Posted on 08/13/2007 9:29:03 AM PDT by Daffynition
A similar thing happened to me, only with the other “paw.” They say if you want to make yourself more “awake” that you should use your opposite hand for a while; I think it works.
So THAT’s why I can’t use the number pad on my keyboard! I’d always wondered, LOL! And now you’ve made me think about trying writing backwards; it sounds really neat.
My penmanship is very good, thanks to a teacher who recommended to my parents to get a chalkboard at home for practice. I neither curl my hand down and backwards, as some do, (which must be tiring), nor drag my hand across the page.
I saw the SAME thing in that picture. Does it mean that we are complicit in the murder?
I drag my fist behind me so occasionally I would smear liquid ink. Just lazy I guess. I had an elementary school principal who, believe it or not, had a minor in penmanship. He had me come to his office each day after school and I would practice my letters. By the time I made it to middle school, I won the school-wide penmanship contest. Got a neato transister radio, too. This was in the mid-sixties.
If I had the number keypad on the left side of my computer, I would actually use the calculator function on it and be in “high cotton”. As it is, I keep a ten-key nearby or scrunch over like I did with right-hand lecture chairs. I have actually tried using the keypad with my right hand, and the ten-key at the right side of my desk at work with my right hand but it gives me a headache. I also rarely use the full function of my mouse. Just adjusting, I guess.
Have fun writing backwards. Maybe our minds do rotate better than righties.
You should see how I write. The old curled wrist. People gape so much I should charge them to see it.
I read somewhere that lefties who write that way were meant to be right-handers but suffered some kind of brain damage in utero. Lefties who write "normally" -- like righties, only the opposite hand -- are genetically left-handed.
I'm what you call a "pathological" left-hander.
To my fellow southpaws I suggest THE LEFT-HANDER SYNDROME, by Stanley Coren. It's discomfiting, to say the least.
My theory on the curly-handed writers was that in the first grade or kindergarten when the teacher said to tilt your paper to the left, that’s exactly what lefties did. And the only way a leftie can write on the lines of a left-tilted paper is backhanded. But then that’s just my right-brained theory.
Of course my paper tilted to the right and I was occasionally the target of cheaters in school. Once, in college, a professor told me he thought he had identified a cheater who constantly targeted me (I was a fairly good student) so he asked me to mark the multiple-choice test off one (if the answer was A, I was to mark B, etc.). He assured me he would grade my exam by hand rather than by computer. After the exam, I asked the professor whether his strategy worked. He just smiled.
My 7 year old daughter is left-handed. I’m ambidextrous.
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