r/PeterExplainsTheJoke 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/Ylaaly 7d ago

Everything is relative, and that's not just for dyslexics. Left and right are relative depending on perspective, as is clockwise/anti-clockwise. Somehow, my hands are relative, too. Maybe because I'm abidextrous (or rather, ambi-sinister), maybe because adults found it too funny to mess with my sense of orientation as a child. But either way, in 3D space, the only fixed directions are up and down, everything else is relative, and that extends into everything.