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From: na na
Date: Sat Apr 5, 2003 8:30pm
Subject: bad spellers and backward days
Im slightly confused......Ive started reading frogs into princes and come to
the part where its discussing cerebral organization. according to the text it
seems to imply that bad spellers tend to use their auditory sense rather than
spelling visually with a kinesthetic check. I am an appauling speller and have
to constantly spell check anything i write.I totally agree that whenever i
spell i do tend to do it auditorily. In fact i cant visualize letters or
numbers at all (hence ive had the same pin number for 4 years and still forget
it!)
However what i dont understand about this is that i would think of myself as a
really visual person.I have no problem remembering faces pictures or even
manipulating 3D images in my head, also when i play the piano i never need the
music once ive learnt it since i memorize the patterns visually, so why do i
have such a problem with letters and numbers?
I know that the book then warns against introspection.....but hey the book also
warns that it lies.......
A second question to anyone that might be able to help, sometimes i wake up and
cant remember which side is my left or right! For example I'll pick up cuttlery
the wrong way round and not notice, i'll smoke with my left hand insted of my
right, in dancing i'll turn better to the left, when i'm naturally a right
turner, my mind gets totally fooled into thinking that my right side is my
left! ( And before you ask, it isnt drug related!) This normally lasts untill
someone points it out to me in the day or i go to write and i feel like
somethings wrong!
Does anyone else get this? Im really just intrigued as to why this happens and
wondered if any of the mind experts here can explain. Perhaps i'm just
confirming the fact that im as mad as a hatter to everyone on this site!
na na (Poppy)
p.s i couldnt be bothered to spell check this, so i hope it makes sense.
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