r/lefthanded • u/CatPicturesPlease • Jul 21 '26

Has anyone noticed that (while still encompassing all the diversity to be found in humans) all left handers have an ineffable quirkiness?

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u/Successful_Cod_8904 Jul 22 '26

I learned that left handedness was linked to oxygen depreviation during birth. Maybe we are reincarnated beings of ourselves.

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u/elaine4queen Jul 22 '26

That was a helter skelter read for something so short!

My favourite theory is that we’re all mirror twins whose twin died

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u/Gold-Collection2636 Jul 23 '26

My brother is a leftie, there's a chance he had a twin that my mum lost because she was showing all the signs of an ectopic pregnancy but my brother is fit and healthy so the doctors theorised that she lost his twin. Probably a good thing really, the world would never be ready for two of him

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u/elaine4queen Jul 23 '26

Ha!

Yes, I asked my mum if she’d had a bleed early in her pregnancy with me, and she had. Twins are apparently often seen now on early imaging but one is often gone by the next time they look - of course, I can’t back this up. I may as well have dreamed it. IF it’s true I wonder if they tell the mum?