DUAL BRAIN

Greymouth Evening Star, 3 July 1936, Page 10

DUAL BRAIN

SYDNEY MA'iN’S GIFT. [BY CABLE —PRESS ASSN. —COPYRIGHT. SYDNEY, July 2. A resident of Beecrofl, a subdrb of J Sydney. Mr Stirling Wilkinson, pos.|sc3ses the rare gift of being able to w :ite or to draw with botli hands sini>l uitaneously. His own opiniojr is j-that he has a dual brain. He demon's rated the writing of different words and sentences simultaneously with ■b th hands. He also wrote the same wards backwards, and made simult: debus entries of figures with both h auls. He drew separate sketcllds at the same time with an exactness which astonished a Sydney “Morning Herald” interviewer. Mr Wjlkinson explained that when h - attended a Kindergarten School, h' found lie was writing' words backyards witli his left hand. He was iredically examined, and the opinion was expressed that' lie either had’ a d'sease of the brain or arm, his left a.m was strapped to his body in pr-(l-r to cultivate the correct manner of writing. He relates that, while att.< nding college, he was given four hundred lines to write for some minor misdemeanour, and by using both hands at once, he was able to accomplish the detention in half the time tl'.'.it other boys required. It was then that this ability to do two things at o.”ch was discovered, this resulting in hiy. subsequent detention for a misdemeanour being double that of the other boys.

.Mr Wilkinson declares that he finds no strain on his brain to concentrate o’< his writing and drawing with both hands.