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Old 11-16-2007, 01:29 AM
Nielsio Nielsio is offline
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My first wife, in an infamous incident, was navigating while I was driving. She told me to turn right. There was no road there. Only trees. I was squinting, looking up ahead for the turn, when she began yelling at me with increasing frequency and fervor, "Turn right! Right, right, RIGHT!" I looked at her bewildered, and she was (of course) furiously pointing left.

I stopped the car and said, "Oh, THAT right."

Strangely, that marriage did not last.

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Racist imo.
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Old 11-16-2007, 01:44 AM
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I had this problem until I was 15 or so. Not this bad, but I could never remember which was left or right. I was 15 and watching a kid's show with a friend's brother when it clicked: "Left is the hand that makes an L when you hold it up". It was easy to visualize after that and a couple of weeks later it was natural. Watching myself think about it now, deciding left from right still requires the invoking of visual or kinesthetic memory from one of the times I've decided between left and right (such as visualizing a car turning or imagining myself writing. But it's instantaneous now as opposed to requiring thought.

Point being that you can do just fine for a long time without instinctively knowing left from right.

As for your dilemma, I'd mention it quietly to the partner. She probably already knows and if not should be the one to break it to him.

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Feynman had the same problem, he had to feel for a mole on one of hands.

I don't think its the same problem as in the OP.

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Old 11-16-2007, 02:02 AM
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A lot of these stories sound bizarre to me. I have trouble picturing what that must be like. Strike that. I can't picture it at all.

This sounds very common given the number of people speaking up. Now I have some sympathy for all those students I've seen writing with their right hands while doing their right hand rules with their left . . .
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Old 11-16-2007, 05:14 AM
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take a marker and draw an L on his left hand and an R on his right hand
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Old 11-16-2007, 05:26 AM
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My first wife, in an infamous incident, was navigating while I was driving. She told me to turn right. There was no road there. Only trees. I was squinting, looking up ahead for the turn, when she began yelling at me with increasing frequency and fervor, "Turn right! Right, right, RIGHT!" I looked at her bewildered, and she was (of course) furiously pointing left.

I stopped the car and said, "Oh, THAT right."

Strangely, that marriage did not last.

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lol good answer [img]/images/graemlins/wink.gif[/img]
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Old 11-16-2007, 11:10 AM
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A lot of these stories sound bizarre to me. I have trouble picturing what that must be like. Strike that. I can't picture it at all.

This sounds very common given the number of people speaking up. Now I have some sympathy for all those students I've seen writing with their right hands while doing their right hand rules with their left . . .

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Maybe check out Susan Greenfield - Brain Story. There are endless amounts of ways in how people's brains have defects/disorders, and very specific ways also.
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Old 11-16-2007, 11:40 AM
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Which one is Barron's?
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Old 11-16-2007, 08:36 PM
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boro,

You're probably just using different sides of your brains

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Old 11-16-2007, 11:26 PM
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boro,

You're probably just using different sides of your brains



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all those optical illusions always freak me out
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Old 11-17-2007, 12:13 AM
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boro,

You're probably just using different sides of your brains



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all those optical illusions always make me hard

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