Re: CHAT: Composition of conlanger population

Yep... it is true that there's a strong tendency for the various areas
in the brains of left handed people to be in different places to those
of other left handed people and of right handed people. We tend to have
non standard brains. ;) I believe the thing I read also claimed that
left handed people were more likely to suffer from schizophrenia than
right handers, but I'm not sure.
 For the record, in case someone wants to do another survey, I'm male,
left handed, bi, and... well, as far as mental illness is concerned, the
university councellors told me at one point that I suffered from an
anxiety disorder and depression, but so far no schizophrenia. ;)

>Physiologically, most right-handed brains are cut from the same cloth,
>as it were, with the major functional areas laid out fairly predictably.
>Left-handers, on the other hand, have brain maps which differ not only
>from right handers, but from each other.  Apparently, if you have a
>"normal" brain, you're right-handed; if you're left-handed, that's a
>sign that your brain is not "normal", and at that point all bets are
>off.
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