Ask Lemmy

Yes, I work in IT, and get paid well for it. But no, I don't know what's wrong withbyour PC, I can't fix your e-mail, I can't recomment any hardware for you, and I most definitely don't know how to do that thing you're asking about on windows 8, 10, or 11.

I'm mostly face blind. I work in optical, so I remember people by their glasses and how they move/walk. I have to have seen someone numerous times before I.can memorize their face enough to identify them, and even then if they look like a celebrity even a little bit my memory will corrupt and I'll just see the celebrity in my head and forget what they look like.

I've just gotten very good at bullshitting through conversations

Truly horrible sense of direction/inability to navigate without GPS. People can be real dicks about this.

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I don’t like being in the sun. It seems like a normal preference, but I constantly need to explain why (the heat makes it difficult to think, I got sensitive skin, etc. )
It’s especially annoying in a country where most of the population seems to be some kind of sun worshipper :)

My difficulty remembering names and where I might know them from doesn't mean I don't care or have no memory of them. No, memory tricks do not work and three decades of trying was enough. Just let me know who and where and the memories will come flooding back.

ADHD really sucks when people frequently put so much importance on remembering the 'right' details like names. Not rmembering your name does not mean I don't like you, it means my brain filed it away a couple years ago!

As an ex musician I lost about half my hearing on both sides. When there's multiple people speaking in the same room, too loud background music / other sounds or when people talk to me from the next room, I won't be able to understand a single word.

Also my bones got the density of dry wall due to an illness and many kinds of physical activities can be outright dangerous for me. I broke one of my ribs about a week ago carrying a box upstairs to my new gaff. Slightly bumped it in my side on the banister. Big ouch.

Generally, it's easier for the internet to understand. But I cannot date because I'm incompatible with other people in a very specific, but essential way. I tend not to explain it to people irl because it's too awkward and not really essential that people know, but I have tried before.