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Re: Lavender Brick Society
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Mon, 20 Sep 2004 18:31:27 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Dave Schuler wrote:
> I don't doubt your tale at all, though it reminds me of other people I've
> known who've made claims of ambidexterity: Usually it amounts to "I write
> with my right hand, and I can use a hammer or a fork with my left hand, so
> I'm ambidextrous." Okay then.
I've always viewed it as mixed-handedness when you do some things with one and
some things with the other. Being fully ambidextrous should require being able
to do everything with either hand at will, and being partially ambidextrous
should require being able to do some things with either hand at will. Either
way, if you have to work really hard to train one hand where you had a much
easier time with the other, it's just off-hand training, not true ambidexterity.
> Come to think of it, I've come across lots of people who claim all kinds of
> mental quirks that are hard to verify or disprove "I have dyslexia/I have
> ADHD/I have Asberger's etc. etc. etc."
I don't really know anything about Asberger's, but there are definitive lists of
symptoms for both dyslexia and ADHD. I know ADHD is a neurological disorder,
not a psychological one, and I suspect dyslexia is as well.
> That's not to say that these conditions are themselves fictitious, but I've
> met a statistically improbable number of self-diagnosed sufferers.
My parents have been reading up on ADHD recently, and I've been told that
they've been finding it to be a lot more common than ever suspected.
> Half a lifetime ago I worked at a Burger King, wherein the "fry scooper" had
> only one handle, and it was on the right. I jokingly claimed that this was
> discrimination against lefties, and I was assured that "no it isn't, because
> there are more righties than lefties." Oh.
Perhaps, then, you'd be amused by the fact that the big Knights Kingdom knights
are all left-handed specifically because most people are right-handed. If you
try to make them attack using your left hand, the sword-arm will keep whacking
your knuckles, but if you use your right hand, there's no interference.
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| (...) There is some evidence that dyslexia is caused by making kids learn to read before their brain is ready for that kind of processing. I'm the first to admit that it's weak evidence, but there are a bunch of schools that adhere to a philosophy (...) (20 years ago, 21-Sep-04, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| (...) Oh, I don't doubt that it's a real condition, and I don't even doubt that it may have a higher incidence than previously known. But I'm uncomfortable with the correlation between the ease-of-diagnosis and the availability-of-prof...edication. (...) (20 years ago, 21-Sep-04, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| (...) I just realized that you're making a correct and finer distinction than I did. I didn't mean to suggest that these disorder are mere behavior problems in need of more discipline. On the other hand, sympton-lists are problematic because it's (...) (20 years ago, 21-Sep-04, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| (...) Plus, you've got that goofy metric system to worry about. I don't doubt your tale at all, though it reminds me of other people I've known who've made claims of ambidexterity: Usually it amounts to "I write with my right hand, and I can use a (...) (20 years ago, 20-Sep-04, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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