Let's face it: most of the amentities in existence are made for the right-handed person. Anything from scissors, desks, peelers, baseball mitts, power tools, and pens/pencils all cater to the right-handed person.
It was interesting for me because I grew up being a lefty (I think maybe my distant great-uncle might have been a lefty), but otherwise there is no first degree relative who is left-handed. Imagine my surprise when I started dating my wife and found out something interesting: we are both left handed. There is no family that she knows of who is left handed other than her father who could have been as a child, but in the 1950s it was socially unacceptable to be anything different than right-handed (thus he grew up writing right handed).
While no studies are conclusive about what it means to be a lefty they have found a strong connectiong between being a South Paw and specific diseases: celiac disease, cardiovascular disease, autoimmune disorders, dyslexia, ulcerative colitis, stuttering, myasthenia gravis, and are more prone to alcohol and nicotine abuse.
Some studies link advantages to be left-handed such as: better recovery after a brain injury, greater emotional expressivity with the face, and better spatial relations. Left handers also have some advantages at some sports such as baseball and tennis.
The determination of which hand is dominent is undecided though possibly the combination of strong genetics and a human genome, although they are unsure of which one at this time.
Only 10% of the population are left handed...my wife and I make up that minority. Other than occasional discrimination with daily use of thing especially scissors we make do just fine. It fact it has encouraged us to become more ambidextrous in nature. My wife and cut using scissor with her right hand better than her left. I bat right-handed. I throw right-handed. Those are just a few I could think of.
So far my daughter has shown right-handed tendencies. My wife and I don't know what we are going to do. Trying to teach her anything will be a challenge for the both of us!
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lol my husband is left handed and i am right handed and he always tells me that everyone is born right handed and theres only a few smart enough to overcome it. lol ha ha. it must be nice though that you and your wife both can buy left handed products and both be able to use them. My son has been doing almost everything right handed when he was a little younger, but now he is all left handed, so i guess he overcame the right handed trait unlike 90% of america lol
ReplyDeleteMy husband just read this and said to mention can openers for left people. he said they are made for right handed people and they are a mother to use.
ReplyDeleteMy son is showing definite left-handed tendencies. My husband and I are both righties. I don't know how we're going to teach him to write--I'm going to have to do a bit of research on elementary/early childhood education tricks for righties on how to teach skills to small lefties.
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