Interesting article. I'm left-handed for writing and a few other things but right-handed for most things, I wonder how such mixed-handedness/cross-dominance works. I'm surprised to hear that such...
Interesting article. I'm left-handed for writing and a few other things but right-handed for most things, I wonder how such mixed-handedness/cross-dominance works. I'm surprised to hear that such a big gap between number of left-handed and right-handed individuals only seems to exist within humans and not other primates.
The part of the article where the author was mentioning their travels in Ghana reminded me of my own upbringing. My family's culture is much the same where the left hand is for the dirty business while the right hand is for clean things. I was often chastised for eating with my left hand and my parents tried to get me to write with my right hand but I was stubborn. I did start eating with my right hand but I've reverted to my left hand overtime. I always remained a left-handed writer though so the struggle with pencils and pens never went away.
Same, but mostly I feel like it was just easier to learn to do it with my right hand. Like using the computer mouse as I grew up in a time with shared computers. I also can't throw things with my...
Interesting article. I'm left-handed for writing and a few other things but right-handed for most things
Same, but mostly I feel like it was just easier to learn to do it with my right hand. Like using the computer mouse as I grew up in a time with shared computers. I also can't throw things with my left hand for some reason.
My father is also left handed and had a similar experience as the grandmother from the article as he was forced to learn to write right handed as that was the norm at the time.
I never had the mirroring issue mentioned in the article though. Plenty of paper smudges and awkward situations trying to use something intended for right handed weirdos.
Interesting article. I'm left-handed for writing and a few other things but right-handed for most things, I wonder how such mixed-handedness/cross-dominance works. I'm surprised to hear that such a big gap between number of left-handed and right-handed individuals only seems to exist within humans and not other primates.
The part of the article where the author was mentioning their travels in Ghana reminded me of my own upbringing. My family's culture is much the same where the left hand is for the dirty business while the right hand is for clean things. I was often chastised for eating with my left hand and my parents tried to get me to write with my right hand but I was stubborn. I did start eating with my right hand but I've reverted to my left hand overtime. I always remained a left-handed writer though so the struggle with pencils and pens never went away.
Same, but mostly I feel like it was just easier to learn to do it with my right hand. Like using the computer mouse as I grew up in a time with shared computers. I also can't throw things with my left hand for some reason.
My father is also left handed and had a similar experience as the grandmother from the article as he was forced to learn to write right handed as that was the norm at the time.
I never had the mirroring issue mentioned in the article though. Plenty of paper smudges and awkward situations trying to use something intended for right handed weirdos.