No you just say “yes” and move on with your life and then refuse to believe you agreed to be pegged by 56 bearded men in a Toyota Yaris when they insist you did.

As a kid I used to read like 2 books a day, now I have the same problem. Like wtf happened

Maybe, but i live in the mountains so its always easy to tell directions.

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-022-12460-6

Here’s a pretty recent paper on this. I only skimmed it but boy does this seem wacky. It is in Nature, though, so I guess it’s at least somewhat serious…?

whatever you and @who8mydamnoreos have, I have the opposite. I’m very good at getting lost multiple times in the same locality.

Have fun schooling those plebs with the decor

I assure you, I’m really just not good at math. It just doesn’t click with me the same way physical systems do.

Being bad at math was the short explanation; the long explanation is because pure math is super unintuitive to me, I got low grades in it throughout public school and therefore never pursued a college that would go into it heavily, even though I love the sciences. I ended up just going to my mom’s Alma Mater, which is a liberal art school and therefore didn’t have an engineering department. I actually did end up getting a computational physics degree because I loved my intro to physics class so much. When I could actually relate the formulae to physical systems, I was good. Did great in my upper level calculus classes, too, because I took them in parallel to the physics classes that directly used them. However, the more theoretical classes like linear algebra I barely passed and when it got to really complicated particle/quantum stuff I suffered greatly. Wave functions are a blight upon this world and my electricity and magnetism final made me cry.

Please could you explain a bit more about the process you describe, above? Maybe with some simple examples? I’m woeful at maths but really good with mechanical and physical problems. If there’s a way I can improve upon the former, I’d love to try.

Thanks in advance!

I lived in Canada for 6 months surviving on nothing but being a medical Guinea pig (I had no working permit and due to anonymity, very little was asked of people participating in medical trials, plus they paid a decent amount especially if pain or discomfort was involved); as part of this I went through a raft of IQ tests (there was always some gambling addiction trial going at UofT for some reason) and found out that, like you, I have exceptional visual intelligence - rotating objects in my head, and figuring out if something would fit together was super skills of mine. In every other way I’m decidedly average.

Wow we’re actually very different there. My visualization skills suck. Like, I’ve tried that thing where you imagine an apple in your head and rotate it, but I can’t even fully visualize a 2d apple. If I’m looking at a system though, I can just understand how it works without visualizing anything about it. Because of that, I did have to draw out some diagrams from the word problems on the aformentioned military test…

Probably a major part to why I’m still not fully convinced I’m actually doing anything out of the ordinary. I’m not using any special skills or anything - the questions on that test felt to me about the same as asking “what would happen if you pushed this wheel from the top of this hill”.

Oh yeah, that too. I’ll sometimes do it when standing wait for something, like a lift. Hopefully it isn’t obvious from outside my trousers.

Do you always make the same volume of food or do you just have an insane amount of tupperware of all different sizes to make it just barely fit every time

I almost freak my self out lol