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What are some examples of things you were so bad at doing that someone didn't believe it?

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Driving.

Chemical titrations are very hard for me. I have a form of color blindness, so I often cannot see the change over point. My worse experiences involve reactions that turn pink. I simply do not see them until I am way past the equivalence point. I can see colors, just not certain ones. When I look at a rainbow after a storm, I usually see three colors in it. Color changing pH paper tests can also be an issue for me.

Many of my coworkers are amazed that I became a synthesis chemist with my colorblindness. I use it as an example on what someone can do if they have a limitation and how to work around it. It also hits home the need for accommodations for those with disabilities in the lab. My issues can be overcome by using pH probes and pH meters and not rely on colors with my eyes.

I love doing mathematical equations, but I am absolutely terrible at them. I received an exam back once, and my teacher had circled all of my work and written "No."

^ I unschooled too! There’s definitely weird gaps in my knowledge base. When I was in college, I’d often have to research stuff that other people already knew in order to be ready for new material.

I'm terrible at programming. When I was learning Java, I relied on internet programming sites to help me with my answers in assignments.

Then came C#. The new teacher said since I'd done Java, C# would be easy for me. Sorry, it was just like a foreign language that I'd just seen for the first time. The teacher started in on me about my awful typing skills as well. I began to feel sick going to that class so I quit.

Funny thing is, I enjoyed HTML and CSS when I was taught it a year earlier.

dealing with people socially. once the very short script runs out....

Two years ago, at work, a customer and I were trying to unload a tool and I unintentionally dropped it. "What the f**k? You can't lift it?" The ass hole had the nerve to bark at me

That idiot thought I purposely dropped the tool. (Rolls eyes). He couldn't believe how physically and mentally weak I was

i am also bad at paying attention.

some structural engineering instructors and martial arts instructors could not believe that i was so bad at doing what they were trying to teach.

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That's the one, paying attention. If only they'd slowed down, expressed themselves clearly, and stuck to subjects I had some natural interest in, I'd have been fine.

Alan Watts said teachers have got it all wrong anyway - "when the teacher roars, 'pay attention!' and everybody stared fixedly at the teacher, but it doesn't work, you have to relax your eyes to see." Well, something like that.

How bad I am remembering people's faces or names.

I believe they keep thinking I am just faking it and don't want to talk with them. Only my family knows the truth. Cause they would talk about someone during breakfast and when I would ask, they would just say "You don't know who we are talking about, anyway."

Real struggle, what can I say. I can only remember face or the name, but not the both. People who can I remember have luck.

Someone can say that is a big flaw, but I say that is part of my character. It's like my brain is telling me who is worth remembering and who isn't.