• intensely_human@lemm.ee
      7·
      7 个月前

      They say it’s all in the wrist.

      Yeah. They say they’ve never seen anything like it. … That’s what I said. Freak accident. Yeah. The entire thing.

      He’s going into surgery so they can try and extract it. Yup. Yup. Okay I’ll call and let you know as soon as he’s out. Night babe, love you.

  • 46_and_2@lemmy.world
    47·
    7 个月前

    Was surprised I started mixing up left and right after I broke my right-hand wrist while biking.

    Turns out I subconsciously associated “right” for the direction my stronger hand was on, and once my left hand started feeling like the more dominant one during recovery - my brain would automatically choose that “right” should be on my left-hand side instead, until I actively thought about which direction is which.

    This gradually decreased out as my right hand recovered and got back to being the dominant one over the next few years, but was eye-opening what shortcuts my brain uses for such basic things.

    • flux@lemmyis.funEnglish
      231·
      7 个月前

      Wait, are you saying you didn’t have to actively think about which is right or left before? I’ve always had to think about it, only for a second, but it’s definitely an active thought thing for me.

        • flux@lemmyis.funEnglish
          10·
          7 个月前

          Yeah, definitely. I didn’t know people didn’t have to think about it for a second.

          • baconsanga@lemmy.world
            9·
            7 个月前

            You’re not the only one, it takes me a second or two. Sometimes I make an L shape with my hands to see which way is left. Then again, sometimes I forget my age and name haha.

            • Hadriscus@lemm.ee
              3·
              7 个月前

              My wife has trouble with this as well. She’s also not very good with spatial reasoning, I wonder if those are linked

              • ngprc@feddit.de
                4·
                7 个月前

                I am pretty alright with spatial reasoning but have a hard time with left and right. Especially in multitasking scenarios. When driving during complicated situations and in unknown environments for example. I always get my guide to point or have a look at the nav.

                • Hadriscus@lemm.ee
                  1·
                  7 个月前

                  Lmao it’s not that bad. Or rather, it manifests at a larger scale : she’ll wonder how we came to face this way by taking that route, or how we’re able to see our home from some vantage point. She isn’t very agile but I wouldn’t say she’s dyspraxic either.

                  Is it ever an issue for you both ?

          • ilhamagh@lemmy.world
            4·
            7 个月前

            This is wild and I genuinely can’t wrap my head around it.

            So say, if you were blindfolded and run, if I give you command a la those rally drivers you will have a noticeable lag to my cue ? Like not instant ?

            • flux@lemmyis.funEnglish
              7·
              7 个月前

              I mean, it’s a split second, but yeah, I gotta think about it. I don’t think there would be noticeable lag, but it’s definitely a conscious thought. I just thought everyone had to have the thought go through their head, it’s not just like an instinct or anything.

            • grrgyle@slrpnk.net
              6·
              7 个月前

              Now that you mention it, it’s odd that some people (like myself) have to think about it. Like I wouldn’t have to hardly think about what you meant if you said “up” or “down.”

              Think of it like telling someone the directions like “twelve o’clock” versus “six o’clock” or “three o’clock” - you probably have to take a tic (heh) to picture it.

              • ilhamagh@lemmy.world
                3·
                7 个月前

                Yeah, the BBC article I posted above also mentions that.

                At first I thought it would be like if someone told me to touch my nose and I have to consider which part of my face it is, because for me my body is split in the middle the left and right feel distinctly different I can’t confuse one with the other. Fascinating.

                Are you ambidextrous by any chance?

      • 46_and_2@lemmy.world
        1·
        6 个月前

        I guess I just felt that “right” is my stronger hand direction, “left” is my weaker hand one. Now, after several years of recovery I feel it almost the same way as before, so my mind makes the same shortcut instead of thinking for a second about it. But if I ever feel the balance of my stronger-weaker side tipped (e.g. right hand has fallen asleep) I guess it’s thinking time again.

    • AlligatorBlizzard@sh.itjust.works
      5·
      7 个月前

      Funny enough, I stopped mixing up my left and right after I broke my arm roller blading (on another occasion I broke my arm while biking). I didn’t have a way to mentally keep track until the doctor set the arm slightly off with the bone bowing out a bit - it feels slightly different now, but visually you can’t tell.

    • darvit@lemmy.darvit.nl
      5·
      7 个月前

      That’s really interesting. There are probably more people like you, but who will never know if nothing happens to their dominant hand.

  • starman2112@sh.itjust.works
    46·
    7 个月前

    Considering almost every one of my ancestors for the last few hundred million years managed to have sex at least once, I’d say it’s pretty remarkable how I’ve managed to avoid it so far

    • kat_angstrom@lemmy.world
      14·
      7 个月前

      Oooof, I hear that. Things are more political than ever at my work and it’s like, I just want to do my job and go home

    • RBWells@lemmy.world
      13·
      7 个月前

      I can’t navigate politics at all. Have done ok working at startups though, some offices are not at all political. Where I work, we can fix other people’s processes if we think of a better way, we work with other departments, I don’t have to go through my manager to talk to your manager to get to you, can go directly to you. Can talk to the CEO, to ex- employees, nobody is protective of their work, nobody is angling for my job.

      • Xer0@lemmy.mlEnglish
        5·
        7 个月前

        Everyone in my office just fucking moans about everything, all the time. It’s honestly exhausting. The company is actually really good and gives a ton of perks. Just do your job and go home. Stop trying to bring everyone down with your shit.

    • Soup@lemmy.world
      9·
      7 个月前

      The rules are “make anyone above you feel good about themselves because they’ll throw a hissy fit if you don’t make them feel special.” It’s pathetic and I’m tired of it.

      • intensely_human@lemm.ee
        5·
        7 个月前

        But like if I try this, if I break down and try this, I’m so bad at it that it’s insulting and threatening to them to see my transparent flattery and wheedling.

  • Chef_Boyardee@lemm.ee
    29·
    7 个月前

    I have no sense of direction. None.

    I work in construction. If I show up to a site that is completely built, I get lost. If the floor is symmetrical in layout, I am totally screwed. It took me two full days on site once to get adjusted.

    When assigned to a new site, if there are more than a few turns in a commute, I’m using the GPS to get there for a couple of weeks.

    Also, I had no idea half of the people on this planet couldn’t whistle.

    • rekabis@lemmy.ca
      7·
      7 个月前

      I have no sense of direction. None.

      Sounds like you are a real-life Ryoga Hibiki.

      Just curious: do you also lack the ability to visualize things in your mind? For example, I am able to bring up a road map of my city in my mind, figure out the most effective route between two points, and rotate that map in all three dimensions to “look” at it from all angles. My familiarity with the city layout and geography is the determining factor on how easily I can visualize that map. I can also do the same thing with large buildings and their internal layouts.

      My wife, on the other hand, has a somewhat similar (but nowhere near as bad) sense of direction as you, and a commensurate inability to visualize objects in her mind. So while she can mentally visualize a soccer ball as a spherical object, she cannot even visualize the hexagonal pattern of pieces, much less (on a traditional soccer ball) how some are white and others black. She doesn’t technically have aphantasia, as she is still able to visualize to a small degree, but I have always suspected her inability to visualize effectively was directly connected to her inability to navigate effectively. She also relies heavily on GPS and maps when navigating anywhere else other than the town she was born in.

    • newbeni@lemmy.world
      2·
      7 个月前

      My husband bought me a Garmin when they very first came out, not because we were flashy people, but he wanted to know I could get somewhere by myself if I needed to . You are not alone my friend

  • RBWells@lemmy.world
    28·
    7 个月前

    Whistle.

    Tell right from left without thinking about it.

    Read a map, unless it’s oriented the way I am facing. My mind will not flip it.

          • Madlaine@feddit.de
            3·
            7 个月前

            I get that. My intuition often mixes both up, too.

            That’s why I trained myself to say “driver-side” and “passenger-side” in my head when left or right come up. To a point where I don’t even have to think about thinking about it. I just visualize which side of car is meant instead of the rather abstract concept of left and right

            Might not help you; but it helps me

              • Madlaine@feddit.de
                2·
                7 个月前

                Well, my brain seems to be affected by it according to that test (difference score of 11) if I interpret the scale correctly

                But well, I also got autism and quite a few other mental conditions and learned all my life to cope quite well with all my disabilities; that’s why I specifically outsource direction question to a visualization that make the answer more tangible for me than listening to my intuition.

                But well, what works for some doesn’t necessarily work for all. And probably my other conditions have some influence on it as well. We’re all different, after all; even if sharing a few traits.

          • Madlaine@feddit.de
            2·
            7 个月前

            That’s why I explicitly stated local.*

            I don’t care which country I’m in and how they are driving there. I obviously visualize cars I grew up with.

            E: well, I see how local can be interpreted as exactly the opposite of what I mean… oops

      • SwearingRobin@lemmy.world
        3·
        7 个月前

        Me and my dad are the same, on the left and right problem, never knew anyone else that had that problem, or that it had a name! I thought we were just weirdos :p

      • iegod@lemm.ee
        2·
        7 个月前

        I believe it’s your brain but that’s not mutually exclusive from dumb.

    • linux2647@lemmy.sdf.org
      9·
      7 个月前

      I remember a teacher talking about the physics of how a bike stays up while riding it with no hands. I thought he was joking

    • darvit@lemmy.darvit.nl
      7·
      7 个月前

      It depends on the bicycle. I can do it on some, and not on others. I think it depends on the angle of the steering fork and also the center of balance of the handlebars.

      • evasive_chimpanzee@lemmy.world
        6·
        7 个月前

        It definitely depends on the bike. I had a mountain bike with big, fat, tires, and I could never ride it without hands. I also have a road bike with super skinny tires that I can ride no handed confidently enough that I can carry grocery bags in each hand while biking no handed around town.

      • Turun@feddit.de
        3·
        7 个月前

        I’m not sure what to tell you, other than that yes, you can simply take your hands off the handle bars on most bikes if you’re going fast enough.

  • Binette@lemmy.ml
    23·
    7 个月前

    Associates faces with names easily.

    Like I’ll remember who you are, but I won’t remember your name. Got me into trouble a few times

    Edit: also forgot, but this includes associating the names of places. Combined with the fact that I can’trememberr paths and situate places I see IRL on a map, I get lost often.

    • philpo@feddit.de
      15·
      7 个月前

      That’s actually a cognitive disorder called Prosopagnosia.

      And welcome to the club - I had a stroke and while luckily all major deficits returned to normal with timely treatment, I developed prosopagnosia.

      It’s fairly freaky at times. While it’s not my main job anymore I still work as a paramedic occasionally - and when I get a massive trauma at three o’clock in the morning I can hand it over in the ED to the full resus team with every detail without looking into my notes once. But if they ask me for a name I need an ID card or my notes.

      • chicken@lemmy.dbzer0.com
        5·
        7 个月前

        Thanks, I’ve never been diagnosed or anything but it’s something I’ve had trouble with all my life, kind of just learned to be very wary about various social situations because I’d get it wrong a lot.

  • klemptor@startrek.website
    21·
    7 个月前

    Tell a joke or story in a linear fashion. I’m always fucking up, or realizing halfway through that I’ve left out an important detail. It’s how my mind works but I’m sure it’s frustrating to others. Plus I just get flop sweat sometimes.

    • Khrux@ttrpg.networkEnglish
      10·
      7 个月前

      I just always give too much context to my stories, and quickly realise that I’m giving context for context for context and cant remember my point.

      My closest friend is very similar here though, and we can have great long conversations that are 20 layers deep of tangents and forgetting our original points. We also sometimes yell ‘pin’ at eachother as a shorthand for ‘lets put a pin in this’ which basically means that at some point we’re trying to remember what we wanted to say at that point because it was fun.

    • Fizz@lemmy.nz
      7·
      7 个月前

      i have the opposite issue, i start telling a story trying to make it interesting and engaging and then feel like im running out of time before people disengage so i rush through and sum up 75% of the story in a few sentances and say “so yeah thats pretty much it”.

    • norimee@lemmy.world
      4·
      7 个月前

      I can only tell jokes I don’t find funny myself. Normally I can’t controll my laughing after the first couple of words.

    • 0ops@lemm.ee
      3·
      7 个月前

      I wish so bad I was better at telling stories. Not that I have many, but still

  • over_clox@lemmy.world
    18·
    7 个月前

    I can’t whistle. Honestly I think it’s because one of my lower front teeth is crooked, twisted at an angle. 🤷‍♂️

  • Remy Rose@lemmy.oneEnglish
    17·
    7 个月前

    Remember how many days are in each month. I mean, I guess maybe I could if I tried harder, but I refuse.

    EDIT: ok I’m seeing everyone’s tips here, and thank you, but I gotta say… None of these heuristics seem any amount easier to remember. 😭

    • lazylion_ca@lemmy.ca
      191·
      7 个月前

      Whats the point? When do I need this information?

      Bring on the 13x28 calender and end the madness.

    • Turun@feddit.de
      101·
      7 个月前

      Make both hands into a fist and hold them out in front of you so that the knuckles are visible. Now start on a pinky and count the knuckles and valleys between them. Knuckles are 31 days, valleys are 30 (and February). When you switch between hands it doesn’t count as a valley.

      Left Pinky knucke: January, 31 days
      Left Pinky/ring finger valley: February
      Left Ring finger knuckle: march, 31
      Left Ring/middle: April, 30
      Left Middle: may, 31
      Left Middle/index: June, 30
      Left Index: July, 31
      Right Index: August, 31
      Right Index/middle: September, 30
      Right middle: Oktober, 31
      Right middle/ring: November, 30
      Right ring finger knuckle: December, 31

      • ɘlddoW .ᴙM@lemmy.worldEnglish
        51·
        7 个月前

        I got halfway through that, then died of old age during a month that may or may not have 31 days.

      • LifeOfChance@lemmy.world
        5·
        7 个月前

        I genuinely can’t comprehend this statement. I’ve always heard it and it just sounds like random words jumbled together

        Knuckles seem easier

        • Reddfugee42@lemmy.world
          11·
          7 个月前

          Hath is old English for have. Those 4 months have 30 days. Once you know that February has 28, you know the rest by process of elimination.

    • GlendatheGayWitch@lemmy.world
      3·
      7 个月前

      Use your knuckles and the space between from left to right. The higher points are longer months.

      The left pinky knuckle is January, the space between pinky and ring knuckle is February, the ring knuckle is March and so on. The left index knuckle will be July and you continue with August being the right hand index knuckle. All the months that land on a knuckle are 31, while everything else is 30 (except 28 or 29 for February).

    • Elise@beehaw.org
      3·
      7 个月前

      31 29 31 30 31 30 31 31 30 31 30 31

      It alternates between 31 and 30. The exception being that February got shortchanged and had to give a day to August, and it keeps alternating after that.

      Due to leap year magic February has to give up yet another day, so it’s either 28 or 29.

  • idiomaddict@feddit.de
    17·
    7 个月前

    I used to be unable to jump, but then I did Morris dancing. I learned how to jump normally at 27.