International Left-Handers Day

[Chromatic]

There are 4 of us in my family, and I'm the only right hander, my mum, dad and sister are all left handed.

 

[GrumpyGregry]

I suspect the number of left handed people is higher than reported as I personally know of a number of people, not to much older than me, that were actively discouraged at school to use their left hands.

Smacked over the knuckles by a nun. Funny how I developed a stutter that disappeared when I was allowed to write left-handed. Mind you I play gold and bass right handed with no problem. Squash I have to do left-handed, but I'm predominantly right footed.

 

[ufkacbln]

@Fnaar

I believe that Ms Goodbody is ambidextrous

 

[Vapin' Joe]

Smacked over the knuckles by a nun. Funny how I developed a stutter that disappeared when I was allowed to write left-handed. Mind you I play gold and bass right handed with no problem. Squash I have to do left-handed, but I'm predominantly right footed.

Same here. Nuns are the SS wing of the Catholic church, mentally deranged psychopaths who take their hatred for men out on little boys.

Delicate work I do left handed, but I play snooker, golf and throw with my right.

 

[Levo-Lon]

I'm a lefty ...but right handed at almost everything ..

 

[GrumpyGregry]

[QUOTE 4414034, member: 45"]I wondered whether the stutter thing was an urban myth. It appears not.

I play golf and guitar right handed because of the availability of the tools. Everything else. Left-handed. When I was at young playing cricket or rounders though I used to enjoy changing hands just as the bowler let go.[/QUOTE]
I can't decide if it was the lefty thing per se or the victim thing. Once she turned her attention to someone else I was right as rain.

 

[Fnaar]

@Fnaar

I believe that Ms Goodbody is ambidextrous

She swings both ways and is good with her hands (and feet, according to the verger)

I'm a lefty myself, mostly, though any two handed bat sports I would do right handed, plus using a computer mouse and playing the geetar. I don't do the odd cutlery thing (surely right handers should fork with their right??) but I have occasional difficulty with scissors and any tool with handle moulded for dexters rather than sinisters.

I have excellent handwriting.

My brother, also a lefty, has writing that looks like a drunken spider has walked through some ink and crawled across the page.

 

[GrumpyGregry]

[QUOTE 4414041, member: 259"]I've just spent a few weeks with my right arm in plaster and I now have renewed massive sympathy for left-handers trying to use right-handed things like scissors and can openers.[/QUOTE]
We get used to right handed tools through repetition, in a way someone using them temporarily never will.

 

[MossCommuter]

I'd give my right arm to be ambidextrous

 

[Dayvo]

Smacked over the knuckles by a nun. Funny how I developed a stutter that disappeared when I was allowed to write left-handed. Mind you I play gold and bass right handed with no problem. Squash I have to do left-handed, but I'm predominantly right footed.

The son of a mate of mine wrote left-handed on the left side of a school book and right-handed on the right side. He had a bad stutter and fortunately a teacher suggested to my mate that his son should choose to write with only one hand. He did and the stutter disappeared very quickly.

 

[Levo-Lon]

Intresting how most of us only write left handed..

 

[User33236]

[QUOTE 4414041, member: 259"]I've just spent a few weeks with my right arm in plaster and I now have renewed massive sympathy for left-handers trying to use right-handed things like scissors and can openers.[/QUOTE]
I have never had an issue using 'normal' tools and utensils as it's all I had available. You just adapt and find a left handed method that works for you.

When I was 14 I fell on a broken Irn-Bru bottle severing nerves and tendons in my left hand. It was two years before I could really begin to use my left hand again and it's amazing what I developed techniques to be able to do with one, non-dominant, hand in that period. To this day I can still tie my showlaces using only my right hand, something I find impossible with my left .

 

[User33236]

Intresting how most of us only write left handed..

I can right with both hands, following an accident (see above) and had to sit my 'O' grades in a separate room with a tape recorder 'just in case' my right handed writing was not up to speed and couls dictate my answeres instead lol.

 

[Dayvo]

My brother is unnaturally left-handed as I accidentally slammed a cupboard door on his right hand almost severing his thumb. He was only 2-3 years old but didn't use his right hand much when he was young.

He also has terrible handwriting: being left-handed is bad enough, but unnaturally so...!

 

[Mrs M]

I write with right hand but can also write quite neatly with left.
I do some things other way round like wheel my bike on my left side, knife in left hand, fork in right, etc.
Also my mouse at work is on the left.
Maybe I am just a weirdo