it's wild to me that there's situations where somebody says "oh yeah, my brain happens to have a complete inability to do <thing>" and another person is like "what the hell! i literally cannot imagine not being able to do that. if my brain couldn't do <thing> i wouldn't even be able to think!!!", and yet, go on thinking they do! and whatsmore, the list of <thing>s for which this is applicable is hundreds of pages long