Story comprehension. For example, I was trying to play Chrono Trigger, and at some point I just can't follow the story any more. Then I lose interest in the game.

Happens in books and movies as well.

yeah i understand the principle, but the issue is i have to "go through the motions" every time. i can't do a quick ballpark for division in the same way as for other arithmetics so i can't self-correct.

That is always the case when comparing one's complex internal life to the perceived external lives of others. It's never an apples to apples comparison. However social media was just one example. This applies to other forms of signaling as well: designer clothes, latest tech, following trends.. Basically almost anything people do that they wouldn't do if there were no one to see it.

Personally (I have this) I tend to forget to write any visual descriptions at all and focus on other senses that I can imagine. Sound, smell, feeling, etc. Also character drama and development

I got so mad trying to read Lord of the Rings because it was just pages and pages of descriptions that were completely useless to me 😂

Oh oh, one more thing that may help the long-division process seem less mystical is to realize you can stop anytime. Like, when I did the first pass and got an answer of just 30 and a remainder of 377, we could stop there!

48×30+133 = 1573

That's true. So we could say the answer is 30R133. It's just that typically we want the remainder to be below 48, because we have an answer that isn't as accurate as it could be. But there's nothing magic about going down to the zero place and not extending into the decimal places like tenths and hundredths. If we only cared about the accuracy of our answer to the nearest hundred, we could find that our answer is 30ish and be happy, and just ignore the remainder from that right away. The process of long-division is constantly about refining an answer, and gives true but maybe imprecise answers all the way along.

Viewed from that lens our answers actually went through this chain:

1573 = 0×48+1573 (0R1573)
1573 = 30×48⁺133 (30R133)
1573 = 32×48+37 (32R37)
1573 = 32.7×48+3.4 (32.7R3.4)
etc

Don't know if that helps demystify it further!

My understanding of the way that recipes are written is that ingredients are put in a list so you know if you have everything you need, or if you need to run to the store). There is no point in trying to make those new brownies if I check my pantry and I am missing the brown sugar and the store is closed.

I do suspect that most people writing recipes are the kind to plan and prepare. Admittedly, it helps for working through the recipe for the purposes of writing it.

The most recent recipe i transcribed was, very much:

• Result
  • Ingredient
  • Ingredient
  • Do something with 'em
• Result
  ...

Sure, sure

I'm not sure if that's a familiarity issue or an intuitiveness issue. I'd say I'm very good at math, but I'm also weakest at division mentally. I think part of it is we come across the other operations more frequently in life and our brains are more tuned for them, whether that be nature or nurture. I think the only way to change that is practice.

Could be something like needing a cpap machine. My husband got one and it changed how he slept entirely. Could be a lot of reasons for sleep not being refreshing though!

Two things.

First, that's just a badly written recipe then. In my experience, no matter how complicated a dish is, it can all fit on a single A4 page at 11pt, maximum two pages.
A recipe shouldn't say:
"Take a spoon and gently stir the cream for a 2 minutes till it gets a nice and foamy, soft white texture like a cloud on a hot summer day."
It should say:
"Stirr all the cream until it thickens and sticks to spoon when held upside down."
That contains all the information you need. What ingredients, how much of it, what to do, and what the result is. Most importantly, they shouldn't mention time, that's where people get hung up on and screw up the dish. The pan you use for 15 minutes on your stove with your chosen ingredients isn't the same as theirs. Especially water content in ingredients can massively change the timing.

Second, a recipe should also assume some knowledge about basic terminology like seared, baked, glazed, steamed, whipped, stirred, etc. They shouldn't be described in the recipe themselves. If that's not familiar, video recipes are definetly the better medium to teach recipes. If you watch enough of them, it will be pretty much clear what everything means.

You don't need to apologise, sorry to hear that.

Coding

This. Time means absolutely nothing to me - it's all about the order of operations.

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language and drawing and oh running (kinda breathing). sucked at all three my whole life.

Irrational meters and by extension polymeters and polyrhythms are some serious music nerd stuff, well beyond my own personal knowledge and capability.

that's true. the stakes are higher and you have way more to lose from a bad friendship.

people forget that there are lots of folks who are happy to exploit, use, and betray you. and when you are a kid that might mean they steal your $20 toy, but as an adult it can be a lot more costly. like your friend can come over, slip your stairs, and they can sue you for damages and take your entire life away. and where i live it's fairly common for people to threaten lawsuits over the stupidest shit.

Love and affection. As someone who's parents have a bunch of psychological problems, paired with growing up poor as an immigrant. I never in my life have experienced either love or any sort affection for either family nor strangers. For context my mother is a prefect example of a sociopath and I'm 80% sure my dad is autistic. Neither of those conditions exactly scream empathy. I never heard the words 'I love you' spoken with the eyes, or any sort of meaning behind them. Listening to daily (and I'm not exaggerating here) screaming matches for 30 years has given me the impression that those words don't really mean anything to them anyway. Never having had a safe place to develop those feelings and given that I'm not exactly easy on the eyes means that I have somehow managed to become full grown, mentally stable adult with empathy, and a yearning for affection and acceptance without a single fibre of love in my body. Never have I had an interaction other than quid pro quos, "I want something from you, you want something from me." never "I want you, you want me."
I literally can't imagine what it's like waking up next to somebody, feeling emotionally safe or having somebody genuinely wanting to spend time with you. I know that there are currently literally billions of people for whom this the most normal thing in the world but for me that is borderline incomprehensible. I would want to wish that kind of lonelines on my worst enemy.

I'm a dude BTW.

the question is where to start practising. i am absolutely terrible at most math; i can't balance an equation to save my life, i tend to get all my trig backwards, and the only thing i consistently get right for calculus is that odd-power exponentials are assymmetrical. despite that i struggled my way up to differential equations and found that annoyingly, combinatorics and boolean algebra came naturally.

I can't count how many times I've read or heard about something having an amazing story, only to think to myself "This is dogshit." That's when you realize just because something is popular doesn't mean it's written well.

The most recent example of this was this horror short story about a town where people couldn't die (content warning, duh), but can very much still be injured and all the shenanigans that entices. While the comments were mostly praising it, I though to myself "Did a 12 year old write this?"

How do you suck at breathing that's kinda our whole thing after leaving the ocean billions of years ago? /s

Its one of those things thats hard to explain. Makes me wonder if it could be with associated with dyspraxia as I have a lot of things that would explain. Anyway I could never get the breathing rhythm right with that or swimming and I have actually sung a lot and my breath with that I could never get to a professional level. I have had myself tested and nothing comes up although my sisters were diagnosed with excersise induced asthma.

Mine is similar. I adore music but I can’t lock into a melody to save my life. Songs I love & have heard a hundred times before—I’ll try to hum or whistle along with them and I’m all over the place. It’s like I’m purposely trying to sound bad — but that’s actually the very best I can do.

regatrdless of your age, get a (screening) sleep exam. RNT docs and audiologists do this with easy to set up devices one can plug in at home.

And this is important. Sleep Apnea is life-shortening and quality-of-life-wrecking.

What about it?

Responding in a way that isn't mean or rude.

Discipline/self control. I don't need to worry so much about the self control in that way, I'm a very chilled guy. I only really give into the intrusive thoughts when I'm cooking food, or saying something I think is funny but turns out to just be offensive.

The discipline I struggle with. I don't understand how people seem to have enough hours in the day to keep a tidy home, study a course in the evening, do a tiktok channel as an attempt at a side hustle, 40 hours a week at work, cook a full dinner every evening for family etc etc etc.

Sometimes, like once or twice a month, the stars will align and I will be on it, but I can't just be that guy on demand.

Thank you! This actually makes sense

I cannot, and I mean cannot, flip a map in my mind. North has to be pointing north or my brain just keeps messing up.

There was a test in the back of Scientific American magazine a long time ago with pairs of 3d models (the stick and ball things people use to show molecular structures) and they turned them in different directions and asked "are these identical or mirror images" how many can you answer in 5 minutes.

I stared at it for an hour and couldn't do even one. Like, I was crying by the end of the hour because I felt so stupid but my mind, it just couldn't tell.

I've never had trouble reading but learned to read very young (barely 3 year old) like a language, sort of before even knowing the alphabet that well - it's not a dyslexia situation. But I sure couldn't see those differences in the quiz. At all.

This. All of this.

Funnily enough I only understand the time signatures partly. 😅.
Like, I understand 3/4 and 4/4 and the difference in playing or listening or dancing to it. But, wtf is 6/8? That's just 3/4 as far as I am concerned.

This 1 million times.

I've always told my friends and significant others to just tell me what they are thinking or wanting. It truly is that simple with me. I do not beat around the bush, nor do I appreciate others doing that. We are adults (those I tell this to) so just tell me, "Hey, I want to do this on this day" or "Hey, I really wish you would do this thing".

"I am not, and never will be, a mind reader."

Being okay with a two party system. These people also show they understand the voting system is wildly undemocratic every election when they cry and wail about 3rd party voters.

How we vote is controlled by the states. Blue states could easily replace First-past-the-post voting, but they choose not to. Having a spoiler effect when people vote 3rd party is a policy choice, not a byproduct or accident.

Whatever, fixing things doesn't matter anymore. Good luck everyone.

Choreography. Not just dance moves, but any physical activity where I watch someone do a thing and have to repeat it using my own body. Had a hell of a time learning to tie a necktie.

Still not 100% on sarcasm, as an autistic person. Sometimes slips through the cracks for me when others use it. That's despite me being a somewhat sarcastic person.

The emphases are different:

If you denote a full bar in 1/8 notes, in 6/8 the beat goes TAK-a-ta TAK-a-ta, while in
3/4 it's TAK-a TAK-a TAK-a.

The behavior of quantum systems are just holistic and respond to a de-localized property called quantum mutual information, which is a quantifiable property from the whole structure of the experiment.

If the particle passes through the slits, if there is QMI established between its position value and something, its dynamics change than if there was no QMI.

You can replace the measuring device with a single additional particle that interacts with the one going through the slits such that the QMI between them becomes maximal and it has the same effect as measuring.

That's because the whole point of a measuring decide is to establish a correlation between itself and what it is testing to measure, so as a consequence any strong measurement establishes maximal QMI between the measuring device and what is being measured.

And since the dynamics of the system depend upon that quantity... it has the effect of altering its dynamics.

The position/momentum thing isn't just about a difficulty in knowing the position and momentum at the same time. The Kochen-Specker theorem rules that out. The difficulty is that it cannot actually have both properties at the same time. Either one is emergent from the other, or they're both emergent from a third property, like the configuration of the field.

Does money by Pink Floyd in 7-4 time feel significantly different to you than the other ones?

Is that supposed to be intuitive? You'd think the one with 3 in the name would be the one with emphasis every 3rd note

I just discovered these guys last week and have had their two albums playing on repeat ever since.

You might be nocturnal. I used to work nights and felt better getting up at 4pm every day, even if I had less sleep than I get now getting up at 8am

I'm at the point where I don't even try to integrate any more. The only time I leave my flat is against my will because I have to go to work to be able to afford to live.

Narcissism is just pathological validation craving. They're on the same spectrum. However, I'm not one to judge someone for just posting on instagram.

The difference between 7/4 and 7/8, in my mind, is one of pacing. Similar to how 4/2 and 4/4 are counted the same, but with different notation because the composer or engraver wanted to make the tempo intrinsic.

Money is a much slower song than the examples I gave, more of a laid-back pace, which shouts 7/4 in my mind. I still love it, but it feels more…I dunno, like walking with a jazzy gate rather than tripping forward, if that makes sense. And when Money does get faster it’s in 4/4.

I'll never be the friend, you know?

this hits a little too close to home

Small talk. I'm just not interested.

powers that be not having a vested interest in changing the system that ensures their power.

wow, who could have possibly imagined.

Sounds similar to Death Becomes Her

I was pretty intimidated too until I found Jimmy Vegas's Unity tutorials

Get a sleep study. This sounds like a sleep disorder. Especially if you also take naps easily throughout the day.