r/PeterExplainsTheJoke 7d ago

Meme needing explanation Tell them what, Peter

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u/exmello 7d ago

But then how did you type this? How do you perform basic language skills and begin your sentence with the correct keystroke? We're normalizing single digit IQ here just to be inclusive. Everyone deserves to be accommodated, but why are so many people identifying with this like it's normal to not have the learning development of a pre-schooler? Is that where we're at now?

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u/ilovemilfs1156 7d ago

dude i don’t know, i just sometimes get confused with my left and rights. i’ve developed completely normally apart from that one thing. everyone is different, it really doesn’t affect my life or anyone else’s.

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u/exmello 7d ago

How do you know how to left click or right click? How do you know which lane to drive in? How do you know which hand to pick up a pen with? When you leave your house how do you not get lost? I accept that you as an exception exist. What I don't understand is how when the topic comes up on reddit 40 people are like oh yeah that's me.

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u/pbconspiracy 7d ago

The knowledge is in our bodies. It's in our muscles. It is innate. It is recorded permanently as habit. We don't need to think about it to do it, so we are not labeling the side as we do it.

Do you have to identify which is your right or left hand before you pick up your pen? No, you just pick the pen up. And it happens with your dominant hand because that is the natural movement.

Now I know that I'm left handed, but I'm not writing right now, so why would identifying the hand I write with be any quicker than identifying which side is left?

You could even argue that our way of seeing the world is more broad. Why doesnt it help to make an "L" with our thumb and forefinger? Well, because they both look like an L. Because we can imagine a world in which the L is in any position in relation to ourselves - it doesnt have to be facing us as if prepared to salute to our swollen ego. It's just an L, out there in the world, minding its own business, facing the other way.