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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsJust wondering how many people here are left handed?
My wife and I are both lefties, our two children are righties, go figure. I see that many actors are lefties and are Good Samaritans in that they help the unfortunate. Obama and Clinton are lefties too, but they have/had to deal with many righties. IMO if us lefties were the majority it would be a much better world.
mcar
(42,366 posts)REP
(21,691 posts)UglyGreed
(7,661 posts)write with, throw a ball?
REP
(21,691 posts)I wrote this with my left hand; the first post with my right.
UglyGreed
(7,661 posts)take you if you have us.
REP
(21,691 posts)I taught myself to be ambidextrous due to numerous hand/thumb injuries as a kid. As an adult, the injuries and surgeries became more severe, so that childhood notion really paid off. The only thing I don't do well left-handed is calligraphy (hand drags through the ink).
elias49
(4,259 posts)UglyGreed
(7,661 posts)have adapted to make your life the best it can be. Good for you
rocktivity
(44,577 posts)Last edited Sat Nov 15, 2014, 12:20 PM - Edit history (1)
because that's the hand I eat, drink and write with. But everything else I do righty, including playing guitar.
rocktivity
backwoodsbob
(6,001 posts)it is how i was taught and just stuck.
I always wanted to try reteaching myself to play left handed
goldent
(1,582 posts)As a left hander, it seems more natural for my more capable hand to be on the fretboard. With my right hand, I am fine fingerstyle, but I do struggle a little with a flat pick. I always wondered if I would do better with a flat pick if I played left handed. But for me, it is way too late to switch.
Stellar
(5,644 posts)When my mother taught me to cook she made me use my right hand to cut up veggies, (said it made her nervous the other way). Also, I'm a right handed bowler, I bat right handed...etc.
UglyGreed
(7,661 posts)Last edited Sat Nov 15, 2014, 04:44 AM - Edit history (1)
is play the guitar should of flipped it over
rocktivity
(44,577 posts)rocktivity
UglyGreed
(7,661 posts)imagine me being the next Jimi!!!!
You jump in front of my car when you,
you know all the time
Ninety miles an hour, girl, is the speed I drive
You tell me it's alright, you don't mind a little pain
You say you just want me to take you for a drive
You're just like crosstown traffic
So hard to get through to you
Crosstown traffic
I don't need to run over you
Crosstown traffic
All you do is slow me down
And I'm tryin' to get on the other side of town
Oh what a life it would of been....
HereSince1628
(36,063 posts)it depended on which hand held a marker...students enjoyed it, some said it was from being multiple personality,
I use scissors in my write hand, do archery right-handed, in softball threw and batted left handed.
I hold a knife in my right hand and a fork in the left, control microscope stage left handed.
Rake leaves, shovel, and use wrenches and pliers right handed.
loyalsister
(13,390 posts)I think I use the left for finer motor skill and my right for larger motions.
I can draw and write with ether hand; this surprises me but most people can't tell the difference.. I mostly use my right hand for writing and drawing but the left for steering bikes, scooters, and cars.
Stellar
(5,644 posts)lpbk2713
(42,766 posts)I bet you think it's the devil's hand. It's ok we can take the abuse in this right handed world LOL.
Brigid
(17,621 posts)And so is this smilie:
my people!!!!
Callmecrazy
(3,065 posts)That's why they Callmecrazy
UglyGreed
(7,661 posts)so right, I mean left ahh you know what I mean.
babylonsister
(171,079 posts)KMOD
(7,906 posts)kidding
MADem
(135,425 posts)UglyGreed
(7,661 posts)don't be MAD
MADem
(135,425 posts)UglyGreed
(7,661 posts)Last edited Sat Nov 15, 2014, 02:01 PM - Edit history (1)
let me just say I did want to cause a division among the ranks. I was just curious to see if there were many lefties here and that's all. I tried to add some humor to the OP also. I would also be interested to see this type of thread posted on a right wing or far right wing message board. I'm just a humanist per say wondering why things are the way they are.
Thanks, MADem!
UglyGreed
(7,661 posts)when the lefties take over we won't force you to switch hands. Remember we're the good guys
KMOD
(7,906 posts)I sense the purge coming.
Good try though.
brush
(53,815 posts)some lefties are more equal than others.... Joking please don't get mad, just having some fun with this
brush
(53,815 posts)If so, I'm a southpaw too.
UglyGreed
(7,661 posts)left hand dominate. If you lean left on political issues even better.
brush
(53,815 posts)UglyGreed
(7,661 posts)there is mix of political views here. Center, left, and right just like in life. See my post #143 if you need more insight why I posted this thread.
brush
(53,815 posts)We have to put up with them, as in life like you say, but the majority here are left-leaning.
BeyondGeography
(39,377 posts)handmade34
(22,756 posts)I'm not I agree... they should rule the world
Historic NY
(37,452 posts)LeftInTX
(25,493 posts)The world needs right handed people (I'm a klutz). But the world would be better off without right winged people.
MineralMan
(146,324 posts)UglyGreed
(7,661 posts)were, made of strong moral, ethical fiber! Committed to the cause. A sign of a true leftie.
TheCowsCameHome
(40,168 posts)Oh, wait, never mind. I was thinking of something else.
LostInAnomie
(14,428 posts)Anything else, I'm a righty.
WinkyDink
(51,311 posts)RebelOne
(30,947 posts)But sometimes it is a handicap because everything is geared toward right-handed people. For one, as a kid in school, I had a hard time writing in a spiral notebook.
rocktivity
(44,577 posts)Last edited Fri Nov 14, 2014, 10:38 PM - Edit history (1)
I would have to take the paper out!
rocktivity
eppur_se_muova
(36,280 posts)tularetom
(23,664 posts)I write right handed, I throw a ball left handed, I swing a hammer right handed, a golf club left handed, and I shoot right handed. I lost my left eye about 20 years ago so I really have no choice about the shooting. It appears that I favor my right hand for the tasks that require precision and my left for those that demand strength.
UglyGreed
(7,661 posts)I have 20-200 vision in my left eye do to amblyopia. I crossover to use my right eye while shooting like a lefty. Not to brag, but I'm a pretty good shot.
UglyGreed
(7,661 posts)Being a righty or a lefty could be linked to variations in a network of genes that influence right or left asymmetries in the body and brain
By Natasha Geiling
For the left-handed people of the world, life isnt easy. Throughout much of history, massive stigmas attached to left-handedness meant they were singled out as everything from unclean to witches. In Medieval times, writing with your left-hand was a surefire way to be accused of being possessed by the devil; after all, the devil himself was thought to be a lefty. The world has gotten progressively more accepting of left-handed folk, but there are still some undeniable bummers associated with a left-handed proclivity: desks and spiral notebooks pose a constant battle, scissors are all but impossible to use andaccording to some studieslife-expectancy might be lower than for right-handed people.
What makes humanitys bias against lefties all the more unfair is that left-handed people are born that way. In fact, scientists have speculated for years that a single gene could control a left-right preference in humans. Unfortunately, they just couldnt pinpoint exactly where the gene might lie.
Now, in a paper published today in PLOS Genetics a group of researchers have identified a network of genes that relate to handedness in humans. Whats more, theyve linked this preference to the development of asymmetry in the body and the brain.
In previous studies, the researchers observed that patients with dyslexia exhibited a correlation between the gene PCSK6 and handedness. Because every gene has two copies (known as alleles), every gene has two chances for mutation; what the researches found was that dyslexic patients with more variance in PCSK6meaning that one or both of their PSCK6 alleles had mutatedwere more likely to be right-handed.
The research team found this especially interesting, because they knew that PCSK6 was a gene directly associated with the development of left-right asymmetry in the body. They werent sure why this would present itself only in dyslexic patients, as dyslexia and handedness are not related. So the team expanded the study to include more than 2,600 people who dont have dyslexia.
The study found that PCSK6 didnt work alone in affecting handedness in the general population. Other genes, also responsible for creating left-right asymmetry in the body, were strongly associated with handedness. Like PCSK6, the effect that these genes have on handedness depends on how many mutations the alleles undergo. Each gene has the potential for mutationthe more mutations a person has in any one direction (toward right handedness or left handedness) the more likely they are to use that hand as their dominant hand, or so the researchers speculate.
The hypothesis is a logical response to a key question: If handedness is genetic and if right-handedness is such a dominant trait, why hasnt left-handedness been forced out of the genetic pool? In reality, the research suggests that handedness could be more subtle than simple dominant or recessive traitsa whole host of genes might play significant roles.
Read more: http://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/why-are-some-people-left-handed-6556937/#m8O0FQs8AKP61stX.99
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YarnAddict
(1,850 posts)I read it probably close to 30 years ago. Very interesting. The author postulated that left-handedism is actually a birth defect. He gave the stats about lefties having had difficult births, leading to minor brain trauma causing left handedness.
Interesting theory.
I was born at a time when it was believed that a doc HAD to be in the delivery room, and since my mother's doc hadn't arrived at the hospital the nurses were holding her legs together to prevent me from entering the world too soon! Can't imagine that didn't cause some problems!!
My own ambi son was born in a single push. His first and second APGAR scores were the same, and when I expressed concern about it, the doctor explained that sometimes babies born too quickly are kind of "stunned," so maybe that could have caused a little trauma, too.
UglyGreed
(7,661 posts)Last edited Sat Nov 15, 2014, 11:15 AM - Edit history (3)
it. I read that they now believe that estrogen levels maybe a factor also. My mother was 40 years old when she had me and did indeed have a difficult delivery. My siblings and parents are righties, and I don't believe any of my cousins are lefties. If we are all mistakes/mutates IMO it is a wonderful mistake to be.
YarnAddict
(1,850 posts)Try to get hold of the book, if you can. It was such an interesting read. It was full of facts and statistics about lefthandedness.
Travis_0004
(5,417 posts)Write and throw left handed. Also a lefty on guitar.
Bat, golf, hockey, kicking all done right handed (or right footed).
Control-Z
(15,682 posts)Which makes me a righty on most things but a lefty on others, like a cartwheel, for instance, or the leg I lead with. When I tried archery it was lefty.
My youngest is a lefty but uses her right hand for many things. Her choice. I gotta say, it is really scary to watch her cut vegetables or use scissors.
UglyGreed
(7,661 posts)he was forced to go righty. He uses both hands well though. I bought a pair of left handed scissors to groom my Bedlington Terrier last year and now it feels so strange to use them.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bedlington_Terrier
davidpdx
(22,000 posts)I think personally it is cruel because it is based on a bias against left-handed people. You use whichever hand you are comfortable with and no one should try to change that.
HereSince1628
(36,063 posts)and must be used that way to get the cutting edge of the blades to properly slide along each other. Similarly hand-held can openers are designed to be placed on the top of the can and turned by the right hand. Very difficult to operate otherwise.
Some things don't seem handed but have handed preferences... like piano music and piano keyboards the melody is on the right and the simpler rhythm accompaniment is played on the left. 5 string banjos are made with the shorter string so that it is played, often mostly as rhythm, by the thumb on the right hand...turning the banjo to be played left-handed puts the short string in a position where it can't be played with the left thumb, unlike guitars restringing doesn't solve the problem.
Some things -can- be used in a left-handed manner but have bad outcomes when they are... for example...
A skill-saw (essentially a hand held circular saw)...ejects sawdust to the right. If controlled by the left hand the user gets covered in saw dust.
The same is true of the M-16 rifle I was assigned in basic training. It ejects spent cartridges to the right. When fired in a left-handed manner from the shoulder the very hot cartridges tend to go down the neck of the shooters t-shirt.
JEFF9K
(1,935 posts)Those are things that most righties aren't aware of.
HereSince1628
(36,063 posts)and even how soldiers belts are meant to be worn...
JEFF9K
(1,935 posts)Were left-handed. No?
rocktivity
(44,577 posts)YES!!!
rocktivity
JEFF9K
(1,935 posts)Last edited Sat Nov 15, 2014, 04:56 AM - Edit history (1)
I was hoping no one would mention him. He was a union leader before he went nuts though.
Nite Owl
(11,303 posts)Clinton and Perot were lefties.
I'm a lefty.
Spirochete
(5,264 posts)but George H.W. Bush, Reagan, Clinton, and Obama all are. I think Ford was too.
BillZBubb
(10,650 posts)ms liberty
(8,591 posts)JohnnyLib2
(11,212 posts)Jazzgirl
(3,744 posts)n/t
The Blue Flower
(5,444 posts)Everything else is right-handed.
riderinthestorm
(23,272 posts)I write with my right hand and do everything else as a lefty.
My mom was adamant I wasn't going to be a lefty and I still recall her many, many "corrections" when I was a child to force me into writing right handed.
ChazII
(6,205 posts)10% of the population is said to be left-handed. I write with my left hand but use scissors and kitchen utensils with my right.
I wish I still had my left-handed manual can opener. It was a blast to see my right handed friends get so frustrated that they would tell me that there was something "wrong" with it as well my spatula, which was also made for lefties.
Mnemosyne
(21,363 posts)For all you naughty thinkers...
Liberal Lolita
(82 posts)Lefty loosy, righty tighty, screw that, it should be the other way around.
Oh, and
Mnemosyne
(21,363 posts)Liberal Lolita
(82 posts)UglyGreed
(7,661 posts)you
Mnemosyne
(21,363 posts)UglyGreed
(7,661 posts)it's all good, laughter is a wonderful thing.
JustAnotherGen
(31,849 posts)John1956PA
(2,655 posts)Maybe twenty years ago or more, I controlled the mouse with my left hand, but I can not recall. If I did, I may have reset the mouse buttons for left-handed usage.
Lefta Dissenter
(6,622 posts)though I don't swap the buttons.
nc4bo
(17,651 posts)Can slice meat with left or right but can only chop and dice with left hand.
Scissors and opening jars - left hand.
Use computer mouse with right hand.
Artist; painting, drawing - left hand but can lay some colors down with the right hand. Writing is dominant left hand but can use right hand in a pinch.
Stir pots, use cooking utensils - left hand.
Bowling - right hand.
Swinging a bat........total confusion but can pitch better with right hand.
Zippers and buttons - right hand.
Wear my watch on right hand.
Raking leaves - left hand dominant.
Brush teeth with left hand.
I may be semi-ambidextrous if there is such a thing.
to my fellow lefties!!
tk2kewl
(18,133 posts)Tuesday Afternoon
(56,912 posts)UglyGreed
(7,661 posts)you with us!
Wellstone ruled
(34,661 posts)who are lefties and are in our right minds.
awoke_in_2003
(34,582 posts)but both went to kindergarten during the time that they would break you of that (early 70's). I guess left handed scissors just cost too much
Liberal Lolita
(82 posts)Luckily, my mother told the school that if they tried to make me change, "There would be Hell to pay!"
I hated the lefty scissors. They would try to force me to use them, but I couldn't cut with them.
I worked as a teacher's aide. I love the new scissors, that they have in schools. They work for both the left, and right handed.
YarnAddict
(1,850 posts)I started school in 1961, and there was never any attempt to change my handedness! Good thing. I don't think it would have been possible.
ileus
(15,396 posts)Shoot right handed
Fish left handed
Golf right handed
Write LH
Bat LH or RH catch LH
Both my Kid are Right Handed...(like my DW)
d_b
(7,463 posts)and a few other things i wont mention.
write and throw with my right hand.
loyalsister
(13,390 posts)I write, eat, and shoot pool left- handed.
WhiteAndNerdy
(365 posts)rickford66
(5,528 posts)Write, eat, racket sports (tennis etc) = lefty
Throwing, batting = righty
Everything else = can do either way
I love handing my left-handed scissors to rightys and watch them fumble. I usually say "now you understand."
I move my mouse back and forth to avoid carpel tunnel. It also annoys others who use my computer.
I found it very easy to drive a right hand vehicle with a stick on the column and others couldn't while overseas in the Navy.
I still fumble with phones. I want to hold them in my left hand and then can't write at the same time. Also, I tried holding phones to my right ear and can't hear that way. Nothing wrong with my hearing though.
Don't know the actual stats, but it seemed like there were a lot of lefty engineers at work.
rainy
(6,092 posts)Live and Learn
(12,769 posts)Spirochete
(5,264 posts)So was my mother, both of my sisters, an uncle, and a grandmother. Lefthanded runs in my family.
So do noses, this time of year...
laundry_queen
(8,646 posts)Hockey, golf and guitar I'm left. I always cut with my left hand when I'm eating or carving a turkey or roast (but I chop with my right when I'm prepping/cooking). I write best with my right hand, but can manage decently with my left (found that out as a child, when I ended up with blisters all over my right palm from the playground bars, and couldn't hold a pencil so tried it with my left, and my teacher didn't even know). As a young kid, I actually caught a ball and threw with my left or right until my dad taught me to catch with my left so the family could share gloves, lol. I cannot switch hit, however. I bat right.
I come from a long line of both-handedness. My grandfather, father and brother bat left and shoot left (in hockey). However, my brother golfed right, played guitar right and was the unfortunate combination of right handed pitcher/left handed batter. My dad golfed cross-handed (probably should've golfed left, but bought right-handed clubs at a garage sale when he was learning LOL). I was more both handed then either of them. My grandfather chortled with glee when he saw me cutting my meat with my left hand. He was proud of being a lefty in baseball. He was disappointed to learn I bat right, lol.
But the both-handedness stops with me. I have the only great-grandchildren and all 4 of my kids are distinctly and completely right handed on everything. Not even a hint of left handedness with them. I think the first time they all picked up a crayon as toddlers, it was with their right hand, all of them.
colsohlibgal
(5,275 posts)I'm the only one in my known family who is, just a fluke I guess. It's a big help for my tennis game, I play mostly right handed but on balls hit way out to my left I'll flip the racquet to my left hand and return it. In softball I switched to lefty all the way.
NBachers
(17,133 posts)I still remember Mrs. Nichols teaching us to write in first grade- she told us to try both hands, and see which one we liked best. I remember trying it both ways, and going through a serious experimentation and decision process. There was never any judgment or pressure to go right-handed. I remember, in that process, my dad saying, "He may turn out to be a lefty."
It took a certain amount of trust, support, and confidence to acknowledge that I was comfortable with my choice. I am thankful for that support.
I've never really felt that it was difficult to be functional in a right-handed world. The "poor lefties have life stacked against them" business is a bit overblown, in my experience.
So when people remark that I'm left-handed, my stock reply is, "Just like Obama!"
PeteSelman
(1,508 posts)Carter and Chimpy were righties.
I'm left hand dominent but pretty much ambidextrous.
I can do nearly everything with both hands but I'm most comfortable with my left.
brewens
(13,615 posts)Turns out, we've known this about "southpaws" for quite some time. LOL
BayouBengal07
(1,486 posts)Unfortunately, I bat right handed. I coulda been my little league team's x-factor.
Liberal Lolita
(82 posts)I write, eat, brush my teeth and do everything else that takes finesse with my left hand. With things that take strength, I tend to be ambidextrous. It's great for I mini golf, because I use whichever hand makes for a better shot.
One of the reasons I am a strong supporter of Gay rights, is because they make up about the same portion of the population as us lefties. We have been discriminated against too.
I attended cosmetology school. When it came time to learn hair cutting the director refused to teach me left handed. She insisted I do it right handed. I tried, but I just couldn't do it. I ended up dropping out. It was probably just as well, because I quickly realized that I didn't want to do hair everyday.
Surya Gayatri
(15,445 posts)Have to do everything left-handed--writing, eating, sewing, combing and brushing, cutting, painting, etc., etc.
Only exception are some sports, i.e. had to learn baseball right-handed because there was nobody to teach me otherwise.
UglyGreed
(7,661 posts)was the best idea I've had in years. Makes me all warm inside to know there are many of us hanging around DU.
UglyGreed
(7,661 posts)to add Thursday, August 13 is Left Handers' Day 2015 my 50th birthday
area51
(11,918 posts)my eye doctor swears that I was originally lefthanded, due to my left eye being dominant.
UglyGreed
(7,661 posts)wonder how that worked out? Perhaps someone made you change or your eye doctor is a quack LMAO just having some fun! I have had a lazy left eye since birth, 20/200 vision but always been a lefty.
davidpdx
(22,000 posts)Although for anything athletic I tend to favor my right hand, which is a bit stronger (not that I'm very athletic to begin with).
FreeJoe
(1,039 posts)I was always told that two wrongs don't make a right.
still laughing here though.
scarletlib
(3,418 posts)sendero
(28,552 posts)... for eating and writing. Right handed with a guitar, baseball bat or most anything else.
drray23
(7,637 posts)however when I play soccer, my dominant leg is the left leg. go figure.
FarPoint
(12,426 posts)Left winger and left handed.
Quackers
(2,256 posts)Should make this into a poll.
UglyGreed
(7,661 posts)I tried to make a poll month or so ago and I could not. But I had less posts back then. Just got used to posting without it. I've come out of my shell these last few as I'm sure people here have noticed. Many may want me back in that shell since I am very close to be being a spammer.
FSogol
(45,514 posts)backwoodsbob
(6,001 posts)we researched it and we are the only lefties on either side for three generations.
THANKFULLY my older brother broke my parents.When we were young being leftie was taboo to many.My parents did their damndest to break my brother of being lefthanded and of course failed.
By the time I came along they were like....whatever
Shankapotomus
(4,840 posts)And the promoter of as extreme a brand of handism as I've ever seen.
UglyGreed
(7,661 posts)was coming! I'm laughing so hard as I type. Makes me feel better both physically and mentally thank you.
YarnAddict
(1,850 posts)I have one right-handed son and one ambidextrous. I couldn't teach the righty how to do anything the "right" way. Couldn't teach him how to hold scissors. To this day (and he is now 31) he holds a pen in a really weird way.
The ambi, however, is very adept.
BlueJazz
(25,348 posts)Jamastiene
(38,187 posts)malletgirl02
(1,523 posts)and all left handed people are superior? This thread pisses me off.
UglyGreed
(7,661 posts)Last edited Sat Nov 15, 2014, 12:08 PM - Edit history (1)
fun of it, you are on the winning side be happy. My kids are righties and I love them very much.
Scuba
(53,475 posts)UglyGreed
(7,661 posts)proud
BeanMusical
(4,389 posts)Scuba
(53,475 posts)Bettie
(16,118 posts)So is one of my three sons, the little one.
onecaliberal
(32,882 posts)Along with one of my sons.
Nay
(12,051 posts)Blaukraut
(5,693 posts)My mother was, but was forced to use her right hand.
UglyGreed
(7,661 posts)above I'm pretty sure I'm the only lefty in my entire family.
CanonRay
(14,111 posts)ismnotwasm
(41,998 posts)Also I'll switch hands back and forth without knowing it for things like brushing my teeth, and partly switched hands for eating. Chopsticks are left.
I can get very confused-- if I close my eyes, I'll forget which hand to use
Writing is alway left, my SIL teaches Crossbow, but I'll have to learn on a recurve, because leftie crossbows (actually all of them)are expensive, as are most other things
SammyWinstonJack
(44,130 posts)As a result of that, I tend to use either right or left depending on the task I am performing, but I write only with my right hand.
My oldest son was born right handed.
My youngest son was born left handed.
He still is.
annonymous
(882 posts)I can write with both hands, and use a knife with both hands. However, I use a mouse with my right hand and brush my teeth right handed. I throw and catch with my left hand. My children are both left handed.
Ohio Joe
(21,761 posts)Some things I do left handed and some right...
Left:
Eat
Write
Steer
Smoke
Right:
Golf
Hit
Catch
Throw - Yes... I was a poor ball player
nilesobek
(1,423 posts)I'm brutally right handed. The only thing I do left handed is play pool and I don't know why but I'm pretty good at it. Maybe I should do more things on the left.
chowder66
(9,074 posts)UglyGreed
(7,661 posts)place. Welcome aboard!
chowder66
(9,074 posts)Rosa Luxemburg
(28,627 posts)shraby
(21,946 posts)my left.
WhiteAndNerdy
(365 posts)The only things I can do right-handed are using the mouse & smoking (so I can keep writing with my left hand, LOL).
sueh
(1,826 posts)UglyGreed
(7,661 posts)on us lefties, some good, some bad but such is life.
12 Little-Known Facts About Left-Handers
Theres no denying it. Left-handers are the odd men out.
Sure, lefties make up about 10 percent of the population but, frankly, it seems like society has forgotten about them. Right-handed gadgets, awkwardly designed desks, cooking tools that fit comfortably in your right hand (now thats just wrong!).
What causes someone to become a southpaw? Scientists arent exactly sure, but research points to a complex collaboration between genes and environment. While no exact set of leftie genes have been discovered, people who dominantly use their left hands do have more left-handed family members. And researchers have found different brain wirings in righties vs. lefties.
But no matter what it is that drives someone to use their antipodal paw, science has also uncovered a particular set of personality traits that left-handed people tend to have. So for all of you lefties, leftie-loving righties, and ambidextrous folks out there its time to brush up on your left-handed knowledge and help put an end to leftie discrimination once and for all.
http://www.everydayhealth.com/healthy-living-pictures/little-known-facts-about-lefthanders.aspx#01
Liberal Lolita
(82 posts)How many of you turn your paper to write, rather than twisting your wrist?
I used to make a mess of my papers in school. In the 5th grade I had a left handed teacher who taught me to turn my paper instead. Once I learned that, I had no more smearing, or wrist cramp, and my writing was much neater.
I worked as a teachers aide in a small school district. I worked mostly with preschool through 2nd grade students, so I was catching them when they were just learning to write. I taught all the lefties I worked with how to write this way. Most of the lefties in my school district wrote like me. I don't know if it was because I worked with them when they first were learning to write, or how prevalent this is in the general population.
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(38,007 posts)I remember proudly walking up to the front of the class to get my green scissors. Then I proceeded to attempt use them with my right hand. Sad.
I write, draw and eat with my left hand. I use a mouse, scissors and other tools with my right.
When it comes to using bats or golf clubs, my brain shorts out because I honestly can't figure out which side feels better.