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shortfatbalduglyman
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10 Nov 2024, 11:28 pm

What are some examples of things you were so bad at doing that someone didn't believe it?



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11 Nov 2024, 12:20 am

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11 Nov 2024, 4:44 am

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11 Nov 2024, 5:52 am

shortfatbalduglyman wrote:
What are some examples of things you were so bad at doing that someone didn't believe it?


I don't do well with physical operations. I prefer to be on the phone or otherwise in the office. I have been expected to lift and move heavy things such as printers. I dropped one a couple months ago.


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11 Nov 2024, 9:13 am

Chemical titrations are very hard for me. I have a form of color blindness, so I often cannot see the change over point. My worse experiences involve reactions that turn pink. I simply do not see them until I am way past the equivalence point. I can see colors, just not certain ones. When I look at a rainbow after a storm, I usually see three colors in it. Color changing pH paper tests can also be an issue for me.

Many of my coworkers are amazed that I became a synthesis chemist with my colorblindness. I use it as an example on what someone can do if they have a limitation and how to work around it. It also hits home the need for accommodations for those with disabilities in the lab. My issues can be overcome by using pH probes and pH meters and not rely on colors with my eyes.



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11 Nov 2024, 10:40 am

I love doing mathematical equations, but I am absolutely terrible at them. I received an exam back once, and my teacher had circled all of my work and written "No."



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11 Nov 2024, 2:17 pm

SuperRileyFanboy wrote:
I love doing mathematical equations, but I am absolutely terrible at them. I received an exam back once, and my teacher had circled all of my work and written "No."


hahaha

This is a great thread.

I was unschooled in the 1980s before that was a thing. Sometimes there will be a simple concept that I have no idea about because I never took it in college. My son will think I'm messing with him and pretending not to know about it.

I think the last thing was that I didn't know the difference between a 90 degree angle and a 45 degree angle (or any angle) because I've never taken geometry.



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11 Nov 2024, 2:23 pm

^ I unschooled too! There’s definitely weird gaps in my knowledge base. When I was in college, I’d often have to research stuff that other people already knew in order to be ready for new material.


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13 Nov 2024, 9:06 pm

I'm terrible at programming. When I was learning Java, I relied on internet programming sites to help me with my answers in assignments.

Then came C#. The new teacher said since I'd done Java, C# would be easy for me. Sorry, it was just like a foreign language that I'd just seen for the first time. The teacher started in on me about my awful typing skills as well. I began to feel sick going to that class so I quit.

Funny thing is, I enjoyed HTML and CSS when I was taught it a year earlier.



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13 Nov 2024, 9:25 pm

dealing with people socially. once the very short script runs out....



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13 Nov 2024, 10:49 pm

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I'm terrible at programming. When I was learning Java, I relied on internet programming sites to help me with my answers in assignments.

Then came C#. The new teacher said since I'd done Java, C# would be easy for me. Sorry, it was just like a foreign language that I'd just seen for the first time. The teacher started in on me about my awful typing skills as well. I began to feel sick going to that class so I quit.

Funny thing is, I enjoyed HTML and CSS when I was taught it a year earlier.

I actually think I'd be good at programming if I ever tried it, but I'm terrible at using computers in general. If I was older people would understand, but I feel like the only 19yo in the world who can't do the most basic things on my laptop.

It probably seems worse than it is though because I'm comparing myself to my peers. I'm still a lot better than my parents.


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13 Nov 2024, 10:58 pm

Two years ago, at work, a customer and I were trying to unload a tool and I unintentionally dropped it. "What the f**k? You can't lift it?" The ass hole had the nerve to bark at me

That idiot thought I purposely dropped the tool. (Rolls eyes). He couldn't believe how physically and mentally weak I was



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13 Nov 2024, 11:29 pm

shortfatbalduglyman wrote:
That idiot thought I purposely dropped the tool. (Rolls eyes). He couldn't believe how physically and mentally weak I was

Workplaces are often infected with such stupid bastards. Usually bosses. Some are OK though.

I'm terrible at learning from traditional lessons and lectures. In fact I'm terrible at taking in any information that goes faster than my slow-but careful communication style. My thoughts can be pretty rapid but translating other people's words into thoughts, or thoughts into words for other people, that's slow.



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13 Nov 2024, 11:31 pm

i am also bad at paying attention.

some structural engineering instructors and martial arts instructors could not believe that i was so bad at doing what they were trying to teach.



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13 Nov 2024, 11:42 pm

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That's the one, paying attention. If only they'd slowed down, expressed themselves clearly, and stuck to subjects I had some natural interest in, I'd have been fine.

Alan Watts said teachers have got it all wrong anyway - "when the teacher roars, 'pay attention!' and everybody stared fixedly at the teacher, but it doesn't work, you have to relax your eyes to see." Well, something like that.



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14 Nov 2024, 4:13 am

How bad I am remembering people's faces or names.

I believe they keep thinking I am just faking it and don't want to talk with them. Only my family knows the truth. Cause they would talk about someone during breakfast and when I would ask, they would just say "You don't know who we are talking about, anyway."

Real struggle, what can I say. I can only remember face or the name, but not the both. People who can I remember have luck.

Someone can say that is a big flaw, but I say that is part of my character. It's like my brain is telling me who is worth remembering and who isn't.