saying that left handed people are scared, just more prone to PTSD. Which doesn't mean that you personally are afraid, but more-so your mind is afraid subconsciously, as you can tell, not even the people studying this have a full grasp on why it happens. The brain works in opposite patterns, the right side controls the left, and the left controls the right. What they are saying is that the right half responds more strongly to fear, which makes a persons memories of said trauma more choppy and repetitious. Not that left handed people are scared and fearful (which is what the headline would suggest) but rather that they respond greater because of their dominant half of the brain I'm pretty sceptical of this, because I LOVE scary films and it's my right-handed friends who never want to watch them. - Natalie, New Zealand, 03/5/2011 12:20 Exactly! My boyfriend and I are both left handed and we love horror. I've got plenty of right-handed wimpy friends though! - Hat, Essex, 3/5/2011 13:44 ooh you so cool because you fill your mind with horror, why am i such a wimp because i don't like watching people geeting their heads chopped off. I am left handed and used to put antennas on top of very high masts, I was in the middle of installing one when the Serbs opened fire at me with a 155mm howitzers they went past me like a freight train and only after the third one did I