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[shootingstar]

I always said that I am spatially impaired, can't see in 3 dimensions. All of my design attempts have been disasters, I know good design when I see but I can't visualize it at all. I hate moving furniture. Interior design is excruciating torture to me. I can't organize physical objects to save my life, but I will slavishly follow written diagrams. Which fits with my visual score of zero.

Thanks for posting the link, it was fascinating.

I'm sure you probably have other strengths --not yet discovered or you've taken them for granted.

Like you I'm not keen on interior design. But at the same time, I can take a 1-2 dimension sewing pattern, sketch and 1 dimension surface of fabric and be able to visualize if a particular design will fit/complement a person well. I don't like attempting sculpting nor carving but very good creating on mechanical process of matching 1-dimensional sewing pattern pieces that I've altered in advance and create a 3-D garment. Or working with 1-2 dimensional surfaces to create art (ie. painting, etc.)

My wayfinding skills aren't as great as others, yet as a librarian for over 2 decades, I do NOT memorize call numbers of books, etc., I know by visualizing the location of a book amongst thousands of other books in layouts of several libraries that I have designed. I tend to go to the exact bay, exact shelf ...and will readjust my visual memory if 10,000 books have to be moved to open up more shelf space...which has happened in several libraries. Maybe what's needed is for me to be more alert on visual cues outside when I end up in a strange neighbourhood or go out the wrong subway exit in order to quickly reorientate myself.

I was watching a documentary on reading skills of children and how their brain acquires comprehension of written words and sounds. Most interestingly there is a difference between children who have to learn and memorize a language script that is based on a pictogram (ie. Chinese) vs. children learning the words made of letters. Different parts of the brain are required for these 2 different written language types. They did demonstrate brain processing of children who were fortunate enough to be equally bilingual in reading English and Chinese...2 different areas of the brain were used to process each language.

I agree with Tri Girl, that a person can change. I know I have changed in terms of learning capabilities since I graduated from university because I've had to reorientate certain skills completely to make them applicable for a job from the theoretical (at school). And it's tough to reorientate the brain for other required skills that are required for certain jobs. But it can be done, it just may not come naturally to a person and requires alot more (painful) effort.