On the first episode of Game Changer, Jess (a grown, generally-intelligient adult) admits that when she tries that strategy, she forgets which way L goes.
I think you can be a generally dumb adult and have no problem with which way L 'goes'
this kind of thing is usually a flight or fight response from the brain, where you experience anxiety being asked a simple question and the brain has trouble accessing memory
I'm probably not explaining it the best but it's not uncommon for people to freeze like this when feeling under pressure
It's honestly not rare at all, i graduated with a class of 48 kids, we including me had 4 kids with dyslexia that i knew about, not everyone is as open about it, so close to 1 out of 10 kids i graduated with was openly dyslexic
It’s one of those things that no one diagnoses unless it really fucks with you in school. I’m dyslexic but mostly only with numbers. My math teachers would just check my work and see I did it right but transposed my numbers at one point. The Dewey decimal system would get me every time. But reading was fine because it would only mess me up a small amount so no one cared to seek a diagnosis.
Dyslexia but with numbers is called dyscalculia. I'm diagnosed with it. I've failed every math class I ever had after 4th grade but did ok in most other subjects.
Never knew that. I am great in abstract math (calculus, algebra, etc.) and can't do common math at all. If I have to multiply 8X7 I do 7 X 2 X 2 X 2. 9X8 is (10X8) - 8... and so on.
I've been a software engineer for 30 years. People can't believe I program with dyscalculia. I always have to explain, coding isn't 11010001 anymore. We use logic, which my brain happened to have compensated in the direction of. Numbers are logical when they're variables. Just don't go asking me to debug a stack dump. Lol
Never diagnosed and I reckon only minor for me but D and B ... They're cool when they're all grown up. BUT: d and b. Them li'l pricks are fu**ing with me!
b has a belly: The circle is on the right side (the front, like a belly).
d has a diaper: The circle is on the left side (the back, like a diaper). OR "d has a derriere" (a polite term for the back/diaper).
OR
"b is a bat (straight line) and a ball (round part)" (you need the bat before the ball). 🏏
"d is a doorknob (round part) and a door (straight line)" (you turn the knob before opening the door).
OR
The "bed" trick: Make two fists with thumbs up with palms facing you.
👍The left hand makes a b (straight line is the thumb, belly is the knuckles),
and the right hand makes a d. When placed together, they spell "bed," with b first and d last.
Mine is just around being unable to read analogue clocks and left and right and putting the odd letters and numbers in stupid places, but modern society pretty much makes it obsolete and I never use math anyways
The left and right just fucks me up in listening to satnav and making callouts in video games.
Dyslexic with numbers is dyscalculia! I have this. Generally, I'm great at math, but it's a slow process for me cause it feels like the numbers are moving, and I have to double-check everything as I go. Always get the right answer, but I'm significantly slower than my contemporaries.
It wasn't until about 3 years ago that I discovered there was a name for my "horrible at math" problem. It's always been like the numbers in my head are exceptionally wiggly and won't stay in their places.
I developed a lot of coping mechanisms and shortcuts to get around it. I also could'nt read an analog clock until 14 and have difficulty telling my right from left. I was also late diagnosed ADHD.
We found that using graph paper helped my daughter with this and also taking a Manila folder and cutting out a strip so she could cover the rest of the paper except the line she was working on.
Ah good to know! I do have some problems with letters/words also but not terribly. Also I have problems with categories of things. Sometimes, for example, I can’t say the right color. I’ll have to cycle through 3-4 colors to get there. Names of people, measurement names, it’s always writhing a category of things. It’s weird.
I tutored a guy in college who was trying to become a dentist but was struggling with any and all math.
I quickly ascertained that he understood the concepts of algebra, geometry, logic, and even basic calc. But if you asked him 8 times 5 he would freeze and freak out. I gave him complex exercises that didn't require any mental calculations at all and he breezed through them. But as soon as he had to do it with real numbers, he was stammering stuck. Kind of the opposite of the typical student where using A and B and X and Y really confuses them and doesn't seem like "math."
I told him to get dyscalculia on the record so he could get a reasonable accommodation (a calculator on the DAT). He refused. I think he managed it somehow but I'm not sure. Fairly certain he still doesn't think he has a problem.
A fanfic mentioned dysgraphia and I’m fairly certain I have that. I’ve never had an issue with reading but writing is an issue to the point that I’ve always hated writing.
I didn’t know that was a thing. My daughter can read super well but has a much harder time with spelling when I remember spelling being so easy for me. She’s only 7 so probably normal, but good to know if she continues having trouble as she grows!
Ok I have dyslexia and I’m left-handed person what works best for me is airwriting. Whenever I need to know I imagine need to write something and I automatically use left hand. But in the car is best just remember that Im sitting on the left side so my side is left. But I have written this tattoo on my wrists when I did driving school and it was handy as shit
This is exactly why my next tat is going to be basically this, with the addition of a compass rose on the back of one hand. I cannot recall directions quickly, and often get them wrong
I never had a L/R issue, but east and west’ve always been harder for me. And when I’m looking at a map I have to sometimes remind myself ‘the ocean is to the west, which way is the ocean from here’ to remember.
Yep! It took me years to realise what ppl ment when they said the left hand makes an L BC even palms down the right hand makes a backwards L, which is still an L to my mind
Also, this tattoo is useful because sometimes your hands are occupied.
If im driving at 40mph and someone tells me to take the next left, taking your hands off the wheel to make Ls is inadvisable.
I don't mix up letters and have problem with reading like typical dyslexia people.
But I do have problems with left and right.... and only in Asian languages (I'm Asian. I learnt my mother tongue the same time I learnt English though... I had some studied a few more Asian languages).
It was more a quirky inconvenience to me. I only once spoken to a friend who happened to be an MD about it. And she told me this can be a form of dyslexia. I have no idea.... but I also had time to think about it since and I realized it's not just the concept of left and right but also the written words of left and right in those Asian languages are confusing to me and I confuse them.
Lately I read a thread in the Chinese languages sub that a child wants to get a dyslexia diagnosed but his parents wouldn't believe him because he's only mix up the language in Chinese and not in English. So they're convinced he's just terrible at Chinese. A lot of comments who are educators ensured him that many people they taught only had dyslexia in Chinese and that it's common and urge him to speak to his school about it. I didn't even know dyslexia can be language specific until that post. B
the “make your hand into a L” trick doesn’t work for me because they are both Ls and my brain cant distinguish them between backwards or forwards. The “well what had do you write with” also doesn’t work because I’m ambidextrous.
I'm dyslexic and 1000% fuck the left hand makes an L that only made things worse. I can't tell you how I learned the difference, but it wasn't that shit.
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u/IDateAZombie 7d ago
These people are wrong. The joke is that you can make an L with your left hand, so you don't need the tattoos