There are lots of things that are part of "common knowledge" but are actually false. Sometimes those popular misconceptions touch you personally because it refers to a condition you have or a topic you are familiar with.
Here are some of the ones I find both amusing and annoying:
During my life, I have found many people have very weird and incorrect ideas about left-handed people.
The most common is the assumption that left-handed people can't use their right hand at all. You wouldn't believe how many people I have met who assume the right hand of a left-handed people is some kind of useless stump. They assume we can't do simple things like opening a door or flipping a switch with our right hand.
A less common one is that left handed people are just incapable of anything that requires hand skills with ANY hand. Back when I still allowed people to see me drawing, I got those comments a hundred times. "How can you draw? I thought you were left-handed!"
And when I explain I can learn a skill like anyone else, they would reveal they believed left-handed people are born missing the hand coordination are or the brain or something similar. Actually, in some cultures, the word for "left-handed" is also used as a euphemism for "unskillful" and "inexpert".
Yet another that's only half-truth is that left-handed people need special tools made for them. This one is true for some particular things like musical instruments. But I keep hearing of ridiculous crap like "left-handed hammer" and "left-handed wrench". Over the decades I have worked many manual jobs and I have not once seen a tool designed to be used in one specific hand. The only hand specific object I have used is a compound bow because the hand that holds the arrow depends on your dominant eye. For most other things it doesn't matter at all.
Another area full of misconception is eyesight problems.
I have myopia (short-sightedness) and since elementary school, I ran into those all the time.
The most common is that short-sighted people become blind if they lose their eyeglasses. That's one that mostly created by cartoons for comic effect. Like in Scooby Doo there is a recurring joke of Velma dropping her glasses and not recognizing a monster in front of her. So many people think that's accurate!
Obviously, when someone loses his glasses his vision is impaired, even greatly reduced depending on the particular eye conditions... but nobody becomes instantly blind to the point of being unable to retrieve the glasses laying a foot away from him.
I had people standing right in front of me assuming they were invisible because I was not wearing my glasses. With the exception of very extreme cases (near blindness), a shortsighted person without glasses still can see everything and everyone, just kind of blurry. At some distance, faces are harder to recognize and small letters in signs become a contiguous smear. But no, we don't go blind.
So what are the most common misconceptions you have found that touch you personally?
P. S. Please let's leave the most obvious one out. We all know most people out there think furries go around fucking animals (or each other dressed as animals) but let's talk about misconceptions on other areas. Maybe I'll do a separate journal just for popular furry misconceptions.
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21 Sep 2018 19:06 CEST
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