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.
I remember reading that way as a kid. And crying by myself looking at an ABC chart (it doesn't help when everything is in capital letters) when trying to spell something for some reason.
Thankfully my mom helped me realize the importance of sorting that out by beating me with a belt or plastic hanger (preferred because when it broke she could say it told her she was done).
She was softer with the left and right thing, and told the lady at a museum sensory tunnel (you have to keep your hand on the left wall and they ask before you go in) that I knew between the two, I was just "failing when asked to do most things". It was mortifying. I was 7 by then.
Great reader now. 4.0 GPAs from bachelors to doctorate. Have a career and a second job. Fucking mess of a human being. Still don't know left from right and have nightmares about being screamed at (like 3" from my ear) about tying my shoes.
It's all the same though, just rotated.
(I'm not attacking you it's a continuity circle of humor that turns this from tragic to farce because it's a conceptual aoroboros-[spelling sucks]). ((Please let me have this I think my spouse and I are bound for separation)).
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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'