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]

wow you think the weirdest things. my dad was a lefty. he was also trained to be a righty cuz the catholic church was very against left handers. because of this his handwriting always suffered. as to left versus right brain, i forget which does what. i know my dad was way more into English, and had a weird logic all his own. both things i inherited from him, plus my terrible handwriting. but i don't ever recall being left-handed, so its quite possible his being left handed had nothing to do with it.

[thespatula.livejournal.com]

I'm Right handed, but due to an arm injury with i was 13 where I had almost no movement in my right arm for about 6 months, I had to learn to be left handed. I am fairly ambidextious now. I default to right hand for writting, unless left is more convienent (example, at work, there used to be tow tally boards for things to either side of where I sat, and I'd use the left to write in the lefthanded one, because it was a pain to lean over). I tend to play sports left handed though, even before then, which people tried to stop me from and it really annoyed me.

[cheesybunny.livejournal.com]

I'm a lefty, and never had to change a thing. I'm sure I would have had problems if I did have to change, but I don't know what.

These days in schools (and good parents too) they are just supposed to encourage whatever hand they use the most. Better way to do it I think...

[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.

[sausage-boy.livejournal.com]

*huge internet hugs*
Thank you, sweetie! I was going to contact you last week while hitting our Starcrack's, but it was late and I didn't want to (potentially) wake you. When *do* you crash, by-the-by?