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To: PurVirgo
My daughter is left-handed. Her Italian grandmother tried to get me to force her to be right-handed. After all, the Italian word for left is sinister.

She eats with her left hand but seems to do everything else with her right hand. She has a very quick mind, one of the best arguers I have ever known, but I don't know if being left-handed would have anything to do with it, as my younger daughter, who is right-handed is becoming a pretty good debater herself.

2 posted on 03/06/2002 10:00:24 PM PST by diefree
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To: diefree
It's a good thing you didn't force her; doing so can cause stuttering I've heard (something to do with the cross-wiring of the language center of the brain) among other problems. My father tried to force me, but it didn't take too well. Still a lefty, though I'm right-eyed and eared.
4 posted on 03/06/2002 10:09:03 PM PST by stands2reason
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To: diefree
She eats with her left hand but seems to do everything else with her right hand.

I eat and write left handed but do almost everything else with my right hand.

I have noticed that some of the left handed people I know have trouble telling right from left. Is this a common thing among left handers?

24 posted on 03/07/2002 6:52:10 AM PST by muggs
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To: diefree; all
My mother grew up in Korea, and was also forced to use her right hand, as she was born left handed, for the same reason. As a result, somethimes she has a bit of dyslexia.

I myself am left-handed, and my oldest brother is left handed also. My two other brothers are righty's. It's funny, cuz you can really see some personality differences among us. Me and my oldest bro, along with my mom, are more cognitive, so to speak. It's hard to compare us with my youngest bro, b/c we have different fathers. But Jason (the one between) is very mechanically oriented, hell he's like a damn tinker gnome the way he can take things apart, figure out how they work, and put it back together perfectly. But me and Eric (the oldest), we like to know why they work. I eat and write with my left hand, and my good ear/eye are on the left, but when I play ball, I bat right, and kick right when I play soccer. When I read a magazine, I read it from back cover to front, and can often read better if I hold the book upside down. I can remember in school, and when I fill out paperwork, I go from bottom right to top left, instead of left to right, top to bottom.

I know ppl get aggravated when they need to use my desk, because everything is "backwards" from them. But I know that it is predominantly a right handed world. Scissors, housing/building designs, yes even soup ladles are designed for righties.

36 posted on 03/07/2002 1:01:04 PM PST by PurVirgo
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To: diefree
Yup Sister Santagertrudas and crew tried to belt it out of me,crazy thing is I bat and play golf right handed.
81 posted on 03/08/2002 9:28:03 PM PST by Governor StrangeReno
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