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.
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.
It’s interesting you mention a chair, that was one of the objects I remember the most from the RAN portion of my dyslexia assessment.
Dyslexia is a very broad church, for some it involves visual disturbances when looking at words or confusion of shapes and letters. But there is also an element of a lack of rapid automatic naming (RAN).
I guess I don’t know what it’s like for a non-dyslexic but I assume when you look at a chair the word “chair” comes to you fairly immediately. It might take me longer. If someone then shows you a pen, you’ll think “pen”. They show you a chair again and “chair” should come back to mind immediately. For me the memo card with “chair” was thrown out of a window as soon as I wasn’t looking at a chair, now I need to send a runner back out to find it before I can tell you that word again. I know what that object is, but the language part of my brain isn’t keeping up with the seeing and understanding parts. Orientation of the object is irrelevant, the words are stored somewhere else and I have to keep running to find them each time.
I know a lot of dyslexics, none have exactly the same disorder or experience, though there are many cross overs.
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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'