Part of my business involves customers that paint cars. I swear that at least 25% of the people that paint cars for a living are lefties.I find this interesting. My daughter and one of my sons write left handed but do everything else like throw with their right hands.
Today my daughter received her pump training. Her trainer is a lefty and type 1. The trainer's husband is also a lefty and type 1. Of course this is a very tiny sample but it made me wonder if there might be a relationship between being left handed and being type 1. Being left handed raises your chances of having allergies and other conditions.
I seriously have always wondered that. I'm type 1 and a lefty. I used to attend diabetes camp, and a lot of the ather kids there were lefties too. STRANGE.
[quote user="Terry"]Being left handed raises your chances of having allergies and other conditions.[/quote]
I am confused by this statement. Is it being left handed that raises your chances or that people with already high chance of allergies and other conditions are more prone to be left handed? What are the other conditions too. I am not left handed, just a curious juvenator.
I'm left handed :) I don't know if being left handed and having diabetes are linked, but it's a proven fact that we lefties are way more beautiful and smart ;)
I was forced to write with my right hand even tho I was writing good with my left when I was in school during the 1970's. I could have been lefthanded all these years. And it does have something to do with type 1 diabetes.
There is an association it seems. Not exactly left handedness but being less strongly right handed and ambidextrous seem to
have an association with type 1 and some other autoimmune diseases. Lefties are more likely to be injured in accidents, have IQ's that are either really high or really low, tend to be good looking and prone to allergies.
4 of the 5 original designers of the Macintosh computer were left-handed
1 in 4 Apollo astronauts were left-handed - 250% more than the normal level.
There is an association it seems. Not exactly left handedness but being less strongly right handed and ambidextrous seem to
have an association with type 1 and some other autoimmune diseases. Lefties are more likely to be injured in accidents, have IQ's that are either really high or really low, tend to be good looking and prone to allergies.
4 of the 5 original designers of the Macintosh computer were left-handed
1 in 4 Apollo astronauts were left-handed - 250% more than the normal level.
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That trumps my jumped to conclusion of 'no correlation.' I guess what convinced me was the good looking part. *brushes shoulder off*
I had read something a few years ago about lefties being "less evolved" than right handed folk and therefore prone to earlier death, diseases, etc. Can't find the citation at the moment
I Googled "left handed, type 1 diabetes" and only one post suggested there is any correlation. That one post is okcpwd1's post in this discussion. A Googlebot picked it up and it is there on the first Google page for this topic. Lol!
I'm a rightie...I'm interested to know about any correlations though because I have heard of left-handed people being more prone to certain conditions, etc.
I think I had heard something about this a few years ago ... can;t remember where. But, it could have been a preliminary study, I don't remember it being a definite corrolation.
(I'm a rightie and have TONS of allergy problems -- oh well)