I write left handed but throw right handed and catch right handed. I bowl left handed. I’m a switch hitter with more power left handed. I shoot a bow and gun left handed. I play guitar right handed. I use my left hand when I use any mechanical tools. I’m left eye dominant. My left arm is much stronger than my right arm and my boxing stance is lefty. I’ve come to realize growing up I catch right handed because I had to use a right handed glove and learned to play guitar righty because we only had a right handed one. Lefties are forced to adapt because this is a right handed World
I write left-handed and do everything else right-handed. As I am writing, people mention that I'm left-handed. When I tell them writing is the only thing I do left-handed, more often than not they say they're the same way as I am.
I've said for many,many years that lefties are more creative and are better problem solvers. I am righthanded and l didn't need a study or survey to figure that out, just my own observations.
@cheriem432 you have to buy special fountain pen nibs so that lefthanded people can use them, and just like golf clubs, they are more expensive than the right-handed versions.
@4:00 ; South paws have degrees of ambidexterity for a simple reason that most things (ie. can openers, corkscrews, guitars, grenades,...) are designed for righties. Us lefties have to face that reality. We have to adapt to ambidexterity no matter how awkward at times.
Well, some are actually ambidextrous and will change hands with a tennis racket to favor only fore hands. Also, In the game of darts it might be hard to decide, so without preference the hands could instead end up being assigned to different target areas on the board.
Ive bought many guitars of left handed folks and they put strings on upside down , I mean it works just not for me, they do make left handed guitars but a very very small %
I, my wife and our children are left handed. Unfortunately around 90% of the population are not capable of using their left hands. We try not to embarrass them .
As a 74 year old lefty I find this description of us to be pretty much accurate. I have always been a square peg in a round universe or maybe a round peg in a square universe.
I am female left-handed artist with allergies. Interesting information GLAD they stopped punishing lefties in school. My Uncle was physically punished in school and it damaged him. He was an architect. He would have been born around 1926??? I was an honors student thought school. Nice to hear positive thoughts about us.
@@anndavidson287 I 'm a lefty from another country I was great @ spelling but the right hand cutting tools scissors was hard to use. NOW MY INGLISH SPELLING NEEDS IMPROVEMENT it is not my main language I'M 79.WE LEFTY CAN USE BOTH HANDS NOW & HAVE SHARP BRAIN, PROUD LEFTY DESPITE IT ALL
People who want to understand you will even with errors. English is a crazy language!! Thanks for sharing.!! Lefties are great ...many falsehoods about us.!! Lies. 😊from Canada 🍁
I'm left handed and the only attention I ever got from teachers was negative. They ignored me or only called on me when they figured I didn't know the answer to the question.
Same. When I was in first grade, the teacher kept trying to force me to switch hands and use my right hand. It caused a lot of frustration for me until my parents found out. I’m pretty sure my mom made some very unchristian like threats to that teacher that day. From that point on, the teacher stopped trying. A year later, my mom started teaching in the same school so other teachers and my mom had regular conversations about me, which made my life even more challenging, seeing as I was a problem child anyway. Lots of spankings. First at school then when I got home…. Those were the good old days. 😂
I too am left handed. I eat, drink, & write with my left hand. I was told when I was little in a high chair the lady who raised me noticed I was using my left hand, And she kept taking my eating utensil and put it in my right hand, But as a lefty, I'd always switch back to my left hand. She never did like the fact that I'm left handed, But you can't force someone to be something their not. I am almost 64 now, & I'm still left handed. To all my fellow lefties, Embrace being yourself, & never allow anyone to try to change who you are. Being left handed is a blessing.👱♀️👍
I had a teacher in second grade back in about 1963 who told me that left-handed people were slow and she made me write with my right hand.. because as she said ..you don't want people to know you're slow do you?.. My mother noticed me using my right hand and immediately asked me what was going on I told her and she had a come to Jesus meeting with my teacher the next day
I’m a lefty athlete, (national champion water skier), a dean’s list student with an IQ of 160 measured throughout my life and a doctor specializing in orthopedics/physical medicine/chiropractic. How’s that for slow? The percentage of geniuses and professional athletes is over 40% of those groups, 4X greater than the 10% in the general population.
@@jameswetz3396 Your IQ & your accomplishments are awesome, However, being left handed has nothing to do with pace. It's the brain that does. I know this to be true as I too have a very high IQ and was accepted in Harvard University. There I graduated from med school also Law. Of course I am older now & am retired. I'm loving it.🤗💕🥳
Being lefthanded is not a preference. You do not decide to be lefthanded. Preference implies an element of choice. You may prefer coffee to tea, but you will still drink tea if coffee is not available. That is a preference.
@nickgov66, this isn't referring to the individuals preference for using a particular hand. It's talking about the brain's preference for using one hand over the other. In other words, the brain decides which hand the person uses.
I'm a leftie male, and due to the study cited (lefties die younger), I MADE my 3 kids all right-handed... Basically, always observing them closely, when each began reaching for things in the high-chair, if they used their left hand, I immediately and consistently placed it in their right hand instead. You had to work with them at exactly the right development time, and ALWAYS intervene, until they became consistent.
I usually use my left hand for anything I have a choice with. There are some things (writing, golfing, using scissors, using a can opener, etc.) that I do right handed because that was my only option, so I learned how to do it that way. I can only use a spoon in my left hand but can use a fork in either hand. I usually switch the fork back and forth several times during a meal, depending on which is more convenient, which drives some people nuts. Interestingly, I can only use a knife in my left hand but I can only use a scalpel in my right. I use a soldering gun in my left hand but a soldering iron in my right. I hold my phone in my left hand but I mouse right-handed. This is actually convenient because I can work on the computer or write notes while on the phone. Yeah, I know. I'm weird.
Don't worry me too. I can use tools in either hand but write left-handed and use chopsticks with my right hand that unsettled all my Asian wife's relatives since they all thought I was a "southpaw" as they call left-handed people.
@@martybuck I'm not a ping-pong player so I didn't know that was against the rules. Baseball has no problem with switch hitters and, as far as I know, you can pass the racquet between hands in lawn tennis. I wonder why table tennis is different.
I’m left handed. In high school I took short hand and the teacher said it was easier for left handers. That shows you how old I am! They don’t have that class any more. Or typing classes either. I hear there is no Home Ec . (Economic) classes. That taught you to cook, clean, sew, iron, and other things people don’t do to today!
Wow , that was one of my favorite subjects, home ec, industrial arts , physed, shop, drivers ed...oh and art class. But my spares were my favorite. Lol
I'm woman, left-handed, I always feel unique and always show it. Also I'm 99% agreed about the video, except that I'm not special with arts issues, but since I was a baby, as example, I suffer of migrane, asma, allergies, so on. I'm excellent in typing, and more. It's great to be a lefty
I agree. I have a right-handed friend who once asked me why I was *so* conscious of being left handed. I had never actually thought about it, but I instantaneously came up with a great explanation for her. She had asked "Why are you *so* conscious of being left-handed?" I replied "How many times has someone felt the need to point out to you the fact that you are right-handed?" She replied "Never". I said "My point, precisely." She got the point.
No it is not, you have abilities, did your parents raise you with good intentions? I myself came to realise who I am but because of a disfuctional family life, I was emotionally crippled throughout my young years to which caused doubt within my self. I was sole charge managing multi million dollar dairy farms (average size dairy herds 230 cows) doing everything and if you were a farmer you would understand for which I excelled in multi tasking.
I'm the only lefty in my family. I've always been creative in art and music. I started piano at 8, drums at 12 and ended up a singer. I was also a self taught architect for years. When it was pencil on vellum. My favorite job ever! I was a survey draftsman too. I throw and catch with left hand, so I'm useless in softball. lol I was diagnosed with Ehlers Danlose Syndrome this year at 67.
I was born left handed. My handwriting was very poor and during junior school an attempt was made to make me write with my right hand. I was made to sit on my own in a classroom and use my right hand to copy patterns while my classmates were taught rudimentary maths. Eventually I was allowed to go back to using my left hand and join my classmates once more. I have never been any good at maths.
This is really sad. I am left handed, and fought any attempts to make me right handed. I never gave in. I was fortunate to be good at math. Was in the 93% in the ACT for math. I do shoot a rifle with my right hand because the bolts are made for right handed people.
The same thing happened to me. As theonly girl in a school run by nuns, I had a hard time. I did want to write with the right hand but I just couldn't do it. Don't let them change what you are!!!
Right before our SAT exam, I was told to sit in the back of the room. When I asked why, I was told that it was because it was "easier for you to cheat". My response? "They can turn their heads to the left as easily as I can turn my head to the right!" Talk about stupid prejudices against lefties!
Same here. I was [ut in a Special ED class in elementary school for being left handed. While others were learning to read, and spell, I was taught to pick up blocks with my right hand. I had to work very hard in school just to keep up because I was so far behind everyone else.
I still get negative comments from people about being left handed even at age 60. I just tell people I can do most task equally well or better with both hands.
Yes, I attracted more attention from my year 4 teacher than other students. She used a ruler to slap my left hand with, when we did writing exercises. She hated me being left handed.
My 3rd grade teacher tied my left hand to my chair. She also made jokes geared towards me so the other students would laugh at me. Because of her stupidity, I lost a lot of what I had learned up to that point.
@@ClaireForsberg-rl6tc Terrible experience you suffered, Ma'am. Some teachers had a cruel streak in them. My year 4 teacher treated two other left handed kids with the same as me.
One of my family was constantly harangued when we were growing up. He is a lefty; the adults in our lives wanted him to use his right hand. That ended when our mom told his teachers to leave him alone.
Attitudes were rather strange then. Did they even once stop to think critically about it? If they had done so they would have realised tthat there is absolutely nothing bad about being left handed.
In school I got punished by bias teachers for being lefty. I learn quickly with my right hand, writing, throwing, you name it, I was very good with both hands.
I was slapped around too by my teachers for being a lefty one day I had enough putting up with that attack one of them. I have had a violent streak in me since that day
31 facts about lefties 1) Approx. 12% of the world is left-handed. 2) May contribute to Creativity and Artistic ability such as painting, drawing, & writing. 3) More common among twins. 4) Pioneers of innovation and artistic mastery e.g. Leonardo da Vinci, Michaelangelo, Isaac Newton. 5) Higher IQ than right-handed individuals. 6) Higher chance of ambidexterity. 7) Genetic and environmental factors could affect left-handedness. 8) Knack for excelling in sports. 9) Everyday challenges such as can openers, scissors etc. designed for right-handed people. 10) More common in males than females. 11) Slightly higher risk of developing allergies and auto-immune disorders. (Downer) 12) More prone to moderate drinking. 13) More likely to have language challenges. (Downer) 14) Multi-tasking mastery due to different problem solving abilities. 15) Might not affect life span. 16) Might recover faster from strokes. 17) Might share taskes more evenly between brain hemispheres. 18) More prone to sleep deprivation (Downer). 19) Twice as likely to experience migraines (Downer). 20) Nail growth is quicker on the dominant hand. 21) Typing on QWERTY keyboards can lead to efficiencys. 22) Earnings might be 15% more on average than right-handed. 23) 5 out of 9 latest US Presidents were left-handed. 24) Tend to draw figures with faces facing to the right, while right-handers tend to draw figures facing to the left. 25) May have challenges with language and scholastic achievements. (Downer) 26) Higher likelihood of being homosexual. 27) May have more chance of leadership success. 28) Allows you to stand out from the crowd. 29) Tends to have more self-control. 30) Tend to be more competitive. 31) Often get more attention from teachers.
I’m in England. About a decade ago, I attended a course on improving driving. There were 36 of us, and the course was a punishment for poor driving, for which we had to pay about £80. Of the 36, I couldn’t see one table of six, but of the 30 people I observed over the eight hours, 24 of us were left handed. Surely this cannot be a coincidence? 😊
We drive on the wrong side of the road, as far as us lefties are concerned. We steer with our 'weaker' hand, while we change gear with our dominant hand. It's the same for left footers, the accelerator is on the wrong side, we should use our left foot for acceleration, and right for braking. So it's no surprise that most in that group were lefties.
@@traceybanting3952 Glad I gave you a chuckle......that was my intent. btw, I'm a left handed retired Alaskan......Ever see an Alaskan flat tire? It's when your husky stops pulling the sled, rolls over and wants his tummy rubbed!!
Im a left handed psychiatric nurse who worked night shift. Now retired after 40yrs. 6 of 12 coworkers on nights were left handed. I believe there is a correlation between left handedness and focus on psychiatry.
As a kid all the desks were designed for right handed people. It was always a struggle to get comfortable. Also when you write your hand passes over the ink and smears what your write as you go if you let your left hand touch the paper. As an adult, very hard to find used left handed golf clubs, etc. The selection is much more limited.
About 30% of the people in our family (5 generations) are left handed. We are well aware of the natural superiority of left handed people. 25-30% of the people in the baseball hall of fame are left handed. Left handed geniuses include Albert Einstein, Sigmund Freud, Leonardo da Vinci, Isaac Newton, Nikola Testa, Marie Currie, Bill Gates. Rafael Nadal, Paul McCartney, Mozart, Beethoven, Bach, Rachmaninoff, Paganini, Jimmie Hendrix, David Bowie, Napoleon, Churchill, Picasso, Maradona, Messi, and Helen Keller.
So many right handed people think there is no difference between right handed scissors, but they would be absolutely wrong. When you use a right handed scissor as a lefty, you inadvertently apply pressures that spread the two blades apart. And that means there is no, or very little cutting abilities. Using left handed scissors mean that pressure makes the blades force together and cut without issue. There is a real difference...
I was born left handed. When I started school the teachers would beat my left hand until I started learning to use my right hand. For a while I became ambidexterous. Now I mostly use my right hand but sometime revert to left handedness. I was born in 1944.
I was born a lefty in 1960s, I grew up not ever hearing of the horrible manner in which authorities handled left handedness, so sad. I heard from my older sis later that she was treated like you for being left handed... she never did get over that abuse. I feel for you all.
Born 1945. Got both beaten and an "F" for using my left. So I refused to write anything at any time. Still can't write legibly. And yes, to this day I hate teachers.
No mention was made about left handedness and sports; if you're a left- handed pitcher, you can practically write your own contract. It's practically impossible for a runner on first base to steal second from a left-handed pitcher because when he's winding up the pitch, he's looking right at first base ‼️
@ChelleFish1966 It is true that because most batters hit from the left side of the plate, lefties do have the advantage when facing right handed batters. This because breaking pitches thrown by left handed pitchers, the ball will come over the inside of the plate. It is harder for the batter to make full power contact on the ball, or hit the ball on the bats' sweet spot.
I am left-handed and ambi-confused. I cut the meat on my plate left-handed, but I carve a turkey etc. with my right. Furthermore, I use my right hand for the computer mouse and brush my teeth with my left. I use right-handed scissors with my left hand, because my father explained to me how they work, I cannot use scissors in my right hand period. The person who put this vid together must be right handed. On almost every explanation of a left-handed trait, a right-handed person was used in the illustration.
Yes. I'm left handed. When my family migrated from Germany to Australia I was in Grade 2 and spoke no English at all. I learnt it very quickly though without any additional lessons - only within a few months. All the years at school in Australia I was top of the class in spelling and reading comprehension. Back in Germany I adapted just as fast and later studied Art, Spanish, French and English at University.
When I first went to school, my teacher tried to make me write with my right hand. I eventually learned to write with both hands, and I always had problems writing reading and spelling. It wasn’t until another teacher saw me switching hands as I wrote, that she told me to pick one hand and stop switching. From then on I only wrote with my left hand and I finally started to improve with my reading writing and spelling.
@@terrillfloyd this video they say left handed people are more likely to not be drinkers... this video is like fortune cookies, or more like the horoscopes.
I’m Left Handed. When fishing, I cast with my Left hand. When playing baseball I can Only bat right handed. I catch with my Left and throw with my Right. While playing tennis or racquet ball, I can use both hands. I can eat with both hands but prefer cutting meat with my Right hand. I can only write with my Left hand. I’m good at interior design and decorating and I’m quite creative. When hunting I can only shoot my rifle with my Left arm and hand, but when shooting a pistol I can use both hands. I invested well when I was young and retired at 43.
I am lefty-ambidextrous. I eat and write with my left hand, but do all sports with my right. I get migraines, but so did my mother and so do both my daughters, all righties. It runs in families, mostly with women. I am not at all creative and am terrible at art. Only about 5 of the things on this list apply to me. Most of these studies are bogus.
I use my left hand for writing and eating with just fork or spoon. Knife is right hand. Scissors also. Pc mouse. A lot of things I had to learn were taught to me by right handed people. Sp I had no ther option. I am the only left handed person in my entire family. I don't know why it is so. Knitting and crochet I had to teach myself because the teacher was right handed, and also sitting opposite me.
T'is true. I'm generally left-handed, but pretty much ambidextrous for most things, except writing and wiping my chooch. Conversely, there are some things I can NOT do left-handed. I can not play a left-hand guitar (Can't really play any guitar though...)and my right hand and arm are actually stronger than my left...only less so as I've gotten old.
I think most people are stronger in their less dominant (hand) arm. The dominant one does the precision work and the non-dominant one does the heavy lifting.
@@peterbaruxis2511 Hmmm...never thought of it like that- but that could be because my in my case, my stronger arm (which used to be my right- less dominant) did the old switch-a-roo and now is my weaker arm. It was funny watching that happen- It started making the transition in my late teens- well before my right eye went blind.... (I'm a weird one!)
My father, brother and myself are all left handed. I was in the eight grade when ball point pens came out. I turned the paper the same way as did right handed people did, and turned my left hand around and wrote across the paper, consequently my paper was smeared from the ink. It was a mess. My left handed teacher showed me how to turn the paper opposite of a right handed person. It worked. If I see someone turning their hand and trying to write the same way right handed people do I show them the difference. I wish this method could be taught in schools. And yes, I am a senior, senior. I can use my right hand for various things. I batted right handed. I taught y daughter how to make a bow while sitting beside me. She says know wonder her bows never came out right. Sit across from them, they will mimic you.
I'm a lefty, and I write away from my body, not toward it. When we were learning cursive I would keep my paper turned the way the teacher wanted it then, as soon as she passed me, I would turn it the other way so I could write! I guess I was the only lefty. My kindergarten teacher had to "import" a left-handed first grader to show me how to tie my shoes. I learned to crochet by sitting across from a righty and copying her.
In my family my mon, me and my 2 younger brothers are left handed. My dad is the only one right handed. In school growing up I was treated badly/ singled out because I was left handed, teachers tried to make me write with my right hand in the 1st and 2nd grades ,and the 2nr grade teacher flunked me and I repeated the 2ne grade befor I was allowed to be left handed, lots of people throughout my young growing years treated me like I was odd because I was a lefty. I was told to do thing the right way. I learned to ignore them. Even now at age 65, people who find out I'm left handed will say that is odd. I never let it get in the way and I live a very happy life. I was called south paw a lot.
70 years old. Went to Catholic school where you had to write with your right hand, or get the business. Except for playing guitar, I do just about everything else left handed, or both equally. I can throw with either hand very accurately. Played hockey left handed and was a left handed hitter in baseball. My son is like me, about 50/50 and his two kids both lefties.
I am left handed. I am not the least bit creative, never had an issue using tools or instruments or understanding languages, never drank Alcohol, do not get migraines, and am not competitive.
Showing my age here, but I had a crimson coloured fountain pen in primary school (with an inkwell in the desk) and the nib on the pen was slightly bent because it was a left handed pen. Always wondered about the logic behind it.🇦🇺😊
Things got easier for lefties now that cursive writing isn’t being taught in many places. The computer age eliminated a big source of agony for left handed youngsters.
I was made to write with the right hand when i went to school , i started playing drums around 18 and play left handed , Now many years later i write badly and play drums ok !
I was right handed. Broke my right wrist at 8 yrs old. Had to learn to use left hand. Now, most fine motor skills are left handed. I claim... "ambidextrius".
I'm a lefty AND I've had 2.5 strokes AND my recovery astonished my doctors each time - Damn, I'm truly impressed with your research, and most of the points made about lefties were true for me - wow! But I sleep like a baby and never prone to headaches, and I love typing. : )
I'm left-handed but, like most, I had to learn to do many things right-handed. Like using a chainsaw or circular saw. As a young child I was given a pair of special left-handed scissors prominently stamped "LEFTY" and after enduring constant teasing I learned pretty quickly to use ordinary right-handed scissors!
Lefties are better on keyboards because the qwerty layout was designed to slow down righties due to the mechanical limitations of the early manual typewriter - typing too fast would cause the keys to jam. So the advantage doesn't really derive from handedness per se.
I'm left handed and female so really unusual!!🤣🤣I'm also dyslexic and still managed to get a degree (as a mature student though) My dad was ambidextrous mainly due to his left hand being tied behind his back at school by teachers, who at that time thought being left handed was a very bad thing (so glad that practice is no longer done to kids) . But my dad first passed a pattern making apprenticeship then did an engineering apprenticeship.
I'm ambidextrous. Eat left, write left. Bat right, golf right, throw right and box right. But I use my left for accuracy. Use tools equally efficiently with either hand. Drives carpenters crazy. Such as hammers and screw drivers. I use the appropriate hand for the application.
I was the only one in my family who was a lefty. My mother believed most people viewed it as meaning you were mentally damaged/stupid. Any time she caught me using my left hand she would use a hazelnut switch on me. While my penmanship wasn't as neat with my right hand but all my homework was done right handed and my freedom was at school where the teachers didn't care. I loved school and was an honor roll student I had to drop out at 15 when I was married off to a 29 yo before I was "too old for any man to want.". I ran off a few months later to live my own life. This was back in the days when you could get away with lying about your age to get get away with working a full time job that paid a living wage. These days legislators have imposed laws to protect teens meaning a teenager who leaves untenable situations is going to have fewer options beyond homelessness, prostitution, etc. glad I was born a long time ago. Based on my experiences, most of what they say here doesn't seem related to my experiences as a lefty.
I was born left-handed. The dominant eye test proved it to me along with every other thing that I have a tendency to do. I had a second grade teacher who decided that was not a good thing and she made me do everything right handed rapped my left hand every time she caught me doing anything naturally. By the time I was in the third grade I was a stutterer. That haunted me all through junior high and part of high school. I finally got it under control simply by willpower and slowing myself down when I spoke. I drew comics until I was 22 with either hand or both. I could pencil with one hand and ink the pencils with the other; my style was comparable to Neal Adams’ style just not nearly as good. I have always been a good writer and continue to be. I had all these advantages of a left-hander’s unique brain wiring and ended up an ambidextrous person who stuttered when I got excited. Then a disease called Charcot- Marie- Tooth syndrome stole all of my physical coordination. In baseball I really had no dominant eye, so I could watch the baseball all the way to the bat from either side. I could switch hands playing tennis with ease; not so after I turned 22. I couldn’t even tie my damn shoes for about six months. I got a little better but never recovered. Just glad I didn’t pass it on to my kids. I did pass my left-handedness to one of my kids and I told him before he went to school if your teacher ever tries to change you, you tell me, I told the teachers before every school year to leave him alone as far as handedness. He ended up with more athletic gifts than I could ever have dreamed of. Changing the handedness of a child is the only known direct cause of stuttering. I can testify to that.
@CaroleP-nt9og About two percent of the population, but about twenty percent of professional baseball players. I do everything right handed, but bat from the left side of the plate. My brother was left hand dominate, but hit from the right side of the plate. Go figure.
My employer set up a team that was tasked with coming up with innovative solutions to our client's problems. Of the twelve in the group, six were left-handed (including me).
I was out to dinner with a bunch of friends. We were seated at a "horseshoe" table. I was seated at the edge. The waitress noticed that I am left-handed. I then said "everyone at this table is, also. She brought the manager over, just to stare at us. Disgusting.
@@cheriem432 I wouldn't take it too personally. For one meeting of that innovation group, I had all the lefties sit on one side of the table, all the rightes on the other. (Maybe I'm an a-hole too.)
I’m a 76 year old female who is left handed. I do most things with my right hand due to the unavailability of left handed tools, etc. The worse thing I encountered in school was the notebook paper always looking smudged due to my left fist dragging across where I had already written. My papers always looked messy 😂
Ahh! Spiral note books. The ring note books where worse unless the paper was removed which I usually did. My drafting teacher made us start in the upper left corner and at the end of class all the pencil graphite was on my left hand and smeared across my paper. He wouldn't allow me to start in the upper right so I had to hold my hand off the paper to prevent smearing and as a result I couldn't keep up. Very low grades but I knew and understood the drawings. I didn't think much of him. I learned a lot about reading blue prints from my dad prior to that class and only needed it for my industrial arts.
When I was in the 4th grade, Nifty paper came out with notebook paper and binders that had two holes at the top of the page. That was the best thing since sliced bread to me back then, but you’re right, I truly disliked those spiral notebooks ! God bless💕
I use a gel pen every single day, I'm left-handed, and I don't smear the ink. Why not? Because I hold whatever I'm writing on with the top facing to the right practically horizontal and write "downhill," thus my hand is not curled - it's below the line I'm writing, just like a mirror image of someone right-handed. (BTW, I LOVE the Sharpie-brand gel pens - the ink dries so quickly and they're so comfortable in my hand. They come in blue, black, red, and green ink colors, too.)
It is very straightforward for a left hander to write without smudging . All you have to do is hold the pen so that its tip or nib is well in front of your hand. It also means that you are able to see what you have just written as well as a right hander does.
When I began school the teacher got annoyed when I picked up the pencil for the first time with my left hand. She told me, and the rest of the class, loudly that using your left hand was "evil" and was not allowed. She pointed out that the latin word for left is "sinister". That made a permanent impression on a 5 year old.
Any insight into ambidextrousness? I write left handed, eat, throw a ball etc. I golf right handed, bowl right handed .shoot right handed. I have a dominate right eye as well. Every new activity I try, I have to figure out if I prefer left or right. Some activities I can switch back and forth easily and other times, not so much. .
I'm righty & often use the tape in y left hand so I can use my right hand to make a pencil mark- I'm looking at the numbers upside-down when I do that.
There's one thing about left-hand people, they're always in their right mind. What's worse, if you're left-handed and also use your right hand, you can sometimes forget which hand to use for the task.
I'm left-handed but the U.S. Army forced me to shoot right-handed. So I became ambidextrous in most things, after all, it makes living in a right-handed world a lot easier.
@@NickatLateNite It IS interesting that right handed people, apparently the majority, expect the left handed people to cope with their right handed world. And as we now, as a result of these posts and other life experiences, see the left handed, or predominantly left handed people all rise up to some level or degree of being ambidextrous, being able to use both right and left hands in certain situations. So we learned to cope better. I know many right handed people who can't do anything or any task using their left hand. So they are stuck predominantly being a single handed, right handed person. Guess all of us lefties should thank the right handed tyrants and their right handed world in making us a great deal more useful, productive and better at accepting changes and adapting our life around these changes. In fact, all of that would make us more advanced and perceptive. So thank a right handed person for making an environment that you as a once left handed person now has abilities far beyond just those single handed individuals. Thanks "righties".
@@NickatLateNite I am with you on that, but I really had to struggle to get that ambidextrous point. Shooting a gun, never having been in the military is one thing I do purely left-handed.
@@brucestafford1813 I should have mentioned I was part of the 'old army' during the Nam war, they didn't time or tolerance for that... Everybody was right handed!
@@alfredodedarc I hear you brother, turning 'ambi' wasn't easy, but I pulled it off with constant practice. Your lucky to stay civilian when it comes to shooting. Funny thing about that... I shoot better right-handed because of army training, than I do left-handed, self taught😂
Dexterity can not be a trait of left-handed people - quite the opposite. Left-handedness is definitely heritable - I belong to a Scots Border clan which was notoriously leftie - the turnpike stairs in their tower houses curve to the left as they rise. Right-handed attackers had their sword-arm squashed against the wall of the stair - limiting their freedom to deploy their weapons.
I played a lot of baseball back in the day. Throw right, bat left. I did some research, only about two percent of the population throw right hand and bat left. About twenty percent of professional base players do.
I've noticed that teachers tend to look at me when they are teaching and so one day I looked around the classroom and nearly all the others were looking at their books, drawing, looking out the windows, anything but looking back at the teacher. That was the reason that teachers looked at me I guessed, because when somebody is talking I usually look at them!
As to tools, I have always had a problem with right-handed hammers and screwdrivers. While eating utensils pose the same challenges, these are easier to master since they are used from an early age.
Lefthandedness ( according to the Bible) originated with the tribe of Benjamin. When Benjamin and his wife Rachel had twins...they were not only identical twins...but mirror image twins...one was left handed the other was right...other than that they were identical. I am lefthanded as well...and ambidextrous. I love the uniqueness of being lefthanded...and find the facts surrounding lefthandedness very interesting. I take my lefthandedness after my father.
Because I broke my right hand in high school the year I was taking typing class I learned to use only my left hand to type. This is actually an advantage on a computer because my right hand is free to use the mouse, drink coffee or turn the page of a report I am updating. Also being a natural lefty my Dad forced me to learn to do everything athletic right handed. I then taught myself to do these things left handed. I might have been a star athlete but I was too much of a runt.
the problem with sports ... Just as you have a dominant hand, you also have a dominant eye. You need to aim with the dominant-or master-eye for the most accurate shooting. like in archery , Usually your dominant eye is the same as your dominant hand, but not always. in my case its not the same .. making it impossible to practice certain sports as a lefty
I was brought up at a time where teachers were told “if you have a left handed student make them a righty” thankfully my mother father and stepfather berated the school board about that prejudice against a genetic disposition.
That was fun. Had to comment. I get sleep disturbance from a twitching leg. Migraines about every week. Over the years I have written scripts, poems, for a while I worked as a graphics designer in computer games, I draw images fot t-shirts etc. I sang in a band where I penned a lot of the lyrics. I hate losing. As a kid I often had teachers who I felt let me be my own boss in that I think they trusted I would put the work effort in so they didn't nag me as much. I am ambidextrous all over the place. I draw with both hands, I can write better than most righties with my opposing dominant hand. I have no idea which hand is my dominant punching hand in boxing - it varies. My strongest arm is my left. I can use a pen and a computer at the same time (pen in left hand, mouse in right). No problems with any right handed tools. It's pretty awesome being left handed! Although I smudge all my pen work....
Your conscious mind can only pay attention to one thing at a time. Your subconscious mind can keep track of things (such as the passage of time) that your conscious mind cannot.
I was left handed until I incurred an athletic injury. I do nearly everything right handed now, but for some reason I cannot use keys to open doors with my right hand. I do most things that require fine motor control with my left unless they require strength. I think it is strange.
I’m left handed, my Mum is left handed and my first born daughter is left handed, too. My Maternal Grandfather was also born left handed and they tried to make him change his preference, whilst in school.
Until relatively recently primary schools in the UK were still forcing left handed pupils to write with their right hand, as being left handed was considered abnormal.
Lefty, 71, my parents blamed TV for my being left handed, specifically Gunsmoke, facing and trying to outdraw Matt Dillon , who appeared to me, was left handed but he was facing me 😂 Thanks, Matt
In middle school, I tore my right rotator cuff playing football. The school assigned me a tutor to help me complete my homework and other classwork. I never told them I was left handed.
Use of scissors is Particularly is actually dangerous to left handers 1. left handed scissors are almost NEVER seen [although much more common than in the past] 2. many if NOT most right handed scissors hurt or actually CUT left handers 3. when forced to use right handed scissors a left hander is BLOCKED from actually seeing the actual cut. 3a Left handers are frequently accused of having little or NO talent when forced to use right handed scissors. I personally was struck with metal edge of a wooden ruler by an older Substitute teacher who believed the LEFT hand was evil or sinister [I was told this came from the ROMANS but directly from FRENCH who were part of the conglomeration that make ups ENGLISH]. She struck me and cut my knuckles to convince me NOT to use my left hand so evil could not grow in me. She was half successful in that I did not become Evil [by human standards] but I remained Left handed. BTW I am 70 and was born in 1953. In reference to the comment about 1926.
Being left-handed, most of my headaches come from right-handed people.
Oh man, so true and relateable.
😂😂😂😂
Haha! Left handed here too! Never been a problem for me, mostly for everyone else! 😂
sorry
💯😂 ditto.
I write left handed but throw right handed and catch right handed. I bowl left handed. I’m a switch hitter with more power left handed. I shoot a bow and gun left handed. I play guitar right handed. I use my left hand when I use any mechanical tools. I’m left eye dominant. My left arm is much stronger than my right arm and my boxing stance is lefty. I’ve come to realize growing up I catch right handed because I had to use a right handed glove and learned to play guitar righty because we only had a right handed one. Lefties are forced to adapt because this is a right handed World
I write left-handed and do everything else right-handed. As I am writing, people mention that I'm left-handed. When I tell them writing is the only thing I do left-handed, more often than not they say they're the same way as I am.
@@kainwi My teachers hated that I used my left hand to write. You always get ink on your hand and smudge up the words!
I've said for many,many years that lefties are more creative and are better problem solvers. I am righthanded and l didn't need a study or survey to figure that out, just my own observations.
@@chiefline7084 Yup! I couldn't even get the ink to come out of my fountain pen.
@cheriem432 you have to buy special fountain pen nibs so that lefthanded people can use them, and just like golf clubs, they are more expensive than the right-handed versions.
@4:00 ; South paws have degrees of ambidexterity for a simple reason that most things (ie. can openers, corkscrews, guitars, grenades,...) are designed for righties. Us lefties have to face that reality. We have to adapt to ambidexterity no matter how awkward at times.
I prefer to call it "Ambisinistrality".
Well, some are actually ambidextrous and will change hands with a tennis racket to favor only fore hands. Also, In the game of darts it might be hard to decide, so without preference the hands could instead end up being assigned to different target areas on the board.
What no rightie knows is that the bag you open by ripping of the edge are only made to do so on the right side.
I can do a few things decent left handed. But I think I might struggle driving a stick from the opposite side.
Ive bought many guitars of left handed folks and they put strings on upside down , I mean it works just not for me, they do make left handed guitars but a very very small %
I am left handed & the only thing applicable to me in this video is that left handed people live in a world designed for right handed people.
Exactly the comment I was looking for 😂 we definitely had to adapt at a young age
ALWAYS REMEMBER, "Left handed people have rights too" . . . 😂
Left handed people are the only ones in their right mind!
You have to be left handed to appreciate what a right handed world we live in. It’s no wonder most of us are ambidextrous.
Whoever produced this video wasn't a lefty otherwise they would've mentioned damn spiral notebooks. Legal pads ftw.
I, my wife and our children are left handed. Unfortunately around 90% of the population are not capable of using their left hands. We try not to embarrass them .
As a 74 year old lefty I find this description of us to be pretty much accurate. I have always been a square peg in a round universe or maybe a round peg in a square universe.
Ain't it fun?
As I've gotten older I now peel cucumbers with my left hand because the peeler is worn out the other way.
I am female left-handed artist with allergies. Interesting information GLAD they stopped punishing lefties in school. My Uncle was physically punished in school and it damaged him. He was an architect. He would have been born around 1926??? I was an honors student thought school. Nice to hear positive thoughts about us.
That sea of only right-handed desks made me crazy!
Even 'honors' students should have been taught to proof read their work thought school eh ? :)
Spelling was always worse subject.!! 😅
@@anndavidson287 I 'm a lefty from another country I was great @ spelling but the right hand cutting tools scissors was hard to use. NOW MY INGLISH SPELLING NEEDS IMPROVEMENT it is not my main language I'M 79.WE LEFTY CAN USE BOTH HANDS NOW & HAVE SHARP BRAIN, PROUD LEFTY DESPITE IT ALL
People who want to understand you will even with errors. English is a crazy language!! Thanks for sharing.!! Lefties are great ...many falsehoods about us.!! Lies. 😊from Canada 🍁
I'm left handed and the only attention I ever got from teachers was negative. They ignored me or only called on me when they figured I didn't know the answer to the question.
Grade school teachers used to beat my left hand with a ruler when I tried writing
Same. When I was in first grade, the teacher kept trying to force me to switch hands and use my right hand. It caused a lot of frustration for me until my parents found out. I’m pretty sure my mom made some very unchristian like threats to that teacher that day. From that point on, the teacher stopped trying. A year later, my mom started teaching in the same school so other teachers and my mom had regular conversations about me, which made my life even more challenging, seeing as I was a problem child anyway.
Lots of spankings. First at school then when I got home…. Those were the good old days. 😂
Yes - me too
Me too . Used to get slapped on my hand with rulers in front of the whole class . Horrid and abusive .
@@gregskaggs8521Same here . Looking back at that what horrible abusive treatment .
Jimi Hendrix, Paul McCartney Tony Iommi, Kurt Cobain- all left handed musicians who “ironically” changed music forever
and Mark Knopfler...
Paul McCartney was one of my favorite musicians. A true musical genius.
@@C.O.G.Ringo Starr also left handed!
@@AB-ye7bw , who said he wasn't? Not I.
Jimi Hendrix was RIGHT handed...
Do a simple Google search of Jimi signing autographs and you'll see.
He did however play guitar left handed.
I’m a leftie & proud of it ! 😊
I am right handed and not proud of it.I rather use left hand to masturbate.
Me too!
I'm a righty and I'm as proud as you are.
I too am left handed.
I eat, drink, & write with my left hand.
I was told when I was little in a high chair the lady who raised me noticed I was using my left hand,
And she kept taking my eating utensil and put it in my right hand,
But as a lefty,
I'd always switch back to my left hand.
She never did like the fact that I'm left handed,
But you can't force someone to be something their not.
I am almost 64 now, & I'm still left handed.
To all my fellow lefties,
Embrace being yourself, & never allow anyone to try to change who you are.
Being left handed is a blessing.👱♀️👍
Oh heck, I am proud to be left handed. I have one daughter that is left handed.
All these are true for me.❤
Same with me. Many older people thought lefties were demon-cursed! 😅 My wife is the only rightie in our family of five.
I had a teacher in second grade back in about 1963 who told me that left-handed people were slow and she made me write with my right hand.. because as she said ..you don't want people to know you're slow do you?.. My mother noticed me using my right hand and immediately asked me what was going on I told her and she had a come to Jesus meeting with my teacher the next day
I’m a lefty athlete, (national champion water skier), a dean’s list student with an IQ of 160 measured throughout my life and a doctor specializing in orthopedics/physical medicine/chiropractic. How’s that for slow? The percentage of geniuses and professional athletes is over 40% of those groups, 4X greater than the 10% in the general population.
@@jameswetz3396
Your IQ & your accomplishments are awesome,
However, being left handed has nothing to do with pace.
It's the brain that does.
I know this to be true as I too have a very high IQ and was accepted in Harvard University.
There I graduated from med school also Law.
Of course I am older now & am retired.
I'm loving it.🤗💕🥳
Being lefthanded is not a preference. You do not decide to be lefthanded. Preference implies an element of choice. You may prefer coffee to tea, but you will still drink tea if coffee is not available. That is a preference.
@nickgov66, this isn't referring to the individuals preference for using a particular hand. It's talking about the brain's preference for using one hand over the other. In other words, the brain decides which hand the person uses.
The narrator was talking about genetic "preference". It is understood that this is not a conscious choice.
@@cheriem432 , apparently one commenter didn't understand it.
I'm a leftie male, and due to the study cited (lefties die younger), I MADE my 3 kids all right-handed... Basically, always observing them closely, when each began reaching for things in the high-chair, if they used their left hand, I immediately and consistently placed it in their right hand instead. You had to work with them at exactly the right development time, and ALWAYS intervene, until they became consistent.
"YEP" 🤗
I usually use my left hand for anything I have a choice with. There are some things (writing, golfing, using scissors, using a can opener, etc.) that I do right handed because that was my only option, so I learned how to do it that way.
I can only use a spoon in my left hand but can use a fork in either hand. I usually switch the fork back and forth several times during a meal, depending on which is more convenient, which drives some people nuts. Interestingly, I can only use a knife in my left hand but I can only use a scalpel in my right. I use a soldering gun in my left hand but a soldering iron in my right. I hold my phone in my left hand but I mouse right-handed. This is actually convenient because I can work on the computer or write notes while on the phone.
Yeah, I know. I'm weird.
Don't worry me too. I can use tools in either hand but write left-handed and use chopsticks with my right hand that unsettled all my Asian wife's relatives since they all thought I was a "southpaw" as they call left-handed people.
I drive my friends crazy when we eat together because I change hands as I navigate around the plate. Always have; always will. Can't help it.😊
You're not weird and thanks because I do the same things you do and I didnt realise I did the same things until it was pointed out to me so cheers
I learned I was cheating when I passed the ping pong paddle between hands
@@martybuck I'm not a ping-pong player so I didn't know that was against the rules. Baseball has no problem with switch hitters and, as far as I know, you can pass the racquet between hands in lawn tennis. I wonder why table tennis is different.
I’m left handed. In high school I took short hand and the teacher said it was easier for left handers. That shows you how old I am! They don’t have that class any more. Or typing classes either. I hear there is no Home Ec . (Economic) classes. That taught you to cook, clean, sew, iron, and other things people don’t do to today!
Phys-ed and band class gone too I hear.
thats when i went to school too.
Wow , that was one of my favorite subjects, home ec, industrial arts , physed, shop, drivers ed...oh and art class. But my spares were my favorite. Lol
Why is shorthand easier for lefties?
Kids nowadays have it so easy 🤨😒
I'm woman, left-handed, I always feel unique and always show it. Also I'm 99% agreed about the video, except that I'm not special with arts issues, but since I was a baby, as example, I suffer of migrane, asma, allergies, so on. I'm excellent in typing, and more. It's great to be a lefty
I agree. I have a right-handed friend who once asked me why I was *so* conscious of being left handed. I had never actually thought about it, but I instantaneously came up with a great explanation for her. She had asked "Why are you *so* conscious of being left-handed?" I replied "How many times has someone felt the need to point out to you the fact that you are right-handed?" She replied "Never". I said "My point, precisely." She got the point.
I never knew migraines and allergies are related to leftiness! Who knew!?
I worked at the Post Office for 36 years. I'm left handed. Everything is set up for right handed people. I had no trouble adapting to it.
I'm left handed and nearly All of this information is false in my life.
i agree with your comment .
No it is not, you have abilities, did your parents raise you with good intentions? I myself came to realise who I am but because of a disfuctional family life, I was emotionally crippled throughout my young years to which caused doubt within my self. I was sole charge managing multi million dollar dairy farms (average size dairy herds 230 cows) doing everything and if you were a farmer you would understand for which I excelled in multi tasking.
I agree, really dumb and made up info!
75% is false
😂😂😂😂😂
I'm the only lefty in my family. I've always been creative in art and music. I started piano at 8, drums at 12 and ended up a singer. I was also a self taught architect for years. When it was pencil on vellum. My favorite job ever! I was a survey draftsman too. I throw and catch with left hand, so I'm useless in softball. lol I was diagnosed with Ehlers Danlose Syndrome this year at 67.
My sister in law has EDS. I’m so sorry and I’ll pray for you.
@@lisamrb4620 thank you for your kindness
I was born left handed. My handwriting was very poor and during junior school an attempt was made to make me write with my right hand. I was made to sit on my own in a classroom and use my right hand to copy patterns while my classmates were taught rudimentary maths. Eventually I was allowed to go back to using my left hand and join my classmates once more. I have never been any good at maths.
This is really sad. I am left handed, and fought any attempts to make me right handed. I never gave in. I was fortunate to be good at math. Was in the 93% in the ACT for math. I do shoot a rifle with my right hand because the bolts are made for right handed people.
The same thing happened to me. As
theonly girl in a school run by nuns,
I had a hard time. I did want to write
with the right hand but I just couldn't
do it. Don't let them change what you
are!!!
Right before our SAT exam, I was told to sit in the back of the room. When I asked why, I was told that it was because it was "easier for you to cheat". My response? "They can turn their heads to the left as easily as I can turn my head to the right!" Talk about stupid prejudices against lefties!
those left handed scissors sucked
Same here. I was [ut in a Special ED class in elementary school for being left handed. While others were learning to read, and spell, I was taught to pick up blocks with my right hand. I had to work very hard in school just to keep up because I was so far behind everyone else.
I still get negative comments from people about being left handed even at age 60. I just tell people I can do most task equally well or better with both hands.
Yes, I attracted more attention from my year 4 teacher than other students. She used a ruler to slap my left hand with, when we did writing exercises. She hated me being left handed.
My 3rd grade teacher tied my left hand to my chair. She also made jokes geared towards me so the other students would laugh at me. Because of her stupidity, I lost a lot of what I had learned up to that point.
@@ClaireForsberg-rl6tc Terrible experience you suffered, Ma'am. Some teachers had a cruel streak in them. My year 4 teacher treated two other left handed kids with the same as me.
@@channelsixtyeight068_ Some teachers?
One of my family was constantly harangued when we were growing up. He is a lefty; the adults in our lives wanted him to use his right hand. That ended when our mom told his teachers to leave him alone.
Attitudes were rather strange then. Did they even once stop to think critically about it? If they had done so they would have realised tthat
there is absolutely nothing bad about being left handed.
I am lefty and we are forced to be amidexreous cause its a right handed place and everyone missed Phil Collins is also a lefty!
In school I got punished by bias teachers for being lefty. I learn quickly with my right hand, writing, throwing, you name it, I was very good with both hands.
When I was younger my teacher beat me for using my left hand. So I had to learn to use my right hand not to get beat
I was slapped around too by my teachers for being a lefty one day I had enough putting up with that attack one of them.
I have had a violent streak in me since that day
31 facts about lefties
1) Approx. 12% of the world is left-handed.
2) May contribute to Creativity and Artistic ability such as painting, drawing, & writing.
3) More common among twins.
4) Pioneers of innovation and artistic mastery e.g. Leonardo da Vinci, Michaelangelo, Isaac Newton.
5) Higher IQ than right-handed individuals.
6) Higher chance of ambidexterity.
7) Genetic and environmental factors could affect left-handedness.
8) Knack for excelling in sports.
9) Everyday challenges such as can openers, scissors etc. designed for right-handed people.
10) More common in males than females.
11) Slightly higher risk of developing allergies and auto-immune disorders. (Downer)
12) More prone to moderate drinking.
13) More likely to have language challenges. (Downer)
14) Multi-tasking mastery due to different problem solving abilities.
15) Might not affect life span.
16) Might recover faster from strokes.
17) Might share taskes more evenly between brain hemispheres.
18) More prone to sleep deprivation (Downer).
19) Twice as likely to experience migraines (Downer).
20) Nail growth is quicker on the dominant hand.
21) Typing on QWERTY keyboards can lead to efficiencys.
22) Earnings might be 15% more on average than right-handed.
23) 5 out of 9 latest US Presidents were left-handed.
24) Tend to draw figures with faces facing to the right, while right-handers tend to draw figures facing to the left.
25) May have challenges with language and scholastic achievements. (Downer)
26) Higher likelihood of being homosexual.
27) May have more chance of leadership success.
28) Allows you to stand out from the crowd.
29) Tends to have more self-control.
30) Tend to be more competitive.
31) Often get more attention from teachers.
26 i agree with - most lefties are homos
I’m in England. About a decade ago, I attended a course on improving driving. There were 36 of us, and the course was a punishment for poor driving, for which we had to pay about £80. Of the 36, I couldn’t see one table of six, but of the 30 people I observed over the eight hours, 24 of us were left handed. Surely this cannot be a coincidence? 😊
We drive on the wrong side of the road, as far as us lefties are concerned. We steer with our 'weaker' hand, while we change gear with our dominant hand. It's the same for left footers, the accelerator is on the wrong side, we should use our left foot for acceleration, and right for braking.
So it's no surprise that most in that group were lefties.
No WONDER you guys drive on the left side of the road!.......lol
@@markpatterson5250 😂😂😂lol, lol!!!
Sad. Maybe you would all do better if you drove on the *right* side of the road, a la the US!
@@traceybanting3952 Glad I gave you a chuckle......that was my intent. btw, I'm a left handed retired Alaskan......Ever see an Alaskan flat tire? It's when your husky stops pulling the sled, rolls over and wants his tummy rubbed!!
Im a left handed psychiatric nurse who worked night shift. Now retired after 40yrs. 6 of 12 coworkers on nights were left handed. I believe there is a correlation between left handedness and focus on psychiatry.
I was amazed at how many nurses and doctors were left handed.
I’m a left-handed retired psych nurse too.
I'm a left-handed nightowl.
RUclips has to bring back the thumbs down numbers!
Hear, hear!
The RUclips thumbs down is the right hand
As a kid all the desks were designed for right handed people. It was always a struggle to get comfortable. Also when you write your hand passes over the ink and smears what your write as you go if you let your left hand touch the paper. As an adult, very hard to find used left handed golf clubs, etc. The selection is much more limited.
About 30% of the people in our family (5 generations) are left handed. We are well aware of the natural superiority of left handed people. 25-30% of the people in the baseball hall of fame are left handed. Left handed geniuses include Albert Einstein, Sigmund Freud, Leonardo da Vinci, Isaac Newton, Nikola Testa, Marie Currie, Bill Gates. Rafael Nadal, Paul McCartney, Mozart, Beethoven, Bach, Rachmaninoff, Paganini, Jimmie Hendrix, David Bowie, Napoleon, Churchill, Picasso, Maradona, Messi, and Helen Keller.
Richard Starkey, aka Ringo Starr, was left handed.
I'm a lefty, but use scissors right handed
Scissors and guitars.
Edit: I use scissors righty too; but, guide the paper with my left hand and just cut with the scissors.
@@michaelgarrow3239Same here
So am I.
Many of us learn that out of necessity.
So many right handed people think there is no difference between right handed scissors, but they would be absolutely wrong. When you use a right handed scissor as a lefty, you inadvertently apply pressures that spread the two blades apart. And that means there is no, or very little cutting abilities. Using left handed scissors mean that pressure makes the blades force together and cut without issue. There is a real difference...
I was born left handed. When I started school the teachers would beat my left hand until I started learning to use my right hand. For a while I became ambidexterous. Now I mostly use my right hand but sometime revert to left handedness. I was born in 1944.
Thats what happened to my mum.
You poor thing!
I was born a lefty in 1960s, I grew up not ever hearing of the horrible manner in which authorities handled left handedness, so sad. I heard from my older sis later that she was treated like you for being left handed... she never did get over that abuse. I feel for you all.
@@wynottgivemore9274 Cheers!
Born 1945. Got both beaten and an "F" for using my left. So I refused to write anything at any time. Still can't write legibly. And yes, to this day I hate teachers.
No mention was made about left handedness and sports; if you're a left- handed pitcher, you can practically write your own contract. It's practically impossible for a runner on first base to steal second from a left-handed pitcher because when he's winding up the pitch, he's looking right at first base ‼️
Right hand catcher who bats left hand.
#8 was about athletic ability
@ChelleFish1966 It is true that because most batters hit from the left side of the plate, lefties do have the advantage when facing right handed batters. This because breaking pitches thrown by left handed pitchers, the ball will come over the inside of the plate. It is harder for the batter to make full power contact on the ball, or hit the ball on the bats' sweet spot.
You missed it! Listen again!
I think in person-to-person sports righties just don't have the same amount of experience against the subtlties of what lefties deal them.
I am left-handed and ambi-confused. I cut the meat on my plate left-handed, but I carve a turkey etc. with my right. Furthermore, I use my right hand for the computer mouse and brush my teeth with my left. I use right-handed scissors with my left hand, because my father explained to me how they work, I cannot use scissors in my right hand period.
The person who put this vid together must be right handed. On almost every explanation of a left-handed trait, a right-handed person was used in the illustration.
Longevity wise...Paul McCartney is left handed and he seems to be outliving most of the other Beatles.
So is Ringo.
So true, I was trying to teach my son to crochet, he's left handed. Back in the day being left handed was evil.
The word sinister comes from left-handedness. People have embraced a lot of dumb ideas through the years.
What a crock! I am Lefty and I speak Spanish and French, and I am strictly straight!❤❤❤❤
Yes. I'm left handed. When my family migrated from Germany to Australia I was in Grade 2 and spoke no English at all. I learnt it very quickly though without any additional lessons - only within a few months. All the years at school in Australia I was top of the class in spelling and reading comprehension. Back in Germany I adapted just as fast and later studied Art, Spanish, French and English at University.
U! Weren't! 👂 Listening!
Not! "All" these apply.
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When I first went to school, my teacher tried to make me write with my right hand.
I eventually learned to write with both hands, and I always had problems writing reading and spelling. It wasn’t until another teacher saw me switching hands as I wrote, that she told me to pick one hand and stop switching. From then on I only wrote with my left hand and I finally started to improve with my reading writing and spelling.
I was born to an alcoholic single mother and grew up around alcoholic people in my family. I NEVER drank alcoholic drinks even today I hate alcohol
...yea, I stay away from left handed alcoholics too. :)
That has nothing to do with what hand you prefer. This video is ridiculous
What's that got to do with being left handed
@@terrillfloyd this video they say left handed people are more likely to not be drinkers... this video is like fortune cookies, or more like the horoscopes.
@@wynottgivemore9274 Oh okay.Thanks for clearing that up for me.I am left handed , and I don't drink so that makes sense
I’m Left Handed.
When fishing, I cast with my Left hand. When playing baseball I can Only bat right handed. I catch with my Left and throw with my Right.
While playing tennis or racquet ball, I can use both hands.
I can eat with both hands but prefer cutting meat with my Right hand.
I can only write with my Left hand.
I’m good at interior design and decorating and I’m quite creative.
When hunting I can only shoot my rifle with my Left arm and hand, but when shooting a pistol I can use both hands.
I invested well when I was young and retired at 43.
I am lefty-ambidextrous. I eat and write with my left hand, but do all sports with my right. I get migraines, but so did my mother and so do both my daughters, all righties. It runs in families, mostly with women. I am not at all creative and am terrible at art. Only about 5 of the things on this list apply to me. Most of these studies are bogus.
I use my left hand for writing and eating with just fork or spoon. Knife is right hand. Scissors also. Pc mouse. A lot of things I had to learn were taught to me by right handed people. Sp I had no ther option. I am the only left handed person in my entire family. I don't know why it is so. Knitting and crochet I had to teach myself because the teacher was right handed, and also sitting opposite me.
T'is true. I'm generally left-handed, but pretty much ambidextrous for most things, except writing and wiping my chooch. Conversely, there are some things I can NOT do left-handed. I can not play a left-hand guitar (Can't really play any guitar though...)and my right hand and arm are actually stronger than my left...only less so as I've gotten old.
Um, . . ."cooch"?
I think most people are stronger in their less dominant (hand) arm. The dominant one does the precision work and the non-dominant one does the heavy lifting.
@@peterbaruxis2511 Hmmm...never thought of it like that- but that could be because my in my case, my stronger arm (which used to be my right- less dominant) did the old switch-a-roo and now is my weaker arm. It was funny watching that happen- It started making the transition in my late teens- well before my right eye went blind.... (I'm a weird one!)
My father, brother and myself are all left handed. I was in the eight grade when ball point pens came out. I turned the paper the same way as did right handed people did, and turned my left hand around and wrote across the paper, consequently my paper was smeared from the ink. It was a mess. My left handed teacher showed me how to turn the paper opposite of a right handed person. It worked. If I see someone turning their hand and trying to write the same way right handed people do I show them the difference. I wish this method could be taught in schools. And yes, I am a senior, senior. I can use my right hand for various things. I batted right handed. I taught y daughter how to make a bow while sitting beside me. She says know wonder her bows never came out right. Sit across from them, they will mimic you.
I'm a lefty, and I write away from my body, not toward it. When we were learning cursive I would keep my paper turned the way the teacher wanted it then, as soon as she passed me, I would turn it the other way so I could write! I guess I was the only lefty. My kindergarten teacher had to "import" a left-handed first grader to show me how to tie my shoes. I learned to crochet by sitting across from a righty and copying her.
In my family my mon, me and my 2 younger brothers are left handed. My dad is the only one right handed. In school growing up I was treated badly/ singled out because I was left handed, teachers tried to make me write with my right hand in the 1st and 2nd grades ,and the 2nr grade teacher flunked me and I repeated the 2ne grade befor I was allowed to be left handed, lots of people throughout my young growing years treated me like I was odd because I was a lefty. I was told to do thing the right way. I learned to ignore them. Even now at age 65, people who find out I'm left handed will say that is odd. I never let it get in the way and I live a very happy life. I was called south paw a lot.
Lefty lives matter.
I'm Left handed. I'm actor, writer, filmmaker, martial arts master... I'm creative and I am good fighter. It's a plus definitely.
70 years old. Went to Catholic school where you had to write with your right hand, or get the business. Except for playing guitar, I do just about everything else left handed, or both equally. I can throw with either hand very accurately. Played hockey left handed and was a left handed hitter in baseball. My son is like me, about 50/50 and his two kids both lefties.
I am left handed. I am not the least bit creative, never had an issue using tools or instruments or understanding languages, never drank Alcohol, do not get migraines, and am not competitive.
You are highly unusual.
Showing my age here, but I had a crimson coloured fountain pen in primary school (with an inkwell in the desk) and the nib on the pen was slightly bent because it was a left handed pen. Always wondered about the logic behind it.🇦🇺😊
Being left-handed and using a fountain pen always made me smear My Ink😮
Things got easier for lefties now that cursive writing isn’t being taught in many places. The computer age eliminated a big source of agony for left handed youngsters.
I was made to write with the right hand when i went to school , i started playing drums around 18 and play left handed , Now many years later i write badly and play drums ok !
I was right handed. Broke my right wrist at 8 yrs old. Had to learn to use left hand. Now, most fine motor skills are left handed. I claim... "ambidextrius".
Maybe "ambisinistrous"?
I'm a lefty AND I've had 2.5 strokes AND my recovery astonished my doctors each time - Damn, I'm truly impressed with your research, and most of the points made about lefties were true for me - wow! But I sleep like a baby and never prone to headaches, and I love typing.
: )
I'm left-handed but, like most, I had to learn to do many things right-handed. Like using a chainsaw or circular saw. As a young child I was given a pair of special left-handed scissors prominently stamped "LEFTY" and after enduring constant teasing I learned pretty quickly to use ordinary right-handed scissors!
Lefties are better on keyboards because the qwerty layout was designed to slow down righties due to the mechanical limitations of the early manual typewriter - typing too fast would cause the keys to jam. So the advantage doesn't really derive from handedness per se.
Who cares?! It's an advantage, and we have so few.
I'm left handed and female so really unusual!!🤣🤣I'm also dyslexic and still managed to get a degree (as a mature student though) My dad was ambidextrous mainly due to his left hand being tied behind his back at school by teachers, who at that time thought being left handed was a very bad thing (so glad that practice is no longer done to kids) . But my dad first passed a pattern making apprenticeship then did an engineering apprenticeship.
I'm ambidextrous. Eat left, write left. Bat right, golf right, throw right and box right. But I use my left for accuracy. Use tools equally efficiently with either hand. Drives carpenters crazy. Such as hammers and screw drivers. I use the appropriate hand for the application.
Bush Clint and big Mikes hubby,cutting my left hand off as I type.😂😂😂😉⏰
I'm ambidextrous. Writing, eating, everything. I use both hands pretty much evenly.
I had to use my right hand when I broke my left wrist.
Luckily it wasn't a big deal.
Maybe you're really ami-sinistrous?
@@cheriem432 LOL... Good one. 🌞
Yes, I can eat with either hand also lol
I was the only one in my family who was a lefty. My mother believed most people viewed it as meaning you were mentally damaged/stupid. Any time she caught me using my left hand she would use a hazelnut switch on me.
While my penmanship wasn't as neat with my right hand but all my homework was done right handed and my freedom was at school where the teachers didn't care. I loved school and was an honor roll student I had to drop out at 15 when I was married off to a 29 yo before I was "too old for any man to want.". I ran off a few months later to live my own life. This was back in the days when you could get away with lying about your age to get get away with working a full time job that paid a living wage. These days legislators have imposed laws to protect teens meaning a teenager who leaves untenable situations is going to have fewer options beyond homelessness, prostitution, etc. glad I was born a long time ago.
Based on my experiences, most of what they say here doesn't seem related to my experiences as a lefty.
Soundsedlike a joke but: "Everyone is born right handed but only the gifted over come it."
exactly 😅
Leftie here. Always had good linguistic abilities. Am a multi lingual language graduate.
I was born left-handed. The dominant eye test proved it to me along with every other thing that I have a tendency to do. I had a second grade teacher who decided that was not a good thing and she made me do everything right handed rapped my left hand every time she caught me doing anything naturally. By the time I was in the third grade I was a stutterer. That haunted me all through junior high and part of high school. I finally got it under control simply by willpower and slowing myself down when I spoke. I drew comics until I was 22 with either hand or both. I could pencil with one hand and ink the pencils with the other; my style was comparable to Neal Adams’ style just not nearly as good. I have always been a good writer and continue to be. I had all these advantages of a left-hander’s unique brain wiring and ended up an ambidextrous person who stuttered when I got excited.
Then a disease called Charcot- Marie- Tooth syndrome stole all of my physical coordination. In baseball I really had no dominant eye, so I could watch the baseball all the way to the bat from either side. I could switch hands playing tennis with ease; not so after I turned 22.
I couldn’t even tie my damn shoes for about six months. I got a little better but never recovered. Just glad I didn’t pass it on to my kids. I did pass my left-handedness to one of my kids and I told him before he went to school if your teacher ever tries to change you, you tell me, I told the teachers before every school year to leave him alone as far as handedness.
He ended up with more athletic gifts than I could ever have dreamed of.
Changing the handedness of a child is the only known direct cause of stuttering. I can testify to that.
Allergies.
I multitask well
I’m right hand however I’m a women and I play golf and use my left hand to play! I was told that I’m a rare species
@CaroleP-nt9og About two percent of the population, but about twenty percent of professional baseball players. I do everything right handed, but bat from the left side of the plate. My brother was left hand dominate, but hit from the right side of the plate. Go figure.
My employer set up a team that was tasked with coming up with innovative solutions to our client's problems.
Of the twelve in the group, six were left-handed (including me).
I was out to dinner with a bunch of friends. We were seated at a "horseshoe" table. I was seated at the edge. The waitress noticed that I am left-handed. I then said "everyone at this table is, also. She brought the manager over, just to stare at us. Disgusting.
@@cheriem432 I wouldn't take it too personally. For one meeting of that innovation group, I had all the lefties sit on one side of the table, all the rightes on the other. (Maybe I'm an a-hole too.)
I’m a 76 year old female who is left handed. I do most things with my right hand due to the unavailability of left handed tools, etc. The worse thing I encountered in school was the notebook paper always looking smudged due to my left fist dragging across where I had already written. My papers always looked messy 😂
Ahh! Spiral note books. The ring note books where worse unless the paper was removed which I usually did. My drafting teacher made us start in the upper left corner and at the end of class all the pencil graphite was on my left hand and smeared across my paper. He wouldn't allow me to start in the upper right so I had to hold my hand off the paper to prevent smearing and as a result I couldn't keep up. Very low grades but I knew and understood the drawings. I didn't think much of him. I learned a lot about reading blue prints from my dad prior to that class and only needed it for my industrial arts.
When I was in the 4th grade, Nifty paper came out with notebook paper and binders that had two holes at the top of the page. That was the best thing since sliced bread to me back then, but you’re right, I truly disliked those spiral notebooks ! God bless💕
Interesting fact: Lefties tend not to use gel pens because the gel ink doesn't dry by the time their hand gets over the words that they just wrote.
I agree. I hate them.
That is funny! I remember smudging my papers as a kid!
I use a gel pen every single day, I'm left-handed, and I don't smear the ink. Why not? Because I hold whatever I'm writing on with the top facing to the right practically horizontal and write "downhill," thus my hand is not curled - it's below the line I'm writing, just like a mirror image of someone right-handed. (BTW, I LOVE the Sharpie-brand gel pens - the ink dries so quickly and they're so comfortable in my hand. They come in blue, black, red, and green ink colors, too.)
It is very straightforward for a left hander to write without smudging . All you have to do is hold the pen so that its tip or nib is well in front of your hand. It also means that you are able to see what you have just written as well as a right hander does.
i was 27 when left handed scissors came out i tried but i can only use right handed scissors
I am also left-handed, and I can use only right hand scissors. I am proud to be left-handed. I also do a lot with my right hand. Left-handed rule.
I love left-handed scissors!
When I began school the teacher got annoyed when I picked up the pencil for the first time with my left hand. She told me, and the rest of the class, loudly that using your left hand was "evil" and was not allowed. She pointed out that the latin word for left is "sinister". That made a permanent impression on a 5 year old.
Me to, went to a Catholic school, Everytime I was writing with my left hand, the nun would smack my hand with a ruler 🤬
Any insight into ambidextrousness? I write left handed, eat, throw a ball etc. I golf right handed, bowl right handed .shoot right handed. I have a dominate right eye as well. Every new activity I try, I have to figure out if I prefer left or right. Some activities I can switch back and forth easily and other times, not so much. .
For left handed carpenters, using a measuring tape is much easier . That seems to be the only tool naturally made for lefties.
I'm righty & often use the tape in y left hand so I can use my right hand to make a pencil mark- I'm looking at the numbers upside-down when I do that.
There's one thing about left-hand people, they're always in their right mind. What's worse, if you're left-handed and also use your right hand, you can sometimes forget which hand to use for the task.
I'm left-handed but the U.S. Army forced me to shoot right-handed. So I became ambidextrous in most things, after all, it makes living in a right-handed world a lot easier.
@@NickatLateNite It IS interesting that right handed people, apparently the majority, expect the left handed people to cope with their right handed world. And as we now, as a result of these posts and other life experiences, see the left handed, or predominantly left handed people all rise up to some level or degree of being ambidextrous, being able to use both right and left hands in certain situations. So we learned to cope better. I know many right handed people who can't do anything or any task using their left hand. So they are stuck predominantly being a single handed, right handed person. Guess all of us lefties should thank the right handed tyrants and their right handed world in making us a great deal more useful, productive and better at accepting changes and adapting our life around these changes. In fact, all of that would make us more advanced and perceptive. So thank a right handed person for making an environment that you as a once left handed person now has abilities far beyond just those single handed individuals. Thanks "righties".
@@NickatLateNite I am with you on that, but I really had to struggle to get that ambidextrous point. Shooting a gun, never having been in the military is one thing I do purely left-handed.
The USMC made me shoot left handed since I am left handed. I shot expert BUT I am right eye dominant!
@@brucestafford1813 I should have mentioned I was part of the 'old army' during the Nam war, they didn't time or tolerance for that... Everybody was right handed!
@@alfredodedarc I hear you brother, turning 'ambi' wasn't easy, but I pulled it off with constant practice. Your lucky to stay civilian when it comes to shooting. Funny thing about that... I shoot better right-handed because of army training, than I do left-handed, self taught😂
Dexterity can not be a trait of left-handed people - quite the opposite. Left-handedness is definitely heritable - I belong to a Scots Border clan which was notoriously leftie - the turnpike stairs in their tower houses curve to the left as they rise. Right-handed attackers had their sword-arm squashed against the wall of the stair - limiting their freedom to deploy their weapons.
Is it the Kerrs? The stairs in their castles are left-handed!
@@cheriem432 Yes - there is a term in scots vernacular - corriedeukit = Kerr-handed
i’m left hand d but play guitar right handed as when i worked as a mechanic. i used my right hand. i write with my left hand thow.
I played a lot of baseball back in the day. Throw right, bat left. I did some research, only about two percent of the population throw right hand and bat left. About twenty percent of professional base players do.
I've noticed that teachers tend to look at me when they are teaching and so one day I looked around the classroom and nearly all the others were looking at their books, drawing, looking out the windows, anything but looking back at the teacher. That was the reason that teachers looked at me I guessed, because when somebody is talking I usually look at them!
As to tools, I have always had a problem with right-handed hammers and screwdrivers. While eating utensils pose the same challenges, these are easier to master since they are used from an early age.
My Mother in law was left handed and she always liked to brag about how left handed people are the only people in their right mind! 😂
Lefthandedness ( according to the Bible) originated with the tribe of Benjamin. When Benjamin and his wife Rachel had twins...they were not only identical twins...but mirror image twins...one was left handed the other was right...other than that they were identical.
I am lefthanded as well...and ambidextrous. I love the uniqueness of being lefthanded...and find the facts surrounding lefthandedness very interesting. I take my lefthandedness after my father.
Great information ℹ️
Because I broke my right hand in high school the year I was taking typing class I learned to use only my left hand to type. This is actually an advantage on a computer because my right hand is free to use the mouse, drink coffee or turn the page of a report I am updating. Also being a natural lefty my Dad forced me to learn to do everything athletic right handed. I then taught myself to do these things left handed. I might have been a star athlete but I was too much of a runt.
the problem with sports ... Just as you have a dominant hand, you also have a dominant eye. You need to aim with the dominant-or master-eye for the most accurate shooting. like in archery , Usually your dominant eye is the same as your dominant hand, but not always. in my case its not the same .. making it impossible to practice certain sports as a lefty
Lefty here. I'm right eye dominate, and right foot dominated in soccer.
I'm a lefty but am not as smart. I had learning disabilities since childhood
You probably like me,is lefthanded due to your difficult birth But you will see you exel in other things😅
He didn't! Say ",every" Lefty. 🤗
I hope you know that just because you learn differently doesn’t mean you aren’t smart!
I was brought up at a time where teachers were told “if you have a left handed student make them a righty” thankfully my mother father and stepfather berated the school board about that prejudice against a genetic disposition.
That was fun. Had to comment. I get sleep disturbance from a twitching leg. Migraines about every week. Over the years I have written scripts, poems, for a while I worked as a graphics designer in computer games, I draw images fot t-shirts etc. I sang in a band where I penned a lot of the lyrics. I hate losing. As a kid I often had teachers who I felt let me be my own boss in that I think they trusted I would put the work effort in so they didn't nag me as much.
I am ambidextrous all over the place. I draw with both hands, I can write better than most righties with my opposing dominant hand. I have no idea which hand is my dominant punching hand in boxing - it varies. My strongest arm is my left. I can use a pen and a computer at the same time (pen in left hand, mouse in right). No problems with any right handed tools. It's pretty awesome being left handed! Although I smudge all my pen work....
GREAT VIDEO THANKS YOU GOODNESS 🌟 DAPHNE COTTON ALWAYS 💜
I’m a lefty. I eat and write left handed but do almost everything else right handed.
Hi.enjoyed comments about left handed. As me and young sister are both left hand despite my late mother and father was right hand
Your conscious mind can only pay attention to one thing at a time. Your subconscious mind can keep track of things (such as the passage of time) that your conscious mind cannot.
I was left handed until I incurred an athletic injury. I do nearly everything right handed now, but for some reason I cannot use keys to open doors with my right hand. I do most things that require fine motor control with my left unless they require strength. I think it is strange.
Wow I got called a southpaw, & I couldn't figure out how one hand was better at some things than the other 💚
I’m left handed, my Mum is left handed and my first born daughter is left handed, too. My Maternal Grandfather was also born left handed and they tried to make him change his preference, whilst in school.
Until relatively recently primary schools in the UK were still forcing left handed pupils to write with their right hand, as being left handed was considered abnormal.
Interestingly my oldest son and many other lefties are very artistic and draw very well. And they're in their Right Mind! LoL!
What is a ca nopener?
It’s a gadget made for righties.
One who rejects Canada?
The bassist you depicted is rightly
Lefty, 71, my parents blamed TV for my being left handed, specifically Gunsmoke, facing and trying to outdraw Matt Dillon , who appeared to me, was left handed but he was facing me 😂 Thanks, Matt
In middle school, I tore my right rotator cuff playing football. The school assigned me a tutor to help me complete my homework and other classwork. I never told them I was left handed.
Use of scissors is Particularly is actually dangerous to left handers 1. left handed scissors are almost NEVER seen [although much more common than in the past] 2. many if NOT most right handed scissors hurt or actually CUT left handers 3. when forced to use right handed scissors a left hander is BLOCKED from actually seeing the actual cut. 3a Left handers are frequently accused of having little or NO talent when forced to use right handed scissors. I personally was struck with metal edge of a wooden ruler by an older Substitute teacher who believed the LEFT hand was evil or sinister [I was told this came from the ROMANS but directly from FRENCH who were part of the conglomeration that make ups ENGLISH]. She struck me and cut my knuckles to convince me NOT to use my left hand so evil could not grow in me. She was half successful in that I did not become Evil [by human standards] but I remained Left handed. BTW I am 70 and was born in 1953. In reference to the comment about 1926.
Sinister lefty and proud. 😊. Tired of jokes so I'll OWN it.!!
Shop power tools are also difficult to use left handed.