Why are the causes lefthandedness and right-brain dominance?

Question

I'm a lefty and just curious because I see that there aren't a lot of people who are.

Answer 1

I think it is genetically determined--but d/k for sure. I was left-handed as a child--but back then in the middle 1930's, all desks were right-handed and the few of us lefties HAD to switch!! It of course, messed up my speech--caused stuttering, couldn't read due to the embarrassment of being unable to control my right hand, esp in the looping, cursed CURSIVE!! The chant rang out, "Right is RIGHT and left is WRONG!" My whole system was in a kind of shock! I had myself rated as the next to the dumbest kid in my second year of 1st Grade!!! BUT THANK GOODESS, laterality is understood now and kids don't have to go through that anymore. But still, the world is basically set up for Right Handed people. I eventually adjusted to being right--my handwriting is terrible, and people tell me that I do some things left-handed. But by Middle School, I found "auto-genic" memorization that pulled me through tests with A's. Analyzing and Reasoning were not big in those days. "). I made it through college with a French and Spanish major as those languages made more sense! Then years later I had the opportunity to live in Japan and discovered Hiragana and Katakana, the native characters that are strictly phonetic! Not the Chinese ideograms. I learned to read children's fairy tales and then went on to Sampson's huge History of Japan in English. It seemed to "cure" my reading probs and have been reading ever since!!

Right-brained people are more analytical---Left-brained, more creative. Thank Goodness for both in this world--but I do believe it is a little tougher on Lefties.