What's wrong with being left handed?

I did not know society was against left-handed people. I know lots of people who are left-handed and know one is against them. The only problem I have come across is if you are right-handed and a left-handed person sit next to you to eat it is very hard not bumping arms. Usually we just move a little farther away from eat other and continue to eat.

as far as i know there is nothing wrong with being left handed....back in the day they use to not allow it but then again back in the day people use to think the world was flat lol. i think some people are just not very good at dealing with differences so they dont allow it? maybe? according to a research though right handed people tend to live 9 years longer than left handed people.....but thats just on average and its not a fact lol.....as for my self i am a right handed person and i think there is absolutly nothing wrong with left handed people

I´m left handed. I haven´t had any problems in my life except that every beginning of the school year my father went to see the principal and told her that I was left handed and that´s how it should be. My father was very handsomeso I think that helped. Many incredible people have been left handed, including Leonardo da Vinci. I don´t wnat to boast, but I was the best student in my class at the University and my thesis got an international award. Not that that is important. I think that being smart is trying to do the best with one´s life. Prizes don´t mean much: love does. Take care!

Left handedness was considered a bad thing in the early ages. It is because it was different than usual, with most of the people being right handed. Therefore, the left handed people were considered evil and an incarnation of devil. (Hence the word sinister (left-handed in Latin), which means threatening or evil. This does not have any scientific backing. Also science has proved that left handedness is normal and there is nothing unusual about it. I think your tutor forced their daughter to change from left handed because they are superstitious and do not want their kid to be labeled as evil.

I am left handed and no I do not see any reason why society would be against left handed people. I don't think they are so much against it in today's world. That was just something that was done a long time ago because it was out of the "norm" to be left handed. I just always like to think about that old saying that "since the right half of the brain controls the left half of the body, only left handed people are in their right minds!"

its not bad its just that is different to everyone, so the world is just used to the right handed, games, cars, almoiust everyhing is for right handed... lol

I can't think of any reason why society should be against left handed people. My 12 year old daughter is left handed and I have never forced her to write with her right hand, but have found that society has stared to become more acceptable of left handers as they now sell scissors and pens especially made for them. My daughter is also very smart and talented. My mum is also left handed and when she was at school they tried to force her to write with her right hand but she could not and would always go back to her left hand.

Its funny to read all the comments here. Some said its a evil thing to have other they are not accepted by the society which is all false accussation. Anyways tells me a story way back when i was still a kid and they teached me how to write. The funny part is they give me the pen to my right hand to write but i always switch it to my left hand. They slap my left hand every time i use it but i insist and persevere my writing in a hard way. Now im using my left hand alone on writing things and also in other works i do. Also my left hand is mch strong than my right hand and in terms of boxing sports they have an advantage to the said sport afaik. Although community like they said don't like lft hand, I believe the only reason like my mother tell me the disadvantage of being a lefty is when i start learning to school. Because the chairs mostly built likely for a right hand person for easy writing rather than left hand. It also bothered me when ther is a situation when you sit beside a classmate which is a right hand person cause you hit each other arms every time you two write at the same time.

HI Cambiste, Being a left or right handed is not a big issue in society. That's human right and we are not able to decide for it. My Husband is also a left-handed,he write with his left hand and he can write pretty fast. He also hold spoon with his left hand. I ever asked him whether he can change to his write hand to hold a pen and a spoon. He said 'NO', he just can't write well with his right hand. I don't see the point why I should force him to change to his right-hand for writing. As long as he feels comfortable, he can continue using his left-hand for anything that he like to do.

I haven't a clue why society is against left-handed people but what I can tell you is that I really like being left handed. It was always something that made me different from the other people that I went to school with. I think that part of the reason that people forced a person that was naturally left handed to become right handed is because it is easier to teach a right-handed person certain things. As a left-handed person, I had a difficult time learning to write script because my angle was opposite of that that the other people had. Additionally, it was difficult for my mother to teach me to crochet because I had to do things the opposite way that she did. Now, I have two children of my own and my daughter is right handed, but my son I'm pretty sure is going to be left handed (he's only two years old). And I am perfectly happy with the way that both of my children are.

I had read in a book about how people were treated that were left handed. I thought society had advanced in their thinking way beyond this point about left handed people. There is absolutely nothing wrong with being left handed. I know many people who are left handed and they are smart. I am even handed. I can use both hands to write, but I write much faster and more clearer with my left hand. I believe that I have seen President Obama write and I think he is left handed. We must remember that God made all of us and the left handed people could take the view that there is something wrong with a person who is right handed.

I have two kids who are left handed. Me and my husband did not force them to to use their right hand. So what if they're left-handed. In fact, there's a study that left-handed persons are said to be more talented and do good in school. God made them that way so why change it.

Most of the presidents are left handed, including the last 8. Left handed people are more likely to be leaders.

I know in the old days if you were left handed you were considered unnormal. My uncle used to get teased all the time just for writing with his left hand. I am left handed and so is my sister so thats considered odd but I dont think we are that different from anybody else. My mom never tried to get me to write with my right hand and now I kind of like being left handed because its different. I dont know why people care what hand somebody writes with, it shouldnt make a difference.

You're a teacher? Interesting. When I was a child many years ago, a kidnergarten teacher tormented me for being left handed. She singled me out, yelled at me, screamed at me, for using my left hand. My mother turned her in, and they had me changed to a different classroom. In high school, I had a teacher, in a shorthand class, eagle eye me,( I was holding my pen in my left hand) and tell everyone in a loud voice that left handed people were no good at shorthand, and many other things, too. When I didn't get the hint, she went to the office and had me dropped out of her class. My mother was furious when I told her. She told me her best friend had been left handed, and had been better at shorthand then anyone else in the class when she'd taken shorthand years ago. It's a moot point now, lol, because very few people even use shorthand, but after those two incidents, I've been very skittish around teachers. I don't know why society is against lefthanded people. I think its out of ignorance, for the most part. I know my grandmother told me once that she went to a cathlioc school where the nuns tied girls's hands behind their back so they wouldn't write with their left hand.

Yeppers! Starting from the Roman Catholic church waaaaaaaaaaay back when who really knows, it was decided that left hands were the devils hand. Majority of people write with their right hand, somehow indicating the left hand as "idle". As in, "Idle hands are the devil hands." Might also be because when Lucifer was still a high ranking angel before his tumble, he was Gods left hand.

I guess its because of some thought like left-handed people are unusual and some elder may think of it as evil using left-hand. Parents don't want their children to be different and hence force their children to use right hand. I have own experience on this: I am a left-handed people, and when I was in kindergarten, my teacher always force me to write in right hand. But I always change back to left hand, then she decided not to force me anymore ;P Anyway, I am proud of myself being a left-handed.

You just cant judge people by being left handed as you said they are used to it. ,But there are some difFiculties ive notice for example thing that are made for right handed people.

As others have pointed out, most of the prejudice against being left handed stems to much older times, where the left side of the body was considered "unlucky" and the side on which evil spirits lurk. This is also why id you have ever seen someone toss a pinch of salt over thier shoulder after accidently spilling some, they technicaly should have been tossing it over their left shoulder, as salt was once considered to be a very valuable asset, and was used in trading and paying for things much as gold is. The theory was, that is was bad luck to spill the salt, but if you tossed a bit over your left shoulder, it would appease the evil spirits that reside on that side, and they would cease from bringing the ba luck to your life. I am also left handed. luckily my teachers and my parents never tried to change this. There are a few difficulties i run into being a left handed person, specificly writing in notebooks (as the spiral, or binding is always digging into my wrist while i am trying to write) and chosing the right seat to sit in when i go out to eat with a group of people. I always try to position myself that that my left side is to the outside of the table, so that i am not bumping elbows with the person sitting next to me. There are a few things i still do as a right handed person would do though. The first thing that comes to mind is using scissors. Have you ever tried to use a normal pair of scissors in your left hand? the way the blades are positioned, you often don't get a precise cut (particularly if the scissors are not terribly sharp) and they will often just bend and fold the paper between the blades, as opposed to cutting the paper. When i was younger, my aunt who was a school teacher tried to get me to use special left handed scissors, but i had just gotten so used to cutting things with my right hand, that i didn't like them, and actually don't have the prescision with a pair of scissors with my left that i do with my right, just because i have been doing it for so long.

Hi, I do not feel anything is bad if a child is left handed. My daughter was left handed and still she is. She is doing very well in life careerwise and also personally. When she was a child our doctor asked us not to try to change the habir because itmay have a reverse effect on her health as well as improvement. I do not believe in any superstition. I feel children should be left as they are Have a nice day