leeneia,

I forgot to add that I am mostly right handed but do a bit of left handed stuff - although not often.

BillD,

Frank & Ernest: that's part of the trouble with being dyslexic - right & left *are* just labels invented for ease of communication, and the way my brain works is that when I am looking for a word (label) to describe something or as a name for something or someone I have to go from the visual/conceptual side of my brain over into the verbal/analytical side, find the word and bring it back to the speech part so that I can say it. It's like having a room full of files but working in an adjacent room and having to get up and go into the file room to find what I need. That's why there is a delay in my responses.

It's not that I don't have a clear concept of something it's just that I have to translate the concept into the generally accepted word or label.

Helen