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From: kay@warwick.UUCP (Kay Dekker)
Newsgroups: net.cog-eng
Subject: Re: dyslexia (really handedness)
Message-ID: <2348@flame.warwick.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 6-Nov-85 10:45:46 EST
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In article <703@osu-eddie.UUCP> zwicky@osu-eddie.UUCP (Elizabeth D. Zwicky) writes:
>I am not myself dyslexic, but do suffer some (probably)
>related difficulties. I am a non-righthanded female with
>pretty much all of the symptoms of dyslexia except the 
>perceptual problems; I read and write normally. However, I
>have a good bit of difficulty with right and left. This has a
>surprising effect on my desires in user-interfaces.

Aha! somebody else has my problem... interesting that having difficulty
deciding "which one is left" might be associated with dyslexia: could some
kind cog-enger inform the net about the symptoms? 

I too read and write normally, except that many people consider that I do
both much too fast, leading to

a) frustration for anyone who is trying to read what I'm reading at the same
time (like I've finished both visible sides of a book when they're still
on paragraph 1, side 1);
b) impatience with slow interfaces; and
c) writing as decipherable as a 3-month-old APL program :-)

However, I do have appalling difficulties with left/right decisions; often
the only way I can do it is by remembering that my right hand is the one
with the ring on it.  Interfaces that require me to "press the button on
the left of the puck" leave me twitching...

Curiously enough, I sometimes get mixed-up with up/down too, though rarely.

BTW, I'm a 26 year old bisexual English male of English/Dutch/Spanish
ancestry:  have there been any studies of dyschirality (my own word for
my problem - Greek: mishandedness) itself yet?

							Kay.
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