I am coming out of the closet

Damian

Damian

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Angel4Truth said:
I started out left handed and after being cracked in the knuckles enough with a ruler to "use the right hand" i learned how to use my right hand real fast to avoid the pain and to this day I am now right handed and write like a child with my left hand if i try to do it now.

See, behaviors can be changed after all....
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That explains it.
 
The Barbarian

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Statistically, lefties tend to be smarter than right-handed people, but they also tend to die younger. However, the latter seems to be an artifact of the increasing number of people who identify as lefties:
http://marginalrevolution.com/margi...atistics-do-left-handed-people-die-young.html

There may actually be a neurological basis for intelligence among lefties:
Whatever the ultimate explanation may be, the advantage appears to extend to other types of thinking, too. In a 1986 study of students who had scored in the top of their age group on either the math or the verbal sections of the S.A.T., the prevalence of left-handers among the high achievers—over fifteen per cent, as compared to the roughly ten percent found in the general population—was higher than in any comparison groups, which included their siblings and parents. Among those who had scored in the top in both the verbal and math sections, the percentage of left-handers jumped to nearly seventeen per cent, for males, and twenty per cent, for females. That advantage echoes an earlier sample of elementary-school children, which found increased left-handedness among children with I.Q. scores above a hundred and thirty-one.
http://www.newyorker.com/tech/elements/sinister-minds-are-left-handed-people-smarter

Or it might just be that I'm left-handed, and seeing it that way. Hard to say.
 
PureX

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The Berean said:
After reading alwight's post I feel like such a phony, such a liar.



So today I decided to not live a lie anymore. I admit that I am left handed. :flamer: I even kick a soccer ball with my left foot. :dizzy: I believe God made me this way. Please don't hate me. I will not put up with lefthandedphobia.:carryon:
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And, he's really a REDHEAD!!!!
 
B

bybee

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The Barbarian said:
Statistically, lefties tend to be smarter than right-handed people, but they also tend to die younger. However, the latter seems to be an artifact of the increasing number of people who identify as lefties:
http://marginalrevolution.com/margi...atistics-do-left-handed-people-die-young.html

There may actually be a neurological basis for intelligence among lefties:
Whatever the ultimate explanation may be, the advantage appears to extend to other types of thinking, too. In a 1986 study of students who had scored in the top of their age group on either the math or the verbal sections of the S.A.T., the prevalence of left-handers among the high achievers—over fifteen per cent, as compared to the roughly ten percent found in the general population—was higher than in any comparison groups, which included their siblings and parents. Among those who had scored in the top in both the verbal and math sections, the percentage of left-handers jumped to nearly seventeen per cent, for males, and twenty per cent, for females. That advantage echoes an earlier sample of elementary-school children, which found increased left-handedness among children with I.Q. scores above a hundred and thirty-one.
http://www.newyorker.com/tech/elements/sinister-minds-are-left-handed-people-smarter

Or it might just be that I'm left-handed, and seeing it that way. Hard to say.
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I like that post! I'm a lefty, smart in some things and dumb in others.
 
kmoney

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The Berean said:
After reading alwight's post I feel like such a phony, such a liar.



So today I decided to not live a lie anymore. I admit that I am left handed. :flamer: I even kick a soccer ball with my left foot. :dizzy: I believe God made me this way. Please don't hate me. I will not put up with lefthandedphobia.:carryon:
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I'm a lefty also! :wave2:

I kick with my right foot though. And I golf right handed. I swing a bat lefty though. :Clete:
 
alwight

alwight

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Angel4Truth said:
I started out left handed and after being cracked in the knuckles enough with a ruler to "use the right hand" i learned how to use my right hand real fast to avoid the pain and to this day I am now right handed and write like a child with my left hand if i try to do it now.

See, behaviors can be changed after all....
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Horatio Nelson had to became left-handed after losing his right, but his handwriting was never as good. :think:
 
The Berean

The Berean

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I'm still proud and happy that I came out of the closet. I take it one day at a time. I have met some opposition from stubborn southpaw-phobes who don't agree that I was born a southpaw. They keep telling me to repent of my "wickedness". But my family and friends have supported me to live my life my way.
 
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