Huh. I spent time with my left arm in a cast, too.
Still, I was 6 when that happened and already in the habit of eating right handed, which neither of my sisters do. Training definitely helps. My feeling is that, especially for children, a really strong tendency to one hand can't simply be overridden or its strength reduced. So, if you have some facility and the process of gaining it didn't bring you to tears, it wasn't the training. It's a scale, not a switch, that's influenced by other factors, so naturally I'm not dealing with the underlying complexity here. My primary claim is that a more "handed" person would have clued into using their primary hand sooner than I did. It wouldn't have come up for my sisters, for example.
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Date: 2013-01-31 06:43 pm (UTC)Still, I was 6 when that happened and already in the habit of eating right handed, which neither of my sisters do. Training definitely helps. My feeling is that, especially for children, a really strong tendency to one hand can't simply be overridden or its strength reduced. So, if you have some facility and the process of gaining it didn't bring you to tears, it wasn't the training. It's a scale, not a switch, that's influenced by other factors, so naturally I'm not dealing with the underlying complexity here. My primary claim is that a more "handed" person would have clued into using their primary hand sooner than I did. It wouldn't have come up for my sisters, for example.