Okay so I've got ADD and I'm left-handed. Anyone else here the same? : D

I'm wondering what sort of effect being left-handed has in combination with ADD. As a lot of you probably know, being left-handed means that the right side of your brain is dominant, which is the 'non-rational' side.

http://www.wpdfd.com/issues/68/left_brain_right_brain/ << this website shows what each side of the brain handles.

The traits of the right side of the brain seem to be similar to traits shown in ADD (I could be wrong there). So what's everyone's thoughts on this? Do you think being left-handed might heighten the effects of ADD?

Sorry if a similar topic has already been done, I don't have the attention span to look back through all the previous topics : S

I'm an adhd righty. My suspected adhd husband is a righty. I don't recognize any adhd traits in my lefty mother other than obsessive list making (which everyone in my family does). My lefty daughter has many adhd traits though.

With my daughter being 4 and not dx'ed, my anecdote is probably worthless, but she is one nutty little chick. If she is adhd, it's with waaaaaay bigger emotional issues than mine! She also happens to be a genuine mirror writer, which isn't uncommon with young children or lefties, but she's shockingly accurate.

I'm a leftie - I've noticed that most of the left-handed people I know have a lot ADHD traits. I don't know if there have been any actual studies done but I wouldn't be suprised in Left-Handed people are more likely to have ADHD.

I am mostly lefty, but over the years, especially doing sports, I learned to work both way. I can play badminton with the left or the right hand without any handicap.

My adhd boy is righ-handed.

The idea is interesting, but I don't think the relation with adhd is easy to make.

I'm "right-brained". "Right-brained" seems to be most similar to ADHD, too; non-linear processing, emotional, visual/spatial, abstract, compared to left brained: linear, logical, auditory processing.

Of course "right-brained" and "left-brained" have very little neurological or psychological basis. They're pop psychology.

I'm left handed, dyslexic..
...I've discovered there are "strains" of ADHD.

I have 2 friends...
... that are right handed ADHD.

I think the difference is...we are very dreamy....MOSTLY thinking in pictures
things like ..... "what if this was a musical" or a mosaic?

.....and we drift into screen saver.....when you say "w2 form" and go artistic.

the right handed ADDers that I know are excellentwith math and buisness, but, staying on task is thier issue.

..........I can't even begin to comprehend some things....I won't be intrested enough
to learn.....and drift off.


we are contant dreamers and tail chaisers.

....they are just tail chaisers.

LOL! ..it's only a theory!

check this out..
....you'll think "no way" when I say this but TRY IT!

it'll freak you out!
...it did me!

SOMEONE had to TELL me I can write backwards right handed.

...I never thought about it.

but, it's like having a window you've never opened before.

it's a left handed "thing" everyone Ive ever told that was left handed could do.

....just write your name right handed and back ward.

you push the pen in the same way as you do left handed.

it matches your left handed signature in a mirror.

..Now, I can hold a pen in both hands and meet in the middle.

it took a little practice to do it similtaniously.

http://i20.photobucket.com/albums/b219/suzannex/art2/kk.jpg

no clue.

handedness has to do with 'brain laterality', iirc.

you don't know what hand you write with?

....GIVE IT UP QUEENSU! LOL!

I went to the dr too. *smiles*

I'm ambidextrous, but mostly lefty :-)

I'm almost sure that ambidextrous must = ADD :-)

*cough* whoops I thought this topic was about brain laterality.

I'm right-handed, but was ambidextrous as a child.

There's a bit of evidence of laterality associated with dexterity.


Testosterone (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Testosterone): Exposure to higher rates of testosterone before birth can lead to a left-handed child.<sup id="cite_ref-10" class="reference">[11] (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Left-handed#cite_note-10)</sup> This is the Geschwind theory, named after the neurologist who proposed it, Norman Geschwind (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norman_Geschwind). It suggests that variations in levels of testosterone during pregnancy shape the development of the fetal brain. Testosterone suppresses the growth of the left cerebral hemisphere (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cerebral_hemisphere) and so more neurons migrate to the right hemisphere. The highly developed right hemisphere is now better suited to function as the center of language and handedness. The fetus is more likely to become left-handed, since the right hemisphere controls the left half of the body. The theory goes on to tie the exposure to higher levels of testosterone and the resultant right-hemisphere dominance to auto-immune disorders, learning disorders, dyslexia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dyslexia), and stuttering (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stuttering), as well as increased spatial ability (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spatial_Visualization_Ability).

....just write your name right handed and back ward.

you push the pen in the same way as you do left handed.

it matches your left handed signature in a mirror.

..Now, I can hold a pen in both hands and meet in the middle.

it took a little practice to do it similtaniously.

http://i20.photobucket.com/albums/b219/suzannex/art2/kk.jpg

I am left handed and I start in the middle and the right hand goes to the right and writes normal, the left hand goes to the left and writes backward, all at the same time.

In highschool, I used to take notes lefthanded, but in mirror writing. I'd start on the right side of the page near the spiral and write to the left. You don't smear that way and you can see what you wrote as soon as you write it. Studying involved a mirror, but it felt right to write that way.

My mind is very reversible. I can spell entire sentences backwards much faster than I can spell the words forwards.

"e-l-b-i-s-r-e-v-e-r-y-r-e-v-s-i-d-n-i-m-y-m" - I can think and say that amazingly fast.

Saying "m-y-m-i-n-d-i-s-v-e-r-y-r-e-v-e-r-s-i-b-l-e" takes me far longer.

DH says I should go on the tonight show. I used to do it in front of people, but now I realize they think I'm nutso. I just do it for my kids once in awhile.

I think it actually has something to do with my ADD. When I was about 10 or 12, I was excessively bored in the car, so I started repeating phrases on billboards in my mind, spelling the words. That got boring, so I started spelling the phrases backwards. Somehow I got hooked on it and couldn't stop. I would do it to phrases people said, sentences during a movie, anything I saw written. I still do it if I'm not actively doing something else. 30 years of spelling stuff backwards all day whenever bored has made it second nature.

I also run numbers automatically. If someone says some numbers, I've immediately run them thru all the calculations, so when they then say, "hmmm, that works out to..." - I pop out the answer and they are amazed I did it so "fast". I also catch mistakes with numbers, so in movies, I already see where things are leading.

At work, you get loose candy free if you guess the cost after seeing the weight. I can multiply .078 * 1.59 in 3 seconds. My shortcut is rounding up, then subtracting. I usually get it free 3/4 times (have to guess on the last digit sometimes). I don't do it much b/c I felt bad taking their candy all the time.

When I was 14 and doing chores, I would make .25 per bag of raked leaves. I would calculate how many bags it would take to pay for a trip to Europe and how many weeks of raking. My head has to be busy flipping numbers or letters if I am doing something boring.

Wow, I'll have to try that writing backwards thing out! Your theory is interesting SuzzanneX

As a kid I used to write and colour with my left hand but when I was ready to start school my grandmother forced me to use my right hand instead, I've been a righty every since.

My cousin, also ADHD is also a lefty although they never made him switch...

my ADHD nephew is ambidextrous/favors left more! everyone else in the family is righty!!

I've never been diagnosed with ADHD... and it's never been suggested. But I'm a lefty, my adhd daughter is a righty. I write with both hands, but mainly my left. I decided as a kid to teach myself in case I ever broke my arm.

My mother started as a lefty but her teacher when she started school was superstitious and taught her to be right handed. Would actually smack Mom on the hand with a ruler if she tried writing left-handed.

My husband who's undiagnosed ADD.... was a lefty, but was also taught to be right-handed. Also because of the same superstitions....

Our twins.... who some say are mirror image, but I've always believed they're identical... are both right handed.

Our youngest.... is right handed as well.

So it's actually hard to really decide whether being left-handed and ADHD really in fact do go...hand in hand. (no pun intended)

When I was in college taking computer and engineering courses, I noticed a HIGH percentage of left handeders. We used to all race for the 2 left handed desks in each class.
It never made sense to me since right brain is supposed to be feeling. Left brain is logic and detail, which the class obviously was good at.