I can’t put on one sock then one shoe, etc. I have to put on both socks, then both shoes. I also can’t have something on one hand or foot, but not on the other. I can’t wear just one glove or just one sock. And if one hand has water on it, I have to get the other one wet. Some weird kind of symmetry obsession, I imagine.
I can’t dance. I mean I REALLY can’t dance.
I can do all sorts of cool things with my tongue. I can not only roll it, but twist it sideways to where it’s almost upside down.
I can not put I drops in my eyes. Even if I prop them open and someone else puts the drop in, I blink. I’ve always had a fear of things coming at my face. Hell I can’t stand to watch other people put in contacts or eye drops. Even just thinking about it makes my eyes water.
I have never doodled. Not once. Never. Not even stray marks in the margin, not dots, nuthin’. I also can’t draw, but I don’t make parallel lines, circles, I just don’t do it!
There’s gotta be something wrong with me!
Me either. The only way I can use them is to squint my eyes shut, put the drops on my eyelids, and hope that some of it actually runs into my eyes.
It’s not that I have no spatial perception – I actually have negative spatial perception. If I go into the bathroom in a restaurant, I’ll turn the wrong way when I come out two minutes later. I get lost a lot and always turn the wrong way when suddenly forced to choose the “east” exit or the “west” exit.
When I see a photo of the moon, instead of craters I see bumps. If the sun is coming from the left in the photo, I see with bumps with shadows from the sun on the right. If I concentrate long and hard enough on the photo, I’ll suddenly see craters for a few seconds, then my mind flips it back to bumps. I love astronomy, but obviously it would have been a poor career choice.
On the other hand, I can set off on journeys of hours or days, and with no planning or effort, wind up at my destination within minutes of when I said I’d arrive.
Same here. I had an eye doctor when I lived in Maryland that could do the glaucoma test on me, but the ones out here can’t. I don’t think I could let someone else put eye makeup on me, either. And if I see someone putting in contacts or eye drops, even in a movie, I have to look away.
I also can’t whistle, either with or without fingers.
I have no spatial sense (how in the world DO people look at a food processor full of food and figure out how big a pan they need for it when the pan is a totally different shape?). I always ask Mr. Neville for help in selecting pans, because I am no good at it at all. I’m a very cautious driver because of this- I try very hard not to get into tight spots, to the point of not going somewhere if that would be required, because I don’t have the spatial sense to get out of them. I also can’t estimate the size of something without measuring- the other day, I was making a recipe that said to use a 9-inch pan. I don’t know a 9-inch pan from looking at it (from the look I got from Mr. Neville, I take it other people do), and I don’t know where our ruler is, so I had to get out a 9x13 baking pan (I know which ones they are) and see if the pan’s diameter was the same as the small end of the baking pan.
I don’t have much depth perception and can’t see those Magic Eye things, either. I don’t think there really are pictures in them.
Ride a bicycle. I never had a bike as a child. When I was 22 or so, my friend gave me his bicycle and gave me some tips. I rode it around the block a couple of times, and it was clear it wouldn’t take me long to get the hang of it, but I only rode it one or two more times and then the tire went flat and I kind of wrote it off as not really worth pursuing. That was 14 years ago. My wife and I keep talking about buying bikes to ride with the kids, but we keep putting it off.
I can’t see the Magic Eye things either. I also can’t roll my Rs.
But, I’m double jointed, especially in my hands, and I can pop almost any joint in my body.
I don’t even believe those Magic Eye 3-D hidden pictures are true, it’s all a conspiracy some form of mass hypnosis which we non-seers were too strong to be effected by. There is no 3D image I’m telling you, you who see it have just been brain washed.
I can’t see those 3D fake images either!
And I can’t make my hands meet behind my back, one reaching from above and the other from below (hard to describe… uh). Bugger.
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I know exactly what you mean–in fact I was going to post this earlier today, but got caught up in something. My hands don’t even come close. There must be a five or six inch gap. I still remember my first aerobics class when the instructor included that move as part of the final stretching session. She could not only get her hands to meet, she could clasp them and move them up and down. Yeouch!
On the other hand, when I was in physical therapy my therapist seemed mysteriously impressed that I could touch my heel to my butt. Is this difficult for most people?
Nothing original here, but…
I can whistle melodies but can’t do that two-fingers-in-the-mouth whistle.
I can’t blow bubbles in gum.
I can raise both eyebrows together, or my left eyebrow alone, but not my right eyebrow alone.
I am more night-blind than most people (OK when there are streetlights or headlights, but in astronomy class I always seemed to be the only person bumping into things).
I have never been able to bend over and touch my toes.
Chopsticks? Not so much. Slowly getting better with practice, though.
I’m the absolute opposite - I’m duck-footed to the extent that I really couldn’t do ballet when I got stuck having to take a second gym in college. Frustrated the hell out of the teacher. Also I blow at certain poses in yoga for the same reason.
I also have no depth perception, but I compensate for it. How the hell do you people not learn how to compensate? I only have a problem when there’s no frame of reference - a completely white room with a white wall with a red dot on it, for instance, I wouldn’t be able to tell how far the wall was away or how big the dot really was. But for driving, you compensate by instinctively figuring out relative sizes.
No Magic Eye for me either.
I can’t stop this feeling 
Um, I do compensate. However, a frame of reference really doesn’t matter much in my situation. If I go to sit a cup of juice on the counter and aren’t careful, I’ll completely miss the edge and… plop. Juice all over the floor. I think you can see how this isn’t particularly a safe thing to rely on while doing things such as driving.
On preview, I sound pretty snippy. Sorry about that – it was the “How in the hell…” line that threw me. Everyone’s situation isn’t the same.
I can only wink my right eye. When I try to wink my left, both eyes close.
I have no sense of direction.
I can’t raise one eyebrow for that skeptical look…always wanted to, too.
I can’t watch close up shots of the mouths and teeth of people eating.
I can’t speak if I know it’s being recorded. It took me literally an hour and 100 tries, at least, to record my name for my company voicemail system.
I can’t donate blood because I pass out every single time (I worked my way through college as a phlebotomist at a blood bank, too. Other folks’ blood doesn’t bother me at all.)
Oh, yeah, and I can’t see those @$!#@ Magic Eye things either.
Sorry, upon rereading that seems kinda bitchy of me - it’s just so natural for me to compensate for it that I don’t think about it. I’ve never dropped a cup like that (oh, I drop 'em, but not because I don’t know where the countertop is.) I drive just fine - my brain sees the SUV, knows how big one is up close, sees how big it appears, and knows how far it is away. It’s automatic - I didn’t realize I was missing anything until high school biology when we did some experiment with parallax shift and depth perception and I couldn’t do it. Asked my eye doctor about it and he said “I thought you knew?”
I simply can’t do the Vulcan hand salute “Live long and prosper” I can seperate my pinkie finger from the other three, or my index finger from the others, but I can’t seperate them in the middle.