Ask Lemmy

I have double vision (diplopia).

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

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...

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

I work from home, so

some people have mentioned. on occasion. that my spelling and grammar may not be perfect. My artistic ability is really limited to. Can't think of others but many likely do effect my daily life. My wife could likely give me a good list to work off of.

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.

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.

Turns out I only have one kidney. Went in for a scan of my bladder (which was fine), and the nurse doing the scan just casually mentioned it. I had no idea. I was 43 at the time.

I have a mildly difficult time tying knots.

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?

It's a schooner!

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 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.

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

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.

I can't snap my fingers

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 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'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.

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

Due to an old eye injury, I do not have a functional drain tube for my left eye (that channel that drains from the corner of your eye and into your nose).

Normally it's not something anyone notices, but in cold headwind and anything else that causes my eyes to water, it looks like I'm crying my heart out but only with one eye.

I have a nervous tick test only comes out in very rare situations (access to a particular weight of cloth at hand height) and caused me to develop a thick callous on the thumb side of the first knuckle on each middle finger.

Can't whistle loudly. I can barely do it quietly. I certainly can't do that badass thing where you put fingers from both hands into your mouth and blow.