Life for the left-handed
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- Even though an estimated ten percent of the world's population is left-handed, scientists have not definitely figured out why. Southpaw correspondent Rita Braver talks with some famous lefties (including former President Bill Clinton, and World Series winning pitcher Sean Doolittle) about functioning in a world dominated by the right-handed; and with researchers who think differences in brain structure between those who are left-handed and right-handed may have implications in the treatment of disease. (This story was originally broadcast February 6, 2022.)
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I remember in first grade my teacher would smack my left hand hard with a ruler for writing left handed. When my grandparents saw me coming home with welts on my hand. They had a sit down conference with the teacher & gave him heck. He eventually eased up on punishing me with the ruler & learned to accept that you can't force someone to do what you want them to be. Us lefties we're just beautifully unique in our own loving Southpaw way.
Hello Carol..
That's great your grandparents stood up for you!
My grandmother's cousin was left handed. The teacher, who was only five or six years older than my GM, would hit his hand with a ruler. It infuriated my GM. Nearly 80 years later, she saw that teacher and wasted no time in bringing it up. The woman was well into her 90's and wheelchair bound, but she admitted that it was wrong.
My left handed grandmother's hand was tied behind her back in elem. school to force her to write righthanded. My leftie mom was shamed and kept in a closet in 1st grade to "Cure her of lefthandedness." She was threatened the Boogey man would get her in the closet if she kept trying to write lefty. My mom figured the boogey man might be better than her horrid teacher. That teacher also claimed my mom would return "On bended knee to thank {her} for changing her." I had one of the last battle-ax teachers in 2nd grade. She threatened to "Change" me; but sourly growled the school board wouldn't let her. She tormented me because of that and in other ways all year. My mom had marched into the principal's to complain. Our family doctor leapt from his chair when he heard from my mom that teacher was still there. Dr. Brown said the pediatric doctors in town had tried to have her fired 10 years before for tormenting and abusing children. A friend of my mom's she talked with downtown commisserated: She'd had an awful 2nd grade teacher too when she was a child. It was the same one!!
today we would fire that teacher for child abuse.
Decades ago, in high school, one of my classes, 14 of us and the teacher, went out for a year-end Iunch. We sat down at the long table set up for the occasion, seven of us on one side, seven on the other-and then realized that the seven of us on one side were all left-handed and the other seven on the other were all right-handed. If not coincidence, it was completely unconscious-we didn’t know quite what to make of it. The teacher, at the head of the table, who happened to be left-handed, seemed quite amused by the whole thing.
It is subconscious. There have been experiments where lefties sat on the left side of the bus and chose the left queue (when given two options). If you're interested to learn more, I highly recommend the book "Right Hand, Left Hand" by Chris McManus.
@@georgem3270 I suspected that. I’d surmise that each of the left-handers was aware of at least one other person he or she knew it was “safe” to sit next to. (I know I was.) It was interesting to see it in action, unconsciously at that. I’ll check out that book.
As a lefty I try to pick the left side isle of the planes window seats as there is more room to work with for the left arm.
Love being a lefty but trying to adjust to a right-handed world is a real challenge.
We right-handers are overwhelming, just admit defeat :0
@@lewstone5430 I don't give up that easy.
Charlene - I believe you can train your right hand to do other tasks as I did when I was in middle school and didn't want to keep changing my books which I held on my left side to be held by my right hand. So this way I taught my opening my locker and combination locker with my right hand. Once I did it I felt comfortable and couldn't go back. So I believe you can teach yourself to do thing with your right hand too. I feel I am ambidextrous which is great. I even learned to crochet with my right hand which I said to my friend to teach me "right handed" and I crochet right handed too.
@@angelacarleton9575 At 64, I pretty much have for the majority of my life. I use right handed scissors, I use both hands to knit and to do needlepoint although I am dominate left. It has it's challenges but I've overcome of lot of it on my own.
Tried to DRIVE once, after a broken wrist.
Guess where the ignition and shifter are...?
Lol
I am a left handed software developers and I have always been amazed by how many of my peers are also left handed. I’ve actually been to events where left handed were the majority. It felt good for a change 😀
Wow I am left handed and I want to be a software developer too!
Same with electrician school
@@ronperson5137 I was in a class getting trained as an interpreter (English and Spanish) we were 8 left-handed people out of 20 which was very high as normally there were only 1-2 south-paws(including me) in a class of 30 people in high school with me.
There is a good reason for this. The one thing this video totally whiffed on is that left handers tend to be ADD/ADHD. These patients frequently have a proclivity for boredom ( it's a lack of dopamine issue) and as a result come up w "new ideas" ( like technology) to stay focused. Your technology peers are all left handers bc they are all ADD/ADHD.
@@Ali-yh9qi Truly absurd on so many levels, Ali.
Being left handed benefits me greatly...when I had a massive stroke it affected my right side, therfore I didn't have the struggles of having to relearn writing or the loss of major skills because I kept my dominant hand.
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awww! I HOPE that you are feeling better...consider going plant-strong! HUGS!
You clearly try to make the best of a hard situation.
I remember when I told one of my college friends that I love left-handed people like him and think they’re cool (I’m right-handed unfortunately). He said, “God made a few perfect people - the rest of them are right-handed!” 😂🤣😂
Luv his sense of humor. Being a lefty too, i searched for this in the Bible, truelly, lefties were used by God too.😇
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My oldest child is 32 and she is left handed. My mother in law tried to convince me to force her to write with her right hand. I told her I would not do that and I didn't.
Glad you’re a good parent those people trying to force us lefties to be right handed can go to hell
This is so cool. I’m fascinated by lefties. I love to watch them write. I do agree with them about lefties thinking in a different way. Seems like a positive thing.🤓
I like being left-handed! The only drawbacks I’ve noticed is that you can’t write in a loose-leaf binder. Oh, and the ink stains. No biggie.
Yes, smearing my school work was always an issue - along with the pencil and ink stains on my pinky finger.
Back when I was in school, we used fountain pens, up to about 4th or 5th grade. What a Mess! When Bic produced their cheap ball points, it was like a gift from above.
They now have them for Left Handers.
I learnt writing when there were still dip pens, and no smudges! Why? Because I didn't adopt the round the corner writing style, just pushed my book away from me so that my hand ran under the line. It's still a mystery to me why so many adopted that awkward style.
@@tonybennett4159 - we “adopted” that style because our teachers didn’t try Yo adapt the writing lessons fir us lefties.
I think lefty awareness is much better than when I was young (I am 60), but I have always been happy to be a lefty.
It can be a bit of a challenge if you think about how much of the world is built on right handed assumptions. I think it definitely makes me more adaptable to changing circumstances.
I learned most sports right handed, as the people who taught me were right handed. For instance, I learned to golf right handed with my father's clubs. When I bought my own set of clubs I bought a left handed set and just switched over. I can still bowl with either hand.
One oddity I observed (no idea how universal this is), but it seems most lefties are better at mirroring right handers than the reverse. My wife was getting her first education degree and one of the assignments was to have someone else teach her something. I decided to take her to the driving range. I finally had to give up and show her by golfing right handed. She said everything I did looked backwards to her. To my mind I immediately reverse what I am looking at without thinking about it. Odd.
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Yes I have often experienced that with two of my kids Then myself and two daughters are left handed.
I am 62, and now I use both hands easily. I don't even notice, but others noticed.
I remember in grade school I could not use right-handed scissors and the Teacher went to the back of the room in a storage room and brought back a pair of scissors that had green handles on them everybody in the class was looking at me I was the only left-handed person in the class I felt like a King.
I never even noticed, but looking back, you’re absolutely right. Lefties are definitely more adaptable and can mirror righty actions, but the opposite is not true.
I recently took up woodcarving as a hobby and learned by watching RUclips videos. Of course they are all righties, so nothing to do but go righty too.
I once asked the instructor if switching the knife to the left hand for certain cuts would be easier than turning the piece upside down, or cutting towards yourself (a big no no with sharp knives!😜) and would it get the same effect.
He said “I’m not sure what you’re trying to say here” as if I were suggesting carving by osmosis or something.🤷🏼♀️
I agree fully being left handed has helped me become almost fully ambidextrous also I’m right eye and dominant.
Electronics are made for right handers it is a pain in the arse
Hello Jeanette..
I’m a proud lefty 🎉 (who’s pretty good at being ambidextrous, too)
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I'm one of them
me too
Both me and my husband had to relearn how to write in elementary school st grade because we were left handed. We both got held back in the 4th grade and I’ve always believed it was because we were set to back to zero because some ignorant educators thought being left handed was wrong. We both overcame everything and have higher educations. We are also entertainers and have noticed that most of our friends in the arts are left handed. Also, most of the gay people I know are left handed. Just my experiences.
Do you know the funny history of forcing people in school to write "right handed"/palmer method? It was because of ink wells. Lefties would drag their hand through the still wet ink. Some older lefties like my Grandmother (long passed) used to write with the left handed "Hook" there the hand was above the written line. Once ball point pens and quicker drying ink came on board it became less of a thing.. Although I've had ink on my left hand many times even from ball point pens.
@@seeburgm100a I haven't heard anyone who knows what the palmer method of writing is for a LONG TIME! My dad taught us kids to write that way, I'm 70. I get compliments on my handwriting, LOL.
@@Susweca5569 you take your life way too seriously to the point where you now have to engage with people like me. That’s not a good thing boo boo! I’m left handed too you need to learn to let go
@@seeburgm100a I hook write as well and came along well after inkwells (born 1968). I’ve seen in handwriting forum on Reddit that we lefties have 3 main styles of writing (over,side, and under writing)
today such ignorant educators would live in prison for that mistake.
I was married 30 years to a left handed long haul trucker. He graduated #1 at an intensive truck driving school. He said backing up, turning twisting the truck trailer in and out of impossible sometimes risky spots was easy for him. After he died at 68, COPD and Diabetes complications, it finally occurred to me, he had spent 35 years shifting 18 gears with his right hand for millions of miles!! I was always very impressed with his driving skills and now, just wow!
Very sweet, thanks for sharing.
I drove stick shifts for 20 years and it never crossed my mind I was shifting with the wrong hand. 😂
@@trixie898989 The dominant hand should be on the wheel, not the shifter- correct?
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Thank god they're pretty much all automatic now...
When my mother, who was born in 1920, went to a Catholic boarding school, the nuns tied her left hand behind her back to force her to use her right hand since she had shown proclivities toward being left-handed. But she fooled them and continued to write with her left hand when not at school and ended up being ambidextrous. I don't recall her mentioning any other kind of punishment, but I'm sure there might have been.
My grandmother born in 1913 was forced to write with her right hand, she even did other tasks with her right hand. I never knew she was born left handed until she told me. Amazingly she had beautiful handwriting.
Sorry to say but Catholic nuns were & maybe still are cruel. Sorry to hear your mother was treated like that. I can recommend a true story "Philomena" that just shows the depths & depravity of Irish nuns in former times.
Nuns are well known to be psychopaths, closeted lesbotrons, and prone to violence.
@@maudeboggins9834 Nunns being cruel is just scratching the surface of the depravity by this institution upon children in the catholic church. The depth of cruelty is heartbreaking, to put it mildly. --A victim's widow.
I remember stories from my mom and other relatives that back then if you are left-handed teachers would transfer the pencil to your right hand and smack the left hand... and this is in a public school. So it didn't even matter what school to went to... people think being left handed is bad.
I'm an artist and I'm left-handed, and through the years have known many artists that were also left-handed. So, I have always believed there is something connected to creativity and being left-handed. Has it posed a problem?... I did learn early on as a child to use right-handed scissors, and of course those ridiculous right-handed desks in high school!
Those desks!!! The worst. In college I knew where the one or two lefty desks were in my classes within a week or two and always tried to arrive early enough to snag one.
I always felt my left handed as being creative and found myself stunted by what I can get on canvas with my left. So clear as if the image is exactly like the person but the light outside my be very exact to get the image just so. It is eerily to me. but I have gotten creative pictures of people and a child due to the exact light. Also when sketching I could not use gloves to cover my hand as if it would be impossible to create at all? Once my gloves were removed I was free to move my hand to get the right texture of the subject matter that worked.
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Im an artist too! Leonardo da vinci was also believed to be lefty
When I was in 3rd grade, they were trying to get me to write right handed, I told my Mom about it and it suddenly stopped the next day.
I had the same experience. I attended a Catholic school where the 3rd grade nun wanted me to write in cursive with my right hand. I told my mom about the frustration in doing so and she followed the nun back to the convent the next day after school. The nun never mentioned my left handedness ever again! (I never did find out what my mom said to the nun, but my mom was a very staunch woman!)
Same here. My first grade teacher was from the “ right handed only” old school way of thinking. One night my dad, who is also a lefty, saw me attempting to write with right hand and asked what was up. Told him what the teacher said. Next day, he took me to school and had a rather salty conversation with her and told her if he saw me trying to write with my right hand again, he’d be back and wouldn’t be nearly as polite. She never bothered me about it again. So glad my lefty oldest son never had to go through this.
My son is the only left-handed in the family. It always made me mad when at first grade, the teacher wrote a word on the left side of the notebook for him to copy as homework. To write it, he had to put his left hand on the word, so he couldn't see it, while all his classmates did. I would erase it and write it on the right side. Also got the: "issues with fine motor skills" for not being able to cut properly. Discovering scissors for lefties was amazing... He did learn to do lots of things with his right hand, like using can-openers. He is an adult now and adapted pretty well.
Yep, that scissors thing ain't the left hand motor skills, it is the engineering and design of the scissor blades.
I'm a lefty and proud of it!🤩
Left handed people are in their “right” mind. As a baby in the 50’s, being left handed was not accepted very well. When my mother saw I was picking things up with my left hand, she would take the item and put it in my right hand. I ended up being right handed. But when it comes to shooting a gun or archery, I am left handed. So not all has gone away. And I can see what has to be done for me to fire a weapon in the military. The weapons like the M-16, eject the shells to the left so they had to add a piece to reflect the cartridge to the right. My younger brothers are lefties and my first wife was too. So in restaurants, you had to watch where you sit or you’re knocking elbows!!!!!
My husband (passed) was left handed, me- right handed. We learned early on how to sit in a booth together when eating out. I always sat on his right side. He was extremely smart, not from schooling but intuitively. My grandson is the same way. We right-handed people seem to be lacking something SPECIAL to Lefties...being able to use both sides of the brain. 🧠👍🏼
I'm the only leftie in my family and among most of my friends.. no one but a lefty understands how important the restaurant seating arrangement is! haha.. always on the left corner of the booth or table, never in the middle.
Being 100% left handed. What a life. I would never want to be right handed. Sometimes you need a lefty to help a righty. Working with labor related issues.
Love lefty's
Amen to that!
Doesn't driving make you crazy? That was on an automatic. I can't imagine a stick.
@@windsofmarchjourneyperrytr2823 in left side driving countries like UK and India you sit on the right and shift with your left hand. Billions of people do it, it's not a big deal
I am left-handed and rarely give it a thought. It's right-handed people who go on about it.
As I'm sure all the lefties here know, there are two kinds of left-handed writers: hand turners, and page turners. I turn my page, so I don't end up with inky hands. I believe hand turners (who write "upside down") are right brain dominant and page turners are left brain dominant, but don't quote me.
I turned my notebook, too, so as to write normally with my left hand. Hand turning looks downright painful.
From birth a left hander must subconsciously adapt to a right handed world. Without knowing they are doing it. This might explain greater creativity and intellect in the left handed community. But also explains the greater feeling of inadequacy and the higher rates of mental stress among left handed people. Thank you for this show which i hope every left handed child sees.
In my youth, I'm 76, us lefties we're forced to be right handed. I cannot use left handed scissors as I grew using 'right'.
In my early 30s my left hand was disconnected, hanging on by skin, from my arm @ the wrist. It was put back on in surgery. Took mos. with casts being changed in various positions to avoid fusing, if possible.
The 1st cast was from fingertips to armpits.
I started stuttering, didn't know why. Dr said it'd stop when I could use my left hand again, & it eventually did (& boy, did my brain have fun trying to figure out where my hand went while reconnecting).
Being left handed is not 'wrong'....it's just being opposite of the same thing. HUGS2U ❤
my mother was left handed back then in school they forced you to use your right hand and would smack your hand if you wrote with your left hand. They thought you were possessed by the devil as said in the segment. My grandfather put a stop to it pronto told the teacher if she hit his daughter again for being left handed she would get the same treatment on her hand. Never had a problem again.
I have pretty much the same story. The nun tried to force me to be right handed but my mother marched into the school and said “she’s left handed and she stays left handed”
@@daisysmum7336 it is crazy what people believed etc. the part about being devil possessed always got me.
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It turns out right handed people use the left side of their brain.
Now whos in their right mind.
I"m an ambidextrous lefty.. mainly write with left and eat with left, but can do most things with both (except throw, which I learned to do right handed since I broke my left arm two years in a row once in first grade and again in second grade). One odd thing I have and wonder how many other lefties can do this. I can write backwards with left hand, I can also write backwards with left and forward with right at the same time (same words).
I haven't written with my right hand but I can train my right hand to do things I do with my left such as opening a locker with my right which I trained my hand and when I learned this feature I couldn't go back to do it with my left. I thought that was strange. I even told a friend to teach me to crochet right handed and I did. So perhaps being ambidextrous works for me too.
Funny you mention the ability to write backwards with your left hand. I discovered I had a knack for writing backwards and upside down when I started teaching Preschool. It was a great help when teaching little ones to write while seated across from them at a standard kidney table.
@@jenniferr6749 I taught auto repair classes and often sat across from the students. I learned to print upside down too, much to the amazement of some students. I only had trouble with "6" and "N". The 6 looked like a 9 and the N would look like a Russian backwards "N".
I prefer the term ambisinistrous. Sinister left, dexter right.
No matter how hard life's become, I'll always be proud to be a Lefty 😍
Lefties learn to be ambidextrous pretty early. I can bowl with either hand, I play racquet sports with my left. I throw with my right. I bat with either hand. I can write with my right hand if I have to. I like lefty spiral notebooks and pens that don't smear. Had a hard time when I taught with a whiteboard and markers. Right-handed desks in school were a challenge. Thank goodness I learned how to write without having to contort myself. I just move the paper instead. I use my mouse right-handed and write with my left all at the same time. Very convenient.
Yes, I am the same.
I am more ambidextrous now in old age than when I was younger.
I like being "right brained".
Lol this story made me so happy. Bring left handed only clarifies I’m special (as we all are)
On Saturday I received my very first pair of left handed scissors that actually cut!!!! Look out world my crafts will finally be cut the correct way!!!
You left out a major discriminatory component against left handed people in higher education: desks in classrooms. You know, those ones that have the elbow rest for the right arm; if your lucky (maybe) one seat at the end of a row will have a left elbow rest. And chances are a right-handed person will take it anyway.
Agreed about the school desks. Desks for righties actually seems easier for me as a lefty. Finding the rare lefty desk and sitting there was a weird and unusual adjustment for me.
I am left-handed (born in 1946) and have enjoyed a very rewarding career as an illustrator and corporate writer. Fortunately, teachers never tried to get me to change (which would have been damaging and actually cruel to any child.) It is neurologically proven that many leftys have superior spatial ability -- and besides, as we have had to be creative to succeed in most motor skills in a right-handed world, we are often inventive and have deep visual concept formation and imagination.
My mother was originally left-handed. However, the Franciscan nuns forced her to become right-handed, as they said that left-handers were supposed to be of the devil.
Here, here!
I am a lefty but I believe I started out as a right handed but switch in 2nd grade because I felt better plus what is strange is my speech which I had an impediment went away as soon as I started to write left handed. I did go to a parochial school but they never pushed us to switch hands. I just felt comfortable being a lefty and I am totally creative and have done landscapes and also portraits but with the natural light of nature -to get the right personality of that individual which happens very few times. As if I captured their souls. It also strange I can teach my right hand to learn what I know left handed. The one thing I would like to teach myself is write right handed and maybe it would be interesting if I can. I still love being a lefty and enjoy my freedom this way.
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Left-handed Relief pitchers live forever!
Long live Lefties! I do remember having some difficulties in school as a young child because I was left handed - especially with printing and handwriting. In 2nd grade, my teacher held up my paper and the paper of a girl who had perfect penmanship and said “Now class, which one is better?” She made no attempt to help me write better. None of my elementary school teachers did. The hardest thing through life was scissors. I have an indentation under my left thumb from having to use metal right handed scissors. I love to sew and have been doing so since I was about 11. Until about 20 or so years ago, it was difficult to find left handed scissors.
I remember penmanship in grade school, and my teacher would always tell me, "Work on slanting you cursive writing to the right". Your teacher needed a slap on the hand for embarrassing you in front of the class! As a child I learned how to use right-handed scissors. I gave up softball as a kid partly because I didn't have a fielders Mit for my right hand and couldn't find one at the sporting goods store, and partly because I was just a mediocre hitter.
@@deb5710 - Yes. It’s amazing how that incident stayed with me. It happened about 60 years ago. I was never any good at softball either. The whole concept of “keep your eye on the ball” just didn’t make sense to me when it’s flying at 50-60 mph.
I remember there being a whole bunch of right handed, plastic handled scissors for the other kids at the "left handed" scissors were just the ones with two equally tiny metal holes that were physically painful to use.
It was less painful to just use the righty scissors facing the wrong way.
@@deb5710 I can never understand why so many of my fellow lefties write with that exaggerated curve in their hand. If you push the book away from you, it's perfectly easy to run the hand below the line, and I'm sure it's not a problem for the majority of writers of Arabic who are right handed.
As a (now retired) primary teacher, I always made sure that when there were double desks, the lefty was seated in the left section, giving them plenty of arm space.
As a lefty and former clothing sewer who now quilts, I find it interesting that I can use a rotary cutter comfortably with either hand but most quilters can only cut with their dominant hand!
I would assume that since most things are designed for righties, lefties get a bit better at using our right hands for various things, but not enough to make us ambidextrous.
My Grandma wasn't allowed to use her left hand (she was definitely left handed) and forced to learn to write with her right hand. Her handwriting was always almost unreadable as a result.
Honestly, I cannot do a thing with my right hand, except I batted right in baseball because that's how I was taught and for some reason I can carry a suitcase longer using my right arm. Whenever I hear someone claim they are lefties but then identify multiple tasks that they do with their right -- like eat or brush their teeth -- my only response is, then you're not left handed.
Hello Claire..
My grandma and I are lefties. She has beautiful writing and had to teach me because there was no one else to do it. My handwriting is a far cry from hers though.
I do everything left handed and left sided except using scissors. We had ‘lefty’ scissors in first grade when I was learning to use them but they didn’t cut, they just bent the paper so I was forced to learn how to use right handed scissors. I was a science teacher for years and noticed that I preferred standing on the left side of the room and had to pay attention to make sure I spent time on the right side as well but it never felt as natural as being on the left side. I even look through microscopes with my left eye.
Ditto with scissors. Thanks for your comment about standing on the left of the room. I will pay attention to which side I prefer to stand, and also what others prefer. You might have found a subconscious bias. Cheers.
I'm right-handed but use my left eye for looking through telescopes, my door's peephole and sights. I can kick a soccer ball equally as well with either foot.
It's more comfortable to align with your human nature
Same. I can use both kinds of scissors easily, but I prefer the right-handed scissors. But I eat and write left-handed.
I was punished in elementary school in the late 70s for my left hand writing. Luckily that mindset died off along with the horrible teachers.
In art school, I had to perform freehand lettering upside down and backwards because of the wet ink 😱
I am like the baseball player, I bat, kick, & golf right.
Great insight into the biology of us lefties 🤚
In the late '70s? That's when if was finishing elementary school and not a single teacher ever even noticed that I was a lefty (so were my mom and sister). Did you grow up in a place where time stopped moving in 1955?
@@gheller2261 Some of us weren’t so privileged. This was inner city Houston schools and the old battle ax teachers who still subscribed to the backwards ideas of the 50s.
As a left handed woman, I love being unique
When I was in kindergarten, my best friend was also left-handed, and he used to always take the only pair of left-handed scissors when we would do arts and crafts. So I learned to use scissors right-handed.
@rocco z I am a lefty who alao uses right-handed scissors...not sure the origin but I cannot use left-handed scissors..thdy simply do not cut!
Lefty scissor never helped me.
Out of 19 kids only 4 siblings were left-handed. And they are all very Gifted and smart in my family. I was so envious of my siblings, being a right-hander in all.
I started my left handed writing challenge two weeks ago. I showcased my results to my friends and they think that my left handwriting looks much better than my right. I read similar experiences from people who were left handed and were forced to learn how to write with their right. Very interesting and unexpected results.
Maybe because when we write with our nondominant hand we are forced to concentrate more.
@@marylamb6063 It might strange to say this, but when I write lefty it feels like I'm drawing the letters versus writing righty which just feels a monotonous task. I believe that is why my left handwriting looks better than my right handwriting. I have now progressed to point the difference much more distinct.
When I was I catholic school the nuns especially sister Caroll would try to beat me into using my right hand. Didn't work. Proud leftie wish at least one of my sons was. Lol
would not give up being left-handed for the world
But it’s so much cooler to be right-handed!!
My sister is left handed and my mother’s aunt was left handed so we thought it was genetic. She was born in 1953 and no one ever thought she should be nor ever encouraged her to be anything other than left handed. I have ADD - Passive, also genetic, from my mother and that was far more difficult in many ways with no diagnosis for it in the 1950s.
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Why does it even matter...same difference
I'm convinced it IS genetic. My brother and I are both left-handed and my sister would have been but her teachers forced her to switch.
I am 72 and completely left handed, and fortunately for then no one ever tried to change me. My mother was a lefty who was forced to change, and so is my best friend My husband was right handed, and part of a small group of early tech entepeneurs, most of whom were/are left handed.
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I am also left hander and it is very challenging to accept right hander gadgets😭
The only thing I don't like about being left-handed is that I wish my handwriting was better - it's good but not what I'd like. Then I learned a few years ago that lefties push their pen across the paper while righties pull the pen along. That made me recall when learning to print I wrote my name backwards and still cross my Ts left to right. In fact I have no problem writing backwards, like starting a magazine from the back. But luckily, I was never predisposed to hook my hand while writing (I noticed President Obama writes that way), it looks awful, you smudge ink and you rarely have good handwriting. I'm glad to hear there are scientists studying up on handedness. I never met anyone like myself, one of three siblings and all lefties.
Probably the reason Leonardo Da Vinci did his notes left handed and backwards.. many lefties can write backwards, I can.
I'm a lefty and have always had beautiful handwriting. I even won calligraphy contests in school. My son is a righty and has horrible penmanship. It's a wonder.
Shout out to all the teachers who spent their own money for left handed scissors.
As a lefty, I can only use scissors as a rightie
@@nixl3518 I taught myself to use right handed scissors. I always say that left handed scissors were invented by right handed people because they don't work.
Ironically, though left handed, I cut a lot better with my right hand using the scissors.
@@rtrout57 Well to be honest, as left-handers, we are mostly ambidextrous!! I didn't have to teach myself to use a RH pair any more than right-handers have to learn to use one themselves. I can't cut with my left hand even if I were given a LH pair because I never had access to a pair, but if you had learned to use one when you were young, it would work just as well!! They do work; they are mirror images of he RH pair!!
I just got my first pair of left handed scissors and they cut great!! I thought I’d have a problem because I’ve had to learn to cut right handed but as soon as I got my scissors and started cutting it just felt so natural!! I do a bit of crafting and always have said if I could just cut with my left hand I’ll be all set!!
My husband is a South paw and the only lefty of his 7 siblings & family. The nuns tried to make him use his right hand to write and told them "My mom told me I'm special" and refused to write with his right hand. My best friend, her husband and their daughter are all lefties. That's weird 😕
I have always felt different. My Father, My Mother, My Son and my three best friends growing up are all lefties. I'm right handed and the majority of the people I know are left handed.
I am left handed. My husband was forced to use his right hand by nuns in elementary school. Things he taught himself to do, he does left handed. Our biological son? Very dominantly right handed.
Hello Maria..
My Dad’s left hand was tied behind his back with a rope to stop him from writing with it! I’m ambidextrous and one of my sons is left handed✋
My husband and I are both left handed, and potentially our dog (she only shakes with her left paw). On my maternal side of the family, there have been 2+ lefty's for every generation!
I’ve worked for a Volkswagen service department in the US for 18+ years, in two states and three dealerships. When VW was a niche brand and today when they make very mainstream vehicles that sell in much larger numbers, it amazes me how many left-handed clients we have. It’s mind boggling. I would, unscientifically, state that 35-40% of the VW clients that come through my service department, now and in the past, are left handed. Maybe even more. Every single day it shocks me how many people sign their repair order with their left hand. Wish I could fund a study of correlation.
I owned a 1990 Audi 100 and I'm a lefty. Seeing as Audi is part of VW brand does that count? lol.
Funny and interesting that you noticed that trait. I own an old 1997 Volkswagen Jetta and I'm left handed. It would be quite interesting to find out why so many left handed people are attracted to this particular car brand. Hmmm. 🤔
That’s really interesting. You should talk to some profs who do research in this area. Reach out.
I have a VW too and I’m lefty. 😁
I'm cross-dominant. Archery, baseball, throwing all left handed, more precise motions right handed, but I have to tilt my head so my left eye is in line.
The worst things about being left handed in a right handed world for me are 1. Getting asked "You're left handed?!?!" As if you're an alien,
2. the ink stains, and
3. shaking peoples hands and them looking at you like you're insane because you have to switch hands to accommodate their right handed slumber.
Lol that's funny cus I don't think I ever noticed if someone is left-handed or not
Depends who’s hand I’m shaking. It works to the lefties advantage if you are shaking the hand of a “hard shaker”. Put your left hand out quickly, grab theirs and squeeze. They freak out when they get a taste of their own medicine
Im left handed but have always used right hand to shake. That's standard
I am left handed.
I write lefty
Eat lefty
Throw a ball lefty
Shoot a basketball lefty
Golf righty
Bat righty
Kick righty
Serve ping pong righty
Play the rest of the point lefty
They left out Jon Stewart as a prominent lefty. I always notice when someone is writing with their left hand and I loved pointing it out at the beginning of The Daily Show, when Stewart was always seen scribbling with his left hand before opening the show.
Excellent piece of journalism right here! Fascinating!
I'am left-handed too tho......
I'm left handed. I crochet left handed. I knit right handed. Go figure.
I am a natural righty but I uses my left hand a lot.
What intrigues me with lefties, is their ability to process information. I think their cognitive skills makes them more cerebral, and they are aesthetically cooler people!
Left-handedness runs on my dad's side of the family. I'm not sure about all his siblings, but I know my dad and his sister (my aunt) were lefties, as is my brother. Some things they were able to do right-handed, but other things they taught themselves to do left-handed; e.g. my aunt crocheted and knitted as a leftie. I'm right-handed, but I shoot pool left-handed because my brother and father taught me the game and I imitated them. I didn't even know I was doing it until I played pool with my uncle and he said, "Oh, you're a southpaw."
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I am an identical twin. My brother is right handed and I am left handed. He was born right handed and was never forced to convert to right handedness as a child and I was never encouraged to change handedness. Thus the question of a genetic basis for left handedness is unlikely to be straight forward. I believe that the determinants of handedness are likely epigenetic.
So you are mirror images of each other.
@@t.h.8475 Not necessarily.
My older daughter is left handed because her dad is left handed. I never forced her to be right handed. I let it happen naturally.
Hello Karen..
I once heard that there is a correlation between left handedness and difficult births. My mother said she was in labor with me for over 24 hours and finally had to go with a cesarean procedure. But like some in this piece, I'm not exclusively left handed. I write with my left hand but play most sports with my right, with the exception of racket sports (tennis, ping pong, etc.) which I play with my left. I also discovered that I'm right eye dominant. All this means that right & left equal concepts to me. So when someone says turn left to me, I have to think about which way that is. It's not automatic for me like it is for right handers who see right & left as vastly different concepts which are easy to tell apart.
Wow that’s interesting. I’m totally left dominated. Left footed and handed. Do everything with the left and my mother often told me she had a very difficult birth with me.
I guess that's true. My mother also experience difficulties when giving birth to me and had to go a cesarean procedure as well.
WoW that's weird! I had a difficult birth with my daughter with C-section. And she's a lefty too.
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Makes the 3 of us.
My mom also had difficulties having me and had to undergo CS.
Amazing.... I do everything with my left and I am quite smart and intelligent academically. Do things in a different and more organized way😄. Also have to figure out my left turns from right too.🤣
My birth was simple, I was kid #3 and was born within 30 minutes of the time the car was parked at the hospital, so there goes that theory...
Thank You Jesus for Making me Left Handed.
I’m lefty, my brother is lefty, my aunt is lefty, my best friend is lefty. Leftys rock!
Well I don't know about any of you others but I am far superior to any right-handed person or animal for that matter and the only time that I had a problem as a child being left-handed was in the '60s and 70s they made real s***** gloves for baseball and it was almost impossible to get a set of left-handed golf clubs so I played golf right-handed and played with the right-handed mitt in baseball but I took the glove off to throw the ball and I had a pretty good system that's my story I just hope there's some literate right-handed people out there that can read it if not have your left-handed friend read it for you ciao for now LGOL
it's a lifelong Lefty it's good to know that I'm in good company
I am left handed. I also have Autism! I am different and proud of it!
It’s likely affected by how nursing mothers hold their babies and how the baby develops based on which side it’s held on most.
Hello Sandy..
I have both Parkinson’s and Schizophrenia in my older family. I am well past the age to get Schizophrenia and hopefully my leftie status will buffer me from getting Parkinson’s! These are both terrible illnesses.
I used to say to people.."hey, you're right handed" they looked at me like I was insane. When I was in 3rd grade the teacher had a pencil sharpener mounted on her desk. I went up to sharpen a pencil and when I turned the handle, it came off. I showed this to her and she literally stopped the class to berate me in front of everyone. She made me show what I had done. I demonstrated how I inserted the pencil with my left hand and turned the the handle clockwise thereby releasing the handle. She believed I did this deliberately because "only an idiot" would use the sharpener that way.
Teachers are the biggest bullies so arrogant too. Maybe they were bullied when they were at school n decided revenge to become teachers to control n to do it to other kids.
That's unfortunate! I am also a lefty, and I recall having to alternate the direction of the pencil sharpener. Sometimes, I would unintentionally remove the handle. Thankfully, I wasn't berated by my teachers.
I’m left handed and naturally creative.
I remember in 9th grade giving a presentation in some class and having to write something on the chalkboard. The teacher, for some reason, asked the entire class if they noticed anything different of my writing. Someone mentioned I was left-handed and it seemed like the teacher was amazed at it, like I was an alien or something. I still remember that reaction to this day and that was over 25 years ago. I wasn't offended or anything, I just didn't know why she had such a reaction, I thought lefties were way more common.
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Am left-handed & thanx to my Mom never felt strange or weird! Always requested my teachers to let me keep my left hand.
I am left handed and have passed it to one child out of four but also passed it to some grandchildren and great grandchildren. For years I have been the only lefty after my grandfather died. It was tough learning how to use business equipment back in the sixties and seventies but I managed. 🥰
Its not just "poorer parts of the world" that eat with the right hand and clean themselves with the right. Its an islamic thing too. I think its also a cultural thing but dont confuse using our hands to eat fingerfood with not having utensils
I'm a lefty but broke my left arm twice as a kid so I had to learn how to write with my right hand. I'm very ambidextrous and when it comes to sports, I'm actually right side dominant. My son is a lefty through and through and kicks/ throws with his left. Up until ny son was born, I was the ONLY left handed person on both sides of my family.
Im the same way. I write with my left, but kick and throw with my right.
I'm left handed and I had to learn how to do a lot of things with my right hand since I was a kid. My teacher who was Catholic started taking my pencil out of my left hand and putting it in my right hand and living with a lot of righties, it naturally went that way. As a result, my left hand is pretty inept compared to my right hand. I still do some things with my left hand like fishing but that was what was originally natural to me when I was a kid.
I was the only left handed person in my family- including grandparents, cousins, aunts & uncles- until my aunt married a lefty. I can use left handed scissors in both hands, but right handed scissors only in my right hand and only left handed garden pruners🤷🏻♀️. I’ve been a little bit proud of being different; but I do remember getting frustrated with school binders. Fortunately no one tried to change me!
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Wanda Thank you I am also the only left handed I think I am adopted .
Leftie here! I do everything left-handed, but I can write (very slowly) with my right hand. Southpaws up!!
My mother is left handed. She has is 86 and when she was a child she had been taught by a wonderful teacher how to write left handed.
I was taught and actually commanded to tilt my paper to the right, rather than to hook my hand. A teacher I had, HATED the hooked hand left hand writing effect in the early 1960s.
I am a "in the closet" lefty... When I was growing up being a "lefty" was TABOO..
So I faked it... Righty by day Lefty at dusk..( I can do things with both hands... ambidextrously..but let's not go there..My mom suspected when I was little I would eat with my left and switch back and forth with my right...eating witha knife and fork was an event.. I looked like a rock drummer.. tossing my utensils back and forth...."Don't do that when you're not at home young man!!..Thats not polite."
So that's it..( I write ..draw..use tools throw footballs...lefty style and then switch back to right just for the fun of it now...I AM FREE!!!
..I feel much beter now....
Thanks Sunday Morning 🌅...
My brother is a in the closet homosexual
My grandfather was left-handed, and when I was young, I wasn’t sure how that was able to be done by anyone, since I write with my right hand. Even so, people have different ways of how they write, eat, or throw a ball, etc. and it makes me interested in how they can do those things, while left-handed.
Well how can you do those things when right handed? It’s the same, it’s natural
@Katelyn Trammell, Chris is often befuddled by simple concepts.
Driving is the worst.
Guitar playing w right hand isn't normally fun for quite some time, either for this reason (left plays the fretboard).
Wow! You make us sound like we are super human. We are just like you, simply doing some things with out left hand. 😊
ledt handers always and almost throw all others ideas out of the window and do it its way which is more correct
Both of my sons are lefties and I wouldn’t have it any other way! My mom and dad had 5 kids-all righties and each sibling has at least one left handed children.
Hmm your parents are left handed or any grandparents or aunts uncles lefties?
@@frankuduma5264 both parents and both sets of grandparents were all right handed
@@clairelynch4171 Hmm maybe there had to be someone there who was left handed? Maybe at least one of your parents siblings or grandparents siblings were left handed? Must be somewhere your sons got their left handedness? 🤔 Just wondering.
I'm also left handed and so my sister is
Both my parents attended catholic school their whole lives. Even college. My mother even at 82, has beautiful handwriting. She’s a righty. My father on the other hand, no pun intended, was one of those poor unfortunates that the nuns got ahold of & beat the lefty out of him. Great athlete though. Could shoot & dribble with both hands. His hand writing was like chicken scratch. Along comes my brother & as so as he picked up a crayon with his left, he was discouraged. He was another one who wrote with his right hand but did everything else lefty. Bat, kick, throw. Next generation, my son showed signs of being a righty. At some point he wanted to be a lefty & taught himself how. Go figure.
Nuns are often psycopaths.
Prince william is also a lefty
alexander the great, davinci, tesla, me
I am a lefty in all ways. Writing, playing sports, even answering the phone. My right hand is an appendage which helps me navigate life…sometimes. I would never want to be right handed.
Hello Lynn..
I used to be ambidextrous when I was learning to write but my mom made me right handed because she thought left handed was satanic lmao 😂
was she saying she thought you were "full of the devil" (which meant something a lot different than nowadays)
Out of a family of 6 I am the only lefty. Always had to sit on the back side of the table. I hated that! Had a teacher at my work one time ask me how long I had been left-handed. I said to her I don’t know how long have you been right- handed. She never bothered me again about my left-handedness! I have a permanent scar on my thumb from learning to cut with right handed scissors! I loved it when they started making scissors either way! I am proud to be a lefty. They say we left handed people will one day unite and take over the world!!!!!
I have the opposite situation in my family of four: I and my two sons are all left handed, my husband is the only righty! I remember as a teenager watching an Aunt try to "change" my younger cousin from using her left hand right in front of me!
I've always said that everyone is born righthanded; however, the greater folks overcome that problem. I am grateful to be lefthanded.
ha ha .. some overcome that fault .. the rest get "left" with being "right"
When I was a little kid my late neighbor Evelyn taught me how to write left handed and I guess she was left handed and so I take after Evelyn. But my late parents and my late big brother mark and my sister Lisa and my baby brother Greg they all right handed people. We left handed people we are need to stick together. Since we left handed people live in right handed world and I think right handed people should live in a left handed world. To see how they will like it. Have a good day today.
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Hi Fred how are you doing today
It's funny; I'm left-handed, but my WHOLE family is right-handed. We don't know how, but it's true. All of my family members on BOTH sides---Mother AND Father--are
right-handed. I'm the first and only left-handed child in my family.
My father & his grandfather were both left-handed. They were born in 1926, & 1899, respectively, so it’s amazing neither were forced to change (that I know).
I’m a right handed person but would love to have been a left hander…I always envied those who were.