Re: time to vent!--lefty's

I too am somewhat ambidextrous.  Comes in handy when pruning and other
chores!  My dad was another lefty switched in school to right.  He had
beautiful hand writing with his right hand, but continued all his life to
sketch and draw with his left hand.
--Barb, California
----- Original Message ----- 
From: <Aplfgcnys@aol.com>
To: <gardenchat@hort.net>
Sent: Thursday, June 24, 2004 6:50 PM
Subject: Re: [CHAT] time to vent!--lefty's


> In a message dated 06/24/2004 8:59:51 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
> justme@prairieinet.net writes:
> Interesting- how many folks on this list are left handed? My hand is
> raised!
> I have "mixed dominance" and it's genetic.  My grandfather had it, as does
at
> least one
> of my sons.  When I was young I could write with either hand - can't write
> legibly with
> either one any more. I could also read upside-down and backward.  I
sometimes
> studied upside down because it made me have to concentrate just a bit
more.
> My youngest son shares these traits.
> My grandfather was a newspaper man who claimed to take down information
with
> both hands at once - but I didn't really believe him.  Mixed dominance
means
> that neither side of your brain has complete control.  One effect is that
I
> tend to stammer - not a Mel Tillis sort of stammer, but an inability to
get the
> word out that I want to say. I also have very strong visual memory, but
> frequently can't find the words to go with the image.  It is said that the
right
> brain has no language, so lefties are at a loss for words, but I haven't
observed
> that
> to be the case.
> It's interesting that left-handedness has been seen to be a threatening
> aberation in some
> cultures. Some of the brightest people I know are lefties - maybe that's
why
> less gifted
> ones saw them as a threat.
> Auralie
>
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