DH wants us to go Left Handed. HELP.

[PetulaClarkMementoMori]

Not sure if this is the correct thread, but here goes....

My DH and I have been together for over 30 years and, as we're getting on we've both become more aware of and conscious to avoid what I suppose is called Cognitive decline.

I enjoy crosswords and reading, so I think I'm at least using my brain daily. DH has never bothered much with what he ( Mostly jokingly ) calls 'Book-Learning'. Anyway, all of a sudden he's become an 'expert'. He told me he'd read an article ( Although I suspect he means he's seen a two- minute video on Tok Tok ) which claims using your left hand for tasks that you would normally use your right hand for can stave off cognitive decline and now he thinks this is a miracle cure-all.
And, of course, he's become obsessed, everything has to be done left-handed, and if he see's me using my right hand, he booms 'Left!'. I can be chopping vegetables or opening a jar of coffee and I'll suddenly hear 'Left!' in my earhole. I've told him it's annoying, but he's as stubborn as a goat that's been struck by lightning.
Yesterday he spent over two hours repairing the lawnmower left-handed and somehow thinks it's turned him into bloody Einstein in a cloth cap.
I've tried suggesting some 'alternatives', as I read that learning a new language is effective. I've always fancied trying Portuguese, or even Hausa or Finnish. But I suspect trying to entice him with any of this will be met with the equivalent of 'Foreign Muck', and it will be the Moussaka situation all over again.
Honestly, I could scream. I know men get fixated, especially as they get older but this is honestly too much. I'm no Carol Vorderman so can someone explain whether there's any truth in his claims of Neural-plasticity in the brain?
I really need to get some answers because if I keep hearing 'Left!' I may well go hard right! In fact, the other day whilst driving he started rabbitting Left! Left! and it was only when I realised that he was pointing to the entrance to the Garden Centre, that I heeded what he was saying.
So, is there any truth to it? And is anyone else's aging husband going as mad as an Aardwark at an all you can eat Ant-Buffet?
I better go, I can hear him rumaging in the airing cupboard and if he see's me typing with two hands it'll be all she wrote. Literally!

I don't believe any of this

why not provided they are within the rules of the website?

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Me too!

Very funny.

Nah, you're right. I just can't stand rude people who operate under the guise of 'just my opinion' or 'I'm just honest'. But that's completely my issue and I should just leave them them to write every brainfart they have 🤣

I’d give my left arm to be ambidextrous

Blimey - he sounds insufferable and an ADHDER! I'd tell him to pipe down and get on with his own journey as he wishes and if he carries on I'd give him a lift hook !

I laughed out loud all the way through your OP Petula 🤣, thankyou. (Your husband sounds lovely!)

you know the one I hate? "oh I'd do/say xxx but that's just me"

Next time he shouts "left", flip him the finger... with your left hand, of course.

My father is left handed and has Alzheimer’s. Using the other side of your brain doesn’t guarantee anything.
obsessive behaviour and stubbornness could be signs of a neurological issue. I’d suggest your husband speaks to his GP.

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The point would be that left handed people should use their right hands , sorry about your father it’s an awful disease .

When I was at school in the 60’s, we were a group of 5 friends and I was the only right handed one in the group.
When my mum was at school, kids were not allowed to use their left hand to write with. Some schools even caned kids who dared to continue to write with their left hand. Thank goodness times have changed.

An ADHDER?
oh my god. Did you really write that?

I was ambidextrous and wrote with both hands school, my primary school teachers made me write with my right hand and put my left hand under a heavy book so I wouldn't use it. This was 1992 and I was 6.

Or, it’s possible, even likely, that OP is an imaginative and skilled writer.

Quite!
Seems hard to imagine for some and borders on jealousy from a certain poster.

Well quite. I remember a TV programme in which he made a black pudding from
his own blood and ate it. At least my ex-H and OP’s (D)H haven’t gone that far…

i can only use right arm sorry my left had a row with a window i still have it but has minimal use

Yes, neuroplasticity is real, within limits. As people are writing, something to have fun with. Being born left handed, I've lived life adapting to a right handed world, as we all do.
What's also true is that one of the best ways to protect our brains is to limit unhealthy levels on unecessary stress and tension...Shouting LEFT in someones ear is not kind or helpful - even when he thinks he's protecting your brain!

Love this! 🤣🤣🤣🤣