Skills?

Adrian_Scope

What skills have you found to be most useful in your life?

It could be anything, cooking, gardening, drawing, writing emails, anything!

baller5

does figuring out my microwave count? some are like nasa space control I miss the simple old ones

SoapySoutar

https://forum.scope.org.uk/discussion/comment/1110697#Comment_1110697

I could say the same for this tablet i'm using. I have failed the test at applying online for a bus pass, and will now have to get the library staff to do it for me. 🙄

SoapySoutar

https://forum.scope.org.uk/discussion/comment/1110710#Comment_1110710

I haven't a clue, some nonsense about camera permission, all Double Dutch to me. 🤔

I don't want to join 'WhatsApp' or 'Yoti' to complete the process, and i doubt all the technically challenged in my community do it either!

It was only a few years ago, that we had actually council offices to go to for this kind of thing. Went the same way as the bank branches, lol.

SheffieldMan1976

Over the years I've kind of developed the skill to NOT have the desire to knock annoying people into next Thursday.

Ross1975

Probably cooking, most of the time I'm able to cook really nice meals, my mum always really liked them and I really like them myself.

Catherine21

Im good at cooking gardening making things look nice but i have to be hyperfocused to carry out any tasks im all or noting so if i do the garden i will buy 30 plants same with food all reciepes and decorating im painting my bedroom black atm

dolfrog

Lip Reading

I did not know that i could lip read until professor David Moore told me in the 2000s that everyone can Lip Read.

So later when i was watching and UK based film of TV I turned the sound off, and there I was Lip Reading the cast.

I now understand with more information from prof. David Moore that Lip Reading helps me work around my lifelong Auditory Processing Disorder and why i have problems in groups of more than 4 or 5 people

michael57

https://forum.scope.org.uk/discussion/comment/1110775#Comment_1110775

how would you lipread a ventriloquist asking for a friend 😐️

SoapySoutar

https://forum.scope.org.uk/discussion/comment/1110788#Comment_1110788

Don't worry about lip reading them, most likely they will be saying 'bottle of beer' or 'sausages'. 🍺🌭

dolfrog

https://forum.scope.org.uk/discussion/comment/1110788#Comment_1110788

A ventriloquist is an entertainer who performs the illusion of speaking or producing sounds without moving their lips, making it appear as though the voice is coming from another source, usually a puppet or "dummy

The definition from google.

So I would avoid such a situation.

I need to see real people talking in their way of talking face to face and one to one.

Catherine21

https://forum.scope.org.uk/discussion/comment/1110833#Comment_1110833

https://forum.scope.org.uk/discussion/comment/1110775#Comment_1110775

Thats so intreasting i dont look anyone in the face i think i probley cut that sence off even watching tv i have subtitles on i never thought of lip reading and what a skill that is to have

SheffieldMan1976

https://forum.scope.org.uk/discussion/comment/1110775#Comment_1110775

I learned lipreading back in the 80s due to my deafness.