On the subject of weird health issues....

[conuly]

I haven't had a case of hives in ages - I think the last one came after I carried a cold bottle of soda home a year ago, but I think I haven't had any others since then. I don't know why hiveyness comes and goes, but I'm sure not complaining. (I mean, my best hypothesis is "stress", but if that's so then this week I should be itching up a storm and I'm definitely not. One of these years I'll take the time to have a professional medical person figure it out.)

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Comments

[marahmarie]

I didn't know about the left-handed/transgender association! As a lefty this interests me. Maybe we're just not as moored to traditional gender roles and feelings to begin with (I never was, and to this day resent being forced into any sort of overly-feminine role or expectation as to how I should look, think, talk, act, feel, etc.).

[conuly]

Yeah, it's such a weird correlation, too. Small but quite real. I like it because every time I encounter a dipshit going on and on about how there's no "gene" for being gay or trans* I can point out that there's no known cause for lefthandedness either but that's definitely innate.

* To my knowledge there is no correlation between being gay/bisexual and being lefthanded.

[marahmarie]

Bottle feeding's correlated with left-handedness (with all the usual addenda that correlation doesn't equal causation yada yada yada): https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2019/01/190107142231.htm