Civet wrote:
I do the exact same thing, animallover. I tried doing the thing where you make an "L" shape with your left hand, and even that doesn't work for me, because the backwards "L" made by the right hand reminds me enough of an "L" for me to be confused by that, too. Now, I just imagine a pencil in my hand, and I know that one is the right one.
This is just getting scary how similar you are to me. I have the very same problem with left/right, right down to the whole bit with making an "L"... there's enough of an "L" made by my right hand (heck, turned just the right way, it looks like a normal "L"!) that that doesn't help me.
For some reason, thinking about the fact that the higher-pitched notes are on the right side of a piano helps me. It's odd; I'm horrible at processing speech, but I've got a great memory for musical pitch.
As for maps... usually people can't decipher the ones I draw because I typically base things on landmarks rather than street names, like a lot of people tend to go by... and usually I pick rather odd landmarks. Plus, I have a hard time mentally rotating things the right way-- when I'm reading a map, I literally have to turn it so that the direction I'm facing is up, and I often do the same thing when drawing one for someone else as well.
24 Jan 2005, 3:08 pm
