The uniqueness that comes with being left-handed is being celebrated on Twitter on Thursday under the #LeftHandersDay hashtag. Twitter reports that tweets under the hashtag #lefthandersday and those surrounding the Left Handers Day Official Site at the center of the #lefthandersday hashtag have hit more than 24,800 tweets about the trend.
Some historians have suggested that Leonardo da Vinci?s left-handedness added to his genius! #LeftHandersDay
— ? Cheryl Turner – Wordy Bird ? (@WordyBirdChez) August 13, 2015
That site has declared August 13 the official left-handers day, and it shares awkward little quirky facts that those whose left hands are dominant might understand. Those tactics include things like putting belts on upside-down, or hanging clothes “incorrectly” in the closet in a different direction than right-handed folks might hang things.
Happy #lefthandersday to all my fellow lefties! ?? pic.twitter.com/onBHTtGvph
— shorty (@shortyintexas) August 13, 2015
It’s those same quirks and unique ways of looking at the world that have pegged southpaws as possessing special qualities, giving them a different way of looking at the world. Oftentimes, left-handed people have had to figure out ways to adapt in a right-handed world, which some experts claim makes them better problem solvers.
#SharkFact : Napoleon Bonaparte was another famous left-hander! #LeftHandersDay pic.twitter.com/n5bXWAt43c
— EssayShark (@essayshark) August 13, 2015
President Obama is one famous left-handed person who reportedly writes his speeches out longhand with his actual left hand prior to giving the speeches.
Mostly, left-handed folks are celebrating the joys and sometimes struggles that come along with using their left hand primarily for everything from writing, to cutting objects with left- or right-handed scissors, to bumping elbows with the right-handed person sitting next to them at the dinner table.
I want a more customisable world. Can we begin with phones that make left hand operations easier? #lefthandersday
— Richa Bhardwaj (@richa_bhardwaj) August 13, 2015
Interestingly, the #LeftHandersDay hashtag has also brought calls for gadgets that are more designed for left-handed folks. It’s an idea that could make a left-handed thinking inventor pretty rich.
As reported by the Inquisitr , the Today’s Next Big Thing contest has put the call out to all sorts of entrepreneurs to submit their ideas, which could end up being sold on QVC. Perhaps a creative left-handed inventor just might find their products being sold on the popular TV network in a short period of time.
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