Are You Left Handed Or Right handed

I'm very much right handed, have tried writing with my left and it's a dreadful scrawl.

My younger brother is left handed and at school they tried to get him to use his right hand so he developed a stutter like your Dad BBbevan - he's largely grown out of that now. His wife is also LH and they are both very musical.

Our music teacher at school was comfortable with either hand so his writing on the blackboard was perfectly legible.

At primary school in the 50’s most writing was done with a pencil. But when learning to write with pens-which were dipped into inkwells on the desks!- left handers were always given broad-tipped nibs to practise, whereas right-handers were given pointed nibs.
The use of Biro pens for school work was frowned upon...even into the 60s...

Mrswoo, I write with my hand below the pen, not curled over the top of it like a lot of lefties do. I suppose strictly speaking I neither push or pull the pen as the pen and my thumb are in line

trisher I'm sure you're right about sinister and dexter.

I started school in the late 40s when people were more trusting in their approach to religious matters.

About 20 years later I remember reading about the, "Lasting psychological damage", that could be caused by forcing children to change which hand they wrote with. This might explain many of my problems.

SueH49 no, I'm definitely a pusher! I'm trying to work out how you manage to pull the pen across the page. Mind you these days I do very little actual writing but I once worked in civil registration and had to use a fountain pen and ink. It wasn't always easy not to smudge the Register entries .

Talking of catholic schools, mine were of that persuasion. I can believe they'd come out with rubbish like that boat, although I don't actually remember left handers being discriminated against during my school days, I think they'd moved on a bit by then, at least from the concept of left handers having a deviant streak. I do however remember falling out of a tree and breaking my arm when I was at juniors. As luck would have it, or not, it was my right arm in plaster, so I was forced to write with my left hand, and then got told that my handwriting was a disgrace Understanding people not!

I’m left handed, I can write backwards in (mirror writing) writing right to left . They say left handlers are more artistic it might be true my mother (left handed) can draw and I did A level art.

Left handed. Makes battling with most things designed for right handlers all part of life’s rich challenge.

My OH, his brother and sister are all left handed. However his youngest sister is right handed. Him and his brother and sister have curly hair but his youngest sister has straight hair. She really is the odd one out.

My ex was (is) a leftie but played golf with right-handed clubs. One of his playing partners was right-handed and played with left-handed clubs!

I thought more men than women were left handed but the above suggests otherwise. It's supposed to be the more artistic side.

I’m right handed, but after having surgery on my right hand in January, and then a cast on it for six weeks, I’m learning to use it again, and so I’ve developed the use of my left hand over the last couple of months. I can now do much more with my left hand than I could previously. I’m gradually doing more with the right hand, along with doing physiotherapy every day. I’m just starting to be able to manage a spoon in my right hand, but using a splade in the left hand to eat. I haven’t yet got sufficient strength in the right hand to use a knife.

Interesting about the catholic school boatI wonder if it is because of the Latin names. Left- sinister Right -Dexter.
Although there are differences between left and rght handed people the main problems arise when someone is cross lateral-dominant eye and hand do not match. Read about it here www.allaboutvision.com/resources/dominant-eye-test.htm

Have you noticed how many actors are left handed? I don’t know what proportion of the population is left handed (15%?) but I notice that a far higher proportion of actors (40%?) use their left hand, especially when signing something. Am I imagining this? And if I am right, what does it say about the traits needed for acting?

Another leftie here. Mrswoo, I pull the pen across the page not push it like you say lefties do. I have one son that is RH and one that is LH.

The only time my father went to see one of my teachers was when the teacher was trying to stop me writing with my left hand. He told them in no uncertain terms that they were to stop that rubbish. That was in the mid 1950's.

I am left handed literally do everything with my left hand like writing,putting make up on, doing my hair, ironing, cooking, eating, brushing my teeth. I find it really difficult to do anything much right handed. However have not found being a leftie has caused me any great difficulties in life.

I have identical twin boys, one is right handed the other is left handed. I am right handed but when I play golf or cricket I play left handed

Left. Never used left handed scissors. I don’t think they were around when I was at school. Use knife and fork in correct hands, Fork in left. Ambidextrous when playing tennis and hopeless at things like archery where you have to close one eye. Also left footed
My Dad was left handed. He had a dreadful stutter when he was at school. Product of being made to write with his right hand .

I'm left handed but do quite a few things (scissors, knife and fork etc ) the right handed way.
I'm in my late 60's and only recently realized that when writing, lefties push the pen along the page whereas right-handed people pull which is a lot easier!

I started off left handed but it was firmly discouraged at my (catholic) primary school.

Apparently an evil angel sat on our left shoulder and a good one on our right so stopping left handedness was the obvious thing to do.

I am still more accurate at throwing balls with my left hand.

I am right handed but for the life of me can only iron with my left hand for some reason. Don’t know where that’s come from.

I'm right handed, but lots of left handed people in the family, including one of our sons. It was interesting to see Barak Obama, sign papers, he was often filmed doing that, it was quite apparent he was left handed, my son has exactly the same mode of writing, as I imagine many do of the left handed persuasion, it looks so difficult it didn't hold my son back in anything where dexterity is required, handwriting, art and plays the guitar well. I believe many musicians and artists such as Leonard de Vinci are and were left handed.

I'm left handed and no-one at school tried to change that and I'm 71!!

I do lots of things right handed as the world is mostly right handed.

PS I had a first cousin who was LH, as was her husband. they had 5 children, every last one was RH!!!

Right handed.

When DS2 han't chosen his handedness by the age of about 5, I encouraged him to be right-handed. DD gave me a right telling off [she was only 7!], I replied that life was hard enough without being left-handed. He also turned out to be very dyslexic, so in a sense I was right!