An ambidextrous experience, what's yours?
By rhizjen
@rhizjen (140)
Philippines
October 15, 2010 3:20am CST
I've just red this article before, "If you're playing with a left-handed friend, you might ask a head-start, because left-handed people are able to think much more quickly like playing computer games and any athletic sports than the right-handed people. Why? Connections between the right and the left sides of the brain are faster in lefties and makes them more efficient when dealing with multiple stimuli. In addition, lefties are more adapt in using both sides of the brain that is much harder for the right-handed." I quoted this one not to judge the righties.I just want to extend, that even though we are lefties, we still have advantages over the righties that's make us unique and to be free from discrimination. I just remember what a colleague told me that I will never be employed because of being a ambidextrous and I used to be bullied before thinking that it is a handicap. I admit, it destruct my self-esteem because I don't have any unique talents to lead their point of attention but I try hard not to blow my positive thoughts and keep believing to myself.You, what your left-handedness confessions? and to the right-handed reading this, do you consider that ambidextrous is a handicap?
2 responses
@babyimp (151)
• Estonia
15 Oct 10
Certainly not. We're living in modern age not the dark ages where lefthanded people where thought to serve devil (ha!). I've been thinking of learning to write with left hand but it needs patience and I'm not that patient. After school, during summer breaks if you don't write for 3 months at all and then on 1. September you start writing you'll notice that your hand is shaking and writing is sloppy. I think that's because your brain 'forgets' writing. Not enough to forget completely how to write but enough to annoy. So basically it should be possible for people to learn to write with a left hand or with right hand, depending on which hand people write.
Also your quote from the article, I think it's quite possible, because left hand connects to right side of the brain which, if I'm not wrong, helps understand matemathical and logical puzzle, as opposed to left side of the brain that relates to linguistics and art. (I do hope I remebered it right.)
@rhizjen (140)
• Philippines
23 Nov 10
You're right. But because of our culture, many people still believe that it is not ok to be a left-handed. Every mother in our place insist their child to be a right-handed even though some child find it hard to use their right hand. They don't even understand that left-handedness can be inherited from anyone who is also ambidextrous in their family.
@charly555 (21)
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15 Oct 10
That is definitely a new one on me I have never thought been a lefty confer any advantage on any person.All my life I ve known lefties and I have discriminate against them because i always see them as been normal.To me I wont consider ambidexterity a handicap rather I will consider it an advantage.
