Just Wondering About Something

[Guest StrandedOutThere]

I'm right-handed, but consider myself ambi-curious.

Ambi-curious is awesome!!! Me too!

Know what I can do? I can hold one pen in my right hand and one in my left. Then, if I start writing my name with my right hand, I can get my left hand to do the same thing in reverse. Mirror writing! I'll have to post a pic of that. It's freaky.

Oh...My_Gen, you can go ahead and say whatever you were going to say now. I think we are good to have open discussion. I'm curious what you've been reading. Have you checked out the 2D/4D ratio stuff (index finger/ring finger)?

[Guest My_Genesis]

Ambi-curious is awesome!!! Me too!

Know what I can do? I can hold one pen in my right hand and one in my left. Then, if I start writing my name with my right hand, I can get my left hand to do the same thing in reverse. Mirror writing! I'll have to post a pic of that. It's freaky.

Oh...My_Gen, you can go ahead and say whatever you were going to say now. I think we are good to have open discussion. I'm curious what you've been reading. Have you checked out the 2D/4D ratio stuff (index finger/ring finger)?

I have a bit...on that BBC "Brain Sex Test" my ratio was lower than the average male ratio..lol. There's also this testosterone video on youtube I watched that discusses it.

I was going to say there's this article, i think somewhere on sciencedaily.com, that said people who identify as gay are more likely to be either left-handed, or exclusively (I believe they used the word "extreme" though) right-handed.

[Guest Little Sara]

Brain Sex test from Baron-Cohen puts me at 50% male (or 75/25 in favor of male), yet no one would think I was male, even if they saw me work.

They think I'm a "machine" for finding and reporting so many bugs, but they don't think I'm male for it. Heck, my company's 95% male and I'm in the top bug-reporting wise, and my bugs require little correction if any (which is a good thing).

[Guest MrAwesome]

I can actually write with both hands, I practiced :3 however, I can't do it as much or as fast, and itlooks a lot like when I was a 4th grader. lol. My left side I call my dominent side sometimes, because generally it's my better side XD however I don't use my left arm AS much though as I'd like to because there's something wrong with the nerve or something. okay, that's all.

[Guest Pól_Eire]

Do different things with different hands, I think as a result of many broken and sprained wrists as a child. I'm not really ambidextrous because I can't usually do things with the other hand, but things are about 50-50 overall.

For example:

Chop sticks - L

Watch - Left wrist ®

Brush Teeth - R

Football - L

Tennis - L

Throw - R

Bat (Baseball) - L

etc.

I do write and use a knife with either hand though.

There should be an option for "none of the above." I'm not really 'handed,' per se, I guess is what I'm trying to say.

[Guest Little Sara]

Do different things with different hands, I think as a result of many broken and sprained wrists as a child. I'm not really ambidextrous because I can't usually do things with the other hand, but things are about 50-50 overall.

For example:

Chop sticks - L

Watch - Left wrist ®

Brush Teeth - R

Football - L

Tennis - L

Throw - R

Bat (Baseball) - L

etc.

I do write and use a knife with either hand though.

There should be an option for "none of the above." I'm not really 'handed,' per se, I guess is what I'm trying to say.

I think that's common to have people prefer and/or be better with one hand over the other in activities. That doesn't disqualify you from being ambidextrous.

Chopsticks - neither, I'm bad

Watch - either wrist, but wear on left by habit

Brush teeth - left hand

Throwing - right hand

Catching - either hand

Baseball - no idea which hand counts, since you hold the bat with both hands

Make-up - both hands (one at a time )

Brushing my hair - both hands (one at a time)

Drinking - either hand

Eating - either hand

Cutting food - left hand

Cutting with scissors - right hand

Peeling potatoes - both hands, but better with the right one

[Guest Cody_T]

yes, pie graph! That's pretty interesting. What I heard about people who are left handed is that they're more likely to develop mental disorders like schizophrenia and bipolar disorder? I only sort of tuned in to the last part of this discussion in anatomy (something about the brains and handedness) so don't take me as authority on this, lol.

And if MyGen's right, I fit that "extreme" right criteria pretty well. It's really cool how things are interrelated like this.

I've found a left hand dominance! lol. When I type, my left hand is automatically responsible for 15 of the letters and my right hand only 11. But since my right hand has most punctuation and the space bar, backspace and enter, it's probably actually a right hand dominance anyway... well, like I said, I fit the "extreme" criteria

little sara- for a baseball swing, your top hand is dominant, aka the arm in back when facing the pitcher.

[Guest Little Sara]

little sara- for a baseball swing, your top hand is dominant, aka the arm in back when facing the pitcher.

Then right hand for that

My right hand/arm is my strong one, my left hand/arm is my dexterous one, though both could do stuff that required either.

[Guest StrandedOutThere]

yes, pie graph! That's pretty interesting. What I heard about people who are left handed is that they're more likely to develop mental disorders like schizophrenia and bipolar disorder? I only sort of tuned in to the last part of this discussion in anatomy (something about the brains and handedness) so don't take me as authority on this, lol.

And if MyGen's right, I fit that "extreme" right criteria pretty well. It's really cool how things are interrelated like this.

I've found a left hand dominance! lol. When I type, my left hand is automatically responsible for 15 of the letters and my right hand only 11. But since my right hand has most punctuation and the space bar, backspace and enter, it's probably actually a right hand dominance anyway... well, like I said, I fit the "extreme" criteria

little sara- for a baseball swing, your top hand is dominant, aka the arm in back when facing the pitcher.

I think it is neurologically "better" to just be strongly right handed. I'm pretty sure that's what humans evolved to be. Most primates favor the right hand I think. Not to assign value to something like that, but non-righthandedness is consistently related to odd brain wiring, for lack of a more sophisticated nomenclature. Among left-handed folks there are more geniuses, but also more mentally disabled. I think the chances of having ADHD, a learning disability, as well as other disorders is higher for left-handed people. Being right handed is more related to "standard" brain development and the absence of developmental insults.

Oh...and don't get me off the subject on familial sinistrality. I think that is different. Handedness research distinguishes from randomly occurring and inherited left-handedness. In my case, no one else in my family is left-handed, so I think I just got extra androgens or a prenatal bump to the head or something. As a randomly occurring lefty, there is much about the way my brain works that isn't quite right. I've got ADHD and some odd learning difficulties. On the other hand I also have some things about my brain that are particularly good, so I'm not complaining.

As far as handedness and gender identity and sexual orientation goes, I don't know what researchers expect to find. I also don't have a good grip on why they think handedness seems to matter. Most stuff I've read says that the common link between handedness, gender identity, and sexual orientation is that they all seem to be determined before birth. You know...hormones and things float around and do stuff to your little brain. Both handedness and the 2D/4D ratio stuff are an index of prenatal exposure to androgens (and probably of some other stuff).

I'm just rambling and rambling...like I do.

[Sally]

I noticed that the pie was red and blue, I am assuming Blueberry is the larger portion Cherry or Strawberry?

Never mind I have a piece of Apple Pie right here.

Love ya,

Sally

[Guest StrandedOutThere]

I noticed that the pie was red and blue, I am assuming Blueberry is the larger portion Cherry or Strawberry?

Never mind I have a piece of Apple Pie right here.

Love ya,

Sally

Blueberry and cherry both sound good.

I had some chocolate cake a few weeks ago that was AWESOME. I had to use both hands to be able to eat it fast enough.

[Guest Little Sara]

I think it is neurologically "better" to just be strongly right handed. I'm pretty sure that's what humans evolved to be.

Who wants to be amongst the normals? I sure don't. Count me as a proud oddball.

[Guest StrandedOutThere]

Who wants to be amongst the normals? I sure don't. Count me as a proud oddball.

I'm definitely in that oddball category myself. When I say "neurologically better", that just means that being right-handed is more the developmental norm.

Of course, even if I were right-handed, I wouldn't let that stop me from being as odd as I want to be.

[Guest amie]

I'm right-handed for the most part but can do a lotta things with my left.

When I was younger and loved baseball, I loved watchin' Steve Carlton and made it a point to learn how to throw a baseball left-handed.

I got pretty good at it too.

I look back in sheer amazement on how at one time I could sit through an entire baseball game on TV.

[Guest Little Sara]

I'm right-handed for the most part but can do a lotta things with my left.

When I was younger and loved baseball, I loved watchin' Steve Carlton and made it a point to learn how to throw a baseball left-handed.

I got pretty good at it too.

I look back in sheer amazement on how at one time I could sit through an entire baseball game on TV.

I may throw with my right hand but I'm so bad at it it's not funny. Whenever I try a long distance throw (like 50 feet or more), I strain my arm and shoulder, and it might not even make it anyways.

Keep in mind this is after my father and other little league coaches tried to teach me, it didn't improve it one bit though.

[Guest amie]

I may throw with my right hand but I'm so bad at it it's not funny. Whenever I try a long distance throw (like 50 feet or more), I strain my arm and shoulder, and it might not even make it anyways.

Keep in mind this is after my father and other little league coaches tried to teach me, it didn't improve it one bit though.

I seldom batted over 300 but I was always an excellent blood n’ guts infielder.

Wanna read somethin’ funny? Check this out:

One time I was at shortstop and was on the receiving end of a hard n’ fast ground ball, right? Well, I was always one to throw myself directly in front of that ball if I felt it even remotely necessary.

This time was no exception.

So, as Shane luck would have it that day, the ball skips too hard of my glove and directly up to pop me square in the mouth, right?

Well, I recovered instabeautifully and leaped up to my feet to grab it with my throwing hand and just launched it toward who was normally a marquee first baseman. Yeah, in Todd’s defense, he made The All-Star Team every year…and was considered by many to be the best in the league at that position.

Well, that wasn’t likely the popular opinion on this day, cause I’ll be dipped in poop if that ball didn’t scream right past his glove to smack him square in the mouth. Ha!

It was one of those torn reactions from all that seen it. It was like OMG! That poor guy/OMG! Bwaaahahaha!

I still get a kick out of it to this day, and I was one of the kids that got kissed by the darn thing. Heehee!

[Guest sphere]

I write and draw with my right hand, but everything else I do equally with my left. If I learned how to write with my left hand when I started learning how to right I'd probably be left handed.

I also have a difficult time sometimes telling between right and left, and people saying "your dominant hand is right" doesn't work for me, because sometimes I use my left hand even more than my right. :/

[Guest Stuv]

Hey Stra - I'm the only lefty in my family, and I'm ADHD too! *high five* Goooo weirdos!

Funny story - I was ambidextrous when I was little, and I'm told one day my father took a crayon from my left hand and placed it in my right. My mother said "no don't do that, it's his decision" and my dad put it back in my left hand. Since then I've been lefty. I learned sports from my bro though so I do most things with regards to that righty.

I associate SO much with my left hand, I'm constantly aware of it. I injure my right hand way more often because I just don't pay attention to it much. I've learned to do certain things with both hands though, because of RMI. Video game addict = pain.

As for the wiring, well:

1. white noise improves concentration

2. the hemispheres of the brain separate types of thinking, and control of the body

(like you know, "left-handed people are better artists! :B")

3. more input - better training, more emphasis within the personality.

is what I think.

[Guest My_Genesis]

yes, pie graph! That's pretty interesting. What I heard about people who are left handed is that they're more likely to develop mental disorders like schizophrenia and bipolar disorder? I only sort of tuned in to the last part of this discussion in anatomy (something about the brains and handedness) so don't take me as authority on this, lol.

And if MyGen's right, I fit that "extreme" right criteria pretty well. It's really cool how things are interrelated like this.

I've found a left hand dominance! lol. When I type, my left hand is automatically responsible for 15 of the letters and my right hand only 11. But since my right hand has most punctuation and the space bar, backspace and enter, it's probably actually a right hand dominance anyway... well, like I said, I fit the "extreme" criteria

little sara- for a baseball swing, your top hand is dominant, aka the arm in back when facing the pitcher.

I think I could be considered "extreme right" just because I don't really do anything with my left hand...I bat righty, write righty, play instruments righty...like I said before ride regular on a snowboard (just recently discovered that)

So I really don't know how they define extreme lol, but if it means everything you do is right-dominant I would be it

Oh, and as a sidenote, I actually wrote a paper for psych about sexual dimorpism in the brain, and one of the sources I used said that it's possible men have more of a polarity between the two hemispheres of their brain, whereas women are more apt to distribute functions more evenly between hemispeheres. There were tests done on male and female soldiers who had brain injuries from war, and males were more likely to lose a function performed by the damaged hemisphere, whereas women more easily picked up the task with the hemisphere that wasn't injured.

IMO this may explain why men are more likely to be left-handed than women (or so I've heard), whereas, correct me if I'm wrong but i believe being ambidextrous is more common in women. More balance-brained I guess you can say haha.

[Guest My_Genesis]

Coincidentally...my mom just texted me about that worm study where they manipulated genes in their brains to change their sexual orientation...so i googled it to see if i could find the study again because I remember havig read it recently...

and found this

http://borngay.procon.org/viewadditionalre...sourceID=000047

[Guest Little Sara]

IMO this may explain why men are more likely to be left-handed than women (or so I've heard), whereas, correct me if I'm wrong but i believe being ambidextrous is more common in women. More balance-brained I guess you can say haha.

The ratios are insignificantly low to consider them to be much. The difference bwteen 9% and 11% of the females and males (being left-handed) certainly won't explain 100% of the population. Same for being ambidextrous.

It's a tendency, but not an absolute. That is, it may be related a little bit, but it's not the determinant thing.

I use both sides of the brain at once, and I doubt it's due to my being ambidextrous.