DOUBLE BRAIN.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume IV, Issue 172, 3 July 1936, Page 8

DOUBLE BRAIN.

Australia!?. Who Can Write With Both Hands. TWO SKETCHES AT ONCE. ♦ * * Press Association —Copyright. Sydney, July 2. A resident of the Bee-croft suburb, Mr. Stirling Wilkinson, possesses the rare gift of being able to write or draw with both hands simultaneously. His own opinion is that he has a dual brain. Mr. Wilkinson demonstrated the writing of different words and sentences simultaneously with both hands. He also wrote the same words backwards and made simultaneous entries of figures with both hands. He drew separate sketches at the same time with exactness which astonished an interviewer. Mr. Wilkinson explained that when he attended a kindergarten school he found he was writing words backwards with the left hand. He was medically examined and the opinion was expressed that he either had a disease of the brain or the arm. His left arm was strapped to his body in order to cultivate the correct manner of writing. He relates that while attending college he was given 409 lines to write for some minor misdemeanour, and by using both hands at once he was abletoaccomnli?h the detention in half the time taken by other boys. It was then that his ability to do two things at once was discovered. resulting in his subsequent detention being double that of other boys. Mr. Wilkinson declares that he finds no strain on the brain to concentrate on writing and drawing with both hands.