Re: CHAT: FINAL QUESTION: your natlangs.

Christophe Grandsire wrote:
>
> At 19:17 08/10/98 -0500, you wrote:
>
> >Last year we did a cognitive brain mapping of our group at work. This
> >was *not* a personality test, rather it was intended to discover a
> >person's preferred modes of thinking. If one tries to communicate with
> >someone who has a different cognitive preference, and neither of you is
> >aware of the differences, it is extremely easy to garble the
> >communication. Anyway, I ended up with an almost even split between
> >left-brain and right-brain dominance in terms of preferred mode of
> >thinking.
> >
>
>         Are you left-handed? I heard that left-handed people used more both
> hemispheres of their brain than right-handed ones (who used more their left
> hemisphere -rationality, etc...-).
>
I'm right-handed now. But my parents like to talk about how I was
showing signs of left-handedness as a toddler. When I began reaching for
things it was with the left hand. But they gently tried to train me into
right-handedness. So I guess I was actually more ambidextrous, as the
training seemed to work and I ended up none the worse for wear. No,
don't worry that my folks were harming me. Mom spent her career, prior
to my birth, as a physical and occupational therapist. I suspect that if
it was clear that I was *determined* to be left-handed, that Mom would
have noticed and stopped fighting nature.

I have heard that there can be cognitive or developmental problems for
people who are truly, strongly, left-handed and who are forced to become
right-handed. Anyone else know anything about that?

Laurie
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