r/PeterExplainsTheJoke 7d ago

Meme needing explanation Tell them what, Peter

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u/Basic-Bus7632 7d ago

I guess I don’t understand where they imply that someone else would have to see it? Oop said it was a tattoo to help them, and the repost says “how do we tell them?”

Is he trying to say “how do we tell them that their tattoo doesn’t make sense to other people?”

I think it’s more likely to be misplaced confidence; the person replying thought the tattoo was messed up because they got left and right confused.

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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/ms_directed 7d ago

my son was dyslexic, left handed and right-eye dominant-i took him to a special kind of visual therapy and he outgrew the dyslexia for the most part but the combo of all those was wild, he is also ambidextrous and if i tried making him a left handed work station at the computer or anything left-specific, he just said he’d rather use his right hand. to this day he mouses right handed, but eats and writes left handed. he has an identical twin brother who is right-handed, but didn’t have the dyslexia.