firecat's amazing dysspatialrotatia

My dad has a mild case of dyslexia. I don't, but I do share with him a "talent" whereby if I try to put something together, and there is anything the slightest bit unclear about any instructions I'm using, I put it together every single wrong way before I get to the right way.

I really mean that - it doesn't just seem like that because I stop once I get to a right way. I bet I would make a great user-testing subject for Ikea instructions.

I've never seen a name put to this talent, so I made up my own.

This talent also applies to my attempts at crafts. ( Read more... )

The benefit from figuring all this out is that doing it the correct way makes it a bit easier to handle the yarn so the knitting goes slightly faster. I'm now knitting almost as fast as I crochet.

firecat's amazing dysspatialrotatia

My dad has a mild case of dyslexia. I don't, but I do share with him a "talent" whereby if I try to put something together, and there is anything the slightest bit unclear about any instructions I'm using, I put it together every single wrong way before I get to the right way.

I really mean that - it doesn't just seem like that because I stop once I get to a right way. I bet I would make a great user-testing subject for Ikea instructions.

I've never seen a name put to this talent, so I made up my own.

This talent also applies to my attempts at crafts. ( Read more... )

The benefit from figuring all this out is that doing it the correct way makes it a bit easier to handle the yarn so the knitting goes slightly faster. I'm now knitting almost as fast as I crochet.

Trouble with math

gregbo asked me to write more on the following comment I made in an earlier post:

"I used to have trouble with math insofar as I need it to be taught in a certain way or I don't get it ..."

To talk about it I have to tell a fairly long story about my history with math education, which I will ( cut-tag )

I hope this addresses gregbo's question and I hope he explains why the topic was of interest to him.

Trouble with math

gregbo asked me to write more on the following comment I made in an earlier post:

"I used to have trouble with math insofar as I need it to be taught in a certain way or I don't get it ..."

To talk about it I have to tell a fairly long story about my history with math education, which I will ( cut-tag )

I hope this addresses gregbo's question and I hope he explains why the topic was of interest to him.