Re: Handedness

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Tittmar wrote:-

> (he loves this group, it means I don't talk rubbish to him all day!).

My DH saw this over my shoulder and laughed .... Hmmmmm!

> Anyway, the trick Paediatricians use to check handedness is to give a

> child the inside of a toilet roll and ask them to look through it like a

> telescope. The result is which eye they put it too rather than which

> hand they take it with!

But but but couldn't you be left eyed and right handed?

I am right handed but left footed!!!! although I seem to be right eyed.

Another way to check the eyeness out is to stare at a small object on the

other side of the room, and try to " best " cover it up with a finger from an

outstretched arm. Only then should you close each eye in turn, and you will

notice that the dominant eye has taken control of the finger.

Spooky

(imagining all of you with fingers outstretched.....)

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Tittmar wrote:

> I So it looks like I'm secretly left handed! I always knew

> there was an explanation for my inate genius and creativeness !!! I

> broke my left collar bone when I was nearly 2, and was stapped up in a

> sling for 6 weeks - DH thinks this might be an explanation for why I use

> my right hand now! As I said in a previous note, I'm pretty ambidextrous

> anyway.

I was totally ambidextrous until I broke my left wrist playing hockey. It

was set badly and then had to be broken again to reset - still set wrong so

broken again. That hand was out of action for AGES!!!!

I still sew, cook and paint left handed but my writing is now illegible -

even more so than when I write with my right hand!

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Do you do x stitch left-handed, then? DD1 finds it hard to do as her hand

seems to want to go in the opposite direction to the chart. Any helpful

hints (Not advice, of course!)

Lesley

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said.....I still sew, cook and paint left handed but my writing is

now illegible -

even more so than when I write with my right hand!

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I actually x stitch with 2 hands - left hand above, right hand below - but I

stitch from left to right then right to left(///// then \\\\\\\). Does that

make sense?

She could always stitch in the other direction - so long as she does the same

for the whole chart....

Pete & Lesley Reader wrote:

> Do you do x stitch left-handed, then? DD1 finds it hard to do as her hand

> seems to want to go in the opposite direction to the chart. Any helpful

> hints (Not advice, of course!)

> Lesley

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, I always put telescopes to my left eye because I " wink " more easily

with my right eye (closes more easily while the other eye is completely

open) (also possibly something to do with the way I held Panda as a tot) and

my left eye has better sight than my right! So this doesn't work for a

definite right hander like me (I don't think I have a preference for

pirouette direction; oh yes I have on my left leg turning to the right).

Make of this what you will!

Oh, and btw I love " He wishes for the cloths of heaven " too - a friend had

it read at her wedding and we were all completely goosebumpy and choked!

Anneliese (part-time) SAHM to Baby Tim (18/9/99), member, Alton, Bordon and

district branch

Handedness

I just read the digest and told DH what we're talking about at the moment

(he loves this group, it means I don't talk rubbish to him all day!).

Anyway, the trick Paediatricians use to check handedness is to give a

child the inside of a toilet roll and ask them to look through it like a

telescope. The result is which eye they put it too rather than which

hand they take it with! So I did it and put it to my left eye (of

course, saying at the same time " I always put it to my right eye " because

I've always been the sort of person who needed to write Left and Right on

my shoes). So it looks like I'm secretly left handed! I always knew

there was an explanation for my inate genius and creativeness !!! I

broke my left collar bone when I was nearly 2, and was stapped up in a

sling for 6 weeks - DH thinks this might be an explanation for why I use

my right hand now! As I said in a previous note, I'm pretty ambidextrous

anyway.

The delights of living with a doctor (better perk than the free doctor

mags that come in covered in pictures of ghastly skin condition! Yukky!!)

Part time SAHM to (6/2/00)

Enjoying having a DH who's 'working from home' today and is currently

cleaning the kitchen and unblocking the dishwasher!!

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DS1 is cross lateral - L hand, R eye are dominant. Refuses to play ball

games so I don't know which foot he uses - He kicks DS2 under the table so I

don't get to see which foot he uses!

Being cross lateral seems to cause probs for some people not others, this

was suggested as a possible cause of his problems with the mechanics side of

writing - he now uses a keyboard device for all long written work.

Cross stitch - it doesn't matter where you start and which direction you

move over the chart so long as you decide which part of the stitch will be

on top ie /'s or \'s and stick to that for the whole piece of work.

I read some where, a long time ago, that you should put or give spoons, pens

etc in the middle so that a young child decides for themselves which hand to

use. But that's probably all wrong these days!

Liz Goudie

(Feeling very intimidated about grammer and spelling with all these english

teachers around! I went to a very forward? thinking primary school in the

1960's who didn't think that spelling and grammer needed to be taught....)

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> Lesley asked:-

> Do you do x stitch left-handed, then? DD1 finds it hard to do as her hand

> seems to want to go in the opposite direction to the chart. Any helpful

> hints (Not advice, of course!)

I can't see that it would matter which hand you used to do cross-stitch.

The main thing to remember is that the top stitches should always point the

SAME way but I shouldn't really matter which way. I could be wrong of course

as cross-stitch isn't my favourite stitch.

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> DS1 is cross lateral - L hand, R eye are dominant

Liz G

Me too - LHanded and defective L eye, so would have failed the dr`s

handedness test?

Barbara

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Liz wrote:

>DS1 is cross lateral - L hand, R eye are dominant.

How do you mean his eye is dominant? That it has better vision or is it

more complicated than that? Am I just being thick?

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Sue

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Sue, did you try the eye dominance test?

................Another way to check the eyeness out is to stare at a small

object on the

other side of the room, and try to " best " cover it up with a finger from an

outstretched arm. Only then should you close each eye in turn, and you will

notice that the dominant eye has taken control of the

finger....................

> Liz wrote:

> >DS1 is cross lateral - L hand, R eye are dominant.

>

> How do you mean his eye is dominant? That it has better vision or is it

> more complicated than that? Am I just being thick?

>

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wrote:

>...............Another way to check the eyeness out is to stare at a small

>object

Thanks. Tried that and the result was immediate (I was a bit worried as

my left eye vision is significantly worse than my right) but no worries.

Took off my specs (as it is now the evening I am wearing those instead

of contacts) and both with and without I am right eye dominant and left-

handed (actually my handedness wasn't in any doubt with or without specs

LOL and before of you pedants picks it up :-) ).

--

Sue

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Liz wrote:

>DS1 is cross lateral - L hand, R eye are dominant.

Sue asked

How do you mean his eye is dominant? That it has better vision or is it

more complicated than that? Am I just being thick?

Liz replied

It's the eye he uses by choice if only one is available - eg the loo roll

telescope test. It is also the one with slightly better vision. My guess

is that most people's dominant eye will be the one with better vision as

this was why their brain made it dominant. But I could be wrong about that.

Liz Goudie

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> Liz replied

> My guess

> is that most people's dominant eye will be the one with better vision as

> this was why their brain made it dominant. But I could be wrong about

that.

I am right eye dominant

Just looked up my eye test prescriptions

Although my eyes are both short sighted by the same amount now (-0.75)

My right eye was worse 4 years ago (-1.00)

But I guess my eyes were different when the brain was doing it's deciding

unless it was in the womb.

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That's with a frame or hoop, then? I use a hoop but DD1 doesn't. Maybe

I'll suggest that to her. Mind you, she's off sewing atm!

When you say stitching in the other direction, does that mean the picture

would come out back to front?

Lesley

Confused of Deeside

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I actually x stitch with 2 hands - left hand above, right hand below - but

I

stitch from left to right then right to left(///// then \\\\\\\). Does that

make sense?

She could always stitch in the other direction - so long as she does the

same

for the whole chart....

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I can't see that it would matter which hand you used to do cross-stitch.

The main thing to remember is that the top stitches should always point the

SAME way but I shouldn't really matter which way. I could be wrong of course

as cross-stitch isn't my favourite stitch.

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Well, I'm confused by DD1's difficulties, too, as I'm not left handed but as

far as I can see, her brain wants to reverse the pattern. When she was

learning to write, individual letters would come out back to front,

sometimes whole words would be back to front and occasionally an entire

sentence! But she would still be able to read it. Weird, having 'sinister'

daughters!

Anyway, as I said earlier, she is 'off' sewing atm, and heavily into art.

Did I tell you all that she went to an all day art session recently and

spent the day drawing and painting from real nude models??? DS2 was

horrified.......don't know how a 21st century chap can be so prudish!

Lesley (getting seriously OT here!)

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> Did I tell you all that she went to an all day art session recently and

> spent the day drawing and painting from real nude models??? DS2 was

> horrified.......don't know how a 21st century chap can be so prudish!

Always wanted to pose nude for artists. Only managed for photographers.

Body is shot now though, after only one baby.

I did manage to pose for the art exam in my school in Dublin but that was in

sports clothes holding a VERY heavy tennis racket! All for IR£1 (18 years

ago).

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said.....Always wanted to pose nude for artists. Only managed for

photographers.

Body is shot now though, after only one baby.

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Trying to tread carefully here, and find a nice way to say that I'm sure

they don't just want perfect bodies for life classes. A succession of body

beautifuls must get rather boring, and a body that shows some of its

experiences would be much more interesting. At least, that's what I tell

myself when examining my very war torn bod. I tell myself that my body has

been 'distressed' like the mock antique furniture people are prepared to pay

good money for, and hence a valuable item!!

Lesley

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From someone who took Life classes, in my youth, I can honestly say that male

muscular bodies are more interesting to draw than podgy ones. You can see

muscle beneath the skin - can you tell we only got men to draw though....

Now if we had had women to draw I would say a good rounded bod would have been

far more interesting than a skinny wench.

So does that help - always looked blooming cold to me - even though the model

had a fan heater to keep them warm.

I hope we paid them well...... suspect not.

Sue h,.

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In article <004001c040d5$5c04bd00$2ed2e4d4@default>, The 's

writes

>

>> Liz replied

>> My guess

>> is that most people's dominant eye will be the one with better vision as

>> this was why their brain made it dominant. But I could be wrong about

>that.

>

>I am right eye dominant

>Just looked up my eye test prescriptions

>Although my eyes are both short sighted by the same amount now (-0.75)

>My right eye was worse 4 years ago (-1.00)

>But I guess my eyes were different when the brain was doing it's deciding

>unless it was in the womb.

I made dh test this earlier as I was interested to see what the result

would be - he wrote left-handed until he started school, and was then

made to write right-handed, although without too much difficulty, as far

as I can gather. Anyway, it turned out he is left eye dominant, but in

fact the sight in his left eye is significantly worse than in his right

eye.

Cath

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Lesley wrote:-

.. I tell myself that my body has

> been 'distressed' like the mock antique furniture people are prepared to

pay

> good money for, and hence a valuable item!!

This certainly brought a smile to my face

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In message <NEBBJFKNEPBBECAJIAHPGEJJCEAA.peterlesley@...

o.uk>, Pete & Lesley Reader writes

>

>

> said.....Always wanted to pose nude for artists. Only managed for

>photographers.

>Body is shot now though, after only one baby.

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>Trying to tread carefully here, and find a nice way to say that I'm sure

>they don't just want perfect bodies for life classes. A succession of body

>beautifuls must get rather boring, and a body that shows some of its

>experiences would be much more interesting. At least, that's what I tell

>myself when examining my very war torn bod. I tell myself that my body has

>been 'distressed' like the mock antique furniture people are prepared to pay

>good money for, and hence a valuable item!!

>

Having *never* had a 'perfect' body (5 foot tall and slightly dumpy, now

very!!!) I did loads of life modelling at uni. (helped that my course

was based on the arts campus) for art and photography. I wouldn't have

starved without it but wouldn't have been able to live within walking

distance of a decent library!! Went and did some more there whilst

pregnant with DD, and with her afterwards (the fact I was willing to BF

went down rather well). Local colleges are always after people, and the

pay isn't bad (it was 15 a session 91 and 25 by 96).

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Helen Armfield