> ----- Original Message -----
>> 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
Thanks, Roger! And empathetic greetings to your similarly afflicted wife.
Does she still have both her eye, btw? I'm surprised I do, the number of
times I've stuck a comb in my right one. (And is she right- or lefthanded,
just out of curiosity?) My hemispheric-dominance confusions play out there,
too, as I'm strongly righthanded yet can deal cards only with my left hand,
which has generated a psychoanalytic interpretation that I'm a cardsharp who
wants to get caught (no, no, I want to WIN!).
Candice
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