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From: hav@dual.UUCP (Not Sid Vicious)
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Subject: Re: Changing Left-handedness to Right-handedness
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Date: Tue, 20-Aug-85 16:58:05 EDT
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=> > A friend's preschooler always seemed to prefer using his left hand.
=> > His mother has been trying to change him into a right hander.
=> 
=> I really get annoyed at this type of thinking - it says that
=> "different from \"everybody else\"" is inherently bad.  So what if the
=> kid is left-handed and other kids aren't?  Nothing wrong with that!
=> It reminds me of people who dislike blacks because of cultural traits
=> different from their own, or even because they have different-shaped
=> bodies.  Disgusting.
=> 
=> Besides, I'm enough of a klutz being naturally right-handed - I can't
=> imagine how clumsy I'd be is I had to do everything with my
=> less-coordinated hand.
=> 
=> ## Bill Stewart, AT&T Bell Labs, Holmdel NJ 1-201-949-0705 ihnp4!ho95c!wcs

Minor flame here:  While I wholeheartedly agree with the points Bill makes in
his first paragraph, I take exception to his allusion (not an original idea,
actually . . . in fact, it seems quite popular) that left-handed people are
clumsy.  Like my mother and sister, I'm left-handed (my father and brother
are both righties . . . figure that one out).  All of us have normal motor
coordination; in fact, my mother and I have both always been very busy in
hand crafts and that sort of thing.  The only time I'm abnormally clumsy is
when I'm trying to find my way to the bathroom after too many margaritas.  :-)

Helen Anne

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