# Peculiar left-handed behavior

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**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [January 11, 2003, 8:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/peculiar-left-handed-behavior/147931 "2003-01-11T08:18:40Z")\
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**Author:** ![susan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/susan/32/17537_2.png) [@susan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/susan)\
**Post date:** [January 12, 2003, 7:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/peculiar-left-handed-behavior/147931/21 "2003-01-12T07:20:49Z")

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> I’m left-handed and read magazines and catalogs back to front.

Me too.

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> left eyed and left eared. I cannot talk on the phone if I have the receiver against my right ear–I can hear the conversation but the words will be meaningless to me. Likewise I can look through binoculars or telescopes with my right eye and see the images but they don’t make any sense to me; I have to look at them with my left eye to interpret them.

I’m not as bad but there’s a definite difference in comprehension.

I used to read upside down, and still do sometimes, but more for fun. The only advantage this has ever had is that I learned my IQ by reading papers on a guidance counselor’s desk.

I can also write in cursive (in English or Cyrillic; I’ll have to try Hebrew) with both hands simultaneously, with the right mirror image. It’s also pretty easy for me to write backward or upside down and backward. This has no value that I can discern. I suppose it will be entertaining after a stroke.

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