Daughter and computer mouse question--

[Mayzoo]

Is this normal for a 5 yr old...or autistic/neurological? In other words---anyone else’s kid do this:

My daughter is ambidextrous--if she grabs the mouse with her right hand she attempts to operate it with her pinkie and ring finger (essentially right clicking)--however if she grabs it with her left hand--she still clicks with pinkie and ring, but turns out to be the "proper" button clicking. She is very determined--I have tried to modify this behavior in many ways (including doing nothing and her not getting a response from the program).

Anyone else?

[Mayzoo]

Oh, and I forgot to mention--converting our mouse to be a left handed mouse would not solve this problem. She is using the same fingers to click the mouse whether the mouse is in her left hand or her right hand. She uses her pinkie and ring finger either way, so converting the mouse would just end up with her still "doing it wrong" so to speak, just with her left hand. The only solution I have found so far is to let her use a right handed mouse with her left hand (or visa versa would work too), thus making the fact that she uses the wrong fingers a non issue with the computer programs....but I don't really want to continue to "teach" her to use this in a manner that the rest the world would call wrong, unless this is just another one of those things she needs to learn to adapt too.

And, I am ambidexterous too---there just weren't personal computers back when I was five, and any hand or method I used to click a "mouse" back then was most definately considered wrong.