Are there some things you just can't grasp?

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There are a ton of things I cant fully grasp. I cant really think of any at the moment but its usually silly things like math I have a really bad time with that,
why people have such a hard time doing things by certain amounts of time. Like fishing for example once you catch a fish even after 5 mins wouldnt you go home I mean you went fishing to catch a fish?

I agree with the small talk, I have to make it when I work and to be honest 90% of the people that talk to me I really dont want to ask how they are or talk about how much its snowing out side or weather in general, I just want to scan their stuff and keep the line moving.

I dont understand stocks and politics and dont care to even try to understand them.

With clocks I hate when ppl say 20 past or quarter of I just dont understand it I wish people would just say the exact time just makes it easier because when they say quarter of something Ill end up looking at a clock myself because I end up getting confused if I dont.

It certainly doesn't help that a lot of the time the definitions seem to vary too from person to person. Like I see people use empathy, and explain it the way someone else has explained sympathy and vice versa. Kind of makes my head hurt how vaguely and varied both definitions seem to be.

I still need to look for the 'L' (extended pointer finger and thumb) to tell my right from left.

Time.

Executive Dysfunction.

I cant grasp the concept of doing things because everyone does them or to please others.

People not ever getting over a miscarriage even though they have had another baby.

Why people round up to their age or round up time. Like my aspie friend says he is 36 than 35 and he isn't even close to being 36 anyway.

People not getting over their old childhood bullies or mistakes their parents made

Stock markets

I just remembered something: directions. As in driving directions. When I drive somewhere, my concept of it is completely visual and first-person point-of-view. So if you tell me I could take a different route because it's shorter, I just can't grasp it. I get where I need to go by recognizing a particular series of visuals in a particular order. A map is useless. Other people have never understood this. Maybe someone here will.

I understand it. And so does my GPS. Before GPS was invented I used to get hopelessly lost all the time and was scared to go complicated places that required lots of turns. I would ask for directions and somebody would say "go north then bear west"???????? To me that was as useful as saying "go %^^%$#$ and then bear &^%%%$##". Now I have a GPS It gives me directions in that visual first-person point-of-view that we both favor. An arrow moves along the map as though it were driving along the street just ahead of me.

People not being able to read maps. I don't understand this one bit. I learned pretty quick in school when we were all taught this.

I find them really hard to read. The only map I can read is the map of Canada. I also hate making them. I'm just not a visual learner.

People not being able to read the rules and then understand them, instead they have to be read to them for them to understand them. That's why teachers and coaches read over them with the whole class/team. I couldn't figure out why they had to read them to us if we all know how to read. Then I found out some people are actually unable to read them and then understand them. My youngest brother is one of them. I wonder how they get by on forums then or even get by when they get a job. Maybe they have someone read them out loud to them or they just take risks and learn the hard way.

^ That confuses me as well, since I'm the total opposite. I'll understand it by reading it but not by hearing it.

And maps make perfect sense to me, until I try to apply them from a first-person point-of-view.
I should probably get a GPS, but I'm so (surely irrationally) resistant to gadgets.

Im the opposite.
Im amazed at what everyone else accepts as fact that is patent nonsense.

Like - when Shirley McClaine narrated her travelogue to China in the seventies. And she said" the Great Wall of China is the only man made object visible from the moon".

Not only is that statement factually wrong, its not even logical.

The great wall of china is less than two stories tall and about one and half lanes wide.

Most family houses in the USA are about the same size.
Imagine your house, if it were the same size but 3000 miles long.

At each point along that 3000 miles its still no bigger than your house.

So why would the great wall of china be any more visible from space than every american family home?

A single human hair is invisible, say, at ten feet away from the viewer. Making that hair a million miles long would not make it any more visible! Making it thicker WOULD make it more visible.

Now, if you took all of the masonary that composes the great wall, gathered it into one big pile and perhaps made it all into a Egyptian style pyramid, then that might well be visible out to some distance into space.

Maybe I'm just experiencing mind-blindness, but I have trouble grasping the fact that most other people don't have imaginary worlds or imaginary friends. Like, when people are listening to music by themselves, what else do they daydream about if they don't have an imaginary world to go to? How can people just watch a movie and forget about it, and not pretend to befriend their favorite characters?

How people follow things sequentially. I hate taking directions and I always seem to get lost when it comes to movie plots. My train of thought is all over the place.