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My parents are right handed. I'm left handed. Had a pretty hard time in communist Poland too. It started with a kind of wrong diagnosis where the doctor told my

by aluhut 11y ago

My parents are right handed. I'm left handed. Had a pretty hard time in communist Poland too. It started with a kind of wrong diagnosis where the doctor told my parents that I'm both and that they could choose which side I'd use. So my grandparents lobbied for right. I started out left but it was hard with a fountain pen and since I had nobody to help me out with that my parents finally broke and told me to learn writing right. My writing is still horrible. Sometimes even I can't read it. I became used to getting worse grades just for that. Same goes for art class. I was the only person in class to cut himself with paper scissors... Thanks to the motivation of my gf and colleges, I've started learning to write with my left hand but it's not easy. It's like starting over again. My gf bought me scissors for lefties. What a beautiful feeling to cut paper with the "right" hand!

Someone1234 11y ago
You are the 9% (if both parents are righties, then there is a 9% chance of a left handed baby). What's interesting about left handedness is that even if both parents are lefties, the kid's chance is only 26%. Which is strangely low for something where there is some generic link. If one parent is a lefty the chance drops to 19%, and if no parent is a lefty then it is 9%. The average over society is 10% of the population. I almost don't wonder if generics isn't the primary reason that people are left handed, but generics can make you more likely to be a lefty (for whatever reason). That would somewhat explain the statistics.
- MacAsm 11y ago
  my parent are right-handed too but my grandma is leftie. But it seems almost everybody else didn't have any leftie in the family that they're he's aware of. I find this odd, mostly because they says it's genetics so a lot of people cary left handed genes but it's hardly "primary"/"used" (I don't know the right word).
- erichmond 11y ago
  Both me and my sister are lefties, but our parents are both righties, which seems improbable but it's interesting nonetheless.
- aluhut 11y ago
  I wonder if one of my grandparents was "secretly" left handed.

by aluhut 11y ago

Someone1234 11y ago

You are the 9% (if both parents are righties, then there is a 9% chance of a left handed baby). What's interesting about left handedness is that even if both parents are lefties, the kid's chance is only 26%. Which is strangely low for something where there is some generic link. If one parent is a lefty the chance drops to 19%, and if no parent is a lefty then it is 9%. The average over society is 10% of the population. I almost don't wonder if generics isn't the primary reason that people are left handed, but generics can make you more likely to be a lefty (for whatever reason). That would somewhat explain the statistics.

MacAsm 11y ago
my parent are right-handed too but my grandma is leftie. But it seems almost everybody else didn't have any leftie in the family that they're he's aware of. I find this odd, mostly because they says it's genetics so a lot of people cary left handed genes but it's hardly "primary"/"used" (I don't know the right word).
erichmond 11y ago
Both me and my sister are lefties, but our parents are both righties, which seems improbable but it's interesting nonetheless.
aluhut 11y ago
I wonder if one of my grandparents was "secretly" left handed.