Lefty here for writing and driving, but I was taught a lot of sports righty. This means that with throwing I'm better trained right handed, but more naturally talented lefty, and thus am often confused which side to throw with. In basketball, for example, I dribble and shoot righty, but I take my hooks with left hand. I kind of like that being lefty means that I got good with either hand, although scissors used to be a huge bitch.
Left-handed, predominantly. Really, there are handicaps everywhere, but being versatile people, we conform to them. Pretty much everything in the world is made for right-handedness (but you can get the left-handed version if you wish), but it's not that big of a deal once you consider that you can learn right-handedness on most things just as easily. The pen smudging thing, and the hand cramping (due to the fact that most lefties have never really been taught to properly write - why do you think we hold the pen like that) are both a huge pain in the ass, though. Funny-ish story, though. When I was in kindergarten, I would watch my teacher write in cursive on the board. Then, in wanting to impress the teacher, I copied her movements and wrote my own name in cursive. Went up to show the teacher, and she got a suddenly sympathetic look on her face as she explained, 'you did a good job, but you wrote it backwards.'
I'm left handed, mostly. I eat, write, and drive lefty but do almost everything else with my right. The only issue i ever really had was the ink smudging and those right-handed desks with the arm rests, those things sucked.
I just read this shit. Too fucking bad, suck it up. Everybody knows being 'left handed' is a choice. Next thing you know they'll want to get married, then the slippery slope of the 'left agenda' begins.
Seriously? The most shit on group currently in the world?. I will only accept that statement if you are a) ginger. b)jewish and c) black. I'm very left handed, my right hand may as well belong to a kid with downs who just had a stroke. Does it actually impact me in anyway? Does it fuck. I play guitar right handed and I'm probably a lot better because of it. my handwriting is legible enough, rarely smeared and I don't get frustrated with ring bound notebooks Can openers are very hit and miss with me though. If anything I would say being left handed can be advantageous as it causes you to develop fine motor skills in both hands so unless you have a retard of a right hand, really what is the problem?
... and my feet are small. I am a cesspool of recessive genes. Why my little rryy genotype wasn't dashed against the rocks in a traditional manner, I'll never know.
Not sure if you intended the pun there. "Sinister: 5. Heraldry. noting the side of an escutcheon or achievement of arms that is to the left of the bearer (opposed to dexter)" And now I'm just kind of puzzled as to why I know jousting-related terminology.
I was born right handed, but when I was a little kid learning to play basketball, my coach of a dad would tie my right hand behind my back and make me use my left for everything: eating, brushing my teeth, dribbling a basketball, writing, tying my shoes, etc. I became fairly ambidextrous because of this, and am now one of those weird people that do certain things left handed. I shoot pool, putt a golf ball, and for the most part text/use the phone/whatever with my left hand, but do everything else right handed.
Anyone who thought I was serious...really? Left-handers, we are actually pretty lucky. I wish I would have been pushed into baseball a lot more because look how many shitty southpaws are in baseball because they throw left handed. Fuck, most of the left handed pitchers in baseball are total shit.
We're left handed, not fucking illiterate. Seriously, when did it become okay to explain double-entendres? Is that the level of discourse this place wants to be known for? What do humorless know-it-alls contribute to this new forum?
Yes, that bugs the hell out of me. Looking over my notes after work is always interesting for people that are not me, and therefore cannot read my already atrocious handwriting. Golf also sucks as a lefty. Learning to play, I had no left-handed friends to borrow clubs from, so I had to buy mine right off the bat. My local course is also not friendly to a left-handed slice. There is water to the left, on I believe 16 of the 18 holes. The other two have a sound barrier abutting a highway. Once, on a particularly bad shot, I heard tires screeching after my ball disappeared over the wall. However, the knuckle-shuffle is much better. I can use the mouse with my right hand.
My son is left-handed and I had zero success teaching him to tie his shoes until he was in kindergarten. Finally, my nephew, who is also left-handed, took pity on us and schooled him. I actually think he got this tendency, genetically, from me, but my parents refused to allow me to be a lefty and forced me to use my right hand. My mom even made me go around the house with my left hand tied to my belt for a couple of months. I think this explains to a large degree why I'm so clumsy.
Really the shittiest thing about being a lefty is trying to learn new shit. Every time anyone has ever tried teaching me something, I have to reverse it all so its not fucked up right handed. Another thing that always pissed me off was when it was my dad especially trying to teach me something. And then I would obviously fuck it up and then he would get pissed. He would always follow with, "You and your brothers and that fucked up lefty shit..." as if its my God damn fault I do all this shit left handed.
I'm right handed. I can write (very badly) with my left - my right hand is far superior, but still complete dogshit. I have truly terrible handwriting. I got fail grades on numerous essays in high school - we weren't allowed to type them out. I can, however, use a mouse pretty well with either hand, provided I remember to switch the buttons. (left click for index finger, etc.). I also eat left-handed, except for spoons, most of the time. In soccer during P.E., I used to kick with my left foot (more power) and pass with my right(more accuracy). Weird. I'm equally comfortable batting left OR right-handed with cricket - I used to mostly bat right-handed, since most of the bowlers were right-handed, but I only bowl with my right (I bowled spin). However, most things come naturally for my right hand. Except using a sander. That one always felt weird with my right hand...
As a lefty I'm daily reminded that I'm an evil disgusting outcast that places the glass on the wrong side of the plate, stick out the wrong hand to greet, jerk off while using the mouse to surf porn without a hitch, and smear every drop of ink I write down on paper. Oh, and don't forget that I also have the brakes on my bicycle the wrong way around for you regular folks, so you can smack your face on the pavement when you borrow it without permission (Yeah, that's you Martin). And whenever I move far enough away from the downtown area here and need a car I'm seriously considering changing up the gas and brake pedal while leaving the car unlocked. You know, just for fun.
I am a lefty and have been since birth. I always get asked "How do you write with your left hand?" I find it just as normal as people who write with their right hand. Although I am a lefty, for the most part it plays to my advantage as other people have stated. In hockey, I can play right wing and thus be on my forehand to score a goal. In boxing, a southpaw has the advantage over a right handed fighter. I golf right, shoot right, catch with my left, I can write with both hands. Stick shift is not a problem. I do find a problem with spiral notebooks, and some utensils. Can openers for instance, are awkward to crank with your left hand. As a kid I used to have to get other kids or my parents to use scissors, simply because they dont work in a left hand. At the end of the day, right handed people think with the left side of their brains. So really, only left handed people are in the right state of mind.
I’m a mongrel. I write with my right hand, use a cricket bat left handed, a squash racket right handed, although I will sometimes switch to my left instead of using my backhand and I use my knife and fork the “wrong way round”. I wish I could say I was ambidextrous but in reality it’s like my brain had specialised certain tasks as either left or right hand jobs. Anyone else like this?
There are actually studies out there for this, but... Someone who is forced to use their non-dominant hand over their dominant hand have a 5x greater incidence of becoming a Psychopath / Mass Murderer. I'm trying to dig up the study, but I'm currently having difficulty.