Question

what are the disadvantages of being lefty? are you a lefty?

Answer 1

I'm not a lefty. ... but my friends often tell about their problems of being lefty.

One of them is the right portrayed chairs which your might have seen in your school library or tuitions. It's a big problem for them.

Answer 2

No, I'm not a lefty! 

There are some things that we find more difficult because of our
brain wiring and others that are more practical issues.

Things left-handers find difficultTelephone boxes – receiver and coin slot on rightTV & Hi Fi controlsRecord Player ArmsWritingScissorsTrousers with one back pocketTrouser ZipsPolo (left-handed players not allowed!)Hockey (left hand players not allowed in Field Hockey
– Ice hockey is OK and there have been some very
successful left-handed Ice Hockey players)Tying shoe laces/tiesWriting in binders/filesCheque book stubsPens on chains in BanksCash dispensing machinesTicker barriers on underground
(ticket has to be put in with right hand)Computer number. keypads (on right)Dining in restaurants (bump elbows with R/H diners)Medical equipment

Club member Michael is a volunteer Emergency Medical Technician and tells us he has problems with right-handed equipment…

“My manual sphyg (blood-pressure cuff) can only be inflated with your right hand. (There are ambidextrous ones, but they are more expensive.) And I had problems learning to fit a cervical (neck) collar, until I discovered that they can only be pushed across with the right hand, not pulled with the left. Obviously, it would be completely impractical to equip hospitals and ambulances with both left and right handed equipment, but I can dream”

Handshakes?

It is traditional and socially acceptable in most countries for a handshake to be made with the right hand. If a lefty tries to use the more natural left hand this causes confusion and makes people uncomfortable