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Tuesday, June 25th, 2013 08:17 pm
tell me which one's my right hand again
Due to me being that kind of very determined person, we got a giant whiteboard at work, so giant that I decided to add a word of the day to the space using the time-honored method of wikipedia freefall-- that is, starting from my previous word of the day, I follow links until I find something interesting in under five minutes. Though it's more word every three days, because the whiteboard is less easy to wipe clean than you might think;
Current: Prosopagnoisa, aka face blindness.
Previous: jamais vu, presque vu
While surfing my way through aphasia, I remembered I wanted to check what it's called when someone has left-right confusion, and discovered--again--that this isn't yet an actual thing in itself, but is a major hanger-on of pretty much every brain malfunction you can possibly have, and while it possibly effects up to twenty-five percent of the population in varying degrees of severity, it's still--a thing among many things, a description of a few words that tells is it's something that happens. What it is seems a little vague, and science has yet to tell me why.
( left to right, what? )
Current: Prosopagnoisa, aka face blindness.
Previous: jamais vu, presque vu
While surfing my way through aphasia, I remembered I wanted to check what it's called when someone has left-right confusion, and discovered--again--that this isn't yet an actual thing in itself, but is a major hanger-on of pretty much every brain malfunction you can possibly have, and while it possibly effects up to twenty-five percent of the population in varying degrees of severity, it's still--a thing among many things, a description of a few words that tells is it's something that happens. What it is seems a little vague, and science has yet to tell me why.
( left to right, what? )
