Ma Snart.
Thedia laughed, perhaps Melissa too, wondering why I said that.
We were in Broken Bow, Oklahoma, one day. For some reason, Thedia would drive there sometimes to shop at the Wal-mart. That's the place half-way between the points of Antlers, Oklahoma, and DeQueen, Arkansas, as I've described several times before about memories of my childhood.
I think I was in the front passenger-seat. We might have been in that passenger van Randy Romine bought for her. Probably was the Pontiac Bonneville. Probably was about the year 1978 or 1979.
That's the first occurrence I can remember of me demonstrating how I often read words backwards in my mind.
Perhaps many other people do this also. I don't know. Don't care. I'm writing about it now because of the video I'm watching.
I can remember hearing of people thinking that left-handed people, as I am, can be dyslexic.
I've never really thought of myself as having a problem with reading.
I've always read well. The only thing I can think of that might be considered a problem with with my mind wandering after a while and I would read a line and it wouldn't register in my mind. I've suspected for a long-time that was perhaps due to Thedia's laziness. I can remember her cooking meals but the way I remember it, that was only for husband, whomever that might have been at the time. For us kids, it was often, as I recall, money left on the counter to purchase some fried-chicken boxed-meal from the convenience store down the street in DeQueen, because she was out running around trying to find a new husband was all I could get, and when the grand winner was brought in to meet us kids, couldn't understand why I was actively ignoring them as I walked out the door without speaking, resulting in maddening indignation from the dim-wit, who undoubtedly had no idea he was the lucky winner in a long-string of failed marriages to Thedia. All I knew was that new guy was just a clear and present source of new turmoil and instability in our lives, as had been all the ones before. As her luggage, we couldn't even get help because she was actively deceiving every rational adult we encountered. As for my wandering attention, those sugary sweets we bought for breakfast at convenience store just before going to class at school couldn't have helped, certainly wasn't good habits for children to develop.
So anyway, Ma Snart.
That was the words on the spoiler fin of a Trans Am sports car in the parking lot of that Wal-Mart in Broken Bow, Oklahoma.
I looked back through my massive journal to see if I'd mentioned it before but I don't find anything.
I still do that to this day, in fact.
But only a few months ago did something change in my mind. I can remember it clearly a few months ago. A few months ago I found myself reading words backwards - just a habit that has persisted since childhood - and a few months ago I was telling myself - for the first time - to stop doing that. There is a sort of fascination associated with reading words backwards in my mind and I was telling myself a few months ago to stop doing it because there's no point.
I do not believe that any qualified medical professional would ever describe me as having dyslexia.
A few months ago, though, or maybe a few weeks ago, I began to wonder if there is something about left-hand-dominant people, such as myself, process information differently than the supposedly-90% of the other humans on this planet. I wondered if my brain physically processes information differently.
I'm thinking about this again because of the video I'm watching tonight for the first time. And also because I have *clearly* established the content of that story applies to *me* personally for some reason. A story someone is telling that incorporates relevant details about me personally.
I paused the video at this point to make this note. I've done this before only to find more intriguing information later in the video as I begin watching it again, which is *precisely* what one would expect from credible time-traveler information in this real world.
If I observe anything that seem especially compelling then I'll pause the video again to make an illustration in another blog post here on my blog.
The content of that video has been available for months for anyone to see. But for *me*, it's all new at this present moment in time.
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- posted by Kerry Burgess 10:10 PM Pacific Time Spokane Valley Washington USA Saturday 11/09/2019
