International Left-Handers Day: Interesting Facts, Quotes About Southpaws

International Left-Handers Day is marked on Aug. 13 to celebrate sinistrality and to raise public awareness about the issues faced by left-handed people.

The Left-Handers Club in the United Kingdom was formed in 1990 to promote research into left-handedness and the development of new left-handed items. Left-Handers Day was instituted on Aug. 13, 1992, by the club and soon the event started to be celebrated worldwide.

International Left-Handers Day has helped to bring general awareness of the difficulties and frustrations faced by the left-handers in their day-to-day life. This awareness also has successfully led to improved product designs as companies started to realize the needs of left-handed people.

Here are some interesting facts about left-handed people:

• Left-handers make up roughly 12% of the population- According to statistics, 12% of the world is left-handed, 87% right-handed and 1% ambidextrous. The researchers found that the percentage is slowly going up as being left-handed has become more socially accepted.
• Left-handers are more likely to have allergies- A research published in Harvard University Press indicates that left-handed people are 11 times more likely to suffer from allergies compared to right-handed people. They are also two-and-a-half times more likely to suffer from auto-immune disorders.
• They are more prone to migraines- The same study indicates that left-handed people are roughly twice as likely to experience migraines compared to right-handed people.
• They are better at multi-tasking- A study has found that left-handed people use pattern-matching to try and solve problems making them better than right-handed people in multi-tasking.

Here are some inspirational quotes about left-handed people :

1. “Life without left-handed people wouldn’t be right.” - C.R. Manske
2. “If the left half of the brain controls the right half of the body then only left-handed people are in the right mind.” - W.C. Fields
3. “God made everyone right-handed, only the truly gifted overcome it.” — Anonymous
4. “Lefties – in great demand but limited supply!” -Anonymous
5. All the decisive blows are struck left-handed.”-Walter Benjamin
6. “The left-handed are precious; they take places which are inconvenient for the rest.” -Victor Hugo
7. Left-Handers are not different because they are unique; They are unique because they are different.” -Peter-Cole C. Onele
8. “Left-handers don’t just write differently, we also think differently.”-Anonymous