Are More Left-Handed People Neurodivergent? - Yes

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New study shows that left-handedness is more common in neurodivergent people.

Everything that's a minority in the human population seems to be only more common in autistics.

I'm right-handed but here comes a story I never told here - when I was a mere baby, my mother noticed that when I was reaching for something, I was doing this predominantly with my left hand. She was afraid I was going to grow up to be left-handed. Some supersticious old lady she knew, advised her that when she was going to put on me my baptismal dress before baptizing me, she should start dressing me from putting my RIGHT hand into the sleeve as first - not the left one Aaaand - it seemingly helped, for I use now my right hand like any other NORMAL person My mom is obsessed with the concept of NORMALCY She's quite a narrow-minded person.

Btw, when it comes to my being baptized, I kept taking off the piece of the material covering me - my mom thought it's the sign I was going to grow up to be an atheist

I am left-handed and Autistic so there is some truth to these statistics!! !

Makes me wonder about famous creators like Shigeru Miyamoto and Stephen Hillenburg...

Yup ...definitely a Lefty .BUT after my late teens past. had a crash , much spinal cord damage on the left side.
It took about 3 months after finally got out of the hospital and then out of the second and third and last was a rehab for brain trauma and I could then get a chance to practice many months later , requesting my mom to help me to learn to write again ,After about a week or 2 later she got tired of re-teaching me to write .some 18 yrs after the first time.
Do now am right handed , but still left eyed according to tests. Left side reflexes quicker than right. Right hand does not have the detail for the 12 different styles of writing used to be able to write including Gothic Calligraphy. Lucky if the right hand can do 4 . Had a strong leaning towards creativity . Drawing and much more before lost use of the left hand.
But sad as it maybe, It is as it is , And now am a Righty.

I wonder how many lefties on WP were, as children, strongly encouraged or forced to become right-handed?

I'm the only left handed member of my family. ASD + schizophrenia/schizoaffective + very likely dyspraxia + likely dysgraphia + possible ADHD- inattentive

That aspie boy (if he didn't have ASD, I'm going to eat my own shoes) who was in one class with me in elementary school, was left-handed from what I remember. He also had dyslexia and (like myself) dyspraxia.