I eat, write, and brush my teeth left-handed, but I use the mouse on my computer with my right hand. For most other things, I switch to whichever hand feels right at the time.
I am a left-handed person and I love it! I discover how different my way of doing certain things is from the way right handed people do.... Of course you find a lot of things that were designed for right handed, but I always have found the way to deal with it, including some funny ways
Sadly, we are extremely adaptable because we have had to be. Things have very slowly been becoming easier for us due to the pressure we have had to apply to the manufacturers of items which were previously only produced for righties. How stupid to leave out a significant number of the population who need specialized equipment! By the way, I am a manufacturing engineer, so I don't need to have the cost of retooling explained to me. Just sayin'.
I am totally left handed, and as a student nurse living in a flat, I could never open tins of food, my neighbour downstairs was elderly and unable to go to the shops, so in return for opening my tins, I would do her weekly shop, it worked well.Several years later my lovely dad bought me a left handed tin opener and a pair of left handed scissors. These changed my life.
I write right bat righty kick right shoot a b ball lefty throw lefty throw a Frisbee right ping pong right bowl lefty golf righty shoot a puck lefty. I'd say I'm lefty🥴
I write mainly right handed, throw a ball right, but weld left handed as well as shoot ,play pool, throwing darts etc and am left footed for skate boarding bmx etc. My school teachers in kindergarten made me use my right hand😢
I write with my left, hold a snooker/pool cue in the left, use scissors, or use precision tools with my left. My right arm is the strongest, and I would bat, play tennis, throw, and punch with my right. Heavy/fast tools like spanners, ratchets and screwdrivers would be in my right hand. I am also left-footed when kicking a ball (or a person haha) ............. 🤷♂🤔
@@Zumcho sometimes when someone is annoying me. I point to my forehead and say I know how to use this too 🤣🤣🤣🤣. I'm not a fighting person but if I'm backed into a corner, I will. Like they say , I am a wild Irish woman 🤣🤣🤣
@@user-adoyle123 I have had two occasions where a girl thought I was trying to steal her boyfriend, and wanted to fight me. I didn't even know who one of their boyfriends was. She and her friends cornered me in an alley. I told her "I don't want to fight you; I don't know who your boyfriend is, so you're going to have to start." She took a wild swing and, because I had grown up fighting with my three brothers, I landed one punch that laid her out cold. Her friends backed away then ran off. The second time, the young man involved was near me, and he explained to her that we were only friends. Sigh.
That’s really unfortunate, and I understand why you’re against it. Kids should be supported to be who they are, not forced into something that doesn’t come naturally to them.
I am lefthanded too but think being taught to write with my right hand would have been better as "writing" (direction of text) is designed for righthanders. I can (without any problem) drive a car and use a chainsaw and camera, all of which are designed for righthanders. It never occurred to me to hold a camera upside down and take photos with my left thumb, I just did so with my right index finger like everyone else. So even if I am "lefthanded", why wouldn't it be better for me to be taught to write in the way that writing was designed to be written? This would have improved my writing ability considerably, as well as not otherwise being inconvenienced by smudging my hand, and having to deal with ring binders, university lecture theatre seats etc designed for right handers. The problem is (I think) the traumatic way that very young lefthanded kids (including you) were forced (including by corporal punishment and humiliation) to write with their right hands, not the idea of writing with their right hands per se.
@@maddyg3208 The fact is that a "natural" lefty being forced to change to right had strong effects in my life. Just think, a left handed person operates on the right side of the brain. When switched then the right "handed" person now functions in the right side not the left. I struggle with dyslexia, learning issues and other minor struggles.
They tried that with me too in elementary school. Had to wear this brace that was attached to the desk. I refused to go along with that and cried...it was so embarrassing. The teacher stopped after she saw how hurt I was. I'm sorry you had to go through that.
My parents were both right handed. Everyone on either of their closer extended family sides was also right handed. My parents had three children. My older brother came first. Then me. Then my little brother. So from two right handed parents, TWO of their three children were born left handed (me and my little brother). I think that is very unusual. My mother's mother said that we should be changed to being right handed...this was back in the late 50's and early 60's But, our mother said no. She was not going to do that to me and my little brother...which I commend her for. Today I still enjoy drawing, painting and cartooning. All left handed. But all my younger life while I was playing softball and baseball, I would bat right handed. LASTLY, I will say that I have always written left handed and that my writing is not pretty at all. It's very legible, just not nice looking. 😂
@pellier08 because first of all, God created me that way, and being a lefty is more unique- there are only 10-12% of us in the whole world who are southpaws! 😄
I have read as good a reason for the teaching issue as I have ever heard...ball-point pens didn't exist and left-handers would smear the fountain pen ink as they wrote! As a left-hander I've struggled through life with the smearing.
In 1958, Sister Mary Chainsaw used to smack my hand with a ruler and screamed at me for using the wrong hand to write. I could not even hold a pencil in my right hand. I still have to turn wire bound notebooks upside down to write in them so that the binding is off to the right and won't bother me.
I'm 70 and when I was in school I was treated like crap! Now apparently, we are somehow these "special" people? Tell you though I learned typing quicker than the right handed. My left hand is proficient on the left side of the keyboards.
I’m left handed & have 2 left handed granddaughters-all of us are more creative than other family members…excelling in writing, singing & various arts-painting & drawing! Left hander’s are awesome!
While at the same time ignoring the greater number of just as talented yet more numerous right handed people. I mean those people are everywhere. Right handed people absolutely dominate the world.😂 I love being ambidextrous and a redhead. I’m a friggin superhuman.!
I volunteer at my local community theatre. The people involved in the creative side (design, paint effects, costumes etc) form a greater percentage than 10. We are quite an exclusive group because the others at the theatre always turn to us for their productions.
I once taught in a parochial school where 3 of us 4 teaching sisters were lefthanded. Several children asked if you had to be lefthanded to become a nun. At the same time, 11 of the 20 7th grade students in my homeroom were lefties, too. Crazy, right? What are the odds!
1954,Left handed 6 years old the nuns of the sisters of the Resurection,from Poland,and me being a polish kid,loving on the west side od Chicago,Saint Casmir,Catholic grammar school,was told as a lefty,I was evil,and my left arm was strapped behind my back!I was forced to write right handed,this when on for quite a while!My father approached the new a sister Stanislaus after Sunday mass!I don’t know what he told her,but she left me alone after that!76 years old now,but can still,remember this,as if it were yesterday!
My son is left handed and he is disabled with learning difficulties, he has numerous operations and we thought he would lose abilities to learn new things, and regain knowledge of past things he has learnt. I could not be more wrong, he has learnt things he didn't know before aswell as not forgetting what he did learn, An amazing man who really surprised us. He can use his left hand better than I can use my right. Well done to all you lefties.
I am glad that your son has LEARNED how to manage his learning difficulties and succeed. Noone, not anyone, has ever LEARNT anything as it is not a word. Proud ambidextrous predominantly left-handed senior citizen here.
I cannot discern your gender from your handle, but did you know? 75% of the 10% is male? So, my compatriots and I make up only 2.5%of the population. And, since a lot of us have genius IQs, (about 2%) the percentage is even smaller! Let's see, 2% of 2.5% is, . . .
My brother & I are both left handed, & we had an uncle & an older brother who were both ambidextrous. Mom already had refused to make either of my brothers write using their right hands. She went after a teacher who tried to force the middle child to use his right hand (literally threatened to break the teacher's hand). When she saw me using the left hand, she just shrugged and started teaching me to mirror-image her, so that I could follow her instructions (crochet, knit, etc) by sitting across from her. She always said lefties are way more creative.
@@antiquegirl6505 AaaNnnDdd, . . . (drum roll, please) she is *right*! I was the only one. My mother tried to change me. It was as if my right side wasn't connected to my brain. I was 3-4. She stopped when I became hysterical, and called the principal when the first grade nun tried to change me. I learned to crochet too by sitting opposite a righty. Could never figure out knitting, though. It was as if I needed four hands! 😆
I am a lefty, and love it. My mother was a lefty, and when she started school, in the early 1900s, the teacher, tied her left hand, behind her back; in later life, she was able to write with both hands (fluently)😄 True story.
My wife & I are both lefties. I'm also slightly dyslexic. In school, when ball point pens were new to students, we lefties ALWAYS smeared our written work, because the ink didn't dry fast enough. And going to a restaurant with friends, I made sure I got an end seat so I would not bump the person on my left. Oh, poor me... At least I had two hands that worked.
And these new gel pens? Suck for me bc I do not write with a hook hand but hold a pen and position my paper like a right handed person would with the paper slanted toward the right tho.
I am sometimes dis-graphic. I know what I want to write, but it comes out either sideways or backwards. I can write in mirror image very easily. My left-handed friend and I would pass these notes in class. When the nun caught kids passing notes she would read them out loud to embarrass us. When she caught us she looked at the note then threw it in the trash.
Born in 59. In school it was torture as a lefty trying to use right handed desks. Actually my teacher discouraged me from using my left hand to write. Tried to make me write right handed. Now some things I do left or right handed. I'm called ambidextrous. Actually I had to adapt as a lefty to live in a right handed world. I'm a true lefty.
I'm 71. My grade 3 teacher would rap my knuckles with a ruler, when she caught me using my left hand. That's a sure fire way to ruin someone's handwriting, as happened to me.
@@James_Knott Me 61, same thing. My teacher told me I was the spawn of Satan because I used my left hand to write. This was in Scotland when I was five years old.
52 year old lefty here! Love being different! Was ecstatic when i found out my 8year old nephew is a lefty as well! Its hard but i do ok in this righty world! LEFTYS FOREVER!
It's also just me and my nephew who are lefties in my family. I was an athlete in my youth and always thought I had a bit of an advantage over my opponents.
This is an interesting line of comments for me. I am left-handed and so was my uncle. Furthermore, I am an aunt to a left-handed nephew! I am an art major and my nephew is currently studying to be an architect. Does anyone ever think about how the writing on coffee mugs isn’t right for us lefties? Here’s a weird one, I can’t cut with a left-handed scissors even thought I’m a lefty. It’s the pits how much a scissors can hurt from the angle of the handle because of that. I actually love being a lefty!
@@kathywillis7459I definitely noticed the designs and writing on mugs being on the side for rightys as I got older. Interestingly-and maybe it was a fluke-the artist who hand crafted some mugs we bought put the design on so I can enjoy it, being a south paw. It’s one of my favorite mugs. I can NOT iron with my left hand, nor can I bat for softball left handed. 😂 Weird...😆
I come from a family of six…Dad was left handed. Two kids (me and my brother) ended up left handed…the other brother and sister were right handed like Mom. The three of us Lefties wound up being Engineers. Dad an Aerospace Engineer…Brother a Chemical Engineer…me a Structural Engineer. 🤓🤓🤓The other three: idiots.🤪🤪🤪 Hahaha! I’m just kidding! They weren’t idiots 😂😂😂
Yes, I am left handed. I remember as a child in kindergarten first learning to work with scissors how awkward it felt, being they were made for right handed users. I'm 54 years of age. Being left handed today is easier. More things are made for lefties today than before. Thank you
@ so true. The first pen ever landed in my left hand , my mom bought all those specials like fountain pens for lefties, scissors etc. but I never got used to them. I simply adapted to the usual things. I work in a profession that is designed for righthanded people ( dentist), there is the possibility to buy a dental chair for lefthanded dentists, I tried it and it was the most awful experience ever. I got back to conventional ones that feel „right“ for me
I’m left handed. When I was in grade school in the early 1960’s the nuns at the catholic school I went to tried to force me to use my right hand. My parents told them to leave me alone or they would take me out of that school. It ended right there.
I’m also left handed and went to catholic school in the early 1960’s. I remember my first grade teacher, who wasn’t a nun, asked me to help another left handed student with writing. I’m happy neither of us were forced to write with our right hand.
I was fortunate. Not only did the sisters respect my lefthandness, they taught me the proper way to turn my writing paper. I have never had to contort my hand to write the way so many lefties do.When i became a teacher, it was a pleasure to do the same for the lefty children i taught to write. (BTW, not all nuns are mean and carry a big stick!!!)
@JoanBeauregard-w3o Mine was, I was forced to change. I now struggle with dyslexia, learning disabilities , some social situations and I'm 68. I wonder what type of person I would have been or what career I was denied.
In college I was working out in a boxing gym on the heavy and speed bags. The house trainer approached me and asked if I could spar with his boxer who was going to fight a ranked fighter on USA boxing network in about a month. I didn’t have great skills but he needed work with a southpaw. The kid was cool and took it easy on me even after I bloodied his nose in the first couple minutes. He taught me plenty and was grateful for the opportunity. He won his fight on tv and we were friendly afterwards. Good times and was glad to help!
Does that mean I’m half great? I’m mixed handed so do some things lefty and some things righty. I write lefty…but I don’t need those left-handed scissors!
I’m 82, a leftie. Both my kids are lefties. My son is an incredible artist, and my daughter is extremely creative in the crafting arts! I was allowed to write left-handed as a child ( bless my mother), and have learned to adapt well. I can’t even use left-handed scissors! 😂. I enjoy this bit of uniqueness!
me too! My dad gave me left-handed scissors when I was about 8. (He is left-handed also) But I had already adapted to using right-handed scissors and couldn't use them.
They gave me left handed scissors on the second grade and I was actually very skilled at cutting at a young age. I tried the left scissors and promptly gave them back to the teacher with a no thank you!
As a lefthanded, I had a terrible time using scissors. Always hated having my left hand ink stained when writing or printing. I did learn to knit and crochet right handed.
@@lauraasumaa1121 As a lefty, it was uncomfortable for me to have to use right-handed scissors but it was all my parents had. I learned to crochet by sitting opposite a right-handed crocheter. I realized I would need four hands to be able to knit, however. My mother gave up.
I'm a lefty, but was not allowed to use my left hand as it was evil and demonic to be left handed. I'm now ambidextrous but still write and use my left hand. I'm very proud to be a lefty.❤❤❤
The word for left handedness is sinistral. It has the same root as sinister. So, yes left handedness has a history of being considered evil. I am happy to be left handed since that makes me in my right mind.
Trying to write in a notebook or journal has always been a real pia and then the ink or whatever always along the outside of your hand below the pinky . 🙄
I am a lefty and my identical twin is also a lefty, our Dad who was born in 1917 was a lefty turned ambidextrous. When he went to school they would not tolerate lefthandedness and tied his left hand behind his back. He could write with either hand but his left hand writing was beautiful.
I use both hands for different tasks. I write with left hand, use a knife with the right. I bat left handed, i pitch right handed, i dry dishes right handed. I crochet left handed. I consider myself different from most. Strangely my siblings are right handed
I have deduced that I was born right handed but my mother (a leftie) taught me to write and use a spoon. Everything I learned from others, was right handed.
You just described me. My right arm is my power house and I use it for most all gross motor activities but can do many things left handed but despise using g a fork in my right hand and have had to having broken my left arm twice. But breaking my right arm three times is just as hindering!
I am a lefty, and was born in a generation where we were treated like a disability, and schools tried to force you to write right handed...I am still a lefty lol!
I'm 69 and started out as a lefty. When I started school, they changed my writing handedness and throwing hand. Fortunately, I still bat, golf and do other sports as a lefty. They couldn't beat those out of me.
I'm not a " lefty ," and I'm 58 and I still remember in elementary school a teacher kept trying to fail my best friend because he wrote different than the rest of us, she kept trying to get him to write with his right but he never did. This kinda haunts me every time I see someone who is left handed because she yelled at him and tried to degrade him for being different even called him a freak. I hope her grand kids are lefrty's .
I was born in 1948 and as soon as i can remember, if my mum saw me using my left hand, she put whatever it was in my right hand. It was a real battle of wills as i was growing up, so eventually i was left alone. It was difficult as everything was made for right handers, but these days you can get stuff for left handers. Proud to be a Lefty 😊😊
I am left handed and my father was as well. When I was learning to write cursive in 3rd grade my mother spoke to my teacher and asked her to allow me to tip my paper to the right when writing in cursive. This solved the problem of awkwardly turning your wrist to the right. I don’t know how my father knew about that trick but he did have beautiful handwriting. I do most things with the left hand but knit the right handed way because it was easier for my mother to teach me. I can use my right hand for gardening and painting walls if my left arm gets tired. Many years later I was teaching cursive in third grade. First I would identify the left handed students in my class and then explain about tipping the paper to the right. For some it was too late as they already turned their wrists to that awkward position. I let them choose.
I'm left handed and the awkward wrist positioning hurts just watching left handed people write that way. I sometimes turn my paper but taught myself to write what I call "Straight up" in notebooks. I position the notebook "straight up" in front of me flat on the table. My parents and adopted brother were also left handed as well. My father always turned his paper while my mom and brother both turned their wrists. I can't write at all with my right hand, it literally looks like a 4/5 year olds writings, lol.
My father was left - handed, and a very resourceful, inventive man who was great at solving problems, coming up with solutions that probably wouldn't occur to most people.
Same here. I also found that some subjects written by right handers, (left side dominant brain) did not always make sense to me but when I wrote policy or procedure both L and R understood. To this day I still suspect tests and exams written by right handers disadvantage left handers.
Most people don't realize that when a lefty opens a door they quite often crack their knuckles on the door frame. I have always said that doors are for right handed people
As a kid I learned to play the guitar along with my younger brother. My folks could only afford one guitar at the time, so, as a lefty, I had to learn right-handed as by brother was right-handed. In my teens I saved up to buy a cheap left-handed bass guitar. These days (I'm 63) I play both right-handed 6 sting guitar and left-handed bass guitar. I certainly get some odd looks from people!
I'm 71 y.o. and thankfully no one ever tried to force me to use my right hand. I was the only lefty in my family (except a cousin) and none of my children are lefties. I am a full fledged lefty, even left footed. Whenever I start walking I always step off with my left foot.
@@MegaSharon1951 Me too ,I'm extreme lefty. I even walk on my left foot . Personally I think right handed people are the ones that are dis-advantaged they can't see the world in the reversed duality mode that we have . Don't ask me to explain reverse duality ,it's just how my brain works.
I cut with my left hand and always struggled with sewing. When I was in school we had Home Economics and it was part of it. Failed miserably because everything about sewing is set up for right handed people. From laying out the pattern, to the scissors (back then) and even setting up the sewing machine.
May I add the following negative aspect of being left-handed. When right-handed people write, they pull the pen to the right (since this is how western text is written), so their right hand follows a natural curve at the wrist, which imparts less stress to the tendons in the wrist. But when left-handed people write they have to PUSH the pen to the right - which causes them to depress the wrist and place a lot of stress on the tendons in the wrist. This can lead to carpal tunnel syndrome or painful tendonitis which gets worse as the years roll by. The condition can be alleviated by ensuring the left wrist is rounded, not depressed - but this takes a lot of present moment awareness - and it's tedious and very awkward. Left-handed Alexander teacher.
Turn your paper sideways and write towards yourself . I had no choice but to do this , since I sat at a right handed desk in school . It messes people up when they see me writing like this, lol I’m a pretty happy lefty
Interesting, my granddaughter is a lefty and things have been awkward for her ,and despite been very knowledgeable at 8 , she gas trouble writing, things are back to front . Her reading is spot on though .
Interesting, my granddaughter is a lefty and things have been awkward for her ,and despite been very knowledgeable at 8 , she gas trouble writing, things are back to front . Her reading is spot on though .
I’m 74 and left handed. No one in my whole life ever tried to change me. I feel very sad for the people who have had to go through change and disapproval, sometimes with lasting ill effects. Why does the world want or need everyone to be the same?
I’m mixed handed. Due to writing lefty, my parents and my teachers labeled me lefty so as a result, I probably did worse with some things, such as some sports, because I tried to do them lefty when I should have tried them righty. Archery and tennis come to mind. I did know that I bat and putt left, and throw and dribble right. It also explains why I couldn’t get the hang of crocheting when my great aunt tried to teach me as a kid. I tried to do it lefty when it turns out I crochet right. Thus, while I don’t have all the struggles that full-left handers do, I still have some struggles of my own as to which hand to use.
Went to teachers college in early 70's and had to use my lunch hour practicing writing on the blackboard right handed because lefties block the pupils view of the board. Was a teacher for 15 years and wrote left handed. Naughty me!!! also sewing machines are right handed.
I started school in 1945. My firsut grade teacher was instructing the class on the proper slant of your paper for writing. She then walked around the room to check on the placement. When she saw that I was left handed, she turned my paper to slant towards my right. I will always remember her, Mrs Young. I never smudged my paper and my penmanship was nice and I didn’t write with my hand upside down. I managed the right handed world to my advantage. I learned to use the ten-key calculator by touch with my right hand while writing figures down with my left. I played all my sports right handed. In tennis, I had a two handed backhand and because of my left hand I was able to get incredible angles. In sewing, needle work is with my left. In my case, I have to work at creativity. 😄Unfortunately, in my case left handedness and creativity didn’t meld. My son is left handed and all through elementary school I tried to get him to slant his paper correctly. I failed. He write with his hand upside down with his paper slanted for right. He was blessed with creativeness. So, I consider it a good trade off. ,
My mother had a friend who noticed I’m a lefty & told my mother to have me slant my paper to the right. My handwriting isn’t great , but it would be totally illegible if I had to hold my hand upside down.
I am 74 and my teacher tried to get me to change my handedness but all she caused me was a magnificent stutter. Jerk. It also made me more stubborn about my handedness, and I am now almost exclusively left-handed in everything, lol!
As a German boomer lefty I often had to suffer at school. Some of my teachers (then mostly still from the naz! era) obliged me to write any test right handed ... and, thus, made me fail. Bad memories.
@@lizzieb6311 I'm a left-handed engimeer also, Industrial & Systems . . . IQ 166. - with a learning disability in, of all things, math! And I *love* math! Go figure! 🙃
@@cheriem432 You sound much like my Dad! He was an Aerospace Engineer with his primary focus on systems! He was BRILLIANT and he too loved math…also, he learned later in life he was dyslexic..i was good enough at math…but it was Dad who would tirelessly help me with Algebra, Geometry (which I loved), and Trig….I’m best at spatial and design but am proficient at calculating design loads and all other elements of my specialty. I’ll bet you and my Dad would have gotten along wonderfully! Cheers to the brainiacs! 🤓🍻
All left handed people can read very well upside down. Our eyes are convex lenses and if you move pass the focal point the image is upside down. Right handed people do the reversal automatically to see the picture upright. Left handed people has to labour more to get the picture upright, resulting in more excercise. All left handed people can read well upside down, even in a mirror image. There are certain ways of thought that does not come easily for lefties though. Reading a book and sorting out the characters is one of them.
From a family with five kids. Handedness? Right, Left, Ambidextrous, Right, Left. I'm the 1st leftie. EVERYONE had their specific seat around the dinner table, to reduce potential elbow-bumping when eating. Class note-taking and Test-writing in Uni wasn't fun - 3 hours twisted around, writing on a right-handed desk. The stress is REAL. Even things like veggie peelers, etc., are set up for right-handed folks. We lefties adapt, as we've been adapting our whole lives...
Lefty's are more artistic, can reason better, logical, I am proud to be one, my dad tried to get me to become right handed, and told me I'll never make it in life , because everything is made for right hand people
As a lefty born in the 80s I had to adapt to all things right, especially the computer mouse. I never thought about it until one day a colleague said "wow, you can scroll and write at the same time! How cool is that!" LOL!!!
70 year old lefty here and my biggest challenge has been scissors, secateurs and fridges that open the wrong way! Love the invention of left handed scissors and secateurs . I was blessed in school with a teacher in Gr. 2 and 3 (same teacher) that taught me how to hold my left hand like a right handed person (so not arched over like so many lefties write) She gave me extra time on tests etc. so that I could practice without stress, bless her heart, I've never forgotten her. All the lefties I know seem to be more introverted and suffer from anxiety more.
I am 84 and a lefty. I feel it a privelage to be different. Had no problems at school (good teachers). I play left handed guitar, banjo and bass - sadly all music (chord diagrams) are right handed and are difficult to reverse mentaly. In the armed forces I used to shoot left handed (and was a marksman) BUT the majority of automatics eject to the right and I used to come off the ranges covered in bruises As the majority of automatic weapons eject to the RIGHT straight into the right side of my face! COME ON YOU LEFTIES we cope better than the rest.
Being a lefty and having served in the military but right eye dominant, i fired a rifle with my right. Being ambidextrous i fire pistols with either hand. Throw overhand with my right, side arm with my left, (Frisbee). Use tools with either hand. Tie knots with either. I consider it advantageous to be a lefty. P.S. I have a mean left hook.
Hi!..I'm a proud lefty!...I know a woman, who is also a Lefty. She had 4 children, 3 boys and a girl. All lefties!WOW!..what do you think about those odds?..Keep up the good work!..Thank You!..👍🤣
Engineer and Lefty here: I have noticed that I have an easier time thinking "outside the box" but at the same time I have more difficulty finding standard solutions.
I’m a lefty. I’ve always felt special being a lefty. But the drawbacks are challenging! My teachers in the mid-50s didn’t know how to teach me to write legibly. In 5th grade, I hid my hands and paper behind my big math book and practiced my letter forms the entire year. To this day I have legible, not pretty, handwriting but I still suffer from that lack of 5th grade math education. I went to secretarial school after I graduated and I couldn’t read my short hand because the pens of that time were filled with smeary ink. My very wise steno instructor told me to get a fountain pen, turn my notebook with the spiral rings at the bottom and begin my writing in the middle of the page. (Gregg ruled steno pads have a line down the middle of the page to make the writing column narrower for writing faster.) I still use fountain pens, and even on blank paper I start my sentences in the middle of the page. I’ve broken my left hand three times and had major surgery on my left wrist. I learned the letter forms we write are designed for the ease of the right handed writer. People who wrote were wealthy educated folks who were vulnerable to criticism and likely were taught to be right handed. Conjecture on my part; but it is easier to write our language with the right hand. Given that insight, though, I still went back to my sinister ways because it’s the natural way to feel!
I am left handed for righting throwing eating, but I do lots of things right handed like hitting tennis hand ball. Things like house painting are crazy, left for trim right for roller. And I can't play golf at all, neither way is comfortable. Always used scissors right handed not really noticing I was supposed to be using my left.
The handshake goes back to 500 BC. Left handed people were perceived to be possessed. Everyone carried their weapons in their right hands. If you extended your right hand to shake you were displaying that you were unarmed.
I'm left handed and I am an artist and I had twins. I was raised in the 50's and in certain regions at that time left handed children were forced to write with right hand but fortunately it was not the case where I lived. I'm the only one in my familly who is lefty.
I didn't write like most lefthanded people. Rather than curve my wrist, I tilt my paper to the right. I crochet and knit right handed. I can use tools and scissors with no problem. Yes lefties are artists and very smart. Also really hardworking.
I'm a 63 old female Brit. I was one of the lucky ones, Some schools in the 60's forced left handed children to write right handed as in Britain at the time it was considered "An aberration to be fixed" King George, Queen Elizabeth's fathers stutter was caused by vicious cruel nannies forcing him to do everything right handed. It was believed that left handed people were "advocates of the devil". Some people have actually mentioned that to me. I stare them right in the eye, and say "yeah and don't you forget it." I eat right handed and use a computer mouse right handed, but can only write and clean my teeth with a tooth brush, left handed. My fathers sister was left handed, no one else.
I'm a lefty,the only one in the family both sides.I remember.my dad coming into to school with me on the first day and telling my teacher that I was born left handed and would remain that way.This was in 1947! No-one ever tried to change me after that
I'm left handed and never had to struggle with anything. You get used to it since birth. And in life I realized anyone who is ambidextrous is left handed. Right handers would NEVER have to develop that.
An lefty and my children who are right here righties have had to navigate a lefty‘s kitchen because we don’t have things in the same order. My daughters also tell me that it is backwards. For them that is not me. I am the one that teaches my left-handed grandchildren, how to write and eat I also teach them math and reading skills because left-handed people do not see, these things in the same way that right handed people do. Thanks for bringing this up.
I'm left-handed, neurodivergent and an Engineer. So a struggle with fitting in on many fronts. Half my family was left handed. My paternal grandmother, my father and one half-brother. I'm proud to be a lefty.
I have loved being a lefty my whole 44 year life. I even had to relearn how to use my left side 23 years ago. I can use both hands, but I have always preferred using my left. Stay proud my lefty family 🤘🏼🤘🏼
My father was a leftie and had a magic photographic memory which I envied. I do certain things with my left hand, like drinking from a cup, using the mouse, batting anything in sports, all my brain tests come in the middle between left and right brain, etc. I like literature and languages and have earned a PhD in social sciences but I play with maths and other hard sciences in my spare time. I don’t know why.
I'm a left handed but there always have been things I do right handed. I write with left, but on a chalkboard in class I'm right handed. Stepping on my bike is left handed but as a child used my step scooter as a right handed.
I'm a lefty but, I'm also somewhat ambidextrous at times.I grew up in a time when it wasn't cool to be left -handed I'm the ONLY LEFTY IN MY FAMILY. My father tried to change that but he failed.
I am a 78 year old left hander. Growing up I got called Lefty, and South Paw. Friends teased me, but I was a good artist, and played the piano well. I love being left handed, and am quite ambidextrous which makes cutting out patterns and quilt blocks easier, and sewing in general more enjoyable. I love the extra perspective when doing creative projects. I wouldn’t change this streak of luck for any thing. Proud lefty.
I'm a lefty but played certain musical instruments in school right handed, guitars and drums. Play certain sports right handed when swinging with 2 hands, cricket, golf, baseball, softball. I am also ambidextrous with a screwdriver and scissors. So does this mean I'm even more special?
As a lefty, I remember trying to catch a baseball with a right handed mit. Trying to fire a shotgun with a right side ejection port. It took time to overcome many obsticles.
I can catch with both hands. However growing up, I had to use the left hand glove, take it off and throw the ball. I was really at doing that. Finally got a right handed glove though.
As a kid I wore a right hander's mitt backward on my right hand...it worked! I don't think there were any left hander's mitts until well into the 1970s.
That's awesome! It sounds like your grandson is incredibly talented and has a lot of great qualities. Being left-handed is just one of the many unique things that make him special. I'm sure he has a bright future ahead! 😊
I’m a leftie. When my kids were small I remember them mimicking me to learn tasks. It was funny and interesting.. especially using scissors and tieing shoes.. eventually we got it all worked out!!
@@trishspinazola287 Yes agreed. I am fifty four years of age. My grandson is now thirteen. I thought him how to tie his shoes when he was small. It was very difficult for him to learn. He's left handed like me. Your posted comment just brought that memory back to me and how difficult it was for him.
To read the cups printed on the side of my darn coffeepot, I am always having to turn the pot so the handle is on my right. It is little thing, but I never mastered scissors 😅
I'm a left handed 100 %Polish Yankee living in NC. I survived three years of Catholic school using a desk for right handers. I can iron with my right hand .I'm very creative and love to cross stitch. I learned to knit and crochet myself as my mom was right handed.out of eight siblings four of us are lefties while both parents right handed. My son Brian was my only lefty his three brothers right handed. Brian and I could talk to each other with our minds. 😻😻😻😻
Thankyou very much for sharing this with us. Anyone doing research may be interested in the rest of this. I am left-handed. But I was made to write with my right hand. So I am now both. The computer mouse is on the left side. Scissors are a real pain to use. Tools I can use either side. I can paint with either hand. Taps use to give me real grief. When I redid the kitchen sink. I put in a lever control that is vertical. And the tap was changed to RHS cold water, LHS hot water. How ever the bath is on the LHS hot water. This mostly stopped my brain from fighting with itself. Cell phones, the left thumb is used. Knives are mostly used right-handed. Un doing jars, the left hand is stronger. In the military shooting. I was left handed. I brush my hair with my left hand. Sometimes my brain has a real conflict doing certain tasks. Which hand do I use.
It’s incredible how you've managed to adapt and make the best of both worlds. Being forced to use your right hand while naturally being left-handed must have been a real challenge for your brain, but it sounds like you’ve found a way to make it work for you. I love how you’ve made adjustments to your surroundings, like with the kitchen sink and taps, to make things easier. It’s so inspiring to see how you’ve embraced your unique situation and found ways to work with it. Thanks for sharing this - it’s a great reminder that we can all adapt, even when things feel a bit tricky!
I am also left handed but my right is almost an equal depending on the job. Writing - left hand. Right is worse than a Doctors scribble. Scissors - right hand. Bottles / jars - left for lid, right for the jar. Computers - left for keyboard, right for mouse. Shooting - right for trigger. Tools. Right is primary, but left if space is a problem . Broke my right wrist a few years ago, never really rights since then, so sometimes the left is stronger. For a single strength right hand, repeated or repetitive like scissors may need the left hand, but that will mean accuracy is lost. Cut in a circle, when ment to be straight.
When my son was born (he was breech) they said a lot of breech babies are leftys. I didn’t believe her since no one in my family or my husband’s family is. Well sure enough he is and then our 2nd son is too. I have certainly learned that the world is set up for right handed people. Works out great at the dining table to seat them next to each other - no bumping elbows. Anyway, left handed people are all highly intelligent I’ve noticed. 😊
My son is left handed and it was a unique experience watching the way he did things while he was growing up. I also want to say thank you for this video as I learned a few more new things about Lefties!
I was taught to write right-handed, just about everything is more comfortable left-handed. It bugged my former boss, I worked left-handed, but I worked fast and got tasks completed. Here’s to all lefties, cheers.
My sister, her son (my nephew), and my brother are all leftys. My sister is quite exceptional, she dances gracefully, she draws and paints beautifully, she loves math, she also sing and has a good voice and she plays the guitar. The common attribute they have is stubbornness. 😂
I am a left handed artist/photographer/potter! Many years ago, I had an art teacher who was complimenting a piece I had drawn, he said, ‘It’s beautiful, but I have no idea how you did that with your left hand!’ Even then, I knew how to smile and say thank you😇💖🕊
I write and use tools with my left hand. I play golf and guitar right handed.This is an advantage in that there is a better selection of golf clubs and guitars for right handers in the shops. My mother was left handed and told me when she went to school,being left handed was discouraged.Her brother was caned for using his left hand a few years earlier at the same school.This would have been around the time of WW1.
I’m right-handed but when I was very young, I’d sit opposite my mum at the kitchen table. I would copy what she did, but mirror imaged. I still do those tasks (and several other related ones) I learned back then lefty, although I’m predominantly righty. It shows that these things are quite fluid.
As a lefty, I find that I am more ambidextrous. For most tasks, I can switch to whichever hand feels most comfortable to use at the time.
yes i can but not for writing
or using scissors ect
but yes some things i use my right hand for ❤
Me too
@Glory3823 I only cut right handed but am very left handed
I eat, write, and brush my teeth left-handed, but I use the mouse on my computer with my right hand. For most other things, I switch to whichever hand feels right at the time.
Yep especially with power tools. If one arm/hand gets tired I am able to switch.
We left handed people are extremely adaptable! It’s a good thing!
I am a left-handed person and I love it!
I discover how different my way of doing certain things is from the way right handed people do....
Of course you find a lot of things that were designed for right handed, but I always have found the way to deal with it, including some funny ways
Sadly, we are extremely adaptable because we have had to be. Things have very slowly been becoming easier for us due to the pressure we have had to apply to the manufacturers of items which were previously only produced for righties. How stupid to leave out a significant number of the population who need specialized equipment! By the way, I am a manufacturing engineer, so I don't need to have the cost of retooling explained to me. Just sayin'.
Kinda have to be
But, in an equal world, we shouldn't have to be.
YES WE ARE!
I noticed left-handed people are very hard workers as well.
Have you met my left-handed sister?
Yes we are!!
Also, much more intelligent and critical thinking. Not following the crowd.
or my brother! talentless lazy uncreative bless him@@EM-mw2qr
Yes!
I’ve never met a left-handed person I didn’t like. They are smart, calm, creative, kind and pleasant. From a right-handed introvert❣️
There are zero left handed Muslims.
@@2pugmanLie. Actually they have more left handed people.
🙏🏽 left handed here
I write, eat, sew, and bat left handed. I crochet, knit, throw,drive right handed. I use the hand that feels right for the task.
I am totally left handed, and as a student nurse living in a flat, I could never open tins of food, my neighbour downstairs was elderly and unable to go to the shops, so in return for opening my tins, I would do her weekly shop, it worked well.Several years later my lovely dad bought me a left handed tin opener and a pair of left handed scissors. These changed my life.
I write right bat righty kick right shoot a b ball lefty throw lefty throw a Frisbee right ping pong right bowl lefty golf righty shoot a puck lefty. I'd say I'm lefty🥴
I write mainly right handed, throw a ball right, but weld left handed as well as shoot ,play pool, throwing darts etc and am left footed for skate boarding bmx etc. My school teachers in kindergarten made me use my right hand😢
I write with my left, hold a snooker/pool cue in the left, use scissors, or use precision tools with my left. My right arm is the strongest, and I would bat, play tennis, throw, and punch with my right. Heavy/fast tools like spanners, ratchets and screwdrivers would be in my right hand. I am also left-footed when kicking a ball (or a person haha) ............. 🤷♂🤔
Me too.
I am proudly a southpaw😊
And rightfully so!
@@Digman77 Me too and I know how to use it as well 😁😁😁
Me too! Man, did those right-handed fighters really hate sparring with me. 😅
@@Zumcho sometimes when someone is annoying me. I point to my forehead and say I know how to use this too 🤣🤣🤣🤣. I'm not a fighting person but if I'm backed into a corner, I will. Like they say , I am a wild Irish woman 🤣🤣🤣
@@user-adoyle123 I have had two occasions where a girl thought I was trying to steal her boyfriend, and wanted to fight me. I didn't even know who one of their boyfriends was. She and her friends cornered me in an alley. I told her "I don't want to fight you; I don't know who your boyfriend is, so you're going to have to start." She took a wild swing and, because I had grown up fighting with my three brothers, I landed one punch that laid her out cold. Her friends backed away then ran off. The second time, the young man involved was near me, and he explained to her that we were only friends. Sigh.
We are in our right minds!
THAT IS STILL My FAVORITE PHRASE ❤😊
I tell people that all the time 😃
@@Lisa-o8m4o HA HA HA...me to!!!
Ok dad 😂
💯 true 🤣🤣🤣🤣
I was switched from being left handed to right in the first grade. It's caused a lifetime of struggles. Don't change your child please.
That’s really unfortunate, and I understand why you’re against it. Kids should be supported to be who they are, not forced into something that doesn’t come naturally to them.
I am lefthanded too but think being taught to write with my right hand would have been better as "writing" (direction of text) is designed for righthanders.
I can (without any problem) drive a car and use a chainsaw and camera, all of which are designed for righthanders.
It never occurred to me to hold a camera upside down and take photos with my left thumb, I just did so with my right index finger like everyone else.
So even if I am "lefthanded", why wouldn't it be better for me to be taught to write in the way that writing was designed to be written? This would have improved my writing ability considerably, as well as not otherwise being inconvenienced by smudging my hand, and having to deal with ring binders, university lecture theatre seats etc designed for right handers.
The problem is (I think) the traumatic way that very young lefthanded kids (including you) were forced (including by corporal punishment and humiliation) to write with their right hands, not the idea of writing with their right hands per se.
@@maddyg3208 The fact is that a "natural" lefty being forced to change to right had strong effects in my life. Just think, a left handed person operates on the right side of the brain. When switched then the right "handed" person now functions in the right side not the left. I struggle with dyslexia, learning issues and other minor struggles.
They tried that with me too in elementary school. Had to wear this brace that was attached to the desk. I refused to go along with that and cried...it was so embarrassing. The teacher stopped after she saw how hurt I was. I'm sorry you had to go through that.
My parents were both right handed.
Everyone on either of their closer extended family sides was also right handed.
My parents had three children.
My older brother came first.
Then me.
Then my little brother.
So from two right handed parents, TWO of their three children were born left handed (me and my little brother).
I think that is very unusual.
My mother's mother said that we should be changed to being right handed...this was back in the late 50's and early 60's
But, our mother said no.
She was not going to do that to me and my little brother...which I commend her for.
Today I still enjoy drawing, painting and cartooning.
All left handed.
But all my younger life while I was playing softball and baseball, I would bat right handed.
LASTLY, I will say that I have always written left handed and that my writing is not pretty at all.
It's very legible, just not nice looking.
😂
I love being left handed 🌸
Me too. I have never met a lefty that didn't like being left handed.
Me too!
@Randy-e7y thank you for your service! I Love your story because it shows just how adaptable we left-handed folks Have to be to survive!
I am proud to be a lefty! 🙂👍🏼
Me too! 😊
Me three
@elvadez4200 : Me four! 👍
Why are you proud of it?
@pellier08 because first of all, God created me that way, and being a lefty is more unique- there are only 10-12% of us in the whole world who are southpaws! 😄
I struggled when I was small, I am 72 and school didn’t like to teach lefties! I am glad times have changed, we are unique! Thank you
I have read as good a reason for the teaching issue as I have ever heard...ball-point pens didn't exist and left-handers would smear the fountain pen ink as they wrote! As a left-hander I've struggled through life with the smearing.
In 1958, Sister Mary Chainsaw used to smack my hand with a ruler and screamed at me for using the wrong hand to write. I could not even hold a pencil in my right hand. I still have to turn wire bound notebooks upside down to write in them so that the binding is off to the right and won't bother me.
My father was hit with a ruler in school because he was left handed.
Me too, I had my left hand hit with a ruler at primary school.@@ronbelanger4113
I'm 70 and when I was in school I was treated like crap! Now apparently, we are somehow these "special" people? Tell you though I learned typing quicker than the right handed. My left hand is proficient on the left side of the keyboards.
I’m left handed & have 2 left handed granddaughters-all of us are more creative than other family members…excelling in writing, singing & various arts-painting & drawing! Left hander’s are awesome!
While at the same time ignoring the greater number of just as talented yet more numerous right handed people. I mean those people are everywhere. Right handed people absolutely dominate the world.😂 I love being ambidextrous and a redhead. I’m a friggin superhuman.!
I volunteer at my local community theatre. The people involved in the creative side (design, paint effects, costumes etc) form a greater percentage than 10. We are quite an exclusive group because the others at the theatre always turn to us for their productions.
I once taught in a parochial school where 3 of us 4 teaching sisters were lefthanded. Several children asked if you had to be lefthanded to become a nun. At the same time, 11 of the 20 7th grade students in my homeroom were lefties, too. Crazy, right? What are the odds!
There are a lot of lefties in my family, but I am the least ambidextrous. I’ve mostly been a klutz these 81 years.
1954,Left handed 6 years old the nuns of the sisters of the Resurection,from Poland,and me being a polish kid,loving on the west side od Chicago,Saint Casmir,Catholic grammar school,was told as a lefty,I was evil,and my left arm was strapped behind my back!I was forced to write right handed,this when on for quite a while!My father approached the new a sister Stanislaus after Sunday mass!I don’t know what he told her,but she left me alone after that!76 years old now,but can still,remember this,as if it were yesterday!
Left handed and proud 😊
Left is right I always say.
@jr38499 Oo good one!!
Same here! 👍💯🍀
@@Bobby732-e5u yasss! 😌❤️
My twin brother, and second eldest brother are south paws. My 4 other siblings are right-handed.
I'm proud of being lefthanded.
I always wanted to be left handed and still do. I think it looks so neat!!!
@@sheritee7328been a lefty for 50 years next January
I feel brilliant now I know only 10% of the world is left handed
I’m deeply ashamed
I'm proud of being lefthanded AND gay!
@@tonybennett4159 As you should be!! God bless!!!
My son is left handed and he is disabled with learning difficulties, he has numerous operations and we thought he would lose abilities to learn new things, and regain knowledge of past things he has learnt. I could not be more wrong, he has learnt things he didn't know before aswell as not forgetting what he did learn, An amazing man who really surprised us. He can use his left hand better than I can use my right. Well done to all you lefties.
I am glad that your son has LEARNED how to manage his learning difficulties and succeed. Noone, not anyone, has ever LEARNT anything as it is not a word. Proud ambidextrous predominantly left-handed senior citizen here.
Left handed and feel very unique and special
A south paw student of the 60's & 70's. Yeah, those horrible green handled scissors were the worst.😊
You're blessed to be his Mom, and he's blessed to be left-handed.
I'm a twin who's twin brother is also left-handed. Go south paws! 🎉
God bless.🙏💖🕊️
wooo hoooo im part of the 10% ❤
I cannot discern your gender from your handle, but did you know? 75% of the 10% is male? So, my compatriots and I make up only 2.5%of the population. And, since a lot of us have genius IQs, (about 2%) the percentage is even smaller! Let's see, 2% of 2.5% is, . . .
Now, go out there and make us proud! 😉
Me too👍🏻
So am I
I’m a lefty as well, and noticed years ago that I definitely think differently than most others.
You too? 🙃
Should always have a lefty in the team.
My brother & I are both left handed, & we had an uncle & an older brother who were both ambidextrous. Mom already had refused to make either of my brothers write using their right hands. She went after a teacher who tried to force the middle child to use his right hand (literally threatened to break the teacher's hand). When she saw me using the left hand, she just shrugged and started teaching me to mirror-image her, so that I could follow her instructions (crochet, knit, etc) by sitting across from her. She always said lefties are way more creative.
@@antiquegirl6505 AaaNnnDdd, . . . (drum roll, please) she is *right*! I was the only one. My mother tried to change me. It was as if my right side wasn't connected to my brain. I was 3-4. She stopped when I became hysterical, and called the principal when the first grade nun tried to change me. I learned to crochet too by sitting opposite a righty. Could never figure out knitting, though. It was as if I needed four hands! 😆
you are right-on with that statement, no pun intended.
Always remember........the left hand is always the right hand!!!
My right hand wants to be left alone 😜
. . . and the right hand is the *wrong* hand!
@@cheriem432 two lefts don’t make a right 😂
@@Robot123abcbeep . . . but three rights do!
@@cheriem432 you would be right 😜
I am a blessed lefty and proud to be one of the 10%.
I am a lefty, and love it. My mother was a lefty, and when she started school, in the early 1900s, the teacher, tied her left hand, behind her back; in later life, she was able to write with both hands (fluently)😄 True story.
My wife & I are both lefties. I'm also slightly dyslexic. In school, when ball point pens were new to students, we lefties ALWAYS smeared our written work, because the ink didn't dry fast enough. And going to a restaurant with friends, I made sure I got an end seat so I would not bump the person on my left. Oh, poor me... At least I had two hands that worked.
So Arabic writing from right to left would suit you.i think Hebrew too
@@retiredtom1654 My sister is left handed and learned to somehow write upside down to prevent that smearing problem.
I got told off in France when I had only just turned six,' cos we used dip pens.😢
And these new gel pens? Suck for me bc I do not write with a hook hand but hold a pen and position my paper like a right handed person would with the paper slanted toward the right tho.
I am sometimes dis-graphic. I know what I want to write, but it comes out either sideways or backwards. I can write in mirror image very easily. My left-handed friend and I would pass these notes in class. When the nun caught kids passing notes she would read them out loud to embarrass us. When she caught us she looked at the note then threw it in the trash.
Born in 59. In school it was torture as a lefty trying to use right handed desks. Actually my teacher discouraged me from using my left hand to write. Tried to make me write right handed. Now some things I do left or right handed. I'm called ambidextrous. Actually I had to adapt as a lefty to live in a right handed world. I'm a true lefty.
I was born 1942 I had the same experience being made to write with my right hand. I now use it as an excuse for not being very bright…
I'm 71. My grade 3 teacher would rap my knuckles with a ruler, when she caught me using my left hand. That's a sure fire way to ruin someone's handwriting, as happened to me.
@@James_Knott Me 61, same thing. My teacher told me I was the spawn of Satan because I used my left hand to write. This was in Scotland when I was five years old.
I would think you are ambi-sinistrous - left-handed on both sides.
@@cheriem432 Some people have two left feet! 🙂
52 year old lefty here! Love being different! Was ecstatic when i found out my 8year old nephew is a lefty as well! Its hard but i do ok in this righty world! LEFTYS FOREVER!
It's also just me and my nephew who are
lefties in my family. I was an athlete in my youth and always thought I had a bit of an advantage over my opponents.
This is an interesting line of comments for me. I am left-handed and so was my uncle. Furthermore, I am an aunt to a left-handed nephew! I am an art major and my nephew is currently studying to be an architect. Does anyone ever think about how the writing on coffee mugs isn’t right for us lefties? Here’s a weird one, I can’t cut with a left-handed scissors even thought I’m a lefty. It’s the pits how much a scissors can hurt from the angle of the handle because of that. I actually love being a lefty!
Yes
@@kathywillis7459I definitely noticed the designs and writing on mugs being on the side for rightys as I got older. Interestingly-and maybe it was a fluke-the artist who hand crafted some mugs we bought put the design on so I can enjoy it, being a south paw. It’s one of my favorite mugs.
I can NOT iron with my left hand, nor can I bat for softball left handed. 😂 Weird...😆
I come from a family of six…Dad was left handed. Two kids (me and my brother) ended up left handed…the other brother and sister were right handed like Mom. The three of us Lefties wound up being Engineers. Dad an Aerospace Engineer…Brother a Chemical Engineer…me a Structural Engineer. 🤓🤓🤓The other three: idiots.🤪🤪🤪 Hahaha! I’m just kidding! They weren’t idiots 😂😂😂
Yes, I am left handed. I remember as a child in kindergarten first learning to work with scissors how awkward it felt, being they were made for right handed users. I'm 54 years of age. Being left handed today is easier. More things are made for lefties today than before. Thank you
Never used a scissor for lefties
@Resist-d5x I prefer the left handed scissors. For me it feels more natural. Try some. See what you think.
@ i tried as a child, never got used to it. It feels weird to me since forever
@Resist-d5x just goes to show how different we are. what works for some doesn't work at all for others.
@ so true. The first pen ever landed in my left hand , my mom bought all those specials like fountain pens for lefties, scissors etc. but I never got used to them. I simply adapted to the usual things. I work in a profession that is designed for righthanded people ( dentist), there is the possibility to buy a dental chair for lefthanded dentists, I tried it and it was the most awful experience ever. I got back to conventional ones that feel „right“ for me
I’m left handed. When I was in grade school in the early 1960’s the nuns at the catholic school I went to tried to force me to use my right hand. My parents told them to leave me alone or they would take me out of that school. It ended right there.
I’m also left handed and went to catholic school in the early 1960’s. I remember my first grade teacher, who wasn’t a nun, asked me to help another left handed student with writing. I’m happy neither of us were forced to write with our right hand.
My early schooling was like yours, except in the 40s. I can't remember any nuns trying to force a change. Lucky or just plain stubborn, I guess.
I was fortunate. Not only did the sisters respect my lefthandness, they taught me the proper way to turn my writing paper. I have never had to contort my hand to write the way so many lefties do.When i became a teacher, it was a pleasure to do the same for the lefty children i taught to write. (BTW, not all nuns are mean and carry a big stick!!!)
@JoanBeauregard-w3o Mine was, I was forced to change. I now struggle with dyslexia, learning disabilities , some social situations and I'm 68. I wonder what type of person I would have been or what career I was denied.
Being left handed is a sign of greatness, that's what I've always told myself. My nan, mum, myself and my daughter all left handed
In college I was working out in a boxing gym on the heavy and speed bags. The house trainer approached me and asked if I could spar with his boxer who was going to fight a ranked fighter on USA boxing network in about a month. I didn’t have great skills but he needed work with a southpaw. The kid was cool and took it easy on me even after I bloodied his nose in the first couple minutes. He taught me plenty and was grateful for the opportunity. He won his fight on tv and we were friendly afterwards. Good times and was glad to help!
Does that mean I’m half great? I’m mixed handed so do some things lefty and some things righty. I write lefty…but I don’t need those left-handed scissors!
Good on you! And them! 🙃
@@wintersprite all lefties are mixed handed.
I'm lefty.. Parents weren't, siblings weren't, two children no...4 grands and no lefties😢
I’m 82, a leftie. Both my kids are lefties. My son is an incredible artist, and my daughter is extremely creative in the crafting arts! I was allowed to write left-handed as a child ( bless my mother), and have learned to adapt well. I can’t even use left-handed scissors! 😂. I enjoy this bit of uniqueness!
me too! My dad gave me left-handed scissors when I was about 8. (He is left-handed also) But I had already adapted to using right-handed scissors and couldn't use them.
I hard a very hard time with right -handed scissors; they were actually painful to use! ThanK God for left-handed scissors now!
They gave me left handed scissors on the second grade and I was actually very skilled at cutting at a young age. I tried the left scissors and promptly gave them back to the teacher with a no thank you!
As a lefthanded, I had a terrible time using scissors. Always hated having my left hand ink stained when writing or printing. I did learn to knit and crochet right handed.
@@lauraasumaa1121 As a lefty, it was uncomfortable for me to have to use right-handed scissors but it was all my parents had. I learned to crochet by sitting opposite a right-handed crocheter. I realized I would need four hands to be able to knit, however. My mother gave up.
I'm a lefty, but was not allowed to use my left hand as it was evil and demonic to be left handed. I'm now ambidextrous but still write and use my left hand. I'm very proud to be a lefty.❤❤❤
Who knew left-handedness came with such a dramatic backstory? Sounds like you’ve turned your “evil” hand into a superpower!
That happened to me too, my parents were very superstitious.
@susiew.9012 Funny the things they believed back then.
Since you started out as a lefty, you actually became "ambi-*sinistrous*.
The word for left handedness is sinistral. It has the same root as sinister. So, yes left handedness has a history of being considered evil. I am happy to be left handed since that makes me in my right mind.
I could never use those plastic scissors to cut paper in kindergarten..those damn right handed scissors 😂
Trying to write in a notebook or journal has always been a real pia and then the ink or whatever always along the outside of your hand below the pinky . 🙄
I am a lefty and my identical twin is also a lefty, our Dad who was born in 1917 was a lefty turned ambidextrous. When he went to school they would not tolerate lefthandedness and tied his left hand behind his back. He could write with either hand but his left hand writing was beautiful.
I use both hands for different tasks. I write with left hand, use a knife with the right. I bat left handed, i pitch right handed, i dry dishes right handed. I crochet left handed. I consider myself different from most. Strangely my siblings are right handed
I have deduced that I was born right handed but my mother (a leftie) taught me to write and use a spoon. Everything I learned from others, was right handed.
I use both also, I write with my left but when using scissors I use my right, 🤗
I use the knife in my right hand if I am eating with a knife and fork but if I'm just buttering bread I have the knife in my left hand
@@MissFeline me too. The scissors thing is weird.
You just described me. My right arm is my power house and I use it for most all gross motor activities but can do many things left handed but despise using g a fork in my right hand and have had to having broken my left arm twice. But breaking my right arm three times is just as hindering!
I am a lefty, and was born in a generation where we were treated like a disability, and schools tried to force you to write right handed...I am still a lefty lol!
That’s really unbelievable! Luckily, they don’t do that anymore, but I’m really glad you stayed true to your natural left-handedness! 😄
Same here. Fortunately my parents told my teachers to let me use whatever hand I wanted.
I'm 69 and started out as a lefty. When I started school, they changed my writing handedness and throwing hand. Fortunately, I still bat, golf and do other sports as a lefty. They couldn't beat those out of me.
I'm not a " lefty ," and I'm 58 and I still remember in elementary school a teacher kept trying to fail my best friend because he wrote different than the rest of us, she kept trying to get him to write with his right but he never did. This kinda haunts me every time I see someone who is left handed because she yelled at him and tried to degrade him for being different even called him a freak. I hope her grand kids are lefrty's .
@@waynemillard7426 LOL! I think another trait of lefties is that we can be stubborn when it matters. :)
I was born in 1948 and as soon as i can remember, if my mum saw me using my left hand, she put whatever it was in my right hand. It was a real battle of wills as i was growing up, so eventually i was left alone. It was difficult as everything was made for right handers, but these days you can get stuff for left handers. Proud to be a Lefty 😊😊
I am left handed and my father was as well. When I was learning to write cursive in 3rd grade my mother spoke to my teacher and asked her to allow me to tip my paper to the right when writing in cursive. This solved the problem of awkwardly turning your wrist to the right. I don’t know how my father knew about that trick but he did have beautiful handwriting. I do most things with the left hand but knit the right handed way because it was easier for my mother to teach me. I can use my right hand for gardening and painting walls if my left arm gets tired. Many years later I was teaching cursive in third grade. First I would identify the left handed students in my class and then explain about tipping the paper to the right. For some it was too late as they already turned their wrists to that awkward position. I let them choose.
I'm left handed and the awkward wrist positioning hurts just watching left handed people write that way. I sometimes turn my paper but taught myself to write what I call "Straight up" in notebooks. I position the notebook "straight up" in front of me flat on the table. My parents and adopted brother were also left handed as well. My father always turned his paper while my mom and brother both turned their wrists.
I can't write at all with my right hand, it literally looks like a 4/5 year olds writings, lol.
I’m a Proud father of a lefty daughter ❤
So if she was right handed you wouldn’t be proud of her ?
My father was left - handed, and a very resourceful, inventive man who was great at solving problems, coming up with solutions that probably wouldn't occur to most people.
agree
Me too! 🙂
Same here. I also found that some subjects written by right handers, (left side dominant brain) did not always make sense to me but when I wrote policy or procedure both L and R understood. To this day I still suspect tests and exams written by right handers disadvantage left handers.
I know this feeling very well! 🙃
Most people don't realize that when a lefty opens a door they quite often crack their knuckles on the door frame. I have always said that doors are for right handed people
As a kid I learned to play the guitar along with my younger brother. My folks could only afford one guitar at the time, so, as a lefty, I had to learn right-handed as by brother was right-handed. In my teens I saved up to buy a cheap left-handed bass guitar. These days (I'm 63) I play both right-handed 6 sting guitar and left-handed bass guitar. I certainly get some odd looks from people!
Have the same story as you but I never switched and regret it to this day
Never thought about that...
Yup, I learned how to play the right handed way, but it makes more sense because you would want your most dexterous hand to be your fret hand 😄👍
I'm 71 y.o. and thankfully no one ever tried to force me to use my right hand. I was the only lefty in my family (except a cousin) and none of my children are lefties. I am a full fledged lefty, even left footed. Whenever I start walking I always step off with my left foot.
Me too
@@MegaSharon1951 Me too ,I'm extreme lefty. I even walk on my left foot .
Personally I think right handed people are the ones that are dis-advantaged
they can't see the world in the reversed duality mode that we have .
Don't ask me to explain reverse duality ,it's just how my brain works.
Thankfully the same even though I'm 82.
I'm in the 10%! Woohoo!!!
I cut with my left hand and always struggled with sewing. When I was in school we had Home Economics and it was part of it. Failed miserably because everything about sewing is set up for right handed people. From laying out the pattern, to the scissors (back then) and even setting up the sewing machine.
May I add the following negative aspect of being left-handed. When right-handed people write, they pull the pen to the right (since this is how western text is written), so their right hand follows a natural curve at the wrist, which imparts less stress to the tendons in the wrist. But when left-handed people write they have to PUSH the pen to the right - which causes them to depress the wrist and place a lot of stress on the tendons in the wrist. This can lead to carpal tunnel syndrome or painful tendonitis which gets worse as the years roll by.
The condition can be alleviated by ensuring the left wrist is rounded, not depressed - but this takes a lot of present moment awareness - and it's tedious and very awkward.
Left-handed Alexander teacher.
Thank you for such a comment.
Turn your paper sideways and write towards yourself . I had no choice but to do this , since I sat at a right handed desk in school .
It messes people up when they see me writing like this, lol
I’m a pretty happy lefty
Interesting, my granddaughter is a lefty and things have been awkward for her ,and despite been very knowledgeable at 8 , she gas trouble writing, things are back to front . Her reading is spot on though .
Interesting, my granddaughter is a lefty and things have been awkward for her ,and despite been very knowledgeable at 8 , she gas trouble writing, things are back to front . Her reading is spot on though .
Are you referring to the lefties' "curled wrist" technique of writing?
I’m 74 and left handed. No one in my whole life ever tried to change me. I feel very sad for the people who have had to go through change and disapproval, sometimes with lasting ill effects. Why does the world want or need everyone to be the same?
I am a seventy six left handed. My parents didn't mind having a left handed child...
We were lucky to have broad minded people as parents.🥂🍾
I’m mixed handed. Due to writing lefty, my parents and my teachers labeled me lefty so as a result, I probably did worse with some things, such as some sports, because I tried to do them lefty when I should have tried them righty. Archery and tennis come to mind. I did know that I bat and putt left, and throw and dribble right. It also explains why I couldn’t get the hang of crocheting when my great aunt tried to teach me as a kid. I tried to do it lefty when it turns out I crochet right.
Thus, while I don’t have all the struggles that full-left handers do, I still have some struggles of my own as to which hand to use.
Went to teachers college in early 70's and had to use my lunch hour practicing writing on the blackboard right handed because lefties block the pupils view of the board. Was a teacher for 15 years and wrote left handed. Naughty me!!!
also sewing machines are right handed.
I started school in 1945. My firsut grade teacher was instructing the class on the proper slant of your paper for writing. She then walked around the room to check on the placement. When she saw that I was left handed, she turned my paper to slant towards my right. I will always remember her, Mrs Young. I never smudged my paper and my penmanship was nice and I didn’t write with my hand upside down. I managed the right handed world to my advantage. I learned to use the ten-key calculator by touch with my right hand while writing figures down with my left. I played all my sports right handed. In tennis, I had a two handed backhand and because of my left hand I was able to get incredible angles. In sewing, needle work is with my left. In my case, I have to work at creativity. 😄Unfortunately, in my case left handedness and creativity didn’t meld. My son is left handed and all through elementary school I tried to get him to slant his paper correctly. I failed. He write with his hand upside down with his paper slanted for right. He was blessed with creativeness. So, I consider it a good trade off.
,
My mother had a friend who noticed I’m a lefty & told my mother to have me slant my paper to the right. My handwriting isn’t great , but it would be totally illegible if I had to hold my hand upside down.
My teacher did the same. Thanks to her
Im a lefty. Had a stroke 2yrs ago. Lost my ability to write.My left side is still weak. At least I can walk. Blessed!
I am 74 and my teacher tried to get me to change my handedness but all she caused me was a magnificent stutter. Jerk. It also made me more stubborn about my handedness, and I am now almost exclusively left-handed in everything, lol!
Did you ever notice with corded appliances, like beaters or irons, the cords are always in our way?
Yes!
Yes!
Yes I was so grateful then the put the cord to the irons on the top bc the old ones were made for a right handed person
Yes, it’s a right handed world .being left handed an become stressful because having to use our right hand is unnatural in many situations
scissors! ✂️🙈
As a German boomer lefty I often had to suffer at school. Some of my teachers (then mostly still from the naz! era) obliged me to write any test right handed ... and, thus, made me fail. Bad memories.
I'm really sorry to hear that. It's truly unbelievable how left-handed people were treated back then.
Yes. I am a creative left-handed genius.
Join the club!
I’m not “creative” but I am a problem solver (and a Structural Engimeer)…also 142 IQ.
I’m not a good speller though…”Engimeer” 😂😂😂
@@lizzieb6311 I'm a left-handed engimeer also, Industrial & Systems . . . IQ 166. - with a learning disability in, of all things, math! And I *love* math! Go figure! 🙃
@@cheriem432 You sound much like my Dad! He was an Aerospace Engineer with his primary focus on systems! He was BRILLIANT and he too loved math…also, he learned later in life he was dyslexic..i was good enough at math…but it was Dad who would tirelessly help me with Algebra, Geometry (which I loved), and Trig….I’m best at spatial and design but am proficient at calculating design loads and all other elements of my specialty. I’ll bet you and my Dad would have gotten along wonderfully! Cheers to the brainiacs! 🤓🍻
All left handed people can read very well upside down. Our eyes are convex lenses and if you move pass the focal point the image is upside down. Right handed people do the reversal automatically to see the picture upright. Left handed people has to labour more to get the picture upright, resulting in more excercise. All left handed people can read well upside down, even in a mirror image. There are certain ways of thought that does not come easily for lefties though. Reading a book and sorting out the characters is one of them.
💜I don't know about all lefties, but this is so true for me! I read very well upside down. I like to think of it as my secret super power!💪💜
I was switched to a right handed person as an infant but my brain and how I sew, file, reach for things is still lefthanded. The brain never forgets
From a family with five kids. Handedness? Right, Left, Ambidextrous, Right, Left. I'm the 1st leftie. EVERYONE had their specific seat around the dinner table, to reduce potential elbow-bumping when eating.
Class note-taking and Test-writing in Uni wasn't fun - 3 hours twisted around, writing on a right-handed desk. The stress is REAL. Even things like veggie peelers, etc., are set up for right-handed folks. We lefties adapt, as we've been adapting our whole lives...
Im left handed and a friend once bought me a left handed pencil.
You could tell it was because it said so on it.
Love it! 😂❤
Left-handed pencils have the lead/erasers on the opposite ends, as opposed to right-handed. True!
😂Normal ones work really well in Australia. It's "Down under" 👍 @@Lengsel7
Did not know pencils had hands! Gotta remember that one! LOL
I have a left handed hammer and screwdriver set, I’m so glad that I bought it, as otherwise I would be stumped
My family……two left handed kids from two right handed parents😳 Proud to be a lefty☺️
Lefty's are more artistic, can reason better, logical, I am proud to be one, my dad tried to get me to become right handed, and told me I'll never make it in life , because everything is made for right hand people
My family as well...two right handed parents created two left handed kids. My sister's only child is left handed as well.
As a lefty born in the 80s I had to adapt to all things right, especially the computer mouse. I never thought about it until one day a colleague said "wow, you can scroll and write at the same time! How cool is that!" LOL!!!
70 year old lefty here and my biggest challenge has been scissors, secateurs and fridges that open the wrong way! Love the invention of left handed scissors and secateurs . I was blessed in school with a teacher in Gr. 2 and 3 (same teacher) that taught me how to hold my left hand like a right handed person (so not arched over like so many lefties write) She gave me extra time on tests etc. so that I could practice without stress, bless her heart, I've never forgotten her. All the lefties I know seem to be more introverted and suffer from anxiety more.
I am 84 and a lefty. I feel it a privelage to be different. Had no problems at school (good teachers). I play left handed guitar, banjo and bass - sadly all music (chord diagrams) are right handed and are difficult to reverse mentaly. In the armed forces I used to shoot left handed (and was a marksman) BUT the majority of automatics eject to the right and I used to come off the ranges covered in bruises As the majority of automatic weapons eject to the RIGHT straight into the right side of my face! COME ON YOU LEFTIES we cope better than the rest.
Being a lefty and having served in the military but right eye dominant, i fired a rifle with my right.
Being ambidextrous i fire pistols with either hand.
Throw overhand with my right, side arm with my left, (Frisbee).
Use tools with either hand.
Tie knots with either.
I consider it advantageous to be a lefty.
P.S. I have a mean left hook.
I use handguns left-handed, but rifles right-handed, so no such problem with ejecting empty cases. But never had to shoot in anger.
Hi!..I'm a proud lefty!...I know a woman, who is also a Lefty. She had 4 children, 3 boys and a girl. All lefties!WOW!..what do you think about those odds?..Keep up the good work!..Thank You!..👍🤣
Maybe they just copied mum when learning. This happened to me.
That’s crazy! My granddad and my mom are the only lefties. She has 5 siblings and she’s the only lefty!
Engineer and Lefty here: I have noticed that I have an easier time thinking "outside the box" but at the same time I have more difficulty finding standard solutions.
I am proud to be a lefty, although it was discouraged when I was growing up.
I’m a lefty. I’ve always felt special being a lefty. But the drawbacks are challenging! My teachers in the mid-50s didn’t know how to teach me to write legibly. In 5th grade, I hid my hands and paper behind my big math book and practiced my letter forms the entire year. To this day I have legible, not pretty, handwriting but I still suffer from that lack of 5th grade math education. I went to secretarial school after I graduated and I couldn’t read my short hand because the pens of that time were filled with smeary ink. My very wise steno instructor told me to get a fountain pen, turn my notebook with the spiral rings at the bottom and begin my writing in the middle of the page. (Gregg ruled steno pads have a line down the middle of the page to make the writing column narrower for writing faster.) I still use fountain pens, and even on blank paper I start my sentences in the middle of the page. I’ve broken my left hand three times and had major surgery on my left wrist. I learned the letter forms we write are designed for the ease of the right handed writer. People who wrote were wealthy educated folks who were vulnerable to criticism and likely were taught to be right handed. Conjecture on my part; but it is easier to write our language with the right hand. Given that insight, though, I still went back to my sinister ways because it’s the natural way to feel!
I am a blessed leftie and proud to be one of the 10%.
I am left-handed when writing but learned to use a computer mouse with my right hand, which was handy.
Me, too.
Same. I'm left but I use a computer normally
I am left handed for righting throwing eating, but I do lots of things right handed like hitting tennis hand ball. Things like house painting are crazy, left for trim right for roller. And I can't play golf at all, neither way is comfortable. Always used scissors right handed not really noticing I was supposed to be using my left.
Me too.
Me too.
We are smart as hell most are genius's
I'm a lefty and I love it😊
Paul McCartney is another famous talented lefty
Ringo Starr's another
Its not the original Paul, he died in car crash few years after the band was formed.
@@Poweroftouch Anyone has a photo of the original Paul?
The handshake goes back to 500 BC. Left handed people were perceived to be possessed. Everyone carried their weapons in their right hands. If you extended your right hand to shake you were displaying that you were unarmed.
Thank you for sharing this interesting insight! It’s amazing how much history is behind such a simple gesture.
So we always got the jump on our opponents
I love that. Good Call. Lefties have rights too.
I'm left handed and I am an artist and I had twins. I was raised in the 50's and in certain regions at that time left handed children were forced to write with right hand but fortunately it was not the case where I lived. I'm the only one in my familly who is lefty.
I didn't write like most lefthanded people. Rather than curve my wrist, I tilt my paper to the right. I crochet and knit right handed. I can use tools and scissors with no problem.
Yes lefties are artists and very smart. Also really hardworking.
I'm a 63 old female Brit. I was one of the lucky ones, Some schools in the 60's forced left handed children to write right handed as in Britain at the time it was considered "An aberration to be fixed" King George, Queen Elizabeth's fathers stutter was caused by vicious cruel nannies forcing him to do everything right handed. It was believed that left handed people were "advocates of the devil". Some people have actually mentioned that to me. I stare them right in the eye, and say "yeah and don't you forget it." I eat right handed and use a computer mouse right handed, but can only write and clean my teeth with a tooth brush, left handed. My fathers sister was left handed, no one else.
I'm a lefty,the only one in the family both sides.I remember.my dad coming into to school with me on the first day and telling my teacher that I was born left handed and would remain that way.This was in 1947! No-one ever tried to change me after that
I'm left handed and never had to struggle with anything. You get used to it since birth. And in life I realized anyone who is ambidextrous is left handed. Right handers would NEVER have to develop that.
At school my teachers did not expect me to excel at Handwriting Art or Needlework. Best in class! 🏆
An lefty and my children who are right here righties have had to navigate a lefty‘s kitchen because we don’t have things in the same order. My daughters also tell me that it is backwards. For them that is not me. I am the one that teaches my left-handed grandchildren, how to write and eat I also teach them math and reading skills because left-handed people do not see, these things in the same way that right handed people do. Thanks for bringing this up.
I’m left handed, green eyed and have red hair. How rare is that?
I'm left-handed, neurodivergent and an Engineer. So a struggle with fitting in on many fronts. Half my family was left handed. My paternal grandmother, my father and one half-brother. I'm proud to be a lefty.
I call my left hand my finesse hand, and my right my strength hand!
I call my right hand my work horse. Anything delicate left hand with the exception of scissors.
I like that!😊👍
I have loved being a lefty my whole 44 year life. I even had to relearn how to use my left side 23 years ago. I can use both hands, but I have always preferred using my left. Stay proud my lefty family 🤘🏼🤘🏼
My daughter is left handed and she is very artistic. She also has beautiful green eyes.
Lefty here…and I love it! 🎉❤
My father was a leftie and had a magic photographic memory which I envied. I do certain things with my left hand, like drinking from a cup, using the mouse, batting anything in sports, all my brain tests come in the middle between left and right brain, etc. I like literature and languages and have earned a PhD in social sciences but I play with maths and other hard sciences in my spare time. I don’t know why.
I'm left handed and i own a pair of left handed scissors ✂️
Me too. Definitely worth paying extra for something that works properly.
I gave up on using my left hand for scissors. I trained myself to use my right hand. Same with the mouse.
I'm a left handed but there always have been things I do right handed. I write with left, but on a chalkboard in class I'm right handed. Stepping on my bike is left handed but as a child used my step scooter as a right handed.
I'm a lefty but, I'm also somewhat ambidextrous at times.I grew up in a time when it wasn't cool to be left -handed I'm the ONLY LEFTY IN MY FAMILY. My father tried to change that but he failed.
I am a 78 year old left hander. Growing up I got called Lefty, and South Paw. Friends teased me, but I was a good artist, and played the piano well. I love being left handed, and am quite ambidextrous which makes cutting out patterns and quilt blocks easier, and sewing in general more enjoyable. I love the extra perspective when doing creative projects. I wouldn’t change this streak of luck for any thing. Proud lefty.
I'm a lefty but played certain musical instruments in school right handed, guitars and drums. Play certain sports right handed when swinging with 2 hands, cricket, golf, baseball, softball. I am also ambidextrous with a screwdriver and scissors. So does this mean I'm even more special?
As a lefty, I remember trying to catch a baseball with a right handed mit. Trying to fire a shotgun with a right side ejection port. It took time to overcome many obsticles.
I’m thinking that shooting is determined more by eye dominance rather than hand dominance.
It is not easy to find a baseball mit for left handers.
I can catch with both hands. However growing up, I had to use the left hand glove, take it off and throw the ball. I was really at doing that. Finally got a right handed glove though.
As a kid I wore a right hander's mitt backward on my right hand...it worked! I don't think there were any left hander's mitts until well into the 1970s.
My grandson, 11 yrs, is a lefty. He’s very smart, very sensitive and a very good soccer player!
That's awesome! It sounds like your grandson is incredibly talented and has a lot of great qualities. Being left-handed is just one of the many unique things that make him special. I'm sure he has a bright future ahead! 😊
I’m a leftie. When my kids were small I remember them mimicking me to learn tasks. It was funny and interesting.. especially using scissors and tieing shoes.. eventually we got it all worked out!!
@@trishspinazola287 Yes agreed. I am fifty four years of age. My grandson is now thirteen. I thought him how to tie his shoes when he was small. It was very difficult for him to learn. He's left handed like me. Your posted comment just brought that memory back to me and how difficult it was for him.
To read the cups printed on the side of my darn coffeepot, I am always having to turn the pot so the handle is on my right. It is little thing, but I never mastered scissors 😅
I'm a left handed 100 %Polish Yankee living in NC. I survived three years of Catholic school using a desk for right handers. I can iron with my right hand .I'm very creative and love to cross stitch. I learned to knit and crochet myself as my mom was right handed.out of eight siblings four of us are lefties while both parents right handed. My son Brian was my only lefty his three brothers right handed. Brian and I could talk to each other with our minds. 😻😻😻😻
Thankyou very much for sharing this with us.
Anyone doing research may be interested in the rest of this.
I am left-handed. But I was made to write with my right hand.
So I am now both.
The computer mouse is on the left side.
Scissors are a real pain to use.
Tools I can use either side.
I can paint with either hand.
Taps use to give me real grief.
When I redid the kitchen sink. I put in a lever control that is vertical.
And the tap was changed to RHS cold water, LHS hot water.
How ever the bath is on the LHS hot water.
This mostly stopped my brain from fighting with itself.
Cell phones, the left thumb is used.
Knives are mostly used right-handed.
Un doing jars, the left hand is stronger.
In the military shooting. I was left handed.
I brush my hair with my left hand.
Sometimes my brain has a real conflict doing certain tasks. Which hand do I use.
It’s incredible how you've managed to adapt and make the best of both worlds. Being forced to use your right hand while naturally being left-handed must have been a real challenge for your brain, but it sounds like you’ve found a way to make it work for you. I love how you’ve made adjustments to your surroundings, like with the kitchen sink and taps, to make things easier. It’s so inspiring to see how you’ve embraced your unique situation and found ways to work with it. Thanks for sharing this - it’s a great reminder that we can all adapt, even when things feel a bit tricky!
Thanks for your comment; it saved me from writing the same thing. Except, well except I never did any military shooting.
The same happened to me in the 70s I don't write left .I use scissors left ,typing this left .I belive I am choice dextrous?
I am also left handed but my right is almost an equal depending on the job. Writing - left hand. Right is worse than a Doctors scribble. Scissors - right hand. Bottles / jars - left for lid, right for the jar. Computers - left for keyboard, right for mouse. Shooting - right for trigger. Tools. Right is primary, but left if space is a problem . Broke my right wrist a few years ago, never really rights since then, so sometimes the left is stronger. For a single strength right hand, repeated or repetitive like scissors may need the left hand, but that will mean accuracy is lost. Cut in a circle, when ment to be straight.
Left handed but right footed.
When my son was born (he was breech) they said a lot of breech babies are leftys. I didn’t believe her since no one in my family or my husband’s family is. Well sure enough he is and then our 2nd son is too. I have certainly learned that the world is set up for right handed people. Works out great at the dining table to seat them next to each other - no bumping elbows. Anyway, left handed people are all highly intelligent I’ve noticed. 😊
Interesting! I hadn’t heard that before. I’m a breech baby and a lefty.
My sister is a lefty. I had to laugh out loud when it said they're likely to be a genius. 😅
My son is left handed and it was a unique experience watching the way he did things while he was growing up. I also want to say thank you for this video as I learned a few more new things about Lefties!
I was taught to write right-handed, just about everything is more comfortable left-handed. It bugged my former boss, I worked left-handed, but I worked fast and got tasks completed. Here’s to all lefties, cheers.
My sister, her son (my nephew), and my brother are all leftys. My sister is quite exceptional, she dances gracefully, she draws and paints beautifully, she loves math, she also sing and has a good voice and she plays the guitar. The common attribute they have is stubbornness. 😂
😂 great!!
Computers are typically left-handed: the mouse is on the right side leaving the left hand free to hold a pen, phone, etc.
I am a left handed artist/photographer/potter! Many years ago, I had an art teacher who was complimenting a piece I had drawn, he said, ‘It’s beautiful, but I have no idea how you did that with your left hand!’ Even then, I knew how to smile and say thank you😇💖🕊
I write and use tools with my left hand.
I play golf and guitar right handed.This is an advantage in that there is a better selection of golf clubs and guitars for right handers in the shops.
My mother was left handed and told me when she went to school,being left handed was discouraged.Her brother was caned for using his left hand a few years earlier at the same school.This would have been around the time of WW1.
I’m right-handed but when I was very young, I’d sit opposite my mum at the kitchen table. I would copy what she did, but mirror imaged.
I still do those tasks (and several other related ones) I learned back then lefty, although I’m predominantly righty.
It shows that these things are quite fluid.