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Last nite I was watching CSI and they said if your right handed you wear your watch
on the left hand. I was never comfortable wearing my watch on my left hand and always wore it on my right hand even thou I am right handed.

How many other pple how felt this way? And do you think its because of the type of
epilepsy you have?


Riva
 
You are truly the exception to the rule. :D

I think it is a generalization and likely has to do with the dominant hand being the more coordinated one to latch/close the strap.
 
But my dominant hand is my right hand. I am right handed,they said you put your watch
on your left hand. BUt I was never comfortable with my watch on my left hand. Just like in yoga it was very hard to be balanced on both sides for me,when doing certain poses.I always perfer one leg over another.

Riva
 
Right, that's why I said you were the exception. ;)
 
POSITIVEPERSON said:
Last nite I was watching CSI and they said if your right handed you wear your watch
on the left hand. I was never comfortable wearing my watch on my left hand and always wore it on my right hand even thou I am right handed.

How many other pple how felt this way? And do you think its because of the type of
epilepsy you have?


Riva
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Sorry but I too am right-handed. I tend to follow the trend of wearing my watch on my left hand. Mainly because I can adjust the time (if needed) easier. But I can write a little bit with my left hand. It just takes me longer.
 
I am mainly right handed, but I try to learn how to do everything with either hand. My golf clubs are right handed clubs, but I have a left handed pitching wedge to get me out of trouble sometimes. I also taught myself to shoot pool with either hand to avoid awkward stances or mechanical bridges. I have always wondered how that affects my brain.
 
Write left, right handed...

I write, and eat with my left hand, but do just about everything else with my right. When I play baseball, I throw with my right, and bat right handed. I play drums, but play more left handed than I do right.
 
I'm right-handed, and put my watch on my left wrist.

BUT...when I use a sledgehammer, I go left-handed for some reason :huh:....maybe I'm just ODD ! :D
 
I remember as a child, my brother wrote with left hand and threw a ball with his right. It seemed that this made for one eye being stronger and caused him a lot of problems in school. My mom found a specialist and she helped him with therapy. He went from failing in school to being an A/B student. I am sure that how one side of the brain interacts is affected by hand-eye dominance.

I personally wear my watch on my left and am right handed. Yet I have children that won't wear watches at all... they use the clock on their cell phones. Now what does that say about them?... too connected I guess.
 
RobinN said:
I remember as a child, my brother wrote with left hand and threw a ball with his right. It seemed that this made for one eye being stronger and caused him a lot of problems in school.
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Ahaaaa.....Robin, you've rang another bell for me. :tup:

When I used to play darts, I would throw with the right hand, but line up the dart with the left eye.

Now that I'm wearing glasses, my left eye comes up as being stronger on the eye-tests
 
There was a specific name for this, and it was corrected through a series of eye-hand games.

I love hearing bells ring, don't you?

It obviously involved the brain significantly if he went from failing in school to doing rather well.

What? No more dart throwing for you?
 
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Whats up with Positiveperson? I believe that I read somthing about positiveperson and a grandmall on the GOOGLE EPILEPSY ALERT this morning
 
RobinN said:
There was a specific name for this, and it was corrected through a series of eye-hand games.

I love hearing bells ring, don't you?

It obviously involved the brain significantly if he went from failing in school to doing rather well.

What? No more dart throwing for you?
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Nah, I gave up darts a while ago (when I found clubbing in my late teens).

I was actually in a dart's team - no good at it, but had a few laughs so that's all that matters I guess.
 
I am left handed, with exceptions to sports. I play all sports as if I was right handed. But I eat and write left handed. I wear my watch on my left wrist. I've tried wearing it on my right but it feels weird.
 
Temporal lobe seizures can lead to runny noses. This is crazy, but one study showed that which hand you wipe the runny nose shows on which side you had the seizure:

http://adam.about.com/reports/000044_3.htm

I tried to find a citation for this so I could read the original study, but couldn't find it. So this may be urban legend.
 
Endless said:
Temporal lobe seizures can lead to runny noses. This is crazy, but one study showed that which hand you wipe the runny nose shows on which side you had the seizure:

http://adam.about.com/reports/000044_3.htm
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That's very interesting...and in my case quite true. I wipe my nose, and even wipe my mouth using a napkin held in my left hand. The EEG showed I have abnormalities on my left temporal lobe, so it may indeed be onto something.

I write right handed and wear my watch on my right hand as well. I will admit to being ambidexterous though, throwing frisbees left handed among a few other things. I can write with my left hand too, but its no where near as refined and kind of messy. If I were to practice I bet it would improve.

I can also right upside down and backwards. Hmmm, wonder if that makes me even more special. :banana:
 
I'm ambidexterous too, lol. My right hand is dominant when it comes to writing but I can write with both and like Cathy I can write upside down and backwards ( had to learn it in the Navy) and can do it with both hands being ambi. I wear a wathc/ bracelt on my right ahnd, can't stand anything on my left. I eat, bat and golf left handed but dress right handed...everything else is pretty much done with what ever hand is available at the time, lol.
 
I am left handed and was told that its worn on the other hand that isn't dominate so you can quickly read it without stopping to write or something like that hehe.
I am left handed and write, eat, brush my teeth and hold things in that hand. I wear a Braille watch and it has to be on my left side since my right first finger is much more sensitve to the Braille. It opens at 6 O'clock where the Braille on the face is exposed to be able to read it.
I function otherwise as a right handed person such as reading braille, cutting with a knife, cutting with scissors and throwing a tennis ball to me doggie for play time.
My left side is a little weaker and less sensitve to pain than my right.
Neuro did a test to see how much pain is sensed on each side..

Anyway, my guide dog always works on the left side which helps in telling what he is doing in the harness. But guide dogs only work on the left unless you don't have a left hand/arm.

Interesting question.
Take care,
Crystal and Umbro
 
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