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My eyes dont work together so i dont actually see depth. I can kind of assume depth with paralax and shadows, but i didnt realize until i was in my 20s that people saw stuff like a 3d movie. For some reason (best i can come up with is the exaggerated differences) i can see 3d in vr headsets (stereoscopes) and red/blue 3d. When real-d came out, i was very confused because it just doesnt look 3d to me at all. Edit: Magic Eye doesnt work for me even a little. My brother can do it and i have tried to the point of tears, with tutorials and everything.

I have trouble making up context in conversations. I just don't have that many daily convos that require adquiring context

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Regardless of age, weight, or overall fitness, I have never been able to touch my toes when bending over from standing.

Thick latinas, oh wait, you said not relevant...

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.

It's not relevant to my daily life but it is sometimes a significant limitation.

I'm one of those that passes out at the sight of blood. A little scratch or something won't send me but actual injury or a lot of medical stuff will get me.

About half of the time I get an injection or blood drawn I'm out. They use those high chairs so the nurses have more ergonomic access to the patients? Nope, I get the recliner, because I'm liable to fall out of that high chair and beat my head on the floor and now the nurse has a big heavy mess to clean up.

Two of my four doses of the Covid vaccine I was out. Was pretty sure it was going to happen each time and I was right twice. Still got all four.

I've done it to my dental surgeon almost every time I've seen him. Has a nasty habit of playing a video tape that explains the risks of tooth removal, and I seldom retain consciousness through the part about possible nerve damage. They tend to leave you alone in a room while this video plays. Even if I stay conscious I go weak and can't really move under my own power, it's really fun to be alone like that.

I'm careful to warn everyone who works in the shop with me that - if you are injured - I'm not going to be able to drive you to the emergency room, you'll have to wait for and pay for an ambulance. So put on your safety glasses and partake in my large collection of push sticks.

Auditory processing disorder makes it really hard to deal with multiple people talking.

I work from home, so

I have double vision (diplopia).

It's kind of a super power when I think about it.. but not really.

I never learned to ride a bike and every attempt has been met with injuries as soon as I build a modicum of confidence. But I can rollerblade like nobody’s business, so I got that going for me.

I I don’t know what Roblox is. I do know what discord is, but I seem to be unable to use it correctly? Also, although I have downloaded some stuff from GitHub a few times, I can never remember how to do it the next time, and the layout and UI make zero sense to me, every time.

I can curl my upper lip on the left side, but the right side can't do it. I can't raise one eyebrow either.

My right foot is almost one size wider than my left foot. Finding a good pair of shoes is hard.

And I can't remember what kind of clothes people are wearing. Colours, sometimes, but it's like my visual cortex dedicates zero processing power for clothes.

I can't whistle so always called my kids with a trill sound (like a loud Spanish RR, not Arabic ululation) and it is also my recall sound for the dogs. But I really can't whistle. Can sort of make a sound but it's laughably mockably wimpy.

Can't catch at all either, can throw reasonably accurately most of the time but an object coming at me never goes where my hands think it should. I am shamed by my penultimate daughter, who despite nearsightedness worse even than mine was, and a strong drive to be non-athletic, can pluck anything out of the air, has both lighting fast reflexes and intuitive hand eye coordination. But it doesn't really affect me other than occasional embarrassment - I just pick whatever it is up off the floor after it hits me.

A near-complete lack of rhythm and profound tone deafness. I can't keep a beat to save my life, and my singing sounds like the wails of the damned. But like damned chimps or something.

Anyway, all music is sorcery as far as I'm concerned.

Choreography. I can't follow other people's motions to save my life.

I can't roll my r's. I speak pretty decent Spanish (took 5 semesters in high school), but have never been able to figure out how to roll the r's, despite years of trying on and off to figure it out.

It's never a problem. On the rare occasions that I actually need to speak Spanish, nobody cares that I can't roll my r's.

I physically cannot focus or think too hard on something for too long (somewhere between 1-2 hrs), otherwise I would get physically sick. It was so bad for me as a child that I stopped watching movies... but these days it seems no more than a fun fact for my therapists

I can snap with my left hand but not my right. I'm right-handed so in theory my right hand should have enough dexterity to do it?