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My mother said I might have started writing with my left hand but changed on my own... not sure about this. I remember much difficulty remembering the difference of "b" and "d" when I was not the least bit confused about their sound or the name of the letter I wanted to use. I suspect that the switch to my right hand may have related more directly to the schoolroom furniture. Nowadays, due to these computer keyboards, I rarely write anything unless it's my signature on a check or a R.O.C. I often feel that my left hand is better suited to using a screwdriver and I let it. When I studied German in college I learned that righthanded use of a knife is not followed by switching the fork back before consuming the severed morsel. I admired the utility of such a cultural norm. I recently discovered that I use chopsticks equally well with either hand, in spite of the fact that I set out to learn it with only one hand. Thinking that my eye-brain-hand condition may be unusual I recently wrote my name left handed... but you must hold it to a mirror to see that it truly is my signature. Now my point... I'm confused what all the fuss is about. I seem to have one of each, sinisterity and dexterity combined, and I don't feel insulted at all by either word. Perhaps you who protest too much should take up a trade with your weaker apendage and overcome the feelings of persecution by achieving that which you have heretofore felt was beyond your grasp.
Nosdrahcir Kram Nimajneb
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If anyone else would care to try this switch, I'd love to know if you found the same thing.
WAIT... i'm puzzled.
are you supposed to use just one thumb or the other for the space bar? i just performed a test (i put honey on alternating thumbs then typed to see if the space key got sticky... [the reason for this extreme, BTW, is that i absolutely could NOT type at all naturally when i tried to concentrate on observing my thumbs; i wound up putting spaces within words, and my typing's bad enough as it is]).... anyhow, it would appear from my not-exactly-scientific experiment that the thumb i use for the space key is whichever one typed the last character in the preceding word. OTOH, i never took a typing class, so this is probably completely wrong.
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cd absolutely could NOT type at all naturally when she tried to concentrate on observing her thumbs
Trying to figure out how you do things can be very difficult. Sometimes all you can do is keep doing what you do and hope you'll notice after the fact. I know when I tried to use my left thumb I just got totally discombobulated® and both hands got thrown off (my touch typing is pretty tenuous anyway). The experiment lasted about 15 minutes.
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the thumb i use for the space key is whichever one typed the last character in the preceding word.
I did take typing, and I do exactly what you do. I didn't know this, of course, until I sprained my dominant hand's thumb three weeks ago playing basketball.
Spraining or breaking fingers wreaks havok on typists (which most of us are), but it surely puts me out of commission from doing my sign language interpreting. Up until a few years ago when I became a staff employee at a USn Federal agency, I worked *freelance. Back then, it was unpaid unemployment if I ever hurt my hands (or wanted a vacation, or took a day off, etc.).
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