Lefty or Righty?

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I'm a little curious if there are more people with autism who are also left-handed than non-autistic [proportionally, of course], or if the proportion is pretty much the same. [Example: if 50% of 100 people say they're left-handed, I get to be suspicious. And meet a lot of lefties. If 20% of 100 say they're left-handed, I don't. Sad life.]

I say this...because I feel like a lot of my autistic friends and relatives are left-handed. Even though my non-autistic relatives are all right-handed.

It could just be because we're Jewish. [\Non Sequitor]

Ha! I'm Jewish and mixed-handed.

Pretty much ambidextrous. It helps to write Hebrew with my left hand though, since it goes the opposite direction.

I write with my right hand like a lefty writes, and I can do everything else equally with both hands. When I ride my horse, I have been told the left side of my body is stronger.

Weird.

I'm a righty
I liked the no hands choice

I know someone who was born without arms. She types with her toes.

Last edited by jetbuilder on 08 Jun 2012, 10:17 pm, edited 1 time in total.

Lefty.

Being left-handed and Jewish is very convenient. It would also be convenient to be Asian and left-handed, except apparently some Asian grandparents don't like lefties. [Like my friend's grandmother who kept calling me a 'wrong-handed freak' in Korean. D:]

I can actually write and draw pretty well with my right hand. Compared to my left hand it's crap, but compared to what most people can do it works pretty well!

That's one way to do it.

I think that if I hadn't been forced to write with my right hand in elementary school, that I wouldn't have some issues with which hand to use.

When will they ever understand that changing the natural course of stuff like that is idiotic? We're not in the Middle Ages guys - it's ok if you're not right-handed, you don't have an immoral nature or anything like that.


Rant over.

Oooooh gosh, in kindergarten my teacher thought I was trying to imitate Chuckie from the Rugrats. She got really mad at me for using my left hand, but then she realized that I actually was left-handed. =P

Leftie...
I always liked being left-handed

Lefty high five!

Righty, though I've been told I'm kind of ambidextrous.

I am a lefty. My father was as well (I don't know for sure but I suspect he too was an Aspie)

i'm more cross-dominant then anything else.
most activities have a preferred hand, but whether that's left or right depends on the acivity, and for many things i can just freely switch.

for example, i write with my right hand, cut food during cooking with right, but while eating, i cut with left, so i can hold my fork right-handed.
drinking, i do ambidexterous, i throw with left, catch with right and deflect with whatever hand is more convinient...

I'm a lefty and HFA!
I like being lefthandet.

I heard (I don't know if it's really true) that low and highfunctioning autistics are a lot more often lefthandet BUT in aspies it's around the same than in the normal pobulation. So that just the LFAs and HFAs who are alot more lefthandet and not the aspies.

I am a lefty, but I do some things with my right hand, like using a computer mouse.

I've heard that that's actually pretty common; the computer mouses are made more for right-handed people and aren't so hard to use. I think it's a tapping with your index or middle finger preference. Some people don't mind.


Incidentally, I'm surprised at how many people so far are ambidextrous.

And have no hands.