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From: "James R Carr" <>
Subject: Re: [DNA] Reversal of numbers-genetic aspect
Date: Fri, 23 Dec 2005 15:48:35 -0800
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All humans are born right handed. But us great ones overcome it.
Jim
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Sent: Friday, December 23, 2005 12:41 PM
Subject: Re: [DNA] Reversal of numbers-genetic aspect


> ..and me ! I do it, too, and only with digits and not with letters. I
> associate it with my left-handedness.
> Alan Foster.
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>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "David Faux" <>
> To: <>
> Sent: Friday, December 23, 2005 7:22 PM
> Subject: Re: [DNA] Reversal of numbers-genetic aspect
>
>
>> Mary Jo:
>>
>> We will see what my autosomal findings are on the DNA-F OmniPop tests -
> perhaps you are right :-) I think that the problem at least in me is a
> reflection of a broader left hemisphere sequencing problem - but to tease
> out the genetic and environmental influences would be impossible. What
> would be interesting is to have a fMRI test (magnetic imaging brain scan)
> while doing these tasks and see how this compares to those who are
> "normal"
> :-)
>>
>> David Faux.
>>
>> Mary Jo Neyer <> wrote:
>> Dear David,
>>
>> I was interested to see that you, too, reverse digits. I thought I
>> was the only one. I did not discover that I was doing it until I was an
>> adult. As a child I always did very well in all subjects at school but
>> math. I developed an extreme aversion to math, although I loved algebra
>> in its various forms. It wasn't until I was in my 30s that I discovered
>> I would think "35" and actually write "53". I still do it fairly
>> frequently, especially when I am tired. It makes keeping a check book
>> hard because I think I have written the correct number most of the
>> time. Maybe there is a genetic element tothis problem. I had heard of
>> reversal of letters, but have no problem with that. And no one ever
>> writes about reversing numbers.
>> Mary Jo
>>
>>
>>
>>
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