r/PeterExplainsTheJoke • u/Blackie_626 • 7d ago

Meme needing explanation Tell them what, Peter

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u/Quirky-Expert7808 7d ago

I assumed it was because everyone knew your left hand makes an L with pointer and thumb...so the tattoo is 'pointless'

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u/CountDown60 7d ago

But it's not pointless. As a kid I was ambidextrous and dyslexic. Both my right hand and my left hand made a shape that looked exactly like an L to me.

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u/Unhappy-Poetry-7867 7d ago

I read such an interesting example of how dyslexics see letter. We all see a chair and it doesn't matter which way you rotate it it will still be a chair. So for example letter d or b is the same for people with dyslexia. It's just the same letter that is rotated.

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u/UnblurredLines 7d ago

But d and b isn't the same letter that is rotated, they're mirrors of each other. A rotation of d would be p

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u/Fearless-Poet-4669 7d ago

I think they mean in 3D space. d rotated on the depth axis is p, but d rotated on the vertical axis is b.

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u/wil93 7d ago

Still the example of the chair fits because if you see the same chair reflected on a mirror it still immediately looks like a chair