Einstein couldn't tie his shoes?

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I think that might explain why Einstein always wore sandals.

thanks for all the posts, I guess maybe it's possible Einstein never learned to tie his shoes not because he couldn't, but because he didn't want to, he did wear informal shoes often times partly because he found them uncomfortable and especially because he didn't like wearing socks.

I guess I won't be offended but I still feel like I should tell them that not all aspies are like that, but I guess you have to pick your battles

I didn't learn to tie my shoes the correct way until I was an adult and my husband taught me so that I could tie our kids shoes correctly. But, part of that is because when I was a kid and having trouble tying my shoes my Kindergarten teacher taught me a different way to tie my shoes and I just did that all the time and never learned the right way. But, I don't know if she would have just let me struggle with it, if I would have eventually learned the right way or if I would have still went until adulthood not knowing any way to tie them!

Hey, it took me a long time to learn how to tie my shoes too. But I don't blame my Asperger's for that. I blame the fact that I've been given unclear directions as a child.

It took me a long time to learn to tie my shoelaces too. Part of it was being a lefty & not getting proper instruction, part of it was due to the fact I lagged behind other kids my age as far as acquiring skills. Same thing with learning to ride a bike or swimming, I lagged behind my peers there too. But once I did learn how to do something, it became natural to me. I just had to work harder to acquire the same skills. Now relating socially to other people....I still haven't figured out how to do that.

I never learned the "rabbit goes around a tree" method (not for lack of my older sister trying to teach me). The "2 loops" method works just fine.

I learnt this way too, the problem is they always come undone!! ! I think the rabbit way must be better. I hate tying my shoelaces. I just slip shoes on and off. It is not a lack of intelligence thing, but maybe it is laziness.

Me too! I didn't learn to tie my shoes until middle school, and I still can't do the one-loop method. I wonder if that's an aspie thing?

It's an aspie thing (or maybe an autism thing) and one of the markers they look for before they go deeper. I was able to remember being late, because I didn't like to have to ask the teacher or one of my cousins to do them for me, but I wasn't nearly as late as some of you. I was much later learning to knit and crochet (which is also "a loop through a loop", but I sweated and turned the air blue around me (I _was_ an adult by then) until I learned, and learned so well that I turned into a champion. It still does take me longer to do a given amount of knitting, but I do it well. I was also very verbal very early.

And Einstein could explain his theories to ordinary people. He wrote a popular book (I think it was "The Evolution of Physics", but not sure, I can't find my copy) that I read and enjoyed in High School. I did get the regular publication, the book with the math derivations, but I never did get enough math to grok that one.

I was 13-years-old by the time I learned to tie my laces, yet through rather unorthodox means. My mother sent me to my room and I was told that couldn't come out unless I could prove that I was able to tie my laces at long last. It might've been tantamount to child abuse, but it worked and I've not had trouble with lace tying since. My style of lace tying is different to the bunny ears style, however, and it is uniquely my own.

Prior to learning how to tie my laces up, my mother would tie them for me, which was an endless source of embarrassment. I was also unwilling to take off my shoes knowing that I wouldn't be able to tie the laces myself.

I learned to tie my shoes at age 6. It took me a while to remember. Mom worked with me on it every time I got my shoes tied. It was a teacher that decided it was time I learned how and my teacher agreed so she called my mother and mom decided to teach me so she did. She did tough love one me by making me do it or else my shoe laces will never get tied. She followed through on it when I do it. I think it took me three weeks to remember how to do it finally without needing her help. But I remember I would still have troubles.

supposedly i learned to tie my shoes very young and then forgot. I dont recall ever understanding that damn bunny thing. I recall in 2nd grade asking friends to tie my shoe for me if it bothered me that they were untied which usually it didn't. I remember for a while i would just tuck the laces in the sides of the shoes. Eventually I figured out my own thing which was just a huge knotty mess. In my teenage years what i started doing was i would adjust the laces to the perfect tightness that i could relatively easily slip the shoes on, but tight enough they would stay on snuggly, then i would tie knots on each side, cut off the excess, and fuse the knots by melting them with a lighter. Now i wear western boots always and i never tie shoes. I have been wearing western boots exclusively for a couple years now. i wish id discovered them earlier.

I couldn't tie my shoes until I was 8 or 9 years old. I eventually learned though, so I guess that's all that matters.

I couldn't tie my shoes until the age of 11.
Einstein admitted that he thought maths was his weak point....whether he flunked maths, I don't know.