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I've been thinking. Just now I was watching Gattaca the movie. And at the ending, the doctor guy said to the protoganist that Right handed men usually pee holding their penis with their right hands.

Then It got me thinking... Shit.. I think I could be a lefty.. Usually I unzip my fly using my right hand, pull out Mr. Elephant with my left to steer the aim. Thats CASE 1.

CASE 2. My left hand is very very very much more stronger than my right hand. I don't know why, but it just is. I know what u guys are thinking.. but no, I kick the habit with my right. Just somehow my left hand is unequally alot stronger than my right.

CASE 3. I play badminton with my left hand. Yes.. My eye-to-hand coordination is somewhat better. I don't know why, but I tend to get lucky and heck of a lot better playing with my left hand than my right. So when I play basketball, I tend to shoot better into the hoop with my left than my right. Plus I catch stuff with my left.

Counter Cases = I write with my right hand. Though my hand-writing is readable it's pretty much shit... uh.. Oh yeah, And I have mild short sightedness in my right eye. I think I could be slightly lazy eyed on my right, so could be the reason why i catch things better with my left because my left eye is good..... i think thats pretty much it.

Do you think I might actually be a lefty, but because of nurturing by my loving parents, they have brainwashed my innocence into a righty? Should I sue?

Or am I just a righty with a good left arm (probably from guitaring) and just out of practice I become more used to my left in doing somethings subconciously? Or maybe I am ambidextrous?

I say that you're left handed.

I've been thinking. Just now I was watching Gattaca the movie. And at the ending, the doctor guy said to the protoganist that Right handed men usually pee holding their penis with their right hands.

Then It got me thinking... Shit.. I think I could be a lefty.. Usually I unzip my fly using my right hand, pull out Mr. Elephant with my left to steer the aim. Thats CASE 1.

CASE 2. My left hand is very very very much more stronger than my right hand. I don't know why, but it just is. I know what u guys are thinking.. but no, I kick the habit with my right. Just somehow my left hand is unequally alot stronger than my right.

CASE 3. I play badminton with my left hand. Yes.. My eye-to-hand coordination is somewhat better. I don't know why, but I tend to get lucky and heck of a lot better playing with my left hand than my right. So when I play basketball, I tend to shoot better into the hoop with my left than my right. Plus I catch stuff with my left.

Counter Cases = I write with my right hand. Though my hand-writing is readable it's pretty much shit... uh.. Oh yeah, And I have mild short sightedness in my right eye. I think I could be slightly lazy eyed on my right, so could be the reason why i catch things better with my left because my left eye is good..... i think thats pretty much it.

Do you think I might actually be a lefty, but because of nurturing by my loving parents, they have brainwashed my innocence into a righty? Should I sue?

Or am I just a righty with a good left arm (probably from guitaring) and just out of practice I become more used to my left in doing somethings subconciously? Or maybe I am ambidextrous?

I'm a strange case myself. I write and eat with my left hand, but do everything else with my right. My conclusion is that my right hand is stronger, but my left hand has more precision.

hmm *thinks* ... so would I

Heh... a lefty trapped in a righty's body... is there anything worse?

Heh... a lefty trapped in a righty's body... is there anything worse?

I wonder if there's such an operation to switch hands around. Put my left hand on my right, and my right on my left. THough the micro-surgery would be a killer. And I doubt I can get 100% usage of my hands again.

I wonder if there's such an operation to switch hands around. Put my left hand on my right, and my right on my left. THough the micro-surgery would be a killer. And I doubt I can get 100% usage of my hands again.

Better than living a lie, IMO :p

I'm left-handed myself, that's why I've always been interested in anything concerning why poeple are left-handed and how to desal with it.

There are actually 3 types of people :
People who have a natural right-hand orientation, they are born with a preference to use their right hand rather than the left. They have difficultied performing finemotoric tasks with their left hand, the organic reason being that their left brain hemisphere is dominant.

Left handed people have the same difficulties when trying to use their right hands, as in their case the right hemisphere dominates.

Now, many people are actually born with almost or completely equally dominant brain halves, which means that they don't have any natural preferences, they are ambidextrous. In those cases, it really is the influence of parents, teachers etc. showing them how to write with the right hand rather then the left. This only means that they learn to write, use cutlery etc with their right hand, they still might feel more comfortable doing other tasks with their left hand.

To ambidextrous people, it doesn't make any difference what hand they use. If you were left-handed, you would most likely have put up a fight if your parents had tried to force you to use your right hand for anything. I know I did, it is one of my earliest memories, I cannot have been much older than 1 year old at the time. IT's such a clear memory because it felt soooo very weird when my mother forced the crayon I was drawing with in my right hand... I simply couldn't hold it, I couldn't draw that way. Although I'm sure at that age nobody would have noticed the difference anyway
;)

Interesting. I'll try practicing writing with my left hand for a while (since my exams just finished yesterday). Hopefully I can kick the 2 decade habit and come out of the closet a REAL LEFTY.

sounds like your ambidextrous

I've been thinking. Just now I was watching Gattaca the movie. And at the ending, the doctor guy said to the protoganist that Right handed men usually pee holding their penis with their right hands.

Then It got me thinking... Shit.. I think I could be a lefty.. Usually I unzip my fly using my right hand, pull out Mr. Elephant with my left to steer the aim. Thats CASE 1.

CASE 2. My left hand is very very very much more stronger than my right hand. I don't know why, but it just is. I know what u guys are thinking.. but no, I kick the habit with my right. Just somehow my left hand is unequally alot stronger than my right.

CASE 3. I play badminton with my left hand. Yes.. My eye-to-hand coordination is somewhat better. I don't know why, but I tend to get lucky and heck of a lot better playing with my left hand than my right. So when I play basketball, I tend to shoot better into the hoop with my left than my right. Plus I catch stuff with my left.

Counter Cases = I write with my right hand. Though my hand-writing is readable it's pretty much shit... uh.. Oh yeah, And I have mild short sightedness in my right eye. I think I could be slightly lazy eyed on my right, so could be the reason why i catch things better with my left because my left eye is good..... i think thats pretty much it.

Do you think I might actually be a lefty, but because of nurturing by my loving parents, they have brainwashed my innocence into a righty? Should I sue?

Or am I just a righty with a good left arm (probably from guitaring) and just out of practice I become more used to my left in doing somethings subconciously? Or maybe I am ambidextrous?


....have you ever heard the term ambidextres (pending i spelled that right). Basically, thats you.
*pet pet*

Interesting. I'll try practicing writing with my left hand for a while (since my exams just finished yesterday). Hopefully I can kick the 2 decade habit and come out of the closet a REAL LEFTY.

There's a few very simple tricks if you want to fnd out if you really are left-handed. They are all based on the fact that in this case you right brain hemisphere is the dominant one.

One of them can be found here:

http://www.strangecosmos.com/content/item/11085.html

Another one is trying to read mirror-inverted. Or even trying to write that way. Most left-handed people find that rather easy. One of the most famous lefties ever, Leonardo Da Vinci, kept diaries written from right to left...

There are actually 3 types of people :
People who have a natural right-hand orientation, they are born with a preference to use their right hand rather than the left. They have difficultied performing finemotoric tasks with their left hand, the organic reason being that their left brain hemisphere is dominant.

Heres another piece of informatino you'll need to add and modify your 'thoery'. I mean its not considered a theory, but neither is this: babys in the womb decide what handed they are, they actually prefer one thrumb to the other while in there (thx to new 4d pics of the creatures).

There's a few very simple tricks if you want to fnd out if you really are left-handed. They are all based on the fact that in this case you right brain hemisphere is the dominant one.

One of them can be found here:

http://www.strangecosmos.com/content/item/11085.html

Another one is trying to read mirror-inverted. Or even trying to write that way. Most left-handed people find that rather easy. One of the most famous lefties ever, Leonardo Da Vinci, kept diaries written from right to left...
Thats also a male/female thing. It runs on the basic theory that left controls right, and right controls left. But of course the brain is more complicated than that. And this expecially wont work if you've had a stroke (or done a lot of ecstacy in your life...)

Heres another piece of informatino you'll need to add and modify your 'thoery'. I mean its not considered a theory, but neither is this: babys in the womb decide what handed they are, they actually prefer one thrumb to the other while in there (thx to new 4d pics of the creatures).

That's not really a "desicion" they are making, it's a preference made by their brains. Lefthandedness is hereditary, you get born that way. Well, to be precise, you get conceived that way

Thats also a male/female thing. It runs on the basic theory that left controls right, and right controls left. But of course the brain is more complicated than that. And this expecially wont work if you've had a stroke (or done a lot of ecstacy in your life...)

Of course. I never claimed that this was a scientific way to determine once and for all and beyond doubt if you are left-handed or not, it's just something that might give you an idea. And a nice little brain-teaser

That's not really a "desicion" they are making, it's a preference made by their brains. Lefthandedness is hereditary, you get born that way. Well, to be precise, you get conceived that way
Then technically we could blame the parents - or at the very least the mother - for whatever the baby decides on (I use words to make situations more blunt than they are. Im not saying the baby weighs out the factos and decides, but whatever).

The baby doesnt think until the third trimester, and thats when they pick a thumb (apparently). The baby actually forms memory and can hear things and are sensitive to bright light (though its mainly dark in there). I suppose these things could develop one side of the brain more than the other.

Or maybe its genetic and one side of the brain naturally grows larger and stronger than the other.

:S

Theres really not enough informatino on the topic to make a decision either way.

i went to the website and knew what the picture was. i'm a lefty lol. i do almost everything left handed: sports, eating, writing, etc. i can't think of anything at the moment that i don't do left-handed. i know there's gotta be something i just can't think hard enough. lol. you are probably ambidextrous. :cool:

I've been thinking. Just now I was watching Gattaca the movie. And at the ending, the doctor guy said to the protoganist that Right handed men usually pee holding their penis with their right hands.

Then It got me thinking... Shit.. I think I could be a lefty.. Usually I unzip my fly using my right hand, pull out Mr. Elephant with my left to steer the aim. Thats CASE 1.

CASE 2. My left hand is very very very much more stronger than my right hand. I don't know why, but it just is. I know what u guys are thinking.. but no, I kick the habit with my right. Just somehow my left hand is unequally alot stronger than my right.

CASE 3. I play badminton with my left hand. Yes.. My eye-to-hand coordination is somewhat better. I don't know why, but I tend to get lucky and heck of a lot better playing with my left hand than my right. So when I play basketball, I tend to shoot better into the hoop with my left than my right. Plus I catch stuff with my left.

Counter Cases = I write with my right hand. Though my hand-writing is readable it's pretty much shit... uh.. Oh yeah, And I have mild short sightedness in my right eye. I think I could be slightly lazy eyed on my right, so could be the reason why i catch things better with my left because my left eye is good..... i think thats pretty much it.

Do you think I might actually be a lefty, but because of nurturing by my loving parents, they have brainwashed my innocence into a righty? Should I sue?

Or am I just a righty with a good left arm (probably from guitaring) and just out of practice I become more used to my left in doing somethings subconciously? Or maybe I am ambidextrous?

You're a weird sort-of Ambidextros. I forget the exact name for what you have though.

it is most likely not learned but hereditary because both of my parents and my sister are righties but my grandpa and my great grandma are lefties. it skipped a generation and came to me. i don't know where it came from on my dad's side yet but i'll figure it out sometime. is that to say that it can't be learned? no. my dad's dad broke his arm at six and had to learn to be left-handed. it could probably go both ways: learned or hereditary. i know i probably didn't learn it even though i grew up close to my grandparents for the first few years of my life when my mom and i stayed there for weeks at a time but when i started to show signs of left-handedness i was spending maybe a weekend every few months over there. who knows? :confused:

The baby doesnt think until the third trimester, and thats when they pick a thumb (apparently). The baby actually forms memory and can hear things and are sensitive to bright light (though its mainly dark in there). I suppose these things could develop one side of the brain more than the other.

Or maybe its genetic and one side of the brain naturally grows larger and stronger than the other.

:S

Theres really not enough informatino on the topic to make a decision either way.

I think the fact that the baby picks a thumb around the time the brain gets fully functional supports the theory that handedness is genetic.

I can add some facts from my own family:
I'm left-handed, three of my cousins from my father's side are left-handed, my father's sister is left-handed, my grandfather was left-handed. On the side of my mother, all are right-handed. Given that about 10-13% of the population are left-handed, such a large number of left-handed people in a relatively small genectially related group supports the fact that handedness is a genetic fact, not a personal preference.

sounds like your ambidextrous

I'd give my right arm to be ambidextrous. As it stands now, my right hand doesn't even know what my left hand is doing. Which is o.k. considering the nasty things my left hand has been known to do.

I know what u guys are thinking.. but no, I kick the habit with my right.
lol, good phrase

The worst part about being correct handed (left handed) is trying to use a pair of scissors not made for a left-handed person.

Become ambidextrous and quit bitching.

I mean, shit, what more could you ask for!?

Left-handedness is mostly due to lack of a gene controling cerebral dominance.

All "lefties" are inherantly ambidextrous, as are some righties. That is, left-handed people have a tendency to use both hands, for differing uses.

This is due to lack of the dominance gene. This gene normally causes the "left cerebral hemisphere" to develop more than the right. Normally this causes a prefference for humans towards the right hand. Lack of this gene cause both hemispheres to develope equally. Resulting in the person to choose prefference through adaption and trial. As opposed to being forced by genetics.

It is quite possible you are merely "ambidextrous", and have equal motor-skills in both criteria. Your visual impairment may have caused you to lean to your left for certain hand-eye operations.

For us, however, there is little or no "conspiracy".. Likely, like the rest of us, early enviromental factors may have pushed you to using your right hand, as for others of us, it has towards the left.

Feel honored you're who you are. Studies have shown those lacking this gene are also less suseptible to cancer. Have better spatial-reasoning skills, and better language skills.

I've been thinking. Just now I was watching Gattaca the movie. And at the ending, the doctor guy said to the protoganist that Right handed men usually pee holding their penis with their right hands.

Then It got me thinking... Shit.. I think I could be a lefty.. Usually I unzip my fly using my right hand, pull out Mr. Elephant with my left to steer the aim. Thats CASE 1.

CASE 2. My left hand is very very very much more stronger than my right hand. I don't know why, but it just is. I know what u guys are thinking.. but no, I kick the habit with my right. Just somehow my left hand is unequally alot stronger than my right.

CASE 3. I play badminton with my left hand. Yes.. My eye-to-hand coordination is somewhat better. I don't know why, but I tend to get lucky and heck of a lot better playing with my left hand than my right. So when I play basketball, I tend to shoot better into the hoop with my left than my right. Plus I catch stuff with my left.

Counter Cases = I write with my right hand. Though my hand-writing is readable it's pretty much shit... uh.. Oh yeah, And I have mild short sightedness in my right eye. I think I could be slightly lazy eyed on my right, so could be the reason why i catch things better with my left because my left eye is good..... i think thats pretty much it.

Do you think I might actually be a lefty, but because of nurturing by my loving parents, they have brainwashed my innocence into a righty? Should I sue?

Or am I just a righty with a good left arm (probably from guitaring) and just out of practice I become more used to my left in doing somethings subconciously? Or maybe I am ambidextrous?First of all, explain to me - what do you mean by hands?

(just kidding)

It sounds like you are right-handed with a strong left arm, or ambidextrous. They're practically the same thing.

Try writing with your left hand. If you can do it at all, then you are ambidextrous. If you cannot write legibly with your left hand, you are right-handed. If you cannot write legibly with your right hand either, you are illiterate. ;)

~Czardas, Supreme Ruler of the Universe

I'm left ear/eye/hand and foot dominant. Got some book about being a lefty, took all their tests to be sure and came out on the extreme end of leftyness. The right side of my body is completely useless, I could seel it on the black market! Wouldn't get much for it though.
The only benifit I seem to derive from this is I will die younger according to the book and may be burned as a witch if I go to New England.

Left-handedness is mostly due to lack of a gene controling cerebral dominance.

All "lefties" are inherantly ambidextrous, as are some righties. That is, left-handed people have a tendency to use both hands, for differing uses.

This is due to lack of the dominance gene. This gene normally causes the "left cerebral hemisphere" to develop more than the right. Normally this causes a prefference for humans towards the right hand. Lack of this gene cause both hemispheres to develope equally. Resulting in the person to choose prefference through adaption and trial. As opposed to being forced by genetics.

It is quite possible you are merely "ambidextrous", and have equal motor-skills in both criteria. Your visual impairment may have caused you to lean to your left for certain hand-eye operations.

For us, however, there is little or no "conspiracy".. Likely, like the rest of us, early enviromental factors may have pushed you to using your right hand, as for others of us, it has towards the left.

Feel honored you're who you are. Studies have shown those lacking this gene are also less suseptible to cancer. Have better spatial-reasoning skills, and better language skills.

A "lack of genes"? I do hope you are not saying that we lefties don't have a complete human genome?
Or are you simply talking about a recessive gene?

I'd give my right arm to be ambidextrous. As it stands now, my right hand doesn't even know what my left hand is doing. Which is o.k. considering the nasty things my left hand has been known to do.That's not funny.

Well, okay, it is, but still... :D


~Czardas, Supreme Ruler of the Universe