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Originally Posted by Taylor514ce
A couple of more bones for the nice doggy: dancing. I've tried to learn to dance, but cannot move my body as a coordinated whole. Also, maybe this is significant, maybe it isn't, but I have never been able to internalize "left" vs. "right". When I need to know LEFT, I have to look for which hand has a particular scar. That's left.
Instructions that include LEFT-click or RIGHT-click require me to hold both hands over the mouse, find the scar, and that's the LEFT mouse button. I'm generally quite easily confused by such "frame of reference" situations.
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i love to dance, and i'm regularly told that i do it quite well
however i also have to think very hard about left and right (there is no more left or right in dancing, when you do it prpperly, and frequently no more up or down either). the first time i went to a girlfriend's house, she told me "3rd floor, the door on the left. but just knock softly, because the baby is sleeping." well, i knocked softly, and no-one came. so i knocked ever so slightly louder, and still no-one. one last try... not a movement. i didn't dare knock louder, so i took my cell-phone and called her. "i'm outside the door, but you didn't hear me knocking..."
instantly the left door opened ; i had been knocking on the other one. that happens to me all the time. if i need to know which side is left or right, i usually think to myself "right hand is the mouse hand..." but i have to hold the hand up at the same time, as if i were really holding the mouse. otherwise it doesn't work.
i usually feel rather idiotic when i have to stop and think about left and right ; it's reassuring to know i'm not the only one with this trouble.
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Originally Posted by RickyMaveety
My attention span for anything I'm not feeling passionate about is about 2 seconds. If I don't want to bother with it, then it's even shorter ... in the nanosecond range.
Faced with a project I'm not keen on doing, then suddenly repairing my neighbor's stereo becomes of earth-shattering importance. I simply cannot LIVE until that thing is working perfectly.
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oh god. you have no idea the trivial distractions i've been able to involve myself in, to avoid doing something more important that i just didn't want to do.
recently, i learned rather accidentally that the INSEE had changed the APE codes (these are tax codes which tell which profession you belong to, which you must mention on things like bills to clients. however they are purely for statistical purposes, and if you continue to use the old code, literally
*no-one* cares. they are of so little practical importance, in fact, that even the INSEE itself didn't bother to inform me of my new code.). this is the classic example of something i care so little about it barely exists in my reality.
but the other day i was working on a project which was really driving me crazy, and suddenly finding out my new APE code became vitally important. it could not wait another second !! i spent hours trying to navigate the impenetrable waters of the INSEE website to discover it and even went so far as to call my tax center (they didn't know either... that's how important that stupid code is.). you understand, it was a matter of life or death !!! (actually, i never did get a definitive answer, although it was not for lack of trying. however i did manage to avoid working on the project for most of the afternoon. if anyone else knows the new APE code for graphic artists, please do let me know. i'm done with the annoying project and my motivation for finding it out myself has returned to sub-zero level.).