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Post by sargassosea on Nov 3, 2009 9:03:17 GMT -5
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Post by rosa on Nov 3, 2009 9:43:12 GMT -5
Oh, Angel Renee, I am so sorry. That is awful.
You know why you couldn't remember? I mean, aside from being a child? Because being yelled at causes stress and stress affects both your short term memory and your decisionmaking ability. I assume your dad was trying to teach you the way he was taught but it's the wrong way to do it - not just because it's morally wrong to harangue a child, but because it doesn't work as well as calm repetition.
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Post by grandmalou on Nov 3, 2009 9:43:57 GMT -5
My poor Ange! Wow, that was hard for you! Mom probably couldn't fit into the little seat next to Dad because she was no doubt, preggers or nursing most of the time. And hey, yelling almost always sets up an instant mental block against what the dimwit ... er...'teacher' is trying to teach...making learning it or anything else at the moment, an utter impossibility! YIKES! {{{{HUGS and love to my Big Girl}}}}}
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Post by em on Nov 3, 2009 10:44:17 GMT -5
Angel, you'll be pleased to know that some people just have trouble distinguishing left from right. Doesn't mean you're stupid or slow or anything like. Just some people, for whatever reason, have a hard time. Don't feel bad about it. Well about that part. I'd feel pretty bad about what your dad did.
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Post by jasmine on Nov 3, 2009 11:25:57 GMT -5
God, what an ass your father was.
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Post by xara on Nov 3, 2009 12:15:00 GMT -5
Angel, you have my empathy. You should never have had to go through that.
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Post by mandajanie on Nov 3, 2009 14:55:21 GMT -5
Oh my word, this sounds like me!! When I learned to drive my mom repeatedly yelled out which way to turn, with very little warning, and I almost always got it wrong 'cause I was so freaked out by the yelling! Sounds like the same thing happened to you.
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Post by jadehawk on Nov 3, 2009 17:33:42 GMT -5
OMG, what a nightmare.
to this day, I can't tell left and right apart very well (I'm virtually ambidextrous, so all the ways in which kids learn to tell left and right apart just don't help me at all), so whenever i have to drive somewhere with someone else giving me directions, I have to tell them right at the beginning to not say "left" and "right" but rather say "my side" and "your side", or at least say it early enough so that i have a moment to think about it.
suddenly yelling "left!!" at me will always invariably result in me panicking and going the wrong way.
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