What are the advantages/disadvantages of being a left-handed person?Are lefties considered weird?

Question

Well I do know the Physiological differences in being left or right handed like lefties use their right-brain more often and such but I just want to know more in depth about the differences between these two types of people.Are lefties considered weird?

Answer 1

disadvantage: smudges when you write. This is especially difficult when you are using a scantron or something that smudges will destroy. you'll have to waste time erasing all your smudges.

advantage: you can scroll with a computer mouse and take notes at the same time

disadvantage: it is very hard to use scissors and if you do learn it HURTS if you use them for too long

advantage: you can get a scholarship for being left-handed

disadvantage: if you go to a resturaunt and sit on the right of a right handed person you will

advantage: people will find you unique

disadvantages: things like knives and heavy machinary is more dangerous because those things are built for right-handers. you may get hurt

advantage: there are left handed fairs you can go to to make you feel cool

disadvantage: left handers tend not to be able to write very fast and you get tired or writing quicker because of the way they position their hand.

Answer 2

In some sports having your left hand be stronger is an advantage. If you learn to golf right handed your strong left hand gives you added power.

In the old days left-handed people were automatically assumed to be evil and the adjective sinister came from the latin word for left-handed. As recently as a couple of generations ago left-handed kids were forced to write right-handed to rid them of those bad tendencies.

Answer 3

okie dokie. im a lefty so i can answer this one easily. since the majority of people are right- handed, most things are made for righties! we have to buy special scissors because regualar scissors are just weird to use! when i walk into a hotel room or even a room in my house, my fisrt instinct is to feel the wall to my left fro the light switch but NOOOO.. its always on the RIGHT wall. there are very few people at my school who are left-handed. when people see me write, they always imitate me and wonder how the heck i am able to write like that. baseball gloves are another thing, we have to buy special gloves which are usually harder to find. even pencils make it difficult! we have to scrape our hands across the paper and get a whole bunch of lead on the side of my hand. And when im in class and there is a right- handed person sitting to my left, we are always bumping elbows, which is quite irritating! thats why i always have to sit on the left end corner of a table. so yes, basically the world is mainly constucted with most advatages to the righties.

Answer 4

Being left handed is as natural as being right handed. Contrary to the popular belief of the contralateral (opposite) sided cerebral hemishere or the outer most portion of brain concerned with higher functions is dominant Physiology text books mention that even in more than 95% of left handed people left hemisphere itself is dominant.As they were opposite of that of the 'natural' they were considered weird and a sign of ill luck and hence called 'sinistrals'.But there is nothing abnormal about them and many great people were left handed.Bill Clinton and Bush the senior ,Charlie chaplin and many sport stars ,scientists and celebrities as you must be watching on TV are left handed .Even in the past many great scientists and acheivers in the field of arts etc., were left handed. In Boxing the left handed are called 'South Paws' and the lethal 'left hook ' should come to them naturally.When a child is first known to be left handed he/she is discouraged to use left hand by many parents.That would impede and hamper his natural intellectual growth and learning and should not be done.

Answer 5

I am strongly left-handed. I do almost everything with my left hand. I wouldn't call myself wierd - I'm probably the most normal one in my family, although that's not hard to do...

There has been a lot of research into left- vs. right-handedness. Google it and you'll find more.

Answer 6

I'm a rightie and I think left handed people are really smart (at least the ones that I've known). I think that it is cool and I sometimes try to write left handed, although it doesn't work as well as my right. lol
I don't think lefties are weird, I think its cool and not very common so you should feel special and appreciate it!

Answer 7

im left handed

there is more disadvantages well because everything is made for right handed people, like sizzors they bruise your thumb desk your arm hangs off of it notebooks the rings are in your way, when you write it smears

but leftys are cool

Answer 8

Lefties are known to be more creative, and most draw their writing then just write. My siblings (4) are all right handed and each of our second children are left handed. I don't think they are any more weird , then people with hazel eyes.

Answer 9

I am a teacher and have had quite a few left-handed students. I have not noticed a trend towards 'weirdness' (whatever that is), but I have noticed that they tend to be very bright, quick learners who are often unusually talented in one or more areas. Left-handedness is often paired with giftedness.

Answer 10

I'm left handed and can write very good. I guess thats a good thing