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October 16, 2011 at 5:40 am #90103
Is there any research about why some people are left handed? what’s different about us. My grandmother used to try to make me do things right handed as if there used to be some kind of taboo about it. I’ll run a search sometimes soon, but I’m betting people from here will have an answer faster than I can find one. I get lost surfing a little too easy. It’s not cool to ask people to do work for me, but if it’s an easy answer I would appreciate it.
Thanks in advance.
Lefty :o)
REPORT ABUSEOctober 16, 2011 at 1:49 pm #108894
AnonymousInactiveOctober 16, 2011 at 1:49 pmPost count: 14413The medical reason is that the right hemisphere of the brain develops a little faster than the left, causing the left side to become more dominant. As you might recall from science class, the left hemisphere controls the right side and the right hemisphere controls the left.
REPORT ABUSEOctober 16, 2011 at 2:27 pm #108895
AnonymousInactiveOctober 16, 2011 at 2:27 pmPost count: 14413October 16, 2011 at 10:26 pm #108896Same here. Lefty.
REPORT ABUSEOctober 16, 2011 at 11:30 pm #108897I am right.
REPORT ABUSEOctober 16, 2011 at 11:49 pm #108898Right but……… kind of ambidextrous… Sometimes I think I have 2 “left” hands, but I can play musical instruments, so can’t be completely klutzy???
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Handwriting – atrocious with either hand – best if i just type stuff…
October 16, 2011 at 11:58 pm #108899Hey GameGuy, left or right? I’m right with ambidextrous tendancies. Infact i do use my left hand sometimes to do things instead of my right and I used to play the piano.
So far 3 lefts, 3 rights and one unknown.
Yahoo answers says approximately 10% of people are left handed. Very Interesting.
REPORT ABUSEOctober 17, 2011 at 4:32 am #108900Lefty.
REPORT ABUSEOctober 17, 2011 at 3:24 pm #108901Just to keep the balance – I’m a righty! And none of that ambidextrous stuff either. Oh, and atrocious hand writing even with my dominant hand. Grade 5 teacher told me I “wrote like a boy”. Nice thing to say to a 10-yr-old tomboy!
REPORT ABUSEOctober 17, 2011 at 3:31 pm #108902
AnonymousInactiveOctober 17, 2011 at 3:31 pmPost count: 14413@memak – Left, definitely. Some things I do with my right, but most is left.
REPORT ABUSEOctober 17, 2011 at 7:03 pm #108903
AnonymousInactiveOctober 17, 2011 at 7:03 pmPost count: 14413Im a lefty
REPORT ABUSEOctober 18, 2011 at 5:48 pm #108904Left, HOWEVER, 2 sons – the left-handed one is not ADHD, the right handed one is.
Their mother is left-handed and NOT ADHD in any way.
My mother is right-handed and ADHD, her father was right-handed and ADHD.
I use my right hand to shave, brush teeth, comb hair, and use scissors. I can’t do ANY of those things with my left hand.
Otherwise, I can’t even hold a pencil let alone write my name with my right hand. I found years ago it would have been impossible for me to play right-handed guitar and all gun use is with left hand. But I’d cut myself shaving if I had to use my left hand to shave.
No, my teachers made very little effort to change what I did with which hand………….
REPORT ABUSEOctober 19, 2011 at 2:55 am #108905As I recall from when I took Special Ed part one, no link has been found between handedness and Learning Disabilities or handedness and ADHD.
For the record, I’m a lefty.
Mr. Ivriniel on the other hand who is, imho more ADHD than me, (he hasn’t been diagnosed, but when he says things to me like “Don’t put the garbage pail under the sink. If I can’t see it, I won’t use it!”, there are huge flashing signs) is right handed.
REPORT ABUSEOctober 19, 2011 at 3:14 am #108906
AnonymousInactiveOctober 19, 2011 at 3:14 amPost count: 14413Right, mostly, but I do some things with my left hand and some with either hand. My ADHD son is a righty.
REPORT ABUSEOctober 19, 2011 at 7:03 am #108907Right handed here
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