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If left handed people are smarter, will using your left hand more than your right hand trigger something in your brain to allow you to be more intelligent?

all along i have been using the wrong hand

I am right handed, and it's me constantly explaining political systems, and constitutional law to the ignorant Englishman (I'm kidding Allix!) just above.
I don't mind doing that, if I can broaden this individual's knowledge by sharing mine, that's a great thing to me, but gee, give a Wikipedia addict some credit, geez!

I'm usually right handed, but I've sort of taught myself to use the left hand for some other tasks (oh behave, you sickos ). I remember reading an article about a particular musician who used the computer mouse on the left hand (this was years ago and the computer was a Mac). Since then, I thought it would be interesting to give it a run. Besides, the only way I could set up everything on this particular L desk in my room was with the synth on the right side, the Mac in the center, and the mouse set up to the left of me. Hence, I taught myself to use the mouse left-handed. I kept at it and I actually got good at gaming that way when I was running a Windows PC at the time. Eventually, it felt weird playing FPS games with the mouse on the right side. Now, I have the mouse for the iMac G5 on the left side and the mouse for the Slack PC on the right. This way, it allows me to multi-mouse easily. I'd use a KVM, but probably just for the keyboard. I've grown accustomed to the two mice.

I also use my fork with either hand, although as a kid I always used the knife on my left hand and the fork on the right (something I was made aware of as a child was "wrong", but I never understood that). I still can't write that great with my left hand, though.

Claudio wrote: I also use my fork with either hand, although as a kid I always used the knife on my left hand and the fork on the right (something I was made aware of as a child was "wrong", but I never understood that). I still can't write that great with my left hand, though.

Funny enough , I use my knife and fork the other way too .

I had read somewhere that left handed people had a shorter life span on average of 10 years than right handed people.

Lots of variables decide how long ones is going last .
Having a stressful job , drinking hard liqueur more than once a week, smoking, have red meat more than twice a week, having cake , not doing much exercise , depression , not eating enough and having lots of caffeine are just some of the things that can shorten ones life.