Right or Left?

Supposedly people are either right or left brained. If you use your right hand for everything, you're left brained. Lefties use their right side. Apparently, this holds true in the way we think and comprehend things also. But you don't necessarily have to be right handed to be left brained. Confused yet? Wait, it only gets worse. I guess there are tell tale signs as to which lobe you happen to favor. I guess autistic people happen to be right brained, but you don't have to be autistic to be right brained. My wife thinks she's autistic minus the savant. If you look at her handwriting, especially her signature, you would surmise she is three years old. On the other side of the coin, she is incredibly well read and has a grasp of vocabulary that warrants envy from crossword puzzlers around the globe. Now I'm a different story. I'm a bit confused. I'm predominantly left brained with some right brain tendencies. I've been told, when I was a little guy, I would use my left hand. My mother and grandmother 'corrected' that at an early age, and made me use my right hand. Today I am right handed with a few quirks. I kick a football left footed, and quite impressively I might add. When fishing, if using a bait cast reel, I cast right handed, if using an open face reel, left handed. I throw right handed only, but while at bat, I can switch hit. I'm more accurate right, but just as powerful left. When it comes to comprehending things, I don't know. I wonder if a person's political views have to do with which hemisphere they use? There are left wingers and right wingers. Sometimes, it appears that they don't use either side of their brain, when you hear some of their political ideals. I wonder if you can retrain your brain after so many years of doing things predominantly with one hand? Say, every ten years, start to write my name and throw a ball left handed. Sure, I'm going to look like a girl for awhile, but it can only get better, right? On second thought, life's difficult enough. Why would I choose to be autistic? That would be retarded.