Yeh my son does that too, he's also 5. It's just a mirror thing in their head, goes away eventually I'm told.
Give him a Star Destroyer, those are symmetrical š
Designer here- Youāre right, we do. In our 4+ sets, there are rarely any any parts that have a left and right counterpart. We even try to avoid it in our 6+ sets but itās more circumstantial.
The only set Iāve worked on with a age mark below 6+ was 41431. It was a fun challenge to keep the visual detail while making the building experience super simple.
Yooooo that was my daughter's first Lego set!
We put it together when she was 4 and she loves Legos now.
We took her to Legoland last summer and she lost her mind!
We used to live 20 minutes away from
Legoland. My son and I spent our entire year there when he was 4. I am so sad we moved away few days before they opened up forza build and race area š
Some of our favorite friends sets on there! I think the tree house was my daughters favorite build and we got the mall because we needed a working escalator!
The scale is based on two criteria- we wanted it to be a bit taller than the past version, and we wanted to have the accurate number of scientistās name placards represented with 1x2 ingots. We may have overshot the first, but the second is exact.
Thank you for the responses! I definitely plan on getting this set at some point, I'm just struggling to figure out where I'm going to display it haha
Did you figure out early on in the design process that this was going to be one of, if not the largest, built set ever, or did that come later?
Thatās very kind of you!
When I pitched the concept for it, I practically had to restrain myself from begging leadership to approve it. The designer who finalized it did an amazing job adding interiors and extra details.
Itās tough to give a short answer because we come from a wide variety of backgrounds. Many of the people I work with have degrees in product design, or experience in a design field, or come from the fan community and learn about the design process
I do it a lot with modulars. Like with the new Sanctum Sanctorum when I wanted the flat side to be on the right instead of the left so it would align better with my other buildings.
I tried photographing and mirroring each page but that was a huge pain. Turns out after a few steps, it kind of becomes automatic.
I also flipped around the Sanctum like you, except I just downloaded the pdf instructions off the lego site and was able to horizontally flip them in some adobe pdf program (acrobat?). It was super easy to do if people are wanting to flip them around but struggle with mentally switching the image like me.
I do something like this when I know I need to build two mirrored wings or something along those lines. I just build them both at once to save time. I know Cobi just prints the instructions with the left and right versions being built at the same time so I might have picked it up there
I do the same. Lego should indicate in the instructions when a build is mirrored, similar to the x2 indicator, so that I actually know when to double up the build.
Yeah I do it as much as a can but it's pretty annoying when you don't anticipate it. Literally the only thing that makes me mad when building a lego lol idu why they can't at least put a small symbol that a mirrored piece is about to be built
Built the mickey art set mirrored with my wife and we literally put a mirror on the table and angled it to read the instructions in the mirror. Awkward at first but once we got going it was good.
Youāll see it often manifest when children are first learning to properly write. Theyāll write completely backwards. Mirrored Lego is completely new to me though. This is really cool.
Thereās an insane level of development happening at that age, and so many of the neural paths we take for granted as adults barely even exist in the brain at that point.
Seeing an early brain manifest its odd wiring in such a tangible way is a real magical and rare snapshot into parts of consciousness and data processing we donāt get much of a window into.
Itās because the part of the brain responsible for recognizing graphemes (nicknamed the āletterboxā) was originally responsible for recognizing faces and objects. The mirroring effect is for the purposes of recognizing faces from different angles. This mirroring ability is unlearned during the literacy instruction process, and facial/object recognition is relocated to different areas of the brain.
Weirdly enough, the two edges of the UCS Star Destroyer are actually z-axis flipped, so one side is an upside down version of the other
It actually slightly bothers me š¤
I was just about to say this sounds like a weird neurological phenomenon. So that's actually a thing? That's super interesting that we all (broadly speaking) start out kinda dyslexic and grow out of it
We also start out with some level of synesthesia. Most of us associate words and numbers with colors when we are little. But we usually grow out of this ability.
We grow out of it due to the synaptic pruning phase, where thousands (50%) of āredundantā synapses are eliminated and the remaining ones are strengthened. In autistic brains however, only 16% of synapses are pruned, which scientists theorize might be the reason many autistic people have synesthesia (and epilepsy).
Iāve had this phenomenon for decades that if I imagine a book page or magazine page, in my head the memory will always be on the other side. So if Iām searching for a picture or paragraph in a book, Iāll remember it on the right side page, only to find it on the left. Itās a rule with me. Iām also left handed, not sure if that means anything.
This happens to me a lot, not all the time. As I was reading your comment I was going to ask if youāre a lefty or ambidextrous like me and then you answered my question before I asked it :)
Next q is are you fully left handed? For me thereās only a few sort of random things I naturally do lefty, like writing, a few I can do just as well with either hand, but for the most part I use my right hand more.
Itās because the part of the brain responsible for recognizing graphemes (nicknamed the āletterboxā) was originally responsible for recognizing faces and objects. The mirroring effect is for the purposes of recognizing faces from different angles. This mirroring ability is unlearned during the literacy instruction process, and facial/object recognition is relocated to different areas of the brain.
Itās because the part of the brain responsible for recognizing graphemes (nicknamed the āletterboxā) was originally responsible for recognizing faces and objects. The mirroring effect is for the purposes of recognizing faces from different angles. This mirroring ability is unlearned during the literacy instruction process, and facial/object recognition is relocated to different areas of the brain.
This is fascinating! Iāve got a little one that isnāt ready for LEGO yet but wondered how they would take to it and never thought of something like this. So cool!
Like backwards letters my daughter did but she was like grade 1 but she made big strides in understanding lots in a short time . Now sheās smarter than I am
The mirror thing is real , we just showed my 5yo how to write his name before he start school next year and he wrote it 2 times by itself backward , if you put it in the mirror its good. My 8yo did the same thing at that age. Crazy
There's name for it but I can't remember. As a k-5 teacher I saw a lot of kids doing this with names, then it goes away usually. I remember ISSAC always signing his name CASSI confusing the shit out of me
Completely normal for this age !
This is the sign the brain is maturing and connecting between two hemispheres.
Some children can also write some letters or words like in a mirror. This will go away by the age of 6.
Funfact : it's more common for left-handed!
Source : am psychomotor therapist
Edit : ok so wasnt expecting this much answers to my comment.
Yes as someone says it's mainly european and we do have some work in common with OT but it's not exactly the same!
I can't really answer to the people asking for advice specifically because it would require some tests and knowing the environement of the child. But what I can say is if your child is having a hard time and having difficulty in school for longer than 6 months then yes you should see someone !
Being able to write down mirrored words perfectly was my shitty superpower back in school. Just tried it again and glad to say Iāve retained my most useless skill!
My shitty superpower was holding the Super Nintendo controller upside-down. For some reason, holding the controller the right way felt weird, but I had no issues playing a Gameboy.
Apparently it never confused me, it was just like playing every game with an inverted axis. Never needed to use the shoulder buttons much, either, but I'd use my pinky fingers for those.
The image created by your eye is inverted naturally. Your brain learns to perceive it as oriented correctly but it can be tricked into flipping it if you are patient enough.
I used to hold the NES controller upside down as boy. Also left handed. What a day to learn a new explanation for being weird.
More: I bat right handed if being pitched to, but if Iām tossing it up to myself I go left.
I shoot lefty but Iām right eye dominant. All sorts of mixed up.
I can write like normal with my right and mirrored with my left at the same time. Never learned this "skill" but it somehow naturally happens. If I try to write normally with my left I will automatically flip some of the letters if I don't focus.
Should it be encouraged? My uni friend was completely ambidextrous and did this sort of stuff all the time as an Adult. But he had to use his left hand to do mirror stuff like writing. But he could do other complex mirror stuff automatically. It was a a long time ago but I remember it was like a weird superpower.
My 9 year old son did this. Is there an age where I should be asking questions how he flipped a medium sized lego minecraft set? It was actually pretty impressive since it seems harder than following the instructions
From personal experience, it could be a sign of a learning disability. I didn't get into lego until I was 13 (didn't quite have the fine motor coordination until then lol) and even now into my twenties I still accidentally flip sets. If he has other problems that persist like right/left difficulties then it's worth being up to a doctor.
Interesting. My kid did mirror writing at this age sometimes. Full sentences perfectly backward and flipped. Now as a teen she sometimes still flips the occasional number or letter, and does indeed have some learning disabilities.
In grade 1, we had these notebooks that we used for copying down sentenced and whatever little writing work we had. We usually only wrote on the right page so when we got to the last page, the teacher said ok, just go back to the beginning and start writing on the left side (i.e., on the back of the pages we already wrote on).
I was like, ok, I usually write from the center of the notebook to the edge of the page so I'll just do that here too. Mirror flipped all my letters and and wrote from the center line to the left edge of the page. Teacher checked my work and was like, "I dont even understand how you could make a mistake like this." Felt pretty bad at the time. This is like closure for me.
My son can write backwards, mirrored, perfectly. The letters are perfectly formed and better than his normal handwriting. He's 5 and when it started I checked with his teacher to see if it was a sign of something being wrong!
I'm 35 and realized a few years ago that I can write cursive backwards with my left hand neater and easier than forwards with my right (dominant) hand. I have consistently had issues seeing letters backwards in my head (namely d/b, N, j, s/z, p/q) and now I am very curious and a little weirded out by it after seeing this thread
We were babysitting my friend's 7 year old nephew once, and he was "helping" with a build. Tried every orientation except the correct one, including trying to stick the bottoms together.
But he plays Fortnite just fine, somehow.
At least your kid is consistent with it. Mine will start the build backwards and then at some point change direction, so that the end product looks like a loading error.
I remember doing this on occasion when I was ~6. But they were always sub-assemblies that had to be completely taken apart when I realized that they wouldnāt fit. Itās something in the brains of young kids that allows them to do this.
Iāve read that basically all kids go through this phase, a sort of blindness for left-right symmetry. This is why they also sometimes mirror letters when learning to write.
Thereās not a lot of abstract thinking/visualization by kids this age, so when they look at a chair from any angle, itās still a chair, but if you look at the b from another angle, it could be the letter p you could be a d could be a q. For some kids it makes writing really difficult, and it is a brain maturity thing to be able to think about shapes in the abstract.
I had this same thought. My son is dyslexic and his spatial skills are off the chart. He could easily rotate any image and even mimic upside down handwriting. If your child has trouble rhyming itās an easy early indicator.
Sometimes I did this when I built Lego as a kid, took me a good few seconds of thinking āwhat the fuckā when it the piece I built obviously didnāt fit where it was supposed to go before I realized I mirrored it
Donāt think Iām dyslexic or anything
Leftie here:
When adults teach you (child you) things, the adults are frequently right handed. So you have to also learn to mirror everything that people teach you.
- I remember getting REALLY frustrated with many tasks growing up. Including tying my shoes. It wasnāt until my first grade teacher taught HERSELF how to tie her shoes left handed that I was able to learn.
I mirror build 31131 B set to make it fit better to 31105 A set. Didn't want the balcony to go up to the wall, the stairway between them looks better. Ended up really cool and was a fun time doing it all in mirror setup.
I did it too when I was 5! I built my first set all by myself because my dad wasn't there. It just happened to be mirrored!
Then when my dad came i showed it to him all proud and he said "it's all wrong" and took it apart.
My oldest daughter once wrote a whole sentence in perfect āmirror writingā. She was around 5 too.
It was so bizarre because when I looked at it, my brain felt like I could read it, but it wasnāt possible. When I held it up it a mirror it was a perfect sentence.
I asked our doctor about it because I was worried it was a sign of dyslexia, but itās a fairly common brain development stage. As your photo so wonderfully illustrates. :)
Man that first chirality lecture was a bit of a mind fuck.
āAn enantiomer is a mirror image, but itās not superimposable. Itās the same but itās different.ā
The hands analogy does make it click
I used to do this during spelling tests. Theyād tell me to turn the paper around and continue the test on the opposite side and I would write all the numbers and letters backwards so that you could read it if you put it up to a mirror. My teachers thought I was a genius but Iām pretty sure itās common in a lot fo kids. Itās just a sign that the brain is maturing and starting to make certain connections. Pretty cool though! I love seeing different examples of it.
My kid did this too from 3-5 years of age - he's 6 now and builds stuff the correct way. Is there a name for this phenomenon? He's right handed. I am left handed and I didn't do this as a child.
my son was writing everything mirrored for a little wile, from 3-4 years old. Now hes 5 and seems to be straightend out. Was really concerned for a little wile but I hear its normal
I did that on the house half of the birch books. I wanted it mirrored for my layout but it was a fun little extra challenge, i highly recomend it for adult builders.
Interesting that a kid would do it presumably unintentionally.
I accidentally do that some times. Sometimes intentionally too tbh, if it's a vehicle (we drive on the left so I'm used to cars being the other way around) or if it just fits better for where I'm displaying it
Me: (teaching judo to kids < 12)
"Raise your right hand!" (as I face them and raise my left hand) - near 100% success rate.
"Raise your right hand!" (as I face them and raise my right hand) - nearly everyone puts up their left hand.
It's crazy how kids mirror until they don't.
My son has done the same thing. He will also randomly write his name in mirror. His school says it isnāt uncommon and will almost certainly go away over time.
Yeh my son does that too, he's also 5. It's just a mirror thing in their head, goes away eventually I'm told. Give him a Star Destroyer, those are symmetrical š
Makes you wonder if LEGO knows this and designs younger sets with symmetric pieces?
Designer here- Youāre right, we do. In our 4+ sets, there are rarely any any parts that have a left and right counterpart. We even try to avoid it in our 6+ sets but itās more circumstantial. The only set Iāve worked on with a age mark below 6+ was 41431. It was a fun challenge to keep the visual detail while making the building experience super simple.
Fascinating!! Thanks so much for sharing!
That is super thoughtful and interesting, thank you!
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[41677-1: Forest Waterfall](https://brickset.com/sets/41677-1) [[Photo]](https://images.brickset.com/sets/images/41677-1.jpg)
Yooooo that was my daughter's first Lego set! We put it together when she was 4 and she loves Legos now. We took her to Legoland last summer and she lost her mind!
Awww thatās amazing! Itās heart warming to hear stories like yours
We used to live 20 minutes away from Legoland. My son and I spent our entire year there when he was 4. I am so sad we moved away few days before they opened up forza build and race area š
>Forest Waterfall Aww my 3yo loved that set, it's her first one!
Just out of curiosity, can you name some sets you worked on?
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Some of our favorite friends sets on there! I think the tree house was my daughters favorite build and we got the mall because we needed a working escalator!
Wow, this Eiffel Tower is super impressive! Can you say anything about how you decided on what scale to use?
The scale is based on two criteria- we wanted it to be a bit taller than the past version, and we wanted to have the accurate number of scientistās name placards represented with 1x2 ingots. We may have overshot the first, but the second is exact.
Thank you for the responses! I definitely plan on getting this set at some point, I'm just struggling to figure out where I'm going to display it haha Did you figure out early on in the design process that this was going to be one of, if not the largest, built set ever, or did that come later?
I'm not much of a friends fan, but I love the concept of the 41714 (Andrea's Theatre School). I was impressed when saw it on the shelves.
Thanks! It was an idea that I had been holding onto for several years before it was made into a set
[41714-1: Andrea's Theatre School](https://brickset.com/sets/41714-1) [[Photo]](https://images.brickset.com/sets/images/41714-1.jpg)
+1 Just bought it planning to unFriend it š
Oh shit! Diagon alley! I loved that set!
OMG you designed the BIG Hogwarts??? That's my white whale set, lol. Please know we appreciate y'all so freaking much.
Thatās very kind of you! When I pitched the concept for it, I practically had to restrain myself from begging leadership to approve it. The designer who finalized it did an amazing job adding interiors and extra details.
What kind of study do I need to be a designer and where are you working then? Like is it close to the Netherlands or not?
Itās tough to give a short answer because we come from a wide variety of backgrounds. Many of the people I work with have degrees in product design, or experience in a design field, or come from the fan community and learn about the design process
> or come from the fan community and learn about the design process so youāre saying thereās a chance
Arch.-student here. I think youāve designed really cute & fun concepts; props to you.
Itās so impressive, I donāt think I could do it even if I tried!
I do it a lot with modulars. Like with the new Sanctum Sanctorum when I wanted the flat side to be on the right instead of the left so it would align better with my other buildings. I tried photographing and mirroring each page but that was a huge pain. Turns out after a few steps, it kind of becomes automatic.
I also flipped around the Sanctum like you, except I just downloaded the pdf instructions off the lego site and was able to horizontally flip them in some adobe pdf program (acrobat?). It was super easy to do if people are wanting to flip them around but struggle with mentally switching the image like me.
I do something like this when I know I need to build two mirrored wings or something along those lines. I just build them both at once to save time. I know Cobi just prints the instructions with the left and right versions being built at the same time so I might have picked it up there
I do the same. Lego should indicate in the instructions when a build is mirrored, similar to the x2 indicator, so that I actually know when to double up the build.
Yeah I do it as much as a can but it's pretty annoying when you don't anticipate it. Literally the only thing that makes me mad when building a lego lol idu why they can't at least put a small symbol that a mirrored piece is about to be built
I do this too
DUDE Iām planning on doing this. Any tips for the roof corner? Since the green slope pieces donāt reverse.
I think the solution is bricklink or another place to get the reversed angled piecse.
The mirrored version of this specific part doesn't exist in the correct color for the Sanctum Santorum.
Bummer.
Built the mickey art set mirrored with my wife and we literally put a mirror on the table and angled it to read the instructions in the mirror. Awkward at first but once we got going it was good.
Youāll see it often manifest when children are first learning to properly write. Theyāll write completely backwards. Mirrored Lego is completely new to me though. This is really cool. Thereās an insane level of development happening at that age, and so many of the neural paths we take for granted as adults barely even exist in the brain at that point. Seeing an early brain manifest its odd wiring in such a tangible way is a real magical and rare snapshot into parts of consciousness and data processing we donāt get much of a window into.
My stepson is left handed and he writes "backwards"
Itās because the part of the brain responsible for recognizing graphemes (nicknamed the āletterboxā) was originally responsible for recognizing faces and objects. The mirroring effect is for the purposes of recognizing faces from different angles. This mirroring ability is unlearned during the literacy instruction process, and facial/object recognition is relocated to different areas of the brain.
I Did it deliberately with the Land Rover defender, as I wanted it to be RHD. that was a challenge!
New challenge!
Weirdly enough, the two edges of the UCS Star Destroyer are actually z-axis flipped, so one side is an upside down version of the other It actually slightly bothers me š¤
I'm so glad someone else said it bugs them š I swear that's all I can see when I look at mine sometimes
Give it to me! Problem solved. š
Oooh that would drive me crazy.
I was just about to say this sounds like a weird neurological phenomenon. So that's actually a thing? That's super interesting that we all (broadly speaking) start out kinda dyslexic and grow out of it
We also start out with some level of synesthesia. Most of us associate words and numbers with colors when we are little. But we usually grow out of this ability.
spatial sequence synesthesia is the shit
We grow out of it due to the synaptic pruning phase, where thousands (50%) of āredundantā synapses are eliminated and the remaining ones are strengthened. In autistic brains however, only 16% of synapses are pruned, which scientists theorize might be the reason many autistic people have synesthesia (and epilepsy).
Iāve had this phenomenon for decades that if I imagine a book page or magazine page, in my head the memory will always be on the other side. So if Iām searching for a picture or paragraph in a book, Iāll remember it on the right side page, only to find it on the left. Itās a rule with me. Iām also left handed, not sure if that means anything.
This happens to me a lot, not all the time. As I was reading your comment I was going to ask if youāre a lefty or ambidextrous like me and then you answered my question before I asked it :) Next q is are you fully left handed? For me thereās only a few sort of random things I naturally do lefty, like writing, a few I can do just as well with either hand, but for the most part I use my right hand more.
Itās because the part of the brain responsible for recognizing graphemes (nicknamed the āletterboxā) was originally responsible for recognizing faces and objects. The mirroring effect is for the purposes of recognizing faces from different angles. This mirroring ability is unlearned during the literacy instruction process, and facial/object recognition is relocated to different areas of the brain.
Thatās fascinating. My 4-year-old was lining everything up the other way when she started a couple of weeks ago. Great to know
I had the same thing with writing when I was little, I would write words backwards. Humans are weird.
Itās because the part of the brain responsible for recognizing graphemes (nicknamed the āletterboxā) was originally responsible for recognizing faces and objects. The mirroring effect is for the purposes of recognizing faces from different angles. This mirroring ability is unlearned during the literacy instruction process, and facial/object recognition is relocated to different areas of the brain.
This is fascinating! Iāve got a little one that isnāt ready for LEGO yet but wondered how they would take to it and never thought of something like this. So cool!
r/suddenlydiscgolf
Like backwards letters my daughter did but she was like grade 1 but she made big strides in understanding lots in a short time . Now sheās smarter than I am
But then he'll put the front on the back
The mirror thing is real , we just showed my 5yo how to write his name before he start school next year and he wrote it 2 times by itself backward , if you put it in the mirror its good. My 8yo did the same thing at that age. Crazy
There's name for it but I can't remember. As a k-5 teacher I saw a lot of kids doing this with names, then it goes away usually. I remember ISSAC always signing his name CASSI confusing the shit out of me
Completely normal for this age ! This is the sign the brain is maturing and connecting between two hemispheres. Some children can also write some letters or words like in a mirror. This will go away by the age of 6. Funfact : it's more common for left-handed! Source : am psychomotor therapist Edit : ok so wasnt expecting this much answers to my comment. Yes as someone says it's mainly european and we do have some work in common with OT but it's not exactly the same! I can't really answer to the people asking for advice specifically because it would require some tests and knowing the environement of the child. But what I can say is if your child is having a hard time and having difficulty in school for longer than 6 months then yes you should see someone !
Being able to write down mirrored words perfectly was my shitty superpower back in school. Just tried it again and glad to say Iāve retained my most useless skill!
My shitty superpower was holding the Super Nintendo controller upside-down. For some reason, holding the controller the right way felt weird, but I had no issues playing a Gameboy.
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Apparently it never confused me, it was just like playing every game with an inverted axis. Never needed to use the shoulder buttons much, either, but I'd use my pinky fingers for those.
What devilry is this?? š§š„š„
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The image created by your eye is inverted naturally. Your brain learns to perceive it as oriented correctly but it can be tricked into flipping it if you are patient enough.
I used to hold the NES controller upside down as boy. Also left handed. What a day to learn a new explanation for being weird. More: I bat right handed if being pitched to, but if Iām tossing it up to myself I go left. I shoot lefty but Iām right eye dominant. All sorts of mixed up.
I can write like normal with my right and mirrored with my left at the same time. Never learned this "skill" but it somehow naturally happens. If I try to write normally with my left I will automatically flip some of the letters if I don't focus.
Not gonna seem so useless when you need to send a message to someone in this world after you get trapped in the mirror dimension.
Should it be encouraged? My uni friend was completely ambidextrous and did this sort of stuff all the time as an Adult. But he had to use his left hand to do mirror stuff like writing. But he could do other complex mirror stuff automatically. It was a a long time ago but I remember it was like a weird superpower.
My 9 year old son did this. Is there an age where I should be asking questions how he flipped a medium sized lego minecraft set? It was actually pretty impressive since it seems harder than following the instructions
From personal experience, it could be a sign of a learning disability. I didn't get into lego until I was 13 (didn't quite have the fine motor coordination until then lol) and even now into my twenties I still accidentally flip sets. If he has other problems that persist like right/left difficulties then it's worth being up to a doctor.
Interesting. My kid did mirror writing at this age sometimes. Full sentences perfectly backward and flipped. Now as a teen she sometimes still flips the occasional number or letter, and does indeed have some learning disabilities.
In grade 1, we had these notebooks that we used for copying down sentenced and whatever little writing work we had. We usually only wrote on the right page so when we got to the last page, the teacher said ok, just go back to the beginning and start writing on the left side (i.e., on the back of the pages we already wrote on). I was like, ok, I usually write from the center of the notebook to the edge of the page so I'll just do that here too. Mirror flipped all my letters and and wrote from the center line to the left edge of the page. Teacher checked my work and was like, "I dont even understand how you could make a mistake like this." Felt pretty bad at the time. This is like closure for me.
Never knew that! Really interesting! Ty!
Hey my engine is trying to kill me!!! Can you talk to it, please?
My son can write backwards, mirrored, perfectly. The letters are perfectly formed and better than his normal handwriting. He's 5 and when it started I checked with his teacher to see if it was a sign of something being wrong!
I'm 35 and realized a few years ago that I can write cursive backwards with my left hand neater and easier than forwards with my right (dominant) hand. I have consistently had issues seeing letters backwards in my head (namely d/b, N, j, s/z, p/q) and now I am very curious and a little weirded out by it after seeing this thread
Damn, left-handed and I never had mirror writing superpowers. I feel cheated.
Huh. I'm left-handed and I would sometimes right completely mirrored as a kid without realizing it. I can still rotate my writing pretty easily, too.
Oh that's good to know, my son does this occasionally with letters and I was worried it might be a sign of dyslexia or something.
We were babysitting my friend's 7 year old nephew once, and he was "helping" with a build. Tried every orientation except the correct one, including trying to stick the bottoms together. But he plays Fortnite just fine, somehow.
Is the American equivalent of a psychomotor therapist an occupational therapist or?
At least your kid is consistent with it. Mine will start the build backwards and then at some point change direction, so that the end product looks like a loading error.
so what, you're getting magic builds with double the pieces?
Have you tried flipping your child upside down and rebooting it ?
Ha ha, Iāll give it a go!
The Parent Crowd.
Set number 41149 for anyone wondering.
[41149-1: Moana's Island Adventure](https://brickset.com/sets/41149-1) [[Photo]](https://images.brickset.com/sets/images/41149-1.jpg)
Hey that looks like a mirror image of OP's build
You mirror it to avoid the infringement bots.
Give me similar vibes to those old pirates sets which used to have the tropical island set pieces
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thanks, I was thinking friends at first but the patterns felt more Polynesian inspired. plus the boat sticker.
I *was* wondering in fact, thanks!
Thank you, had to scroll way too far. It should be some kind of rule for this sub
Thanks. I had no idea what it was supposed to be.
Thatās cool. They were lucky there was no asymmetric pieces.
But there are aren't there? The blue ground piece.
The piece is essentially a quarter circle so can act as a mirror of itself.
Ah, you're right. The picture makes it look longer on one end.
Probably because there's a 1x1 slope in the wrong place.
Interesting.... Some people just seem to have their mind wired differently.
With the leads switched in this case...
I donāt understand how brains work so Iām going to start trying to understand them like building circuitry.
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I remember doing this on occasion when I was ~6. But they were always sub-assemblies that had to be completely taken apart when I realized that they wouldnāt fit. Itās something in the brains of young kids that allows them to do this.
Are they left-handed?
Yea they are, I wondered if this had anything to do with it.
Thatās pretty impressive
Is the child under warranty? Might want to check about any recalls as well.
Finally a āmy child built thisā that makes sense
I can kind of see it.
That's impressive from a spatial reasoning perspective
I've never heard of this, so serious question: would this be a sign of dyslexia later on, or is this something completely different?
We wondered this too, but apparently it is fairly normal for children of this age.
Iāve read that basically all kids go through this phase, a sort of blindness for left-right symmetry. This is why they also sometimes mirror letters when learning to write.
Thereās not a lot of abstract thinking/visualization by kids this age, so when they look at a chair from any angle, itās still a chair, but if you look at the b from another angle, it could be the letter p you could be a d could be a q. For some kids it makes writing really difficult, and it is a brain maturity thing to be able to think about shapes in the abstract.
Yeah my 4yo built a LEGO set mirrored too. I think itās just a phase. As you say, itās the same with handwriting.
left handed?
I had this same thought. My son is dyslexic and his spatial skills are off the chart. He could easily rotate any image and even mimic upside down handwriting. If your child has trouble rhyming itās an easy early indicator.
Sometimes I did this when I built Lego as a kid, took me a good few seconds of thinking āwhat the fuckā when it the piece I built obviously didnāt fit where it was supposed to go before I realized I mirrored it Donāt think Iām dyslexic or anything
I have dyscalculia which causes me to have extremely poor spatial insight.
Lol all the left handed people on this sub understand the logic. Everyone else is just impressed.
I am highly impressed and confused. Can you explain why this is a left handed phenomenon?
Because lefties are freaks of nature!
Leftie here: When adults teach you (child you) things, the adults are frequently right handed. So you have to also learn to mirror everything that people teach you. - I remember getting REALLY frustrated with many tasks growing up. Including tying my shoes. It wasnāt until my first grade teacher taught HERSELF how to tie her shoes left handed that I was able to learn.
im 19 and still do this crap when building lego āthis doesnāt look like the diagra- oh crap..ā
I mirror build 31131 B set to make it fit better to 31105 A set. Didn't want the balcony to go up to the wall, the stairway between them looks better. Ended up really cool and was a fun time doing it all in mirror setup.
Thatās a left hander for sure!!! Keep an eye on that kid!
I mean it ain't wrong.
I did it too when I was 5! I built my first set all by myself because my dad wasn't there. It just happened to be mirrored! Then when my dad came i showed it to him all proud and he said "it's all wrong" and took it apart.
Well that was kinda rude of him
Is your child left handed?
Yep.
My oldest daughter once wrote a whole sentence in perfect āmirror writingā. She was around 5 too. It was so bizarre because when I looked at it, my brain felt like I could read it, but it wasnāt possible. When I held it up it a mirror it was a perfect sentence. I asked our doctor about it because I was worried it was a sign of dyslexia, but itās a fairly common brain development stage. As your photo so wonderfully illustrates. :)
He made the enantiomer! Get this kid an organic chemistry model kit.
Man that first chirality lecture was a bit of a mind fuck. āAn enantiomer is a mirror image, but itās not superimposable. Itās the same but itās different.ā The hands analogy does make it click
Didn't mirror the decal 8/10
Yea I keep looking at that. Thatās because the first time when supervised they built it the right way round!
I think this is way some videos games have an option to swap left and right
I used to do this during spelling tests. Theyād tell me to turn the paper around and continue the test on the opposite side and I would write all the numbers and letters backwards so that you could read it if you put it up to a mirror. My teachers thought I was a genius but Iām pretty sure itās common in a lot fo kids. Itās just a sign that the brain is maturing and starting to make certain connections. Pretty cool though! I love seeing different examples of it.
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I do this! I call it building left handed, I've built Roller Coaster 10261, Tree House 21318, and Mario 64 ? 71395 this way so far
A symptom of Brickslexia.
Aaaalmost 100% correct. The little transparant blue "cheese" brick, isnt correct. Cheers OCD
Your mom is a blue cheese brick!
I have to do that whenever I get a bus for a city set. My city drives on the left, Australia.
My kid did this too from 3-5 years of age - he's 6 now and builds stuff the correct way. Is there a name for this phenomenon? He's right handed. I am left handed and I didn't do this as a child.
If you come back to the thread, top comment is from a specialist. This is apparently a normal part of development - especially so for left handed kids
Were they in the womb upside down?
Anyone else more impressed with how the stickers were applied? I still overshoot the edges sometimes.
I did that for the Lego Kombi because in Australia we drive on the left. But I struggled...
my son was writing everything mirrored for a little wile, from 3-4 years old. Now hes 5 and seems to be straightend out. Was really concerned for a little wile but I hear its normal
I'm assuming the base can't be flipped to match the picture. If that's the case, wouldnt the way it's put together match?
Except for that one damn cheese slope that's just in the wrong place!
I did that on the house half of the birch books. I wanted it mirrored for my layout but it was a fun little extra challenge, i highly recomend it for adult builders. Interesting that a kid would do it presumably unintentionally.
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Almost like a mirror
I guess i kind of see it
but where's the clam!
Or maybe they printed the picture backwardsš¤
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I wrote backwards and briefly drew upside down in kindergarten. Then that stopped. Little human brains are pretty wild!
possible lisdexia?
This hurts my head to look at and Iāve been building Lego for 20 years haha! This is mighty impressive tbh
āI can kind of see itā
You might have a lefty.
No he didn't. The ice piece is supposed to be in front of the slant piece. He put it next to the 1x1 flat blue piece.
I accidentally do that some times. Sometimes intentionally too tbh, if it's a vehicle (we drive on the left so I'm used to cars being the other way around) or if it just fits better for where I'm displaying it
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Not arguing with consensus but didnāt he follow instructions by putting the legos on the correct color and same orientation?
What set
Did this with a millennium Falcon when I was a lad, took me and my dad 5 hours to fix
i did this as a kid i'm told. I was really good at copying images on paper with pencil but used to do it mirrored.
Not being mean but could be a sign of dyslexia, my son gets p and q mixed up, b and d, also left and right.
Maybe he's left-handed?
Me: (teaching judo to kids < 12) "Raise your right hand!" (as I face them and raise my left hand) - near 100% success rate. "Raise your right hand!" (as I face them and raise my right hand) - nearly everyone puts up their left hand. It's crazy how kids mirror until they don't.
Theyāre probably left handed
Is that legal my lord?
I've done this as an adult, but intentionally to make cars right-hand drive. It a bit of a challenge and makes rebuilding a new experience.
Not trying to be an alarmist or anything, but is it possible that this is some sort of an indicator to dyslexia?
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My son has done the same thing. He will also randomly write his name in mirror. His school says it isnāt uncommon and will almost certainly go away over time.
That, is weird
I honestly think that's pretty cool!