Lefthanded ???

[RobinN]

Hi Amy, sometimes these questions get lost in the polls.
What was your question to Brandi?
I reread the thread and can't figure it out, so I decided the best approach would be to ask you directly.

[Amy]

Thanks Robin, here is the original reference:

Originally Posted by forward2007 :

More than one of my neurologists has told me that 65% of lefties are left brained.

Brandi said: Wha-What?! I always thought that if your left side of your brain controls you right side of your body and the right side of your brain controls the left side of your body... strange...

---- And I meant to say that I have the same question in my mind too. I have been thinking that left side of the brain controls the right side of the body. if you can please explain the above statement of neurologist, that would be great!
Thanks again,
Amy

[Bee91]

Amy,
I'm sorry...I didn't see your post until today...
Right now, I can't remember what I was thinking. But I'll try and get back to you with the answer in a few minutes

[RobinN]

I think it just means that they tend to be dominated by their left brain.

http://www.funderstanding.com/right_left_brain.cfm
http://www.web-us.com/brain/braindominance.htm

FYI- if you ever want to quote someones post, or answer a person with their post... see the quote button on the right side of each post, you click that and it will open up a reply message window and the post will be quoted. You just add your answer, question, reply after the last quote marks. Just thought you might like to try that next time.

[Bee91]

I don't remember what I was talking about...I think I misunderstood their post. I thought they were saying that the left side of the the brain controls the left side of your body (your left side of your brain makes your left arm move for instance) which I thought was opposite...

But what I think the post meant was exactly what Robin said above ^^

[Shelley]

I attended a Private Catholic School at first.
When I was younger, I was going back and forth between hands, but my mom caught me when I had the crayon in my right hand and said that she was glad, cuz a proper school wouldn't accept me if I was a lefty.
Also, I always thought that the 'quarter test' proved merely that I am cross eyed. I didn't know it was true for everyone. Thanks.

[hawke86]

I'm both left and right handed.

[Loudmouth]

I write with my right hand,but i do EVERYTHING else 'left-handed' officially although i write with my right hand,in my toddler books it states that i am a lefty.yet i write with my right hand??My Daughter Is "Ambidextrous with a preference to her left,with cross-dominance problems",and my lefty son is as well. My daughter is learning to play a "righty" violin with her whole class at school,and is really struggling. She wants to take up the violin and have lessons,but does anyone know of a manufacturer of "lefty" violins????(she's VERY musical)Oddly,my middle son is a dead set righty,and excels in COMPLETELY different subjects at school to the rest of us...where we are all into art,music,drama,history,geography,cookery,CDT etc,he is into maths,science - especially biology and physics,electronics and computer studies.

[alivenwell]

Well, I'm a lefty and I majored in math and computer science like your son.

But, your daughter could be at an advantage with the violin. Fingering requires a great deal of strength and her dominant left hand will help her there. There are lefty guitars, but all the strings have to be reversed to be consistent with fingering.