The worst thing is that it's based on your dominant eye in that case right (if my archery unit in high school PE is anything to go by) and you can't even control that
This is funny because I found out that I'm a left when I wanted to try archery the instructor noticed that all my shots pulled to the right. So, he said to try with my left hand and all of a sudden I could aim properly and hit my targets no problem. Turns out my mom made me do things with my right hand all the time. Now I'm learning to do stuff with my left hand, and it feels more natural.
@@sorwdofcho I got tired of my teacher in grammar school (and yeah, I'm old) telling me to write with my right hand, and it made me stubborn enough to tell her that I wasn't changing and that nothing she could do would make me change to my right hand! I got a ruler smacked down on my hand until I complained to my mom. That was the last time she hit me, lol!!
Actually, ambidextrous means you can do everything equally easily with either hand, and also, you are born with that ability. We lefties become what is known as cross-dominant, having learned, out of necessity, to do a certain number of things with our right hands.
When I started to learn to write in school, a teacher slapped my left hand hard repeatedly while I was trying to trace letters. I went home crying. When I explained why to my mother, she charged down to the school, called the teacher and the principal front and center and went full drill sergeant all over both of them. From then on, I learned with my left hand with no more interference. Go, Mom! P.S. I learned to write normally, without curling my left hand around unnaturally, the way so many lefties do. People comment all the time about how "normal" my handwriting is.
I don't curl my hand either. So back in the day I often smudged my writings. Yep. But by the time I was in the 5th grade the only thing I wrote in cursive was my signature... by then I printed everything else and smudging was no longer an issue. We lefties learn about workarounds.
@@leecowell8165My best teacher in primary school taught me to write backhand. My next teacher didn’t like backhand. When I started writing forehand my hook was gone. But I have trouble writing quickly. My mother also told the my teachers to stop trying to make me right handed. They let me be.
I don't do the curl thing, but I've seen others do this. Weirdly enough, I was forced to learn to write with my right hand and they weren't. But I always switched out with my dominant hand when nobody was paying attention to me since it was naturally faster for me. 😂😂😂
I’m left-handed, and I recently found out something quite interesting. So it was a science experiment in school testing reaction times, where someone would drop a ruler and would see how fast you caught it. It was tested on both your dominant and non-dominant hand. The results came out with right-handed people having faster right hands than left hands, but left-handed people having a much smaller margin between their hands. The teacher explained that this is because of how left-handed people have learnt how to fit in within society, and have had to conform, so their hands are actually more equally functional. So yeah, strength in number of hands I guess 😅
I watched another video that stated that us lefties have a stronger physical connection between the right and left hemispheres of the brain. This allows us to adapt better.
I am a lefty and once was given a pair of left handed scissors for work as a fabric cutter, I couldn't use them. I never learned to use left handed equipment@@shovelover
Hey! I'm a leftie. I have no problem with anything! I adjust pretty quickly if there's something I have to do with my right hand. Like using a mouse. My first PC was shared with my dad who is a righty, so everytime I wanted to use a PC I had to drag the mouse to the other side of the keyboard under my left hand. I quickly grew tired of doing this everytime so I just decided to get used to using a mouse with my right hand. It was weird and difficult at first, but I quickly got used to it. Same with playing guitar. I taught myself to be proud of it and though it's not really my achievement I feel unique and original. and I don't mind people pointing it out. It's a conversation starter for sure. The only thing that really bothers me is that I can't write with fountain pen cause I really like it, I just smear whatever I write instantly.
I nearly got into an argument with someone who denied I was a lefty as I felt so comfortable using a mouse with my right hand but I wrote with my left hand well I’ve always wrote with my left hand and did everything else with my right
I'm the only user of my computer.. the mouse is on the left side of the keyboard. Most people cannot use my computer there's no room on my desk for the mouse to be switched to the right side.
I had a traumatic childhood because I was lefty. Got beatings soo hard as a kid from my parents and teacher just for using my left hand. Shits annoying
I'm so sorry to hear that you had to go through that. It's really sad when people are mistreated for things out of their control. Just know that you have a community here that supports you and is here if you need someone to talk to.
@@KnowledgeRaiders people were dumb, i was lucky this kind or treatment of lefties just went out when i started school, they still tried to get me to use my right i just didnt get beat for it.
As a Vietnamese, us lefties tend to get molded into the "right hand norm" from a young age. I had to learn to write with my right hand when I was 5, among other things. That resulted in me using left hand for things like sports and fighting, while the right hand is for using chopsticks and writing, etc. Now it's both funny and cumbersome at the same time to explain to my friends which is my dominant side and how it works.
I was conditioned to write with right hand , but each time my mom kept pencil near me, toddler me used use left hand to write, my mom got confused and thought i was a baby so i was accidentally using left hand, so she made me a habit of writing with right hand Later i started eating with left hand, my father noticed and he n mom confirmed i m left handed, they didn't taunt my eating habits Hence , i write with right hand, all other activities with left
My mum is Chilean, naturally leftie and was forced by Spanish Catholic nuns to use her right hand or they would slam her left hand with a ruler on the spot. She actually has the same skills as you but this right hand enforcement is not done anymore.
I was also forced to write with my right hand but still can write with my left. I used this in my favour when punished at school. You Bart Simpson style punishment writing lines repeatedly. I wrote them using my both hands thus drastically reducing the time I spent on them
I was completely free to do this in kindergarten, as the teachers didn't discriminate my with others. Then primary school, the worst time I could have been. I got beaten out of the shit by either my new teachers or my parents. Also I eat with left hand
I'm left handed, as are three of my aunts and uncles. My dad was one of the right-handed siblings, and he did try to change me as a baby. My mom was going to intervene but she saw I was dealing with it myself so she just let me do that. Apparently he'd force me to take something with my right hand, and then I'd give him a dirty look and then switch whatever it was into my left. I've had to deal with things not working for me like they should my whole life. And it's some of the weirdest little things, too. Like why can't I spread butter like a normal person? Well, if you look closely at the knives, they're keyed to be easier to use by right handed people. I switched to a knife that had the little serrations on both sides, and suddenly I could spread butter. You get really good at picking the seat at the left end of the table so you aren't bumping elbows with anyone.
I had the same experience, my dad also forced to use right hand but my mom was lefty too so she let me use my left hand and left hand gives you advantage sometimes but we lefty looking much wired using our left hand for literally anything so I'm starting to use my right hand more like waving hands, picking objects and drinking water etc
Same here. I remember my childhood vividly. I remember the first day of school, when we were being taught how to hold a pencil (remember the big fat pencils, they give you?) Teacher put the pencil in my right hand and guided my fingers on how to hold it. I tried... thought for a moment, and switched the pencil to my left hand. "No, Dear, that's the wrong hand." She put the pencil back 9into my right hand.. I looked up... and then calmly laid the pencil down and refused to do anything more. She got the hint.
As a lefty I have learned to use my right hand for a lot of tasks. Lefties can usually adapt to the right-handed world. In fact, if you give me a pair of left-handed scissors, I cannot use them. And yes, it is a pain in many ways, but we adapt much quicker than righties. Southpaws rule!!
I'm a dude, nearly 60, and I can cheerfully say that left-handedness was never an issue through any of my school years. One of my lefty superpowers is that I can write beautifully flowing cursive in mirror image (right to left). However, being a precision machinist, I had to adapt to practically every right-handed measuring instrument known to mankind....calipers, micrometers, scales, etc.
Being left-handed has always presented a challenge to me growing up and into adulthood. I've had to adapt to using my right hand in plenty of scenarios but I'm very strongly left-side dominant. You get used to being the odd man out as a lefty but it never entirely stops being frustrating. Plus everyone is always like 'oh man you're left-handed I never noticed' or 'wow you write so weird with your left hand!' Like duh, I don't want to smudge the ink. I just want to exist and I don't expect anyone to cater to it lol.
I had to force myself to use scissors with my right when I was little. It's part of the reason I was held back in kindergarten and why I skipped 7th. (I'm almost 50... the stigma was going away but I had an old bitty for a teacher that didn't "believe" in left-handedness) I'm not sure if I'm semi ambidextrous or I just forced myself that way. lol I use both except for writing.
Ironically, I am right handed but many people notice-- and this is something that still confuses me endlessly-- that I write similar to a lefty where my wrist twists upsidedown. That's why I find it easier to write sideways similar to how Japanese sentences might be written, which also freaks them out lol
Being a lefty has made my handwriting worse, and darkened my hands with the stains of ink and graphite. Like the video said, I tend to prefer to always be on the left corner of the table so I don't rub elbows. But I also hear there are some interesting cognitive differences in being left handed, like being more naturally creative and more of an information sponge, so I'm totally fine with the tradeoffs.
Hahah yes but lemme tell u. Those “normal” people can not peek/ cheat by copying our answers in exam. Coz us lefties always “cover” our writing directly 🤣
Right.. little things like that are pretty much automatic in my family growing up being the only lefty. Yep Lee always sat on the left! We DO become used to the world being right-handed. I can't imagine being captain in an AirBus!
Scissors! They're almost always molded for righties and are uncomfortable to use left-handed. The blades are also naturally pushed apart when used left-handed, making it much harder to cut unless you intentionally apply pressure like a right hand naturally would.
I'm a little annoyed seeing the scissors comments as a leftie. Dude, just flip the scissors over and boom. You got a left-handed scissor. This is what actual lefties learn in Pre-school. 🙄
Everybody talking about scissors and nobody talking about those old-fashioned basic can openers that we had at home - it wasn't until decades later that I realised why I had such a hard time learning to open a can: I had to learn to do it with my right hand! DUH!
boy do I have a leftie story. there was a wedding in our apartment, and during the reception, me and my mother sat across our next door neighbours. I'm Indian, so it's already a societal thing that you're not supposed to eat w your left hand like you said, but that's what I do 🤷♀️ this lady looks at me eating, and says, "Oh, she's a leftie?" then looks at my mom and goes, "you probably never got a chance to teach/show her the right way" in a very apologetic manner. me and my mom still laugh about that to this day.
Lol , I am South asian, and community literally treats like a foreigner or anti social for being lefty 😂😂 I was in science college, where we were taught about genetic nature of handedness Then a guy started. To morally police me amd shame me using contexts of how left hand is used for that work meaning poop washing, not because he was illiterate but cos he was too orthodox and cultural to believe lefties should be morally forced to behave in certain way to be socially accepted lol I feel sorry for him It is tight slap on my face whem somebody says it is offensive to eat with left hand in front of Indians , cos left is poop hand I am like, don't worry I'm normal human amd I don't discriminate, there is nothing bad to be normal and different. Left handed ppl are shown same stares as if a another race person or an lgbtqia person will suffr from
When I got picked on by the bullies in school, I would eventually feel so humiliated, that I struck back and always won. Don't feel proud of it though, as I'm a peace loving guy.
The reason I was always a lefty and wasn't forced to be a rightie was because one of my uncles was stunted mentally and my family chalked it up to the fact that they forced him, a natural lefty to a right handed norm, that probably wasn't the reason but they saw it like that anyways. So my parents always encouraged my leftiness because of it
Parents attempted to change my handedness, but gave up after seeing 2 yr old me use my left hand to grip my right hand to accomplish the tasks they told me to use my right hand for. As for inconveniences, ink smudging is mentioned a lot but not much about refillable pens that unscrew in the middle opening up when writing in an exam. It does come with benefits though, I can jot down notes with the left hand while using the computer mouse with my right.
0:33 the wrench is being held in the unscrew position so right to left. Either the animation is being run in reverse or the animator doesn't know that there is a specific way to hold it to ensure maximum torque and ensure the wrench lasts. Holding it the way it is shown in the animation will put most of the strain on the adjustable jaw rather than the fixed jaw and it will break much more quickly.
I don't mind scissors, I have adapted to most of the right-handed appliances. I can do a lot of things with the right hand, such as using the scissors and opening cans. I am the only lefty in my family, and during school, I was the only one among my classmates. So, for that, I believe I had to become a bit ambidextrous. The most important tasks, such as eating writing and crafting, are done with the left one.
When I moved to live and work in Vietnam (from US) "tay trái" (left-handed) was one of the first Vietnamese words I learned because it's so unusual to be left-handed here. I've seen a few Vietnamese people that use chopsticks with their left hand, but not one that writes with it. This is due to "forced handedness"' that is very common across all of Asia.
"Forced handedness" was used here (Netherlands) up until the 1950s/60s. I was lucky to be born in 1963 and had no problem by teachers forcing me to use my right hand. But I've met others my age (and younger) that were still forced to write with their right hand.
I'm a lefty and both of my maternal grandparents were lefties. They had been forced to write with the other hand for everything except eating, and it caused each of them a lot of problems, including stuttering. When I came along, they were extraordinarily protective of me and purchased every left-handed product that came along, many of which were useless. Like many lefties, I have become more and more ambidextrous over my 69 years. I'm very good with a Swiss Army knife can-opener!
Great video! Leftie here, I had no idea that Arabic/Hebrew scripts also have origins in right handed bias. In fencing handedness plays a noticable role and once a left handed fencer has gotten used to fighting a right handed fencer, it becomes a slight advantage until they spar against very experienced fencers. It's definitely fascinating for sure to see how much culture is built around right handedness. I think my favorite fun fact is that "sinister" come from Latin for left while "dexterous" comes from Latin for "right".
Great and informative vid! As a leftie, the most inconvenient thing must be bumping into others elbows..that is why I always tried to sit at the most left site in school haha. But I should call myself lucky to label this as my biggest problem, because to this day still many left-handed born children are being forced to only use their right hand which makes me furious! Nothing is as bad for a young human than fucking their brain up
Thanks for sharing your thoughts! It's great to hear that you found the video informative. I agree, it's unfortunate that left-handed individuals still face discrimination and forced to use their non-dominant hand. What was the worst experience you had for being left-handed?
As a young boy my grandfather said me being left handed was a bad omen my mother said no that i was brilliant and would adapt i did im proficient with both hands in writing, boxing , baseball and other sports i Excelled in Arts and sports because my mom believed in me miss you mom and thank you
I'm a lefty and it is usually my response to why I do and think different than anyone else I come across. I meet a few lefty's now and then and would love to know what they actually think about on a daily basis.... I'm usually hyper-focused on things like creating formulas for winning the lottery or how I'll write that formula in Excel. I also contemplate the next stock I want to buy. I occasionally find myself daydreaming about random things or future plans. I did this long before I had this current job. Thankfully it's VERY repetitive so I have a lot of free time for thinking. The trick is not to get so deep into my thoughts that I zone out and stop working... It does happen occasionally though.
Hahah, this is exactly why I've been fairly content at working a very repetitive job my entire life - it gives me the chance to keep my feet on the ground at work as far as a routine goes, but then be completely "in outer space" in my free time as far as my inner life is concerned! The right side of my brain has gotten a lot of use over the years, lol...
Being left handed, the only thing I really hated was having to use a right handed desk in high school and college. I always had to sit in the desk diagonally so that I could write.
Scissors when I was a kid weren't made for both hands. They also tried to see if I could make my right hand be the dominant one but that didn't work. I love being left handed as my right hand is better than any right handed persons left.
Everything I ever learned doing after learning how to write (the elementary school teacher won that one) I do primarily with my left hand. such as shaving, steering the car and cutting food. I can use my right hand decently well, and sometimes it comes really useful - for some tasks, any hand will do, even two tasks at the same time. Lefty and proud, that's what all lefties should feel!
I remember finding ways to adjust with the disdain of righties. In 2nd grade, all that existed were right handed student chair. I moved a second chair around to hold my elbow and was chastized for it. Everbody gets one chair! And I replied, eneryone should get a correct chair. The principal was going to suspend me for three days for back talking the teacher. My mom went ballistic. She went to the principal explained my situation and signed up to speak to the school board. Eventually I agreed to apologize to the teacher if she would apologize as well. We did and were friends from then on. Mutual respect matters.
Lefty here, I remember as a kid trying to find a right handed catchers mitt, darn near impossible. My mom and I went to 5 different stores until we found one. Needless to say, I didn’t grow up as a little league kid. As an adult, using the mouse forced me to be ambidextrous. This came in handy when operating CNC lathes. I got really fast at machine set up and adjustments.
Another interesting fact regarding the very keyboard these comments are all typed on: the left-side of QWERTY keyboards contain most of the commonly used letters. So were they designed for lefties in mind? Of course not! Back in early typewriter days, typewriters could easily get jammed if typing too quickly, so a keyboard lettering layout was designed to make it as difficult as possible for right-handed dominant people to type by slowing them down with most of the commonly used letters being on their non-dominant, left-hand side. The letters most commonly strung together were also placed as far apart from each other as well to prevent jamming. The world all around us has been designed by right-handed people with right-handed dominance in mind. It's all quite fascinating really when you really look into why things are the way they are. Very well-made video, I wish your channel rapid success and growth. And shout-out to all my fellow lefties out there since we're totally the best handedness ;D
Growing up beaten in school by the teacher, as a 8, 9 yr old kid for using left hand to write, and having hand tied on the back not to use it. That was late '60s
MY GRANDPA AND MY DAD WERE LEFTYS AT BIRTH BUT IT WAS CUSTOMARY TO "MAKE" THEM RIGHT HANDED BY RESTRAINING THE LEFT HAND BEHIND THE BACK WHILE BEING FORCED TO LEARN HOW TO BE RIGHT HANDED. MY FAMILY OWNED DAIRY FARMS AND DELIVERY SO IT WAS SUPPOSEDLY TO HELP IN USING AGRICULTURAL EQUIPMENT THAT WAS ALL RIGHT HANDED. IM A NATURAL LEFTY BUT I ONLY PREFER WRITING WITH LEFT AND WAS MORE POWERFUL AT BATTING WHEN USING LEFT SIDE BUT PLAYED WITH BOTH. I PITCHED LEFT AS WELL. BUT WHEN I USE A CHAINSAW OR WEEDEATER I DO THEM RIGHT HANDED.
I am a leftie who could read and write long before going to school, where they hit my hand with a ruler, blackboard duster, etc. They also didn't like the fact that when i forgot on occasions that i had to write from the same side of the page as all my classroom contemporaries, i would write back to front, i.e for right to left hand side of the page. I cut cloth out with my left hand having being given a pair of Wilkinson Sword left handed scissors, the first pair of scissors that i didn't break by forcing the blades apart. When i trained in hairdressing, i had to learn how to cut with my right hand because my parents couldn't afford the £400 for left handed hairdressing scissors. I knit right handed across and then left handed back, because sometimes it's just easier, but i crochet with my left hand only. What knocks people out is when playing badminton of tennis and switching hands because i could reach it easier that way. Left handers are usually more creative than right handers, which in my case is true, because of the amount of crafts that i can do. Up the lefties
lefty in my 50's. I grew up not being allowed to write comfortably ( paper either 90deg to the right or upside down ) as a lefty so my writing sucks. I was forced to play baseball, golf, and football as a righty because my little schools didn't have lefty equipment. Writing and eating are the 2 things I must do lefty. That said, I had a stroke over a year ago and a blood clot damaged the nerves and muscle in my left hand. I am now a righty, not by choice. I can write right to left without much thought ( have to hold it up to a mirror to read it ) but I have to visually see myself writing in my head to do it normal L to R. Eating is rough also as I tend to twist the fork/spoon as I put it to my mouth, and the food falls off. I hated being forced to do things righty as a kid, but damn did it come in handy now. I mostly grew up in the South and damn so many ignorant people down here think lefties are evil or something.
I was called a child of the devil when I was learning to write at school. Things are better now but I remember watching for trouble when my left handed grandson started school. Needn’t have worried those victorian predujices have about disappeared.
Nothing is worse for me than writing on a spiral notebook left handed. You smudge the words and get ink or pencil on your left hand anyways, then the metal spirals dig into your wrist and starts to hurt after a lot of writing. I started writing on the back of the page just to avoid the pain at school, and still do.
Annoyances: Bumping shoulder and Arm to your neighbour while eating or writing, Difficult to find equipment when doing Arching, Rifle, etc., Teachers and Parents didn’t know how to teach me to write with the fountain pen so I had to figure it out on my own. Advantages: The world of Right-Handedness made me learn how to use my right hand making me partially ambidextrous. I cut (with scissors and knives) only with my right hand and even learned Chinese calligraphy with my right hand. I can use my can opener with my right hand. My stuff get’s rarely stolen when I actually buy equipment for left handed people.
I'm a lefty, and I'm a very peaceful person. I hate wars and fights (though sadly I live in a country where there are always wars). I learned to use many instruments with my right hand- guitar, knife, scissors, mouse, I can even write and paint with my right hand (though I'm better with my left)... so now I'm more ambidextrous, but my first choice will always be to do things with my left hand
The thing I don't understand about my left handed buddies is that they really don't know what hand to use. They use left for some things and right for others. Where as a right hander can't do squat with the left hand.LOL
I am a leftie who never knew you could string a guitar upside down and play with your left hand, so I taught myself how to play with my right hand when I was twelve. I an ambidextrous cut paper with my right hand and bat with my left as well as writing with my left hand. I even shoot arrows with my right hand.
4:05 There's a bigger factor why most countries drive on the right. Most still had carriages on the left, like the UK, but with foot traffic on the right. (No sidewalks). During the French Revolution, the only people who were operating carriages were nobles, who were being hunted. Good revolutionaries, and those avoiding capture began to ride horses on the right, along with the foot traffic from peasants. Eventually this led to all traffic on the right. As Napoleon moved through Europe, French ideas went with him, spreading the all traffic on the right concept. Meanwhile in Japan, they kept all their traffic on the left due to a decree during the Tokugawa Shogunate. All samurai (and ronin) were forced to wear their swords on the left side. This then meant that accidental bumping of swords as two samurai passed each other didn't happen. Before this, there'd been many fights caused by the insult of having your sword bumped by another samurai's sword. As a leftie, life takes some getting used to. I lived without left-handed scissors for years of making cosplay outfits, but recently bought some, and life became SO much easier. 5:50 There were a few cultures who loved having a few left-handers around. It meant you could place a leftie with spear and shield on the right end of a shield wall and give a bit of flanking cover. From personal experience from my SCA days, it pays to have that when arrows are flying around! Even the word dexterity implies right-handedness!
People don’t force right handed people to not use their right hand. This is something that’s very specific to left-handed people. I’m very sure the number of left-handed people is actually much higher than reported. I was never forced or discouraged from using my own left hand and just naturally adapted to using right handed tools as I grew up because that’s what you get in this world. Both my hands do specific tasks but my left one is for precision.
As a lefty I will say it's not as bad as people make it seem and I feel unique in this world and it feels great knowing that some of the greatest people to walk this earth were/are lefties is really cool
Now I get why teachers used to hit my left hand whenever they saw me used it to write 💀 Literally, got discriminated against for that was bullshit but after having smashed I really couldn't use my left hand to write for days
When I was little,my teacher tried to beat the Leftie out of me with the me tal side of a ruler. He cut my hand wide open by hitting me with it. I stood up and told him he would regret what he had done. I walked out and went to my Dad's work and told him what the teacher did,showing him my hand. Dad grabbed me by the shoulder,turned me round and he took me back to school to confront the teacher. When my Dad asked what I had done the teacher said I was cheating. Like any other Leftie kid my hand was curled round the top of my paper so I could write cursive the right way. When my Dad heard what the teacher told him,he decked the teacher (who passed out right there),grabbed me and we walked out and back to his work.
This is neat. I never really worried about things being right handed. That's life and I'm used to it so I have never paid it much heed. Yet I had seen people struggle mightily and be defeated by left handed scissors. Maybe left handed people exist just in case of the event we can't give up?
I'm a lefty and love it. I have been able to adapt well to the right- handed world. When I was a child, both my grandmothers wanted to force me to be right handed. My mother put her foot down and refused. She said, "Jeanne's left handed and she's going stay that way." I am forever grateful to her.
Grew up fighting as a southpaw ... It's amazing how many people don't know how to defend the right side of their bodies in a fight you can end most fights pretty quickly by simply swinging for the right side of someone's face because most people don't bother to get both hands up
Also I'm slightly ambidextrous my only struggle is my handwriting I even throw right handed which adds to some of the weird stuff I do that throws people off I used to play baseball and people would just assume I was right handed until I decided to bat lefty which I think gave me a slight advantage
The difference between the incidence of left handedness is cultural, in most places in ghe past, and still many places now, it is common to force left handed children into writing or eating with their 'proper' hand
Being a lefty..it's frustrating to blow dry your hair with a regular blow dryer..you end up turning the blow dryer off or mess up the settings serval times before your hair is dry. You can buy a left handed blow dryer but they are more expensive. Sitting at a a round table that is full of people is excruciating..bumping elbows and all.
Being a leftie is to be the black sheep. When I started school I was targeted by the class bully due to it, little did he know that I fight back and he left me alone after that. I have adapted to things that I can't be left handed in but it takes time to adapt, this makes us more aware of things and we don't just run on auto pilot as you get caught out sometimes. Also at school I was a mean bowler but sucked at batting in cricket. No one could bowl to me as the ball always went behind me. But when bowling I would do spinners towards the wicket. As soon as the ball bounced they couldn't hit it as it spins the opposite way in the hands of a lefty and I was highly accurate at hitting the middle wicket.
I’m a lefty and dyslexic. I would be curious to know if lefties have a higher levels of dyslexia. Next being naturally left handed I write, eat and use a hammer in my left hand. Everything sports related I do right handed. I can write almost as well right handed but have to concentrate and write more slowly. As another post stated many common household tools are painful to use left handed.
The nuns who ran my preschool used to steal my left handed scissors. Seriously-- I was there for a year and they took my scissors away at least 10 times. Add to it that I'm colorblind (horrible choice on the colors for your graphs btw) and I have zero chance of doing well in preschool.
I love being a leftie. However, it arises some problems. When writing, as you said, my hands get darkened with the stains of ink and graphite. Also, I was a gamer a few years ago and I played on PC. It sucked to change ALL the controls on EVERY game I play to adapt it being my left hand the hand in the mouse. And some games didn't even have the option to change controls so I couldn't play them. Also, using normal scissors is a nightmare. I always thought I was dumb and I couldn't use scissors for whatever reason till I realized it was because scissors are also made for righties! Now I use lefties scissors.
I am a lefty who needs to be always conscious about where I sit at a table when more than 4 ppl are eating. Subway card swipes(touches), hand writings, scissors, knives, sauce spoons … you name it. But Trying to overcome those discomfort probably let me to have some of the traits I like about myself. I like being one of the rare East Asian lefty.
I'm an odd lefty. I use my left hand to write and eat, swing a bat left handed, and generally use my left as my main hand. (Think of what hand you put on a ladder first, or use to brace yourself when standing up/getting down) However. I use scissors with my right, I suck with left handed ones, use a knife with my right and left, shoot right handed, use a bow right handed, naturally want to use my right hand to shift a car , which makes sense because I'd rather my dominant hand be on the wheel!! I can also write right handed as well. Oh and chopsticks I use with my left also, but I paint pictures with my left, and big things like walls with my right.....😅
Power tools like skill saws are dangerous for lefties. The saw blade is exposed to the right side of the saw. For righties, they grip the trigger with their right hand and stand on the left side of the saw. This leaves them protected from the spinning blade. If a leftie grips the trigger with their left hand, they are standing on the right side of the saw and exposed to the blade. I've had to learn to use other tools like scissors with my right hand in order to adapt.
The latin word for left is "sinister". My grandma tried to train me to write with my right hand by giving me small gifts if I complete an A4 page this way. She gave up within two month.
I'm left handed, mostly for writing. However my natural stance for throwing, golf, cricket is right handed. It does feel more natural. However, during weight training, my left arm is stronger. That was significant in my teens and early twenties when you'd need to meet conflict. No one ever saw my left punch coming. It was dramatic.
My left hand "feels" stronger to me, but when i did a grip test both hands were the same, which was weird. Also, welding is done with the right hand "left wards". You have to do it that way if you want to weld for a living
My family is an oddity. Of my parents and siblings, 3 or 5 are left handed. Of my children, 2 of 3 are left handed. Of all my cousins, 9 of 16. Aunts and uncles, 5 of 9. I know this because we actually talked about it very recently at various family functions over Christmas. That gene runs strong in this tribe.
How odd...! I have had the complete opposite experience: coming from a large family, with four aunts and two uncles on my mom's side and four aunts and an uncle on my dad's side, with twenty plus cousins, I am the only left-handed person. My mother only knew of my great-grand father being a leftie in our family! And she in turn had twice as many aunts and uncles! Even in school I can't remember there being any other lefties in my class, certainly not once junior high school started... none of my friends were lefties either. But now, at work, we all of a sudden have several lefties at once so that's been nice, lol.
I’m honestly positive that it’s just because being left-handed is so heavily discouraged, and that there’s actually quite a lot more of us than thought.
@@Vioven Don't think it's that discouraged here in Finland where I am from. I was really surprised to learn that in countries like The US parents and teachers might still try to turn a leftie into a rightie while they are young! That never happens here, a leftie is readily accepted, would be weird to have the teacher or a mother trying to put the pen in the right hand in this day and age... We also don't have those weird desks in the class room that were designed for right-handed people only. Just normal desks here!
I am full lefty, It helped me in so many ways!. Left footed in soccer (REAL FOOTBALL). Me being left midfield/wing proved advantageous on so many occasions "score 1 for the lefties"!. Fist fights,.. anticipating the opponent is key and helps alot. I AM PROUD TO BE AMONG THE LEFTIES POPULATION😊
I'm right-handed, but I trained to my write with my left hand back in February 2023. One of the greatest decisions I made. It's so cool to sort of be a "lefty" :D
I am a righty, currently (yes I said currently because I am practicing for total of 6 months but did not find time to improve it) using my left hand to do everything my right hand does. and for a fact, using scissors are hard. Finding items are also not surprisingly HARD. One advice to lefties is to also prepare your right hand for some situations, be ambidextrous, it has made my life better than before. For me, it took about 15 days to get a handwriting good and fast enough to write on exams.
Im a lefty. My parents didn't beat it out of me, but they were told that they should switch me. Luckily, they rebelled against family and didn't do it.
I remember as a kid in gym class, I’d always remain the last standing in the game “capture the flag”. There would be two people in the end trying to tag me, but it was always easy for me to trick them. I never realized how much of an advantage we do have on right handed people.. pretty cool, we deserve it lol.
Being a lefty it was not easy to learn to write as a kid when your teacher smacks our hand for using your left hand. I write with my left, bowl with my left, throw and catch softballs with my left but there are a few things i do with my right.. like scissors. Using my fork I can use either.
Worst: Using scissors is painful.
Best: We get to use a (right-handed) mouse and a pen at the same time.
ikr scizzors hurt like hell
That's actually really useful.
I can use scissor properly im lefty
@@lakas_tama well like i can too but it hurts. it digs into my hand next to my thumb and leaves blisters over an extended period.
Yup LMAO till this day I can never get it right
I'm a lefty, and my god, if you're into archery, it will be torture for you to find the proper equipment for a lefty.
Truth! I'm a lefty as well
The worst thing is that it's based on your dominant eye in that case right (if my archery unit in high school PE is anything to go by) and you can't even control that
This is funny because I found out that I'm a left when I wanted to try archery the instructor noticed that all my shots pulled to the right. So, he said to try with my left hand and all of a sudden I could aim properly and hit my targets no problem. Turns out my mom made me do things with my right hand all the time.
Now I'm learning to do stuff with my left hand, and it feels more natural.
@Cavachoncx3 we are talking about ARCHERY! This is not a platform for you to say stuff about your god.
@@sorwdofcho I got tired of my teacher in grammar school (and yeah, I'm old) telling me to write with my right hand, and it made me stubborn enough to tell her that I wasn't changing and that nothing she could do would make me change to my right hand! I got a ruler smacked down on my hand until I complained to my mom. That was the last time she hit me, lol!!
That's why most of us South paws are ambidextrous cause we live in a right handed world
I prefer "ambisinister".
@@IanPattisonOakville same. I'm ambisinistral all the way baby
Actually, ambidextrous means you can do everything equally easily with either hand, and also, you are born with that ability.
We lefties become what is known as cross-dominant, having learned, out of necessity, to do a certain number of things with our right hands.
I've read somewhere that it takes a certain kind of stubbornness to grow up and to grow old as a left-handed person. And I certainly effin agree.
When I started to learn to write in school, a teacher slapped my left hand hard repeatedly while I was trying to trace letters. I went home crying. When I explained why to my mother, she charged down to the school, called the teacher and the principal front and center and went full drill sergeant all over both of them.
From then on, I learned with my left hand with no more interference. Go, Mom!
P.S. I learned to write normally, without curling my left hand around unnaturally, the way so many lefties do. People comment all the time about how "normal" my handwriting is.
I never really thought the curl around a pencil was an all lefty thing
I don't curl my hand either. So back in the day I often smudged my writings. Yep. But by the time I was in the 5th grade the only thing I wrote in cursive was my signature... by then I printed everything else and smudging was no longer an issue. We lefties learn about workarounds.
@@leecowell8165My best teacher in primary school taught me to write backhand. My next teacher didn’t like backhand. When I started writing forehand my hook was gone. But I have trouble writing quickly. My mother also told the my teachers to stop trying to make me right handed. They let me be.
As a fellow lefty I write exactly the same way as you. High five!
I don't do the curl thing, but I've seen others do this. Weirdly enough, I was forced to learn to write with my right hand and they weren't. But I always switched out with my dominant hand when nobody was paying attention to me since it was naturally faster for me. 😂😂😂
I’m left-handed, and I recently found out something quite interesting. So it was a science experiment in school testing reaction times, where someone would drop a ruler and would see how fast you caught it. It was tested on both your dominant and non-dominant hand.
The results came out with right-handed people having faster right hands than left hands, but left-handed people having a much smaller margin between their hands. The teacher explained that this is because of how left-handed people have learnt how to fit in within society, and have had to conform, so their hands are actually more equally functional.
So yeah, strength in number of hands I guess 😅
I watched another video that stated that us lefties have a stronger physical connection between the right and left hemispheres of the brain. This allows us to adapt better.
@@shaunogg9966god is great❤
thats because we've always had to adapt to use both. do you ever see left handed scissors in the real world?...
@@shovelover Nope- always had to buy them myself
I am a lefty and once was given a pair of left handed scissors for work as a fabric cutter, I couldn't use them. I never learned to use left handed equipment@@shovelover
Hey! I'm a leftie. I have no problem with anything! I adjust pretty quickly if there's something I have to do with my right hand. Like using a mouse. My first PC was shared with my dad who is a righty, so everytime I wanted to use a PC I had to drag the mouse to the other side of the keyboard under my left hand. I quickly grew tired of doing this everytime so I just decided to get used to using a mouse with my right hand. It was weird and difficult at first, but I quickly got used to it. Same with playing guitar. I taught myself to be proud of it and though it's not really my achievement I feel unique and original. and I don't mind people pointing it out. It's a conversation starter for sure. The only thing that really bothers me is that I can't write with fountain pen cause I really like it, I just smear whatever I write instantly.
learn to anchor with your pinky and raise your palm off the paper so you dont smudge it
I nearly got into an argument with someone who denied I was a lefty as I felt so comfortable using a mouse with my right hand but I wrote with my left hand well I’ve always wrote with my left hand and did everything else with my right
I'm the only user of my computer.. the mouse is on the left side of the keyboard. Most people cannot use my computer there's no room on my desk for the mouse to be switched to the right side.
as a leftie mouse user, gaming is the hardest ngl. spacebar is the worst.
I had a traumatic childhood because I was lefty. Got beatings soo hard as a kid from my parents and teacher just for using my left hand. Shits annoying
I'm so sorry to hear that you had to go through that. It's really sad when people are mistreated for things out of their control. Just know that you have a community here that supports you and is here if you need someone to talk to.
@@KnowledgeRaiders people were dumb, i was lucky this kind or treatment of lefties just went out when i started school, they still tried to get me to use my right i just didnt get beat for it.
@@KnowledgeRaidersNice Video Bro👍🏻😎
Same with my dad. It was common back then.
I was caught using my left hand and my dad slapped me across the face, boy did he regret it.
As a Vietnamese, us lefties tend to get molded into the "right hand norm" from a young age. I had to learn to write with my right hand when I was 5, among other things. That resulted in me using left hand for things like sports and fighting, while the right hand is for using chopsticks and writing, etc. Now it's both funny and cumbersome at the same time to explain to my friends which is my dominant side and how it works.
I was conditioned to write with right hand , but each time my mom kept pencil near me, toddler me used use left hand to write, my mom got confused and thought i was a baby so i was accidentally using left hand, so she made me a habit of writing with right hand
Later i started eating with left hand, my father noticed and he n mom confirmed i m left handed, they didn't taunt my eating habits
Hence , i write with right hand, all other activities with left
I do everything with my left hand except eat and drink
My mum is Chilean, naturally leftie and was forced by Spanish Catholic nuns to use her right hand or they would slam her left hand with a ruler on the spot. She actually has the same skills as you but this right hand enforcement is not done anymore.
I was also forced to write with my right hand but still can write with my left. I used this in my favour when punished at school. You Bart Simpson style punishment writing lines repeatedly. I wrote them using my both hands thus drastically reducing the time I spent on them
I was completely free to do this in kindergarten, as the teachers didn't discriminate my with others.
Then primary school, the worst time I could have been. I got beaten out of the shit by either my new teachers or my parents.
Also I eat with left hand
I'm left handed, as are three of my aunts and uncles. My dad was one of the right-handed siblings, and he did try to change me as a baby. My mom was going to intervene but she saw I was dealing with it myself so she just let me do that. Apparently he'd force me to take something with my right hand, and then I'd give him a dirty look and then switch whatever it was into my left. I've had to deal with things not working for me like they should my whole life. And it's some of the weirdest little things, too. Like why can't I spread butter like a normal person? Well, if you look closely at the knives, they're keyed to be easier to use by right handed people. I switched to a knife that had the little serrations on both sides, and suddenly I could spread butter.
You get really good at picking the seat at the left end of the table so you aren't bumping elbows with anyone.
I had the same experience, my dad also forced to use right hand but my mom was lefty too so she let me use my left hand and left hand gives you advantage sometimes but we lefty looking much wired using our left hand for literally anything so I'm starting to use my right hand more like waving hands, picking objects and drinking water etc
Same here. I remember my childhood vividly. I remember the first day of school, when we were being taught how to hold a pencil (remember the big fat pencils, they give you?) Teacher put the pencil in my right hand and guided my fingers on how to hold it. I tried... thought for a moment, and switched the pencil to my left hand. "No, Dear, that's the wrong hand." She put the pencil back 9into my right hand.. I looked up... and then calmly laid the pencil down and refused to do anything more. She got the hint.
As a lefty I have learned to use my right hand for a lot of tasks. Lefties can usually adapt to the right-handed world. In fact, if you give me a pair of left-handed scissors, I cannot use them. And yes, it is a pain in many ways, but we adapt much quicker than righties. Southpaws rule!!
I'm a dude, nearly 60, and I can cheerfully say that left-handedness was never an issue through any of my school years. One of my lefty superpowers is that I can write beautifully flowing cursive in mirror image (right to left). However, being a precision machinist, I had to adapt to practically every right-handed measuring instrument known to mankind....calipers, micrometers, scales, etc.
Being left-handed has always presented a challenge to me growing up and into adulthood. I've had to adapt to using my right hand in plenty of scenarios but I'm very strongly left-side dominant. You get used to being the odd man out as a lefty but it never entirely stops being frustrating. Plus everyone is always like 'oh man you're left-handed I never noticed' or 'wow you write so weird with your left hand!'
Like duh, I don't want to smudge the ink. I just want to exist and I don't expect anyone to cater to it lol.
Same! Had to learn to play Guitar upside down haha. Left-handed people certainly don't have it easy.
I had to force myself to use scissors with my right when I was little. It's part of the reason I was held back in kindergarten and why I skipped 7th. (I'm almost 50... the stigma was going away but I had an old bitty for a teacher that didn't "believe" in left-handedness)
I'm not sure if I'm semi ambidextrous or I just forced myself that way. lol I use both except for writing.
Ironically, I am right handed but many people notice-- and this is something that still confuses me endlessly-- that I write similar to a lefty where my wrist twists upsidedown. That's why I find it easier to write sideways similar to how Japanese sentences might be written, which also freaks them out lol
Yep been there after 81 years.. hear you.
Being a lefty has made my handwriting worse, and darkened my hands with the stains of ink and graphite. Like the video said, I tend to prefer to always be on the left corner of the table so I don't rub elbows. But I also hear there are some interesting cognitive differences in being left handed, like being more naturally creative and more of an information sponge, so I'm totally fine with the tradeoffs.
Hahah yes but lemme tell u. Those “normal” people can not peek/ cheat by copying our answers in exam. Coz us lefties always “cover” our writing directly 🤣
Same
@@fauzaocha5802😂😂I was in an exam and was trying to let the bro copy me, but he was getting mad because my left-hand kept covering the paper
Stains all over my sleeves in the winter from graphite
Right.. little things like that are pretty much automatic in my family growing up being the only lefty. Yep Lee always sat on the left! We DO become used to the world being right-handed. I can't imagine being captain in an AirBus!
Scissors! They're almost always molded for righties and are uncomfortable to use left-handed. The blades are also naturally pushed apart when used left-handed, making it much harder to cut unless you intentionally apply pressure like a right hand naturally would.
Yep, this is the only problem I've ever had. Old style scissors don't work from the left hand.
My cutting is so bad cuz I have to do it with my right hand lol
I've adapted to using my right hand for most things..❤
I just flipped the scissors upside down . They work fine then
I'm a little annoyed seeing the scissors comments as a leftie. Dude, just flip the scissors over and boom. You got a left-handed scissor. This is what actual lefties learn in Pre-school. 🙄
For those interested in a good left handed story look up Judges 3:12-30.......God used a left handed man to bring peace to Israel for 80 years.
Everybody talking about scissors and nobody talking about those old-fashioned basic can openers that we had at home - it wasn't until decades later that I realised why I had such a hard time learning to open a can: I had to learn to do it with my right hand! DUH!
boy do I have a leftie story.
there was a wedding in our apartment, and during the reception, me and my mother sat across our next door neighbours. I'm Indian, so it's already a societal thing that you're not supposed to eat w your left hand like you said, but that's what I do 🤷♀️ this lady looks at me eating, and says, "Oh, she's a leftie?" then looks at my mom and goes, "you probably never got a chance to teach/show her the right way" in a very apologetic manner.
me and my mom still laugh about that to this day.
Lol , I am South asian, and community literally treats like a foreigner or anti social for being lefty 😂😂
I was in science college, where we were taught about genetic nature of handedness
Then a guy started. To morally police me amd shame me using contexts of how left hand is used for that work meaning poop washing, not because he was illiterate but cos he was too orthodox and cultural to believe lefties should be morally forced to behave in certain way to be socially accepted lol
I feel sorry for him
It is tight slap on my face whem somebody says it is offensive to eat with left hand in front of Indians , cos left is poop hand
I am like, don't worry I'm normal human amd I don't discriminate, there is nothing bad to be normal and different.
Left handed ppl are shown same stares as if a another race person or an lgbtqia person will suffr from
😂
I'm a lefthanded and a green eyed redhead and I've been told that is very rare
My grandson is a lefty, redhead and blue eyed...which is very rare.
If you're left handed, you're almost ambidexterous (or as I prefer ambisinister) simply because so many activities are rught hand mandatory.
Lefty are born warrior's
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Because we can swing swords with more power
When I got picked on by the bullies in school, I would eventually feel so humiliated, that I struck back and always won. Don't feel proud of it though, as I'm a peace loving guy.
@@mikehughes2183keep striking back don’t let anyone play you
Southpaw here too my friends love to spar me cus there’s not too many others like us
@@mikehughes2183 you can be a “peace loving guy” and admire self defense you know.
The reason I was always a lefty and wasn't forced to be a rightie was because one of my uncles was stunted mentally and my family chalked it up to the fact that they forced him, a natural lefty to a right handed norm, that probably wasn't the reason but they saw it like that anyways. So my parents always encouraged my leftiness because of it
Parents attempted to change my handedness, but gave up after seeing 2 yr old me use my left hand to grip my right hand to accomplish the tasks they told me to use my right hand for.
As for inconveniences, ink smudging is mentioned a lot but not much about refillable pens that unscrew in the middle opening up when writing in an exam.
It does come with benefits though, I can jot down notes with the left hand while using the computer mouse with my right.
I hope this channel blows up. Great presentation and entertaining as hell
0:33 the wrench is being held in the unscrew position so right to left. Either the animation is being run in reverse or the animator doesn't know that there is a specific way to hold it to ensure maximum torque and ensure the wrench lasts. Holding it the way it is shown in the animation will put most of the strain on the adjustable jaw rather than the fixed jaw and it will break much more quickly.
I noticed that too!
Being left-handed I hate scissors ✂️ 😡
me too
Same😢 its annoying
Being left-footed was also a huge benefit.
I don't mind scissors, I have adapted to most of the right-handed appliances. I can do a lot of things with the right hand, such as using the scissors and opening cans. I am the only lefty in my family, and during school, I was the only one among my classmates. So, for that, I believe I had to become a bit ambidextrous. The most important tasks, such as eating writing and crafting, are done with the left one.
Are you a bot? I'm left handed too, just flip the scissors upside down. That's something you learn in the 1st grade dude.
When I moved to live and work in Vietnam (from US) "tay trái" (left-handed) was one of the first Vietnamese words I learned because it's so unusual to be left-handed here. I've seen a few Vietnamese people that use chopsticks with their left hand, but not one that writes with it. This is due to "forced handedness"' that is very common across all of Asia.
"Forced handedness" was used here (Netherlands) up until the 1950s/60s. I was lucky to be born in 1963 and had no problem by teachers forcing me to use my right hand. But I've met others my age (and younger) that were still forced to write with their right hand.
I'm a lefty and both of my maternal grandparents were lefties. They had been forced to write with the other hand for everything except eating, and it caused each of them a lot of problems, including stuttering. When I came along, they were extraordinarily protective of me and purchased every left-handed product that came along, many of which were useless. Like many lefties, I have become more and more ambidextrous over my 69 years. I'm very good with a Swiss Army knife can-opener!
Great video! Leftie here, I had no idea that Arabic/Hebrew scripts also have origins in right handed bias. In fencing handedness plays a noticable role and once a left handed fencer has gotten used to fighting a right handed fencer, it becomes a slight advantage until they spar against very experienced fencers. It's definitely fascinating for sure to see how much culture is built around right handedness. I think my favorite fun fact is that "sinister" come from Latin for left while "dexterous" comes from Latin for "right".
Very interesting facts
Great and informative vid! As a leftie, the most inconvenient thing must be bumping into others elbows..that is why I always tried to sit at the most left site in school haha. But I should call myself lucky to label this as my biggest problem, because to this day still many left-handed born children are being forced to only use their right hand which makes me furious! Nothing is as bad for a young human than fucking their brain up
Thanks for sharing your thoughts! It's great to hear that you found the video informative. I agree, it's unfortunate that left-handed individuals still face discrimination and forced to use their non-dominant hand. What was the worst experience you had for being left-handed?
As a young boy my grandfather said me being left handed was a bad omen my mother said no that i was brilliant and would adapt i did im proficient with both hands in writing, boxing , baseball and other sports i Excelled in Arts and sports because my mom believed in me miss you mom and thank you
5:30 this happened to me in my childhood, I was naturally a leftie but because of the culture my family made me use my right hand instead
I'm a lefty and it is usually my response to why I do and think different than anyone else I come across. I meet a few lefty's now and then and would love to know what they actually think about on a daily basis.... I'm usually hyper-focused on things like creating formulas for winning the lottery or how I'll write that formula in Excel. I also contemplate the next stock I want to buy. I occasionally find myself daydreaming about random things or future plans. I did this long before I had this current job. Thankfully it's VERY repetitive so I have a lot of free time for thinking. The trick is not to get so deep into my thoughts that I zone out and stop working... It does happen occasionally though.
Creating formulas for winning the lottery lmmfao.... You're a mark, bro.
Hahah, this is exactly why I've been fairly content at working a very repetitive job my entire life - it gives me the chance to keep my feet on the ground at work as far as a routine goes, but then be completely "in outer space" in my free time as far as my inner life is concerned! The right side of my brain has gotten a lot of use over the years, lol...
Being left handed, the only thing I really hated was having to use a right handed desk in high school and college. I always had to sit in the desk diagonally so that I could write.
Scissors when I was a kid weren't made for both hands. They also tried to see if I could make my right hand be the dominant one but that didn't work. I love being left handed as my right hand is better than any right handed persons left.
Everything I ever learned doing after learning how to write (the elementary school teacher won that one) I do primarily with my left hand. such as shaving, steering the car and cutting food. I can use my right hand decently well, and sometimes it comes really useful - for some tasks, any hand will do, even two tasks at the same time. Lefty and proud, that's what all lefties should feel!
Left handed people adapt
I was right handed until I lost use of my right arm/hand when I was 13 and couldn't be more proud to be sinistre
There is an immense amount of discrimination against left handedness. What frustrates me is that right handed people can't see it.
Majority rules, convert or perish
I remember finding ways to adjust with the disdain of righties. In 2nd grade, all that existed were right handed student chair. I moved a second chair around to hold my elbow and was chastized for it. Everbody gets one chair! And I replied, eneryone should get a correct chair. The principal was going to suspend me for three days for back talking the teacher. My mom went ballistic. She went to the principal explained my situation and signed up to speak to the school board. Eventually I agreed to apologize to the teacher if she would apologize as well. We did and were friends from then on. Mutual respect matters.
Lefty here, I remember as a kid trying to find a right handed catchers mitt, darn near impossible. My mom and I went to 5 different stores until we found one. Needless to say, I didn’t grow up as a little league kid. As an adult, using the mouse forced me to be ambidextrous. This came in handy when operating CNC lathes. I got really fast at machine set up and adjustments.
But we suffer so badly when it comes to right-handed calipers, mics and scales.
Another interesting fact regarding the very keyboard these comments are all typed on: the left-side of QWERTY keyboards contain most of the commonly used letters. So were they designed for lefties in mind? Of course not!
Back in early typewriter days, typewriters could easily get jammed if typing too quickly, so a keyboard lettering layout was designed to make it as difficult as possible for right-handed dominant people to type by slowing them down with most of the commonly used letters being on their non-dominant, left-hand side. The letters most commonly strung together were also placed as far apart from each other as well to prevent jamming.
The world all around us has been designed by right-handed people with right-handed dominance in mind. It's all quite fascinating really when you really look into why things are the way they are. Very well-made video, I wish your channel rapid success and growth. And shout-out to all my fellow lefties out there since we're totally the best handedness ;D
The more common keyboard letters being on the left is actually an advantage for us, can use more fingers on the left hand when typing ;-)
It’s most painful hand available. Whether it’s someone else’s pain or yours
@@foreigncontaminant2015 As a lefty, I agree.
Growing up beaten in school by the teacher, as a 8, 9 yr old kid for using left hand to write, and having hand tied on the back not to use it. That was late '60s
Oh my. I am so sorry!
What country is this? I grew up in Sweden and here corporal punishment was probably made illegal in schools pre-WW II...!
@@Fritha71 Best country
As a left handed chef, I can attest that most kitchen utensils and equipment are designed for right handed people.
MY GRANDPA AND MY DAD WERE LEFTYS AT BIRTH BUT IT WAS CUSTOMARY TO "MAKE" THEM RIGHT HANDED BY RESTRAINING THE LEFT HAND BEHIND THE BACK WHILE BEING FORCED TO LEARN HOW TO BE RIGHT HANDED. MY FAMILY OWNED DAIRY FARMS AND DELIVERY SO IT WAS SUPPOSEDLY TO HELP IN USING AGRICULTURAL EQUIPMENT THAT WAS ALL RIGHT HANDED. IM A NATURAL LEFTY BUT I ONLY PREFER WRITING WITH LEFT AND WAS MORE POWERFUL AT BATTING WHEN USING LEFT SIDE BUT PLAYED WITH BOTH. I PITCHED LEFT AS WELL. BUT WHEN I USE A CHAINSAW OR WEEDEATER I DO THEM RIGHT HANDED.
Lefty here. I hate using screw drivers to tighten screws, but ask me to unscrew something and I'm lightening quick.
I f'king hate can openers though.
I am a leftie who could read and write long before going to school, where they hit my hand with a ruler, blackboard duster, etc. They also didn't like the fact that when i forgot on occasions that i had to write from the same side of the page as all my classroom contemporaries, i would write back to front, i.e for right to left hand side of the page. I cut cloth out with my left hand having being given a pair of Wilkinson Sword left handed scissors, the first pair of scissors that i didn't break by forcing the blades apart. When i trained in hairdressing, i had to learn how to cut with my right hand because my parents couldn't afford the £400 for left handed hairdressing scissors. I knit right handed across and then left handed back, because sometimes it's just easier, but i crochet with my left hand only. What knocks people out is when playing badminton of tennis and switching hands because i could reach it easier that way. Left handers are usually more creative than right handers, which in my case is true, because of the amount of crafts that i can do. Up the lefties
lefty in my 50's. I grew up not being allowed to write comfortably ( paper either 90deg to the right or upside down ) as a lefty so my writing sucks. I was forced to play baseball, golf, and football as a righty because my little schools didn't have lefty equipment. Writing and eating are the 2 things I must do lefty. That said, I had a stroke over a year ago and a blood clot damaged the nerves and muscle in my left hand. I am now a righty, not by choice. I can write right to left without much thought ( have to hold it up to a mirror to read it ) but I have to visually see myself writing in my head to do it normal L to R. Eating is rough also as I tend to twist the fork/spoon as I put it to my mouth, and the food falls off. I hated being forced to do things righty as a kid, but damn did it come in handy now. I mostly grew up in the South and damn so many ignorant people down here think lefties are evil or something.
I was called a child of the devil when I was learning to write at school. Things are better now but I remember watching for trouble when my left handed grandson started school. Needn’t have worried those victorian predujices have about disappeared.
David I'm from other half of earth and I remember they called me son of devil too
Why any idea...
Nothing is worse for me than writing on a spiral notebook left handed. You smudge the words and get ink or pencil on your left hand anyways, then the metal spirals dig into your wrist and starts to hurt after a lot of writing. I started writing on the back of the page just to avoid the pain at school, and still do.
Annoyances: Bumping shoulder and Arm to your neighbour while eating or writing, Difficult to find equipment when doing Arching, Rifle, etc., Teachers and Parents didn’t know how to teach me to write with the fountain pen so I had to figure it out on my own.
Advantages: The world of Right-Handedness made me learn how to use my right hand making me partially ambidextrous. I cut (with scissors and knives) only with my right hand and even learned Chinese calligraphy with my right hand. I can use my can opener with my right hand. My stuff get’s rarely stolen when I actually buy equipment for left handed people.
I'm a lefty, and I'm a very peaceful person. I hate wars and fights (though sadly I live in a country where there are always wars). I learned to use many instruments with my right hand- guitar, knife, scissors, mouse, I can even write and paint with my right hand (though I'm better with my left)... so now I'm more ambidextrous, but my first choice will always be to do things with my left hand
The thing I don't understand about my left handed buddies is that they really don't know what hand to use. They use left for some things and right for others. Where as a right hander can't do squat with the left hand.LOL
I dont think lefties should not go extinct cause its a gift from god lefties are kind and have very good fighting skills.
I am a leftie who never knew you could string a guitar upside down and play with your left hand, so I taught myself how to play with my right hand when I was twelve. I an ambidextrous cut paper with my right hand and bat with my left as well as writing with my left hand. I even shoot arrows with my right hand.
0:21 Fact: There is a book called Boruto that is a left handed book.
4:05 There's a bigger factor why most countries drive on the right. Most still had carriages on the left, like the UK, but with foot traffic on the right. (No sidewalks). During the French Revolution, the only people who were operating carriages were nobles, who were being hunted. Good revolutionaries, and those avoiding capture began to ride horses on the right, along with the foot traffic from peasants. Eventually this led to all traffic on the right. As Napoleon moved through Europe, French ideas went with him, spreading the all traffic on the right concept.
Meanwhile in Japan, they kept all their traffic on the left due to a decree during the Tokugawa Shogunate. All samurai (and ronin) were forced to wear their swords on the left side. This then meant that accidental bumping of swords as two samurai passed each other didn't happen. Before this, there'd been many fights caused by the insult of having your sword bumped by another samurai's sword.
As a leftie, life takes some getting used to. I lived without left-handed scissors for years of making cosplay outfits, but recently bought some, and life became SO much easier.
5:50 There were a few cultures who loved having a few left-handers around. It meant you could place a leftie with spear and shield on the right end of a shield wall and give a bit of flanking cover. From personal experience from my SCA days, it pays to have that when arrows are flying around!
Even the word dexterity implies right-handedness!
People don’t force right handed people to not use their right hand. This is something that’s very specific to left-handed people. I’m very sure the number of left-handed people is actually much higher than reported.
I was never forced or discouraged from using my own left hand and just naturally adapted to using right handed tools as I grew up because that’s what you get in this world. Both my hands do specific tasks but my left one is for precision.
As a lefty I will say it's not as bad as people make it seem and I feel unique in this world and it feels great knowing that some of the greatest people to walk this earth were/are lefties is really cool
Bowling: If you're a lefty, you need your own ball, as a regular ball is drilled for a righty.
As a left-handed person i can say, whe are depressed. And you cannot blame us
Now I get why teachers used to hit my left hand whenever they saw me used it to write 💀
Literally, got discriminated against for that was bullshit but after having smashed I really couldn't use my left hand to write for days
When I was little,my teacher tried to beat the Leftie out of me with the me tal side of a ruler. He cut my hand wide open by hitting me with it. I stood up and told him he would regret what he had done. I walked out and went to my Dad's work and told him what the teacher did,showing him my hand. Dad grabbed me by the shoulder,turned me round and he took me back to school to confront the teacher. When my Dad asked what I had done the teacher said I was cheating. Like any other Leftie kid my hand was curled round the top of my paper so I could write cursive the right way. When my Dad heard what the teacher told him,he decked the teacher (who passed out right there),grabbed me and we walked out and back to his work.
This is neat. I never really worried about things being right handed. That's life and I'm used to it so I have never paid it much heed.
Yet I had seen people struggle mightily and be defeated by left handed scissors.
Maybe left handed people exist just in case of the event we can't give up?
Hey thanks for this! It’d be so interesting to see one video about dyslexia too… I am both, left-handed and dyslexic 😝
Thanks again for the video!
Me too..and I'm a red head..I deff would have been burned at the stake.
Fun fact: discrimination against lefties is called being sinistral
I'm a lefty and love it. I have been able to adapt well to the right- handed world. When I was a child, both my grandmothers wanted to force me to be right handed. My mother put her foot down and refused. She said, "Jeanne's left handed and she's going stay that way." I am forever grateful to her.
Grew up fighting as a southpaw ... It's amazing how many people don't know how to defend the right side of their bodies in a fight you can end most fights pretty quickly by simply swinging for the right side of someone's face because most people don't bother to get both hands up
Also I'm slightly ambidextrous my only struggle is my handwriting I even throw right handed which adds to some of the weird stuff I do that throws people off I used to play baseball and people would just assume I was right handed until I decided to bat lefty which I think gave me a slight advantage
The difference between the incidence of left handedness is cultural, in most places in ghe past, and still many places now, it is common to force left handed children into writing or eating with their 'proper' hand
Being a lefty..it's frustrating to blow dry your hair with a regular blow dryer..you end up turning the blow dryer off or mess up the settings serval times before your hair is dry. You can buy a left handed blow dryer but they are more expensive. Sitting at a a round table that is full of people is excruciating..bumping elbows and all.
which hand do you hold the dryer with? i struggle with blow drying so much.
You never disappoint.
Great work!
Being a leftie is to be the black sheep. When I started school I was targeted by the class bully due to it, little did he know that I fight back and he left me alone after that. I have adapted to things that I can't be left handed in but it takes time to adapt, this makes us more aware of things and we don't just run on auto pilot as you get caught out sometimes.
Also at school I was a mean bowler but sucked at batting in cricket. No one could bowl to me as the ball always went behind me. But when bowling I would do spinners towards the wicket. As soon as the ball bounced they couldn't hit it as it spins the opposite way in the hands of a lefty and I was highly accurate at hitting the middle wicket.
When Rossi retired he revealed his biggest career secret as to why he was so incredible no matter the turn: he is ambidextrous.
Valentino Rossi?
@@Triginta1 yeah
I’m a lefty and dyslexic. I would be curious to know if lefties have a higher levels of dyslexia. Next being naturally left handed I write, eat and use a hammer in my left hand. Everything sports related I do right handed. I can write almost as well right handed but have to concentrate and write more slowly. As another post stated many common household tools are painful to use left handed.
The nuns who ran my preschool used to steal my left handed scissors. Seriously-- I was there for a year and they took my scissors away at least 10 times. Add to it that I'm colorblind (horrible choice on the colors for your graphs btw) and I have zero chance of doing well in preschool.
I love being a leftie. However, it arises some problems. When writing, as you said, my hands get darkened with the stains of ink and graphite. Also, I was a gamer a few years ago and I played on PC. It sucked to change ALL the controls on EVERY game I play to adapt it being my left hand the hand in the mouse. And some games didn't even have the option to change controls so I couldn't play them. Also, using normal scissors is a nightmare. I always thought I was dumb and I couldn't use scissors for whatever reason till I realized it was because scissors are also made for righties! Now I use lefties scissors.
I am a lefty who needs to be always conscious about where I sit at a table when more than 4 ppl are eating.
Subway card swipes(touches), hand writings, scissors, knives, sauce spoons … you name it.
But Trying to overcome those discomfort probably let me to have some of the traits I like about myself.
I like being one of the rare East Asian lefty.
I'm an odd lefty. I use my left hand to write and eat, swing a bat left handed, and generally use my left as my main hand. (Think of what hand you put on a ladder first, or use to brace yourself when standing up/getting down) However. I use scissors with my right, I suck with left handed ones, use a knife with my right and left, shoot right handed, use a bow right handed, naturally want to use my right hand to shift a car , which makes sense because I'd rather my dominant hand be on the wheel!! I can also write right handed as well. Oh and chopsticks I use with my left also, but I paint pictures with my left, and big things like walls with my right.....😅
Exactly like me lol😅
Power tools like skill saws are dangerous for lefties. The saw blade is exposed to the right side of the saw. For righties, they grip the trigger with their right hand and stand on the left side of the saw. This leaves them protected from the spinning blade. If a leftie grips the trigger with their left hand, they are standing on the right side of the saw and exposed to the blade. I've had to learn to use other tools like scissors with my right hand in order to adapt.
The latin word for left is "sinister".
My grandma tried to train me to write with my right hand by giving me small gifts if I complete an A4 page this way. She gave up within two month.
...scissors and writing, since every time i am writing, my pinkie smudges the ink 💀
Chill I’m a lefty and I bench 200 at 13 years old the average 18-year-old can only bench 135
I'm left handed, mostly for writing. However my natural stance for throwing, golf, cricket is right handed. It does feel more natural. However, during weight training, my left arm is stronger.
That was significant in my teens and early twenties when you'd need to meet conflict. No one ever saw my left punch coming. It was dramatic.
My left hand "feels" stronger to me, but when i did a grip test both hands were the same, which was weird. Also, welding is done with the right hand "left wards". You have to do it that way if you want to weld for a living
Being a lefty writing in fountain pens was the worst I smudged all my school work 😂 and what I written couldn’t be read so I wrote in pencil instead
My family is an oddity. Of my parents and siblings, 3 or 5 are left handed. Of my children, 2 of 3 are left handed. Of all my cousins, 9 of 16. Aunts and uncles, 5 of 9. I know this because we actually talked about it very recently at various family functions over Christmas. That gene runs strong in this tribe.
How odd...! I have had the complete opposite experience: coming from a large family, with four aunts and two uncles on my mom's side and four aunts and an uncle on my dad's side, with twenty plus cousins, I am the only left-handed person. My mother only knew of my great-grand father being a leftie in our family! And she in turn had twice as many aunts and uncles! Even in school I can't remember there being any other lefties in my class, certainly not once junior high school started... none of my friends were lefties either. But now, at work, we all of a sudden have several lefties at once so that's been nice, lol.
I’m honestly positive that it’s just because being left-handed is so heavily discouraged, and that there’s actually quite a lot more of us than thought.
@@Vioven Don't think it's that discouraged here in Finland where I am from. I was really surprised to learn that in countries like The US parents and teachers might still try to turn a leftie into a rightie while they are young! That never happens here, a leftie is readily accepted, would be weird to have the teacher or a mother trying to put the pen in the right hand in this day and age... We also don't have those weird desks in the class room that were designed for right-handed people only. Just normal desks here!
Of my siblings, 3 of 7 are lefties. I always thought that was interesting
I am full lefty,
It helped me in so many ways!.
Left footed in soccer (REAL FOOTBALL).
Me being left midfield/wing proved advantageous on so many occasions "score 1 for the lefties"!.
Fist fights,.. anticipating the opponent is key and helps alot.
I AM PROUD TO BE AMONG THE LEFTIES POPULATION😊
I’m a lefty and all I can say is learn to be ambidextrous. The world won’t change to fit your needs.
Pens and werd eaters are a pain. Plus chain saws cover you in saw dust
I'm right-handed, but I trained to my write with my left hand back in February 2023. One of the greatest decisions I made. It's so cool to sort of be a "lefty" :D
I am a righty, currently (yes I said currently because I am practicing for total of 6 months but did not find time to improve it) using my left hand to do everything my right hand does. and for a fact, using scissors are hard. Finding items are also not surprisingly HARD.
One advice to lefties is to also prepare your right hand for some situations, be ambidextrous, it has made my life better than before.
For me, it took about 15 days to get a handwriting good and fast enough to write on exams.
Im ambidextrous (use of both hands) and i can say, having two hands is much better then one. Still interesting how lefties have some benefits
Southpaw here. Damn your right handed scissors!
Fellow lefties, start larping, left hand swordswman are dope in a 2 man shield phalanx with a pikeman in the middle.
Im a lefty. My parents didn't beat it out of me, but they were told that they should switch me. Luckily, they rebelled against family and didn't do it.
F.. the world we are lefty
That part
I’m a lefty but I can only operate scissors ✂️ right handed but everything else I do is left handed
I remember as a kid in gym class, I’d always remain the last standing in the game “capture the flag”. There would be two people in the end trying to tag me, but it was always easy for me to trick them. I never realized how much of an advantage we do have on right handed people.. pretty cool, we deserve it lol.
Being a lefty it was not easy to learn to write as a kid when your teacher smacks our hand for using your left hand. I write with my left, bowl with my left, throw and catch softballs with my left but there are a few things i do with my right.. like scissors. Using my fork I can use either.
3 ring binders are the worst! (In my humble left-handed opinion)