have you ever been woken up with an odd subject in your head?

[lokizmom]

well...on thursday morning i was awake at 4am with this in my head:

left handed or right handed...is it in your DNA or is it learned? are people born left or right handed? if so...i should be left handed because that's what was "normal" for me as a kid. however when i went to school and before that...to my babysitter's house...i was forced to use my right hand. that has caused issues in my learning ability. i was always considered slow. perhaps it's because i wasn't thinking with the right side of my brain or perhaps it's just because school was boring to me. at any rate...if i had been left handed as was "normal" for me would my life have been different?

so...are you right or left handed? were you born that way or were you forced to change? if you are left handed...do you think things would be different if you were forced to conform?

these are the things that i wake up thinking...yeah...that's my brain for ya.

on another note:

HAPPY BIRTHDAY sausage_boy we still need to do coffee some time soon!

Comments

[eeyoredragon.livejournal.com]

oh yeah, most toddlers are ambidextrous. so really its not as common as you think to be either or. instead toddlers use whichever hand feels correct for whatever they are doing at the time. something to think on.

[sylvan.livejournal.com]

Hmmmm.... I've never really read anything about toddlers being more mixed-handedness/cross-dominent and then moving from there as they age to a single handedness. I'd be interested in where you learned that from.

The big problem is experts still don't even agree on the reasons behind handedness (though the popular theory does revolve around the whole left brain/right brain concept, but others suggest that left handers are such due to slight brain damage during birth).

[eeyoredragon.livejournal.com]

i got this from about 12 years life experience as a full time babysitter for numerous families. i honestly don't have any proof, beyond what i've seen. most kids will use whichever one feels right. most parents cannot help themselves and interfere with the process by trying to "teach" them the "right way" of doing things. you would have access to the scientific studies, but i don't know if its been explored. most toddlers will eventually settle into using one hand over the other for most things, thereby having a "dominate" hand. however i personally think people who aren't forced into one versus the other are better at doing things that require both hands to have dexterity. such as typing, or piano, etc.
but thats really a personal theory that may be full of holes.