Growing Up Right-Brained in a Left-Brained World

I've been wondering if more makers of things are right-brained or left-brained. I think a lot of them are right-brained, like me, but possibly more are left-brained. Let me tell you it's not easy being a right-brained nerd because so many nerds are left-brained: they think sequentially; they make lists; they remember codes and acronyms; they look at the parts rather than the holistic picture; and they are a bit condescending to us right-brainers.

I'm used to being a right-brained person in a left-brained world. My Dad (shown in the picture) is probably left-brained. In addition, I'm pretty sure that my mother, my numerous siblings, my cousins and aunts and uncles, all our cats (of which we had 18 at one point), and even our poor, neglected dogs were probably all left-brained. There I was, in the middle of all these logical, analytical, verbal braniacs (well, except for the dogs), lost in my world of imagination and art. It wasn't easy, I tell you (with tongue placed firmly in cheek).

So, I wondered how to explain the difference. I wonder if Blogger will let me post a table...

Me	My family
Forget words, jokes, idioms	Capacious vocabulary (and they would know what that means without a dictionary!)
Surround myself with expensive furniture, nice art, clean lines, no clutter	Books, magazines, ashtrays, clothing scattered everywhere; Good Will furniture
Artistic	Musical
Kandinsky, Klee, Miro, Rauschenberg, Rothoko	Adam Smith, Karl Marx, Aristotle
Brown eyes	Blue eyes (well except my Dad, who has brown eyes, and my twin brother who has hazel eyes)
Math, art, poetry, literature	Languages, history, economics, political science, biochemistry
Bad at games except for Mastermind, Risk, and Four Square	Good at all games especially Scrabble, Boggle, Scattergories, Checkers, and all those other games that I consistently lost
Dreamy, imaginative, grumpy in the morning, need lots of time alone	Togetherness, music competitions, awake at 5 am! Argh!
Made my own paper dolls with paper, pencil, and scissors	Ran with scissors
Hate MS Excel	My mother was one of the first users of Lotus 123 and still talks about how much she loved it!
Can't imagine anything worse than doing my own taxes (except Death)	Actually enjoy doing their own taxes
Big-hearted	Also big-hearted! Thank-goodness.
<3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3	What are those silly squigglies? Sideways hearts??