Dear Dennis
Here is another person who always had to do much thinking to differentiate
left from right
Frequently Andre and I have the following conversation. Andre drives and
Ida reads the map, that, when we are driving south, has to be hold upside
down.
Ida: "Next crossing to the left!"
Andre: "The real left were the thumb is the right, or the other left"
Ida:(after making a few virtual writing movements, taking the virtual pen
in her right hand) "The other left were the thumb is on the real left."
In the end we always arrive at the place were we wanted to go.
I don't think that the loss of such an isolated capability is indicative
for a broad cognitive decline. The weird thing is that in crossing a street
I don't need any thinking to look first to the left etc. When we cross the
North See, we come in a country (UK) were the traffic keeps to the left.
Crossing a street there one has to start to look to the right. For doing
that I need my cognition, but my automatic pilot keeps enough power to
force me, before starting to cross, irrespective of any cognition, to look
also rather sneaky to the left.
Ida Kamphuis, Holland
Only I've been that way all my life.
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>and later:
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>> You're the first other person I've ever heard of who's mentioned
>having
>> this problem. I'm sort of glad I'm not the only one.
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>Kathrynne I am happy to be able to report that there are at least
>three of us. A friend of mine of 30 years standing has always had
>difficulty with left and right.
Dennis
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Vriendelijke Groeten / Kind regards,
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