Feeling Left Out? A Right-Hander’s Guide to Understanding A Left-Hander’s Everyday Struggles
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Welcome to the Dark Side T
hey say what you don’t know wont hurt you. However, everyday that you righties don’t know the problems left-handers face is another day unknowing of the cold, hard truth. From the start, lefties have been under the Righty Rule. Now it’s time for the right-handers to truly understand what it means to be left handed.
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Negative Meanings ever think about that?
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The word “left” in English comes from the Anglo-Saxon word lyft, which means weak or broken.
Left-handed compliment “Hey, you run pretty fast for a girl!”"
“Left-handed marriage” " “A marriage between people of an unequal social rank”
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Around the World Definitions for the term “Lefty” across the globe
Mexico
“twisted, not straight”
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“bad”, negative meaning to a positive word
“the favorable side”, “friend”
“untrustworthy”, “sneaky”, “wry soul”
Russia Sweden Hungary
China “the dark side”
Australia
“fists like a girl!”
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Lefty Slang southpaw garpaw
cowpaw
corrie fisted
buck fisted
keck fisted
spuddy hander
scrammy hander
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Left-Handed Taboo the myths & superstisions of left handers
Some Scientists have suggested that lefties were originally in the womb with a twin that did not survive
An ichy right hand indicates you will recieve money, an ichy left hand indicates you will lose money
Giving a toast with your left hand is the same as placing a curse on the person you are toasting
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Famous Lefties michelangelo
julius caesar charlemagne isaac newton
100 BC
1475
742 BC
Born on 356 BC
1452
1642 1483
1706 benjamin franklin
leonardo da vinci
alexander the great raphael
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bill clinton babe ruth
barack obama
oscar de la hoya
george bush
1895
1946 1942
1961 1959
jimi hendrix
1973 1967
kurt cobain
john mcenroe
paul mccartney
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Stuttering and dyslexia are more common in left-handers
Lefties are 3x more likely to become alcoholics
Left-handers are more likely to be dyslexic and to stutter
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Downfalls to being a lefty 2.
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Lefties, on average, have a lifespan that is 9 years fewer than that of righties
Research suggests that lefthanders are slightly more prone to allergies and asthma than right-handers are
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leadership 66% of American presidents have been left handed in the past 30 years independence left-handers are oriented to be more independent since they have to adjust to the world quick thinkers studies show lefthanded people are “exceptional� adaptability left-handed people are more easily adaptable than righthanded people
syntax & order
Think About It the way we use our hands may determine how our personalities develop in the brain
context & emotion
analyticial right-handers are more likely to use logic and order on a daily basis language 95% of right-handers use the left side of the brain for spreaking
Lefties are 20% more likely to be a genius
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Left-handed men are 15% richer than right handed men who attended college.
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August 13th is “Left-Hander’s Day” celebrating left-handedness and raising awareness of the frustrations left-handers experience every day in a world designed for right-handers.
Reasons Why it’s Awesome Being a Lefty
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Studies have suggested that left-handers are more talented in spatial awareness, math, and architecture.
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Left-handers adjust more readily to seeing underwater
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Hooked
The problems with writing as a lefty
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ne of the toughest tasks for a lefty is as simple as the process of writing. Between the vision block, right handed desks, awkward grip, and more, the writing experience itself is pretty much designed against the lefty too!
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1. The hook position
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3. The inevitable smudge
The overtight grip
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Hand dominance (whether left or right) is related to brain asymmetry. And that, Dr. Francks said, “is not at all understood; we’re really at the very beginning of understanding what makes the brain asymmetrical.”
- NY TIMES
Genetic combinations leave us with an overwhelming majority of human right-handers and a small, but persistently occurring, minority of left-handers.
- SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN
Even if both parents are left-handed there is only a 26 per cent chance of their child being left-handed. Possessing the ‘LRRTM1’ gene increases the chances, but only if it is inherited from the father.
- SCIENCE
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The Published Truth If you didn’t believe us, they said it all.
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- CNN
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The Impossible Items those everyday encounters that drive us crazy!
in the kitchen
in the office
in the world
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Living the Lefty Lifestyle A
s lefties we face daily struggles that although has become second nature, is a consistant battle our minority faces. From that horrific smudge down the left side of your hand to the myths and legends of where us lefties really originate from, here’s a little insight into how to cope as well as celebrate the greatness of left-handedness.
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1 in 9 men are left hand dominant
1 in 13 women are left hand dominant
The identical twin of a left handed person has a 76% chance of being left handed as well.
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The Demographics Being a lefty can sometimes make you feel like one in a million. Left handedness isnt exactly that uncommon though. One in nine men and one in thirteen women are found to be left-handed. While genes and environment can play different roles, bottom line is being left-handed has never been more right.
About 10% of the population is left handed
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