#Twisted Hands

Handedness origin in humankind, it's clearly been around a long time. Cave paintings have shown the occasional lefty ancestor clutching a spear. The relative scarcity of left-handedness, has provoked cultural superstition and discrimination. 

«Handedness» is a vague term, and can mean many things to many people. Most people in our society define handedness as the hand you use for writing. Within the scientific community, the vagueness of this term has led to much debate. Researchers define handedness based on different theoretical assumptions. For instance, some define handedness as (a) the hand that performs faster or more precisely on manual tests, while others define it as (b) the hand that one prefers to use, regardless of performance. Some think that there are handedness as: (a) either left or right, or (b) should be three categories to include ambidexterity.

I find the whole concept of handedness fascinating, decided to unleash the theory, research, opinions and fictions, in order to better understand the reality of the phenomenon, and try to separate facts from fiction, research from opinion, and truth from myth.

In the whole process it made me an ambidextrous, where I can use both hands with ease for everything. The reason of sharing is not to flaunt it as a medal, but a learning which made me appreciate things in deeper level. Handedness has its roots in the brain—right-handed people have left-hemisphere-dominant and vice-versa for the left handed people. By bending the unbending was not easy but surely worthwhile. I will never be able to agree to all the myths which surround left & right handed people, making one superior to the other. Successful people are not measured by their left & right hand, but are made by their undying spirits. I agree on the opposite parts of our brain being used more to the other half due to preference of our hand. But the story ends there, if you reflect most of the time we are using both our hands. We are making both sides of our brain function but one gets little more chance than the other. Which can in no way decide your life span or your intelligence. In fact if you make fists of your hands you will realize one of them has more strength than the other which again shows you’re opposite to the hand brain side is stronger. This all again gets linked to being a right or a left handed person.

We are during the day using our complete brain where one is more & the other is less. I decided to make my entire brain more active being a right handed struggled to make left as superior as right. Realizing after my entire project my fists had equal strength. I see no reason for others not making there non active hand more active. The journey ask for endless patience, as writing with your left where you have always done with your right is not a cake walk. But I can guarantee you it’s not impossible.

I want all these research work, which are always trying to make one handed people sound superior to the other to be ignored as they are baseless.