Face it. we live in a right hander's world. Everything is geared for them. We have to overcome obstacles EVERY SINGLE DAY and most of us leftys don't even realize it. Did you know that left handers have much better spatial reasoning skills? Did you know that they excel at math, art, chess, and pool? And did you know that leftys are quite valuable in boxing and baseball. I think our situation is a handicap and we are very good at overcoming it. It sharpens our skills in a number of areas. We use a more mysterious and creative side of the brain than right handers. I am talking about true leftys here. The ones that do almost everything with their left hand IF they are allowed to- writing, throwing, etc. Right handers simply outnumber us and don't take us into consideration when they are designing things. We do a great job beating them at their own game though.
2006-09-14 12:01:13 · 12 answers · asked by cannonball 1 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Other - Science
I agree. Us leftys are more adapt at handling problems yhan rightys are. We are better in math, spatial reasoning. We are truly the only ones in our right minds.
2006-09-14 12:05:12 · answer #1 · answered by miked 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋
My oldest daughter is a lefty. She is 11 now. I don't see any difference in her than my righties (there are 3 of them). Time will tell. I never made her feel bad for being lefty and she is encouraged to do everything she can. She's not that coordinated in gross-motor activities like baseball or any throwing. She does love to read and write. I do agree that it is a right-handed world and it isn't fair.
Her father is ambidextrous and does things with both hands. I am a righty. Her grandfather was a lefty and her uncle is a lefty. Her uncle is a tool and die maker and has designed some pretty cool stuff, as did her grandfather (he was a draftsman and later an architect), so perhaps you are very right about that aspect. Maybe she will follow in their footsteps.
2006-09-14 19:26:17 · answer #2 · answered by Hello Dolly 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Another ambidextrian here. Actually, I started out as a lefty, but had a broken arm at a young age, so I learned to use the right hand, too. I was very good at a lot of my studies, but didn't do well in sports. Maybe I am just a nerd. LOL!
I agree, though, that lefties have obstacles to overcome. I remember griping about notebooks being bound on the left, which always left imprints on my wrist when I wrote.
2006-09-14 19:11:58 · answer #3 · answered by Sarah E 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
And shorter people are even smarter, and one handed people even smarter than that, and so on.
Sorry, the intellegence has to already be there, inherent in the human mind. Lefties are good at adapting to right handed tools. That's it. Those who don't just have a more difficult life.
The world isn't built for fat people, the society isn't "built" for people of color, for women, for older persons.
Of course many tools are designed for right handers. As you say, there are many more of them. Many tools would suffer in their utility if they were purposely designed for use with either hand. For example, our written language. To adapt that in order for left handers to write as easily as right haners would only make it more difficult for ALL of us.
By your logic, one-handed, black, female people under 4 feet tall are the smartest on the planet.
2006-09-14 19:29:37 · answer #4 · answered by Vince M 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
I have done and seen surveys that show that if you are left handed you are not true left handed. I am left handed in the sense that I write left handed. My right hand is my strong hand. When I eat the fork is in my left hand and my knife is in my right and I don't switch like the majority of Americans. I hold other tools in my right hand. I think by using both sides of your body you use both side of your brain.
2006-09-14 19:37:52 · answer #5 · answered by Barkley Hound 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think you are right i am left-handed and I think that left-handers have a more original way of thinking than boring right-handers!
2006-09-14 19:09:04 · answer #6 · answered by farawaytrees 1 · 2⤊ 0⤋
I do everything with my left hand, but I must not have gotten that memo about being good at math. Why did nobody tell me that? I feel that it is now too late.
2006-09-14 19:04:47 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Lefties have a harder time learning the guitar , although there are certainly some exceptions .
2006-09-14 19:07:52 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
I wouldnt say smarter---but they are sure more creative==are able to take things in stride and keep on an even level .
2006-09-14 19:10:01 · answer #9 · answered by willtdn 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
if lefties are smarter than righties then the ambidextrous must be the smartest?
2006-09-14 19:04:30 · answer #10 · answered by sunkissedsnowflake 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋