• red_tomato
    23·
    2 days ago

    Solving mathematical problems: Easy

    Speaking coherent sentences: Impossible

      • red_tomato
        2·
        2 days ago

        My great struggle is to come up with the next words to say at the same time I’m speaking. I need a script to function.

        • peoplebeproblems@midwest.socialEnglish
          2·
          2 days ago

          Ha that’s exactly my problem too.

          To meet it feels like I’m following a literal train that tries to go through one of the rail switches, but the switch keeps switching between multiple rails and in the brief connection each time the train lurches forward.

  • CerebralHawks@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    18·
    2 days ago

    My mother said my father couldn’t tie his shoes properly. He was literally a rocket scientist. As in, the company he worked for designed things that went to space on rockets (to be fair: not the propulsion systems themselves, i.e. not the rocket itself) and he was a scientist.

    As for me, I’m pretty much a wizard with computers, but not so great at social interactions. I had to learn a new computer system last year (one that isn’t publicly available, it’s not really an OS per se, more of a specialised interconnected system with its own language) and I do stuff with it that people who have been using for years told me they never thought was possible. Because I RTFM and I try shit.

    Talking to people… if we start out on the same page I’m good, but if the tone/mood shifts, I either falter and people lose interest in me or take offence to something I said, or I catch on and get out before that happens. I think now my coworkers realise that about me and don’t really push me into awkward social situations for the most part, and just kinda let me work my magic. I’m just glad they found something I’m good at.

  • biggerbogboy@sh.itjust.works
    8·
    2 days ago

    I’m pretty damn good at understanding the ways in which computers work in very intricate ways, both in the physical hardware as well as understanding the software. I could program better than almost everyone in my pretty large software development class (this was months ago tho, I graduated from high school recently), with 500 or so lines of python for a line-by-line CSV reader complete with text commands, theming options, window decoration settings, an almost perfect UX for the use case, etc. (I did however have issues with allowing CSVs to interact with the program after compiling it with an install script file.)

    What I am absolutely hopeless in however, is tying my shoes, understanding when I’m hungry/thirsty/tired/etc, and I struggle when speaking unless I spend hours of my day scripting theoretical scenarios, which also includes in text form. I was also terrible in English and mathematics in every year of school, not due to “not wanting to learn” but it was just since half the time they were excruciatingly slow and boring, and the other half of the time they were so difficult to understand since it was also going too fast and I was under excessive pressure.