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The "scientists and engineers are bad at social skills and creative endeavors" thing isn't some natural law about the division of labor among hemispheres in the brain.
It's a socially created thing. See, a lot of us got shunted into the "good at math and science" box sometime in elementary school, and since science and engineering are prestigious careers, our parents and teachers pushed us to focus our energy there, often at the expense of all other subjects (and sometimes at the expense of our actual childhoods).
And then because we were in that category, we were allowed to lag behind in other skills - whereas other kids got corrected on bad behavior and encouraged to play sports, paint, sing, etc, we were told not to worry about that and focus on our books.
So then we grow up with the ability to solve complex equations in our heads and encyclopedic knowledge of the periodic table... and very few other skills. And what's more, most of us swallow the idea that our prestigious careers are inherently better wholesale, and refuse to consider the importance of anything other than STEM.
It's a socially created thing. See, a lot of us got shunted into the "good at math and science" box sometime in elementary school, and since science and engineering are prestigious careers, our parents and teachers pushed us to focus our energy there, often at the expense of all other subjects (and sometimes at the expense of our actual childhoods).
And then because we were in that category, we were allowed to lag behind in other skills - whereas other kids got corrected on bad behavior and encouraged to play sports, paint, sing, etc, we were told not to worry about that and focus on our books.
So then we grow up with the ability to solve complex equations in our heads and encyclopedic knowledge of the periodic table... and very few other skills. And what's more, most of us swallow the idea that our prestigious careers are inherently better wholesale, and refuse to consider the importance of anything other than STEM.