Re: How do you “see” words and numbers?

[billd]

MerryMac – I do that as well. It’s fun to watch the faces as they attempt to figure out “what the heck is this guy doing”.

I then say, “there ya go, easy change” and get back fewer small coins, or get back a single dollar and a dime for example.

One of my first jobs was delivering the daily paper as a kid – and collecting the payments each week. I got REALLY good…. then I worked in a hardware store running the OLD register where you punch down the keys and turn the crank……….. no computer doing your thinking for you then!

I worked as a mechanic mostly after that, but I filled in for the fellow who sold gas up front, filling tanks, checking oil, cleaning windshield – and collecting the money and making change. Again, no computers there! Old-style registers or cash boxes, all done in MY HEAD, each and every time. ODD, I am SO ADHD, but it’s something I’m able to do if I don’t think about it very hard. it’s when I TRY hard to deal with numbers and hurry I get into trouble. If I do it just as a matter of course while doing other things ,it’s natural. Odd, eh?

I’m not one of those folks who sees numbers as colors or words as something else………….. it would be very interesting, however, to just for an hour or day, to be able to see and experience what others do.

Frankly, I wish we could do that a lot – I think human understanding would leap ahead light-years……….

Ya listening up there? give me a chance or the ability to even for a short time actually see, feel and experience exactly as others do……If I could have that as a gift, I’d ask for nothing else ever. And frankly, I even wish to be able to do that with cats and other animals….

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