I has a proud! And a confusion.

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Sorry, but I need to tell somebody this. Yesterday I work up and knew how to knit. People have tried and tried to teach me over the years, no dice. I gave up years ago and stuck with crochet and embroidery, both of which I am totally kick-ass at. However, yesterday I woke up, and my brain decided I was now allowed to knit. Still clumsy, but I am now the proud owner of a perfectly perled, although in a quite hideously colored, cotton dishtowel.

This ever happen with making stuff to other people? You try and try to learn, people try and teach you, and then later you just know how entirely on your own? It's weird.

yes, but its pretty uncommon. I prefer to just try at something for a while until I am good at it, lol.

I find the autistic brain to be like this about a great many things. Its as though you have to wait for this specific window to open up and if you jump through it right at that moment, you can achieve a particular task. Any other time, forget it - you can try as often and as hard as you want, and it just won't come together. I can't explain it, but I've experienced it many times. Its sort of like feeling your way along an invisible wall and coming upon the invisible doorway - if you don't go through right then, you may end up fumbling along that wall forever.

That's pretty much what happened. It's just a very odd thing to experience, since Thursday I couldn't, and now I'm up there with the other people I know who've been doing it for the last five years....