The first time, at least that I can remember, someone tried to work with my left/right ignorance issues, was when I started gymnastics (at age 13)
I always led off with my left foot, or left hand and did my tricks. But, the coach thought I would do better using the right lead off leg or arm.....He even put me up against a ballet bar and told me to do a back handspring walk over....I threw to the left and hit the bar....I had to do this over and over, until I "properly" used right foot.....
I had so many issues on the balance beam because of being forced to start right on tricks....
My daddy was left handed and could write with his right also. So I figured I was ambidextrous, like him....
My handwriting was sloppy left handed, but I could draw perfect pictures left or right handed....I can even draw the same picture with both hands at the same time.....
both drawn at same time with each hand....
Recently, after discovering I just fucking don't know my left from right and getting the tattoos on my hands, my friend and I started experimenting with my skills , left handed.
We went bowling. I did horrible bowling right handed...my score was less than 100...I was told to bowl left handed. First throw of the ball down the lane...STRIKE,,,I finished that game above 100...
another time we were Kayaking and stopped at a cove. There was a branch floating along, so we started throwing rocks at it...my friend and his son could not hit the branch...I could not either, right handed...so I switched to my left and BOOM HIT THE BRANCH FIRST TIME I THREW THE ROCK....
Both of my alters are left handed.
My friend has also noticed an odd thing....whenever I am upset, anxious, depressed or mad...I eat right handed. When I am happy, content, in a good mood, I eat left-handed. I had no ideal I did this....nobody has ever noticed this before.
But the kicker....the scientific evidence to prove I was actually born South Paw....
I have 5 cowlicks in the back of my head...all of them curve to the left. haha, my cousin told me about the cowlick wives tale, so I looked for myself, and I have left curling cowlicks....SO IT MUST BE TRUE...HAHAHAHA
I really feel, that many of us Baby Boomers were born lefty's but forced to learn right handed because of society....I know I was forced to use my right hand....maybe even because my daddy was left handed, my mother HATED him, so I can see her forcing me to be right handed....just to spite my dad....
HEY....IT COULD HAPPEN.
I've just discovered I have D.I.D. Its not easy for me or my alters. As you read these blog entries, some are by me and some are by them. Each one us expressing a moment of joy or frustration as we learn to adapt to our new life and flood of bad memories.
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