Do you have any difficulties with cutting a straight line?

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22 Nov 2010, 12:12 am

Dear God, they should never have let me pass kindergarten. :?



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22 Nov 2010, 12:18 am

I'm gay, so I'm not expected to do straight stuff.

Oh, and you don't have enough choices in your poll! (Hey, you knew somebody is gonna say it! It was my turn.)



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22 Nov 2010, 12:23 am

Yes. I have never been able to cut in a straight line and had to ask the other students to help me with these sorts of things in school.



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22 Nov 2010, 12:30 am

I have never been able to cut a straight line.



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22 Nov 2010, 9:01 am

I have problems with this as well. If someone draws a straight line on a piece of paper, I may manage to cut in a straight line by following that line. Otherwise, I won't be able to cut in a straight line.
Incidentally, I can't draw a straight line either. I do somewhat better with this when I have a ruler or a straight edge of some sort, but even that isn't foolproof. It's difficult for me to hold the ruler/ straight edge in place while following it to draw the straight line.
I'm also unable to cut anything much thicker than paper. I may be able to cut two or three standard pieces of paper on top of each other. Anything thicker, and I won't be able to do it.
I also have difficulty tearing along a dotted line. I see how most people do this in one quick, fluid motion, and I don't know how they do it. I need to do it slowly, carefully and with great concentration if I hope to avoid tearing the paper, and even then I might accidentally make one or more small tears in the paper.
I also don't understand how most people pour cereal out of a box into a bowl without using their hands to help guide the cereal out, or accidentally spilling some of the cereal on the table and floor near the bowl. How do they aim so accurately just pouring from a cereal box into a bowl? There are more examples I can give, but I think everyone here gets the point. :oops: There are far too many every day skills that might as well be tricks better left to the likes of Houdini as far as I'm concerned. This is one of these areas where my functioning is absurdly low. It can be really embarrassing.
ETA: Wow, this was posted almost ten hours ago, and in this forum of over 40,000 members, there have been only four replies, including mine. Egads, I really am a very speshul snowflake. :P


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22 Nov 2010, 12:03 pm

I'd say I don't do anything straight but I haven't tested that theory yet.

But yeah I can't walk, run, write, draw, cut or sleep straight. Whoever I'm with usually has to go street side to make sure I don't wander off the pavement.



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22 Nov 2010, 12:50 pm

No problem, now that I've had many years of practice: :D



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22 Nov 2010, 1:59 pm

I have a hard time cutting a straight line when I'm cutting wrapping paper and I end up cutting a jagged line, instead.


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22 Nov 2010, 2:25 pm

CockneyRebel wrote:
I have a hard time cutting a straight line when I'm cutting wrapping paper and I end up cutting a jagged line, instead.

Same with me. Close inspection of my homemade curtains is proof of this.



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22 Nov 2010, 3:17 pm

Mainly with power tools. Keep your body parts out of range; all of my concentration is on avoiding mine.



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22 Nov 2010, 3:47 pm

Not really, I can do that without a ruler. Not talking about the angle of the cut though, i'm boasting here :mrgreen:.


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22 Nov 2010, 10:29 pm

Nope, I have excellent scissor skills.


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22 Nov 2010, 10:37 pm

CockneyRebel wrote:
I have a hard time cutting a straight line when I'm cutting wrapping paper and I end up cutting a jagged line, instead.

Yes, me too. And I can't wrap very neatly.

If I have to cut I either use a ruler or draw a straight line.


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22 Nov 2010, 10:38 pm

pensieve wrote:
CockneyRebel wrote:
I have a hard time cutting a straight line when I'm cutting wrapping paper and I end up cutting a jagged line, instead.

Yes, me too. And I can't wrap very neatly.

If I have to cut I either use a ruler or draw a straight line.


Same. D:



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22 Nov 2010, 10:43 pm

I would say I'm better than average but I am a perfectionist. My secret is that if you want a fairly straight cut fold the paper over where it needs to be cut, lick your finger a couple times and run it along the crease, if you get only the exact center of the fold wet you should be able to tear it in half by hand straighter than you could ever do with scissors.


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22 Nov 2010, 11:04 pm

I've never been able to cut a straight line.


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