Posted by Sara T on June 27, 2000, at 18:32:08
In reply to Re: Mind/Body/Dominance (Lefty Here) » Sara T, posted by shar on June 27, 2000, at 15:26:21
> I turned out to be mildly left handed and close to ambidextrous.
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> > My daughter is also left handed and very left dominant.
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> > Sara T
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> Sara,
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> Well, your educational background and mental health sure back up what the docs said! Pretty unbelievable -- art and architecture!!
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> I wonder if kids now can be more left handed than when I was growing up (50's) and starting school. I was allowed to write with my left hand, but it was a right handed world. I wonder if your daughter has more lefty latitude that may allow her to choose her left hand more?
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> I am very ambidextrous, as is my mom who would have been a lefty but had to use her right hand in school, ...the bad old days.
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> I was married to a carpenter who was profoundly left-handed/footed/etc. It was so weird to see him cut with scissors and sharpen a pencil and stir things, etc. with his left hand! And, to use power tools, hammers, etc. I'm a righty for all of that!
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> Secretly, I like being a little different....
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> SharShar,
I don't know how she'll be with writing, she likes to draw. She starts Kinder in the fall. I am hoping though that she doesn't have any learning disorders like dyslexia or ADD. I say this because she also had some mild dyspraxia (problems integrating bilateral large motor movement and motor planning, like pedaling a tricycle). So I have already had her in Occupational Therapy.
She's carrying on the family traditions too. She's got some real anxiety and phobias and will be entering a therapy treatment for it this summer.
My other child, a boy, is right dominant, and he's got Asperger's Syndrome (a mild form of autism). Is this from having a left-handed mother?
Sara T.
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