finding stuff
Jul. 5th, 2005 12:24 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
guslOne thing where I've always been "different" from very early on, is my inability to find stuff.
Especially if what I'm looking for isn't where it's supposed to be: I'll keep looking for it in the same place again and again, getting very frustrated.
Even today, in supermarkets and shops, I am extremely bad at finding what I want, so I tend to ask to avoid frustration. There's simply way too much to look through, and I have no algorithm to get to what I want. Doing a brute-force search seems a bit strange in a supermarket.
This is probably the reason why I don't let anyone touch stuff in my office. I have a strong need for my information to be organized... which may be where my encyclopedic tendencies come from.
On the other hand, when there is an algorithm, I can be quite good at search. When I was 14, I lived in São Paulo, and my mom was going to pick me up at a very large mall. For some reason, one of us missed the appointment, so I decided to go look for her car in the ~5000 car parking lot. It wasn't very hard to find it, but my mom was really surprised that I did.
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Another thing that took me a long time to get was understanding films with jumps in time, like Highlander. I just took it literally, and thought it made no sense. Our maid had to explain it to me, and I still found it hard to believe her that they made the film in such an illogical way.
I am still extremely bad at:
* following directions (I need either a map or a very formalized procedure)
* filling out forms
Especially if what I'm looking for isn't where it's supposed to be: I'll keep looking for it in the same place again and again, getting very frustrated.
Even today, in supermarkets and shops, I am extremely bad at finding what I want, so I tend to ask to avoid frustration. There's simply way too much to look through, and I have no algorithm to get to what I want. Doing a brute-force search seems a bit strange in a supermarket.
This is probably the reason why I don't let anyone touch stuff in my office. I have a strong need for my information to be organized... which may be where my encyclopedic tendencies come from.
On the other hand, when there is an algorithm, I can be quite good at search. When I was 14, I lived in São Paulo, and my mom was going to pick me up at a very large mall. For some reason, one of us missed the appointment, so I decided to go look for her car in the ~5000 car parking lot. It wasn't very hard to find it, but my mom was really surprised that I did.
---
Another thing that took me a long time to get was understanding films with jumps in time, like Highlander. I just took it literally, and thought it made no sense. Our maid had to explain it to me, and I still found it hard to believe her that they made the film in such an illogical way.
I am still extremely bad at:
* following directions (I need either a map or a very formalized procedure)
* filling out forms