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Dyslexia

Zep said:
Heh! We need an OD (Dyslexics Only) party at TAM4... Maybe at a Japanese restaurant?? ;)
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Seeing as I might actually be able to come, sure. I can be the righthand dyslexic. Or something. :D

I wish I could bring the 15 year old, then we could be the "right and left hand dyslexics" and we'd get it right either way. :p
 
jj said:
Why? He's like me in this regard, he knows which way to turn, it's the words "left' and 'right" that create problems.
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Because Claus has to find any and every reason to disparage me, and the moderators, apparently, don't care...
 
I sometimes give wrong direction as well. When I want to tell the driver to turn in one direction, I say the oppoosite.

Here's a little story...

Once upon a time, 2 caveman standing apart and facing each other
were "talking". Suddenly, a lion appear on the right behind of one of them.
The other caveman shouted. "Lion !!! On the left!"

They survived.
And so it was the first gene that exhibited left/right mild dylexia.
 
How disparaging it may seem, you do not want to meet someone in traffic who has any difficulties with the concepts of "left" and "right".
 
Seem to be a lot of people here who consider themselves dyslexic. (I didn't, but I find after reading a few of Geni's posts I get confused about which end of the dictionary is up. Maybe it is transmissable.)

I wonder if we are all using the same definition of "dyslexic". Being poor at spelling may have many causes - for example never having bothered to learn. I'm bad at any sport involving balls or sticks for the same reason.

We all have mental strengths and weaknesses. I can't visualise and have almost no grasp of mathematical abstracts for instance. No doubt lots of people are the same. If this is a recognised "syndrome" I have yet to hear a name for it though, which may be because doctors and neurologists don't study it. Dyslexia is seen as important, because it disrupts an ability we all use- reading and symbol manipulation.
But brains can't be good at everything. Is dyslexia just the most easily recognised of a large range of behavioural variations due to neural "wiring" variation?
 
CFLarsen said:
Exactly.

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There are also other visual cues to rely on.
 
CFLarsen said:
Like what?
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Well, believe it or not, the place the steering wheel sits helps disambiguate things.

Of course, I have no trouble driving in the UK, either. My spouse, every morning, however, does remind me "remember, left and right are backwards here, dear"...
 
CFLarsen said:
How disparaging it may seem, you do not want to meet someone in traffic who has any difficulties with the concepts of "left" and "right".
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Well, Claus, the last 4 auto accidents I've had (that would be all in the last 30 years) in all 4 cases my car has been (*&(*& stationary, and properly so, when struck.

Admittedly, one of them was when a tree fell on my trunk (that's boot, to you UK people, I think, not bonnet).

One was when it was parked and unattended.

The other two were at a stop sign (I got front-ended at a stop sign. go ahead, I dare you to figure out how that could happen at a stop sign) and at a traffic light and I was properly stopped in the right place both times.
 
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