I am left-handed and have suffered through a lifetime of trying to use can openers, classroom writing desks, pencil sharpeners, scissors and a hundred other implements which are designed for the right-handed world.
11% of us were born left-handed including Leonardo da Vinci, Michelangelo, and Albert Einstein, leading us lefties to claim that the right brain makes us smarter and more creative. Less appealing is the fact that we have higher rates of high blood pressure, irritable bowel syndrome, and schizophrenia. ( I have one of those and I'll leave it at that.)
Now, a recent study showed that left-handed college educated males earned 10-15% more than their right-handed counterparts but that did not apply to female lefties.
The study went into extensive detail about greater aptitude in divergent thinking, differing levels of fetal testosterone, and a bunch of other stuff I didn't understand - being female and left-handed, and all.
All I know is, if I'm female, left-handed and suffer from one of those three aforementioned maladies, being more creative isn't going to help me much !
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That is hilarious. Great post.
My mother and grandmother (her mom) are lefties too!
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