Cross-Dominance FT...W?

     I just learned a new term recently. It’s funny how, even as a person who loves words, you can go through life assuming that there isn’t a word for something. I guess that makes sense, because languages are different and it’s actually pretty often that we don’t have a word for some super-specific thing. 
     But anyway, my newly learned term is “cross-dominant.”
     As a very small child, I switched hands during tasks, pretty arbitrarily. Just...whenever I wanted to. As I grew up a little and moved into school and stuff, though, it became consistent. I don’t know if I was forced to make a choice, as far as writing goes, or if I just chose on my own. I think I just chose at some point, because it seems like (especially with my memory) I’d remember being told to choose. Or maybe if I was told to, it wasn’t a forced kind of thing but more of a suggestion, and I wasn’t offended by the idea and just went with one.
     Anyway. 
     For writing, I’ve always used my left hand. For eating I remember switching whenever I felt like it up until maybe second grade. I also remember, in first grade, having to search out the “lefty” scissors at school (the ones with the red-dipped handles) because I was officially a “lefty” at school so that’s what I was supposed to do. I don’t know when I switched over to cutting right-handed, but I did. Today I can’t cut with my left hand to save my life, even with fancy lefty scissors. I also remember, even up into my teens, not being able to decide which way to hold a bat in softball. Or a golf club. I finally settled on right-handed in these instances too. I throw and catch right-handed. I’d say my right is my dominant foot. My right is supposedly my dominant eye. 
     So even though I tell people I’m left-handed, I really only eat and write with my left hand. Most everything else is done with my right hand/side. It seems like almost everything except painting. When it comes to painting of any type (art, walls, fingernails), I can switch to either hand depending on what’s most comfortable for whatever angle I need. Or just if one hand/arm gets tired. 
     Oh — makeup. I use both hands equally there, as well. I’ve seen plenty of people who apply both eyes’ eyeliner — and even mascara — with just their right hand. What a pain! You get totally different angles.
     Because of this weird mishmash, I’ve sometimes referred to myself as ambidextrous, or partially so. I’ve actually only known one other person with this same type of trait. It’s funny, because his is almost the exact opposite of mine. But while watching one of my crime shows just this year, I heard the term “cross-dominant,” and I was intrigued — so of course I went to my trusty friend Google. And I found that that’s what I am. That’s the official term for it! When I looked it up, I found a lot of stuff about how cross-dominant children often have learning disabilities, which I thought was odd. It’s true that my sample group is only two people, but I never had problems like that and neither did the other person I know.
     When you look it up, it makes it sound like cross-dominant people (or sometimes just lefties, too) are some kind of defective rejects, barely able to survive in the world. Our physical and mental health are lacking, and if we haven’t had any serious problems yet, just you wait. We’re just ticking timebombs.
This blog had this to say:
Some scientists believe that mixed-handed individuals are of poorer mental and physical health, with lower cognitive parameters and higher rates of dyslexia and attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). Mixed-handedness (a change in hand preference depending on the task) has been associated with greater atrophy of the hippocampus and amygdala, brain structures that are strongly associated with dementia and cognitive aging. Also, non-right handers (mixed or left-handed) are at higher risk of neurodevelopmental disorders, including autism, epilepsy, and schizophrenia.
     That’s just great, isn’t it. I take umbrage!
     I can say that I’ve known a couple stupid lefties. Yup, I’m saying it: STUPID. Like box-o’-rocks stupid. But I’ve known a lot of lefties, and the vast, vast majority are whip-smart. Like, smarter than the average person. 
     I have a feeling right-handers cause these things by being so bumblingly unaware of their own dominance in the world. It’s a challenge to live in a world that’s literally physically designed for people that are the opposite of you. It’s actually true. I’ve heard that more left-handers are seriously injured or die in accidents, and They attribute that to the world being made for right-handers. It’s easier to accidentally maim yourself when you can’t use a tool or machine in the way it was intended.
     Also, they talk all about brain differences, and how left- and mixed-handers are inferior, and they don’t seem to take into consideration the possibility that learning in general is geared toward right-handers. What we expect from toddlers and babies, what we see as “normal,” might just be seen that way because that’s how right-handed people are, and they’re the damn majority. But that doesn’t mean that if you’re different, because your brain fucking works differently, and you don’t learn things in the exact same way, that you’re OFF in some way. That there’s something Wrong.
     And I would just like to say that while I do have clinical depression (not mentioned as one of the “defects”), I have never had any of these other problems, including language acquisition or whatever. I’ve always been a word nerd. I’ve always loved writing and language and even grammar. I started talking early — and a LOT. I was in “enhanced” classes in school. And I don’t like outright stating my IQ, but in this case it’s relevant so I find it necessary to at least say that it’s well above average. Okay? So don’t start with me, SCIENTISTS!
     And these studies are fraught with inconsistent results: one study suggested this, but another found no correlation. Yeah, I think you guys need to go back to the drawing board. Maybe try using your left hands this time.