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Are you left or right handed?
Left 38%  38%  [ 22 ]
Right 59%  59%  [ 34 ]
Ambidextrous (please use this if only you have true 100% equal ability in both sides) 3%  3%  [ 2 ]
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04 Jan 2008, 9:56 pm

leftys unite!...;) I've been told the average left-handed in the general population is about 10%. So we may be more of a large minority..;)



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04 Jan 2008, 10:46 pm

I am left handed, but severely lack creativity.



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04 Jan 2008, 11:32 pm

I can write ok with my left hand, and use my left hand for many things. outside of catching/throwing a ball, eating like an American(Americans tend to overuse the right, and Europeans don't), and writing, you might be hard pressed to tell if I was left handed or right handed.

What I would love to know is how many basically try to emulate their right, by bending their left wrist, and pulling, and how many do it the other way.



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05 Jan 2008, 8:42 am

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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?


Isnt the line about creativeness just NT crap.

I've seen a lot of creativeness in the WP forums; from poetry, to jokes, to drawings (of pigs), to people wanting to write books etc... There's also quite a bit of creativity centered around our special interests.

We're pretty creative - more so (IMHO) than the average NT. Just not always in the ways they expect.


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05 Jan 2008, 11:53 am

I am very right-handed.


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05 Jan 2008, 12:47 pm

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