why isnt anything made to the convenience of left-handed people?
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According to Wikipedia:\n\nApproximately 10% of the population is left-handed.  Generally, there are about 10% more male left handers than female left handers. Approximately one-third of identical twins are left-handed. Statistically, the twin of a left-handed person has a 76% chance of being left-handed.\n\nThus left-handers are the minority.  Businesses tend to make products for the majority to usher in the most revenue.  Most left handers (myself included) are not dramatically affected by and have adapted to living in a right-handed world without difficulty.  However, Microsoft Windows includes a utility to set up a mouse for left-handed usage and school desks catering to left-handers are not uncommon.  There are several others that a simple web search on Yahoo or Google will reveal.
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I am the opposite of you. I am a left handed but i mostly do things with my right, I've been told that such persons who use both hands for something are balanced, they don't do everything with one hand. :)
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I guarantee u it isnt an easy job to teach left handed people how to do things when you arent left handed yourself. Well what I have done is bought a pair of normal kid scissors for left or right handed and practiced myself a bit then when I thought I had  a good hand on it, Then I'd help the child position their hand in the scissors and on the paper and using the hand over hand technique helped to teach the child. of cource when they do it alone they'll position their hands more comfortably for them. Hope this was helpful.
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I m not left handed but my son will b and my great grandmother and some friends are. Right handed is considered the "norm" but what is Normal. Friends used to joke that us right handed people write backwards anyway (pay attention to the direction of the writing, its funny). \n\nI order from Schwans but i hab the whole ice cream thing a few years back at COlonial mall in Macon, GA....they were called Ice Cream Bites (shaped like nerds but melt like ice cream) i have the Z-bops on back order.\n\nAs far as teh engagement thing, u can if u want however if u need to show the world that u are engage and taken, sounds like u like attention. Hell, anyone can buy a ring and show it off. But if this is something sincere and is a part of ur plans...then get engage and get married after college and i wish u the best of luck.
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=those that can use both hands equally will get along better if they were to loose the use of their dominant hand.  My guess of the two would be right handed because that is left brain controlled.
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your problem is just that your thumb is way more active than your index finger on your left hand.\nthe current keyboards aren't designed properly, in fact the reason for their design was so that typewriter salesmen could wow there hosts by typing out typwriter quickly and easily using only the top keys.  plus you are probably right handed
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Yes, USA - I am left handed and up until the sixth grade my teachers forced me to turn my papers like a right hander would and I was forced to throw right handed in gym and do everything right handed because they did not have the equipment to suit a left handed individual. When I was in the sixth grade my teacher noticed how difficult I was having to write that way and turned my paper. To this day I get complements about my handwriting thanks to her. I live in the USA and my children have had the same problem going through school. Not as much as I but still very segregated. Even at doctors offices and other public places it is suited to work for a right handed world. Notebooks for example are right handed suited. The binding is to the left and therefore out of the way when a right hander writes but the left hander has to rest there arm on the binding to write. Trivial I know bu still very frustrating.  It is getting better but we will never out number the right handers so therefore society does not see need for a change. It is considered a handicap.
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Because you don't have any hands??
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In general, a lefty would use a glove that goes on his right hand.  The reason is that you want your stronger arm (the left) available for throwing, which requires more strength than catching.
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i do! i am left handed and i am gifted. all the lefties i know are special too.
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Hmmmm ... it's difficult to say.  Maybe people who are left handed are smarter since they have to learn to cope in a world made for right handed people.  \n\nWhile there is an unresolved debate within the scientific community on how to operationalize both intelligence and creativity, some studies have demonstrated a small positive correlation between left-handedness and creativity/intelligence.  In his book Right-Hand, Left-Hand, Chris McManus of University College London, argues that the proportion of left-handers is rising and left-handed people as a group have historically produced an above-average quota of high achievers. He says that left-handers' brains are structured differently in a way that widens their range of abilities, and the genes that determine left-handedness also govern development of the language centres of the brain.\n\nI hope this helps.
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because a great percentage of the population is right-handed. and because if you are a right-handed person, you are more inclined in using most of the body parts such as hand, fingers, foot, and toes in your right so they tend to get bigger than their left conterpart.
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yes but use both hands
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Most people are right handed.  Laws of probability.
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My mother says that when I came home from kindergarten one day, I proudly told her what I had learned that day.  Holding up my right hand, I said, "This is my right hand," and holding up my left hand, I said, "And this is my wrong hand."\n\nThey made me learn to use my right hand instead of my left from an early age.  But I still use my left hand if that is what is convenient, and although I never learned to write with my left hand, I can do it [not as well as with the right].\n\nWhen playing pool, this comes in handy, as some shots require contortions if you only use the one hand, so I switch as needed.  Hammering and screwdrivering are also better in some positions with the left hand.  I also tend to cut things on my plate with the right hand, holding the meat or whatever with the left, then put the food in my mouth with the left.\n\nI know a few people who are so right-dominated that they might as well not even have a left hand, it's so useless to them.\n\nIn fact, I have two friends, one righthanded and on lefthanded.  I explained to each of them [separately] about my use of the mouse, which is as follows: it is on the left,  and I use the left hand, but I don't have Windows switch the buttons.  I explain that the left mouse button is still on the left and the right button is on the right regardless of what hand you use to push them.  But they can't understand this and can't use the mouse unless, for the righty, she moves the mouse or changes the buttons, and for the lefty, she changes the buttons.  They can't left click with the left hand, even when they are lefthanded....
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Around 20 years ago Time mag. had an article explaining the difference in thought processes for right hand left hand thinking.  Basically left handed people have a completely different method in processing especially in verbal usage. Not only do left handers use different circuits they also influence they way their non left handed off spring will process information.
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People who are left-handed are more dextrous with their left hand than with their right hand: they will probably also use their left hand for tasks such as personal care, cooking, and so on. Writing is not as good an indicater of handedness as it might seem, because many people who write with their right hand use their left for everything else.\n\n\nCauses of left-handedness\n\nNo one knows for certain why the human population is right-handed-dominant, but a number of theories have been proposed.\n\n\nEvolutionary theories: The warrior and his shield\n\nThis theory attempts to explain left-handedness by the position of a warrior's shield and his heart. Basically, since the heart is on the left side of the body, a warrior holding his shield with his left hand would be better able to protect his heart than if he held it with his right. Thus, a greater mortality of left-handers would explain the prevalence of right-handedness today.\n\n \nThe heart is not that far off center. While it is on the left side of the body, it is still fairly central in location. Protecting it with a shield would only result in a weak selective pressure, and there have not been enough generations since the bronze age. \n\n  \nIt predicts that more men would be right-handed than women. However, data indicates that more males are left-handed than females. \nAnalysis of ancient cave paintings indicate that humanity was right-handed long before the bronze age. \n\nBrain hemisphere division of labour\n\nThis is the most commonly accepted theory of handedness. The premise of this theory is that since both speaking and handiwork require fine motor skills, having one hemisphere of the brain do both would be more efficient than having it divided up. And since in most people, the left side of the brain controls speaking, right-handedness would prevail. It also predicts that left-handed people would have a reversed brain division of labour. Lastly, since other primates do not have a spoken language (at least of the type we have) there would be no stimulus for right-handed preference among them, and that is true.\n\n\nEnvironmental theories\n\nBirth stress \n\nLeft-handed people cringe at this theory, because its basic premise is that left-handedness is due to brain damage during the birth process. Unfortunately, some statistics do back this theory up.\n\nDifficult or stressful births happen far more commonly among babies who grow up to be left-handed or ambidextrous. Birth stress is also associated with a number of birth defects and complications, including cerebral palsy and autism.\n\n Throughout history and throughout the world, the level of medicine and technology to assist with childbirth has improved. In spite of that, the proportion of left-handed people has not decreased. (In a sense, it has increased because more people see left-handedness as the benign trait it is.) \n\nParental pressure\nThis theory explains right-handed dominance by claiming that since the parents who raised us are mostly right-handed, we came to be mostly right-handed and so on.