Aspies/autistics less common left-handed?

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Well, left-handedness is associated with creativity.

We as aspies/autistics are seen as more analytical than creative.

Therefore, I wonder if left-handedness is rarer in aspies/autistics than neurotypicals?

I was left handed and then a boarding school nun beat it out of me. Now, the only thing I do with my right hand really is write. Everything else is left handed. I start left sided too.

I'm left-handed; my mother is too, but she's "normal".

50/50 here.

am wonder if a hate of left handedness was actually common?
When am was first writing,it was with the left hand to,but they physically forced to use right hand,whats' the problem [or should say,what was the problem] with using left hand?

Voted ambidextrous.

Tho I had to write with my left hand breifly in collage when I broke my wrist, I am right handed.

I'm left-handed, and I'm more on the creative side, as well.

I am left-handed....my AS-ish mom is left-handed....my paternal grandfather(who had certain AS traits) had the left-handedness beaten out of him.

There are a few things I can do with both hands. Hand sewing is one of them...eating with a fork...I have switched interchangably....throwing darts, batting and bowling I can do both ways also.

I play right-handed guitar/ukulele....

my mom is kinda ambidextrious too....but I voted lefty.

Left-handedness is said to be more common in some disorders including the autistic spectrum according to some studies with non-neurotypical persons.

I'm left-handed, but was trained to use me right hand, because I did all things with both hands when I was little and couldn't decide, as I felt no difference at all.
I can do some things better with right, but had to train my left hand in writing for example, because writing is much better done with my left hand.

i r a southpaw!

So far the ratio seems higher than what supposedly exists in the general population.

Left-handers are also probably more likely to respond to polls about handedness.

I'm left-handed.

I also don't think that left-handed necessarily means creative. Nor does autistic mean uncreative, nor does analytical mean uncreative for that matter.

I do think being left-handed is correlated with creativity but I don't think being autistic prevents that.
My husband is left-handed (aspie, very creative, visual thinker)
My (autistic) son and I are both right-handed. It seemed that my son was going to be ambidextrous for a long time. But by 4, he settled on the right-hand. Since my husband are both different and displayed both equally, I can say that he wasn't forced to conform.

For people wondering about the historical hatred of left-handedness, it used to be correlated with "evil" and the devil. Besides the obvious lack of left-handed equipment (scissors) available, kids used to be forced, physically and emotionally, to abandon left-handedness. My grandma, raised a strict Catholic (and still is), recalls being forced to use her right hand. At some point switched back as an adult and is fully left-handed. She's artistic too.

I wonder if there is a difference between left-handed and right-handed aspies.

one possible alternative for aspergers for what fits me (outside of my interests and other small things) is NLVD.... though that's supposed to be rare in left-handers.

What's wrong with being left-handed? Talk about intolerance. If some people can't tolerate left-handedness, then imagine how hard it would be to get them to tolerate someone with AS.

I was never forced to be right handed, but I was abused by my first grade teacher, and my left-handedness might have been one of the reasons.
She got really mad at me for not telling left from right....stuff like that.