International Left Handed Day is held every year on August 13, 2022. It was first celebrated back in 1976 and has been an annual event ever since.
However, International Left Handed Day is also meant to help raise awareness of the troubles that left people experience with living in a world designed primarily for right-handed people.
Here’s a list of facts about lefties that makes them unique in many ways:
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The make up roughly 12% of the population
Research suggests about twelve percent of the world is left handed, while eighty seven percent are right handed, and one percent ambidextrous- the ability to use both left and right hands. However, the percentage of lefties worldwide is slowly creeping up as being left handed becomes more socially accepted.
Left handed people use the right side of the brain the most
The brain is cross-wired, meaning that the right side controls the left side of the body and vice versa. Hence the well-known saying ‘only left handed people are in their right minds’. The right-hand side of the brain is thought to coordinate the left side of the body and control tasks to do with the arts and creativity.
Have advantage in sports
Left-handed people have an advantage in some sports. They are usually good at sports when in a one-on-one face-off. In games like boxing, fencing and tennis, left-handers often have an edge over their right-handed opponents who are used to playing with right-handed players mostly.
Good at multitasking
Right and left-handed people deal with tasks and memory in different ways. Left-handers are known to efficiently multitask as they look at the tasks as a whole.
So if you are right-handed, how about you take one of your left-handed friends out for lunch or a coffee?
Or spend the day trying to perform tasks with your non-dominant hand to get a small taste of what it is like. To all our left-handed readers we wish you a good celebration.
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