Are left-handed people smarter? Guess which President was not left handed?

Some of my favorite people are lefties :)

I've been in the structural design business for 25 years and have never worked in an office where the left handed draftspersons did not outnumber the "righties" (notice how I spun that?).

In several places there were nearly ALL "lefties" (I'll be fair).

I guess that would mean you are a well-spoken, pragmatic, smarty pants with a good memory to boot.  :)

Cool!  I'll take it.

:~P

James Garfield is ambidextrous, could write Greek with one hand and Latin with the other.

One mean feat. The current President, in contrast, confused the use of "Greek" and "Grecian".

nearing,

From what I have read about this subject, Ambidexterous people are just leftys who were able to develop hand skills with both hands. It would be interesting to do more studies on this subjet.

Fausts.

From what I have read about this subject, Ambidexterous people are just leftys who were able to develop hand skills with both hands. It would be interesting to do more studies on this subjet.

I've read that too. I am a lefty, have 3 sisters that are wrong handed and 1 sister that was a lefty most of her life, after the graduated and started working in the right handed world she became ambidextrous. Go figure, I always pick on her for being a quitter!

Thanks to me the nuns didn't rap her across the knuckles with one of those metal edged wood rulers. Well, actually it was probably more like my parents but if I wasn't whacked so many times they would never have taken it to the parish, then the bishop for resolution.

Lefties unite! We are superior and we all know it! LOL

Faust's son,

Interesting. I was told (by my parents) that when I was small I had a tendency to use my left hand more; they make sure I grow up right-handed, but my lack of fine control when using my left hand is probably more due to lack of practice.

One wonders how many right-handed people are actually inherently left-handed who are still "in the closet" :P

Hey Michelle,

The nuns did that to my father and he developed a stutter, so when my grade school writing teacher did that to me, my mother hit the roof and reamed the teacher out, needless to say the teacher picked on me the rest of the year and she would not help me learn cursive writing, I hear in some parts of the country this practice still goes on, gotta stop youngster from using the 'evil' hand dontcha' know. In latin the right hand is called dexter, and the left hand sinistral (sp), the words dexterous and sinister come from this, see how pagan beliefs still hang on.

Ryann O,

When I was in high school they had desked that were designed for righties, and one or two lefty desks for the whole school, I always felt a discomfort sitting in the righty desks. Designers are just as bad as teachers when it comes to leftys.

When I meet a new class, I always ask how many righties and how many lefties there are, it makes the lefties feel more confortable when they know I am a lefty too.

Wow I didn't know they had lefty spiral notebooks now, I always used a stenographers notebook, the pages are connected at the top instead of the side.

Portect your daughter, her difference makes her unique, we need more of that.

Thanks, I think it's totally worth the time and effort to order her supplies on-line.  I can tell you, I wish that there was a comprehensive course on how to help her handwriting as a lefty - I don't think anyone has ever developed one.  I know that she will spend most of her adult life typing everything, much as I do - but I really wish that she had pretty handwriting to use as she gets older. 

I use steno pads too - but she is in the 5th grade, so they are required to use lined notebook paper for everything.  ;)

Ryann O,

I know, writing is so hard for us leftys, I have tried repositioning my hand, the paper and it never gets better, but I have been studying japanese calligraphy (calligraphy means beautiful writing) and they hold the brush upright and away from the paper, I have been thinking that if a lefty had a clear plastic apparatus under their wrist it could keep their hand above the writing so that they can see what they have just written, I am working on this project in my spare time.

Where do you go on-line to buy lefty stuff, I would like to check that out.

Thanks

You can go to the http://www.lefthandzone.com/ and find a lot of products on there.  You don't have to buy from the site though.  It's a nice area where they compile the stuff, and sometimes I go and search for better deals in the rest of the net. 

I highly recommend the "Southpaw Sampler" if you want to try some of the stuff out.  It's under school supplies.

And I told my daughter that she was destined to be born Jewish, and she should have picked more appropriate parents *grin*.  Hebrew is written and read from Right to Left, instead of English which is Left to Right.  She would have had no problems then!  (She just rolls her eyes at me, lol).

:)