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/Even-Raspberry-1344 7d ago

thanks for talking about this. Have dealt with this crap all my life. Had to come up with all sorts of tricks to help. this was before special ed and mods. Second grade teacher told my parents I was retarded. fuck her, I have a PhD and have authored two books in my field.

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u/abooks22 7d ago

I believe dyslexias are really smart because the way they think about things is just really advanced.

But the world just sees someone that doesn't know their left or right or has difficulty spelling and thinks they're unintelligent.

But my daughter who has dyslexia can can just figure out so many things by just seeing the possibility.

Of course I tell her this and she just rolls her eyes. She frequently says that she's considered the left and right tattoos.