I don't think I knew that you were left handed. Me too. And yeah, sometimes I just notice that I've been doing something right-handedly because it's clumsy but not so clumsy that I noticed right away.
The one weird thing, though, is that I noticed a few years ago that I always eat apples with my right hand and it feels weird to hold the apple with my left hand. I think that's because of many many years of apple in one hand, book or pen in the other.
I write (and do a handful of other things) left handed but am mostly ambidextrous. Possibly as a result of my early handwriting being *so bad* that they thought maybe I was insisting on using the 'wrong' hand, so tried teaching me the other combined with the "right handed is easier in many things" deal. I still occasionally have to remind myself to try switching hands when having trouble with dexterity.
Having watched my sisters, I've come to the conclusion that "learning to be more ambidextrous" is something that comes more easily to people who are predisposed to it, and then we claim it was the training that caused it. :-) Still, since I had the ability anyway, it's kind of nice that there were so many opportunities to practice.
I can't think of how to test that conclusion in an ethical way.
As a child, if I had had the vocabulary and concepts for it I would have identified being left-handed as a significant disability restricting my life and limiting my success in school. Nowadays, I rarely think about it. Some of that is because life isn't so right-centric nowadays (I rarely need to use dull scissors belonging to other people, I mostly type instead of write), but I also got better at things that used to bring me to tears (a right-handed can-opener, a right-hand-only potato peeler, for example). And how can I say whether I got better because my small muscle control just improved as I grew up, or whether it was because of the 6 weeks I spent with my left arm in a cast.
Huh. I spent time with my left arm in a cast, too.
Still, I was 6 when that happened and already in the habit of eating right handed, which neither of my sisters do. Training definitely helps. My feeling is that, especially for children, a really strong tendency to one hand can't simply be overridden or its strength reduced. So, if you have some facility and the process of gaining it didn't bring you to tears, it wasn't the training. It's a scale, not a switch, that's influenced by other factors, so naturally I'm not dealing with the underlying complexity here. My primary claim is that a more "handed" person would have clued into using their primary hand sooner than I did. It wouldn't have come up for my sisters, for example.
Sometimes you are the key or the gate master without being a manager or above it. I like to call this position indispensable and not likely to progress further in your current co.
Have you looked at the new proposed layout for the LRT?
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I don't think I knew that you were left handed. Me too. And yeah, sometimes I just notice that I've been doing something right-handedly because it's clumsy but not so clumsy that I noticed right away.
The one weird thing, though, is that I noticed a few years ago that I always eat apples with my right hand and it feels weird to hold the apple with my left hand. I think that's because of many many years of apple in one hand, book or pen in the other.
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As a child, if I had had the vocabulary and concepts for it I would have identified being left-handed as a significant disability restricting my life and limiting my success in school. Nowadays, I rarely think about it. Some of that is because life isn't so right-centric nowadays (I rarely need to use dull scissors belonging to other people, I mostly type instead of write), but I also got better at things that used to bring me to tears (a right-handed can-opener, a right-hand-only potato peeler, for example). And how can I say whether I got better because my small muscle control just improved as I grew up, or whether it was because of the 6 weeks I spent with my left arm in a cast.
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Still, I was 6 when that happened and already in the habit of eating right handed, which neither of my sisters do. Training definitely helps. My feeling is that, especially for children, a really strong tendency to one hand can't simply be overridden or its strength reduced. So, if you have some facility and the process of gaining it didn't bring you to tears, it wasn't the training. It's a scale, not a switch, that's influenced by other factors, so naturally I'm not dealing with the underlying complexity here. My primary claim is that a more "handed" person would have clued into using their primary hand sooner than I did. It wouldn't have come up for my sisters, for example.
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Sometimes you are the key or the gate master without being a manager or above it. I like to call this position indispensable and not likely to progress further in your current co.
Have you looked at the new proposed layout for the LRT?
I am guessing 2050 or later, maybe 2112.
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