Left Hand Or Right Hand

aj1980 · ‎12-05-2019

Curious how many here are Left handed? I happen to be a lefty. They claim only 10% of the population are lefties, I think its more. People think we hold Pen's & Pencils in a strange way

Studies have shown left handed people have high levels of imagination Since they use their right hemisphere of the brain more prominently, this makes left-handed people more analytical, creative, and verbal, and showcase better language skills. Left-handed people also have great leadership skills

Sooner · ‎03-10-2010

@aj1980 wrote:
Curious how many here are Left handed? I happen to be a lefty. They claim only 10% of the population are lefties, I think its more. People think we hold Pen's & Pencils in a strange way

Studies have shown left handed people have high levels of imagination Since they use their right hemisphere of the brain more prominently, this makes left-handed people more analytical, creative, and verbal, and showcase better language skills. Left-handed people also have great leadership skills

@aj1980 Well that 'splains how come I'm the mess I am! I can pretty much use either hand for most things. I can write with my left but it ain't pretty--and hit a golf ball fine as a lefty.

nwbabs · ‎02-24-2018

Guilty of all! LOL

cheriere · ‎12-01-2023

I write with my right hand but do other things with my left. When I started school, the teacher coached those of us into only writing with our right hands.

vermint · ‎04-05-2010

@aj1980 wrote:
Curious how many here are Left handed? I happen to be a lefty. They claim only 10% of the population are lefties, I think its more. People think we hold Pen's & Pencils in a strange way

Studies have shown left handed people have high levels of imagination Since they use their right hemisphere of the brain more prominently, this makes left-handed people more analytical, creative, and verbal, and showcase better language skills. Left-handed people also have great leadership skills

I'm a lefty...except for using a calculator, which I do with my right hand. When I was in high school business courses in the early 70's, that's the way they were set up so that's the way I learned! I also used to bat right-handed when playing softball in gym. Those two things come from being a teenager who didn't want to appear "different"!

I hold my pen exactly as a right-handed person does--but I know what you mean. A lot of lefties were taught to curve their hand around so that their writing would slant the "correct" way. My writing slants the "wrong" way. Funny story--my mother was right-handed, but long before I was born, she taught herself to make her writing slant as if a lefty wrote it because she thought it looked prettier. Our handwriting was nearly indistinguishable from each others. I once was accused of signing my own report card, until my mom went to the school and asked why a straight A student would need to do that!

I don't have a creative bone in my body, and I am definitely not a leader, but the rest applies to me in varying degrees.

msgb · ‎08-30-2010

As has been stated by a few others, I write right handed but do everything else left handed. I was taught to write right handed as that was the norm.

A few yrs later I taught one of my brothesr how to write. He is naturally right handed. So he writes right but it looks like a lefty writing. Trust me I get flack about his handwriting to this day.

Desert Lily · ‎06-24-2011

I was ambidextrous. Then I broke my wrist in college, and over the years became more right-handed. When I write, I've always seen the letters & words in both directions in my mind; the left one writing mirror backward & still do.

I write novels as a hobby, was a product developer & buyer; actions that are associated with creativity.

My child is left-handed and is a physicist.

Generalizations don't fully apply.

PinkyPetunia · ‎03-09-2010

I am left handed but I can do many things with my right hand like use scissors, manual can opener, sewing machine.

CelticCrafter · ‎03-09-2010

@vermint wrote:
@aj1980 wrote:
Curious how many here are Left handed? I happen to be a lefty. They claim only 10% of the population are lefties, I think its more. People think we hold Pen's & Pencils in a strange way

Studies have shown left handed people have high levels of imagination Since they use their right hemisphere of the brain more prominently, this makes left-handed people more analytical, creative, and verbal, and showcase better language skills. Left-handed people also have great leadership skills
I'm a lefty...except for using a calculator, which I do with my right hand. When I was in high school business courses in the early 70's, that's the way they were set up so that's the way I learned! I also used to bat right-handed when playing softball in gym. Those two things come from being a teenager who didn't want to appear "different"!

I hold my pen exactly as a right-handed person does--but I know what you mean. A lot of lefties were taught to curve their hand around so that their writing would slant the "correct" way. My writing slants the "wrong" way. Funny story--my mother was right-handed, but long before I was born, she taught herself to make her writing slant as if a lefty wrote it because she thought it looked prettier. Our handwriting was nearly indistinguishable from each others. I once was accused of signing my own report card, until my mom went to the school and asked why a straight A student would need to do that!

I don't have a creative bone in my body, and I am definitely not a leader, but the rest applies to me in varying degrees.

@vermint I'm left handed also and instead of that curve the hand I would just change the position of the paper. I never curved my hand around the paper and I don't have slanty writing.

I went to catholic school and I'm actually surprised that I never got whacked by the nuns for changing the position of the paper.

When they put the paper on the desk it was this way \ and I would switch it to this way /.

LindaSal · ‎05-15-2014

I am not a lefty but my son is. As far as I know he is the only one in the immediate family.

He is very creative and does have that wonderful imagination. As a matter of fact he is actually (slowly) working on writing a book as a hobby!

@vermint Your post made me smile as my son also has that curve when writing and I remember him playing T Ball when he was little and batting right handed! (LOL) You are special people, IMO!