my mom was left handed, and she told me stories that back when she was growing up the teachers used to scold her and and even hit her if they caught her writing left handed. back then they believed they could "train" people to be right handed, there must be something wrong with them if they were left handed.

There's actually been lots of research into left-handedness in neuropsychology, so yeah... It's not true to say that no one wants to figure out why it happens :joker:.

Basically I think it's fine to want to know (about lefties, about homosexuality, or whatever) so long as the motivation is purely curiosity and not some attempt to brand it as anything negative.

I haven't seen nearly as much public interest in left handed ness as i have homosexuality, TOY soldier.... I certainly haven't heard of anyone being killed for being left handed recently...

you missed the point by a mile. the point is, why does it matter? if we could make every one right handed why would we want to??

This thread isn't about making everyone straight though and questioning LGBT+ people, it's about understanding how our sexualities develop from early life and why. There's a lot of things that don't really matter, but it's an interesting talking point and something to discuss.

Dear, oh dear. Perhaps you don't have the capacity to write a logical response to what I said, hence you reverted to patronization. And why all you responded to the other person was to correct a spelling mistake.

There is no research to be done on how and when sexuality develops. There is no proved scientific evidence yet. So how can I be too limited?

The answer is, no one knows, and it doesn't matter. it really is that simple.

NO ONE KNOWS AND IT DOESN'T MATTER.

it's the exact same answer to the question are people born straight? but we don't have a long history of straight people tested and tortured and raped and killed in the pursuit of the answer to that question do we...

Short answer: personal issues don't belong in a scientific question. I get that there are all sorts of wounds and feelings mixed up in a question like this but they really have nothing to do with the question.

Why does rain fall? Why does the sun rise? And then why does the earth rotate?

Do the answers to any of those questions "matter"? Were the people who figured them out trying to stop those things from happening? Is there anything" wrong" with any of those things?

Of course not, but that doesn't mean that the answers aren't interesting. I promise you as someone with a psychology degree... Despite what most people seem to misconceive, 95% of the study of psychology has absolutely nothing to do with changing or "fixing" people. It's just about attempting to understand how and why people think, out of simple human curiosity.

So all lefties are gay?


Well i'm ambidextrous so i must be bi :eek:

I actually remember when i got my ear pierced when i was a teen and everyone told me to get my left one done cos if i did my right one i'd be gay.True story.Wonder if it's related,Are gays all right eared?Idk:laugh:

I don't think that's what they were saying. Albeit I have no ****ing clue what they're saying, but they're not saying that. :laugh:

No but, hypothetically, lefties and homosexuals might be very slightly braindamaged. D: THAT'S NOT JUDGEMENT it's just valid neuropsychological theory.

Except the research isn't restricted to sexuality. It's delving into everything about us as people and how our brains work.

I don't see why they shouldn't research it tbh.

That's why they're so much better at giving head? :omgno:

Left-handed people?

:clap1: Humans need to get over themselves and stop being so defensive.

Both. :omgno:

brb I'm off out to find myself a gay southpaw :smug:

Thank **** I'm a Right Wing Fascist then. :laugh:

Yeah I'm both left handed and gay which is probably one of the many reasons I'm so interested in psychology. Where do these differences come from? Is there a reason for them? I'm just a very curious person and find the idea of studying who we are and why we are this way fascinating.

no you're either born a fish or not a fish

:joker:

What about people who hold their pen like a knife?

Or the fact that I am definitely right-handed, and yet I hold my fork in my right hand and my knife in my left hand which is apparently "wrong". I can't eat the other way, I drop food everywhere :shrug:

I thought you grow out of that? :shrug:

You wouldn't believe.

I'm weird because I hold my pen vertical, everyone I know writes with their pen slanted.