what took longer than normal for you to learn/ develop

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sitting up right
feeding myself
stop using a bottle
potty training
making friends
riding a bike
skating (after weeks of practicing, i still cant skate)
responding to name
reading
math in general would always take me an extra week to understand

I've been playing the piano for years. I'm okay as a pop musician but I still have a long way to go to fully develop into an accomplished pianist.

My fiction writing took a while to develop, too. I made a lot of mistakes and still do. It's a good think editors exist.

In my personal life I'm still stuck at stupid. Still alone, still friendless, still spending all my holidays by myself.

Typing, took years, still bad at it, but computers let me correct so much faster.
Because of a lack of proprioreceptive memory I still can't dance or do Tai Chi. And I love Tai Chi.

For some reason I didn't learn to tell time until I was 14. I was pretty good at math, too, so I don't know why clocks just didn't make sense to me. My gross motor skills are probably about on the level of a five-year-old child's now, and my handwriting matches. I learned to ride a bike pretty late (8 1/2). Also, I can't dance (I can't talk, only thing about me is the way that I walk). Can't throw, can't catch things, absolutely cannot hit a baseball. That probably has more to do with my lack of depth perception, though. Obviously my social skills are way behind - I'd estimate them as third-grade level, because I do feel like I can communicate reasonably well with eight year olds.

Tying my shoes took me an extra year or two. I just couldn't make sense of the instructions when I was actually handling the laces and the loops and ends always seemed to slip away. Eventually someone showed me a different way to look at it that had fewer steps. I had no idea why we weren't just using that method in the first place.

left from right
lower level math (elementary school)
x and y axis on graphs
phone numbers (still trouble. YAY! cell phones XD)
spelling (but that was because of a speech impedimate)
also addresses (which I still have trouble with)
the fork, and knife and spoon -how to hold, and scoop the food
breathing or eating (OK that one is a joke actually, though I did have that problem when I was a baby, trachea malagia -sorry misspelled)

also bike, I didn't ride a bike until I was 10-ish (is that late)

i had a really hard time learning to tie shoes too, i still dont know how

I still tie my shoes wrong.

It took me forever to learn to ride a bike, follow directions, learn to swim, stop walking into people [and walls] learn to dance, ride in a car without puking, and I'm still scared of the dark and cannot drive.

talking
reading/writing
telling the time
several other misc. things

Never got some things.

Math in junior high and driving took longer to learn than the norm.

So many things.......I'm such a late bloomer that I'm still waiting to bloom.

tying my shoes
reading and writing
bike riding
left and right
telling time
social skills... still working on that one....

all social and communication functions

Toilet training (age 4)
Riding a bike (age 10)

Never have really learned to swim...can do okay with my head above water but I can not swim underwater

I still have trouble with my shoes (I'm 14), I can tie them okay, but they always become undone, or one end is too small and slides out.

I didn't sleep alone until I was 10.

I actually learned to ride a bike very quick, faster than the average person I would say.

Same here, typing and dancing.

I couldn't get a job in an office because I couldn't type so back in the 80's I learned computing and that got me a job and also mistakes are easy to correct with a keyboard.

I tried learning ball room dancing. I took classes but I just couldn't get it. I kept getting confused and forgetting the steps. I went to senior dances and the guys asked me to dance but they kept getting mad at me because I kept messing up the steps and stepping on their feet and stuff. They told me to take lessons but I already did take lessons. Some of them even pointed out to me how well some of the other women could dance. I gave up and stopped going.

Speech. I perfected my talking at about 5-6, though I could talk before I pronounced stuff wrong and spoke in short broken sentences so I had speech therapy.

Riding a bike. I learned at 13 but still don't feel confident when riding one.

Swimming. I taught myself to swim at the ripe old age of 15. My lifelong obsession with mermaids gave me the determination.

Sense of inhibition. It's an odd one but my self restraint has always been a bit behind.