those mini frying pans. As the eggs got nowhere to go. Just boil a kettle, pour water til its about 1-1.5cm from edge, wait water to boil again and crack an egg in them/

Auburngal · 24/01/2025 13:37

With jar lids that I struggle to open. Most of the time I open with my left hand (right handed here) as I believe the machines in factories put the lids on left handed fashion.

MoonWoman69 · 24/01/2025 15:59

I bought a frying pan just for my poached eggs. If I can be bothered I'll do them a la Nigellas method, but it does create a bit of washing up! I've never been able to do poached eggs, until I started using the frying pan!

Upstartled · 24/01/2025 16:02

I can't whistle or walk in heels.

Cookingdisaster · 24/01/2025 16:10

I can't click with my fingers!

Elderflower14 · 24/01/2025 16:12

Drive a car, stand on a chair, anything that affects my balance due to my dyspraxia!

godmum56 · 24/01/2025 16:13

Upstartled · 24/01/2025 16:02

I can't whistle or walk in heels.

I have NEVER been able to walk in heels higher than an inch. I have zero idea how people in taxi to table shoes manage

Cookingdisaster · 24/01/2025 16:14

MoonWoman69 · 24/01/2025 15:59

I bought a frying pan just for my poached eggs. If I can be bothered I'll do them a la Nigellas method, but it does create a bit of washing up! I've never been able to do poached eggs, until I started using the frying pan!

Yes frying pan works great, with enough boiling water to cover the yolk, and tiny drop of vinegar, then simmer. I can fit 6 in the pan, spaced out. I've tried all the other methods, and the frying pan still works the best, esp when you need a larger quantity!

Tarkan · 24/01/2025 17:30

I can't drive a car or click my fingers. I did learn to ride a bike but my balance wasn't ever great so I don't trust myself on anything with two wheels nowadays either.

I was quite far into adulthood before I learned how to blow my nose. My autistic 16yo struggles with that still, it's a sensory issue with them but for me I just had never been shown how to do it properly.

GETTINGLIKEMYMOTHER · 24/01/2025 18:26

ImthatBoleyngirl · 23/01/2025 12:58

I can't butter bread without ripping a hole in it.

You need softer butter!

Cookingdisaster · 24/01/2025 18:32

GETTINGLIKEMYMOTHER · 24/01/2025 18:26

You need softer butter!

There is currently a butter dish thread going on at the moment. Maybe one of those may help! @ImthatBoleyngirl

JustAboutMuddlingThrough · 24/01/2025 18:49

MellowAfternoon · 23/01/2025 13:30

Swallow pills, I always get them stuck in my throat. I have tried various ways to get them down but they always fail. I have to crush most tablets or get a liquid version.

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Swallow them with food. It was the only way I could get metformin down without it getting lodged part way down

JustAboutMuddlingThrough · 24/01/2025 18:57

Oblomov25 · 23/01/2025 15:27

I can't put a bra on, I have to do it up at the front and then swizzle it round to my back.

My shoulders pop out easily so I have to fasten mine first and put it on over my head.

Spicykitten · 24/01/2025 19:02

Drive, use a tin tin opener and hold a pen “normally”.

Spicykitten · 24/01/2025 19:07

Re the open and close buttons in lifts. I struggle with these too!

Decafflatteplease · 24/01/2025 19:07

Hear properly! I'm (moderately) deaf and rely on lip reading. COVID masks were a nightmare!

I also can only wink one eye.

Spicykitten · 24/01/2025 19:08

Oh, I can’t touch my toes either. I’ve never been able to, even as a child!

Katy123g · 24/01/2025 19:21

Look at a clock face and instantly know the time.

I have to consciously think about which hand is which and where they are pointimg to try and work it out.

I've never liked wearing a watch in case someone asks me the time 🙈

jjeoreo · 24/01/2025 19:22

Whistle or curl my tongue

jjeoreo · 24/01/2025 19:22

Spicykitten · 24/01/2025 19:02

Drive, use a tin tin opener and hold a pen “normally”.

Or hold a pen normally!

Glasgowgal200 · 24/01/2025 19:27

Whistling through my fingers/blade of grasss

NoEscapingMe · 24/01/2025 19:28

Wrap a present. Make a pie without patching with scraps of pastry, knit or sew, write nearly or draw. Anything that requires decent hand eye coordination but conversely sports wise I have the reactions of a cat. Bonkers. We're all different and our little foyballs make us who we are

MarkingBad · 24/01/2025 19:30

Touch my little finger tip with my thumb tip on one hand

Oh just remembered I can't catch anything thrown to me, I just watch it sail past as I get out of the way.