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Pulling and pushing doors is what always gets me. I had a friend I did an interhship with for half a year and he'd always get a kick out of my inability to use

Pulling and pushing doors is what always gets me. I had a friend I did an interhship with for half a year and he'd always get a kick out of my inability to use doors in work correctly even when it said pull/push on it. Mixing up my p's and q's, and my b's and d's were a big problem when I was young but I luckily grew out of that since they were considering putting me into remedial education because of it. I also find I've developed a lot of my own pneumonics. So for > and < I know that the converging side is narrow and therefore it is the lesser side, the divering side is broad and as such is the greater side. Or as someone from the west coast of an island - I figure out east and west by imaging my country knowing that I'm on the west coast. Funnily enough north/south or up/down don't cause me trouble. It's only things that have vertical symmetry or that can rotate that confuse me.

klez 9y ago
So, I am dyslexic too? That's new. I mean, I thought it was just like the article, but if it's also confounding directions (sometimes I have to think about left and right, I sometimes think that California is on the east coast, I make a mess with clockwise/counterclockwise) then I have that problem too.
pfd1986 9y ago
It's horrible if you're coming from languages such as Portuguese in which "puche" literally means pull!! Almost 10 years in the states and I still have to think before every single git commit.
- gcb0 9y ago
  note that "puche" in Portuguese is pronounced exactly like "push" in English.
  - mc32 9y ago
    I thought it was more like "pushy" with the y more of a schwa sound.
- henriquemaia 9y ago
  Just a small correction. It's not "puche", but "puxe", with X. Both sound the same, but the first one is not correct. Source: I'm Portuguese.
  - pfd1986 9y ago
    oh god! I guess that's what 10 years in the states did to me! -ashamed face-
sevenfive 9y ago
> pneumonics mnemonics :P

klez 9y ago

So, I am dyslexic too? That's new. I mean, I thought it was just like the article, but if it's also confounding directions (sometimes I have to think about left and right, I sometimes think that California is on the east coast, I make a mess with clockwise/counterclockwise) then I have that problem too.

pfd1986 9y ago

It's horrible if you're coming from languages such as Portuguese in which "puche" literally means pull!! Almost 10 years in the states and I still have to think before every single git commit.

gcb0 9y ago
note that "puche" in Portuguese is pronounced exactly like "push" in English.
- mc32 9y ago
  I thought it was more like "pushy" with the y more of a schwa sound.
henriquemaia 9y ago
Just a small correction. It's not "puche", but "puxe", with X. Both sound the same, but the first one is not correct. Source: I'm Portuguese.
- pfd1986 9y ago
  oh god! I guess that's what 10 years in the states did to me! -ashamed face-

sevenfive 9y ago

> pneumonics mnemonics :P