posted August 13, 2010 04:26 AM         

1. Left Hander's Day was started in August 13 1976 by Left-Handers International.

2. About 7% of the population is left handed.

3. Lefties are also called "southpaws" because most baseball fields were laid out so the pitcher is facing west and the batter facing east, so the sun wouldn't be the batter's eyes. When a left handed pitcher threw a ball it was with his arm that was toward the south so left handed people started to be called southpaws.

4. In twins, there is a high tendency for one to be left-handed.

5. 1 in 4 Apollo astronauts were left-handed.

6. 4 of the 5 original designers of the Macintosh computer were left-handed.

7. Left-handers usually reach puberty 4 to 5 months after right-handers.

8. George H.W. Bush, Bill Clinton, and Barack Obama are all left handed. Ronald Regan was left handed too.

9. Pablo Picasso, Isaac Newton, Albert Einstein, Leonardo Di Vinci, and Michelangelo were also left handed.

10. Right handed people use the left side of their brains. Left handed people use the right sides of their brains.

11. Left-handers tend to adjust quickly to seeing underwater.

12. Right-handers tend to chew food on the right side, left handers tend to chew on the left side.

13. Albert Einstein was left handed.

14. Left handed people who have higher I.Q.s tend to have an I.Q. of over 140.

15. In some cultures it is impolite to touch your food with your left hand.

16. Most left-handers draw figures facing to the right.

17. Left-handers excel particularly in tennis, baseball, swimming and fencing. 40% of the top tennis pros are left-handed.

18. In the Middle Ages, writing with your left hand was punishable by death.

19. Left-handers were severely discriminated against during the 18th and 19th centuries and it was often “beaten out” of people. In adulthood, left-handers were often shunned by society, resulting in fewer marrying and reproducing

20. Half of left handed people use a computer mouse with their right hand.

21. Left-handed university students are more likely to major in visually-based, as opposed to language-based subjects. Another sample of 103 art students found an astounding 47% were left- or mixed-handed.

posted August 14, 2010 05:25 PM         

We are still discriminated against. Everything is made for righties, and we have to adapt. Oh, just see them try to adapt to be leftie!! HA! They couldn't...

posted August 14, 2010 07:24 PM         

I am right handed, but I am very right brained type to the point that visual/picture thinking is my primary thinking, visualizing things in my mind's eye nonstop. My mother is the same way

but we're also both left eye dominant and left ear dominant

so there are right handed people with left handed traits

but maybe it might have something to do with cross/mixed dominance

I also had fine motor skill problems as a child, and I had therapy to help me develop good use of my hands. Maybe I am naturally wired to be ambidextrous, but the therapist focused on me developing the use of my right hand. My mother and relatives told me that when I was developing,I was showing lack of certainty in handedness.

both my mother and I have Moon and Mercury in watersigns

my maternal uncle Eddie is left-handed, and he's an accountant and so great with numbers. He is very analytical,factual
interestingly, his Sun is in Virgo, and he has Mercury in Virgo trine Saturn

my maternal grandfather was lefthanded.

in spite of my problems with coordination, I was excellent swimmer since I was 3 years old. It only took a week for me to learn how to swim. It was my being against shaving hair off my body that kept me from wanting to be a competitive swimmer. I actually swam much faster underwater too. I think having wide,flat feet was a factor in that.

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Raymond Andrews,
President,Executive Director of Developmental Neurodiversity Association
Supporting the Neurodiversity Movement

posted August 14, 2010 07:29 PM         

I think it messed him up, I really do.