If they can't draw a straight line, they're not an art major or anything like that. That's my point. I was always the slowest/worst in the class in hearing notes. One class for example right now has us playing common melodies by ear as students are trying different teaching strategies. I can figure out one, maybe two phrases, by the time everyone else has figured it out and then I can't fully participate. I can't even remember the melody in such a cacophony of sound so I don't know how other people do it.

When you're consistently the worst among your peers no matter how much extra work you do on your own, it starts to wear on you as a person. Or at least if there was someone else who didn't get it so I wasn't always the only one left out.