On being left handed

My dad also had his left hand tied behind his back at school and so became ambidextrous. As you say was so cruel.

My oldest is a leftie. I am happy to report that, at least in the US, no one cares about handedness now. My mom was a leftie too and she would talk about the stigma she faced as a child.

Are you a bit ambidextrous? It has been my experience that most lefties become so out of survival in a right handed world.

I'm left handed as is DD2 and her eldest daughter. It felt much more of a problem when I was younger than now.

My son is left handed, my sister in law, my step daughter, my husband's eldest gd. Horrifying to read about how left handers were once treated as deviants Particularly as some of the most talented in history, artists and musicians were amongst their number. From a right handed perspective, writing looks so hard, my son writes in Barack Obama mode, such an effort to my eyes!

My wife is left-handed and has occasionally found things slightly more difficult to use, like can openers for example (we have an electric one now, so easier).

These days there are shops/websites selling items specifically for left-handed people, making things (hopefully) a bit easier.

Oddly, my younger brother is right-handed but from a very early age has used a knife and fork like a left-handed person. Our mother spotted it when he was first given them, swapped them round and watched as he immediately switched back to left hand mode. She accepted that's his way and left it at that.

Lefthanders are very bright and special people. Not bragging ….my Dad (High Court Judge), one of my sons (Neurosurgeon), and my little 10 year old grandson (rather bright) are all left handed.

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Lefthanders are very bright and special people. Not bragging ….my Dad (High Court Judge), one of my sons (Neurosurgeon), and my little 10 year old grandson (rather bright) are all left handed.

Sounds great, and just proves that being left-handed isn't a barrier to getting on in life.

I’m left handed. Find it character building more than anything else. Everything is designed for the majority, we just have to find a work-around. Even my hand-held GTech vacuum is now handist. The lights showing how much battery charge is remaining is on the wrong side and cannot be seen when vacuuming. Trying to get a wet-wipe out of the packet is another trial. Recently tried putting spacers on a new hover mower. No way could I get the blade screw untightened with my left hand. Easy with my right and yet that hand is the weaker one. I know that left handlers are supposed to be exceptionally bright, sadly that bit passed me by.

I'm not myself nor my parents but 2 of my DC and 2 of my sister's so we suspect, as it's genetic, if our DGPs who we never met as they were all born in the 19th century, were lefties but forced to change.

One DS has always coped brilliantly and is very creative. His brother is bright but found all practical things from writing to tying shoelaces very hard. The advent of the computer was a Godsend for him.

I can only vaguely remember attempts to correct it when I was a small child. I eventually grew up to write with my right hand but do everything else left handed. For example I use my left hand to use a carving knife or a screw driver and wouldn’t have a hope of doing it right handed. I even kick a ball with my left foot.

My nephew is left handed and when he was at school they tried to force him to use his right hand. He’s only 50 now so not that long ago.

My GD is too but it doesn’t bother her (apart from trying to learn the guitar!)

I too was treated as a deviant at primary school. When learning to write I would pick up the pencil in either hand and start to form letters. If I chose the right hand it was fine. If I chose the left hand I was rapped over the knuckles with a ruler. I recall sitting in fear, wondering which hand was the one that got me in trouble and pain, and was often unable to chose. They were bad days, back then.

I now write right-handed but swing any two-handed object e.g. cricket bat, golf club left handed. I usually drink left-handed too. When I learned to play tennis I discovered that I could use either hand for the raquet.

I have two children, one is left-handed, one right-handed. And I have a PhD.

I left handed but my father said the world is made for right handed people so I learned to write with my right hand and my writing is considered better with that hand than my left although I used to find mirror writing easy. I crochet with my right hand but embroider with my right. I’m probably very muddled. One daughter and her two children are left handed .the other daughter and two children are right handed .

DH and their DHs are all right handed

Embroider with my left .

Cuddy wifter ...my sister is left handed,my grandson too

Both my daughters are ‘lefties’. My older son used both hands for drawing and writing when small but eventually favoured his right hand. Second son does terrible handwriting with his R-hand and plays sport such as cricket with his L-hand.

One dd is very left handed, she uses it for everything and mirror-writes and all the rest. Second dd can do more things with her right hand than dd1 but writes with her left hand and as a medic conducts procedures such as taking blood, doing stitches with her left hand, as well.

Dd1’s family are 75% left-handed as both her children are lefties. Their dad is bemused at having to live in a left-handed world! 😂😂

I was mostly left alone in school to get on with it with the exception of the vicar’s wife who came in to teach us basic embroidery stitches. She didn’t like that I was doing it backwards as she saw it and tried to make me do the same way as everyone else. I still used my left hand and it was so awkward that I never got further than the first row. No sampler to take home for me. My Mum and Gran tried to teach me to knit, but I didn’t learn until my husband figured out how to knit backwards and showed me.

I am left handed.
Scissors have always been difficult, as there was no such thing as left - handed scissors when I was a child. Therefore I continue to use normal scissors which hurt my thumb.
Shoe laces I tie differently, magazines I read from the back forward, and I always turn things the wrong way to open.
I always start upstairs with my left foot, so have to think on escalators etc. I was always seated at the end of a row of desks
so that my elbow didn’t knock my neighbour when writing.
I could go on lots of disadvantages, but I rather like being left- handed.

I was left handed but when I went to Primary school in very early’60’s it wasn’t appreciated.

My mum had taught me to write my name by myself but the teacher said I was a Widdershin (sp ?) child and tied my left arm to the back of the chair. I remember that word so clearly.

I was forced to write with my right hand and I became extremely clumsy.
Barbaric!

I am left-handed but thankfully never subject to torture over it.
Both my children are left handed too- I never made a thing of it and neither have they.

My grandchildren are right handed, I think. I don't even know!

I am slightly ambidextrous as well and can force myself to write with my right hand if I have to. Never had any gadgets or aids to help me with fiddly things, although I am very unco-ordinated and sometimes still get right and left mixed up. I was a nightmare for my driving instructer!!

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There were ten of us in my class of 30 who were left handed. The sewing teacher put us all on one table as she was right handed and had to adjust her brain to left handed sewing. Also, I have difficulty using a can opener.

Both DDs are dyslexic. One’s left handed, one right, although the left hander uses her knife in her non dominant hand. They can both mirror write and memorize long passages from films.

I well remember left-handers in my primary school class being made to use their right hand. this was in the 1960s. If they didn't comply they got a ruler over their knuckles.

My GD is left-handed. No problems really apart from when she decided to use a fountain pen for some obscure reason. Her school work was a horrible smudgy mess DH and I are right-handed, as are our two daughters. GD has recently taken up badminton and is very popular with her coaches as apparently opponents are often confused by left-handers and find them more difficult to play against! Don't know if that's true...