Growing up in a right handed world as a lefty brings challenges that we learn to work out by using our brains and eventually we become ambidextrous, and have the ability to use both sides of our brains and body equally well. We end up having an advantage over 90% of the population.
Yes! I automatically use my right hand for my laptop number pad. House keys in my right hand also (the locks all twist clockwise, right?) Think car gear shifts, too.
Yes speaking as a Lefty I cannot see the big drama here. We adapt well for example I naturally use R/H scissors and also pliers ( I am an electrician) and with computers you can buy a cordless mouse. What is a no no is fountain pens. We cannot do nice beautiful cursive writing because this writing has a slope to the right and it cannot be done with the L/H ( shame) , but if you are that bothered there is a L/H products society.
I agree I too had to learn to use my right hand along with my left now I can use both fairly equally. Except that I can only write with my left or throw things.
@@garypautard1069Ha! You’re mostly right. (See what I did there? 😂) I’m a carpenter and I’ve adjusted to every tool I’ve ever used, some easier than others. I remember the first time I picked up a chainsaw and thought what kind of deadly BS is this! then I switched to right hand mode and the tool was fine. But as to lefty cursive, I’ve always produced a pronounced slant to the right. The problem with fountain pens for me, is the ink takes too long to dry so your hand drags and smears. Scissors, yes, there’s a technique to pull the blades together with the left. Easier with good quality scissors that aren’t totally ‘deformed’ to fit only the right hand.
I don’t do the pen smudging I write with my left hand and hold the pen as a right handed person would . My left handiness is monumental left handed in every mortal thing
Going through school, I always took notice of how many fellow lefties there were. High school was the normal percentage. College was about 20-25%. Graduate school was 35-45%. Either lefties were more determined, or plain smarter. I actually had one class in grad school with 8 students. 4 righties, 4 lefties, and the teacher was a leftie! We outnumbered them 5-4. They had to use our scissors.
True story, in med school we had a module where we had to practice doing a digital rectal exam on a (well paid) instructor. There were 3 of us in the room, he asked if there were any lefties. All 3 of us raised our hands. He said in his 20+ years of his job he'd never seen that.
But we got each other. My music teacher was left handed. She always shouted out all of her left handers. Heck I just thought of this I rest more on my left and raise my hand more. My mom was supposed to be left handed but my grandma teached her to use her right hand. BUT... my dad is fully left handed.
I'm a 70 yo lefty, I've spent a lifetime in a rhed world, but I'm glad ! It taught me to be more adaptable, to think outside the box, which in turn has helped me in the workplace to be more valuable to my employers. I get a kick out of watching many righties using only that hand, as if the left didn't exist . When I've trained people I'll ask which hand they use, if they reply "right" , I watch carefully to see if they use their left and if they don't I'll ask if they know they have 2 hands and proceed to make them use both. I've trained lots of people and when I need to train them on a different job they are now using both. Lol, my moment in the sun. We lefties my not be brighter but we are certainly more adaptable ! Hugs ' n love 🤗🥰❤️
*writing notes* Person: Oh! You're left handed? *drawing in art class* Teacher:Oh!you're left handed? *playing tennis* Coach:Oh!You're left handed? This legit happens!!
I’m a lefty, who has adapted to the point of being ambidextrous. The main thing I had issues with was trying to learn to crochet! As a lefty, the righty patterns were upside down and backwards. When I caved and tried it right handed, my brain couldn’t compute. 🤷🏻♀️
Oh wow your entire comment is exactly me! And I remember my Nana teaching me how to crochet. She had so much trouble trying to figure out how to show me how, and I struggled to mimic her backwards 😅 My great-grandma gave me lessons too and we had the same difficulties! But we were all patient and I finally learned. It's been so long since I last crocheted that I would probably have to learn all over again. I'm also just finding out that the decals on the mugs lol.
My mom wouldn’t teach me to crochet because I am a lefty. I got a ball of her yarn, a hook, and a pattern and taught myself in 9th grade. I learned how to adapt patterns and I have designed my own afghans. I can’t crochet anymore because of my damaged nerves in my arm. I found a pattern for an American flag. You had to run over 20 balls of yarn to make the star section. The first time I made it I had to adapt the stitches so the flag would be correct. I made about 8 of these for raffles for the children’s hospital over time. The first one I made sold over $800 in tickets. I think that’s cool. 😎 ❤
My mum was ambidextrous back in her day at school they made her write with her right hand, had to laugh when they write a hundred times I must not talk in class she would use both hands an be done in half the time 😅
Well if you like that then, this'll blow your mind... Observe them and you will see that she is always on the left, and he will always be on the right side... Of EVERYTHING, The table, bed, couch, everything really.
Left handed: Hey, can I use a pencil? Right handed: sure *hands pencil* Left Handed: Thanks *starts writing* Right handed: Whoa, your left handed? Left Handed: -pls help- yea, why
Okay but im ambidextrous. And so i ask for a pencil and start writing with my right hand, and then ill switch to my left hand because my right got tired ( it gets tired easily i use left for writing more ) and they'll be like *surprised pikachu face*
Right-handed mouses are the best part of being left-handed. It’s so handy to be able to write and use a mouse at the same time. I also taught myself to write in mirror image once during detention. I’ve been able to do it ever since, almost as fast as I can write normally.
People should be aware: never run the mouse with your dominant hand. You want that for writing. Anyone can learn to click a mouse with their "off" hand.
One thing that definitely bothers me and wasn't mentioned: Pens that are attached to a string at offices and stuff. When you're supposed to give your signature and you can barely get the pen over to the other side 😅
As a lefty, When i was in kindergarten, i couldn’t understand why the scissors didn’t work. 😭😭😭😭. Then one day my teacher noticed which hand i was using and saw me struggling. So she found the one and only lefty scissors in the whole class room for me. Lol! When i cut the paper with it, i was so shocked. I though the whole time that my scissors weren’t sharp enough or they were broken. Turns out i learned about lefties that same day. I didn’t know the difference up until then.
Lmao I had to adapt to using my right hand because I never knew left handed scissors were a thing, now when I’m cutting with scissors my left hand feels uncomfortable because of how much I have adapted to using my right hand.
I didn’t realize till a few months ago that’s why I was struggling so hard with scissors in elementary school😭😭 I agree with everything in this video!!
My grandmother (born 1908) was left handed and she had a left-handed iron! They make irons now with the cord at the back, making them useful for either left or right handed people. But they used to make irons with the electrical cord coming out the right side, but the left-handed iron had the cord coming out the left side.
@@goldfieldgary I was born in 1965 and my own mother had a cast-iron iron that she used to heat over the coal fire. Until the house was modernised in 1972 I think it was.
There were no lefty scissors when I was a kid. Cutting paper in school was so painful. I didn't know why the other kids could do it without pain. 😕 It was years later that I realized I was holding the opposite side of the scissors that had a sharp edge!
Learning and forcing yourself to master the use of most right handed people’s items can be emotionally draining and a huge Herculean task. It has made me to be more detailed and impeccable with so many tasks along the way though … We Lefties, are great learners with huge improvisation and innovative minds👏🏽👏🏽❤️
You are absolutely correct on all of these. I have experienced them since childhood. Thanks for pointing out the "smudging" that happens when we write (that was a real pain until I adjusted my hand to be lifted from the paper or turned my hand higher up.) Great to see a beautiful and truly left handed person talking about this. You Rock Brooke!
I annoy my sister(right handed) by giving her my left handed coffee mug, (she gets mad cuz she has to turn the mug around, like i do) then i say "NOW YOU KNOW HOW I FEEL"
i know exactly what you mean i have encountered all kinds of mean things for 52 years, my kindergarten teacher kept slapping my hand and tried to change me over because long ago it was considered an abomination to be left handed. i came home ond day and mom sat my lunch plate in front of me and i was confused at to what hand to use. so my mom questioned me and i told her, so the next morning mom took me to school and told the teacher that if i ever was touched in a bad way for being left handed. that mom was going to come back to the school and whip the teacher for touching me she told them i was born left handed and iam going to stay left handed. After that i was never made to change or was never smacked for using my left hand.
My grandmother told my Mom to tie my left hand behind my back. My Mother in turn said she'd raise her children in her own way. My left hand was never tied behind my back.
I am right handed and can write with my left, although it is a lot slower or messier.....I can't do it both tidy and fast lol (only one). I can also do things like eat, brush teeth, throw, use phone and various other things with my left. I have always opened bottles and lids with my left (no idea why) In Cricket I bowl with my left, but throw with my right (even though I can throw with my left, but not as well).
Most annoying question in the world: “How can you write like that?” .............................................. HOW TF DO YOU EXPECT ME TO ANSWER THAT????? HOW DO YOU WRITE WITH THE RIGHT HAND?!!!????!
Every left handed person I know, AKA me and mother (I'm a lonely left hander), has nicer hand writing than a right handed person. Literally. EVERY SINGLE RIGHT HANDED PERSON I KNOW HAS WORSE HAND THAN ME. (I am so bad at typing.. I said "has worse hand than me". Am I crazy? Oh god, I need grammarly XD)
Scissors and can openers were the worst trying to master their use. My mother used to laugh at me trying to use can openers. I managed but it looked dangerous. To all the south paws i salute you. Amazing what we adapted to
@@agustinasanchez7443 lol I'm left handed to I get what you're saying and I'm also a bts army. Its awesome that I found a bts army who's left handed :)
The Creapers same here me and my niece are the only left 🖐 handers in a family full of right handers . I did hear a fact that if your mother is over 35 when you’re born the likelihood of you being a leftie goes up my sis was 36 when she had my second niece and my mum was 40 so I think that goes to proving this !
Im 42. And got into trouble in elementary school for using my left hand. They hand over hand forced me. Until i cried saying I can't. Then went to the principals office. They threatened to paddle me. Called my dad. He came in and got into a fight with the principal. As he told my dad , i was touched by the devil. I was in 3rd grade. And will never forget about it.
I had a teacher try to force me to use my right hand as well. I went home and told my dad. The next day he was at the school and hell broke loose. She was also the same teacher who tried to give me the nickname of Beth because she had too many Elizabeths in her class. My dad told her that she can nickname one of the other Elizabeths but not me. Needless to say, she did not care for me much 😂. I was just proud that my dad always stood up for me. He was such a great dad. Miss him terribly.
I have 2 brothers . We are all left handed. I am the oldest. Before I went to school my Mom told the teacher not to try to change us into righty’s . That helped a lot.
@@ElizabethBSoCal I write left handed. But play 2-handed sports right handed. (golf, cricket, baseball.) Raquet sports left-handed. (tennis, squash etc.) Comfortable playing cue sports with both hands. Darts both hands. Eat with the utensils in the 'normal' hands. I started school in 1970. When liberal teaching methods were just kicking in here in the UK. I am entirely convinced that at some point I was faffing with colouring crayons or something in my left hand. And the teacher thought I was left handed so pushed me to be left handed. Thinking they were doing right. I suspect that I'm supposed to be naturally right handed. Never had the slightest problem with scissors, tin openers or trouser zips etc.
My daughter is left handed. I try my best to find things that are designed for lefties. I’ve given her scissors, notebooks, and other left handed things. I feel for her.
I am 55 years old and left-handed. I cannot use scissors in my right hand. I also cannot use left-handed scissors. I learned how to use right-handed scissors with my left hand, and it always causes pain, discomfort and tiredness with my left thumb. When it comes to online gaming, as of right now, I cannot play most of them because it requires a right-handed mouse and left-handed keyboard. I cannot use a mouse with my right hand.
I know the feeling and i just write whith my left and not got good eye sight and been put down most of my life has some idios dont get and most leftys ar verey cleaver not saying i am i know there more understanding of it now but still not enough,shame on them,
The reason left handed people are smarter is that they have to adapt to a right handed world. This boasts creativity and adaptability. Some struggle is good for people 😉
When I was in primary school, my teachers said that "the left hand is the hand of Satan" and they thought I was somewhat possessed. Don't think me eating other children alive was related though.
@@danielignacio57 Can really really relate to what you are saying Daniel, I'm Australian and started school in the 50s. I was told I the child of the devil, was forced to stand at black board with my left hand my back and use my right hand. Was slapped with a ruler every time I went to use my left hand for a week. Proud to say I am still a lefty
There’s some “explanation” for people to think that. Left hand is often associated with satanism and dark magic in the west, hence the phrase “left hand path”. That’s why many ignorant people forced lefties to adapt onto the norm. I was fortunate to have born in a recent time, because this belief is less prevalent.
All of this is so true. I found this video because I was trying to figure out apple notes as a lefty and almost forgot that I’ve had to adapt my whole life
Cool Unicorn. I can relate 50% Me: *writes with left hand* Person: WOAHHHHH YOU’RE LEFT HANDED???? WHATTTT??? Me: No. Person: OH. Me: I can pretend to be left handed. Person: Wdym Me: *Starts writing with right hand* I’m ambidextrous
Ikr peeps make the biggest deal out of it. When i was younger i was more of and introvert then an extrovert and when some boy saw me write her was like, "omg a leftie"and inside my head im screaming for him to shut it before i cut my left hand off😭😂 anyway he told the whole class and everyone was like omg she left handed!! And im also thinking what's the big deal and i some sorta alien like dude!!!
Righty-“So you’re left handed?” Lefty- “Right” R- “Oh you’re right handed” L-“No, left handed” R-“So why did you say right” L-“Cos you’re right” R-“I know i am right but you’re left handed” L-“Right” R-“Wait, so you’re right handed?” L“Nope” R-“Ok so left handed it is” L-“Right” R-“stop it!”
Its awkward how right can mean three things in the three languages I speak Right ( opposite of left ) Right ( opposite of duty) Right (opposite of wrong) And sometimes it means straight when u say right in front of u In french and Arabic too 😂
My 24 year old daughter is a lefty and you have provided a lot of information that I wish I knew when she was young. Wow, I’m going to look for items that are designed specifically for lefty’s. Thanks for sharing. I just found you today and have enjoyed the three videos that I’ve watched of yours. You are easy on the ears, lovely disposition and funny! Keep it up 👍🏼 😊
It' all about perspective. I still could be a right hand. And just graphically it looks better to have the flat sort of create a book-ended flat-edges.
I just pull a Michael Angelo Batio and I play with my right on a left hander or my left on a right hander, or I just pull a Jimi Hendrex and switch the strings to make a right a left or a left a right lmao. But yes, the pain is real xP
Recently I took up guitar lessons, but the website I bought the guitar on never said it was designed for right handed people. Biggest waste of two weeks AND money I ever went through
Wow, I'm left - handed and I play my classical guitar as a right - handed since I was 10 years old, let my tell you that is totally possible IDK but the same happen to me with my skateboard 😅😅😅
From what I'm told, I was born left-handed and made to use my right hand when I was starting to write. During my school years, I was told a number of times that the way I held a pencil was weird. I'm still not sure what they meant. I knew another guy who supposedly wrote similarly with his right-hand, and he told me that he was technically left-handed. I wonder if our pencil-holding has to do with the switch.
@@qrysta7437 i think i more special and rare i am left handed but only use right hand when use game controller and mouse, nearly everything else left But i also color blind and i can't say the word R and it is problem in my country because of my lips "R" i change "R" to "L" So i: left handed(12% in the world) Color blind(4% in the world) Lips "R"(??% in the world) I also more rare because i am Asian (this one just my opinion, in my country left handed only less than 10% of all my country population) Edit: and what is more rare no one in my family is left handed and i am the only one left handed I am so different with my parents Like: 1.both my parents love durian (I hate durian) 2.both my parents love spicy thing (I hate spicy thing) 3.both my parents not color blind (I am color blind) 4.both my parents not left handed (I am left handed) 5.Both my parents not lips anyword (I am lips "R")
Qrysta lol, don't feel like peasant,left handed still very rare because only 12% person left handed in the world so you still rare and special but I am super very rare😅
The scissor one was hard for me when I was younger with the paper always crimping instead of cutting. Never gave much thought about the ice cream scoop one, but now that I think about it it explain why I get ice cream on myself a lot. But everything else I adapted to.
Actually, I remember my 5th grade class in elementary school there were about 20 or 25 students including me in my particular room. I don't know why, but we probably had about 30 left handed scissors, and I was the only lefty in the room, so I had almost all the scissors sitting on my desk. Watching with amusement as all the rightys struggled to cut papers. I also remember struggling to learn to tie my shoes as a kid. My mom was getting extremely frustrated cause I was making my loop on the left side, and from her perspective it looked wrong, so she kept getting on me about doing it wrong. Then, she happened to be on the phone with my grandmother, who was the only other lefty in the family, and happened to mention the difficulty she was having in teaching me to tie my shoes. My grandmother told my mom to have me practice by tieing my moms shoes instead of my own. I was doing it right the whole time, but mom didn't realize what was going on until the perspective was switched and then she understood why it looked wrong to her when I tied my own shoes.
I love it when they say it multiple times. Me: writing at work. Him: I didn't know you were left handed. Me: yeah, you didn't know the last 3 times you've watched me write but that's cool, huh.
I HEAR BROTHER! IM ALSO LEFT HANDED! And I managed to purchase a hand tool? An ELECTRIC "HAND SAW" But for "RIGHT" Handers! I did see the same saw for LEFT Handers but it cost MORE! Can you believe that, for LEFT HANDED! I Have used it I just need to "place" myself in a different position! In order to use the saw! I WILL BUY another saw! And will make sure it's THE RI...Oops 🤭😁 LEFT HANDED ONE!
I found ONE advantage to being a lefty when it came to writing. When learning to write cursive, the letters were supposed to slant to the right. For us lefties, that slant was natural...but the paper was smeared with pencil lead and the side of my hand was black. I was always marked down for neatness.
Very good! You will live long and prosper. That is the beauty of adversity. Take it from someone with ambidextrous but poor dexterity, Mild ADHD/OCD (undiagnosed), reading/writing disorder who did become a physician. It can be done!!!!
My younger sister would have been right handed, but was born without her right forearm. She was always the first to tell you she was not handicapped. When she was divorced was 2 young boys, social services told her she didn't have to work. She didn't want to but shewent ahead & took their welfare check & went back to school to become a certified CPA. Got a good job, with good pay & made a life for herself & her children.
I am a left handed person... I have adapted... Like for the mouse I just use my right hand I love to sketch and I have to get sketchbooks that don’t have spirals, IT HURTS! I love being a lefty I am rare :)
same, it never occurred to me when I was little that I should just switch the mouse around, so I got used to it. But using a mouse with my left hand still comes naturally ( even though I never use my left hand for a mouse, bc it calls attention to me)
I’m a mirror image identical twin. I’m the lefty and she’s the righty. Our dad is a righty and our mom is a lefty. Our mom is a housewife and therefore was the most hands on with us in our formative years. Though my sister is definitely a right-handed person, she is very ambidextrous in the way you expect a left-handed person to be. She can use scissors with both hands, bowl with both hands, is more comfortable wearing a watch on her right wrist the way a lefty would, etc. Because our mom was raised in the 60’s and 70’s, not a lot of things were made yet to accommodate lefties (scissors, can openers, etc.), she was forced into being relatively ambidextrous. As a result, my sister adopted quite a few of my mom’s left-handed behaviors while fostering her primary right-handed behaviors… As for me, I’m not very ambidextrous for a left-handed person! Despite my mom showing us how to use scissors with her right hand, I never adapted to that and stuck with using my left hand. Sure, I never could cut in a straight line, but it must have been passable enough for my elementary school teachers in the 1990’s. I hate having to pay almost $10 for left-handed scissors online when right-handed ones are cheap and at every store. I am only able to use a can opener with my left hand and twist with my right, despite attempts to teach me the traditionally right-handed method. Never had issues with getting it to work somehow! Pens and pencils are hellish! Binders and notebooks were too (thank the Lord I don’t need them anymore)! I write entirely in cursive, which is sadly reaching obsolescence. However, it was frustrating being in the third grade learning it, smearing the ink/lead, getting them on my shirt. I adapted, of course, and I now know how to hold the pen without smearing much (if at all). Though, to be fair, the BIC pens I use all the time are incredibly reliable in that regard! Being left-handed is awesome, despite our rarity! Our mom and I were the only lefties until our older (right-handed) brother married his wonderful left-handed wife in 1996! It took them five tries to bless our family with a left-handed child! In 2020, their fifth and final child was born. She, from the get-go, was doing things primarily with her left hand! Now that she’s a happy little toddler, her lefty status is solidified! Now our big family has four left-handed people! Somehow, all of us are women/girls! Edit: I’m a CPhT (Certified Pharmacy Technician). When I first started working in pharmacy, I got a job with my left-handed sister-in-law. She had been a CPhT for about 15 years at that point. Back when she started, they didn’t make pill counting trays for lefties, so she had to adapt with the right-handed ones. When I started in 2015, the lead pharmacist happily ordered a left-handed tray for me. I was struggling to count pills at a decent pace right-handed, so I was thankful for this gift! I often wonder why I cannot adapt to right-handed things. While I have never pursued lessons (my parents obstinately said no when band lessons were offered in 4th grade), I have always wanted to play the drums. I naturally hold the sticks the way a lefty would. As a little kid, I held them this way, despite seeing my favorite singer, Karen Carpenter, playing like any other right-handed player. Without a kit of my own to decide, I don’t know if I would play open-handed, or reposition the kit for a left-handed player. Maybe some day I’ll find out. I am in the early stages of learning guitar. Naturally, there was no way my obstinately left-handed self was going to learn with a traditional guitar. I had to pay over $50 more for a model made for lefties that isn’t supplied in store, meaning extra shipping costs on top of the >$50. I am not very good at it so far, but I know going for a left-handed guitar was best! I don’t know what it is about me that has made me more resistant to right-handed behaviors. It isn’t that I don’t want to adapt out of laziness. It’s just that, even in my formative years, it was obvious that I simply couldn’t wrap my mind around the tasks in a right-handed manner. Maybe I’m just some kind of “true” lefty? Our mom heard that term once. Not sure if that’s actually a thing. I do have epilepsy and have had it since I was 12. My sister has seizures too, but maybe one or two a year (at most). I can have up to 20 in a month if I’m having a rough spell. Maybe that has something to do with it, but it doesn’t account for my early childhood. Also, our mom had to have an emergency C-section to deliver us because the doctors couldn’t wake me up. They ran scans and realized I had the umbilical cord wrapped around my arm. The doctors said that, if I had been born naturally, I would have been born with significant brain damage and cerebral palsy. While no scans after I was born showed signs of trauma, maybe something small happened that made me the way I am? I don’t know. Just a long tangent!
TheSocialBrooke can I get a whoho for the left handed including me (plus getting silver spots or marker on my hands it’s annoying it’s almost like I can never escape getting out of that habit
Iam a proud lefty, because I went through alot of torture in my childhood at school and home in Africa I decided to stand out for sisters and brothers who are still tortured until today even being called satanic. May I be more blessed financially so I can support more and more lefties.
Me: *writes something Friend: Oh you're left handed! Me: Yes ;-; Friend: Do you know I have a friend that has a cousin, and his cousin has a neighbour, and his neighbour has a daughter that has a friend that his left handed! Cool right!? Me: I don't even know who your cousin is...
As a leftie I find that the only things I absolutely have to do left handed are eating with a fork/spoon and writing. Everything else I do right-handed...weird, but true. I think I'm ambidextrous, but since my name is Amber, I'm amberdextrous.
Back in high school when we took the ACT, the students were given surveys to see if we needed accommodations to comfortably test, and one question on the sheet was "Are you left handed?" And so I put yes and turned it in. Two weeks later I came into my testing room and instead of getting a left-handed desk I had another desk pushed against mine instead to rest my arm on.
Ahh, you had me cracking up over this video! The creative side of your leftiness was truly shining out in this video. Also, is it me or do lefties tend to be more expressive with our words, jesters, and we tend to be more dramatic? I just find it fasinating.
Left handed: Yes. Scissors: Yes. Chairs: “They ran out of left arm chairs” Yes. Spiral notebook problems: Yes. Zipper: I got used to it. Ice cream scoop: I use spoon Mouse pad and mouse: Uhm, also got used to it. Oof.
@@robertray3746 Yes for sure. I used Nifty in school. Of course Nifity is for both left and right handed. Also bolt action rifles are for right handed.
When my wife and I started dating, I helped her fold some laundry. I could tell by the way she was watching me that she wasn’t happy about something. It took a little effort to get the truth out, she said I was folding the towels “backwards” because of my left handed. Personally, I really don’t think it matters. A man could not care any less about the orientation of the folds in a towel. All he is concerned with is drying off after a shower.
SugarBellyFunLife I use my right hand for the mouse, if i try to use my left hand for the mouse it feels weird because I've already gotten used to doing that with my right hand
I really got confused. out of the billion people in the world to find someone 100% LEFT HANDED PERSON would use a mouse on left hand side. But please someone tell me why left handers use right hand to control the mouse they aren't ambidexterous though.
I was today years old when I realized how big of a deal scissors were for left handed people. I thought it wasn't a big deal since I've always used them upside down, and thought it was the same as using them normally. When she said it was difficult I realized that I've always hated being task to use scissors in class because I took too long. I thought it was because I was a perfectionist and took my time but I'm reality is that you need to drag whatever you're cutting to a certain angle in order for the scissor to start cutting. I was scolded by the teacher for taking longer at times, and often fell a little behind of my classmates, it makes more sense now.
...heh heh - I'm sensing grounds for some sort of legal action here. Is there a statute of limitation for filing these things? Hurry, time is (kinda) of essence!😷
Last year I had some kind of meeting at my work with a group of 11 people and when we had to write something down I looked around and saw that 7 of us, including me wrote lefthanded. Never saw that in my life, we lefties taking over hahaha
Me: *starts writing with my left hand Person sitting next to me: woah your left handed! My cousins friend brother uncle kids friend is left handed Me: WTH
As a Left handed guy, I have no problem with all the things that are made for Right handed people. Actually right handed things are a lot easier to use for Left handed people you people Just didn't realize that YET! With many years I have learned and trained my right hand to be as Equal as my Dominant Left hand. The result is, I became Ambidextrous meaning I can use both of my hands equally and dominantly. I can play Acoustic Guitar with both Left and Right hand, I can shoot my AR-15 and my other rifles in both Left and Right hand straight and accurately. I can also Write in both Left and Right hand that's why Practice makes perfect. I can hit, drive and sink a 3-1/2 inch Common nail in a lumber in just 1 hit in both Left and Right hand equally. I had knocked down a 6ft 5 tall guy in a bar fight using only my right hand stiff jab and I haven't unleashed my Straight Left YET and he falls down like a house of card. 6ft5 tall guy he's taller than me! I'm only 5ft9 tall.
A million views?!?!?!?! Thank you all so much!!! Holy smokes!!! 💜
im left handed and its so annoying when people always say "wow! youre left handed???!"
Im right bc abnded i c a mg t text with m y left h as nd we right now.
For my last comment:"I'm right handed, i can't text with my left hand right now."
TheSocialBrooke , finally someone else who's left-handed!!!
TheSocialBrooke I'm left handed
Left Handers would understand this.
When you sit next to a right hander and your elbow always bumps into their elbow.
Everyday struggles :(
Finally something I can relate to ^,^
i think right handers will understand this as well bc for FULL FREAKIN YR I HAD TO SIT NEXT TO A LEFT HANDER AND THEY DID NOT WANNA SWITCH SEATS XD
Oh yea when me and my seatmate had to do one paper pair activity she had to go first becuz it was SO hard to do it together XD
I know....
The happiest moment for lefty is when they see another lefty in classroom😚
yeah. definitely!(^-^)v
No kidding, I once had a class where all the left handed coincidentally sat in the front row
Earn Ace Also happened to me (^-^)
Yeah...
LONE MAN I am a lefty and there 2 lefty’s in my classroom
Feminists: women are the most oppressed
Left handed people: hold my scissors
Damn straight!!!😂🤣👍👍👍
I just spat my coffee!!
I’m an female left handed person...it’s a struggle
@@lillyfowler8703 Shit it is a struggle, trying to cut with scissors is hard, it doesn't even cut 😭
ToastyGamer5 then if you cut paper long enough you can’t even write cause it’s too painful😂
Growing up in a right handed world as a lefty brings challenges that we learn to work out by using our brains and eventually we become ambidextrous, and have the ability to use both sides of our brains and body equally well. We end up having an advantage over 90% of the population.
Yes! I automatically use my right hand for my laptop number pad. House keys in my right hand also (the locks all twist clockwise, right?) Think car gear shifts, too.
Yes speaking as a Lefty I cannot see the big drama here. We adapt well for example I naturally use R/H scissors and also pliers ( I am an electrician) and with computers you can buy a cordless mouse. What is a no no is fountain pens. We cannot do nice beautiful cursive writing because this writing has a slope to the right and it cannot be done with the L/H ( shame) , but if you are that bothered there is a L/H products society.
I agree I too had to learn to use my right hand along with my left now I can use both fairly equally. Except that I can only write with my left or throw things.
@@garypautard1069Ha! You’re mostly right. (See what I did there? 😂) I’m a carpenter and I’ve adjusted to every tool I’ve ever used, some easier than others. I remember the first time I picked up a chainsaw and thought what kind of deadly BS is this! then I switched to right hand mode and the tool was fine.
But as to lefty cursive, I’ve always produced a pronounced slant to the right. The problem with fountain pens for me, is the ink takes too long to dry so your hand drags and smears.
Scissors, yes, there’s a technique to pull the blades together with the left. Easier with good quality scissors that aren’t totally ‘deformed’ to fit only the right hand.
Righties be like "hOw Do YoU wRiTe WiTh YoUr LeFt HaNd"
Well, how do you write with your right hand, Jeff?
So true!
Im right. .
Smart answer and verey funny,
😂
*And there's me:* _'Both. Both is good.'_ ✋
Everyone in my class is like “woah your left handed” 😂
SAAAAAAAAAAAME
SAMEEE
Haha same
Amayah’s world exactly!!!
EXACTLYYYY
I’m proud to be part of the 12% 👌
The Titan same pen smudging is probably the worst thing in school ever
I don’t do the pen smudging I write with my left hand and hold the pen as a right handed person would .
My left handiness is monumental left handed in every mortal thing
The Titan 10%*
I am proud too #leftyforever @TheTitan
I’m the less than 1 percent cause I’m ambidextrous.
Going through school, I always took notice of how many fellow lefties there were. High school was the normal percentage. College was about 20-25%. Graduate school was 35-45%. Either lefties were more determined, or plain smarter.
I actually had one class in grad school with 8 students. 4 righties, 4 lefties, and the teacher was a leftie! We outnumbered them 5-4. They had to use our scissors.
IT IS TIME FOR RIGHTYS TO FEEL OUR PAIN
I'm really curious to know what your field of study was. Was it art-related?
I work in 3D computer graphics software - more than 50% of us are left-handers. It's something to do with spatial awareness.
True story, in med school we had a module where we had to practice doing a digital rectal exam on a (well paid) instructor. There were 3 of us in the room, he asked if there were any lefties. All 3 of us raised our hands. He said in his 20+ years of his job he'd never seen that.
I'm a community college left handed master electrician for 30 years now.
I'm a left-hander and it always makes me frustrated that the world basically ignores the leftys
im right handed but i feel sorry for you
@Nganga Kinyanjui same
I know
But we got each other. My music teacher was left handed. She always shouted out all of her left handers. Heck I just thought of this I rest more on my left and raise my hand more. My mom was supposed to be left handed but my grandma teached her to use her right hand. BUT... my dad is fully left handed.
Noone cares
Whenever I see someone else who is left handed, I get really excited.
Same
Hermione Granger Why Do You This???😭😭😭😭😭😭 Please Let Us Be Who We Are
I also feel the same
Y it’s just the same
Please Right Handers Don't Get Exited
I hate the questions like
“How did you learn to write like that?”
As if I can explain how my left hand just decided to write with that hand
Lolololol!!
😂
Get that every time😂
Army?
I love the title of you Jams playlist
Or the “How can you even write like that!?” Or “How do you know what you’re writing?!” 🤦🏽♀️
I'm a 70 yo lefty, I've spent a lifetime in a rhed world, but I'm glad ! It taught me to be more adaptable, to think outside the box, which in turn has helped me in the workplace to be more valuable to my employers. I get a kick out of watching many righties using only that hand, as if the left didn't exist . When I've trained people I'll ask which hand they use, if they reply "right" , I watch carefully to see if they use their left and if they don't I'll ask if they know they have 2 hands and proceed to make them use both. I've trained lots of people and when I need to train them on a different job they are now using both. Lol, my moment in the sun. We lefties my not be brighter but we are certainly more adaptable ! Hugs ' n love 🤗🥰❤️
*writing notes*
Person: Oh! You're left handed?
*drawing in art class*
Teacher:Oh!you're left handed?
*playing tennis*
Coach:Oh!You're left handed?
This legit happens!!
LOL same!!! Except mine was art class, softball and volleyball. 😆
Oh my god yes
Same, they always say; how do you write with your left hand?... The same way that YOU write with your right hand, duh!!! It's so annoying.
This is so relatable
Yesss this always happens to me!
leftys got their pros and cons, but I honestly enjoy being one, I feel unique in a good way
Good for you
same lol
Me and u both
Same.
ngl me too
My geography teacher said to me once: "remember, east is in the direction of your strong arm
Me, as a left handed: BRUH
Those kind of fckin jokes from fckin teachers
LMAO XD
It is scientifically proven that your right arm is stronger. It doesn't matter if it's your non-dominant hand, it's still stronger than your left.
"Easy way to remember right from left: you write with your right hand!" No. No we don't.
More like your weak arm
I’m a lefty, who has adapted to the point of being ambidextrous. The main thing I had issues with was trying to learn to crochet! As a lefty, the righty patterns were upside down and backwards. When I caved and tried it right handed, my brain couldn’t compute. 🤷🏻♀️
Oh wow your entire comment is exactly me! And I remember my Nana teaching me how to crochet. She had so much trouble trying to figure out how to show me how, and I struggled to mimic her backwards 😅 My great-grandma gave me lessons too and we had the same difficulties! But we were all patient and I finally learned. It's been so long since I last crocheted that I would probably have to learn all over again. I'm also just finding out that the decals on the mugs lol.
My mom wouldn’t teach me to crochet because I am a lefty. I got a ball of her yarn, a hook, and a pattern and taught myself in 9th grade. I learned how to adapt patterns and I have designed my own afghans. I can’t crochet anymore because of my damaged nerves in my arm. I found a pattern for an American flag. You had to run over 20 balls of yarn to make the star section. The first time I made it I had to adapt the stitches so the flag would be correct. I made about 8 of these for raffles for the children’s hospital over time. The first one I made sold over $800 in tickets. I think that’s cool. 😎 ❤
My mum was ambidextrous back in her day at school they made her write with her right hand, had to laugh when they write a hundred times I must not talk in class she would use both hands an be done in half the time 😅
Me too. I was taught to knit right handed, but I managed to teach myself how to crochet. Yes upside and backwards.
Ohh, so that's why I don't cut paper with scissors well.
Me too
x l a s h i I have always used my right hand 🤚 for this as well as sports but everything else such as writing or crafts or art I use my left
spoopled cloud it might just be in Oahu, but in my target there’s left handed scissors when the back to school stuff comes around.
Me too
same 😂
My brother married a lefty. He says they can hold hands under the table and still eat normally!
Yeah that's a advantage Leftys have, it's not bad
Well if you like that then, this'll blow your mind... Observe them and you will see that she is always on the left, and he will always be on the right side... Of EVERYTHING, The table, bed, couch, everything really.
@@lindimashinini7237 It makes things easier! You'll often bump arms and it gets really awkward quick.
I got told off for personal space because if this lol in school
Yep; and can drive well while holding hands.
Left handed: Hey, can I use a pencil?
Right handed: sure *hands pencil*
Left Handed: Thanks *starts writing*
Right handed: Whoa, your left handed?
Left Handed: -pls help- yea, why
Okay but im ambidextrous. And so i ask for a pencil and start writing with my right hand, and then ill switch to my left hand because my right got tired ( it gets tired easily i use left for writing more ) and they'll be like *surprised pikachu face*
"oH yOu'Re RiGhT hAnDeD?"
@@destilanoray2567 how did you do that ?
@@destilanoray2567 ayy that's what I do too
Although I usually write for someone else sometimes
Relatable plus I love the redskins picture and name!
Right-handed mouses are the best part of being left-handed. It’s so handy to be able to write and use a mouse at the same time.
I also taught myself to write in mirror image once during detention. I’ve been able to do it ever since, almost as fast as I can write normally.
I love this! Writing and using the mouse at the same time! Multitasking
That sounds cool!😅
Yep, I was bored so I learned to write backwards, upside down and then upside down backwards. I was really bored 😂
True. Comes in clutch for work
People should be aware: never run the mouse with your dominant hand. You want that for writing. Anyone can learn to click a mouse with their "off" hand.
One thing that definitely bothers me and wasn't mentioned: Pens that are attached to a string at offices and stuff. When you're supposed to give your signature and you can barely get the pen over to the other side 😅
Yes, for sure!!!!!
i always have other people do it for me since im salty about the pen and will refuse to do it.
Dead Сhannel 😂
Ur into k pop??
@@thewasabithatmakesyoongicry I used to be...since 2008 😅 I still love GOT7 but barely listen to any other K-Pop nowadays 😉
Its like being racist to left handed people
😂😂😂😂😂😂
agree
Good one 😂
Leftist? Or is it handist XD
Ender Man I use both of my hands
As a lefty, When i was in kindergarten, i couldn’t understand why the scissors didn’t work. 😭😭😭😭. Then one day my teacher noticed which hand i was using and saw me struggling. So she found the one and only lefty scissors in the whole class room for me. Lol! When i cut the paper with it, i was so shocked. I though the whole time that my scissors weren’t sharp enough or they were broken. Turns out i learned about lefties that same day. I didn’t know the difference up until then.
Omg same! I thought the scissors weren’t sharp enough! ✂️
I'm right handed but I didn't even use scissors in kindergarten because they said it was dangerous 😶😑
@@ArmchairInvestigator I am ambidextrous, soo... All is well :)
Lmao I had to adapt to using my right hand because I never knew left handed scissors were a thing, now when I’m cutting with scissors my left hand feels uncomfortable because of how much I have adapted to using my right hand.
I didn’t realize till a few months ago that’s why I was struggling so hard with scissors in elementary school😭😭 I agree with everything in this video!!
My grandmother (born 1908) was left handed and she had a left-handed iron! They make irons now with the cord at the back, making them useful for either left or right handed people. But they used to make irons with the electrical cord coming out the right side, but the left-handed iron had the cord coming out the left side.
That’s cool!
My grandmother had an ambidextrous iron - - it pre-dated electric irons, she heated it on the stove!
@@goldfieldgary I was born in 1965 and my own mother had a cast-iron iron that she used to heat over the coal fire. Until the house was modernised in 1972 I think it was.
Left hand person: *writes*
Right hand person: omg you’re *left handed?*
Left hand person: omg you’re *right handed?* +-+
Ik it annoys me my teacher ask me to much times (we get different teachers) and I be like* you do see me using my using my left hand*
Yesss so tru
IKR
I never notice which hand people write with. As a lefty people always comment.
LOL this happened with me when I was in 2nd grade! :D
Me: *left handed*
Other person: omg my neighbors cousins dogs wife is left handed! What a small world
Alexieeeee
I made a comment like that before (forgot it though)
Isabel Eagleton lol my mom is
See, now that is not a random relative😂
The happiest moment for a lefty is finding the person on the left you are eating next to is a lefty, too!
Yes I always sit with a person on my right when eating , only on end.
@@robertadams6606 Exactly right. I always make sure I'm to someone's left and we're good to go.
👈
So true!
I am so happy whenever I find out if someone else is a lefty.
There were no lefty scissors when I was a kid. Cutting paper in school was so painful. I didn't know why the other kids could do it without pain. 😕 It was years later that I realized I was holding the opposite side of the scissors that had a sharp edge!
My dad : right handed
My mom : right handed
My brother : right handed
Me : left handed 👁️👄👁️
Dad: Right Handed
Mum: Left Handed
Me: extreme Left Handed
SAME! THE ONLY LEFT HANDED IN THE FAMILY
Mom: Left handed
Dad: Left handed
Older brother: Right handed
Me: Left handed
Younger brother: Left handed.
Kaching!
Out of 6 male cousins,5 are lefties. None of the females are. I’m ambidextrous but always write with my left.
Same dude,i'm the only one in tje entire family
When someone’s like:
‘oH mY goD yOurE LefT hAndEd’
I just say
‘oH woW i nEveR kNeW’
IS THERE A PROBLEM. I CAN RELATE. ITS SUPER HARD TI BE A LEFTY
haaha me
Omg same
I'm sorry but....
SAME SISTER ONLY LEFTYS UNDERSTAND
IKR THEY KEEP SAYING. OVER AND OVER AGAIN "Oh your left-handed?" And am I. Bitch I told you that already
This chair that you show in 01:00 is actually left handed
Whose frame of refrence
Ikr 😂
Your right it is..... Or should I say you *left* it is
Blue Picklez I don’t find that funny._.
I tought the same 😂
Learning and forcing yourself to master the use of most right handed people’s items can be emotionally draining and a huge Herculean task. It has made me to be more detailed and impeccable with so many tasks along the way though … We Lefties, are great learners with huge improvisation and innovative minds👏🏽👏🏽❤️
If I had a dollar for every time someone said “woah, you’re left handed?” I’d be rich
Same
lmfao same
Yes that’s sooooo true!
So very, very rich! I'd be so rich that I would be able to supply left handed devices to every lefty. You get one, you get one, everyone gets one lol.
@@18Alpine omg yes please I’m a orthodontist and it makes being a leftie so difficult
Someone once told me “You don’t look left handed.”
My reply: “What am I supposed to look like?” ❤️
😆😂😂
Im left handed and people are always like how can you write? Wait wat ur left handed? Thats soooo weird
😆
☀️ Ｓｕｎｎｙ Ｄａｙｓ ☀️ oh my god I experienced it already a lot if I say A lot i mean A lot
For most of the right handed we are like fairys or magicians.
Me when I see people write:
*right handed*
Everyone in this videos comments:
*left handed*
I swear this has United most left handed people
No actually Australia has a lot of leftys
I’m Australian too 😂
I'm lefty lol
I'm a lefty.
I'm leftie and literally I see no one is left handed in my school or my family
You are absolutely correct on all of these. I have experienced them since childhood. Thanks for pointing out the "smudging" that happens when we write (that was a real pain until I adjusted my hand to be lifted from the paper or turned my hand higher up.) Great to see a beautiful and truly left handed person talking about this. You Rock Brooke!
I annoy my sister(right handed) by giving her my left handed coffee mug, (she gets mad cuz she has to turn the mug around, like i do) then i say "NOW YOU KNOW HOW I FEEL"
😆
i know exactly what you mean i have encountered all kinds of mean things for 52 years, my kindergarten teacher kept slapping my hand and tried to change me over because long ago it was considered an abomination to be left handed. i came home ond day and mom sat my lunch plate in front of me and i was confused at to what hand to use. so my mom questioned me and i told her, so the next morning mom took me to school and told the teacher that if i ever was touched in a bad way for being left handed. that mom was going to come back to the school and whip the teacher for touching me she told them i was born left handed and iam going to stay left handed. After that i was never made to change or was never smacked for using my left hand.
They make those?!
OMG TRUE XD
My grandmother told my Mom to tie my left hand behind my back. My Mother in turn said she'd raise her children in her own way. My left hand was never tied behind my back.
I'm left handed but I can do almost everything with my right hand except writing
I'm right-handed and can most things with my left hand, except writing
@@hangesupreme5640 Me too
I'm left-handed as well but I only eat and write with my left hand. Everything else on do on the right hand. It's weird.
@@JohnMason8183 same
I am right handed and can write with my left, although it is a lot slower or messier.....I can't do it both tidy and fast lol (only one). I can also do things like eat, brush teeth, throw, use phone and various other things with my left. I have always opened bottles and lids with my left (no idea why) In Cricket I bowl with my left, but throw with my right (even though I can throw with my left, but not as well).
Most annoying question in the world:
“How can you write like that?”
..............................................
HOW TF DO YOU EXPECT ME TO ANSWER THAT????? HOW DO YOU WRITE WITH THE RIGHT HAND?!!!????!
Ya its just like: the same way you write with your right hand, idiot (sorry for curse word, i couldnt think of another word..)
Every left handed person I know, AKA me and mother (I'm a lonely left hander), has nicer hand writing than a right handed person. Literally. EVERY SINGLE RIGHT HANDED PERSON I KNOW HAS WORSE HAND THAN ME. (I am so bad at typing.. I said "has worse hand than me". Am I crazy? Oh god, I need grammarly XD)
Make your own jokes
Just use the other hand
ikr?
Scissors and can openers were the worst trying to master their use. My mother used to laugh at me trying to use can openers. I managed but it looked dangerous. To all the south paws i salute you. Amazing what we adapted to
Don’t forget people being surprised when they find out your left handed
Oh my gosh yes. At least once a week someone says "YOURE LEFT HANDED?!)?!!?!?!?!??!?!?! HOW DO YOU WRITE LIKE THAT????????"
Honestly my everyday Promblem I'm the only left handed in ALL my classes
@@agustinasanchez7443 lol I'm left handed to I get what you're saying and I'm also a bts army. Its awesome that I found a bts army who's left handed :)
"OMG my neighbor's cousin's sister's husband's father is also left-handed 😑
@@danielalkaria1849 we Have Each Other now ig :]
I am left handed and another problem is when you write with slow drying pens it gets dragged all over the paper! Anyone having the same issue?
Me I'm left handed
That’s why you should buy a gel pen! BTW I’m a righty lol I’m giving advice...
Yup
Me
Same but I’m right hnded
I'm proud of being a left handers.
The Creapers same here me and my niece are the only left 🖐 handers in a family full of right handers . I did hear a fact that if your mother is over 35 when you’re born the likelihood of you being a leftie goes up my sis was 36 when she had my second niece and my mum was 40 so I think that goes to proving this !
My mum was born with me when she was 20 and I’m left-handed.
Michelle Flood me too
Im 42. And got into trouble in elementary school for using my left hand. They hand over hand forced me. Until i cried saying I can't. Then went to the principals office. They threatened to paddle me. Called my dad. He came in and got into a fight with the principal. As he told my dad , i was touched by the devil. I was in 3rd grade. And will never forget about it.
I had a teacher try to force me to use my right hand as well. I went home and told my dad. The next day he was at the school and hell broke loose. She was also the same teacher who tried to give me the nickname of Beth because she had too many Elizabeths in her class. My dad told her that she can nickname one of the other Elizabeths but not me. Needless to say, she did not care for me much 😂. I was just proud that my dad always stood up for me. He was such a great dad. Miss him terribly.
I have 2 brothers . We are all left handed. I am the oldest. Before I went to school my Mom told the teacher not to try to change us into righty’s . That helped a lot.
@@ElizabethBSoCal I write left handed. But play 2-handed sports right handed. (golf, cricket, baseball.) Raquet sports left-handed. (tennis, squash etc.) Comfortable playing cue sports with both hands. Darts both hands. Eat with the utensils in the 'normal' hands.
I started school in 1970. When liberal teaching methods were just kicking in here in the UK. I am entirely convinced that at some point I was faffing with colouring crayons or something in my left hand. And the teacher thought I was left handed so pushed me to be left handed. Thinking they were doing right. I suspect that I'm supposed to be naturally right handed. Never had the slightest problem with scissors, tin openers or trouser zips etc.
@ interesting!
@@goadmerle Wow! Sounds like my school, back when I went. 😕
My family : right handed
Me : left handed
My family : are you even human, which family are you from
Me :
The majority of my Family is Left-Handed, which is quite rare. We got it from our Father.
Same...
YOU KNOW I LOVE BTS THEIR MEMES IS LAIFU UWU Same all my family is right handed besides 2 (and me)
Hi Army
me too xD
My daughter is left handed. I try my best to find things that are designed for lefties. I’ve given her scissors, notebooks, and other left handed things. I feel for her.
I am 55 years old and left-handed. I cannot use scissors in my right hand. I also cannot use left-handed scissors. I learned how to use right-handed scissors with my left hand, and it always causes pain, discomfort and tiredness with my left thumb. When it comes to online gaming, as of right now, I cannot play most of them because it requires a right-handed mouse and left-handed keyboard. I cannot use a mouse with my right hand.
I know the feeling and i just write whith my left and not got good eye sight and been put down most of my life has some idios dont get and most leftys ar verey cleaver not saying i am i know there more understanding of it now but still not enough,shame on them,
best dad/ mom heres 🎖
Sir you are amazing
The reason left handed people are smarter is that they have to adapt to a right handed world. This boasts creativity and adaptability. Some struggle is good for people 😉
When I was in primary school, my teachers said that "the left hand is the hand of Satan" and they thought I was somewhat possessed.
Don't think me eating other children alive was related though.
I relate to the children part
(Jk)
Or jealous
@@danielignacio57 Can really really relate to what you are saying Daniel, I'm Australian and started school in the 50s. I was told I the child of the devil, was forced to stand at black board with my left hand my back and use my right hand. Was slapped with a ruler every time I went to use my left hand for a week. Proud to say I am still a lefty
There’s some “explanation” for people to think that. Left hand is often associated with satanism and dark magic in the west, hence the phrase “left hand path”. That’s why many ignorant people forced lefties to adapt onto the norm. I was fortunate to have born in a recent time, because this belief is less prevalent.
I had a teacher do that to me when I was in in elementary school. She yanked that pencil out of my left hand and started slapping my hand.
All of this is so true. I found this video because I was trying to figure out apple notes as a lefty and almost forgot that I’ve had to adapt my whole life
The most common statement for left handed people
“OMG your left handed, I didn’t know that”
LIKE jeez it’s not a big deal
Cool Unicorn. I can relate 50%
Me: *writes with left hand*
Person: WOAHHHHH YOU’RE LEFT HANDED???? WHATTTT???
Me: No.
Person: OH.
Me: I can pretend to be left handed.
Person: Wdym
Me: *Starts writing with right hand*
I’m ambidextrous
Ikr peeps make the biggest deal out of it. When i was younger i was more of and introvert then an extrovert and when some boy saw me write her was like, "omg a leftie"and inside my head im screaming for him to shut it before i cut my left hand off😭😂 anyway he told the whole class and everyone was like omg she left handed!! And im also thinking what's the big deal and i some sorta alien like dude!!!
I know right even if the persons known me for a decade all of a sudden...
How Adrea I didn't know you were left handed!!!!
Yeah it's not really a big deal it's weird
IK RIGHT
Left handed squad 😉
Reporting for duty!
Eyyyy
Wassup sista
Actually I’m left handed
So you’re not my boss
Righty-“So you’re left handed?”
Lefty- “Right”
R- “Oh you’re right handed”
L-“No, left handed”
R-“So why did you say right”
L-“Cos you’re right”
R-“I know i am right but you’re left handed”
L-“Right”
R-“Wait, so you’re right handed?”
L“Nope”
R-“Ok so left handed it is”
L-“Right”
R-“stop it!”
Its awkward how right can mean three things in the three languages I speak
Right ( opposite of left )
Right ( opposite of duty)
Right (opposite of wrong)
And sometimes it means straight when u say right in front of u
In french and Arabic too 😂
They should’ve said correct
🤣🤣
@@NotErine right
Lol
My 24 year old daughter is a lefty and you have provided a lot of information that I wish I knew when she was young.
Wow, I’m going to look for items that are designed specifically for lefty’s.
Thanks for sharing. I just found you today and have enjoyed the three videos that I’ve watched of yours. You are easy on the ears, lovely disposition and funny! Keep it up 👍🏼 😊
The like button was designed for left-handed people
Firefox 123 thank got you don’t have to reach your short thumb to the other side of the screen lmao
I'm more of a hater I don't think this is working out.
So easy for me as a lefty
Lynx same
It' all about perspective. I still could be a right hand. And just graphically it looks better to have the flat sort of create a book-ended flat-edges.
Proud to be one of the 10-12%!
Thanks for making this!! 🖑🖎
😊
adam mac same
adam mac same 👍🏼
adam mac me to
adam mac same
When you're playing guitar, you know what I'm talking about
Yes. 🤣🤣🤣
I just pull a Michael Angelo Batio and I play with my right on a left hander or my left on a right hander, or I just pull a Jimi Hendrex and switch the strings to make a right a left or a left a right lmao. But yes, the pain is real xP
I feel your pain.
Recently I took up guitar lessons, but the website I bought the guitar on never said it was designed for right handed people. Biggest waste of two weeks AND money I ever went through
Wow, I'm left - handed and I play my classical guitar as a right - handed since I was 10 years old, let my tell you that is totally possible IDK but the same happen to me with my skateboard 😅😅😅
From what I'm told, I was born left-handed and made to use my right hand when I was starting to write. During my school years, I was told a number of times that the way I held a pencil was weird. I'm still not sure what they meant. I knew another guy who supposedly wrote similarly with his right-hand, and he told me that he was technically left-handed. I wonder if our pencil-holding has to do with the switch.
Being left handed and perfectionist at the same time is like you're living in hell every day
Just think left handers think in 3D. Right handers can't.
fr im sort of a perfectionist and im left handed
Youre right bro
This is so right, that i get my works mostly undone
You are not alone with that symptom "(^ . ^)"
I am a lefty and I love to be one
me too
But i can't game with my pc controls ( right handed WSAD but i can use OKJL
same (because I’m rare and special of course ;) )
Edit: @Arya Ganteng well damn now I feel like a peasant
@@qrysta7437 i think i more special and rare i am left handed but only use right hand when use game controller and mouse, nearly everything else left
But i also color blind and i can't say the word R and it is problem in my country because of my lips "R" i change "R" to "L"
So i:
left handed(12% in the world)
Color blind(4% in the world)
Lips "R"(??% in the world)
I also more rare because i am Asian (this one just my opinion, in my country left handed only less than 10% of all my country population)
Edit: and what is more rare no one in my family is left handed and i am the only one left handed
I am so different with my parents
Like:
1.both my parents love durian
(I hate durian)
2.both my parents love spicy thing
(I hate spicy thing)
3.both my parents not color blind
(I am color blind)
4.both my parents not left handed
(I am left handed)
5.Both my parents not lips anyword
(I am lips "R")
@@evolilol5984 SAME
Qrysta lol, don't feel like peasant,left handed still very rare because only 12% person left handed in the world so you still rare and special but I am super very rare😅
As a lifelong lefty I marvel how well I adapted to all this, just grew up with these issues and never gave them a second thought!!!
That's exactly what I was thinking. Everything mentioned in the video is a non issue for me.
The scissor one was hard for me when I was younger with the paper always crimping instead of cutting. Never gave much thought about the ice cream scoop one, but now that I think about it it explain why I get ice cream on myself a lot. But everything else I adapted to.
Actually, I remember my 5th grade class in elementary school there were about 20 or 25 students including me in my particular room. I don't know why, but we probably had about 30 left handed scissors, and I was the only lefty in the room, so I had almost all the scissors sitting on my desk. Watching with amusement as all the rightys struggled to cut papers.
I also remember struggling to learn to tie my shoes as a kid. My mom was getting extremely frustrated cause I was making my loop on the left side, and from her perspective it looked wrong, so she kept getting on me about doing it wrong.
Then, she happened to be on the phone with my grandmother, who was the only other lefty in the family, and happened to mention the difficulty she was having in teaching me to tie my shoes. My grandmother told my mom to have me practice by tieing my moms shoes instead of my own. I was doing it right the whole time, but mom didn't realize what was going on until the perspective was switched and then she understood why it looked wrong to her when I tied my own shoes.
Been at school with this person for 10 years
All of a sudden:
Him: whoah your left handed!
Me: you just now noticed
I love it when they say it multiple times. Me: writing at work. Him: I didn't know you were left handed. Me: yeah, you didn't know the last 3 times you've watched me write but that's cool, huh.
Brandi Adams yeah sometimes I think it’s cool but it can get annoying sometimes
That’s me and my friends 😂 I’ll be writing something then they say WHAT? Your a lefty wow
EXACTLY !!!!!!!
YT_benthepen33 I've had like 5 people do that mess... After being with them for 6 years... Cmon man
LEFT HANDED PEOPLE! Don't you hate switching seats with your friend when eating because of your elbows clashing??
Oh heck yes. I have to sit on the left side, even in class :((
I have to constantly apologize to my friends for whacking them with my elbows 😂😂
Or you just don't swing your elbows out as much or are you resting your arm in a v on the lunch table being a ass to who ever is next to you
Why was the world so mean to us?!?!
But it’s cute because my crush sits next to me 😂
I love this video. I'm a leftie and can testify to all this. Don't even get me started on power tools or firearms.
Im an also an leftie am.
Im also a leftie.
I HEAR BROTHER! IM ALSO LEFT HANDED! And I managed to purchase a hand tool? An ELECTRIC "HAND SAW" But for "RIGHT" Handers! I did see the same saw for LEFT Handers but it cost MORE! Can you believe that, for LEFT HANDED!
I Have used it I just need to "place" myself in a different position! In order to use the saw! I WILL BUY another saw! And will make sure it's THE RI...Oops 🤭😁 LEFT HANDED ONE!
@Jalen Wright THAT'S WHY they CHARGE the HIGH
PRICE for the same item!
The firearms hurts my heart the most!...😩
I found ONE advantage to being a lefty when it came to writing. When learning to write cursive, the letters were supposed to slant to the right. For us lefties, that slant was natural...but the paper was smeared with pencil lead and the side of my hand was black. I was always marked down for neatness.
My experience exactly😊
"Improvise. Adapt. Overcome"
Basically the life of left-handed people
True! I totally agree! That's my life everyday
Very good! You will live long and prosper. That is the beauty of adversity. Take it from someone with ambidextrous but poor dexterity, Mild ADHD/OCD (undiagnosed), reading/writing disorder who did become a physician. It can be done!!!!
Agreed lefty problems
Absolutely!
Epic Acrylic damn right
You missed one when ur in school and the right handed person next to you is bumping ur arm every 5 seconds 😡
Guess what, that’s annoying for the right handed person too *gasp*
When you are left handed you have to force yourself to get used to it.. But I'm ambidextrous so I don't have to deal with that
Yes
Im right handed and I sit next to a left handed person and its so annoying when we write, she keeps bumping into me. Its sooo annoying...
The_minx Animations yesss!
THE SMUDGING!! AND THIS GIRL IN MY CLASS IS LIKE “how are you left handed??” IDFK I WAS BORN THIS WAY!?!?
You should reply "How are you right handed??"
Left is right and Right is wrong.
wait dio is left handed
@@iainhobbs3024 Exactly
In elementary school in the mid 1960's I took a few wacks with a yard stick for writing left handed..
Cynthia Booker do you know your teachers address I need it
My younger sister would have been right handed, but was born without her right forearm. She was always the first to tell you she was not handicapped. When she was divorced was 2 young boys, social services told her she didn't have to work. She didn't want to but shewent ahead & took their welfare check & went back to school to become a certified CPA. Got a good job, with good pay & made a life for herself & her children.
I am left handed and I always use markers and it gets on my hand it is so annoying
I now in school l was writing on a board my hand was covered in orange
p e n c i l s
a r e
h e l l
I knowww
a n y
s m u d g y
w r i t i n g
t o o l
s u c h
a s
m a r k e r s
p a i n t
p e n c i l s
a n y t h i n g e l s e
i s
h e l l
I have to use liquid ink pens it’s really annoying as well
I am a left handed person...
I have adapted...
Like for the mouse I just use my right hand
I love to sketch and I have to get sketchbooks that don’t have spirals, IT HURTS!
I love being a lefty I am rare :)
same, it never occurred to me when I was little that I should just switch the mouse around, so I got used to it. But using a mouse with my left hand still comes naturally ( even though I never use my left hand for a mouse, bc it calls attention to me)
I do the mouse one too.
@@fulcrum_84 agree I somehow adapted to using the mouse and scissors too. But I'm still bad at cutting paper lol
@@wrenlaws4362 lol agree I never thought about switching it either
Rocket Doggy yess slay
I'm a proud leftie!
Me too! And a righty!
And I also had to comment here!
ARMY FOR LIFE
ArMyEh me too lol
im totally not proud, the only proud thing im proud of is that im smart, BUT NOT REALLY
I’m a mirror image identical twin. I’m the lefty and she’s the righty. Our dad is a righty and our mom is a lefty. Our mom is a housewife and therefore was the most hands on with us in our formative years. Though my sister is definitely a right-handed person, she is very ambidextrous in the way you expect a left-handed person to be. She can use scissors with both hands, bowl with both hands, is more comfortable wearing a watch on her right wrist the way a lefty would, etc. Because our mom was raised in the 60’s and 70’s, not a lot of things were made yet to accommodate lefties (scissors, can openers, etc.), she was forced into being relatively ambidextrous. As a result, my sister adopted quite a few of my mom’s left-handed behaviors while fostering her primary right-handed behaviors…
As for me, I’m not very ambidextrous for a left-handed person! Despite my mom showing us how to use scissors with her right hand, I never adapted to that and stuck with using my left hand. Sure, I never could cut in a straight line, but it must have been passable enough for my elementary school teachers in the 1990’s. I hate having to pay almost $10 for left-handed scissors online when right-handed ones are cheap and at every store. I am only able to use a can opener with my left hand and twist with my right, despite attempts to teach me the traditionally right-handed method. Never had issues with getting it to work somehow! Pens and pencils are hellish! Binders and notebooks were too (thank the Lord I don’t need them anymore)! I write entirely in cursive, which is sadly reaching obsolescence. However, it was frustrating being in the third grade learning it, smearing the ink/lead, getting them on my shirt. I adapted, of course, and I now know how to hold the pen without smearing much (if at all). Though, to be fair, the BIC pens I use all the time are incredibly reliable in that regard!
Being left-handed is awesome, despite our rarity! Our mom and I were the only lefties until our older (right-handed) brother married his wonderful left-handed wife in 1996! It took them five tries to bless our family with a left-handed child! In 2020, their fifth and final child was born. She, from the get-go, was doing things primarily with her left hand! Now that she’s a happy little toddler, her lefty status is solidified! Now our big family has four left-handed people! Somehow, all of us are women/girls!
Edit: I’m a CPhT (Certified Pharmacy Technician). When I first started working in pharmacy, I got a job with my left-handed sister-in-law. She had been a CPhT for about 15 years at that point. Back when she started, they didn’t make pill counting trays for lefties, so she had to adapt with the right-handed ones. When I started in 2015, the lead pharmacist happily ordered a left-handed tray for me. I was struggling to count pills at a decent pace right-handed, so I was thankful for this gift!
I often wonder why I cannot adapt to right-handed things. While I have never pursued lessons (my parents obstinately said no when band lessons were offered in 4th grade), I have always wanted to play the drums. I naturally hold the sticks the way a lefty would. As a little kid, I held them this way, despite seeing my favorite singer, Karen Carpenter, playing like any other right-handed player. Without a kit of my own to decide, I don’t know if I would play open-handed, or reposition the kit for a left-handed player. Maybe some day I’ll find out. I am in the early stages of learning guitar. Naturally, there was no way my obstinately left-handed self was going to learn with a traditional guitar. I had to pay over $50 more for a model made for lefties that isn’t supplied in store, meaning extra shipping costs on top of the >$50. I am not very good at it so far, but I know going for a left-handed guitar was best!
I don’t know what it is about me that has made me more resistant to right-handed behaviors. It isn’t that I don’t want to adapt out of laziness. It’s just that, even in my formative years, it was obvious that I simply couldn’t wrap my mind around the tasks in a right-handed manner. Maybe I’m just some kind of “true” lefty? Our mom heard that term once. Not sure if that’s actually a thing. I do have epilepsy and have had it since I was 12. My sister has seizures too, but maybe one or two a year (at most). I can have up to 20 in a month if I’m having a rough spell. Maybe that has something to do with it, but it doesn’t account for my early childhood. Also, our mom had to have an emergency C-section to deliver us because the doctors couldn’t wake me up. They ran scans and realized I had the umbilical cord wrapped around my arm. The doctors said that, if I had been born naturally, I would have been born with significant brain damage and cerebral palsy. While no scans after I was born showed signs of trauma, maybe something small happened that made me the way I am? I don’t know. Just a long tangent!
Or the classic " OMG are you left handed thats soooo weird!!! My neighbour's dogs cousins bestfriends aunty is left handed aswell" 🙄🙄🙄
This is great LOL! 😂
TheSocialBrooke thanks lol 😂❤️
So their aunty is a dog
khlo money I is left handed
ikr lmfao
Happy National Left Handers Day my friends! 👍🏼
TheSocialBrooke I know I’m sooooo happy
TheSocialBrooke can I get a whoho for the left handed including me (plus getting silver spots or marker on my hands it’s annoying it’s almost like I can never escape getting out of that habit
WOOP WOOP! :D
I write with my left hand but do everything else with my right hand
TheSocialBrooke I Just want to say that x and thankx
I’m a righty but I was like, okay I’ll watch it
When she said first, I knew it was gonna be scissors
Chloe Robichaud same
I'm cross dominant but I have some struggles
Iam a proud lefty, because I went through alot of torture in my childhood at school and home in Africa I decided to stand out for sisters and brothers who are still tortured until today even being called satanic. May I be more blessed financially so I can support more and more lefties.
Me: *writes something
Friend: Oh you're left handed!
Me: Yes ;-;
Friend: Do you know I have a friend that has a cousin, and his cousin has a neighbour, and his neighbour has a daughter that has a friend that his left handed! Cool right!?
Me: I don't even know who your cousin is...
Wow...
I hate when that happens haha
MissLaica :P when people figure it out they make it like a big deal lmao ensure like
“OMG YOURE LEFT HANDED”
.. okay
And the worst thing is when you have already told them like seven times yet they only seem to realize when they see you write... Like seriously!
They’re like OMG HOW DO YOU WRITE LIKE THAT and I’m like the same way you write with your right hand
Me: * writes *
People: * watch me write with my left hand *
People: Are you left handed?
Me: **triggered**
This happens to me EVERYDAY and omgg
NO I'M JUST WRITING WITH MY NON-DOMINANT HAND
ah no I'm just using my left hand. haha no I'm lefthanded
SOOOO TRUUUEEE OMGGG
@@rachelmorse357 YASS
Hey i am a left handed person everyone asks me how do u write with that hand some times they look at me writing they look me like a alien
I feel you
"Hmm...well, how do YOU write with your RIGHT hand?"
@@aurora9586 excuse I said I write with left hand but if I try to write with right hand it's horrible
legendary bros LOL relatable
Same
As a leftie I find that the only things I absolutely have to do left handed are eating with a fork/spoon and writing. Everything else I do right-handed...weird, but true. I think I'm ambidextrous, but since my name is Amber, I'm amberdextrous.
Back in high school when we took the ACT, the students were given surveys to see if we needed accommodations to comfortably test, and one question on the sheet was "Are you left handed?" And so I put yes and turned it in. Two weeks later I came into my testing room and instead of getting a left-handed desk I had another desk pushed against mine instead to rest my arm on.
I'm left handed too, but the desk issue is more US then anything else. The chairs with the small table on the armrest is used much outside the US.
It’s kinda annoying how people scream when they find out I’m left handed
Hahaha i hate that
A new weeb What anime should i watch? Watch Anohana, My Hero Academia, and Wolf Chidren, PLEASE watch BNA (brand new animal)
Lmao, i could only imagine how they scream
@@axr_nrytl my hero academia is great! It is such an entertaining show
Barbecue Wingz yesssss!!
Left handed squad where you at?
PBX pai I see u
I’m here!
PBX Roblox right here
HUE HUE HUE HUE I AM RIGHT HANDED HUE HUE HUE FEAR ME
🙋🏻♀️🙋🏻♀️🙋🏻♀️
Ahh, you had me cracking up over this video! The creative side of your leftiness was truly shining out in this video. Also, is it me or do lefties tend to be more expressive with our words, jesters, and we tend to be more dramatic? I just find it fasinating.
Absolutely believe we are more expressive!
@@ArmchairInvestigator Also most people I know that are left handed are introverts (including myself) could just be Australia tho 😅
Left handed: Yes.
Scissors: Yes.
Chairs: “They ran out of left arm chairs” Yes.
Spiral notebook problems: Yes.
Zipper: I got used to it.
Ice cream scoop: I use spoon
Mouse pad and mouse: Uhm, also got used to it.
Oof.
Spiral notebooks definitely
@@robertray3746 Yes for sure.
I used Nifty in school. Of course Nifity is for both left and right handed.
Also bolt action rifles are for right handed.
Don't forget, using a very sharp chefs knife is dangerous most knives are for right handed people.
SO TRUE
When my wife and I started dating, I helped her fold some laundry. I could tell by the way she was watching me that she wasn’t happy about something. It took a little effort to get the truth out, she said I was folding the towels “backwards” because of my left handed. Personally, I really don’t think it matters. A man could not care any less about the orientation of the folds in a towel. All he is concerned with is drying off after a shower.
😆😆😆
I got natural red hair no freckles
Green eyes
I am left handed
I am a minority
Wow! You are a rare person to find in the world
I'm a left-handed redhead too :)
Floofy Snoot yeah I can never sneak anywhere because people always know it’s me
Scott D. Delano yessss 👏
Hi left handed redhead her too!👩🏻🦰👩🏻🦰💪🏻💪🏻💪🏻💪🏻💪🏻
"...I am left handed, and red headed and I have green eyes.." Yes you do! This makes you a lovely one of a kind gem!
One of the good things about being left handed is that you can write while you use a mouse
SugarBellyFunLife no you can't, because I use my mouse on the left side
What ya gonna do 🤷♀️?
SugarBellyFunLife I use my right hand for the mouse, if i try to use my left hand for the mouse it feels weird because I've already gotten used to doing that with my right hand
I really got confused. out of the billion people in the world to find someone 100% LEFT HANDED PERSON would use a mouse on left hand side. But please someone tell me why left handers use right hand to control the mouse they aren't ambidexterous though.
SugarBellyFunLife SOOOO true! I work in accounting and I can 10 key right handed and write with my left it's a big plus.
I’m a lefty! And I’m proud of it!
Your writing sucks doesnt it😏
quavas gaming shut up. I’m a left handed person but I have really neat writing
Jeff Herman So am l!
@@jojomackaral comimg from a left handed person my hand writing is not the most nice thing to look at buy its eligable and wrote down fast
Same
I was today years old when I realized how big of a deal scissors were for left handed people. I thought it wasn't a big deal since I've always used them upside down, and thought it was the same as using them normally. When she said it was difficult I realized that I've always hated being task to use scissors in class because I took too long. I thought it was because I was a perfectionist and took my time but I'm reality is that you need to drag whatever you're cutting to a certain angle in order for the scissor to start cutting. I was scolded by the teacher for taking longer at times, and often fell a little behind of my classmates, it makes more sense now.
Exactly! I didn't know how much they were designed for right handed people until recently
i always get raw when i use sizers in class because i have to position it wired or it is all messed up
Same here! It’s annoying.
...heh heh - I'm sensing grounds for some sort of legal action here. Is there a statute of limitation for filing these things? Hurry, time is (kinda) of essence!😷
simp
Last year I had some kind of meeting at my work with a group of 11 people and when we had to write something down I looked around and saw that 7 of us, including me wrote lefthanded. Never saw that in my life, we lefties taking over hahaha
Me: *starts writing with my left hand
Person sitting next to me: woah your left handed! My cousins friend brother uncle kids friend is left handed
Me: WTH
😂😂
I practice, and I try to get better, but I just can't write neatly!!
Exactly
I can write with both hands but my right hand is better
Same
Here
I think the most left handers evolve to a mix between right and left
So true!
Yup! Pretty much everything she said I just do with my right had at this point. Except for writing.
Lol "evolve" that's a nice way to say "adapt to everyone else's stupid way of doing things" 😂
Omg yes
Dutch survival guy yep. Write with my left but mostly everything else with my right
Left handed people the struggle of writing on a whiteboard
KarKar Roblox oh no I know exactly what you mean! I totally forgot about that one lol
yAs
I get laughed at when i write on the white board cuze am left handed
i do the 2 fingers thingy , works well and i'm very fast at it too
Omg yessss
As a Left handed guy, I have no problem with all the things that are made for Right handed people. Actually right handed things are a lot easier to use for Left handed people you people Just didn't realize that YET! With many years I have learned and trained my right hand to be as Equal as my Dominant Left hand. The result is, I became Ambidextrous meaning I can use both of my hands equally and dominantly. I can play Acoustic Guitar with both Left and Right hand, I can shoot my AR-15 and my other rifles in both Left and Right hand straight and accurately. I can also Write in both Left and Right hand that's why Practice makes perfect. I can hit, drive and sink a 3-1/2 inch Common nail in a lumber in just 1 hit in both Left and Right hand equally. I had knocked down a 6ft 5 tall guy in a bar fight using only my right hand stiff jab and I haven't unleashed my Straight Left YET and he falls down like a house of card. 6ft5 tall guy he's taller than me! I'm only 5ft9 tall.
Gucci gang? MORE LIKE LEFTIE GANG!!! LEFTIES WERE U AT???
Picklesaur22 RIGHT here!! 😂😂👌👌
Picklesaur22 Me! !
AYYYY LEFTIES UNITE!!!
Bad jokes :)
Shafiq Ikhwan Bad aditude :)
I’m a lefty and this is all so true 😂
Hevesh5 im a left handed purson to the struggle is real 😐😯
Yep
Hevesh5 omg I am such a fan of you
I'm guilty of being a lefty
Arian K lol
Our motto is "adapt and overcome!".