Yeah, call me dysfunctional ....
It was pointed out to me today that I made a typo in Doll House. I had Florida mentioned as being on the 'West Coast' of the USA.
This person was being kind. That's not a typo. That's a huge, glaring mistake.
(Or in the words of Daffy Duck, that's despicable!)
Not that I didn't check my facts first. I'm an obsessive fact-checker. I looked at Florida on a map, just checking it was where I thought it was. Ok, yep, East Coast, down the bottom - a lot like the location where I live in Australia (close to Sydney).
But somehow, my brain did a switch when I went to write it.
I have a major problem with left and right. People who know me well know:
I could never tell time with an analogue clock as a child and still can't.
I can get lost just walking or driving around a corner.
I have to really think when putting shoes on myself or my kids.
When giving directions to someone, I'm likely to point left when I mean right, or vice versa.
Yes, kind of dysfunctional ....
Keeping to the Looney Tunes themes - 'And that's not all folks!'
There's more!
I've read some things that say the above probs can go with another prob. Face and name blindness, which I also have (to a mild degree). For the life of me, I cannot remember a face unless it's either very distinctive or the person's hair/hairstyle is distinctive. I used to think I just wasn't trying hard enough. Recognising faces seemed to come so easily to others. It took me a long, long time to realise that 'trying harder' was never going to do the trick.
Watching a movie that has male actors who all have short hair of the same color is misery. (The Hunger Games movie seemed to have a lot of teenage, white males with short blonde hair and it was hard to separate them out for a while there!)
One reason I love the internet is that people look the same all the time (in their profile photos) and they are always where you expect them to be!
All of us are different in some ways. We all have foibles, idiosyncrasies, dysfunctions.
Like they say, perfection is overrated :)
(My big clanger of a mistake is now fixed I'm glad to say!)
This person was being kind. That's not a typo. That's a huge, glaring mistake.
(Or in the words of Daffy Duck, that's despicable!)
Not that I didn't check my facts first. I'm an obsessive fact-checker. I looked at Florida on a map, just checking it was where I thought it was. Ok, yep, East Coast, down the bottom - a lot like the location where I live in Australia (close to Sydney).
But somehow, my brain did a switch when I went to write it.
I have a major problem with left and right. People who know me well know:
I could never tell time with an analogue clock as a child and still can't.
I can get lost just walking or driving around a corner.
I have to really think when putting shoes on myself or my kids.
When giving directions to someone, I'm likely to point left when I mean right, or vice versa.
Yes, kind of dysfunctional ....
Keeping to the Looney Tunes themes - 'And that's not all folks!'
There's more!
I've read some things that say the above probs can go with another prob. Face and name blindness, which I also have (to a mild degree). For the life of me, I cannot remember a face unless it's either very distinctive or the person's hair/hairstyle is distinctive. I used to think I just wasn't trying hard enough. Recognising faces seemed to come so easily to others. It took me a long, long time to realise that 'trying harder' was never going to do the trick.
Watching a movie that has male actors who all have short hair of the same color is misery. (The Hunger Games movie seemed to have a lot of teenage, white males with short blonde hair and it was hard to separate them out for a while there!)
One reason I love the internet is that people look the same all the time (in their profile photos) and they are always where you expect them to be!
All of us are different in some ways. We all have foibles, idiosyncrasies, dysfunctions.
Like they say, perfection is overrated :)
(My big clanger of a mistake is now fixed I'm glad to say!)
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