Writing in mirror..

[fsol]

I am right handed and if I try to write with my left hand, without consiously trying to write the right way round it all comes out backwards. I guess it is just how the brain works.

 

[ceptimus]

Hold a piece of paper against your brow, and write your name on it. No mirrors allowed - you just do it 'blind'.

Most people write in mirror writing when they do this - it's a good trick to ask people to do it without telling them the expected result, and then see how surprised they are when they view their efforts.

 

[Art Vandelay]

So, my 4 year old girl is learning to write. Except it's all in mirror (eg. facing right to left).

Backwards like ceptimus' post? Or backwards like Piscivore's?

[nitpick]There's no apostrophe in "gets"[/nitpick]

I think I recall somewhere that the way our mind processes things is backwards and we have to learn to switch it around. I might be wrong though, it has been years since I studied humans.

So humans have chosen, as their written language, the exact opposite of what they're hardwired to do? That doesn't make sense.

It is a possible sign of dyslexia. Though, not a sure thing just from that. They have some screening tests, I believe, that can make it more certain if she's actually dyslexic.

I'm hardly an expert on dyslexia, but I would think that dyslexia would, at worse, make her write backwards half the time. Dyslexia means that you get confused between forwards and backwards writing, not that you prefer backwards writing.

Hold a piece of paper against your brow, and write your name on it. No mirrors allowed - you just do it 'blind'.

Most people write in mirror writing when they do this - it's a good trick to ask people to do it without telling them the expected result, and then see how surprised they are when they view their efforts.

What do you mean by "mirror writing"? If you mean that, when they look at it, it looks backwards, then that means that when they wrote it, they wrote it forwards.

If you put them in front of a mirror, it makes them even more likely to write it "backwards".