so i just want to talk a little bit about something that i find very interesting and that is handedness and there's i think there's a lot to it and i think there's a lot more to it than people uh talk about or realize most people i think it's one in nine people in the world are right-handed and that seems to be the common thing i mean we live in a right-handed world where most things are set up and expected to be right-handed people because most people are right-handed and then you have the left-handed folk basically
the same as the right-handed folk except that whatever is working off their left brain has been switched to their right brain therefore affecting the opposite hand as the dominant and i don't know it's kind of curious that we have a dominant at all um often people you know most people would be right-handed but they might do a few things left-handed or vice versa but by and large it's very much one or the other a couple other things is when i tell people i'm neither right nor left-handed they might assume that i am uh ambidextrous and
that's not quite the case i mean it is from a certain point of view but ambidexterity would be defined as the equal distribution and use of the two hands but there's also one more and that's mixed handedness or a more modern term for it would be cross dominant cross dominance and that's exactly what i am and it's taken me a lifetime to figure out the nuts and bolts of what it means to be like that the difference between mixed-handedness and cross-dominance and ambi dexterity is i think like this you imagine an ambidextrous person as uh
identical twins within a person you have each side of you is identical a mirror image they look the same they act the same they can do the same things so kind of like a double of the same personality cross dominance on the other hand would be more like fraternal twins and that's what i deal with you have two different separate distinct personalities and each one of them do a different role in your life and you might be able to switch back and forth depending on the situation for instance when i go bowling i usually start
with the left hand but if i go if i'm doing terrible i'll just take a chance on the right and see what happens so uh yeah it's a little weird and i haven't found too much information online i've searched all over for a couple years to find out more about what cross dominance is and there's not a lot of information out there and one phenomenon i wanted to share that's really strange to me that happens to me and i've never spoken with anyone else or found anyone on the internet that goes through this but i'll
do a thing where i i call it a misfire i'll literally go to put on my belt or open a coffee can or any any basic mundane action and i look down and i realize i'm doing it the opposite hand that i would have the day before you know usually i would think that most people are predominantly one hand or the other they're gonna just do it that way automatically why on earth am i misfiring and all of a sudden doing something one way that i would normally do the other if i sit down and
have a meal there's no rhyme or reason whether i pick up the left or the right it just happens to be that way it's very strange and what i've learned is that with people with cross dominance it's because both sides of the brain are active it's almost like they're in conflict and the corpus callosum which is the the big part of your brain that blends it all together is actually a lot larger and one of the setbacks of being a cross-dominant person is the fact that you double process it has to go back and forth
and check with both sides and they have to come to consensus it's almost like a delayed reaction with a dual processor in your head so that's problematic and it says that that would lead to certain types of mental problems or learning disabilities or emotional problems especially at early age and with me nothing like that was identified nobody understood why i was having learning difficulties or why i had emotional problems as a youth or a young kid and for many years i just assumed it was a bipolar disorder for a long time undiagnosed but i definitely
saw the pattern of bipolar 2 in my life and that was kind of governed by high highs and low lows being like a fanatic about one position only to reverse the position later and it just seems like really unsteady and inconsistent and i suppose it is admittedly but once i found out what cross dominance was i realized that maybe that's what's going on instead because uh some of the setbacks being emotional problems and confusion and over processing and social problems even sometimes feeling like a huge egomaniac like on a stage performing and other times too
scared to even go out in public and feeling like a hermit uh huge waves of both of those contradictory things at once but one of the benefits of the having cross dominance is well you besides that you have two different ways to do things um for me anyway the right hand is more precise it's what i write with my right hand um you know body functions and stuff or right handed like finesse care kind of you know nurturing energy but then the left hand for me is extremely powerful it says with people that are cross
dominant will even have different sizes or different looks to each side of their body and i know for me that's true if i if i do one of these and i flex i mean not not really much there but one side is definitely a lot bigger than the other my arms and even even going down the side of my torso it's way more powerful and even my dad confirmed this when i asked him you know i told him about this thing about me and he said that yeah when you were a kid when a little
boy i'd give you a baseball and with your right hand you would hit the mark every single time but with your left hand you were twice as powerful and that's totally the case so for me having this and seeing the benefits or the problems with it other benefits just being that you you have both sides of your brain you have a both a pragmatic and a creative side you're both well structured and you're you're full of creative chaos which that's that's me a lot of times um so yeah i excelled at things like swimming and
playing drums i think the drums was really soothing because i have four limbs and sometimes even singing so five different things going on and it delegates and it uses all that processing power so but maybe one of the other downfalls of this kind of thing is that if you can't come to a consensus between your two poles let's say then you might not do anything at all so inside you might have a great urge to do something and then a great worry that it's not going to work or it's not right and therefore nothing gets
done so anyway i'm hoping uh that you know that that gives you a little bit of insight into the psychology of somebody that has both sides of their brain working at once and i suppose at worse you know this can definitely be thought of as bipolar disorder too it can be seen in that light it has a lot of the same things but i would say that somebody who's bipolar may not necessarily have the handedness issue i'm taking it from it starts from the fact that there's two conflicting uh personalities basically within one with both
sides of the brain activated so that would be cross dominance with someone maybe is bipolar they have that but it doesn't extend into their physical handedness so i'm hoping if anybody sees this and they know anything about this or their own experiences to share i'd love to hear it because i know a few people that have um in both hands but um it's not something i've seen really talked about so anyway enjoy have a good day
