Are there some things you just can't grasp?

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Symbolism in novels - if it's not spoon fed to me, I never figure it out.

Reading novels - how do people enjoy that?

Walking as entertainment - that's one of the most boring things I can think to do, at least listen to some music while you do it.

Small talk - I do not care, 'nuff said.

Figures of speech - I understand them, but why don't we just say what we mean?

Religious extremists - because science is always wrong all the time, right?

Hell - well, where the hell is it?

Racism - Prejudice is understandable sometimes, but I have a hard time believing that people really can be racist.

Milk - lets pull on that thing and drink that white stuff that comes out.

Chopsticks - forks are the superior utensil.

Flying upside down - I still don't get it

Birds - how does flapping wings produce lift?

SSD's - why do they have to be so expensive?

Teachers - who seriously goes to school their entire life only to end back up in school?

Facebook - I just don't get it.

Geography - whats so hard about it? I can't believe 95% of the population does not even know how to find their own country on a map.

Insurance companies - socialism? Bring it on!

General Motors - how hard is it to make a car that actually works more than half the time?

Electric cars - how hard is it to put some solar panels on the roof and hood? There you go, problem solved.

Procrastinators - so you have two weeks to do a project. Why is it so difficult to divide up the work load by 14?

Technology - I get so sick of people saying it just doesn't like them. No. Its almost always a user error.

Showing emotions in public - when and when not to?

Bill Gates and Microsoft - why do I have to pay so much for his crap? Doesn't he have enough money?

Writing fiction - I've seen second graders do it better than me.

Hard copies - who needs printers, digital distribution is what we should all be using.

"Hi, how are you?" - If you don't care, then don't ask.

LED light bulbs - what took so long?

Minimalism - why is that such a problem?

Sports - congratulations, you can throw a ball around. That is so much fun.

Spirituality. Philosophy. Finances. Politics. Government.
(These terms and a lot of terms under their umbrella are gibberish to me. I have little concept of them.)

Boredom when not forced into an activity.

Sometimes, that other people exist and have emotions and thoughts. This applies very much so to other animals. I feel completely blocked from any experiencing things in their shoes, and thus they are often incomprehensible to me and seem so alien.

I can not grasp sometimes the difference between lying and changing ones mind. I'm so very rigid.

That people want things to last forever or pretend that they do, especially human relationships and human life. If something dies it is just the way of things, to make room for new things. If a couple grows bored of each other they're ready to move on. It seems incredibly obvious to me.

Emotional trauma to some extent.

Top Five:

1. Time. Time is not a tangible thing, therefore I don't understand it except as numbers associated with events and clock faces. I have no sense of time, and I don't think I will ever be able to understand the theory of relativity despite having tried very hard to get the most basic gist for the past ten years.

2. Why people care whether or not I make eye contact with them. I don't understand why this is so important--particularly when you know somebody like me probably doesn't see much, if anything, when they look into your eyes, regardless of what's there.

3. Why people make fun of each other and where the line is between "friendly teasing" and teasing that ranges from insensitive and hurtful to downright cruel (if it exists).

4. The meaning of the word "abstract" (beyond its use as a word that denotes the summary of an academic paper).

5. Why exactly language evolved in such a way as to be extremely indirect, in the sense that it's often more about what's "between the lines" than about the lines themselves....it seems to defeat the purpose.