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What's a personal weakness you possess that is entirely not relevant to your daily life?
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Couldn't admit this to myself until my 40's, but I have a serious mechanical handicap. Doesn't stop me from trying!
We had standard tests in elementary school and I jammed out in the 90+ percentile on most subjects. The last part was called spatial reasoning. Here's 3 shapes, if you put them together, which shape will they make. Stuff like that. Tried really hard, couldn't do it.
I can take things apart pretty well, and I'm good at creative solutions, just can't get the thing back together.
Oh, holy crap, I have the same. I was looking at a Scientific American print magazine a long time ago and in the back there were 2 quizzes. One said take these letters and make as many words as you can, and I knocked that out of the park, so easy. The other was a series of images of pairs of 3d models - like the ball-and-stick things used to show molecules. They said some are mirror images and some are the same, and they were rotated in different ways. Basically said find which are mirrors and which aren't, how many can you find in 5 minutes.
None. Not in any amount of minutes. I looked at them for an hour, until I was crying, my brain would not see it. I also can't read maps unless they are facing the same way as I am, oriented with the actual world, but that must be common because phones do show them that way now.
Funny, i have a really hard time with maps unless they are oriented with north up. The modern gps orientation drives me crazy
Mad as hell when my phone map orients North. Who asked you do do that you sumbitch?! 😂
Wait, now that I think on it, I think I got it backwards. See what I mean?! Fuck I'm confused as to direction. Give me a compass and tell me which way is home.
Got lost in the swamp last spring. "OK, just go north to this waypoint. STAY north." Took me forever, crawling through mud and sticker-vines, over and under deadfalls, checking my compass every 20', lost the foregrip on my antique shotgun, crawled out 20' from the edge of camp. Home!