Understanding what it means to be left-handed ...
12/01/2022
Understanding what it means to be left-handed ...
Although in practice, the laterality of a child is fixed around three years of age; the truth is that we are born right-handed or we are born left-handed; dominance is determined by the brain. While for right-handers it is the left hemisphere that takes control and directs the body's movements, for left-handers it is the right hemisphere that is responsible for making the left side dominant. For this reason it is important to emphasize that being left-handed or right-handed is not a choice; we are born determined to be one thing or another… it just took us about three years to discover it. Being a condition that is determined by the brain, being left-handed not only has to do with the predilection of the left hand over the right, but also the leg, the eye, the ear ... That is, the entire left side has dominance over the right.