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Medical Forum / General / Alternative / December 2004Do you think I could be left handed?
I am currently 30 years old, and I have spent just about all of my life using my right hand for just about everything I do. My father is right handed, my mum, and my grandma on my mother's side of the family are both left handed. A few days ago I decided I wanted to learn to be ambidextrous with both of my hands, and I started using my left hand for everything instead. Within just a few days, I have learnt to write good with my left hand, and I can now play first person video games just about as well with the mouse in my left hand, as I do with it in my right hand. I have got good mouse accuracy with both of my hands now. Also, I have noticed that my response time is slightly faster with my left hand than what it is with my right hand. But, i'm obviously alot stronger with my right hand since I have used it alot more frequently than my left hand. Although I feel perfectly comfortable using my right hand for just about everything I do, i'm still wondering if I was actually born left handed, and I was forced to be right handed as a child, and that's why I can use my left hand so well in such as short space of time? Also, I have suffered from alot of internal conflicts over the years, and i'm wondering if being forced to be right handed as a child could have been the cause of it? Sometimes when I am walking, I get confused on which leg I should be moving next. I'm wondering if this could be down to the fact that my left brain has been the dominant side since I was a child, and it was actually meant to be the other way round, and that's what's causing all the confusion/conflicts in my brain? >I am currently 30 years old, and I have spent just about all of my life > using my right hand for just about everything I do. My father is right [quoted text clipped - 30 lines] > all > the confusion/conflicts in my brain? I enjoyed reading your post. You remind me of one of my grandsons. I would say that you were born gifted with many abilities that are just now breaking loose for you to cultivate. The 'internal conflicts' goes on with most people and you sound pretty normal to me. As far as getting confused on which leg to move next.....(I really grinned at this one, being a former Marine)......you should see how often that goes on when people in boot camp are training to 'march'. If you find this bothers you, try calling 'cadence' in your head as you walk (left, right, left, right and then add a sing-song rhyme in between the lefts and rights). My sense is your confusion about which leg to move happens when you are walking near other people. March to your own beat. Best to you! You sound like a fine young man, Coleah > Also, I have suffered from alot of internal conflicts over the years, > and i'm wondering if being forced to be right handed as a child could > have been the cause of it? If that's what happened, it can cause a lot of problems, because it never completely takes. > I'm wondering if this could be down to the fact > that my left brain has been the dominant side > since I was a child, and it was actually meant > to be the other way round, and that's what's causing all > the confusion/conflicts in my brain? Two useful data points: 1. Which ear do you use when talking on the telephone? The vast majority of all right-handers use their left ear. A majority of left-handers also use their left ear, but it's much closer to 50/50. The ear choice indicates which side of the brain holds the language function. 2. When you write, is your hand mostly above the line or below the line? In most people, the hand is below the line being written. In a few people, they curl the hand around while writing, so that the hand is mostly above the line being written. It's almost painful to watch someone write this way. It is caused by the dominant hemisphere being opposite from the hemisphere that does the writing -- the dominant hemisphere picks up the pen, but then tries to hold it at the angle it would have if it was being held by the other hand. > 1. Which ear do you use when talking on the telephone? > The vast majority of all right-handers use their left ear. > A majority of left-handers also use their left ear, but > it's much closer to 50/50. The ear choice indicates which > side of the brain holds the language function. I use both ears when talking on the phone... My desk phone is on the left to where I sit, so I use my left hand to pick it up, and then I use my left ear to listen. When I use my mobile phone I hold it in my right hand, and I use my right ear for listening. > 2. When you write, is your hand mostly above the line > or below the line? In most people, the hand is below [quoted text clipped - 6 lines] > the pen, but then tries to hold it at the angle it would have > if it was being held by the other hand. I hold my pen roughly 90 degrees to the right, my thumb and index finger are pointing to the left when I write something using my right hand. > 2. When you write, is your hand mostly above the line > or below the line? In most people, the hand is below [quoted text clipped - 6 lines] > the pen, but then tries to hold it at the angle it would have > if it was being held by the other hand. In one primary school I was at I was *taught* to write like that as a way to avoid smudging... we were using fountain pens. Another school had us lefties angle the paper in the opposite direction so our hand was beneath the line. At yet another school I went to the teacher didn't seem to want to accept me writing with my left hand and would hit my hand with a ruler if I smudged while insisting that I *didn't* angle the paper at all. That last teacher was also the one who told me the sun was going to fall into the earth and I'd go to hell... I was eight. Needless to say my handwriting is all over the place and I don't use fountain pens. :) Vashti >> 2. When you write, is your hand mostly above the line >> or below the line? In most people, the hand is below [quoted text clipped - 20 lines] > > Vashti How frustrating to have so many 'teachers' when you could jolly well have learned to write eclectically all on your own. As for that Last teacher..... |
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