some personal experiences if any.
2007-08-08 20:37:03 · 23 answers · asked by Anonymous in Social Science ➔ Psychology
i was born left handed. but now i can use both hand since i write with right hand since young.
there is not much disadvantage. let me list few.
1st - last time, cant use can opener (old design) since is designed for right hand people. now is ok.
2nd - sometimes may forget to shake hand with the correct hand. lol.
3rd - i use chopstick with left hand, when seated with other people who use right hand we will 'fight' ie. bump my left hand with my neighbour right hand.
4th - being called evil for using left hand in some crazy culture. of course this is not true.
Advantages - not much different from rightie. but there are only 10% population uses left hand and they are claimed smarter. so it quite special in a way.
2007-08-08 20:48:25 · answer #1 · answered by wishingforpeace 3 · 3⤊ 0⤋
I'm left handed. The biggest disadvantage... ok... the biggest complaint that I have about it is having heard, from a very young age, "Oh, a south paw." As if I didn't already know this?!?! Well, duh... but thanks for letting me know.
Seriously, one of the biggest disadvantages I encounter is tightening and loosening things. I always have to remember "righty tighty, lefty loosy" when I am screwing a light bulb in or anything else that is threaded. I'm so used to using right handed scissors that I can't use the left handed kind because the blades are reversed on the left handed ones.
Oh. Almost forgot. Ball point pens do smear. Why? Because a right handed person draws the pen across the page while a left handed person's hand is poised over what they have just written.Other than that, I think that most left handed people are just used to it. And accomodate for it.
2007-08-08 20:51:28 · answer #2 · answered by maryis.contrary 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
A Cine Actress said " Our heart is on left side. We are left handers mean we act with heart."
The dis advantage of being left handed is that one cannot use all the machinery, which is made the majority right handed persons.
Left handed persons cannot use computer keyboard in an easy way, for example. Car steering, Scooter kick rod and other machinery also cannot be used by left handed persons, with ease.
'Keep left' is the main ground rule for Indian road users. Am I right? So don't despair. Keep left. People follow you.
2007-08-09 01:51:58 · answer #3 · answered by surya 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
There is no disadvantage to being left handed. I've heard some say that right handed people generally live 14 years more but I think that's just bollocks. I would personally prefer to be left handed (I'm right) just because it's rare (less people have it). I don't know I have little idiosyncrasies like that.
2007-08-08 20:53:38 · answer #4 · answered by Warren 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
My brother is born left handed. I haven't seen him facing any problem due to this. He is Deputy Superintendent Prisons and doing everything with his left hand (except hand shaking with right) including eating, daily routine work, job and even using/operating weapons. He is a very good singer too and plays musical instruments as well. It is as normal for him as it is for a right handed man. This is because human has the ability to adopt himself according to his needs. I watched an Indian girl on TV who born without arms and she is a teacher and uses her feet in writing, Reading and other routine works with amazing ease.
In some fields the left handed have rather edge over right handed. In cricket, for example, a left handed batsman and bowler performs better than a right handed.
2007-08-08 21:20:31 · answer #5 · answered by Mustansar Dar 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Well i am not a left handed person. I do know that the majority of products made. Such as chainsaws, things like that. Are made for a right handed person. So if your left handed, you either must special order it, or find a specialty store for items you need.
2007-08-08 20:45:44 · answer #6 · answered by Unblest_Anubis 3 · 1⤊ 1⤋
I m left hander, when I was small,people object to it but the things has changed a lot, Amitabh Bachan, Bill Clinton and so many others are left handers, now people love left handers
2007-08-09 04:13:19 · answer #7 · answered by Rana 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Nothing dis advantage, only dis similarity in oersons way of work. I am a lefthander in throwing a ball drinking tea, but am writing with my right hand. Nothing un usual
2007-08-08 21:03:45 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
The only real disadvantage is that when you are writing in a book, the seam is kind of in the way. So it makes your writing a bit messier. Books are made for the normal people.
The other, superficial, problems are that you always have to change the knife and fork around.
Actually, I find it really hard to learn the guitar as well, since it seems backwards. You can re-string the guitar upside down but it never seems the same IMO.
2007-08-08 20:49:24 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 3⤋
first disadvantage is,can not play HOCKEY,as also,one finds it difficult to use many instruments,such as scissors,having support for righthandier,if left hander is forced to use it,because of non availability of lefthander's suitable scissor at one particular place,mostly openers are meant for righthhanders as many pointed out,same way pc computers,ENTER,key is meant for righthander's,and most of the users are right hander,so pc can not be with specially designed keyboard,lefty may leave the job at any time,while sleeping in the bed with special one, partner is not used to,initially, so may find to understand what to do,to co-cooperate<>
2007-08-09 00:38:29 · answer #10 · answered by wwf 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋