handedness ( Archived) (15)

while i was away for christmas...my family were discussing the amount of left-handed people we have. two of my children are left-handed, as well as bunches of cousins, aunts, etcetera.

my mother fondly looked at me and said that the girls got it from me...that "i" was left-handed. i told her that i always thought that i SHOULD have been...(i'm ambidextrous)...and my aunt and mom went on to explain that no, i wasn't left-handed, but neither was i right-handed.

apparently, when i went into kindergarten, i couldn't make up my mind. i wrote with both hands, and went the whole year that way. when i hit first grade, however...they forced me to make a decision. my teacher was right-handed, as well as all the students in my class...so of course, that's what i went with. easier on the teacher, yes?

i told my mother that i thought that was a cop-out. she said that the school was worried about "brain confusion".

anyhow, i write a bit better with my right now...but i do use both, and i switch off when i'm eating, too, lol. it just took more effort. when working mathematics equations, i switch off to my left, and often get the answer i was searching.



PART ONE:

has anyone ever heard of "brain confusion" before?

I think so



No honestly yes I have

No I haven't. Thats cool that you are ambidextrous. If I lost my right hand I'd be useless, I never use my left!

I am ambidextrious to a degree.

I am right handed. Broken right wrist in 4 places so I do alot with my left hand to compensate. I can't write lefthanded but most other things are done lefthanded.

My dad is like that. He eats, throws and writes left handed, but he golfs, bats and kicks righty. Go figure. But he is very intelligent like you nwnstar--maybe that has something to do with it.

i tried for years to just use my right...but got into martial arts when i was ten. you have to use both there...and it brought about a determination to learn to write and such with my left.

Dont mean to hijack your thread, but I wanted to tell ya 40 hours now without a smoke!

yes, but have you ever heard of confusing the brain by using both? and what would those effects be?

woohoo!!!!!!

that was WORTH a hijack!