> > Remember, left-handed people are in their right minds. that is where it all took place... and the correlations brought it to light. well it explains how well i handled my small axe cutting branches also with my left arm when my right arm was exhausted and a bunch of other stuff such as eating left handed that I always sort of ignored knowing I live 90% RH'd.
>> They call mine a concealed left handedness. Could >> also mean someone or in fact even I myself by manner of imitation >> trained me into adopted right handedness. add: she also said I could be ambidextrous but it wasn't as probable > When I started school back in the dark ages, my parents told my grade > one teacher that I was left handed and they did not want her to > "train" me to become right-handed. Apparently it wasn't uncommon for > teachers to do things like tie kids' left hands behind their backs so > they couldn't use them to write, or to actually punish children for > holding pens and pencils in their left hand. My teacher told my > parents she believed in letting children write with their preferred > hand. that is good! I think you were really lucky in that respect and also with your choice of parents =) reading up a bit I found a number of websites emerging around the retraining I mentioned that say there are indications that inverted lefties often tend to ADHS like issues, anxiety disorders, inability to make anything of extraordinary gifts and so forth because the brain is still a leftie and has to turn everything around and sort of work within a foreign functional habitat... of course some of this is a sales spin and I can't judge these things but I can imagine at least part of it is true. > I can't imagine the torment that poor lefties went through being > forced to write with their right hand. And later consequences? Who > knows? there are reports about the changes in their lives from those retrained to left. I could reread and tell you the gist of what they say?? >> The latter would mean I >> could retrain to left if I decided to but I am unsure of the drawbacks >> or benefits so I'll take my time on the whole thing, the former means >> there is some potential yet untapped to make me more versatile. >> Whatever it is, the prospect of finding out is very exciting to me... > > Certainly are interesting times for you - and some interesting > decisions to be made! yes, indeed. of course "best of both worlds" ideas come to mind but I think this would boil down to a conscious choice cheers! ecke -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
