Brain Tease

But not everyone is as Perfect as me. :^0

Now what day is it?

Col

You do like this; hold your hands in front of you, index fingers pointing at each other then move your hands in circles, each hand moving alternately towards your body and away from it, and alternately upwards and downwards, in a circular movement around 10-20 cm across.
But in opposite directions, f.ex. your right finger goes from the starting position moving towards you and down, while the left moves away from you and down...

The trick is, that the circular movements should, for each hand be, say, counterclockwise, as observed from the wrist.
The movement is easy when the fingers point away from you, but difficult when they point at each other...

But it's the same thing as what you've done with reading-processing... they don't really need to be linked, they're just linked because we learned them that way... but doing 8s, that really is hard...
I can't do eights very well yet.

how can it be? Are you trying to say that today goes on and on in all directions? *pop*
Great, now I blew out a lobe...

they do say tender loving care is the best for recovery...
Do you still have the bird problem? You can always try to land on those, if any are around. They'll break the fall a bit, and might be edible, once croaked! :D

I can't do the eights with both hands / fingers just going in the same direction. I wind up moving my fingers up and down; the horizontal motion gets dampened out after a few repetitions.

I can twiddle my thumbs in either direction, though. Does that count? How about crossing my fingers with the ring finger and pinkie? On either hand? Oh, and I can roll just the tip of my tongue, while the rest of it stays unrolled.

I can cross, on either hand, index+middle and ring+pinky, all four pairs at once - is that what you mean?
Roll the tongue... how do you mean, fold the tip backwards, or form into a tube, or turn the tip in one direction until upside down? Or something else entirely?

we read, give the test to someone, a young child who cannot read, watch them smoke the test.

Reading is a reflex, identifying color takes more time, and worse when you add the interference factor of having the word green in red letters.

It takes huge concentration to turn off the reading thing, if the test went on for 20 minutes, I think my brain would have exploded.

I was driftting off there. ;)

Stroop is one of those weird animals that can be used for testing against a lot of things, depending on how the test is designed. I don't think that even something like tracking eye movements has as many uses. (Tracking eye movement during Stroop tests provides rather interesting data.)

I can walk and chew gum at the VERY SAME TIME!!! How about that?!?!?!?!

I can also hyperflex the fingers of both hands. And touch my thumb to the inside of my wrist.

I can also tell people to "live long and prosper". Just sayin...

I think that some of the movement association things are highly dependent on how one uses their hands. I was a sign language interpreter so am accustomed to moving my hands in a variety of ways that are not associated with how I would speak. ASL doesn't use spoken language structure, it signs key concepts and qualifiers as needed. That said, it took me three tries to "tune" my brain to see colors and not words in the test.

I can cross all four fingers at the same time. I can also stand on the tips of my toes. Ballet will do that to a person.

Is how painful it is to read that content.

Yes, I could both read and understand it. However, the mental acuity of the author dropped with every misspelled word. Net result? I was able to convince myself quite easily that the idea being forwarded had absolutely no merit whatsoever. Oddly, when forced to read "leet speak", the same phenomenon occurs.

Just sayin...

should have edited that out, another silly email forward.

But we do read by imaging more than reading the actual letters in a word.

Tracking eye movement can be definitive.

A person who is telling a lie (or making a wild guess) will present a variety of eye movements. People with executive function dysfunction will also present a series of eye movements during testing that are equally definitive.

Most executive function dysfunction tests are telling of, but not definitive FOR absence or presence of dysfunction. This is a major reason that, while a plethora of tests exist, none are capable of clarifying diagnosis. THAT must be done by someone who is well trained in both the dysfunction and how it presents.

It has been opined that "most" (no actual percentage provided) of the people who actively pursue IT as a career have one of several executive function dysfunctions.

Yeah, four pairs like you described. Just for giggles, I paused while typing this to try crossing middle + ring; I can do that on each hand too.

I originally meant rolling the tip into a tube, but your prompts reminded me I can fold it back too. I've found neither to be of any use in those activities where one might hope they would.

Specifically, a flexible tongue correllates with healthier teeth, all things being equal.

I can't cross middle and ring fingers, I can get one on top of the other, but that's as far as it goes, and I can feel that pain all the way up to my elbow :)

Tig, hypermobility? Good kind or bad kind?