What is unique about being left-handed?

Left-handers use the right side of the brain more. The human brain is cross-wired — its right half controls the left side of the body and vice versa. Hence, left-handers use their right side of the brain more than right-handed people do. Left-handers recover quicker after a stroke.

What things do left-handed people struggle with?

20 Struggles Only Left Handed People Will Understand

• Finding a lefty friendly desk.
• Ergonomic handle scissors, not for lefties though.
• Measuring tapes tend to be upside down.
• Crosswords are discriminatory.
• The eternal right-left elbow war.
• The devil’s own spiral notebooks.
• Can openers can go do one.
• Firing a gun could.

What traits are commonly linked to being left-handed?

Five personality traits of left-handed people

• Lefties are more creative.
• Left-handed people have a big advantage at competitive sports.
• Lefties are more likely to suffer from mental illness.
• Lefties hear speech differently.
• Left-handed people tend to be more fearful.

What things are harder for lefties?

Swiping credit cards and cutting with scissors are just two things that are harder for lefties.

• Pens at the bank are always attached on the right side.
• The flap covering the zippers on pants blocks easy access from the left side.
• If you hold a glass measuring cup in your left hand, you’re stuck with metric measurements.

Is there any benefit to being left-handed?

They are better at multitasking. Lefties have always had to think more quickly, as they have always faced right-handed challenges. This pays off later in life, because the communication between both of their brain hemispheres is that much faster and more efficient.

How do left-handers eat?

Left-handers – we know from our own surveys that 74\% of left-handers eat with a knife and fork in the “right-handed” way – with the fork in their left hand and feeding themselves with the left hand. When left-handers are using just a knife, e.g. for cutting bread, 88\% move it into their left hand.

Do people who are left handed think differently?

While some reasons for the differences in thinking and functioning may be genetic and anatomical, left-handedness is behavioral as well. Things left-handers do differently are often influenced by the societal implications of having a dominant hand that differs from the general public.

Do lefties learn differently?

Lefties may be able to use both sides of their brain more easily and efficiently. According to an Australian study published in 2006 in the journal Neuropsychology, left-handed people tend to have faster connections between the right and left hemispheres of the brain, which leads to quicker information processing.

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