How we came about what hand is better than the other, I do not know but I thing I know is that left-handers have no love. There has been this long live myth that it’s not good to use your left hand. It is most times considered to be disrespectful if you give something to an elderly person with your left hand or shake someone one with your left hand. they won’t accept it. I can remember growing up when I started using my hands and it was my left hand I started with. It was a big problem in my house. My mom will always correct me to put it on my right hands despite how I find it difficult to write with my right hand.
It is believed that the left hand is bad while the right hand is the good one. She tried everything within her power to make me switch over to my right hand, she will write a note to my teachers in school that they should ensure I’m not writing with my left hand but there was nothing anyone could do about it. I function well with my left and she saw that there was nothing she can do about it, she left me alone. Strangers will reprimand her for allowing me use my left hand, they term it as the “bad hand” or “devil’s hand”. There was a day I was about to give a hawker money for the goods I bought from her and she insisted she won’t take the money from me until I give it to her in my right hand. She suggested I should throw the money on the floor rather than her take it from me.
There is also the myths that left-handers are introverts, creative or introvert. I don’t know if any of these are facts or assumptions is true. Left-handed people are often credited with being more creative than righties, but that’s a hard thing to measure. That rumor may come from a 1995 study that found left-handed men tended to engage in more “divergent thinking” than right-handed men—meaning they explore more options to solve a problem than the ones readily available. There is no difference in a right handed or left handed child neither is it genetic. So we should stop attributing bad things to our left hands and if our kids are comfortable with using just their left hands, we should not discourage them. As long as it’s not disturbing the child in any way, then they should be left to what hand they prefer.
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