Re: Jumpstart (1-30 and this week)

Welmoed wrote:


I wish my parents had been as responsive when I was in first grade. I
have very few memories of that year. However, when I was in my late
teens I had a full physical with a new doctor, and after watching me
walk, he said, "Oh, you're left handed." I replied that I wasn't. He
raised his eyebrows and asked about my first schooling. For first
grade I went to St. Thomas Episcopal School (I still have no idea why;
we were a pretty agnostic family and weren't churchgoing). "Ah, that
explains it," he said. They he asked if I had speech problems as a
child. Yes, I said; I stuttered in second grade but that gradually
went away. He told me that was a result of being forced to switch
dominant hands. The brain gets mixed up, and stuttering is a common
side effect.

There was a study concluded that lefthanders die prematurely. That's
because they did a survey of like 60-year-old people and found fewer
lefthanded people than expected. Further research showed that many were
natural lefties that now identify themselves as righties due to early
conversion.




Brian

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