I’ve never thought of myself as disabled. The only problems I’ve ever really had were with those half-desks in school that were made with a right hand bias. Occasionally there would be one or two left handed ones in a room but the rest of the time I had to shift awkwardly. Otherwise I always got by.
Of course, I do have two pair of left handed scissors. Real ones. Not the ones that are advertised as being for “left or right handed people.” Which are just righties without bias molded handles.
I’ve occasionally joked about lefties being subject to discrimination, but it’s just a joke.
One day, though, we’ll make the righties pay. Heh, heh, heh.
No, left handedness is not a disability. In fact, left-handedness is not even a born trait, contradictory to popular belief. Handedness is learned. The notion of brain hemisphere dominance is a pseuodoscience. My long post on this with cites was eaten by hamsters, and I don’t want to do it again, but I urge you to google on the topic and see what you come up with, as well as interrogating what scientific evidence there really is for handedness or brain hemisphere dominance as an innate quality.
I’m a third or fourth generation leftie. Mrs. Duckster is a leftie. The cat is a leftie (as are most cats).
Seems to me the disability exists in the right-hand world. After all, they require all sorts of tools and things designed especially for them. I can use any with ease.
I am left handed since birth. Don’t start talking nonsense about something you obviously have no idea about.
I was not “influenced” or “teached” at all to give preference to my left hand, quite the contrary. I was teached to use my right hand for things like writing, eating etc… because in our culture this is the way you do things. Yet that didn’t “cure” me from being left handed bewause beuing left handed is my nature. Thus I can write ,eat, do almost everything with both hands, yet still use my left hand by preference and automatically when there is no “outside pressure”’ because that is my nature.
My son is left handed since birth. I saw that already when he was merely a few hours old. Nobody ever did anything to "encourage " him to give preference to the use of his left hand; he just used it (and uses it) in the way any right handed person uses his right hand.
By the way: I don’t consider myself “disabled” because I am left handed. That is just ridiculous. I should say left handed people in a domintantly right handed world have lot of advantages, because we are pressed to learn how to deal with the difficulties and thus learn to use our imagination and learn how to adapt ourselves. (I would like to see a right handed person use his left hand with the same skill as we use our right hand = our both hands).
I am also severely dyslexic. In comparison with that handicap, suggesting that being left handed is a 'disability" is in my opinion a luxury joke.
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Really? I played field hockey for years without noticing any difficulty due to my left-handedness. (In fact, hockey influenced me so much that I play right-handed at cricket and golf.)
OK, picture this scenario. Lefty starts a new job, has difficulties because his/her work station is set up for right-handed person. Lefty rearranges work station to make it easier to work at. Boss comes to cubicle, reprimands Lefty, orders him/her to put work station back the way it was. Lefty complies. Boss later reprimands Lefty for inefficiency on job, which is caused in large part by working at a station that is set up for right-handed person. Lefty begs permission to rearrange work station because this would enable him/her to perform job more efficiently. Boss says, “tough shit”. Lefty is eventually fired for inefficiency.
I tend to think that a wrongful dismissal suit would be in order here, since handedness is a matter of neurological wiring, and Boss was aware of Lefty’s lefthandedness and refused to allow Lefty to make accomodations for his/her, well, for lack of a better word, condition, that would enable him/her to perform the job efficiently.
It is not a pseudoscience. You are merely ignorant. I suggest that you abandon non-indexes like Google and use Medline to research the REAL scientific literature directly.
In a world of non-handed tools, left-handedness would pose no disability. However, left-handedness can result in a de facto disability that is more due to mindlessness and thoughtlessness on the part of the right-handed majority and any innate physical deficiency on the part of right-handers.
I adore it when some poor, fumble-fingered right-hander (and most of them are so undextrous) must work in an area that I’ve set up for myself. I can use their setups with very little difficulty, but those poor inferior, clumsy right-handers are helpless when faced with a left-handed setup.
We leftys are often more creative that those boring rightys. Is it that the 2 traits are linked, or has living in a backward world required us to become creative?
Even though I write and eat with my left hand, most other tasks I perform with my right or either hand.
I craft stained glass, and I solder with either hand.
When I was in first grade, I would print to the middle of the paper with my left hand, then switch to the right. I got yelled at. The teacher said she didn’t care which I used, but I must only use one. I still don’t understand why.
Another lefty checking in, by no means disabled or whatever the PC word is supposed to be. Sure there have been a few bothers along the lines of the school desks/work stations set up for righties. But in the end I’ve found we adapt well. So I turn the paper to a ‘funny’ angle when writing, helps avoid those ink smears! Never had a problem driving a stick, actually learned to drive in one . Only real oddity I’ve ever noticed is I have difficulty remembering telephone numbers or combinations for locks if dialing with my left hand. Anyone else notice if this happens to them too?
I’m sure you can find at least one company selling foam hands with WWJD printed on them too. 10% of people are lefties, but if manufacturers who make just left handed products, or make right handed objects and left handed ones both, even account for 1 ten thousandth of a percent of the total manufacturers, I’d be shocked.
Not only are there pitifully few companies even making the things, you have to buy virtually all leftie products online so you pay two or three times as much as you would for a rightie product, and shipping and wait weeks to get it. I’d like a new glass 2 cup measuring cup. If I bought a right-handed one I could go to a department today and pay $5-7 for it. Or I could get a leftie one and pay $20 for it and get it next month. :rolleyes:
I know that most people making things won’t make them for us too because they’re afraid of not selling them, but I bet if they made a big deal over their products being leftie-friendly people would snap them up, given the biggest reason left-handed products “don’t sell” is that we don’t expect there to be any. It’s hard to sell something people don’t know exist…
Perhaps that’s why my coworker thinks of himself as disabled? He must be in his 50s since I know his son who is a few years older than me.
Well that’s exactly what I mean. As far as I know field hockey is the only game you can’t play lefthanded, no lefthanded hockey sticks, no free hits with your right shoulder pointed at goal. My former boss was lefthanded and like you ended up playing golf righthanded when he took it up because his years of hockey had forced him to learn to hit like that.
