Blindness

My mother thinks she's brain damaged.

She can't do math. As she got through calculus and statistics, I didn't believe her. She could balance her checkbook in the days before cheap calculators and computers. She's astoundingly analytic.

She can't connect real world problems (where there are some) to equations. She can't see math.

Recently, it's occured to me that I'm also brain-damaged. I miss connections between specifics of behaviour and their underpinnings. I have to have everything explained, I often can't retain it.

My blind spot is a surprise. How could someone so curious miss -- well -- what I do miss!!