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From: kevinc@auvax.UUCP (Kevin "auric" Crocker)
Newsgroups: comp.ai
Subject: Re: left handed
Summary: Hey not so fast with the :-)
Message-ID: <860@auvax.UUCP>
Date: 6 Feb 89 19:44:02 GMT
References: <725@htsa.uucp> <1989Jan26.120627.24056@gpu.utcs.toronto.edu>
Organization: Athabasca U., Alberta, Canada
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In article <1989Jan26.120627.24056@gpu.utcs.toronto.edu>, jinli@gpu.utcs.toronto.edu (Jin Li) writes:
> In article <725@htsa.uucp> fransvo@htsa.uucp (Frans van Otten) writes:
> >...what should we think of forcing left-handed people to
> >write with their right hand ?  (I believe this is mainly in the past, now).
> S/he will become ambidextrous.  :-)

Hey, this scenario is not as far fetched as you may think - i.e. the
smiley.

As I was growing up I used my left hand for almost everything.  My
older brother didn't like it so every time I used my left hand he would
hit me on the left arm.  Well, hey, I'm not dumb.  i started to use my
right hand whenever he was around and my left when I was alone.  For
most tasks I consider myself ambidextrous because of this behaviour on
my brother's part.  In some respects I am grateful(sic) for my
brother's interference but I am also regretful.  My behaviour changed
as a result and things might have been different had this not happened.

My son likes to use his left hand for a lot of things and I encourage
him as much as possible to use both hand for as much as possible.  For
example, if he picks up a crayon with his left hand I try to help hime
learn how to hold it so the point will make a mark on the paper, but if
he picks the crayon up in his right hand I do the same thing.

Please don't tell me that I'm contributing to developmental blockage.
:-)

Kevin
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Kevin "Auric" Crocker @Athabasca University {alberta ncc}auvax!kevinc