That Moment...

With me it's getting things flipped around. Typing the second or third letter before the first, hitting p when I want b, confusing 3 o'clock for 9 o'clock on an analogue clock, reading things wrong . . . another interesting effect is spatial issues. I cannot get on a down escalator without having both hands on the railing. Made life interesting when I was in London's Paddington Station on the way back from the Continent and I had to get down a level for my train. No elevator, no stairs. Had to trust a fellow traveller to carry my bags for me.

 

So dyslexics struggle with numbers too? I didn't know this. I always thought number blindness was called dyscalculia.

 

I don't think it was the numbers as much as the hand positions, seeing it backwards.

 

Did I turn over two pages? So dyslexics also struggle with the fingers on a clock?

I'm not taking the piss here, or making light of dyslexia - pretty certain I have dyscalculia myself, even though it's never been diagnosed - but I always thought dyslexia was specifically words/letters.

 

That moment when you decide to simultaneously rip off Star Wars and Tolkien in your WIP by centering the plot around a magic ring that allows the wearer to shoot lightning from his fingertips. Although Tolkien didn't invent magic rings in any sense.

 

I think it is fascinating that your dyslexia allegedly ties into spatial issues. I've always wondered how the inability to properly process the geometry of words and letters (I realize dyslexia is more than this) doesn't affect other areas of behavior.

 

Lightning. Rings. Are. Valid.

 

TMW Billy found out even the Xenos thought his
TV dinner was shit.

 

I actually wrote a complaint to the BBC at the start of the year. Dont get me wrong, Im not one of those Grandpa Simpson types that sits down and enjoys writing complaints. I've only ever written another on one previous occasion.

I was idly browsing the sports section and the BBC started putting up highlight articles of women's darts coverage because of that famous player who won a few matches at the men's world tournament.

Anyway, long story short - I clicked on an article covering the final of the women's tournament. It was TWO SHORT single-sentence "paragraphs" of what briefly happened in the woman's final with next to no details... then FOURTEEN paragraphs of multiple sentences previewing the men's final the next day. I checked the headline. "WOMEN'S FINAL - ##### WINS."

I thought "Wow, politically correct BBC look pretty sexist with this." So i complained. It got referred because they "couldn't answer it in time, but we deem it more important than normal complaints." It got referred higher.... then higher.. then to the watchdog. It got referred higher up so many times i gave up reading the update mails they sent me. I checked the final one I got a month or so back.
"We're sorry we weren't able to personally respond to your complaint, it is in the hands of ##### and any future action will come from them after a review."

In other words - "We noticed this looks shockingly bad journalism on our part. We're determined to pass this from office to office until you forget about it or we get tired of passing it around."

 

I'm saying nothing because I'd derail the thread and get moved into the debate room...but my thoughts are very loud.

 

This was pretty funny.

Check out this book if you can find a copy. I had one years ago, lent it out and BAM! it disappeared. Sigh. It was funny, especially the part where the protestors complained about some politician speaking at an event in one hotel by plastering his campaign stickers all over the air dryers in every public bathroom. The implication being that he was full of hot air!

https://books.google.ca/books/about...edbug_Letter.html?id=TqjZ3NB4ygoC&redir_esc=y

 

TMW you find that Medieval-style covers of modern pop music are A Thing.

 

Fair enough. I was using the term comprehensively.

It also extends to saying "Go right" and I gesture towards the left.

The funny thing is, it makes it easier to read upside down and backwards.

 

I can read upside down and backward and mentally flip 3D objects in all axes, but I can't read a map or visualize (or follow) directions.
The Lord giveth.

 

I can only make them levitate on the same axial orientation as I found them. When I try to rotate things they just drop. Broke half my gram-gram's tea set trying to beat that issue.

 

I can do all that but I need a calculator for simple math.

 

Read a map? Lol. I get turned around in my own house! No sense of direction, little sense at all, TBT.

 

TMW when you are standing beside the path in the local nature preserve and a family starts to walk past, but the little girl stops and stares. The mother says, "it's okay honey, he's wearing a mask," and you realize how much the pandemic has changed perspectives, as you pull out your gun and take all their valuables.

 

TMW you find an example of the 'new norm'.

 

Obama?

 

That moment when you should have been getting ready for bed an hour ago and you know you'll be feeling the consequences tomorrow, but at least you won't be leaving your WIP on a massive cliffhanger overnight.

Also, yes, my protagonist is still tied to the bed. He is going to stay that way until the drugs have worn off enough that he won't wander off again.