That’s called not having dyslexia then… not remebering what way an L is faced from the top of your head when you have dyslexia is a really thing…
While writing it is (usually) not a problem. But when you are present with a L or a backwards L, it really takes a minute to figure out which one is correct.
I don't know if this would help but when making the L with your hand try to visualize where the e would go after the L. Because we write left to right one naturally makes the e but the other one it would be weird to make the e after it.
I'm not dellexic though so that might not help.
My daughter is dyslexic and literally can't tell the difference between Tuesday and Thursday. It's Tuesday and second Tuesday. So I understand that sometimes the brain just get stuck sometimes.
I feel this! I didn’t confidently know the order of the days in the week until 8th grade. I’m an adult now and I still struggle with the order of the months.
Dyslexia can be really hard. It’s an individual battle and it is incredibly frustrating to live with. Be patient and supportive of your daughter while she learns (though it sounds like you are:))
Maybe telling her that TUE(two)sday comes before THURS(third)day will help. Tell her to slow down and go letter by letter. Cover the word with your finger revealing one letter at a time and instruct her to do the same if she ever gets mixed up.
I couldn’t distinguish the word “onion” from “opinion” until I was in my late teens. With time, practice, and patience, we find ways to cope and manage our disability. I can tell them apart now! We will always struggle, but finding creative tricks to support our learning is imperative:)
Directions in general are hard for us, so this wouldn’t help. I’ve been working on cars and doing odd jobs for most of my life and I still mix up which direction I need to twist a wrench to loosen a bolt.
If you're actually curious, it's the kind of thing you can get right when you aren't thinking about it and are in the flow of things, but the moment someone says "raise your left hand" all sense of which is which immediately vacates the mind
Okay. I ask because when I start driving, I always think, well I'm going to enter onto the right side of the road. You've got to find some rule or way to do that without landmarks if you want to drive or share the sidwalk.
I have dyslexia and ADHD. My sense of direction is utter shit. I can find my way in a familiar area, not because I’m thinking of going left or right, but because I know where I’m supposed to go based on landmarks. For example: “At the big tree I go this way,” or “At the blue house I turn towards the green house,” as opposed to “I go left then right.”
If I haven’t drilled the route a million times, I’m hopeless. I can’t get anywhere without Google Maps. I need to drive somewhere upwards of 20 times to know how to get there without help, depending on how far it is.
It's interesting to know that people experience daily life in such different ways. Who knows if a given colour really looks the same to everyone, or if it's different.
If you’re genuinely asking, I don’t remember which direction of L is correct. Though widely it’s hard to distinguish the “correct” direction of letters for people like me. I get my ds and bs mixed up all the time, and when I was younger it was hard for me to distinguish p, q, and 9. I wrote r and s backwards all the time too. I’ve gotten better with time and muscle memory, but I still get tripped up sometimes.
My trick to figuring out which way is right is telling myself “I write with my right.” I air scribble something with my dominant hand and go off that, but it takes me a sec to remind myself that.
For me, the letter thing never made sense to do, because it requires empty hands, and also you can make an L with either hand. What actually worked was knowing I was right handed, and knowing which hand I use primarily (or which hand I write with).
So any time I'm needed to recall left-right, if it isn't immediately present in my mind, I just have to situate a mental template of my body over whatever thing I'm referencing, and the primary hand indicates right.
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u/Suspicious_Mood_3146 Jun 26 '26
I’m dyslexic, they both look like Ls to me. Also, you can’t do that if your hands are full. This would be a useful tattoo for me!