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Mirror Writing is not only a gift its a Mirrorcle
Mirror Writing is a completely innate ability-- at least in my experience as a mirror writer it is--I was able to mirror write fluently and naturally the very first time I attempted the artform. Over the years I have developed my mirror writing in an artful manner similar to calligraphy. I have worked at perfecting the astetic balence of the script and incorporating it into original art and apparrel designs-- (see more at www.mirror-graphics.com) I am not dyslexic however dyslexia runs in my family. I suppose I was fortunate to have gotten the intriquing ability out of the gene. I am left handed like most mirror writers. Initially I had difficulty reading my own mirror writing without the aid of a mirror--with practice I have developed the skill. The writing came naturally involving hardly a thought yet I found it took a different kind of focus to read the script. I beleive that reading mirror writing is a skill that can be developed but I am unsure if one can develope the skill to mirror write. Some people I find are able to easily read the text yet cannot mirror write themselves. Another interesting point is that my mirror writting penmanship is exactly the same as my normal script when reflected in the mirror--my signatures are identical. This 'mirrorcool' gift has amazed many an onlooker at many a party and many recipients of my 'mirrorcle' notes have delighted at the 'secret' message inside. I celebrate the artform because it invites people to look at the world a little differently--perhaps a bit backwards even-- or else they face themselves in the mirror in order to 'get the message'. User:Mirror Writer
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[edit] Not Stupid
OK, so Da Vinci believed the church was too stupid to use a mirror to look at his writings? --Abdull 08:43, 29 July 2005 (UTC)
- Well... apparently people had quite some trouble deciphering his mirrored notes. At least thats what I read somewhere.
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- The thing is, how many people do you think would be able to decipher the little Post-It Notes you write to yourself, for example? Leonardo's writing was itself abbreviated and personalized, and it would be difficult to understand the intent of what he was trying to put across in any case due to his rather eclectic style of note-taking (from what I have read, he had a tendency to break up long words, run short words together, misspell difficult words - he never recieved the best education as far as writing was concerned - and generally just try to get as much stuff as possible down on that paper. I mean, how would you feel trying to take down the stream of consciousness of a genius like that? That's essentially what his notebooks are - records of anything at all he thought might relate to the given information and assist.
A science notbook written today has many gramical errors and short cuts. It's good writting as-long as someone in the field can understand it. [[User:ErikR] 16:44, 06 Dec 2005]
[edit] Some links to back up Da Vinci's Dyslexia
Courtesy of the internet, I found these links to back up theories of Da Vinci's Dyslexia
It's naturally debatable (isn't everything?), however, to believe Da Vinci being dyslexic isn't much of a stretch of the imagination
http://www.dyslexiaonline.com/famous/famous.htm
http://www.dyslexia.com/leonardo.htm
[edit] Add the information from ABC online
[1] The ability to mirror write is a genetic trait linked to synaesthesia.
[edit] Little Survery about Mirror Writiing
Source says 1 in 6500 has the ability of mirror writing, but I wonder if it is really that rare.....can anyone who has this ability ( without the need of tracing the text as described in the article, of course) kindly drop a line here?
Hi there,
I have a daughter who is 5 years old and she can Mirror Write. I coudn't believe it at first. I asked my husband if there was something wrong with her. But he doesn't think so. She is a very bright child. She has no trouble learning anything. She is actually a very quick learner. Do you think that Mirror Writing is a gift????
[edit] Mirror writing
17:47, 16 August 2006 (UTC)Rept I'm right-handed, but ambidextrous in many ways. I mirror write easily and naturally with my left hand, but can't read it easily. I have difficulty mirror writing with my right hand, and it's even harder to write, going left to right with my left hand. I'm not sure what this indicates about left-right brain orientation, but I've done it all my life. I have never had difficulty reading, but do have trouble with left-right orientation for things such as manual transmissions in cars or piano playing. Is this common to anyone else?
[edit] I am a mirror writer
Hi I am a left-handed mirror writer. While my younger brother and I are both left handed, our parents are both right-handed, I am the only mirror writer. When I was being taught how ot write I would write things correctly but in the mirror writing form. I had to be taught how to write normal, or so others could read it. I am now twenty-three and still to this day if I do not sit and think about how I am writing I will write in mirror form.
[edit] Some answers
1.Mirror writing is not a gift. It is a skill.
I found out that my grandma was ambidextrous. So maybe it is inherited but still one hast to start at some point doing.
2.Writing with left hand from right to left is much easier and faster.
3."This is explainable by the fact that it is easier to pull a quill pen than to push it; by using mirror-writing, the left-handed writer is able to pull the pen from right to left and also avoid smudging what has just been written." it's qoute frome page about da vinci in wikipedia and i think it should be included in this page.
I'm 22 and i recently started to mirror write. I wanted to be like da vinci. The more i write the more i think it is usefull skill
If i write with letter in all caps, kind of machine writing, then i can read myself. When i write handwriting style then i don't but i think i can overcome that. Sometimes(20% or more) i can't read what i wrote with right hand. i have unreadable style :) ).
So i think scientists theories: that mirror writing is inherited and that davinci mirror write to keep notes secret, are false. Any coments?
PS.I think that this kind of writing should be learned in schools. Why? becouse it can help develope both hemispheres, and that can lead to more creativity.
PS.2. Writing for me is so slow, i recently preffer to make a voice notes about ideas(on my pc), it is much faster.
PS.3.I'm probably dyslexic (doctor said so)
ChrisBatory 16:33, 29 November 2006 (UTC)
Some questions; (little of topic but please leave this or suggest other page that this input would be useful,)
Did i mirror write becouse i wanted to, or i wanted to mirror write becouse i inherited gen? Fact is that i started to think about mirror writing when i read book about da vinci, but why i reached for book about davinci? Uhh I think its more related to genius page. ChrisBatory 16:33, 29 November 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Example?
I think the Vitruvian Man is a rather poor example and does not serve a practical, informative, encyclopedic purpose. In my opinion it should be replaced with an example of mirror compared to the same example in standard writing, computer-made or not. -Kame2000 15:43, 18 January 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Mirror Writing Techniques
I think that are lame. It could be deleted.. --Dpbalazs 08:25, 11 February 2007 (UTC)
