Stutters

[Guest guest]

Just a point of interest, there's no such thing as left handedness in Japan,

it's the first I've heard about stuttering. Do you have any info that?

 

 

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My mother's cousin

was a natural left-hander forced to write with the right hand and he

ended up with a stutter! This happened to many left-handers forced to

use their right.

I'm left-handed and it hasn't caused me any problems, my mother would

have never allowed me to be forced to use my non-dominant hand. By

the time I was in school the teachers had abandoned such cruel and

outdated practices anyway.

[Guest guest]

> Just a point of interest, there's no such thing as left handedness

in Japan,

 

Left-handedness exists everywhere, it has always existed, at usually

a rate of between 10 and 20% in most classes I was in at school (I

used to notice these things because of my own left-handedness), but

it is obviously a harmless difference which is still seen as a threat

and being suppressed in Japan. They are very forceful about

conformity there and it doesn't surprise me to hear that they

probably force all children to write with their right hand.

I believe it was the ancient Romans who used to kill people by

throwing them off cliffs for being left-handed.

Left-handed people were burned as witches in the 1600's.

Persecution of the minority, the old story.

 

> it's the first I've heard about stuttering. Do you have any info

that?

 

Difficult to prove but lots of anecdotal evidence. Some studies

showed a correlation between forcing left-handers to use their right

hand, and the development of stuttering. The violent treatment of

these children in itself could well have contributed to the

stuttering.

 

http://duke.usask.ca/~elias/left/myths.htm

 

I thought the fact that abusive treatment of left-handers used to go

on was fairly common knowledge.

Left-handedness is no more an illness to be cured than homosexuality!

 

I did hear of some people who would only date people of the same

handedness as themselves, but I think that's taking it a bit far.

I can be a militant left-hander when I needs to be, but mostly it's

not a problem.

 

Lesley

 

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> My mother's cousin

> was a natural left-hander forced to write with the right hand and

he

> ended up with a stutter! This happened to many left-handers forced

to

> use their right.

> I'm left-handed and it hasn't caused me any problems, my mother

would

> have never allowed me to be forced to use my non-dominant hand. By

> the time I was in school the teachers had abandoned such cruel and

> outdated practices anyway.

[Guest guest]

No, I didn't mean it really doesn't exist! I mean they don't allow it.

I've not heard of stuttering and lefties forced to be righties, do you have

that link? Maybe the Japanese don't stutter anyway, as they speak a

language that's not prone to stuttering?

Is stuttering just a west thing?

 

 

Lesley Dove [100706.3632]

15 May 2001 11:06

vegan-network

Re: Stutters

 

 

 

> Just a point of interest, there's no such thing as left handedness

in Japan,

 

Left-handedness exists everywhere, it has always existed, at usually

a rate of between 10 and 20% in most classes I was in at school (I

used to notice these things because of my own left-handedness), but

it is obviously a harmless difference which is still seen as a threat

and being suppressed in Japan. They are very forceful about

conformity there and it doesn't surprise me to hear that they

probably force all children to write with their right hand.

I believe it was the ancient Romans who used to kill people by

throwing them off cliffs for being left-handed.

Left-handed people were burned as witches in the 1600's.

Persecution of the minority, the old story.

 

> it's the first I've heard about stuttering. Do you have any info

that?

 

Difficult to prove but lots of anecdotal evidence. Some studies

showed a correlation between forcing left-handers to use their right

hand, and the development of stuttering. The violent treatment of

these children in itself could well have contributed to the

stuttering.

 

http://duke.usask.ca/~elias/left/myths.htm

 

I thought the fact that abusive treatment of left-handers used to go

on was fairly common knowledge.

Left-handedness is no more an illness to be cured than homosexuality!

 

I did hear of some people who would only date people of the same

handedness as themselves, but I think that's taking it a bit far.

I can be a militant left-hander when I needs to be, but mostly it's

not a problem.

 

Lesley

 

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> --------

>

> My mother's cousin

> was a natural left-hander forced to write with the right hand and

he

> ended up with a stutter! This happened to many left-handers forced

to

> use their right.

> I'm left-handed and it hasn't caused me any problems, my mother

would

> have never allowed me to be forced to use my non-dominant hand. By

> the time I was in school the teachers had abandoned such cruel and

> outdated practices anyway.

 

 

 

[Guest guest]

> No, I didn't mean it really doesn't exist! I mean they don't allow

it.

 

That's like saying gay people don't exist, if the society is such

that it believes they can be cured.

Hopefully a few will stand up and fight this persecution of left-

handers in Japan, it's very cruel to do this to children.

 

> I've not heard of stuttering and lefties forced to be righties, do

you have

> that link? Maybe the Japanese don't stutter anyway, as they speak a

> language that's not prone to stuttering?

> Is stuttering just a west thing?

>

I dount it is just a western thing, but it's still wrong to interfere

with a child's natural pereference of hand, whether it causes a

stutter or not, I wonder if the Japanese " allow " homosexuality btw? I

think left-handedness is a bit more common than homosexuality

actually.

The link I gave before does have a bit on the stuttering and enforced

right-handedness.

Here is a link about a book about the whole subject of left-

handedness, it probably covers all you wanted to know about left-

handedness but were afraid to ask.

 

http://www.stanleycoren.com/e_left-handed.htm

 

My husband bought it for me once and I read some of it, must dig it

out again sometime.

 

Lesley