What's the most basic thing you can't do?

They say it’s all in the wrist.

Yeah. They say they’ve never seen anything like it. … That’s what I said. Freak accident. Yeah. The entire thing.

He’s going into surgery so they can try and extract it. Yup. Yup. Okay I’ll call and let you know as soon as he’s out. Night babe, love you.

Wait, are you saying you didn't have to actively think about which is right or left before? I've always had to think about it, only for a second, but it's definitely an active thought thing for me.

Funny enough, I stopped mixing up my left and right after I broke my arm roller blading (on another occasion I broke my arm while biking). I didn't have a way to mentally keep track until the doctor set the arm slightly off with the bone bowing out a bit - it feels slightly different now, but visually you can't tell.

That's really interesting. There are probably more people like you, but who will never know if nothing happens to their dominant hand.

Relevant xkcd.

Classic selection bias. I don't recall the exact numbers, but I remember reading that the majority of men who have ever lived never reproduced. That's unfortunately pretty normal.

Oooof, I hear that. Things are more political than ever at my work and it's like, I just want to do my job and go home

I can't navigate politics at all. Have done ok working at startups though, some offices are not at all political. Where I work, we can fix other people's processes if we think of a better way, we work with other departments, I don't have to go through my manager to talk to your manager to get to you, can go directly to you. Can talk to the CEO, to ex- employees, nobody is protective of their work, nobody is angling for my job.

The rules are “make anyone above you feel good about themselves because they’ll throw a hissy fit if you don’t make them feel special.” It’s pathetic and I’m tired of it.

I have no sense of direction. None.

Sounds like you are a real-life Ryoga Hibiki.

Just curious: do you also lack the ability to visualize things in your mind? For example, I am able to bring up a road map of my city in my mind, figure out the most effective route between two points, and rotate that map in all three dimensions to “look” at it from all angles. My familiarity with the city layout and geography is the determining factor on how easily I can visualize that map. I can also do the same thing with large buildings and their internal layouts.

My wife, on the other hand, has a somewhat similar (but nowhere near as bad) sense of direction as you, and a commensurate inability to visualize objects in her mind. So while she can mentally visualize a soccer ball as a spherical object, she cannot even visualize the hexagonal pattern of pieces, much less (on a traditional soccer ball) how some are white and others black. She doesn’t technically have aphantasia, as she is still able to visualize to a small degree, but I have always suspected her inability to visualize effectively was directly connected to her inability to navigate effectively. She also relies heavily on GPS and maps when navigating anywhere else other than the town she was born in.

My husband bought me a Garmin when they very first came out, not because we were flashy people, but he wanted to know I could get somewhere by myself if I needed to . You are not alone my friend

I remember a teacher talking about the physics of how a bike stays up while riding it with no hands. I thought he was joking

It depends on the bicycle. I can do it on some, and not on others. I think it depends on the angle of the steering fork and also the center of balance of the handlebars.

I'll never lead a nation with a microphone, a microphone

How is this basic?

Prosopagnosia is the name of the cognitive disorder you likely have.

That's actually a cognitive disorder called Prosopagnosia.

And welcome to the club - I had a stroke and while luckily all major deficits returned to normal with timely treatment, I developed prosopagnosia.

It's fairly freaky at times. While it's not my main job anymore I still work as a paramedic occasionally - and when I get a massive trauma at three o'clock in the morning I can hand it over in the ED to the full resus team with every detail without looking into my notes once. But if they ask me for a name I need an ID card or my notes.

I just always give too much context to my stories, and quickly realise that I'm giving context for context for context and cant remember my point.

My closest friend is very similar here though, and we can have great long conversations that are 20 layers deep of tangents and forgetting our original points. We also sometimes yell 'pin' at eachother as a shorthand for 'lets put a pin in this' which basically means that at some point we're trying to remember what we wanted to say at that point because it was fun.

i have the opposite issue, i start telling a story trying to make it interesting and engaging and then feel like im running out of time before people disengage so i rush through and sum up 75% of the story in a few sentances and say "so yeah thats pretty much it".

I can only tell jokes I don't find funny myself. Normally I can't controll my laughing after the first couple of words.

I wish so bad I was better at telling stories. Not that I have many, but still

My parents used to tell me as a kid that I couldn't whistle because I wasn't eating my pizza crust. After I started eating the crust I learned how to whistle.

Have you tried eating crust?

Me neither, and for the same reason.

I lost my ability to whistle in a tragic playground accident when my front teeth met the skull of a friend travelling in the other direction. Ever since, crooked front tooth.

What happened when you tried to jump? I can't picture this.

I love flakes road to... Without mechanics videos. My mechanics suck after thousands of hours playing the game but focusing on non mechanical aspects of the game really helped me. Still miss open nets though. (╯°□°）╯︵ ┻━┻)

Nice shot

Whats the point? When do I need this information?

Bring on the 13x28 calender and end the madness.

Make both hands into a fist and hold them out in front of you so that the knuckles are visible. Now start on a pinky and count the knuckles and valleys between them. Knuckles are 31 days, valleys are 30 (and February). When you switch between hands it doesn't count as a valley.

Left Pinky knucke: January, 31 days
Left Pinky/ring finger valley: February
Left Ring finger knuckle: march, 31
Left Ring/middle: April, 30
Left Middle: may, 31
Left Middle/index: June, 30
Left Index: July, 31
Right Index: August, 31
Right Index/middle: September, 30
Right middle: Oktober, 31
Right middle/ring: November, 30
Right ring finger knuckle: December, 31

30 days hath September, April June, and November.

All the rest have 31 except for oddball February.

30 days hath September,
April, June, and November.

Use your knuckles and the space between from left to right. The higher points are longer months.

The left pinky knuckle is January, the space between pinky and ring knuckle is February, the ring knuckle is March and so on. The left index knuckle will be July and you continue with August being the right hand index knuckle. All the months that land on a knuckle are 31, while everything else is 30 (except 28 or 29 for February).

31 29 31 30 31 30 31 31 30 31 30 31

It alternates between 31 and 30. The exception being that February got shortchanged and had to give a day to August, and it keeps alternating after that.

Due to leap year magic February has to give up yet another day, so it's either 28 or 29.

It can take some practice, but there's no one better for the job

I apologise for my sappiness. I hope you have a good rest of your day

Just try harder at it.

I haven't had trouble swallowing pills, so I don't how helpful this is, but it's something that still made it easier for me: I used to try to swallow the pill by just pushing it with water on an initially empty throat. Once I started swallowing the water first, then letting the pill ride between gulps in the stream's momentum, it became more comfortable and automatic.

I wish there was a way to explain this without making it sound gross, but get some saltines, chew em up, and sneak the pill into the mash in your mouth before you swallow

The funny thing is I'm sure you swallow larger pieces of food all the time with no trouble!

Consuming along with a water-based ice treat such as an Icy Pole, Zooper Dooper etc might help.

Pic of fingers please

What are you working with?

Strange, can you blink at all?

Often when I try to copy other people's facial expressions, I realise I have no control over my facial muscles if I try to move just the left or right side. It's absolutely fine if I move both sides at once but I literally can't even sense the muscle to move it when I try one side, but my friends can. I can wink though, but I used to do it very unnaturally.

What I did so far to overcome it:

• Accept that sometimes you can't make every food perfect.
  Sometimes the rice is overdone or too sticky or the pasta is too salty.
• Try out simple dishes and continue from there. (Potatoes + sour cream -> Baked potatoes (wedges) with rosemary in oil -> Hasselback potatoes -> etc.)
• Keep track of what you liked that your parents prepared for you.
  Interrogate them if it's necessary. Until they stop with the "Do as much as you like" and instead instruct you with "Put about a cup of X and about a quarter of Y by volume". If you got this you are nore prepared for the measure by eye and feel.

It's like science. It is science.

Cooking can be as simple or as complicated as you want it to be. Could it be that you're having problems because you're going too far into the complicated end?

If you care to share how things usually go wrong for you, maybe you'll get some useful tips in return.

I totally get you, I'm the same with auto mechanics, I tried but no joy. But I do know a thing or two about cooking.

There are some things you can do to help yourself, get a list together of meats that are better with lengthy time cooking methods- for instance pork shoulder or sirloin.

Get a crock pot, slow cooker, or smoker.

Basically, you can get recipes for these which are literally the same: Season meat, add potatoes, carrots or other hearty vegetables. Set to cook and walk away- it cooks itself.

Cooking at home doesn't always mean cooking from scratch, you can absolutely grab a can of soup (cream of mushroom) and add it to boiled pasta with some canned tuna, then bake it with a little cheese over the top.

Focus on methods & repetitive dishes, then you can branch out from there.

Meats (braise, slow cooked)

Sides (potatoes, root veg, onions)

Seasonings (seasoning blends, packets, etc)

Sauces (bbq, salad dressings, soups, etc)

Don't be too hard on yourself, I am in the kitchen everyday and there is nothing better than a good sandwich for me at home. Simple, easy, not complicated flavors and filling. When we get busier the sandwiches get simpler, lol.

Good luck.

Yeah i’m really bad at hiding my responses too. people take it as insult, because it’s so easy for them they’d never let that through except on purpose. But I can’t help it.

The only thing I can do to conceal my emotion is to hold a neutral face which is interpreted as disinterest or boredom.

I feel this. People can read my emotions so easily it's a problem in my life. And my neutral face doesn't help too. I'm cursed.

I have this problem, as well. Distorted amplification, song lyrics, speech against loud background noise? Forget it. Oddly, I got a pair of Shokz bone-conducting headphones recently, and noticed that I have been understanding lyrics for the first time in songs that I've been listening to for 30+ years. (I should really listen to that song about how "Shareef don't like it; Fuck the passport, fuck the passport."

It'll always be a mystery what Kenny says. Seriously, people understand him?

https://media.tenor.com/F1rRSJX60B8AAAAM/roy-kent-whistle.gif

I think it depends a lot on where and when you grew up. Afaik in China it's very much uncommon to be able to swim.

How odd.

I'm 59 and I went gradually in the last 15 years from barely being able to sit cross legged to now I can't even touch my right toe (chronic groin problem) let alone sit cross legged.

Like criss cross applesauce or just one leg over the other?

Istr that there's some genetics involved in which way your legs like to bend. I've always bent easily in that direction. I can sit in full lotus easily or e.g. sit on in the floor, legs ahead with heels together and bend forward and rest my forehead on my feet. And there's many stretches that do nothing for me because I run out of motion before anything gets tight. But legs wider apart, I can almost not sit upright at all. I'm not a flexible person over all.

It's kind of hard to describe, but anyway. Took me until I was many many years old until a yoga instructor told me it kind of varies from person to person how easy some motions are.

Last time I accidentally a Coca Cola bottle.

Fold a fitted sheet!

That's curious. Can you throw up though? What happens when you eat something that doesn't agree with you and there is gas build up? Do you have a colic like horses (who can't burb or throw up) do?

I have so many questions.

I can’t burp either. Turns out my mom can’t. I wonder if it’s a genetic disability. Seriously, that may sound ridiculous but sometimes it’s really inconvenient!

This is why I’m tempted by sysadmin or devops jobs. I get to spend all day on cleanliness and basic maintenance like that.