Comments on: The mystery of left-handedness: The making of a TED-Ed Lesson https://blog.ed.ted.com/2015/04/28/the-alluring-mystery-of-left-handedness-the-making-of-a-ted-ed-lesson/ Tue, 09 Jan 2018 04:31:03 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.6 By: Mary Lopez https://blog.ed.ted.com/2015/04/28/the-alluring-mystery-of-left-handedness-the-making-of-a-ted-ed-lesson/#comment-896573 Mary Lopez Wed, 06 Jan 2016 17:27:45 +0000 http://blog.ed.ted.com/?p=5206#comment-896573 A question: do we know if cultures with a reading-writing system going from bottom to top, and right to left, such as Arabic and Chinese, show a higher per cent of left-handers? This pattern of writing avoids the blurring problem encountered by left-handed writers of English, French, Spanish caused by dragging our hand over freshly-written text, smudging as we go. And perhaps it is more natural for us, too: When my dad taught me to write my name at age four, I wrote “yraM,” gaining a new nickname, “Yuh-Ram.”
Writing and bowling and sometimes painting are about my only left-handed activities; would be very interested to see a follow-up article on ambidextrousness.

]]> By: Vicki Morrow https://blog.ed.ted.com/2015/04/28/the-alluring-mystery-of-left-handedness-the-making-of-a-ted-ed-lesson/#comment-801440 Vicki Morrow Sun, 03 May 2015 01:06:59 +0000 http://blog.ed.ted.com/?p=5206#comment-801440 As the only lefty in a right-handed family, I found this very interesting. I remember when I was going to take the ACT many years ago. My father, a professor, knew that the room had tiny right-handed tables on the chairs. He made special arrangements so ?I would have a lefty one. When I got there, no one cared and my left arm had to stay in the air for the duration of the test. These things do not even dawn on righties.

Old 8mm movies show me as a toddler being handed things in my right hand and moving them to my left. My parents did not figure it out until much later!

]]> By: Deks https://blog.ed.ted.com/2015/04/28/the-alluring-mystery-of-left-handedness-the-making-of-a-ted-ed-lesson/#comment-799578 Deks Thu, 30 Apr 2015 17:21:13 +0000 http://blog.ed.ted.com/?p=5206#comment-799578 This is awesome! I can somehow relate to this although most of my friends would still consider me peculiar because I can only use my left hand in comfortably writing on a paper or notebook. If it’s on a whiteboard (or anything that is placed on a wall), I’m comfortable in using my right hand.

I would use my right hand for sports as I used to be a badminton varsity player at school and would also use it for most of my day to day tasks like cleaning, ironing clothes, eating etc.

Should I consider myself left-handed, right-handed or some sort of an inbetweener? :)

]]> By: Gingi McGhee-Turnock https://blog.ed.ted.com/2015/04/28/the-alluring-mystery-of-left-handedness-the-making-of-a-ted-ed-lesson/#comment-799308 Gingi McGhee-Turnock Thu, 30 Apr 2015 11:23:40 +0000 http://blog.ed.ted.com/?p=5206#comment-799308 What about ambidextrous people?

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