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Left Handers
- Thread starter Don Quixote
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Because we live in a world designed for right handers. Prejudiced cocks.
raymondbriggs
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Are Lefties A Bit Sinister?By Leila Sattary
Statistics show left-handed people are more likely to be schizophrenic, alcoholic and dyslexic as well as having an increased risk of other mental disabilities. Not only that, they are also more likely to die young and get into accidents. So if evolution dictates survival of the fittest, why are lefties not as dead as the dodo?
Handiness is primarily developed before birth; scientists have observed unborn babies showing a left-handed preference on ultrasound scans and then growing up to be left-handers. Recent research at Oxford University has discovered the ‘left-handed gene’ LRRTM1However, they have also linked the lefty-gene to a predisposition to develop psychotic mental illness such as schizophrenia.
Dr Fred Kavalier from London’s Guy’s Hospital said ‘I don’t think left-handed people should be alarmed, there are many other factors that contribute to schizophrenia. This may be a tiny little element in the big jigsaw.’
Another theory suggests that, instead of being genetic, left-handiness could be caused by excess testosterone during pregnancy which may cause dominance of the right-hemisphere of the brain. Slower development of the left-hemisphere, which controls the verbal and analytical functions, could cause learning disabilities or autism.
In any case, the consensus is that lefties have more against them in life. They have society to blame as well as their genes. Everything from kitchen utensils to our right-to-left writing system is against them. Left-handers have been disadvantaged throughout history. Everything from Christian-Greek scriptures deeming them as evil to Japanese men, until only recently, being able to divorce their wives purely because they are left-handed
Statistics show left-handed people are more likely to be schizophrenic, alcoholic and dyslexic as well as having an increased risk of other mental disabilities. Not only that, they are also more likely to die young and get into accidents. So if evolution dictates survival of the fittest, why are lefties not as dead as the dodo?
Handiness is primarily developed before birth; scientists have observed unborn babies showing a left-handed preference on ultrasound scans and then growing up to be left-handers. Recent research at Oxford University has discovered the ‘left-handed gene’ LRRTM1However, they have also linked the lefty-gene to a predisposition to develop psychotic mental illness such as schizophrenia.
Dr Fred Kavalier from London’s Guy’s Hospital said ‘I don’t think left-handed people should be alarmed, there are many other factors that contribute to schizophrenia. This may be a tiny little element in the big jigsaw.’
Another theory suggests that, instead of being genetic, left-handiness could be caused by excess testosterone during pregnancy which may cause dominance of the right-hemisphere of the brain. Slower development of the left-hemisphere, which controls the verbal and analytical functions, could cause learning disabilities or autism.
In any case, the consensus is that lefties have more against them in life. They have society to blame as well as their genes. Everything from kitchen utensils to our right-to-left writing system is against them. Left-handers have been disadvantaged throughout history. Everything from Christian-Greek scriptures deeming them as evil to Japanese men, until only recently, being able to divorce their wives purely because they are left-handed
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Amsterdam Albion
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- Mar 11, 2008
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left, although judging by my handwriting, and speed of typing maybe I am really a rightie
skipper734
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The ideal match is a man and a woman who are opposite handers. Think about it, and those you have known. 
raymondbriggs
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I'd better make the most of my time left and open another bottle then!!!!
see my post of the learned doctors dissitation regarding all lefties being buckfast wine drinking,booze addled,alchoholics.
says he,with a can of wife beater at his lips.
Don Quixote
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- Nov 4, 2008
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We like our drink ok!?
The lord made a few people perfect (like me), the rest he made right-handed.
footychick
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wrong handed as hubby calls it.
I can't cut with scissors with my left hand though
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Tyrone Biggums
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And yet despite all that we still earn more money than you poor dopey right handed chavs.
Humans haven't stopped evolving, left handers are the next step up in the evolutionary chain.
That's evolution at work right there.
GO the leftys
I'm right-handed myself but am interested in this question because of the way my son behaves. He's four years old but doesn't appear to be left-handed or right-handed: he just seems to use whatever hand is closer - I'd like to know at what age is right or left handedness determined. I'd have thought that at four, we'd know what my son was - but clearly not.
Maybe he's ambidextrous?
Tyrone Biggums
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Sounds like he might be ambidextrous at present.
It normally becomes apparent when a child starts to draw or paint things as to what hand will be their dominant one.
It also has alot to do with the early years of training the child gets through family influence.
I know a few left handers who play things like golf and cricket batting right handed because either the equipment wasnt there for a left hander or the person teaching them was right handed.
Most likely if both you and your partner are right handed the child will end up more right side dominant than left sided despite their early non dominant side appearance.
Tyrone Biggums
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I can't cut with scissors with my left hand though
Left handed women are far less in numbers than left handed males.
That makes you all the more unique.
We've been really careful never to influence whether he's right-handed or left-handed though. We've never corrected which hand he's using and have, for example, let him bat left-handed or right-handed when we're playing cricket.
When it comes to painting/drawing/writing he virtually always uses his right hand. When it comes to eating/cleaning teeth/throwing/picking things up he virtually always uses his left. Because he invariably used scissors left handed, we bought him some left-handed scissors - he then promptly started using his right - it's all very confusing for us.
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YAY Left handers RULE!!! GOD was left handed! FACT
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Im a lefty too!!!