A new study from Cornell University goes against the grain of popular thought, arguing that left-handed people aren’t necessarily more creative than their right-handed counterparts after all.

It’s research that hits close to home for this writer. From an early age, I’ve worn my left-handedness as a badge of pride. As a kid, I always felt different from the other students in class, because I had to use a left-handed desk. Back then, I also had to use special scissors in home economics, bat on the “wrong” side of the plate at softball . . . the list goes on.

But despite the minor inconveniences, it was a label I readily embraced because I was told I was “special” (only 10% of the population is left-handed) and, perhaps most of all, because I knew I was in good company.

Who wouldn’t want t

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