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From: pamp@bcsaic.UUCP (pam pincha)
Newsgroups: net.med,net.kids,net.social
Subject: Re: Changing Left-handedness to Right-handedness
Message-ID: <270@bcsaic.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 6-Sep-85 14:22:40 EDT
Article-I.D.: bcsaic.270
Posted: Fri Sep  6 14:22:40 1985
Date-Received: Mon, 9-Sep-85 03:59:55 EDT
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Summary: 

In article <12@mss.UUCP> jpj@mss.UUCP (J. P. Jenal) writes:
>When I was but a wee lad, my Father found me practicing my penmanship and,
>deciding that I was doing horribly left-handed, insisted that I should do
>things the "right" way.  Thus I changed to writing right-handed.  Needless
>to say that is how my Father wrote - and did everything else that way as
>well.  I got even though because I persisted in throwing and batting lefty
>which he could never abide.
>
>In the end I have ended up sort of a weird hybrid - 
>	Right Handed Activities		|	Left Handed Activities
>					|
>	Eating				|	Throwing
>	Writing				|	Batting
>	Shoot				|	Bowl
>	Pull a bow			|	Sex (gotcha! :-)
>
>Bottom line - no stuttering, no spatial disorientation, I can still play
>guitar, even walk and chew gum at the same time.  Course I *do* teach high
>school - maybe I'm more damaged than I realize?
>
Actually this is not so unusual. If you look up Science ,August 16,1985,
(v.229,n.4714,p.665-668) S.F.Witelson's The brain connection, you
will find that "consistent left-handers" are RARE!("consistent
left-handers" are ones who use ONLY their left hand for activities)
What is more typically the case is that there is a "mixed-handedness"
that is more left-hand oriented. Mind you, handedness is not determined
on writing hand alone.

Best reference for this is 
	Annett,M.,1967,Q.J.Exp.Psychol.,v.19,p.327-?
		-This is refernced by Whitelson,and seems to contain
the basic statistics for how many,and what constitutes handednes.
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				Pam Pincha-Wagener
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