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Two the most astonishing things about humanity I learned in the last decade: there are grown up people who can't follow simple graphic instruction to assemble

Two the most astonishing things about humanity I learned in the last decade: there are grown up people who can't follow simple graphic instruction to assemble a piece of furniture there are grown up people who can't insert a duvet in it's cover... and they are proud of it

bryanrasmussen 5y ago
two of the most astonishing things I learned about humanity from a very early age: different people have different capabilities, thus many people are not able to read or write at my level or to handle higher level of abstractions, but that doesn't make me any better than them because I am not able to deal with visual information as completely as they are (which may be related to some disability) when you announce that you are not very capable in something there's always somebody who has to talk shit about it. on edit: fixed grammatical error entered while writing and dealing with hyperactive 4 year old.
- justsomehnguy 5y ago
  > different people have different capabilities Yes, that's why shipping an unassembled furniture works for the most of the folks just fine. BTW, shipping more units per truck is all green, eco and saves the world.
Al-Khwarizmi 5y ago
I'm in both groups (I suppose they may have significant overlap, as they seem related to some kind of spatial reasoning or perception). Not especially proud, but not ashamed, either. There are also things that I find trivial and intuitive and other people struggle with. For example, telling "its" from "it's" is a common example. Different strokes for different folks.
- bryanrasmussen 5y ago
  >(I suppose they may have significant overlap, as they seem related to some kind of spatial reasoning or perception). I have ADHD and perhaps some light autism (hard to say as a light autistic-like personality would seem perfectly reasonable given my earlier life), at any rate in high school - in the U.S - they decided I needed some testing and they gave me a battery of Reading comprehension / Math / Spatial reasoning tests, in the reading comprehension I tested at the top 1% of the population, math top 20% of the population, spatial reasoning lowest 3% of the population - which caused them to give me physical therapy for a year with a guy who had me do crab walks and a bunch of other physical exercises to make me capable of walking and chewing gum at the same time I guess. I have also since read there is some overlap with spatial understanding problems and autism. At any rate I still have a hard time understanding schema diagrams and UML models and of course IKEA building instructions, but I understand directed graphs and tree structures pretty well.
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bryanrasmussen 5y ago

two of the most astonishing things I learned about humanity from a very early age: different people have different capabilities, thus many people are not able to read or write at my level or to handle higher level of abstractions, but that doesn't make me any better than them because I am not able to deal with visual information as completely as they are (which may be related to some disability) when you announce that you are not very capable in something there's always somebody who has to talk shit about it. on edit: fixed grammatical error entered while writing and dealing with hyperactive 4 year old.

justsomehnguy 5y ago
> different people have different capabilities Yes, that's why shipping an unassembled furniture works for the most of the folks just fine. BTW, shipping more units per truck is all green, eco and saves the world.

Al-Khwarizmi 5y ago

I'm in both groups (I suppose they may have significant overlap, as they seem related to some kind of spatial reasoning or perception). Not especially proud, but not ashamed, either. There are also things that I find trivial and intuitive and other people struggle with. For example, telling "its" from "it's" is a common example. Different strokes for different folks.

bryanrasmussen 5y ago
>(I suppose they may have significant overlap, as they seem related to some kind of spatial reasoning or perception). I have ADHD and perhaps some light autism (hard to say as a light autistic-like personality would seem perfectly reasonable given my earlier life), at any rate in high school - in the U.S - they decided I needed some testing and they gave me a battery of Reading comprehension / Math / Spatial reasoning tests, in the reading comprehension I tested at the top 1% of the population, math top 20% of the population, spatial reasoning lowest 3% of the population - which caused them to give me physical therapy for a year with a guy who had me do crab walks and a bunch of other physical exercises to make me capable of walking and chewing gum at the same time I guess. I have also since read there is some overlap with spatial understanding problems and autism. At any rate I still have a hard time understanding schema diagrams and UML models and of course IKEA building instructions, but I understand directed graphs and tree structures pretty well.

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