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From: "Candice Ward" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Saturday, September 01, 2001 4:23 PM
Subject: Re: yr sister's mouse
> It took me forever to learn to use the mouse because, due to some
> neurological quirk, my perspective converges with whatever I'm seeing on
> screen, so I "identify" with the cursor and have had to train my hand to
> move in the direction opposite to where my so-called mind thinks it should
> go. When my husband jocularly reported this to his cs/ai friends, they
were
> astonished--until he mentioned that I'm a poet. "Ah well...that explains
> _that_" seemed to be the consensus among the cybervermin crowd--too much
> negative capability and all that....
>
> Candice
Candice,
You might be relieved to hear that you are not the only one with this
problem. It took my wife a couple of years to get used to the mouse as she
had the same problem. I had never come across it before and she is relieved
to know that she is not the only one to have suffered. She just commented
that it also took her until she was sixteen years old to be able to
confidently part her hair with a comb when using a mirror. Wonder if it is a
dominant brain hemisphere thing?
Roger
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