Is anyone else mentally deficient in a certain area?

Question

I feel stupid when it comes to technical things. Truly understanding science. Relating science to everyday life. Math is okay, English great, philosophy and all that crap fine. So it is not ALL logic, but many logical things I do not grasp. I can't put little pieces together to make a big whole. It would take me longer than average to learn how to change my own oil, for instance, or learn how to assemble a boudoir. I would slow it down by wanting to know every little detail, and what if this happens, and why can't....I could learn it and be as competent as average, it just takes longer. And some things, I fear, I just could not grasp.
Sometimes I feel so incredibly stupid in certain areas. Please don't tell me this is because I am a female, because I know plenty of women that are engineers and very practical people. And I know some men that are brilliant academics but could not run a printing press very well.

And some things I just can't visualize....engineering. How this makes this work etc.

Answer 1

You basically answered your own question - everyone is mentally deficient in a certain areas. All people have blocks and limits. Anyone who thinks they understand everything is throwing bull.
Some people grasp the basic and belief they understand the subject in depth - whereas the more they learn the more they understand how little they knew.

Answer 2

It has nothing ti do with your female genes, because I am also a woman and I am brilliant at all this technical stuff. It may, however, have to do with being raised as a girl. These things are not difficult, but they need practice. If your father took you along or asked you to help him every time he changed the oils at his car, at his boat, since you were a child, like mine did, you'd be pretty good at it too. And if you try many times asembling furniture and drilling and buying DIY tools, you'll get the gist of it. It was not so easy for me the firts time to assemble a couch I had bought, but after many such works at home - not always successful - I learned.

Answer 3

You aren't alone. There are things I simply don't understand because I am not wired that way.

I have a lot of trouble with history. Always had a problem with some of the simple things that most people just take for granted.

Math I can do well and I do my own taxes.

Creative writing I got fair at, but didn't have time to pursue it early on and so now having to kind of start all over again.

So everyone's forte is different.

Don't feel stupid!! Cause you aren't.

Answer 4

I don't think so but most people are not good in everything. Rare person is.

Your personal abilities? Hard to say. Could be partially because of different interests. Could be innate ability or it could be a lack of practice. Some things might also not lend to deep analysis.

For me, I'm not very mechanically inclined either but math is no problem. On the otherhand, I've not spent much time with such things either.

Answer 5

You may be brilliant on paper..but when it comes to tests...I suck big time.
I Can tear down a machine and have it running like new..but ask me to write it out.....DUH.
As for the girly thing...I don't believe mechanical ability is a guy thing..."it's how it's taught and learned"...I taught my daughter to rebuild her brakes on her car.....and install shocks...all the help she got from me was a lot of finger pointing.
So no..People are not stupid..it's how they are taught. that makes them either competent or not.

Answer 6

everyone has a weakness, or else we would all be perfect. its just part of being human. rather than dwell on your weak points, think about how well you do other things. hang in there!