Are You Left-handed and an Aspie?

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I don't understand the point on this poll. Most all the voters will vote left-handed & Aspie sense this is an Aspie forum.

I'm highly ambidextrous. I was forced to write with my right hand in school and I still do many things with my right hand but there are many other things that I can only do with my left hand. Sometimes I don't really know which hand to use so there's definitely something messed up in my head. I usually see things mirrored in my head... meh.
Good thing is, if one hand gets tired (while writing or doing something on the computer) I can simply use my other hand and continue. Guess I'm more efficient then. hah.

I've read somewhere that being forced to use the wrong hemisphere of your brain from early childhood on can cause some symptoms that are similar to those for AS (no true identity, introverted, ADHS) but I don't know to what extend and if there are real connections or just comorbidities.

Its hard to prove something especially if we are not known experts or scientists...BUT as for me, I believe it's NOT anymore a coincidence that most, if not all, of the left-handed people I know shared the same situations as a child...IT's not that I investigated them...I can just recall their story...some were my childhood friends...so I've seen how they grew up...my brother as well...I can see his being exclusive..he is even fine being at somewhere else not with his wife (he's been like that since she was just his girlfriend..my brother just see her one a week or a month)..my left-handed office mate who shared their childhood especially on their hand writing skills...And now even as an adult..that one sided conversation thing...oh yes...

BUT when most, if not all, of them have aspie-like behavior and they are also left-handed like my son....even without scientific research..it would make me think THIS IS NO COINCIDENCE.

or this is just my Aspie side surfacing...

I'm also a left handed Aspie. I'm also proud of both of those things and I hope that there's never a cure for either of them. I also wish the best for you and your son.

You know this poll suffers from a huge selection bias do to were it's asked and what questions it asks, and for all purposes is useless?

I'm a left-handed aspie. There are also other lefties in my family that aren't aspies but I guess it runs in the family.

I'm ambidextrous and Aspie. I'm also left foot dominant and left eye dominant. My parents encouraged me to write with my right hand as a small child so that's how I started off, but somewhere along the way (1st or 2nd grade) I realized that I could write just as well with my left hand.

By the way, I'm a left handed aspie.

I really want a global census that asks everything so we can get some accurate results.

Another aspie caurie-fistit person here.

http://sco.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caurie-fistit

I don't think there can be a connection between left-handedness and a psych syndrome. I'm autistic and I don't consider it a psych syndrome. It's a neurological dysfunction or difference. Psych syndrome suggests mental illness and these are vastly different issues.

The option of right handed aspies is seriously lacking.

Btw, I was born left handed, but my mother always told me to use the right one, and went to the extreme of grabbing my left hand whenever I wanted to use it for anything, so I ended up being right-handed. Right now I'm practicing writing and eating with the left one though, becoming ambidextrous could be useful.