Motor skills

betwixt wrote:Like in stubbing my toe, I knew I did it too often for it to be normal and I felt like the furniture was stubbing my toe, or the keys wouldn't go into the keyhole on purpose. Silly, but that's how it felt.

Hmm.. this made me think. I actually have a little trouble with fine motor skills. I never had much trouble getting a key into the hole, but I've had some other difficulties. It took longer than usual to learn to tie my shoes. Peeling a potato still takes long, despite the fact that potatoes has been one of the main dishes in our household, since I was a kid. Oh, and I also stub my toes into things, and it just hurts like there's no tomorrow.

How about school performance on you guys? How well have you performed in different subjects?

Personally, I always excelled at learning languages and writing. I was fluent in English when some other kids still couldn't put together a simpple english sentence, and didn't need to read a lot of grammar, because I already had it in me. I had a slight trouble learning maths though.

I had a little motor trouble with simple tasks, mainly catching my elbows on things at the table and knocking them over (but then I was also always growing at an obscene pace. I don't recall having much problem beyond that kind of thing (discovering that I was suddenly too tall to run under something I used to), but I also practiced a great deal to improve my manual dexterity. If it could be assembled, I put it together. If it had been assembled, I took it apart and put it together.

I've got plenty of scars from accidents, slipping and cutting myself with knives or other sharp/harsh objects, but not really much more than anyone else who spent as much time fooling around with things like that. If you have spent any time building computers, working on cars, or anything like that, you've spent some blood in the assembly.


As far as school is concerned, I was a bit the opposite. I learned math and science as easily as I inhaled, English wasn't much work since it was native to me, but I hated History and absolutely loathed Spanish. I did learn German relatively well... it's the only language I'd come across that didn't break its own rules. I loved that about German. Concrete rules.

The biggest problem I had in school was trying to figure out why it was necessary to not only learn something, but then prove over and over and over again that I'd learned it. I only cared about finding the answers, not writing them down or doing constant homework about them.

I was good at English, poor at math. Took me forever to get counting money, fractions and multiplication. I couldn't get Geometry though I thought it was cool, algebra I did okay at, Trig okay, Calculus--fergetaboutit! On math tests I would often find my way to the answer but not always the way it had been taught.

I liked learning new things but if it was boring or I already learned it yet didn't remember it, my brain would just shut off and I'd read the same thing over and over and my brain was like, sorry, no admittance. My good short term memory allowed me to cram for tests and do allright.