Left-handed? Then you're more likely to be angry

Daily Mail ^ | 17th September 2010 | Daniel Bates

[Daffynition]

Life holds many frustrations for left-handed people – from the everyday items designed for right-handers to folklore saying they are in league with the devil.

So perhaps it is the result of dealing with such adversity that, according to researchers, they are angrier than the average person.

Researchers found that among lefties, the two hemispheres of the brain communicate more with each other so have more interaction with the parts which produce negative emotions.

[Nickname]

I’m angry and I only open jars and turn spigots left handed. I don’t know how you full-blown lefties keep it together.

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks D. That list doesn’t have that many angry presidents on it; it shows less than 20 percent of our presidents were left-handed, which kinda figures, eh? Truman was a biased bitter partisan and turned on anyone who challenged him, starting with the political machine that propelled him into office; Clinton and Obama are childish little bitches; Ford could blow his stack, but drank too much. I’m pretty sure Garfield was easygoing as high-powered execs go, and Reagan’s angers were righteous. GB didn’t seem to get any further than annoyed. Hoover thought a little too highly of his own ideas (like Demwits everywhere) and was more the butt of anger than the other way, but had a knack for bringing out anger in others. :’)

[afraidfortherepublic]

My son's kindergarten teacher devised a test for her 2 classes to try to predict which children were ready for 1st grade. My son was among 12 left-handed boys who were deemed "not quite ready". When I went in to find out why he was chosen, I instantly noticed the common denominators of "left-handed" and "boys". Delving into how she had "tested" them, I discovered that she had made up this test herslf and one of the tasks was to cut out a circle free hand. I asked if the children had left handed scissors. NO. No wonder these 5 year olds couldn't cut a decent circle!

Then she smugly said that wasn't the only task my son had failed. He also failed to draw a cross. They were told to draw a cross (no example given to copy.) My son's cross looked like a Roman cross.

But, she wanted them to draw a Red Cross type cross with the cross pieces being equal in length. Of course she didn't tell them that.

Our family is Catholic. Of course a "cross" to him looked like the Latin cross. Duh! Apparently the whole idea was to get a bunch of kids to form an all boy class who would not be asked to learn to read to make a special class for a male student teacher that they wanted to hire as an experiment. Instead of teaching them to read, the idea was to fill the classroom with lots of games, activities, and books to see if these kids would pick up these books and learn to read them on their own.

About half of the moms (including me) removed our kids from the school. We enrolled our son in our Parish School where the nun had him reading by Christmas of the first grade (using phonics instead of the sit-him-next-to-a-book-and-see-if-he picks-it-up method). He won the school's 1st prize in the school's science fair the following year. He grew up to hold a PhD in Materials Science and Engineering, a Music Minister, devoted husband, father of four, scout leader, and leader in his church. So much for the kindergarten teacher's ability to predict anybody's academic future.

[Daffynition]

Yes. Since childhood.

[NautiNurse]

Best part of being left-handed: Fork already in the left hand, no need to switch hands after cutting food with a knife.

Finding a left-handed desk in college lecture halls was a challenge. The old spiral telephone cords quickly got tangled. Don't have to worry about those things anymore.

[Daffynition]

[airborne]

It must be true!

I read it on the Internet!

(and yes I am a lefty. What's it to ya?) 8^p

[Daffynition]

>I’m pretty sure Garfield was easygoing...<

[wideminded]

I’m left handed but definitely do not have a short fuse or become angry quickly and I am not an angry person. The bra hook thing is right though.

[who knows what evil?]

Double :-) :-)

Double? Guess that DOES make more sense...

[Northern Yankee]

I’ve always found it interesting that if you’re correct in doing or saying something, the response is always, “You’re right!” ; )

[JoeProBono]

[Prince of Space]

"Damn these scissors!

And what about pencils??!!?

We really should rise up against society that has been holding us back all these years.

Mrs. Prince of Space

[dangus]

Pencils are right-handed?

[Vaduz]

And so are those darn metric screw drivers.

[SunkenCiv]

One lasagne and he was good to go.

[Dead Corpse]

Left-handed angry guy here. Nice to know I have more than just the usual excuses to be angry. This makes me less angry about a few things. ;-)

[driftless2]

Lefties also have it better in bowling as their lanes are not as marked up as righties. It’s so unfair (sniff, sniff).

[My hearts in London - Everett]

They did that with my mother back in grade school in the 40s in Maine. Wasn’t that just the way it was nationwide back then? I don’t know when they stopped trying to force left-handers to become right handed.

[Canedawg]

Southpaws!