Comments on: Woman with no arms displays incredible feet of dexterity

By: Raoul

Raoul — Wed, 30 Jun 2010 07:55:04 +0000

You should cope me with a brain like I have … it’s amazing …

By: Nicola

Nicola — Tue, 29 Jun 2010 01:12:58 +0000

StevePage (again) Ref my first reply to you: I should just clarify when I said coming from myself as a starting point – I haven’t lost any limbs or anything. I just meant *if* I were to suddenly be put in such a position, then I would first have to overcome the negative mindset that can so easily come with loss and that horrible way society has with its little templates!

And thank you for posting the article, btw!

By: Nicola

Nicola — Tue, 29 Jun 2010 01:08:09 +0000

StevePage – PS: That article took some effort to understand – it’s not exactly my area of expertise, so I may not have grasped it all, but although it says the pragmatic definition of goal does not include intention, it feels like something is missing without it. I mean, on the one hand, I suppose the brain preserving the ability to achieve a goal by whatever means are most efficient is all part of a survival process – we need to eat and protect and whatnot. But our levels of functionality, vision, creativity, and dexterity are way above basic survival requirements, and for the brain to go to lengths to preserve those levels does suggest it rates such things as equal to our basic survival. It feels like intention fits in there somewhere. ! would love to read articles on that!

By: Nicola

Nicola — Tue, 29 Jun 2010 00:54:35 +0000

StevePage that’s really interesting! It never occurred to me that the brain could develop in such a way under these circumstances but of course it makes sense that it could. My empathy was coming from myself as a starting point, so (despite it being in the title and mentioned in the article!) I suppose I still somehow managed to assume a viewpoint based on loss of limbs as opposed to innate absence of them. Sheesh!

By: Phillis

Phillis — Mon, 28 Jun 2010 22:25:06 +0000

All hail Phillis – Queen of puns.

By: Lady Claire

Lady Claire — Mon, 28 Jun 2010 19:58:03 +0000

Amazing lady……

LC x

By: Marcel

Marcel — Mon, 28 Jun 2010 18:16:00 +0000

Nice!!

By: RandomToon

RandomToon — Mon, 28 Jun 2010 18:09:22 +0000

Nice pun…

By: Nadine

Nadine — Mon, 28 Jun 2010 16:42:10 +0000

My mother got her degree in early childhood development and worked with a girl with no arms early in her career – she has numerous, beautiful colored pencil drawings the girl did for her with her feet. Truly amazing.

By: Rob

Rob — Mon, 28 Jun 2010 13:14:31 +0000

Necessity is the mother of invention.
Needs must when the devil drives.
In the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is king.
A stitch, in time, saves nine.

She has worked incredibly hard to develop this extraordinary skill – my point being that true mastery of a skill like this only comes through perseverance, and that she persevered because she had to.

Is it so different from learning to use your hands correctly? I know plenty of adults whose handwriting is appalling so that is obviously not a foregone conclusion either.

Obviously it is somewhat harder due to the length of the phalanges, but for her it would be just ‘normal’.

I work with disabled adults, so adaptive abilities are not that unusual to me.

Well done, though, for being the best seamstress anyway!