<human>: Summarize the given text in a few sentences.

Because I can't learn **shit.**  It's a miracle that I am able to breathe without detailed instructions and frequent reminders.

When I was a child, I was allegedly "gifted", which among other things meant a lot of people fawned over me unnecessarily and told me how wonderful I was all the time, much to my constant chagrin.  A lot of things came to me naturally with no consciously active effort.  Whatever improvements I might have made in those skills came naturally also, through use alone, just like physical exercise.

But certain things did not come to me at **all**, let alone effortlessly.  I struggle with basic math.  I try from time to time to figure out how to write scripts in Python for my own use, and end up spending 3 hours futilely trying to figure out why one method of doing something is better or worse than another method.  It's this way for most other things, in fact.  I never get anywhere because I don't see immediate progress.  I don't "just get it" the way I "just get" certain other things, and this **frustrates** and **angers** me to a degree that cannot be adequately described.  The older I get (38 in a few days), the less and less, uhh... *agile* my brain feels.

It is not part of my experience to go through a process of lacking a skill, working on learning a skill, and then eventually having the skill.  I can either do it right away, or I can't do it **ever**.

It occurs to me that I've gone my whole life without having the slightest idea how to actually **learn anything**.  I can't describe how to learn something any more than I can describe how to digest food.  Trying to actively study and learn something ultimately becomes an exercise in self-loathing. My frustration level goes through the roof, along with my blood pressure and irritability.

So, HOW do you do it?  How do you learn things?
<bot>: I have no discernible talents or abilities of any description, and I don't understand how to go about acquiring them.  How do you learn things?