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Asked by Paul Schroeder 1 year 57 days ago.

What are you slow to understand?



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I am very slow at understanding, often; I wondered why the baseball seemed to grow so much larger and then it hit me.

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» Answer from Dianne Lehmann Answer given 1 year 57 days ago.
Paul! How awful!

This is such an open ended question. You should get a lot of interesting answers to it.

I'm slow to understand anything math related. Simple arithmetic is fine, though.

Having no appreciable depth perception for all of my life, I learned early about the baseball. :)

I still don't understand and probably never will why not everyone flosses their teeth at least once each day.

I don't always get the punchlines to jokes and frequently have to have them explained to me. This has been a source of embarrassment for me for years. I am also slow to understand when someone is teasing me. I have no great facility for it myself and therefore seem to have difficulty recognizing when I am the recipient. April Fool's Day is usually lost on me.

I'm sure there is more, but the other thing I don't understand is why I never seem to have enough time. Gotta go!

» Comment from Paul Schroeder Comment made 1 year 57 days ago.
Cute! I have run into many audiences just like you, when I used to do 'standup'; now, I do 'sitdown!

» Answer from Jennifer Stewart Answer given 1 year 55 days ago.
Good question, Paul! I've been slow to understand that I need certain things to be in place before I can learn - and that's it's okay, I'm allowed to have those things.

» Comment from Paul Schroeder Comment made 1 year 55 days ago.
I am baffled; what certain allowable "things", in place?

» Answer from Hilda Cang Answer given 1 year 55 days ago.
The wind, the rain and tsunami

» Comment from Paul Schroeder Comment made 1 year 55 days ago.
The answer, is blowing in the wind!

» Answer from Kacycarr Answer given 1 year 55 days ago.
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Pretty much everything. Like Dianne the maths side of things for me too, and yet my two sons are both maths geniuses (honest no joke) (maybe spelling as well if i spelt geniuses wrong). Another is, the big fancy words I see you and Gregory use all the time. I see myself googling half of what you two write. I suppose its gift you both have. Your joke about the baseball - it didnt hit Greg as well did it, because then I'd "understand" why I see what you two write as a load of gobbly goop (lol)

By the way Paul I hope your back is better ( I mean that sincerely) as I know what its like. Its the same thing that has prevented me from writing as often as I used too.

» Comment from Paul Schroeder Comment made 1 year 55 days ago.
Wish you wrote more about degenerative spinal disease, instead of about diseased sexual plumbing, as I might learn more by reading your articles how to cope with my discogenic disease.

I thank you for your well wishes, nonetheless.

Greg and I write and think the way any intelligent sixteen year old might; I do not think of myself as any brighter than that, though Greg may well be much smarter than I.


» Answer from Bruce Horst Answer given 1 year 55 days ago.
Ha! There are so many things I'm slow to understand. Often I just do the old "it's better to be silent and thought a fool..." thing.

I used to wonder why I couldn't read at night, then a light turned on over my head.

See what I mean?

» Comment from Paul Schroeder Comment made 1 year 54 days ago.
You have illuminated me!

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