February 03, 2009

Can You Raed Tihs?

My Aunt and Uncle sent this email to me today (Hi There!) I have gotten a similar email to this a long time ago and have thought about it quite often. The way the brain makes it's right and left hemispheres work is very curious and intriguing to me. Probably because I am kind of ambidextrous, kind of. I am left handed, but only write and hold silverware with my left hand. I throw right handed, and dribble, golf, bat, play tennis, heck I even do kartwheels right handed. I have a really hard time deciding which leg should go first if I were to do something slolomn like snowboarding, even thinking about it right now -I think I'm leaning towards the right foot forward but its a really hard decision for me to make!

So why only two tasks left handed? Well, now wait, make that four tasks. I change diapers left handed, the boys (and anyone else doing the changing of their diapers at my house) were always confused about which way they were supposed to lay on the changing table. And even though I am comfortable using the computer mouse with my right hand, I am even more comfortable using it on the left side of the keyboard, which means I use the opposite fingers to click than right-handers use. This is also something people get confused about when using the computer at my house.

Here is the email:
Only great minds can read this. This is weird, but interesting!

fi yuo cna raed tihs, yuo hvae a sgtrane mnid too. Cna yuo raed tihs? Olny 55 plepoe out of 100 can. I cdnuolt blveiee taht I cluod aulaclty uesdnatnrd waht I was rdanieg. The phaonmneal pweor of the hmuan mnid, aoccdrnig to a rscheearhcer at Cmabrigde Uinervtisy, it dseno't mtaetr in waht oerdr the ltteres in a wrod are,the olny iproamtnt tihng is taht the frsit and lsat ltteer be in the rghit pclae. The rset can be a taotl mses and you can sitll raed it whotuit apboerlm. Tihs is bcuseae the huamn mnid deos not raed ervey lteter by istlef, but the wrod as a wlohe. Azanmig huh? yaeh and I awlyas tghuhot slpeling was ipmorantt!

1 comments:

Anonymous said...

Wow!! I can read it too!!! I too am left handed and throw and do alot of things with my right. I grew up with dad and mom telling me to throw with my left and then teasing me that I couldn't throw a ball. When Dray and I pitched to each other I realized I throw righty and can throw strikes!! "I am not a dork!"