Did you get things upside down, back-to-front as a kid?

[142857]

Another odd question regarding traits/symptoms.

One issue that I had in kindergarten and 1st grade was that I would write letters and numbers back-to-front as often as right-way-round. I didn't have any natural sense of what way around things should be. My mother trained me out of it, got me to write pages of letters and gave me (very) small amounts of cash when I got it right.

Another odd thing was that I was just as comfortable reading things upside down as right-way-up. Even as an adult when I would play scrabble I always insisted on looking at the board upside down. I can write upside down and mirror image as well without much effort.

Anybody else had similar issues? My 4-year-old son will occasionally look at a book upside down without realizing it until someone points it out to him. He also tends to write letters upside down occasionally.

 

[Chris]

Nope, can't say I ever have or ever will do that. I'm okay at reading upside down, but I think most people are.

 

[hmkey:)]

Yap lol, now and then.(as a kid^^)
Putting a bike upside down to see how it works or those toy cars to turn the wheels a bit you gotta do something!

 

[gamers1700]

It probably ties in with your math skills. Language in print usually uses a very distinct method of correlating specific linguistics, often running into other unique rules shared by other words to give it a certain sound. In other words, it's pretty exact much like your 142857 rule.
On the other hand, I find personally that I can usually make out what other people are saying if they mess up a ridiculous number of times, just can't find that certain word/phrase but can explain it (I've annoyed some people a great deal in this manner lol), or try to verbalize logically through what's given...though if there's no real structure or commas, periods, whatever thrown around excessively it gets increasingly difficult.

 

[Ruby_Aspergic]

I was like that, but I also have dyscalculia and can't tell the difference between the directions anyway.

 

[Emor]

Yeah. I remember my teacher in Year 1(5-6 years old) getting pissy at me for writing the wrong way around.
Even today I can have a hard time remembering elementary things like which way a letter faces, or a number.
Not very often though.
Frequently in my Math's book you can find scribbling where I've wrote 8 instead of 3 or something. Same with most essays I hand write and letters.
EMZ=]

 

[poodlepiglet]

I did yes for a long time.

 

[mikkyh]

Yes...especially getting my shirt on. I'd always put it on back to front and I think it took my up to the age of 8 before I could change my shirt by myself.

I have a technique now. Make sure the label is at the front, pull it backwards and up over my head and pull down.

 

[superboyian]

I used to get the letter K the opposite way and I would used to get told off by the teacher and would want me to start again and that sucked REAL bad. :thumbsdown:

 

[gamers1700]

sometimes I can't get a capital K for the life of me come to think of it

 

[Willow]

I could never figure out which way to button shirts up, I always missed a button. I usually ended up with everything on back to front first time as well. Not sure why. I'm not like it now though. I also can read upside down but I don't prefer it. And I can write with a pen in both hands creating a mirror image effect, but this serves no purpose and I don't do it all the time, just...I can do it.

 

[rikk]

I was an above average reader but my penmanship was always very poor,still is.

That was the result of my lack of hand eye coordination,I don't remember getting letters backwards but

I had a lot of problems telling left from right,putting shoes on the correct feet,reading clocks,

riding a bicycle, and other things too numerous to count,I must try reading upside down,

it never occurred to me.

 

[kurgen]

em ot dneppah ti sey <- read backwards, i still do it allot, even with writing upside down or backwards... werrd though now that you mention it...

sith si yllaer driew !nam

 

[Chris]

siht*?

 

[mikkyh]

I could never figure out which way to button shirts up, I always missed a button. I usually ended up with everything on back to front first time as well. Not sure why. I'm not like it now though. I also can read upside down but I don't prefer it. And I can write with a pen in both hands creating a mirror image effect, but this serves no purpose and I don't do it all the time, just...I can do it.

I still miss buttons out. It's a nightmare! Lol.

 

[Chris]

I used to miss buttons out lol, not for long though.

 

[aschrisd]

I used to put my shoes on the wrong foot half of the time.

the poppers on my duvet cover would be out of line, I wouldn't notice until I had done all but one pair up, the ones at each end.

 

[McMatchesMalone]

I'm not sure if this is related, but back in preschool I would often dive in a box of crayons and grab the wrong color. I knew what color I wanted, in my head, but I often ended up with a different color. Maybe I have poor hand eye coordination, but yet I play drums and video games. My brain probably has bugs in it.

 

[Calvert]

I also had problems with buttoning shirts. I usually would miss a button.

 

[Emor]

I had the same problem with shirts up until I was around 11 when I had to wear one every day for school(like full buttoned, in primary school only had two buttons or w.e on the shirts) wear I gradually got the knack of it.
As a female it didn't really effect me that much but there were some coats and stuff which I hated to have to wear :/.
EMZ=]