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How Left-Handed People Think And Feel Differently
Huff Post ^ | 8/28/20 | Carolyn Gregoire

Posted on 09/28/2024 11:09:20 AM PDT by DallasBiff

Lefties historically have had a tendency to get left behind. Until relatively recently, being left-handed was stigmatized, sometimes as an abnormality or sign of weakness. Left-handed children were forced to learn to write with their right hands, often to their significant disadvantage.

Of course, we now know that there’s nothing wrong with being left-handed. As University of Toledo psychologist Stephen Christman recently explained in Scientific American, there’s almost no evidence to suggest that lefties are at any sort of physical or psychological disadvantage. For one thing, lefties have comprised roughly 10 percent to 15 percent of the general population for many thousands of years. The fact that the trait has remained stable over many generations suggests that left-handedness is not an evolutionary weakness, as many psychologists of the past believed.

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I know Huff Post and from 4 years ago, and it's saturday 9/28/24, Trump's rally in Wisconsin was canceled by secret service ineptitude, and Kamala is enjoying a bottle of cabernet, with a marijuana blunt(joint) she is smoking.

Have nothing against left handed writers, why does the left screech about this stuff.

As an aside, I broke my right hand in 6th grade, and my teacher demanded that I write with the left hand, the words looked like sanskrit.

1 posted on 09/28/2024 11:09:20 AM PDT by DallasBiff
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To: DallasBiff

Baseball.


2 posted on 09/28/2024 11:12:23 AM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion, or satire, or both.)
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To: DallasBiff

Lefties are the only people in their right mind. 😆


3 posted on 09/28/2024 11:19:09 AM PDT by FamiliarFace (I got my own way of livin' But everything gets done With a southern accent Where I come from. TPetty)
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To: DallasBiff

When you take a look at any sort “outlier” cohort of humanity, whether professional athletes, nuclear physicists, NASA astronauts or U.S. presidents, you’ll typically see an over-representation of southpaws. This is not a coincidence.


4 posted on 09/28/2024 11:19:35 AM PDT by irishjuggler
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To: DallasBiff

My father and sister are left handed and I think one of our cats is also left handed ,LOL


5 posted on 09/28/2024 11:20:48 AM PDT by butlerweave
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To: DallasBiff

I noted in college studying engineering how the % of left handers was higher than usual.
Dunno if that indicates a lf or right brain sort of thing?

I trained myself to shoot right hand because most all firearms are easier that way. Right eye dominant made it easier.


6 posted on 09/28/2024 11:21:25 AM PDT by doorgunner69 (I don't know what he said at the end of that sentence. i don't think he knows what he said either)
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To: DallasBiff
Let's all meet at The Leftorium...


7 posted on 09/28/2024 11:21:29 AM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom (May the soy boys, feminazis, and alphabet weirdos choke on the toxic fumes of our masculinity)
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To: DallasBiff
Until relatively recently, being left-handed was stigmatized, sometimes as an abnormality or sign of weakness.

Sort of like a red-headed stepchild.

8 posted on 09/28/2024 11:21:57 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum (The worst thing about censorship is █████ ██ ████ ████ ████ █ ███████ ████. FJB.)
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To: DallasBiff

I have never noticed the screeching, but maybe it’s there.

I’m married to a leftie, and in his family he has a leftie mom and a leftie sister. So 3 out of 7 in his family.

Also, both of my sisters are married to left handed men. Kind of an interesting coincidence. None of the children are lefties, though, out of 7 kids between us.


9 posted on 09/28/2024 11:23:00 AM PDT by FamiliarFace (I got my own way of livin' But everything gets done With a southern accent Where I come from. TPetty)
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To: butlerweave

I have mirror image twins. One is right-handed and one is left-handed. Their politics match that.


10 posted on 09/28/2024 11:24:47 AM PDT by luckystarmom
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To: irishjuggler

“When you take a look at any sort “outlier” cohort of humanity, whether professional athletes, nuclear physicists, NASA astronauts or U.S. presidents, you’ll typically see an over-representation of southpaws. This is not a coincidence.”

Same with music.


11 posted on 09/28/2024 11:26:25 AM PDT by SaxxonWoods (.You will suffer from one: The pain of discipline or the pain of regret. )
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To: BenLurkin
Baseball: Left handed pitchers - Yes. Catchers and shortstops - a hard no.

Football: Quarterbacks - only two have won Super Bowls; Ken Stabler and Steve Young

12 posted on 09/28/2024 11:26:42 AM PDT by T.B. Yoits
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To: doorgunner69

Husband is a left handed engineer. One brother in law is a left handed architect. The other brother in law is licensed contractor. All are really good with numbers.


13 posted on 09/28/2024 11:26:49 AM PDT by FamiliarFace (I got my own way of livin' But everything gets done With a southern accent Where I come from. TPetty)
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To: DallasBiff

I believe it is wrong to discriminate against left-handed people. They should be treated just the same as normal people.


14 posted on 09/28/2024 11:42:54 AM PDT by Jeff Chandler (THE ISSUE IS NEVER THE ISSUE. THE REVOLUTION IS THE ISSUE.)
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To: DallasBiff

Perhaps they’d be more accepted if they stopped their sinister behavior.


15 posted on 09/28/2024 11:43:43 AM PDT by MikelTackNailer (We can never stop failing for the minute we do, we fail.)
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To: MikelTackNailer

Perhaps they’d be more accepted if they stopped their sinister behavior.

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It would be interesting to know what percentage of historical tyrants were left-handed. Of course we’d have to define what we mean by tyrant, but a large list could be made that has fairly widespread agreement.


16 posted on 09/28/2024 11:50:41 AM PDT by Bishop_Malachi (Liberal Socialism - A philosophy which advocates spreading a low standard of living equally.)
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To: butlerweave

I know you said that tongue in cheek, but animal behaviorists have discovered that cats indeed DO have innate paw preferences.

CC


17 posted on 09/28/2024 11:55:35 AM PDT by Celtic Conservative (My cats are more amusing than 200 channels worth of TV.)
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To: DallasBiff

I was born in 1947, am left-handed and never felt differently, stigmatized or weak. I am a strong, independent woman who raised my two sons alone, and moved my kids to accept a job to work in uniform for 25 years in NY State’s prison system...male prisons only. Must be the left-handed snowflakes of today that feel that way.


18 posted on 09/28/2024 11:55:45 AM PDT by mass55th (“Courage is being scared to death, but saddling up anyway.” ― John Wayne)
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To: doorgunner69

That’s the way I am as well. I write left handed, but shoot right handed. I tried it left, but I didn’t like it.

CC


19 posted on 09/28/2024 11:57:49 AM PDT by Celtic Conservative (My cats are more amusing than 200 channels worth of TV.)
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To: butlerweave
"My father and sister are left handed and I think one of our cats is also left handed..."

I'm left-handed. My oldest sister was left-handed too. My parents and other two siblings were all right-handed. I know I was never criticized in school (1950's) for being left handed. I can't say the same for my sister as she was 7 years older than me.

20 posted on 09/28/2024 11:58:09 AM PDT by mass55th (“Courage is being scared to death, but saddling up anyway.” ― John Wayne)
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