Left Handed Fascinating Facts
Most left-handers draw figures facing to the right.
There is a high tendency in twins for one to be left-handed
Stuttering and dyslexia occur more often in left-handers (particularly if they are forced to change their writing hand as a child, like King of England George VI).
Left-handers adjust more readily to seeing underwater.
Left-handers excel particularly in tennis, baseball, swimming and fencing
Left-handers usually reach puberty 4 to 5 months after right-handers
4 of the 5 original designers of the Macintosh computer were left-handed
1 in 4 Apollo astronauts were left-handed - 250% more than the normal level.
Left-handers are generally more intelligent, better looking, imaginative and multi-talented than right handers - based on discussions among members of the Left-Handers Club! :)
2nd July 2009 - 1:17pm
My father is totally left handed. I'm partially left handed(40%). I think my high intelligence and unique broad-based way of seeing things which is widely different from that of majority may be attributed to this.
I have a brother who is ambidextrous. He is tremendously SMART. Nothing escapes his notice, he learns very fast and is very good at computer games.
In my country, Nigeria left handed people are known to be hot-tempered. This is their learned response to the condemnation that they face.
In summary most left handed people i've met have something different about them
1st July 2009 - 6:51am
I'm A TOTAL Lefty, I'm Left Handed
1st July 2009 - 6:46am
I'm A TOTAL Lefty!!! I'm Left Handed
12th June 2009 - 12:44pm
you know it is strange how some people use different hands on things, i myself am a lefty and am very creative though i don't use my right for much. still, these are very interensting facts!
4th June 2009 - 4:21am
Well,according to some studies from one of my father's files.Tony Buzzan stated that left hand should be used for drawing for more creativeness and right hand should be used for writing essays and such.All in all,he's stating that we should be ambidextrous for certain activities
31st May 2009 - 4:16am
i draw with my left but write with my right hand...
29th May 2009 - 3:01am
what does it mean if you write with your left but use your right for everything else- bats, scissors etc. and just to break the cycle i'm not in the least creative but i do get bored very easy and need to be on the go constantly, maybe there is a missing gene!!
20th May 2009 - 6:36pm
well ive been looking into left handedness and most things i have come across says we have difficulty expressing how we feel some times our thoughts get so far a head we dont realize what we are saying some times... so your kid may be inventing his own language to describe things how he sees them in a way that makes sense to him.
20th May 2009 - 6:34pm
hey im left handed and i was just woundering if you had any tips... i have never looked into being left handed but its all starting to come together now that i started to recearch it. i studder and i dint no that was a left handed thing... i get bord extremly easily... and im kind of emotional dont no if thats a left handed thing or not.
19th May 2009 - 8:04am
hi i have 3 sons and a daughter and all the boys are left handed although my daughter myself and husband are right handed my eldest oldest is very talented and very artistic he excells in everything he does and no one else in my family is left handed how strange
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