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Re: "If being left handed is wrong, I don't want to be right"

Ggiirr_1292 — Wed, 08 Jun 2011 15:48:17 -0000

Both my parents and 2 sisters are righties and I am a lefty and no other trace of leftys in my family.

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Laura — Fri, 20 May 2011 20:39:28 -0000

In actual fact, neuroimaging studies have found that the majority of left-handed people are actually left-brained, as are (almost) all right-handed people. It's pretty rare to be both left-handed and to be right-hemisphere dominant for language.

You're right though that you can find out how "right-brained" a left-hander is by seeing how many activities (besides writing) you do with your left hand.

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Cjsquiggle — Wed, 23 Mar 2011 18:46:37 -0000

I'm left-handed, and so is my brother, but both of our parents are right-handed. Our maternal grandmother is left-handed, and her maternal grandmother was left-handed too. I think it just skipped a generation in our family

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Kgormanimaging — Mon, 07 Feb 2011 00:13:09 -0000

:) I think you mean left handed black sheep??

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Katrinamouse107 — Wed, 02 Feb 2011 13:50:07 -0000

no one in my family is a lefty. and i am. sweet (:

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Roschelle — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 22:34:50 -0000

Lefty here too. My parents, right handed, My husband, right handed. Both of our boys, lefties....Yay!!!

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Eric in Sacramento — Sun, 30 Aug 2009 23:20:06 -0000

I'm a lefty, I'm about 155 lbs. in weight, and I have a devastating left hook. I just saw another website that says lefties have the advantage in a fight because righties "simply do not expect the left hook."

Consider yourself warned! I'm an unassuming little guy that learned to box and whup ass in the USMC. I relish the idea of knocking yet another big guy on his rump.

Beware the little guy looking to prove a point.

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codymccormick — Fri, 28 Aug 2009 23:56:58 -0000

I'm right hand dominant, but I envy you lefties, so I decided that I would start out by making myself ambidextrous, and now a few months later i do almost everything i used to do with my right hand with my left.

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mrpaige — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 14:51:21 -0000

Both my parents are right handed. I ended up left handed and my brother is ambidextrous.

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Caitie — Thu, 13 Aug 2009 01:01:34 -0000

My parents are both right handed, my twin brother is right handed, and I'm a lefty. What's that percentage?

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SimonH — Fri, 07 Aug 2009 22:47:22 -0000

Use my left hand on a right hand potato peeler. I stroke it away from the body instead of towards it. I have learned to use a lot of right hand tools with my left hand.
Many power tools can be quite a handful they are surely made for the righties.

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Aqqisiaq — Fri, 07 Aug 2009 22:26:06 -0000

I’m the only Lefty in the family.
I attended the Catholic St. Joseph School with all nun teachers. My best friend went to a public school where they forced him to use his right hand. St. Joseph priced the individual (it seemed) as I never thought of being a lefty. It wasn’t a subject there. I never realized I was “different” before I was moved to a public school in the 2. grade.

Writing: Left
Knife and fork: Ambidextrous
Spoon: Left
Pistol and rifle: Ambidextrous
Guitar: Right (didn’t think of the possibility to turn it around)
Scissors: Left
Computer mouse: Ambidextrous (by choice to avoid problems)

The shorter lifespan of lefties I believe were based on a study of baseball players and the hypotheses was that lefties were more prone to accidents because they live in a “right oriented” world – I don’t care if it’s true or not (for baseball player) – I expect to live long 

I’m practicing martial arts, and have found that lefties have an advantage in fights at least until the opponent finds out and compensate.

I work in a computer company as a programmer and 8 out of 10 are lefties. In my previous position as a computer administrator 4 out of 5 were lefties.

P.S. The Polar Bear is a lefty also. (Always hits with the left paw first – I’m an Eskimo, I know!)

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SpdRcrChk — Sat, 25 Jul 2009 16:38:46 -0000

People, remember that even though genetics plays a big part, the world is predominantly RIGHT-handed. This means that some people are practically forced to be right-handed, because that is the way they are taught. Additionally, in some cultures, you are literally forced to be right handed because left-handedness is considered taboo so to speak. In these cultures, people literally had their left hands tied behind their backs in order to force them to be right handed.

And yes, it is OK to advertise that 80% of MENSA members are right handed. You fail to realize that if 2% of the entire population is left-handed, holding a 20% membership claim to MENSA is actually notable!

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DVimmer — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 02:04:16 -0000

Well someone was talking about alleles and genetics but it could be more than that. Doctors say that upon birth, the right side of the body is dominant. The side of the heart. And that the handedness and the individual is based on oxygen getting to the brain. So if there was some sort of complication with oxygen getting to the brain. So supply of oxygen getting cut to the left side of the brain makes the right side dominant.

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Name — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 12:25:32 -0000

Left handed people statistically die an average of 7 years sooner than right handed people. Sad day for me...

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Olde Timey Beard — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 13:26:50 -0000

I was born Right handed and could write both backwards and forwards with my right hand. Then in the first grade I broke my right arm pretty badly, and had to have it rebroken because it was improperly set so I spent about a year in a cast. As a result I had to learn to use my left hand to write and eat. I'm still left handed in those regards, and later found out I was left eye Dominant, so i fire a gun left handed which is all natural. Last year I had surgery on my left arm and because there was the possibility I would lose the use of it for some time, I started practicing writing right handed. I can do it, but i soon discovered my right handed handwriting was that of a 1st grader. I don't know what that makes me, Righty, Lefty, Ambidextrous? My mom is a righty, my dad is a lefty and I'm a complete mishmosh!

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Shana — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 14:18:04 -0000

Something that might solve the "why me and my siblings are left handed and my parents/relatives aren't" thing. A lot of kids back in the 60's (and probably before, I just know the 60's for sure because of my mom) were forced to be right handed. My mom was naturally a lefty, but the school system forced her to use her right hand. I don't know if that makes a difference or not, but I thought I'd throw that out there.

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Sat, 13 Jun 2009 11:38:13 -0000

Lefties make great lacrosse players :)
I'm going to play Division One in college soon <3

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Connor — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 18:25:25 -0000

I probably would of been right handed, but when i was a little over a year old i had a stroke and was paralyzed on my right side for a couple of months. So i learned to use my left hand

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Johann — Wed, 06 May 2009 21:20:41 -0000

i am ambedextrous, buy i am actually left footed. i have complete use of my foot muscles, so i can do the same things with my feet as my hands.

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paddy — Wed, 06 May 2009 20:31:21 -0000

you people sicken me with your cult of theindividual, your left-handed...well done. who's " Jimmy Jimi Hendrix"?

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skateboard bearings guy — Wed, 06 May 2009 19:44:44 -0000

yeah emma, smearing my writing drives me nuts too.

i love how it lists the lefty presidents and makes a point of stating that george w. was a righty, hahaha.

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Emma — Wed, 06 May 2009 17:30:13 -0000

i love being a lefty! i hate smearing ink all over the damn page though.

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Peter — Wed, 06 May 2009 11:09:15 -0000

I am a lefty, but I'd prefer being right handed. When I tried writing with my right hand I noticed for the first time that the strokes are really logical and fluent. When writing with my left hand it doesn't feel so good.

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LouieMcG — Wed, 06 May 2009 07:14:20 -0000

Im pretty left handed. I mean, its nice to think we have intelligent conversation. Leftys have a tendency to love social commentary...but...man, If this was a RIGHT handers post (as if the bastards need them, members of the great unwashed as they are) I wouldn't be checking the spell check on this post so fervently. Cmaan we make each other nervous. Around right handed dudes I can spout off all kinds of stuff and it doesn't get analyzed or corrected. Still...it feels good to have this out there. Lets just band up and make THEM nervous. With words and stuff, i don't mean like, globalising a lefty armory for the 'protective lefty'. Im not an angry man wanting to 'take whats mine' I come from New Zealand. We are the planets left foot. Man, just come down here, its great.