[MR] Handedness

[Glynis Gwynedd]

I read something somewhere that a large number of identical twins have
one twin left handed, the other right handed. The hypothesis was that
most left handed people might be the result of vanishing twin syndrome
- where the mother is pregnant with twins but one doesn't make it and
is absorbed back into the body before the mother even knows she was
pregnant.


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On Sun, Oct 4, 2009 at 1:16 PM, Lady Rhiannon of Berra
<ladyrhi at gmail.com> wrote:
> I know from my mother that when she was in school back in the 30's children
> were forced to use their right hand to the point the left hand was strapped
> to their leg to keep them from using it.  In some classes corporal
> punishment was used to "retrain them", At least in old Italian households
> (such as my mother's) it was thought that left handedness was a sign of
> sneakiness or a foreshadowing that the kid would grow up to be "bad".
>
> I'm curious if lefthandedness occurs more in one sex than another or is it
> an equal thing.
>
> Rhi
>
>
>
> On Sun, Oct 4, 2009 at 11:30 AM, Jennifer Dobyns <jendobyns at verizon.net>wrote:
>
>> And it still goes on today.  We had running battles with my MIL over our
>> oldest son being left handed (as was may mother, and I should have been).
>>  She kept quoting all sorts of longevity and accident statistics.
>>
>> I cannot imagine what his handwriting would have looked like right handed,
>> it's dismal enough with his dominant hand *L*
>>
>> Genevieve D'Aubigne
>>
>> On Oct 4, 2009, at 8:26 AM, Janina Krakowska wrote:
>>
>>  My father, born in the US in 1919 in Nebraska, was naturally left handed.
>>> However, he was forced to use his right hand to write.  As an adult, he
>>> could sign his name the same with either hand.  So even in the US there
>>> are
>>> residuals of this bias.
>>>
>>> In Service
>>>
>>> Janina Krakowska
>>> Storvik
>>>
>>> On Sun, Oct 4, 2009 at 12:45 AM, <jbrmm266 at aol.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>> <SNIP>
>>>>
>>>> As late as the mid 20th century, Europeans were less accepting of
>>>> left-handedness than Americans.? This comes from reading an article about
>>>> left-handedness that mentioned several instances where Europeans were
>>>> surprised at how many American soldiers were left-handed.? Over there, I
>>>> conclude, children were taught to write with their right hands
>>>> willy-nilly,
>>>> and to use other tools and implements in like manner.
>>>>
>>>> Your servant aye
>>>> Donal
>>>>
>>>>
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