I'm a lefty, so is my sister and the nuns got to my Mom so she's a righty but she hooks her hand like a lefty when she rights. I never really noticed any disadvantages other than the ink smudges and can openers are a bitch to use. I do notice a lot of people I work with (IT) are left handed, we must be predisposed to that kind of work.
I'm a lefty. I don't write with my hand all fucked up and wrist bent and my handwriting is (most days) kinda pretty. Because I write with my wrist straight & my grip above my fingers, I never really had a problem with ink or pencil smudging. I play all sports right handed except golf (which I can't really play anyway because my boobs are too big). I do move the mouse to the left side of the computer but only because my brother's right hand is paralyzed and he has to have it there and I just got used to it. Contoured scissors are a bitch. They were when I was little and they still are now.
I'm quite suprised that people today would prevent a child from using their left hand, I thought they stopped that back in the 60's? I guess i've lead more of a sheltered life than I thought. I'm right handed like the majority of the population but i've managed to become pretty good using the left hand masturbating while surfing for porn. It was awkward at first but I got use to it fairly quickly.
Dear righties, Fuck your scissors. xoxo, Shoom The aformentioned smudges and spiral notebooks suck, but also trying to learn how to golf or trying to find a leftie wrist brace. On the plus side, I murder my friends at Guitar Hero.
I am left handed, and I think being so is awesome. Any sport I play, I can naturally toss 90% of people into unfamiliar territory by doing everything "backwards". Boxing especially shows how left handedness is an advantage. Writing English smudges ink, but writing Hebrew doesn't, so that's 50/50. The only place where being left-handed is totally terrible is shooting. Every time I fire an AR style rifle, eventually, a shell casing gets ejected down into my shirt. Nothing can be used comfortably because the magazine ejects, and safetys are always on the wrong side.
Isn't it possible to get a left-handed ejection port? Of course, if you're firing someone else's rifle you're SOL, but I think there are ejection ports that shoot out the other side. Or you could just fire those Ithaca pump-actions that both feed and eject in the bottom.
I hadn't even thought of that. The same goes for Arabic. One of the few enjoyable things about those classes was the knowledge that almost everyone else had to feel my pain, for once. Miraculously, I still managed smudge my papers all the time, which was the Universe's way of telling me to go fuck myself.
I am not left handed, but my girlfriend is. For her, it wasn't a disadvantage at all--she was a tennis player in high school, and qualified for State three years in a row. Largely on the strength of being a lefty--her coach trained her from an early age to spin the hell out of her shots, and it worked out very well. In the field of athletics, the best thing you can be besides "naturally god-like in talent" is left-handed.
All of God's chosen people are left handed... Many of our recent Presidents have been/are left handed - Obama, Clinton, Bush Sr., Reagan, Ford, Truman I'm sure many of you don't remember anyone before Clinton - but that just makes me old... Being left handed actually isn't an issue once you learn how to cope - Scissors - I can use right handed scissors, but not left and there is a difference. When you use a scissor in your right hand, you naturally push the part in your thumb forward pushing the blades together - as a lefty, you need to pull the part with your thumb out in order to push the blades together, hence the reason that once you get used to right handed scissors you can't use left handed ones. Guitars - you just need to learn how to play right handed. I know Paul McCartney learned how to play lefty, but he is an exception to the rule. Micrometers - a measuring tool for toolmakers and mechanics - learn how to use a right handed one because left handed ones don't really exist. Driving a standard isn't an issue and everyone else is correct about writing and spiral bound notepads - they suck. I eat left handed, write left handed, throw left handed - golf right handed, bat right handed, and at the end of the day, I'm a normal asshole just like the rest of you!
Learning to write left handed when looking at a teacher writing on the board is difficult because you need to be able to mirror the image. so what I have seen other left handed people do is kind of curve their hand over so they can be making the same pattern/letter the teacher is drawing, so a lot of the time you will see people write the number 9 inside out instead of going top to bottom. its kind of hard to explain but in the end they are curving their hand so its easier to do what the teacher is doing. http://www.anythingleft-handed.co.uk/ And on the ink smudging note, i write without a hook and I just get pens with quick dry ink, like BIC so ballpoint would not be an option for me, and pencil is only bad if I am trying to write quick
Abusive mental conditioning to change the political outlook of small childrens' tiny fists aside, someone should beat the crazy out of your parents with left handed baseball bats. Also I'm right handed, fuck lefties and the fence-sitting ambi's. Elect my hand president and I will lower taxes on gold rings, increase tariffs on foreign gloves, smack our political opponents with the fair and balanced dueling glove, and crush our enemies with my iron fist. HEIL RIGHTY!! Edit: Oh yes, I used to eat lefty with a knife and fork but my parents insisted I'd wind up fucking some grandma with my elbow. Now I'm ambidextrous with the cutlery. I wanna use two spoons as chopsticks.
The only time I switch hit is for Happy Fun Time. Outside of that, I'm full-time righty. I dated a lefty for about 3 years, and I never really noticed unless we were eating side-by-side at a restaurant. If we forgot and sat down in the wrong order, our elbows would do battle, jousting for comfortable-eating-supremacy.
I am naturally left handed, however growing up in the 60s I was taught to write and eat right handed. I play most all sports left handed except raquet sports which I cannot figure out which hand I want to use. It really does not matter as I suck equally with either hand. Now that I am getting old and grumpy, I am trying to revert back to being more of a lefty, I have moved my mouse to the left side just to piss of right handed people who try and use my computer.
I was looking into the left handed thing a bit more and I found something for the left handed people from the UK or Canada. http://kalecoauto.com/index.php?main_pa ... ucts_id=21
I've often wondered about whether lefties are more naturally predisposed to athletic success. There seem to be a disproportionate number of lefties in baseball in particular.
All the aforementioned problems are true: scissors, notebooks, etc. As a lefty in sports, it was great. I played college basketball, and I wouldn't have it any other way. I'd get 6+ points a game, just from being left handed. The odd thing, when I guarded a lefty, it took me forever to figure it out. My Great-Grandmother was a lefty. She and I are the only ones anywhere near my family tree that are lefties. She's long gone, so its just me. My wife is pregnant and I hoping, pleading actually, that my spawn is a lefty too. And male.
With baseball its more about the percentages and angles the ball is seen at. There are far fewer left handed pitchers so batters obviously don't face them often, which is why if you're left handed and can throw in the mid 90's you will get signed in the majors no matter what, and for left handed batters, a right handers ball will tail towards him rather than away from him, hence the lefty-lefty matchup where managers will bring in a left handed pitcher against a left handed batter, so they play the percentage of lefty batters not seeing lefty pitchers much, and the ball will tail away from him rather than towards him. unless you are facing him. Switch Pitcher
I'm right handed, but left eye dominant, so I usually shoot left-handed and it's gotten to the point where a rifle feels more comfortable in my left than right hand. It was akward as hell starting out, combat shooting and tactical reloads especially were giant pains in the ass the first couple times around. Some people tell me you can train your right eye to be more dominant, but then again I hear it isn't worth the effort. Arabic is written from right to left, and several of my friends in Arabic class, love being lefties because of it.
I'm sort of fucked up. I shoot, fish, and drive with my left hand. I draw, write, paint, and cut with my right hand. Mixed use you could say, but not completely ambi.
I'm left handed but I have some right handed tendencies: I bat righty I kick righty I fence (epee) lefty I golf righty I throw leftie I use right handed scissors I play guitar right handed (it seemed natural to use my stronger hand to fret) The biggest issue I have is where to sit while eating (fork goes in my left hand). If I don't pick a seat near the end of the table I'll end up fighting with people's elbows.