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  1. Sheila says:
    January 22, 2010 at 4:50 am

    Is it a myth or is it true that left handed people have a shorter lifespan?

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  2. Ganna says:
    October 20, 2009 at 9:55 pm

    Hello Beautiful Lefthanded People:
    Just remember when people don’t understand something or they have to put a little more effort or work in accommodating a person that sees or does things differently, they call that person weird or out of the norm. It is easier for them to do that, rather than just to make a little adjustment, it is their lose and ignorance. Please stay incourage. No I am not lefthanded, when I write I am made fun of because I am always told that I write like a lefthanded person whatever that means. I came across this site looking for information for my grandson. He is four years old and he is a lefty. When he was about six months old we discovered that he was lefthanded. Concerning his education things were fine until they wanted to put him in kindergarden, but he would not write his name or anything for that matter and everything else he is above average in. We thought he was just being lazy and was dyslexic, until I started keeping him and I came across this site and we found out that everything we have been trying to teach him has been for righthanded people and he feels awkward. After watching some videos, we discoverd my grandson is not dyslexic he just need lefthanded products that is comfort for him to learn with. I would like some information on how I can help him in his learning, how to teach him. I would appreciate any help and/or suggestion you may have to give. Thank you for this site and helping us to understand our love one in being a lefty. REMEMBER LEFTHANDERS KEEPS THE WORLD BALANCED.

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  3. Carole Gallagher says:
    October 17, 2009 at 4:47 pm

    Not sure if this is the right forum (or should that be left) to be writing in, but us lefties definitely are different than our right handed brothers and sisters. I am totally left sided and all through life have been considered clumsy. In my opinion I’m not, left to my own devices I am not at all clumsy tho input righthanded people…. well …… Get this tho, things go so bad (I worked in the local University) my office manager was doing research and gave everyone observational tests to do. Everyone in the office was a rightie – except me. Guess whose test came back radically different from everyone elses :-) That would be fine but it got out of control, i laughed it off and returned all the leftie jokes with – well at least I can think outside the box. The result of this, well after having worked at the same place for 10 years – it was decided by the powers that be that I was far too different (also have epilepsy – which upon research I have found out that quite a high percentage of people with epilepsy are lefties). The epilepsy is well controlled but it was put to me that both my left handedness and Epilepsy caused too much of a problem. In fact the lefthandedness caused more :-) I was sent for Psychological assessments – and on the Away Day was put on the table with disabled people!!!!! I have since left the University. And I thought the days of “She’s a Witch – Burn Her” had gone :-)

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    • Jeanne says:
      December 18, 2009 at 1:26 pm

      I’m a lefties also and had siezures after I cracked my skul in an accident. Most of my friends are also lefties, not on purpose. I do think we are more creative. I tie my shoes backwards someone pointed this out to me and said I must have had a right handed parent teach me how to tie my shoes.

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    • Tina says:
      October 17, 2009 at 8:33 pm

      Carole,
      just wanted to let you know that there are some of us out here listening! I think your story sucks! makes you wonder what people like that are really thinking about us lefties! it seems to me that some treat us like we are going to give them some kind of dieses or something! Should there be a law for us that says that treating us like they did you should be discrimination? anyway to let you know that i feel that they did you a favor in the long run because that is just one more thing that proves that us lefties are right in how we feel people look and feel about us.
      Hope things have worked out better for you.
      Tina

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      • ceegee says:
        October 19, 2009 at 10:26 am

        Hi Tina

        Thanks for that, yeah it sucks, but heh life goes on :-) Now my life is really good, I have jumped off the pavement and have now moved on with my life, doing something that I really want to do. I got into administration by default really, and personally, for me it doesnt work, far too structured towards righties :-) Nothing wrong with righties at all just it would appear that things are geared towards them. I believe that to a certain extent we do tend to look at things differently but that isnt wrong, just adds to the mix.
        Yes I have moved on and decided not to conform I decided to move on and do something I really feel is more geared towards me and my strengths. Life is good and I can be totally me. The totally left sided, ‘cack-handed’ (lovely expression) me :-) To be fair most people take into account us lefties and it is never an issue, just an interesting difference. As a point of interest, both my ex-husband and I are lefties, our daughter is a rightie, fun and games bringing her up and trying to teach her all the rudimentary things we learn in life, tieing shoes laces, using scissors, stuff like that. She is now partially ambidextrous and loves it :-) I remember when I was small, my right handed parents trying to teach me thing, Oooh when my mum tried to teach me to knit!! :-) My mum and dad both remembered lefties when they were at school and how they had their left hands tied behind their backs to make them “write properly” Obviously they didnt try to enforce that with me. Looking through this site I came across all the words for us Lefties, my parents are both from Ireland and they affectionately called me a “kitter” when I was little and were actually quite proud of the fact that I was ‘different’.

        Thanks for responding Tina

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  4. Sue Patrick says:
    September 16, 2009 at 10:25 pm

    I was just thinking the same thing Debbie!
    On the other hand, I can’t think of any games to do with us lefties.
    Does anyone else know then?

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  5. debbie white says:
    August 7, 2009 at 12:45 pm

    how can i put comments in any of these if there is nothing to look at?

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