<story><title>Dyslexia</title><url>http://geon.github.io/programming/2016/03/03/dsxyliea</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jasonkester</author><text>That&amp;#x27;s not what it&amp;#x27;s like for me.&lt;p&gt;I simply can&amp;#x27;t tell the difference between symbols that have been rotated or reversed.  So I made it through an engineering degree with &amp;quot;the alligator eats the bigger number&amp;quot; mnemonics for &amp;gt; and &amp;lt;.&lt;p&gt;The first thing I do when I get a new dev machine is take a pen and write &amp;quot;\r\n&amp;quot; up above the delete key.  I&amp;#x27;ve never gotten the slashes in the right direction on that key sequence from memory even though I type them several times a day (I just had to edit my post after looking it up right now and realizing I&amp;#x27;d typed it wrong on my new laptop).&lt;p&gt;Anything that can be reversed, I reverse roughly 50% of the time.  Because to my brain, they&amp;#x27;re interchangeable.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>aswerty</author><text>Pulling and pushing doors is what always gets me. I had a friend I did an interhship with for half a year and he&amp;#x27;d always get a kick out of my inability to use doors in work correctly even when it said pull&amp;#x2F;push on it.&lt;p&gt;Mixing up my p&amp;#x27;s and q&amp;#x27;s, and my b&amp;#x27;s and d&amp;#x27;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.&lt;p&gt;I also find I&amp;#x27;ve developed a lot of my own pneumonics. So for &amp;gt; and &amp;lt; 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&amp;#x27;m on the west coast.&lt;p&gt;Funnily enough north&amp;#x2F;south or up&amp;#x2F;down don&amp;#x27;t cause me trouble. It&amp;#x27;s only things that have vertical symmetry or that can rotate that confuse me.</text></comment>
<story><title>Dyslexia</title><url>http://geon.github.io/programming/2016/03/03/dsxyliea</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jasonkester</author><text>That&amp;#x27;s not what it&amp;#x27;s like for me.&lt;p&gt;I simply can&amp;#x27;t tell the difference between symbols that have been rotated or reversed.  So I made it through an engineering degree with &amp;quot;the alligator eats the bigger number&amp;quot; mnemonics for &amp;gt; and &amp;lt;.&lt;p&gt;The first thing I do when I get a new dev machine is take a pen and write &amp;quot;\r\n&amp;quot; up above the delete key.  I&amp;#x27;ve never gotten the slashes in the right direction on that key sequence from memory even though I type them several times a day (I just had to edit my post after looking it up right now and realizing I&amp;#x27;d typed it wrong on my new laptop).&lt;p&gt;Anything that can be reversed, I reverse roughly 50% of the time.  Because to my brain, they&amp;#x27;re interchangeable.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>arethuza</author><text>I pretty sure that if someone stopped me away from a computer and asked me to draw a slash and a backslash I&amp;#x27;d probably get it wrong.</text></comment>