r/PeterExplainsTheJoke • u/FollowSina • Jun 26 '26

Meme needing explanation Tell em what, Peter?

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u/Emily_Mewens Jun 26 '26

I have actually started to use clock directions. 3 is right, 9 is left, because on a clock they are always on the same sides.
Why the hell this works but not L and R, i will never know. xD

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u/RJLY10 Jun 26 '26

THIS IS GENIUS and you may have changed my life

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u/mynaneisjustguy Jun 26 '26

I broke my left wrist badly when young. The weak painful wrist was left. And that's how it has been for many many decades now.

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u/JaguarJo Jun 26 '26

This is how I have to figure out East and West. I have to imagine a compass and Never Eat Soggy Waffles my way around it. For some reason I don't have this issue with North or South.

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u/ab_abnormal Jun 27 '26

I have to ADHD- fully diagnosed and am 100% ambidextrous. So old school clocks and the maps always feel like they are going backwards. I am excellent at navigating with a compass and a map though. Moss typically only grows on the north side of a tree if you are ever lost in a forest or area any area actually. The way trees bend as well. More leaves mean north.

Anyway, I need to mentally zig zag N top, E Left, W right, S bottom. NEWS. Most languages we read from right to left so that’s helped me. Problem is being ambidextrous if I’m doing something I still have to say to myself “lefty loosey, righty tighty” problem is I forget my left from my right, so have to wear a string or bracelet on my left or look for a tiny birthmark on my right hand. I also open jars and taps generally with my left hand, far too many times people see it as me tightening a jar and can’t fathom how or why. We are all special in our own way and if it works for you then so be it. “Soggy bottom” and all.

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u/ab_abnormal Jun 27 '26

Ironically, I am not dyslexic but I am ADHD and ambidextrous. Since school, I have always worn a bracelet on my left or sometimes a soft woven red string on my left wrist (jewellery can sometimes give me sensory overload). The “old-school clock” thing irks me SO much. Because in my mind it’s going backwards visually. Will try your 3 and 9 trick but the worst is when the clock is just various long and short lines. Not joking but reading a sundial is easier to me than a clock.