left handed

Im right handed but DH and 1st DD are left handed, although, DH writes with left hand, he catches, throws eats, drinks and does everything else with his right hand!
i think 2nd DD will be left handed, already she seems stronger with her left hand

Im a lefty, all the males in DH family are leftys but it looks like Bay is right handed but also my mum was a right handed but she had to have it amputated therfore had to learn how to right and i copied her, im ambidextrous (shocking SP??!!!!) but prefer left.

Maya wrote: My brother is left handed, but he has cerebral palsy with right side hemiplaegia which accounts for that, although Mum reckons Dad was probably meant to be a left hander coz he does everything left handed except write and when he was a kid they were big on beating kids out of being left handed.

That's interesting. My brother with cerebral palsy is left handed too - maybe for the same reason (??).

My dad is left handed but like Emma's he was beaten at school for writing with his left so he learnt to use both. My parents had 4 biological kids and my older sis and I are right handed while my brother and younger sis are lefties.

Ohhh I did a mini study on this for a genetics paper YEARS ago and it went something along the lines of: 15% of the population is left handed and left handed-ism is a genetic trait that is usually only found in mirror twins which is why it can run in some families (as there are strong links that it is possibly the male sperm carry the DNA that splits eggs to make twins identical/mirror) and not in others.
There is SOME guff online that I have read about "too many US scans causing left handedness" but TBH it is only a 3% rise in the population that was scanned compared to the population that was not so I don't see that as significant enough rise to call it fact!

I think the bigger question is... do you lefties ever feel like you are missing something? Or someone?