Are Left-Handed People Smarter than Right-Handed people?
About 1 in 9 people are left handed. I think that you would make the generalization that many left handed people are more on the creative side, which allows them to tackle problems and issue at a different way. This is because for some left handed people, the two hemispheres of the brain are shared more evenly than in most right handed people's. So for your case, you are born lefty but learned righty, this creativeness may have already been wired into you already. I don't think you could actually say that lefty's are smarter than righty's...
Do you think left handed people are generally funnier people?
I haven't noticed that they are funnier, but I do think they are more creative. Maybe it's because they have to "work around" being in a right-handed world, as most things are geared to righteys.
What causes some people to do some things left-handed and other things right-handed?
Alrighty, so handedness, as we covered before, is something of a mystery in terms of exact origin, but this question has a much simpler answer: it's all about practice.Your brain and muscles develop levels of coordination to match the activities you do. This is easiest in childhood when the brain still has most of its plasticity intact, and specifically, the age of 7 seems to be the cut-off point at which ease in training new activities drops off (learning the mouth coordination to pronounce new languages), or in some cases, disappears[1].So if you've always been taught to throw a frisbee with your left hand, it's a familiar pattern to the brain, and it comes far more naturally than throwing one with your right hand, even though you might use your right hand for everything from writing to using a mouse to cooking.Basically, this is the concept of being mix-handed. Each hand is dominant in a different set of activities. And you can train this to a certain extent even later in life. People who learn and practice piano achieve greater dexterity with their non-dominant hand. Those who are right-handed but learned to play French horn (like myself) become left-hand dominant for playing this instrument, so when you hand us a mellophone[2], we essentially have to re-learn everything.An interesting experiment that anyone can try to prove this concept: start brushing your teeth with your non-dominant hand. It'll be very slow going at first, but you'd be surprised that even within the span of a week, you'll noticeably become more adept. You're training a hemisphere of your brain to pick up a coordinated activity that previously belonged exclusively to the other side--with enough practice, you may eventually find this new habit more natural. Kinda cool.[1] Uncorrected amblyopia results in loss of vision in a physiologically perfect eye.[2] The marching band version of a French horn--identical in sound but all the fingerings are done with the right hand.
OCD and left handed people...?
I read someones answer before and they said OCD is related to to much left side of the brain, so something. Is this true? If so, would that mean right handed people have a high risk of OCD? (Left handed people are usually better at art because they use the right side of their brain which is the 'arty' side. While right handed people are better at science because they use the left side of their brain more) That's what I'm basing this question on by the way...
I'm RIGHT-HANDED but I write like a LEFT-HANDED PERSON, WHAT does this MEAN?
Left handed people who have been taught how to correctly hold their writing implement write no differently from a right handed person. If you write incorrectly you were incorrectly taught and that applies to left handers also. The only problem with left handers (and I am one) is that we cover up the last word that we have written as we progress across the page. This often leads to left handers sloping their writing on unruled paper, because we cannot see the previous part of the line (our own hand is in the way). We find it much easier to write neatly on ruled paper Right handers do not have this problem. When I was a child I used to be regularly chastised for smudging my work, because we used nibbed pens and inkwells in those days. None of my highly educated teachers ever realised that this was because I was left handed and could not help doing so. A far higher percentage of people are left handed these days so problems are more quickly noticed. I hope you get help with your handwriting (even though you are right handed) because it is something that we are often judged by. Good, neat handwriting always gets a better response than bad handwriting gets, so work at it. It will be worth it.
Is it true that left-handed people have a shorter life expectancy then right-handed people?
Being left handed and also having many friends that are left handed, I really appreciate your question. In years past when people were just starting to create things to make life easier most equipment was made to favor the right handed person. So indead it was much more likely that left handed people would not live as long as the changes of them getting seriously hurt by these newly created products was very high. For instance, farm equipment and items for the kitchen and household upkeep were made to be used in the right hand...or dominant hand. When a person was not dominant in the right hand they would try to use their right hand to work the item and because that hand for a left handed person is weaker in most instances they had a higher incidence of getting seriously hurt or killed by not having the strenght to work the item properly. Think about how a notebook or piece of paper is set up. We write from left to right. This was orginated to keep the right hand from smearing the liquid ink as the hand would follow along the page to write the sentence. Some also would say that years ago left handed people died sooner just from the shear stress of trying to live and function in a world created for and by right handed people. Not to mention how many people that were born left handed were forced to be right handed because is was considered a curse to left handed years ago...Sadly, some people still see it that way. Society has come a long way since those times of old and many companies have made products to make the left handed person's life easier... I don't believe that there is an age difference between left and right handed people now. I just think that is the right handed people trying to scare us!! Hahaha!! Never fear there are more and more lefties all the time...Mostly because the crazy practice of turning the lefties to righties is coming to an end...Or at least we can hope!!!
Is it beneficial for right-handed person to learn left hand writing?
I, personally, think it's a great idea. It will strengthen your ability to use your left hand in all areas of life. When I practiced Jujitsu my Sensei would tell me to learn everything left handed first, then right handed (presuming your right hand was the strongest). That way, you would learn quicker because the right hand will pick it up quicker after learning left handed than the other way around. However, I have tried learning to write left handed and it was hard. Maybe it wont be for you, but perhaps start smaller? I read another Quora question and one of the answers was talking about how he/she had started brushing their teeth left handed and all of the benefits that it gave. If I can find it, I'll edit it into my answer.
How can I write with my right hand if I am left-handed?
All my life, I’ve been left-handed. And then, I developed carpel tunnel syndrome. Into a cast went my left wrist and lower arm. I really tried to write using my right hand, but all those years as a left-dominant made writing with the other hand just about impossible. Printing was a little better. It wasn’t nearly as bad when my right hand developed the same affliction.However, I worked with a woman who deliberately used her left hand to write, although she’s always been right-handed. I asked her why she’d do such a thing, and her response made sense: in case her right hand was incapacitated for any reason, she wanted to be able to use her left instead.My dad was ambidextrous, but that’s because in his generation it was totally against the rules of schooling to be left-handed. He had to learn to use his right hand for writing and so many other things. Tools were made to be used by right-handed people, as were guns, etc. In times of war, and he was a WWII veteran, adaptations were necessary.So, the answer to the question asked is the same as the “How do I get to Carnegie Hall?” issue — practice, practice, practice.