Left handedness

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Interesting. I can use a mouse left- or right-handed with little difficulty.

I write, draw, and use my phone left handed, but I'm right handed at everything else.

Since I am left handed, I think it's okay to say this :

I have always kind of believed that left handedness is simply a natural compensation for some kind of damage or defect in whatever part of the brain (somewhere in the left hemisphere, right?) controls the normal (right) dominant hand.

I've heard this from literally everybody in my family as I do so too, did this as a little kid and still do it nowadays, they learned to stop to complain.
I'm not 100% right handed for sure because I tend to do quite some things that apply for gross motor skills with my left hand, while fine motor skills are being executed with my right hand.

Verdandi, I don't have any difficulty to just swap my mouse-hand, I often used to do so in school when I was bored in informatics class before there was this internet lock. I just used my right hand to lean my head on it and used my left hand for browsing a page and typing (most had to share a computer with a classmate, I sat on the right, my classmate on the left and he often claimed keyboard and mouse but when we were done earlier, I just moved both a little closer and started browsing while he was busy talking to someone).

I intend to train myself to be able to use both on an equal level with my fine motor skills yet, you might never know when this could be handy. I never managed to have a fracture (and I'm happy about that) but in case I should have one in my right arm, I still want to be able to write normally and to draw, I couldn't imagine to take a break from drawing in such a case.

I was born nine weeks premature and completely deaf in my left ear. My left eye was closed until out of my teens, and the bone in my left nostril was never fully formed and restricts my breathing.
I’m also left handed...

When i write i am right handed, however most other activities i use my left hand. (Smoking cigs, eating,) I can target shoot with either hand.
My grandfather was ambidextrous so i always thought it was genetics =)

Obama is left handed ( just a random fact).

Both my parents are left handed.
But both my sister and I are right handed.

Im the only person in my extended family who has been officially dx'd with aspergers.

Dont know want ANY of the above means- except that its hard to derive any meaning from "handedness". If it were genetic why did I and my sister inherit it. If left handedness were associated with autism spectrumness than I shoudl have it but I dont.

Kitty cats are mostly "left handed" ( theyre mostly one or other- I believe it was "left"). Cats dont write, but scientists have tested which paw they attack with first and there is a preference.

I'm right handed. Suprinsly I'm better at mathematical/spatial tasks that verbal tasks. (Maybe...) (Not to counfound mathematics with arithmetic.)

I'm lefthanded and do everything with my left hand.

I also heard that especially with ppl with classical autism there is a higher number of lefthandet ppl.

When I was little, in school, they made me use my right hand.
I often do things with either hand now that no one tells me to use just one.

My right hand writes better than my left, only because it has more practice.
I like to test myself to see how well I can do things with both hands.
Many tools are right hand only, so I use my right hand more.

I presented with left-handneses, and it was a problem. It turned out that I was left-eyed and had 20-10 vision. But by then I was too tall, and sat too tall. But it really made my older relatives when I did ANYTHING with my left hand.

DS is left-handed (aspie) as am I (NT)

I am glad to say that although I'm a contemporary of Old HFA (same age) I was never forced at my school to use the right hand to write.

I have a big problem with the tendency to force everyone into a certain way of doing things. A person should not have to satisfy the majority! I am glad they seem to have abandoned the idea that everyone must be right handed.

In my family it's the same, besides me there are many left-handed ppl.
My brother is both handed and both of my cousins are lefthanded.

I'm a right-handed aspie.