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18 Responses to “Left Handed?”

1. BTude a.k.a. GlassHoppah
   October 5th, 2005 at 4.15 pm

   

   I write right-handed, but do everything else with my left. My brother was ambidextrous as a youngster (right-hand now), and my sister is right. I dunno if it’s hereditary, but I hear it might be. I can write left-handed on a chalkboard, but not on paper–what’s that about…lol :) I think other than some weirdness with desks in school and various other tools, they have come up to date with providing lefties/south paws the tools they need to not feel awkward in the right-handed majority. He’s still a babe, so he can also change to right in the blink of an eye. :)

2. BTude a.k.a. GlassHoppah
   October 5th, 2005 at 4.16 pm

   

   PS That multi-task coloring shot is cute–the rainbow in one swipe! He’s a doll!

3. stA
   October 5th, 2005 at 5.38 pm ♥

   

   I can’t for the life of me, write left handed. It could be hereditary i suppose because i dont know anyone in my family who writes with their left hand.

4. Nicole
   October 5th, 2005 at 6.12 pm

   

   Hmm, good question. I really don’t know. I don’t really think it necessarily runs in families though. Maybe it’s just a matter of taste. I have thoughts but I’m having difficulties expressing them, sorry I can’t be of any help. But it’s funny though, I couldn’t help but think that being left-handed could maybe attribute to being more creative, since the creative part is on the right side of the brain and all. I don’t really know why I thought of that did some research seems other people were wondering the same thing. Like here for example http://www.madsci.org/posts/archives/feb99/918700106.Ns.r.html Just thought I’d mention that since you happened to have a picture of him coloring. It was an odd coincidence seeing the picture after thinking that. :) He really is growing up though isn’t he? :o Great picture the way. :)

5. mel
   October 5th, 2005 at 7.49 pm

   

   For us, it runs in the family – KA is left-handed, so are Jolyne and Jayden. Did you check if anyone in your and Steve’s family was ‘corrected’ when young? It may be too early to tell E’s handedness, and even if he is left-handed, there is nothing to worry about! Maybe a little inconvenient, but really, don’t worry too much. :)

6. chele
   October 5th, 2005 at 9.06 pm ♥

   

   You know I think my oldest daughter was supposed to be left handed..
   But I think the stupid first grade teacher messed her all up…
   It was her first year out of school to and she was gonna save every kid in the first grade.
   hmmphf..
   m

7. Nic0le
   October 6th, 2005 at 12.08 am ♥

   

   My dad and granddad are both left-handed, and I’m pretty sure I have a few other relatives that are. I’m kind of surprised, really, that Jonathan doesn’t favor his left hand. I really don’t know what causes one person to be left-handed and the other person to be right-handed. (I’ve been trying to comment and none want to go through. Hopefully this will work)

8. owen
   October 6th, 2005 at 7.23 am ♥

   

   This page has a crazy amount of lefty info, including a section titled, “Advantage in fist-fighting”.

   See also.

9. Annie
   October 6th, 2005 at 7.41 am ♥

   

   Mhmm, left handed-ness is uber =3 I always thought it was a family thing..guess not if theres been no sign of it o_O

10. Valerie
    October 6th, 2005 at 8.10 am ♥

    

    I don’t really thing left- handed- ness runs in the family. My dad is left handed , but nobody else in my family is …

11. Linda
    October 6th, 2005 at 11.43 am

    

    I am left-handed. They say lefties are very special!! A long time ago, if someone would be a lefty they would correct it, because they thought lefties were evil.

12. Samantha
    October 6th, 2005 at 1.42 pm

    

    My mum used to be left handed (but when at school 40 years ago they forced lefties to write with their right hand, so she is right handed now).

    My dad is left handed. (of course same situation as my mother but he just ended up writing with his left hand anyway)

    My brother is right handed…

    I am left handed…

    Though I do everything else (cutting etc.) with my right hand.

    I do not know if I inherited me left handedness or that I imitated it from my dad. I think it could come from both. I have a shitty handwriting… but I don’t think that has anything to do with being left handed.

    I think one out of 4 people or something is left handed. Don’t worry about it. Let him draw and write with his left hand (if he chooses to do so). Being able to do things with your right hand to can be really nice… so if you can try and get him to train that hand to…. I wish I could write right handed… but I can’t and that is fine! (don’t force him to draw/write with his other hand… )

13. letti
    October 6th, 2005 at 9.47 pm

    

    david’s left handed, but none of his family members are. He writes and holds his fork with his left hand, but does everything else with his right. Weird, huh? Oh, and I once went to school with twins where one was right handed and the other left handed. *hrmph*

14. Sim
    October 7th, 2005 at 10.47 am ♥

    

    I’m left-handed and I remember doing a lot of research on it many years ago. Apparently 1 in 10 people are left-handed, and the chance increases to something like 1 in 4 if you have a left-handed parent. My dad is also left-handed, but both my mum and sister are right-handed.

    Left-handed people apparently use the right side of the brain more, meaning that a lot of artists are left-handed (I remember an art programme I used to watch – two out of three were left). Apparently it’s also associated in some circumstances with genius, but I’m still waiting for that bit =P

    My handedness is very strange – my left hand is used for writing and cutting, but my right hand is actually faster and more agile (and obviously I use it for my computer mouse). This really confuses me as I play the French Horn and my valves are on the left side, but on the other hand (no pun intended) I do play a bit of piano and the right hand is used for faster passages.

    I really enjoy being left-handed, for some reason. The only problems I have is that I can’t cut with the right-handed scissors that teachers provide (I have to get someone else to do it or bring my own), that I smudge pencil all over the place in Art (for writing, you just slant the page to the right so your hand is almost moving under the writing rather than over it) and that I can’t use a potato peeler in food technology. Aside from that, it’s fine.

15. Marie
    October 9th, 2005 at 2.41 am ♥

    

    I’m a lefty too! My grandpa is the only other person in my family that was left handed.

    I thought Michaela was going to be left handed because she always used it and colored using for a long time but they she switched. It’s normal for kids to use either hand..or both..hehe.

    The way you become left handed is that you need to have someone on both sides that’s left handed. It doesn’t have to be recent. Like my mom’s family, we don’t know anyone who is a lefty but there has to be someone in there somewhere.

    For everything, when you are made, you get 2 genes. One from mom and one from dad.
    Being a lefty is a recessive gene so you need 2 lefty genes to actually be a lefty. If your mom gives you a righty gene and your dad a lefty gene, you’re going to be a righty.

    Make sense? so my mom gave me a lefty gene and my dad gave me a lefty gene too.

    It’s like blue eyes. If you have blue eyes, and your husband has blue eyes, your kids are going to have blue eyes for sure. It’s recessive.

    As far as being a lefty goes. I like it but I do a lot like a righty..being surrounded by righties, you tend to. I play tennis and bowl like a righty. I eat like a righty but I write with my left hand, open doors with my left hand, cut with either.
    I don’t really slant my paper, my mom forced me to hold my pen like a righty, not curled up on itself like a lot of lefties and i’m glad for that. I don’t smudge when i write :) For me, there isn’t anything I can’t use. I can use righty scissors on both hands.

    He may switch again..but whatever he does, encourage him..nothing wrong with being a lefty :)

16. Marie
    October 9th, 2005 at 2.48 am ♥

    

    I’m double posting :P

    I found this, it’s not as clear cut as dominant/recessive although that those plan some role in there.

    http://www.thetech.org/genetics/ask.php?id=124

17. Jess
    June 16th, 2007 at 4.01 pm ♥

    

    I don’t think it’s hereditery. both my parents are right handed and me and my brother are both left handed. Neither me or my brother are particularly artistic and he is more of a lefty than me.

    I can use right handed scissors, but not left handed scissors. I play pool and badminton right handed. My brother uses left handed scissors and plays pool left handed. Also, I will use a right handed bow and arrow and he will use left handed.

    I’ve often wondered what makes someone left handed, but no-one as yet has been able to come up with an answer. If it’s hereditary and the right handed gene is dominant, then why are my brother and I lefties when our parents are right handed? I figure it can’t be environmental, since the world caters to right handed people.

    If anyone can come up with a sound explanation, I’d be glad to hear it.

18. Val
    June 21st, 2007 at 3.55 pm

    

    I originally wrote that post about a year and a half ago, since then, he still has shown signs of being left handed. He almost always writes with his left hand as well as doing other things. No problems with this, of course. My parents don’t think or remember anyone in our families that might have been left handed. It’s all interesting, really, I guess I do need to read up on it again.

    But as for if it’s a gene that’s dominant, I guess it could work like eyes. One of my brothers and I have blue eyes, our sister has these greenish grey eyes and our other brother has brown eyes, just like my mom. My dad also has brown eyes. But I can tell my brother and I got our blue eyes from my mom’s dad and my dad’s mom, they both had blue eyes but had brown eyed spouses. Blue eyed people can only pass on the blue eyed gene, so since my son has brown eyes, I know that he has a blue eyed gene from me – like me, I could end up with a blue eyed grandchild. ‘Course, then there’s those variations like in my sister… we didn’t get that far in my biology classes. ;-)

    /rambling