Dear So and So

[Crankin]

Blueprints and diagrams look like a jumble of shapes to me. I really cannot read them. Nor, can I follow instructions or diagrams to put together anything. Sometimes I can learn by watching someone, but it would have to be in person. Watching You Tube has the same effect on me as trying to read directions, when it's to do with assembling stuff.
This is why I don't do any of this stuff. It got me into trouble when we remodeled our kitchen and bathrooms, because I was shown plans, and said "fine," and in the end I was stunned when I saw the way the cabinets were in the bathroom. Looking at those plans gave me no clue. I get agitated just having to deal with this stuff.
Not that I don't like nice things!

[Pax]

I think it's all in the way we process information and the way we see the world. My wife can't put air in a bike tire, seriously; she is a highly educated and intelligent woman but no matter how many times I've shown her, she just can't get air in... and manages to let all remaining air out. She can, however, sit and learn a computer program in a very short time. I can stare at the same thing all day and it's like trying to read something written in Cyrillic. We're a good balance.

[ny biker]

Dear hormones:

Enough with the hot flashes and the migraines and the water retention weight gain so I can't fit into any of my jeans anymore. Just go away. I'm so sick of you.

[ny biker]

Blueprints and diagrams look like a jumble of shapes to me. I really cannot read them. Nor, can I follow instructions or diagrams to put together anything. Sometimes I can learn by watching someone, but it would have to be in person. Watching You Tube has the same effect on me as trying to read directions, when it's to do with assembling stuff.
This is why I don't do any of this stuff. It got me into trouble when we remodeled our kitchen and bathrooms, because I was shown plans, and said "fine," and in the end I was stunned when I saw the way the cabinets were in the bathroom. Looking at those plans gave me no clue. I get agitated just having to deal with this stuff.
Not that I don't like nice things!

It took some time for me to figure out the cabinet diagrams for my kitchen, but I was glad I did. The contractors left out a spacer in the corner, and the result was that I couldn't open one of the cabinet doors. I was glad that I was able to figure out the problem and the solution before calling the contractor -- it made the fix much easier and faster.

But of course there are plenty of other things that agitate me! I so wish I had an executive assistant to keep my life organized for me. For starters I would like someone to go online and get all my health insurance EOBs for the year, figure out why the FSA people are accusing me of trying to use my funds illegally again even though I only ever use them for doctors, prescriptions and contacts, and get reimbursed for all the copays that have been building up for months. And call the insurance company or FSA company as needed to resolve any issues. If someone would just take care of that for me, it would be awesome.

[Crankin]

I guess I make up for my lack of visual-spatial and fine motor skills by being very organized and verbal. I don't like doing the stuff you mentioned, and DH always is on those thigs immediately, but I know what to do and how to handle it. I seriously don't know how some of the people I work with survive. They don't do their notes and are months behind in treatment plan reviews. Of course, it's the director's fault that she allows this. We went to electronic medical records last week and now it's going to be a little more in your face if you haven't done stuff. They refuse to do work at home (where I do everything, except my notes, which I do immediately after each person), and now we can do it without getting permission to be on the server or breaking HIPPA laws.
OK, that's my rant.

[shootingstar]

I guess I make up for my lack of visual-spatial and fine motor skills by being very organized and verbal. I don't like doing the stuff you mentioned, and DH always is on those thigs immediately, but I know what to do and how to handle it. I seriously don't know how some of the people I work with survive. They don't do their notes and are months behind in treatment plan reviews. Of course, it's the director's fault that she allows this. We went to electronic medical records last week and now it's going to be a little more in your face if you haven't done stuff. They refuse to do work at home (where I do everything, except my notes, which I do immediately after each person), and now we can do it without getting permission to be on the server or breaking HIPPA laws.
OK, that's my rant.

I'm not very good at repairing physical things. I hated doing puzzles that involved 1,000 pieces. But I have to remind myself that sewing, viewed as somehow "lesser" because it maybe not as dirty work /involving infrastructure parts, is also quite technical with abit of artistic vision thrown in. For the several decades, I wondered why my mother would choose boring, bland colours to sew garments. Yet, she could draft simple garments without using a pattern OR use a complex sewing pattern without her ability to read English and create a well-fitted garment for other people of different sizes and shapes. Or take an existing garment, rip up nearly half it up and create a completely different style. That too is technical ability. I have strong sewing skills but not like my mother's.

I'm different, I do have natural artistic ease /tendency to compose visuals, layouts from complementary shapes, colours and natural using the Golden Mean for aesthetically pleasing proportion of space. My mother doesn't really have this. But she has natural mathematical skill which will never be fully realized. She would do certain calculations in her head while my father watched, waiting for her to spit out the numbers. Yes, my father was more artistically inclined..again never fully realized. It reflected in his interests also.

Amazing how we just have to see natural abilities/skills in others in a way/totally different light that requires several ....decades of understanding.

Only recently I've come to realize that I honestly think creatively in a non-linear way as well as linear, simultaneously. This skill/style has become accentuated because of my jobs in past few decades... You would not believe it, but some reference librarians have to sharpen simultaneously analytical/logical thinking PLUS creative, non-linear thinking to help clients....within a matter of a few minutes.

The end result is me is spouting off thoughts that sometimes jump off into another direction suddenly.... I love interdisciplinary thinking, cross-fertilization of subject matters for something new/ a solution.