Do you lack intuitions in areas other than social?

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Does anyone find that they seem to lack intuitions in areas other than social?

I'm not sure if I understand what you mean. However, besides social, I think sometimes I might lack intuition in academics or general intelligence imo. Maybe it's just my low self esteem but I always feel dumber and slower than everyone else.

This is an interesting idea.

My husband and his brother are both autistic and can both play string instruments. My husband doesn't have that natural ability for his hands to move without thinking about it, but his brother does. Kind of like how I can type without thinking about it.

Math (at least geometry) for sure. When in class, the majority of students seem to be able to pick up things like that, much of the time without learning it. This is since most of geometry is connected, but I cannot seem to do this.

Ooohh...I don't really have much intuition full stop.
Common sense is a biggie. I apparently don't have much common sense at all, and what's really obvious to most people doesn't always jump out at me. It feels really embarrassing when I'm told off about it.

I need to think a lot about what I type and say as well, otherwise it comes out as garbled nonsense.

It might still be considered "social", but when someone else is walking towards the door to a building/restaurant etc. at the same time as I am, and they're walking at the same speed... I never know if I should walk faster or slow down so I don't have to figure out who opens the door first. It probably sounds silly, but I feel really annoyed when this happens.

This and other little moments when I'm not sure where I'm supposed to be spatially in relation to another person.

Also, my math skills aren't.

Spatial awareness and trajectories. I've always had severe problems with anything that involves catching or hitting a ball. Then I was reading a book which refered to the ability that all people have to see an object moving and work out where it's going to end up, and then move to intercept it. I was stunned. This is a thing? I was always just waiting for the ball to get near me and then try to grab it where is was, which is why I constantly missed because by the time I put my hands there it had moved. Now being aware that this is something I am supposed to do, I try to work it out logically and I am a little bit more successful, though still limited by my inability to judge speed and distance accurately. It is definately an intuition I do not have.

math, except for geometry

oh and eating normally >.<

In my case, one example was the inability to appreciate that there is a mental or psychological component to sports. For ex. when someone would say that it is an advantage to one side in a sporting context that they are experienced I would scoff. To my mind what matters is skill and physical ability, what difference does it make if someone has played in the NBA final before.

I was completely blind to the presence of the psychological element, even when I participated in sports myself and had problems with pressure.