Here is a little secret that I have not talked about even to my closest friends. Since school, I have been confusing 4s and 7s. It has cost me a few marks.
I recently did some accounting tasks manually with my dad. And he checked it again and identified this old problem of mine. Though the calculation was correct, I confuse with the notation of the two. Since most of the tasks are done digitally, this issue remained dormant in my mind. I almost forgot about it.
The first thing I did like always is duckduckgo🦆(it is like Google but with good results and better privacy) about it. So far it is not classified as a disorder 😌. Then I did a little pondering, why would my brain fail to make the distinction between the 4s and the 7s.
Maybe it is because of the way I write those numbers.
I require my pen to put down on paper twice to write both numbers. I cross lines in the second iteration. Maybe the second iteration is registered in my brain to confirm if it’s a 4 or a 7 but not which one exactly.
It was annoying and I was scared to talk about this in my school. Accepting the confusion as a calculation mistake and not of a pictorial identity.
A little duckduckgo took me to the Wikipedia page of Sandra Locke where people are fighting over her real date of birth. The fight if her DoB year was 1944 or 1947.
Sandra Locke was an American actress who was in a relationship with Clint Eastwood.
So the bottom line is, I need to pay extra attention to the 4s and 7s when I am using a pen.
An extra vertical line means a 4 and a horizontal one means a 7 🧠
Maybe some research publication can call this disorder my name 😜.
Other possible names for this disorder:
- Eastwoodcast
- The change of four
- sevn
- Foursevensis
- Sevenfourosis
- Sevenfouria
- Chausapt Rog
- Sandra’s year
- Bubonic math disease
- Antifun accountant
PS: The above is a satire against psychiatrists for naming every human condition as a disorder. While people craving for having one. I’ll save this rant for some other day.
Click on the title of the post and comment with a name for this disorder.
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