Upon a Pale Horse

[cornerofmadness]

Last week it was my cousin's nephew who died and my friend's father, today the last of my grandfather's siblings passed away, my aunt Marge. Honestly I was never very friendly with her, she was a bit of a hard woman and I only really ever saw her on pool party or poker nights. In fact last year at my cousin's graduation party was probably the first

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[helliongoddess]

I'm really really really left-handed, mirror-wrote everything in grades K-2 - like DaVinci (similarity ends there, sadly.) Oddly enough, the dyslexia (which they didn't know from adam back then, they told my parents I was stupid) didn't extend to spelling or reading - I was way ahead of the scale on those things. But I do have dyscalcula, and reverse numbers a lot - and totally suck at math or anything that requires mathematical thinking. Which I guess makes me pretty much totally right-brained.

I do write back-handed, with my hand curved around - like Obama. I've read more than once that lefties that do that are more often prone to dyslexia-type problems, for some reason. They tried to get me to write "normally" but it didn't work. But I can't do much of anything with my right hand unless it involves lots of repetition and muscle memory (it took me forever to learn to finger pick on guitar, and I still suck at it - and I never could use a pick, at all.)

I've had a terrible time learning to do things like knitting and crochet. Anything that involves a lot of directional switches and steps will fry my brain, quickly. (I suck at chess, too.) And yet I test in highest percentiles on SAT & IQ type tests. I've concluded I'm basically a good guesser - good at intuiting things and seeing patterns,but very bad at thinking them out logically. *lol*

[cornerofmadness]

I could do the mirror writing as a kid but lost that ability before my teens ran out. Also dyslexic/dyscalculic which made my math minor a bitch and a half

I'm good at the stuff you're bad at b ut I DO suck at things that require spatial thinking.

I used to freak the surgeons teaching me out big time.Most surgeons have to spin around the table to complete work. I just switched hands as needed

[helliongoddess]

Must be nice to be able to switch-hit like that. I broke my finger in 5th grade and had to wear a cast for several months (busted up the joint) - I couldn't write at all with my right hand, so ended up clutching one of the big fat first grader pencils with the two fingers sticking out of the cast.

Do you have trouble with left-right - like if someone asks "which way do I turn?" do you have to go through a long drawn-out process to get the answer - and get it wrong half or more of the time? I usually give up and just point. *lol*

It's frustrating to feel so smart and so stupid at the same time. But it's probably not such a bad thing - I'd probably have been really insufferable - like my dad was - if I hadn't been borh this way. Although being fat, tall, and largely-blind were more than enough to bring me down several pegs and keep me humble, too. O__o

[cornerofmadness]

it's easy for me, the nerve damaged hand, the shoulder surgery, none of the slowed me much

no i'm very very good with directions though sometimes when I'm talking and demonstrating in class I do get them backwards.

snort. I suspect I'm pretty insufferable