Struggles and Facts About Left-Handed People

Did you know that there is a holiday for left-handed people? That day is August 13, known as National Left Handers Day.

Most people know at least one person in their life that is left-handed. A recent study by Harvard University shows that about 12 percent of the world's population are left-handed. 

A lot of people don't know though about the everyday struggles of being left-handed.

There are annoying struggles that left-handed people who still study in school have to face almost everyday. For example, it is a pain for them to write on a spiral notebook and in a binder because their hand and arm gets in the way of the spiral or the rings of the binder. Another example is that when left-handers write, especially with pen, their writing smears due to them using their left hand. Then the lead from the pencil or then ink from the pen transfers onto the side of the hand.

For left-handed people that do not have to study anymore, there are still life struggles that they have to face everyday that must be unbearable. 

When paying for groceries, clothes, or anything really at the checkout counter, the credit car checkouts are most likely right-handed; with the credit car slot on the right of the machine, rather then left. 

However, without minding the struggles of being a lefty, there are still some pretty cool facts about being-handed.

Some of those facts happen to include some very important people of the U.S.A. Four of the last presidents of the U.S. are left-handed. Those four presidents are Gerald Ford, H.W. Bush, Bill Clinton, and Barack Obama. 

With being left-handed there comes some advantages that right-handed people don't have. For example, left-handed people adjust more easily to seeing underwater, lefties have a higher chance of getting a higher IQ,and lefties are better able to multitask. 

So for those lefties out there that feel horrible for being left-handed, don't be because there are still cool advantages and facts about being left-handed.