Sure, lefties make up about 10 percent of the population — but, frankly, it seems like society has forgotten about them. Just consider all of the right-handed gadgets, awkwardly designed desks, and cooking tools that fit comfortably only in your right hand. Imagine! How does it feel while you are sitting for an exam and the person sitting next to you gets irritated because you have intruded into most of his covered area through your tilted answer sheet and periodically poking your elbows into his’.
I still am clueless about why people give that glance at the person who does his tasks by left hand. They give this glare (action) with a mouth wide open, Are you a lefty? I never knew this as if it is some news in the limelight that he is unaware of :O
Good evening charming ladies and gentlemen. How many of you in the house are Lefties?? See no one. Except me. The feeling of being a lefty is similar to that being differently abled.
Some of them get so thrilled when they meet us and say “hey! Could you please try writing with a right hand! It will be fun :P” Then those giggles you hear when they see you scribbling on the sheet-like a 2-year-old.
I got to hear from my mom when I was a toddler and was sent to a play school. I was made to hold a pencil in my hand. And I responded to it by holding it in left hand instead of right. My teacher was surprised to see me holding the pencil in left hand and immediately told my mother that your daughter is a lefty. Please compel her in writing with the right as it is not good. My mother consulted our family doctor about this habit of mine and he suggested not to compel her to do as this will have a negative impact on the brain and it will remain underdeveloped. So, I was never forced upon to write or perform tasks with the right hand.
Research states that about 85-92% of world’s population is estimated to be born right-handed which also causes some bias against left-handers as parents under societal pressure, ignorance or religious miscommunication forces their children to switch to the right hand.
Another day, I was reading an article wherein anonymous guy narrated that he was born left handed and when his mother discovered that he was exerting too much pressure on her fingers from the left hand when he was 2 months old. At such a tender age she made sure his left hand remained immobile most of the time (though not uncomfortably) and was forced to use right hand freely that eventually became his dominant hand. When he grew up, he did some research and found out that the brain is divided into two hemispheres. Left and the Right hemispheres. Left hemisphere affects the right side of your body and right hemisphere affects the left side of the body. The left hemisphere deals with logic, words and language, mathematics, science, order/pattern perception, practical and reality. The right hemisphere deals with imagination, creativity, spatial perception, “big picture” orientation, symbols, images, and feelings. If the left side of the brain is dominant, the person prefers right hand and vice versa. Our whole physical being is interconnected ever since we are born and forcing to go against natural dominance puts a lot of harmful pressure.
Forcing a left-handed to be right-handed causes reduced activity in the dominant right hemisphere and increase activity in the non-dominant side. Since creativity and imagination are dominant parts of the right brain, they will remain under-developed and the left-side of the brain sees increased activity that deals with reality, facts and logic which implies to the characteristics that are opposite of the person’s true potential.
This doesn’t mean that left-handers are devoid of logic or right-handers lack creativity, it just points towards what comes as naturally and more easily to the person due to dominant side of the brain. So if anyone you know is forcing a born left-handed toddler or child to be right-handed, please enlighten them and stop them from hindering the child’s growth. It is not advisable to force and yes, it is not un-Islamic as well to be left-handed as some belief.
This is Shruti Mehta signing off with her speech Being a Left handed is really a sin??as a question open for you all.
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