Reading UIs is definitely a skill, I can navigate most menus regardless of language. But it makes it harder to design stuff for the average user.

If you can't explain it simply, you don't know it well enough.

That's one of my favorite sayings.

I am grateful and envious: I would love to have the same ability. Stuff is crystal clear in my mind, and I still hardly can transform it into something someone else can parse… analogies are great, but finding the correct one is often beyond me

I excelled at tech support with this skill. I can quickly figure a person's technical ability. If you talk below them, they're insulted. If you talk over them, they're insulted. Gotta hit 'em where they live.

I have this but explaining business situations with analogies to history

I can do this too. It feels like I'm trying to flex my jaw muscles downwards. And makes that satisfying crackling noise when they open up.

Same; can you also, by any chance, wiggle them?

TIL there are people who can’t do this

I can pop them also! Which is good because I need to do it frequently because of sinus problems 'clogging' them.

I can do this but it makes me yawn

That right there is a skill I learned. When I was a teenager I got these terrible sinus headaches, driving up and down hill would get me. Then I went to flight school. I can control the pressures in my head pretty precisely now.

Holy shit, I can do that too. I noticed just now because of your comment.

Thank you for unlocking my new power.

Ear rumbling!

Do you know people who can't do this? Seems pretty common.

In my case I just feel like I have a strong intuition about there being something off about someone. Usually I can't even put my finger on what it is exactly yet I seem to often be right.

It's the dead eyes. Every photo of Mr. Beast has them.

My job in a nutshell. Not a bad job, per se, but I'm the kind of employee who get paid handsomely to show up at weird corners of the world to make stuff work with whatever resources I can muster. Planning ahead can only get you so far.

Are you also good at catching stuff that falls without ever looking?

I was in my 40s until I admitted to my self that spatial awareness simply doesn't work in my brain. My young friend across the street is excellent and I often have to call him over to assemble something I've taken apart. In fact, I'm going to hit him up to help me reassemble a shed. Used, it came with no directions and no way in hell do I figure out how it goes together. And I took it apart!

In elementary school standard tests I'd excel at every subject except spatial reasoning. I'd try! But no, I have no idea how those shapes rotate to make the shape wanted.

Every damn person every damn day. It's a sickness

Yeah, any time I watch Alone I don't get how people can tap out after like a week because they're lonely.

Easy to understand! We're social animals and evolved to cooperate. We're not strong enough to survive 100% on our own and thrive in groups of ~150. You can only live like you do because it's now and not 10,000 years ago.

My husband is this way. I take advantage of it regularly. I used to consider myself tech savvy but I went into the arts and the tech world left me behind. I used to try and muddle through it, but eventually I just stopped trying because I’d be doing everything “right” without success and then my husband would look over my shoulder and suddenly it would work. So now I swallow my pride and ask him sooner.

Repairmen hate me!

No I don't. I sometimes even give free tips to my customers on how to do something themselves so that they don't need to pay for me to do it for them.

I struggle with mechanical jobs, but I try anyway. About everything I can repair, upgrade, repurpose, etc. I but almost nothing new. If everyone had those habits and knowledge, the economy would collapse.

I'm a professional driver. Used to be a trucker, have spent a lifetime working shitty blue collar industrial jobs. I can back any trailer, with any vehicle, into any space. I'm a ninja on a forklift, a crane, a loadall, whatever. I've spent thousands of hours just parking stuff. I can't parallel park. I mean I can, just not quickly, gracefully, or taking all the gods names in vain.

I don't believe in free will so I always think to myself that if I was in their shoes I'd be acting the same way. It doesn't mean I have endless tolerance for bad behavior or that it doesn't affect whether I want to be around said person or not but I don't act as if they're personally responsible for who they are or that they're actively choosing to be that way.

Do you go through the whole interview process or do you just reach out to competitors and ask what they'd pay for someone with your resume?

Same, but it sounds like you're a little better than I. Reading posts on reddit years ago was what made me realize that some people can't picture things in their head.

I'm a solid 1 on this scale, had assumed everyone else was as well.

It's funny - I am very good at knowing what will look good, design sense is strong, and I can throw together food and know what it will taste like.

But I wouldn't say I literally see or taste when I do this. It's a different sort of perception.

I do absolutely see, hear, taste and feel in dreams so I know my mind CAN do it, it's just not how I figure things out, it's a different sort of imagining.

Once I took this giant thc gummy and learned how to whistle quite loud. Went to sleep, woke up and can't do it anymore 😭

Reminded me of a time when my gf's dad blamed video games for why gf and I can't whistle.

My younger brother, who taught himself how to play guitar, was amazed that I can whistle in tune.

I yelled at a coworker once for this. He was kind of a slacker, and known as such. One day I was to be teaching him my line (plastic extrusion and slitting). It was a tough product and the blade box was shit and wrapped. It's a tense moment, we have to fix it quickly and do a restart, there is so much to do, and it's a giant pain in the ass.

I go to grab a tool, and like, be on your phone when things are good, I don't care, but it takes two to run this shit. I come back and he's still just staring at his phone, Facebook of all places, instead of fucking helping clear the wrap and prep the line. I yelled at him to go sit down if he wants to be on his phone as now he's in my way. I told him to get tf off my line if he wanted to play gossip on Facebook.

The only lady in my department, I don't think anyone spoke to him like that before. He put his phone away the rest of the shift and I avoided working with him again. This dude worked there longer than I did, knew less than I did, and got paid more. Fuck outta here.

There is a tv show called 60 days in. It's about sending people into these US shithole prisions without anyone knowing that they don't belong. The idea is to figure out what goes wrong and where drugs come from and so on. Anyway, they always talk about solidarity confinement and how bad it is. Like the biggest and baddest dude is worried about getting into "the hole" Then there was this one guy who was on the show who got into solitary confinement and enjoyed the shit out of it. He would get in trouble again and not do anything to get out of the hole.

I always felt like this guy.

With age, I have become more introverted also. I guess i havent met that many amazing people. But ive been working in offices a lot, so probably why.