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interesting! all lefties? It's not supposed to be a heretitary (sp) trait is it?
they are unclear. some say it's a dominant/recessive trait, which makes sense to me (both my parents were righty, but i assume they both had the recessive gene). some say it's not positively inherited.
our story gets even a bit stranger. i golf/bat righty, throw lefty. the one son who resembles me bats/golfs righty, throws lefty. my DH throws and bowls righty, and golf/bats lefty. the other son who resembles him does it exactly the way he does. it's creepy.
Last edited by tahiti; 08-20-2008 at 10:32 AM..
Reason: had it mixed up
tahiti - Only 2% of women are left-handed, while in men, about 10% are. There are also studies that indicate there is a 2-4 point average increase in I.Q. due to being left-handed! The brain is cross-wired so we can say with certainty that:
Only left-handed people are in their right minds!
And, a life insurance actuarial will reveal that our life expectancy is on average, 8 years lower than a right handed person.
Clinton and Bush 41 were left handed. And our next president will be left handed as well. Unless a third party candidate is voted in, anyway.
they are unclear. some say it's a dominant/recessive trait, which makes sense to me (both my parents were righty, but i assume they both had the recessive gene). some say it's not positively inherited.
our story gets even a bit stranger. i golf/bat righty, throw lefty. the one son who resembles me bats/golfs righty, throws lefty. my DH throws and bowls lefty, and golf/bats right. the other son who resembles him does it exactly the way he does. it's creepy.
Ok, that's bizarre. I also bat/golf right handed, as well as eat right handed. Actually, I am comfortable eating lefty, and I can bat lefty if I want to, but am better at both left.
Everything else I am prohibitively lefty, except writing. I can write right handed at least as clearly as lefty, but too slowly to render it practical.
Same here Tahiti. Left-handed, but I am always on the losing Pictionary team. And I am always the cause for the defeat. I can't draw a stick figure.
I always thought we had an advantage though, when it came to tossing quarters into the basket on the GSP.
that is the ONLY advantage lefties have in this country. (just a little nugget of information for ya).
i can't draw either. it's truly pathetic. a 4 year old does better than I, and that's no lie.
did you have a hard time with cards when you were younger? my right handed family didn't realize I held cards differently until my dad came up from behind me one time (I was probably 10 or so) and said "what the hell are you doing?". He then fanned the cards out correctly for me so I could see the corner numbers. He had to do that for awhile as I was all thumbs! LOL Why cards don't by default have the numbers on all four corners is beyond me.
One lefty thing I don't do is curl my wrist when I write.
I also remember thinking I found nirvana when I sat in a "lefty" desk in college. I'd get to class early to snag that coveted seat, LOL.
they are unclear. some say it's a dominant/recessive trait, which makes sense to me (both my parents were righty, but i assume they both had the recessive gene). some say it's not positively inherited.
our story gets even a bit stranger. i golf/bat righty, throw lefty. the one son who resembles me bats/golfs righty, throws lefty. my DH throws and bowls righty, and golf/bats lefty. the other son who resembles him does it exactly the way he does. it's creepy.
That is creepy..perhaps your kids are your twins from previous lives
Ok, that's bizarre. I also bat/golf right handed, as well as eat right handed. Actually, I am comfortable eating lefty, and I can bat lefty if I want to, but am better at both left.
Everything else I am prohibitively lefty, except writing. I can write right handed at least as clearly as lefty, but too slowly to render it practical.
as far as what my husband and one son do, i had it mixed up - they throw righty and bat lefty, i had it mixed up.
i can eat or write with my right if i had to. but like you with writing, i have to go slower.
lefties have more ability with their right hands than righties do with their left, just because of our right-dominated society.
tahiti - Only 2% of women are left-handed, while in men, about 10% are. There are also studies that indicate there is a 2-4 point average increase in I.Q. due to being left-handed! The brain is cross-wired so we can say with certainty that:
Only left-handed people are in their right minds!
that's what I meant to say! LOL
i thought i knew everything about being left handed, but I didn't know that only 2% of women are lefty! but if the general population is 10% lefthanded, and men are 10%, should women be 10 or 11%?
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