YES!! YOU ARE 💯% RIGHT!! I HATE IT! AND, WHEN GOING OUT TO EAT I SIT AT THE END OF THE TABLE, DEPENDS ON WHAT SIDE I SIT ON. IF NOT, I KEEP BUMPING ELBOWS WITH THE RIGHT HANDED PERSON BESIDE ME!! 😢
Me too! It always cracks me up when someone says "You're left-handed"! Like I'm the only one in the world! We're rare, I know, and therefore to be cherished!
I’m a righty, I had a measuring cup that I always had to “turn around” to read the numbers , I finally realized it was a “ lefty”, so, I gave it to my left handed granddaughter, making both of us happy.
Yes, and very creative but depends in when and in what environment they have been raised. My relative who is 85 is a famous painter and teaches Feldenkrais
MOST EVERY PARENT CARRY THEIR GROWING BABY ON THEIR LEFT HIP AND THE BABY REACHES FOR EVERYTHING WITH THEIR LEFT HAND 🫲 & THIS IS ALSO A LARGE ROLE IN HOW THE CHILD LEARNS TO USE THE LEFT HAND MORE & MORE…
I'm 80, my mother went to school with a potential leftie that was Forced to write right handed. She told me that when she discovered my left handiness, she decided to not let the teachers force me to be right handed. Thanks mom.
My mother did try. I remember sitting with her at the table at 3 or 4, and she kept trying to make me write with my right hand. It felt like my right hand wasn't attached to my brain. She gave up when I became hysterical. Later in school, the teacher tried the same thing. I told Mom, and it was the one time on my whole life that she ever stood up for me.
My grandmother has her fingers slapped with a yard stick when caught at school writing with her left hand. The teacher told her mother the devil was controlling her left hand & had to be beat out of her, leaving welts, bruising, broken fingers. This was accepted thinking. It was considered evil entering your child where drastic measures should be taken to prevent the spread of evil throughout the body. My grandmother became the first woman in her family to attend college. Her left handedness made her unable to find a man who was willing to marry her. So she had to work & became a school teacher teaching all her students that it was ok to use your left hand & encouraged it. She saved her money & at age 28 made a trip to visit her parents village in Denmark. It was there she met her future 21 year old husband & she was 28. She had to lie to everyone about her age because women her age did not marry. She was an old maid. So she may have been 30 or older. 28 was her lie & she loved to 80. My grandfather lived to 88. He was right handed. My mom married a left handed man my father & all their kids were left handed except the stupid one my sister who was right handed.
My eldest son is left handed but was not forced to use his right hand. He just learnt to write without smudging his work. My daughter uses both naturally she is more left handed. When learning to eat with a spoon she would pass it from one hand to another it was quite a while before we realised she was more left handed than right 😅
Teachers tried to change my brother but he flat out refused, with Mom's support. He was the only leftie in the family when growing up. I am deaf in my right ear so we always sat together at the table with him on the left and me on the right which could accommodate both his handedness and my hearing.
As a leftie woman I had 3 kids; I remember them using spoons/crayons etc at 1 year old with their right hands....and I tried to switch the item to their LEFT hand several times with no success! 😂 Am I the ONLY person whose ever done it in reverse? (Right handed to left?) I just REALLY always wanted a lefty because there's 0, ZIP, NADA, ZERO lefties anywhere in my family (including cousins/aunts uncles/grandparents etc).
My daughter was left handed and was very proud of it. She passed sway from a fatal heart attack in 2003 at 35. She was loving and kind to everyone , with a smile that could light up a room. I miss her every single day. RIP my sweet girl.
I too was tortured by my 1st grade teacher for being left handed. She refused to teach me to read and told me I was “slow” and stupid. She held me after school every day so I couldn’t walk home with my friends.
I’m left handed and when I went to catholic school at 5 years old, one of the sisters shoved my left arm up my back and forced me to start writing with my right hand! She said only the devils children write with their left hand!! My mother went up to the school and confronted the very nasty nun. After my mum was through with her she never bothered me again! My mum was class 😂
@julieford148 I had the same problem with a nun at my daughters school. After I invited her outside, and she didn’t want to go, my daughter being left handed was no longer a problem. This was in the 80’s
@julieford148 I went to a catholic school on the island of Malta in the 1960s. Every time I used my left hand those evil penguins would smack my hand with something. I became very ambidextrous
70 year old woman here. Starting school in 1959, the teachers told my mother they could "fix" my lefthandedness. My feisty Scottish mother, a nurse and a war bride, told them to leave me alone, she was convinced it would cause brain damage. Loved my Mum! ❤
Same thing grew up in Scotland and got hit every day by a yard ruler with a brass edge. Lost it one day and may of hit the teacher with a left uppercut. So they sent me off for testing. Its was only a few months before mandatory IQ testing in Scotland at age 11 I ended up in a school for the gifted the teacher didn't. 😂 anyhow parents moved to Australia not long after. So just lived with being a leftie they didn't really care here.
When my late husband was at College he was studying Building and Design or something like that. One day he became aware that three Tutors were standing behind him. This was because he was drawing with his left hand whilst at the SAME time writing with his right! He was a very clever man, with a wonderful memory right up till the day he past away at 91.
@robertsklenka5823I'm a strange one too - write left, throw right, kick left, bat sports right, target sports left, musical instruments left, right eye dominant...
Yes not only am I a left-handed woman, but I'm also green-eyed which is only 2% of the population. And I'm only 4 ft 11 and I think I'm pretty darn great. Rare yeah but heck who wants to be like everybody else right😊
As a lefty teenager I visited a friend in her apartment building. The evening went on and I didn't think much about how the place felt, other than very comfortable. Finally, she asked me about it and revealed the architect told me he was left handed and had all the doorways and hardware oriented for left handed people so right handed people would have a taste of what left handed people deal with every day.
I switched a vegetable peeler to suit my needs and was very happy with it. When one of my daughters tried to use it she complained that it didn’t work well. “Welcome to my life!” Except I’m mostly used to doing things awkwardly, like starting chainsaws.
I'm ambidextrous & I never get lost. Blind fold me, spin me around 3 times & I'll find my way out somehow. So what does that mean? My husband is left-handed & gets lost all the time, but will not stop & ask for directions either, that must be the man part of his brain, plus he sucks at video games but is very competitive at a lot of things. But I too am very, very competitive. Our two children are right-handed though. They can play video games with ease. Must have got that from their mother. 😂😂
I’m a lefty woman which is even rarer. The biggest issue was when doing charting as a nurse. As writing is left to right my arm would smear the writing. One time my art teacher humiliated me by lifting up my arm to show the class the paint smears on my arm. Many tools are designed right handed. It’s a right handed world for sure. Yes and I’m very smart and creative as well.
As a left-hander/southpaw, one day, four strangers and I were sitting at an outdoor table at a bar/restaurant, and when it came time to pay our respective tabs, all five of us were left-handed, as we realized it when we were simultaneously signing our checks. We were all so tickled about that, and wondered what the mathematical probability of that occurence was. Nevertheless, it was a neat and über-rare occasion.
My late son was left handed and he was amazing. He was a brilliant sat nav too. We followed him on holidays and he always knew the right way. Miss him so much. Tears in my eyes watching this.
So sorry, no one should able to utter the words my late son. I also have a left handed son, the younger, he is a high functioning autistic young man and I adore him
I think most lefties are "semi" ambidextrous. We've had to become that to adapt to the right handed world. I can't write with my right hand, but there are a LOT of things I just can't do with my left hand that can only be done with my right. I don't know any lefties that are truly and totally ambidextrous.
I’m a lefty with an O- Blood Type. lol Sometimes people don’t get the way I think and analyze things. But, when you find that person who gets you and functions the same way, it’s amazing!
I am also a left handed person with an 0- blood type. But something extraordinary happened when I was in school. I taught myself how to write from the right side of the paper to the left. I script. The teacher said it is called Mirror Writing and Only Left Handed people can write this way. It’s extremely easy once you practice. Leonardo DeVinci who was also a Left Handed person, would write Mirror Writing frequently. Very interesting how our Minds Work!!
@maryflanagan8660Yes, I can write in cursive, from right to left.....my Dad was a lefty, played piano, banjo, guitar, because his teachers hit his left hand with a ruler, when he used his left hand.....caused stuttering.....
I'm 74 now and I'm left-handed. My mother tried everything to try and make me "normal" but nothing worked. When my time comes I am going to have a serious word with her
Ignorance and brainwashing make people go against things ...as a child my father tortured me for being left.handed, he used to hit my left hand with a spoon and ordered me to use right hand. He would even yell at me saying that God would punish me because left handed people were from the devil.....it came to the point that I stuttered and unable to use my right hand was frustrating. A teacher once came for a visit and told my parents that I had speech problems and recommended a therapist who after talking to me gave them a scolding and explained to them why I was lefthanded. Father stopped the torture but not his uncanny beliefs. My son is lefthanded was bullied when in school but is very smart and knew how to handle the ignorant ones❤
I’m a lefty, my children are not. But two of my grandchildren are left handed. I love it. Left handed people are more creative! Even if your force them to use their right hand, they will create! I Love This!
I'm not a lefty, but I'm wildly creative. I do, however, have a lefty granddaughter and this child will create circles around me. Her grandfather, on the other hand (🙃) is left-handed and there's not a creative bone in his body 😁
This might be my situation as I’m left-handed and it does run in the family. My boys are not. Although I do think my youngest should have been left-handed, but he is not. I just recently became a grandmother, and my grandson seems to gravitate towards his left hand as early as two hours old! He’s only one so we have to give it time, but I am rooting for him being a SouthPaw.
My paternal grandfather was also left handed like I, and my dad right handed. They say it sometimes skips a generation. All three my daughters are right handed. My grand daughter is too young to determine dexterity.
My daughter is left handed. She is incredibly intelligent, very strong willed and determined. She has excelled at her job. Many of her skills are self-taught as when she wants to learn something, she digs her heals in, studies and researches until she knows the topic very well!! This draws people to her for assistance as she has become the “go to” person. She will then train/assist the others. This does create extra work load for her, as even when she takes a day off or if someone goes into the office on the weekend, coworkers call her for help. It seems her phone never stops. She’s the only lefty in the immediate family. I am super proud of her! I can attest to many things this video mentions when I consider my daughter. ❤️
Truly cool! My wife is the same way and at only 6 years old my granddaughter is her grandma child, left handed and a brilliant sponge of knowledge. My uncle was the same. In my opinion lefties are awesome 👏
I'm a lefty on most things; writing, power tools, etc.. But I play guitar, golf, and swing a bat right- handed. However I throw and catch left-handed. And I can bowl equally badly with either hand.
My second son is a lefty but he plays golf with his right, as well as throw a ball and so on. My fourth son is right handed and the only thing he does right handed is write, everything else from sports to eating he does left handed. I found that out when he was 5 and I had purchased his first set of golf clubs, he said "These golf clubs are broken" I realized then he's a lefty with everything else! My second son is a twin.
I’m the right handed offspring of 2 left handed parents. My dad, born in 1916, was punished in school for it. My mother, born in 1923, was NOT punished. There were very strict rules for writing but the teacher simply tilted her paper the opposite way. My mother had exquisite writing. I was tormented, not for handedness, but for being a redhead! There’s always something…
I was born in 1955. Nuns were teaching in those days and I received the wooded ruler on my knuckles often for writing with my left hand. That is why I’m ambidextrous.
It's funny you say that I was born in the '60s and my dad would force me to eat with my right hand. It was so hard! I would end up pouring it all over my self and missing my mouth. But I've made up for it. I'm really good at geometry and spatial reasoning for some reason LOL
@LilithJullifoh geez... Yeah, some doctors can be idiots. I'm glad I was underage because the doctor who diagnosed me, made it seem like my knees were way worse than they are & would've done knee replacement surgery. I found out (through some very shocked doctors) that I did not need that because I would've had to go in for surgery every 5 - 8 years.
I knew my son was left handed before he was born just from ultrasounds. He is 15 now and is the smartest kid I've ever seen. He's way ahead of his grade level and is actually in a program where he's studying medicine while in high school. He has been planning his future career (doctor) since he was 4 yrs old. Lefties are truly extraordinary, intelligent, and special people 😊
@MICHELLEKuzel-ut5zb Oh, that's not nice. If only 1 in 10 are lefties they have to be a bit special. I have the BRIGHTEST GREEN eyes you've ever seen and I think it's special (though I still wish I had blue cuz they are a bit unnatural looking and weird at the same time).
@MICHELLEKuzel-ut5zb Awh, that's mean. If only 1 in 10 are lefties then they are a bit special. I have BRIGHT GREEN eyes and I think that is special (though I really wish I had blue eyes )
Thank you for mentioning the spiral notebook, scissors and that most of us Lefties are ambidextrous. And I still hate chalks and whiteboard markers. They smudge. But I was able to practice handwriting with my right hand. And cheers to us all women lefties!
im a lefty, my wife didn't understand the shit we go thru . we went camping and she bought sporks for us, well the knife part was one the wrong side. and when i mentioned it she went on amazon and found left handed spiral notebooks, sporks, writing pens , all kinds of stuff. also when we go to a restaurant she knows where i need to sit ( because of elbows bumping ) . she also started noticing actors who are left handed. every movie she would say " i didn't know she or he was left handed" .
My only brother and I are left handed. My first grade teacher made me write with my right hand. Nevertheless, I maintained my left hand predominance but became apt at using my right hand. This became a blessing in disguise when I broke my left arm.
One small pleasure I've had over the years is when I found scissors properly moulded for a left-hander. It's fun watching righties try to use them as the moulding cuts into their fingers. Just like I've had to contend with forever.
same, I always say, It's you right handed ppl that are crazy, we left handed ppl are in our right mind. ;) I'm left handed and red headed as well, so I fit into yet another low percentage category. I don't feel extra special or anything, but it is pretty cool.
Another Leftie here. Worked as a PhD-level scientist in Biotechnology my entire career, and am one of the principal inventors of PCR (Polymerase Chain Reaction), a technology that resulted in a Nobel Prize in Chemistry. Feel honored to have made a contribution to Society working as a Scientist. Cheers.
huh! and i just figured out how to work my iphone lol good job my daughter is left handed and had a 98% average from kindergarten to grade 12 shes currently a CEO for a large oil and gas company and is doing well she never brought home homework (always did it on the bus) and was tutoring kids when she was in grade 3 one time she asked me about a math question when she was in grade 11 and i laughed and replied 'isnt there a homework hotline you can call' ya i hated school graduated but was glad to get out of there lol
@gertie9881: Kary won the Nobel Prize for the _conception_ of PCR, but Kary didn’t do *any* of the _actual scientific R&D_ to get it to work in the *real world:* with Accuracy, Precision, Repeatability, and Reproducibility. That hard, extensive and *real* scientific work was done by Randy Saiki, Glenn Horn, David Mack, Shirley Kwok, and myself in the Human Genetics Department at Cetus Corporation, under the Direction of Henry Erlich and John Sninsky. I know because I was there and part of that team. Cheers.
@JuneTranmerWellbeing The actual *R&D* for getting PCR to work with true scientific rigor was done by Glenn Horn, Randy Saiki, David Mack, Shirley Kwok, and myself under the direction of Henry Erlich and John Sninsky. Kary didn’t do *any* of the _ACTUAL_ scientific work. And PCR is very effective for detecting genetic and infectious diseases, genotyping, DNA sequencing, and forensic DNA analysis. Cheers.
I, and two of my sons are left handed. We are very creative in art, music and writing. There also seems to be a strong ( intuitive) side to us lefties.
My profession is as a Portrait Painter. I was dedicated to portraiture. I won a national award, and Am retired now. It was such fun! For ever, women were ignored, and their work also.🎉🎉😊not now.
A lot of musicians are lefty , I’m ambidextrous so I excel at anything dexterity based and I’m really creative but being ambidextrous causes other issues as don’t have a dominant side , I really struggle with languages growing up and I also have memory issues because of it .. but I never enjoyed academic stuff and always enjoyed and been into stuff that requires dexterity so I’m all good because of it .. and I can melt peoples minds trying to get them to do what I’m doing with my hands , my favourite is pat belly and rub head , I can do one pat , one rub on belly and the opposite on head then switch hands and do the same and do it fast and I can write with both hands at the same time but mirror what I’m writing so everything with the left hand is written backwards from right to left and I can write fluently like that , watching right or lefts try this make me laugh because it’s so easy for me I don’t even need to think about it and watching people get tied up makes me chuckle, I can also fight right or left , playing pool is super easy i just use whichever side is easier , im a scratch dj so it gave me a huge advantage with that , its a blessing and a curse at the same time
I'm left-handed and can't draw a stick figure well enough to copy xkcd. But I am a published writer and can play a couple of musical instruments (poorly, but that's due mainly to lack of lessons.)
When I was learning guitar, my cousin who was teaching me said " you are not Hendrix and I am not restringing your guitar." He made me play right handed which I thought was better after I adapted.
I design tooling (stamping, fixtures, gages, robotic EoA) in 3D. My colleagues always give me the hard stuff (which suits me just fine) because I can visualize it quicker before I create it in SolidWorks.
@scottrackley4457Early in my Navy career I was having trouble learning how to do fighter intercepts. All their training fell flat with me until one day, while running the simulator for another student I caught something he was doing we all had trouble with. I froze the program and showed him, and everyone else at the time, how to make it work. It was totally outside what we were being taught but it worked well. Turns out it was a more fundamental way to figure out the problem which allowed for far more flexibility and options to solve the dynamics of the 3D problem. Doing the math was slow and cumbersome. Doing the problem in your head, in 3D, as it happened was far easier for me. The other guys did pretty well. Other lefties caught it instantly and we all did far better than those righties…….and we all recognized it at the time. Instructors said we had to perform to their standards. (Navy for ya’) So, once we understood how to solve the problem our way we simply did it twice. I don’t think any of us ever told anyone else. Whether it lasted beyond our class/group I have no idea. It was a real eye opener for me and I’ve been hyper aware of these subtle differences since. I’m now retired but continue to use these skills to this day.
I was apparently ambidextrous in kindergarten and 17:28 my teacher wanted to force me to be right-handed. My mom had been forced to be right-handed and told that woman they could encourage me to use my more dominant hand but they could not arbitrarily make me use the right hand. Proud Lefty here. 😊
I don't know what your age is, but it surprises me that there are people probably younger than me (I'm 82) where there were attempts at forcing. I went to a convent school which seemingly was one of the worst places for lefties yet I have no memories of any of that. It could have been that I was taught by particularly enlightened nuns, or it could be that as a child as was as I am now : very stubborn.
I had the same issue and still use my left and in some ports and when cutting with sissors. I think the switch from left to right cause some problems like headaches and some coordination problems (ie: playing guitar, playing some sports etc.
@tonybennett4159, your lucky. I went to school in the 70s and was made to use my right hand. My unweighting never recovered. I also use the left hand for sissors and opening doors.
The nuns tried to force me to use my right hand. Mom went down and asked them to stop it, and to let me use my dominant hand. They relented, but it was a few years out from when I started school. Fully left-handed now, but my writing is atrocious. However I can write equally bad with either hand, and can write backwards too.
I’m a lefty but almost completely inept at the traditional “arts”. I have no natural abilities at painting, sewing, dancing, freehand drawing, poetry and only a slight ability at music (think more simplistic like bass guitar - I cannot comprehend how someone can play the piano). I have high regard and respect for people who CAN do those things. HOWEVER, I spent my career as an engineer, designing complex systems and am very proficient at home repairs and projects. I can fix just about anything and “build” projects in my mind prior to actually doing them. Perhaps just a different sort of “creative spark”?
74-year-old lefty. Never hassled about it in school. I learned that scissors only worked right-handed, but later learned how to make scissors work left-handed, if necessary. By high school, I was starting at the back of a spiral notebook---simple way to cope. Forty years as a surgical technologist, and being able to use both hands was a big help.
57 yr old female lefty here, I think it helped me with life. I was made fun of all the time at a very young age, taught me early to not be bothered by criticism. Also taught me to not depend on others to teach me to do things, if you put your mind to it you dont need a teacher because all they say is I dont know how to do it left handed! Being left handed is a gift! Also, its fun when you find others lefties, brings smiles and instant friendships!
My mother warned me not to give in to pressure to change my "handedness", The head teacher took me for a walk to "tell me", but I remained adamant to her surprise. Support from my mother helped me to resist pressure, civilly, even coming from figures of authority. A valuable lesson in life, which has come in very handy in all sorts of situations. "What are you staring at?" being a quick retort, of course.
I'm a 57 yo lefty as well. I remember my teacher telling me that before we started to write in cursive, that she didn't know how to teach a lefty. She said I was smart so I could just watch what she did and figure it out for myself. That's what I did. My dad's mom was a lefty also.
I agree /I am artistic very intuitive. .Sadly I was forced to use my right hand and I don't think it helped.I suffered most of my life from depression!
@astead2650 , my adult son has a tendency to see things negatively, and gets depressed. He's very artistic and played the saxophone 🎷 beautifully. It's hard to praise him, because he's too hard on himself. He's also great at video games other ppl would watch him. He's so fast and quick to learn. He was reprimanded a lot while young over how he held his pencil ✏️up in the air while writing. I sure didn't understand why, such a big deal he writes very well, and spells really well.
@cathyL8562 Your son sounds like he's very gifted & will find sucess! My son also plays the saxophone & very artistic. I cope very well these days & have learned to love myself! I l have learned to drive in my 60s😄
@astead2650 sadly, he's now considered disabled and frustrated with himself. He did learn to drive a judge ordered him. He had said, about the written test, "this isn't about driving it's about the law." I said, you're exactly right. He was so depressed trying to get up the nerve to take the test but he knew it backwards and forwards, and passed. The hardest part was both my son's lost their dad to a long devastating illness and died early while they were young. I tried everything to get them motivated in life to find their strengths. Military school, and both needed lots of structure. Most of all a good man to guide them in their lives wasn't there for them.
I was born in 1960, in the second. grade at 7 years old, we we learning how to write, because of the binder rings, it was not comfortable for me, so I turned the notebook sideways, my teacher would stand behind me holding a ruler, every time I turned the notebook she would smack my hand with the ruler. When I got home, my mother asked me what happened to my hand, I told her, the next day my mother was at the school with the principal, he called the teacher to his office, my mother let her have it. She told the principal and the teacher that I better not ever come home with welts on my hand, let her write the way she is comfortable…..my mother was left handed as well….
I'm left-handed, but I learned the word "ambidextrous" when I was 5 or 6 years old. (I never forgot it either.) I was watching my grandpa eat his lunch one day when I realized that he was using both hands. I asked my mom how he was doing it. She then explained about being "ambidextrous" to me. I remember that my grandpa looked at me, grinned and winked. Years later, at the age of 60, I started catching myself using both of my hands to do things, and happily knew that I'd taken after my Grandpa. ❤️
My sister was ambidextrous, I’m not, I am left handed and I can only write with my paper slanted to the right. My second son is left hand and a pretty good artist.
Then there is "cross-handed." I am nominally left-handed but do many things right-handed. I am not ambidextrous as there is nothing that I do favoring both sides equally. I write and eat left-handed, but many other things I do right-handed. Golfing and batting are the only things that I can do equally well with either hand. Oh, my handwriting slants to the right, so you cannot tell I am left-handed from my handwriting.
Left-handed toward body(eating, shaving, brushing teeth and hair) Right-handed away(throwing, writing, hand tools) A sleep study doctor told me I am 1 in a 100. She also mentioned chances are less for having a debilitating stroke. I took it as a left-handed compliment.
I'm left-handed for eating and writing, but right-handed for almost everything else, especially large-motor tasks. Being female also, I guess I'm pretty unusual, too!
I'm exactly the same. It is very strange to most people. Yet I never noticed until my father commented on using a hammer in my left hand but ran a saw in the right. I just accepted it as normal for me.
If you write left-handed and throw right-handed, you are considered cross-dominant or mixed-handed. This means your dominant hand changes depending on the task, with fine motor skills like writing favoring one hand (left) and gross motor skills like throwing favoring the other (right).
Me! I was diagnosed with cross dominance as a child, I write with my left hand but I am able to use my right for most other things. Can openers and other righty tools, I just use my right hand with relative ease. I'm artistic and musically inclined, read well but can't spell worth beans, nor am any good at math. lol
58 year old lefty female here! Typing class in Jr High school teacher would not permit me to place material to be typed on my left, it had to be on my right. To pass the class, I adapted by memorizing the sentence and then looking at the keys while typing. To this day I still can't touch type! Next when Apple Computers came in with a mouse. I had to use my right hand. I learned and the BIG benefit to that was ... I could be on the phone, right-hand mousing the computer and writing left-handed at the same time! That's a asset!
I'm a lefty lady too. WE are the MVPs of adaptation! I'm an artist that paints and draws with both hands, but a downside is ADHD, and I get overwhelmed by noisy busy places. I used to be able to block most of it; now I had to redevelop my 'mental toolbox' to cope. Do you have one that helps you adapt?
That’s interesting, I’m a 52 year old lefty male! I don’t think I have ever seen anyone use a left handed mouse, and the only reason I didn’t say I have never heard of a left handed mouse is because one time setting up a new computer that was an option. I never thought about which side to put something that I was trying to type as the reason why I can’t type without looking at the keyboard, but it makes sense . I took typing in 9th grade, and I can type with my hands placed on the keyboard like they’re supposed to be but if I don’t stare at the keyboard I just don’t trust myself to hit the right key (I especially have problems with number keys and shift keys). I do realize that I do tend to put things on my left now when I need to type but I didn’t know that could be the reason.
@troywiltshire5272 My cordless is symmetrical, so I can use either hand. I've been a fluid typist since 10th grade, but I sometime go so fast I leave out words!
You omitted the most important aspect of left-handedness: Seeing life through the right brain. Many artists are left-handed as they "think" with the right brain, the seat of creativity.
Only 40% of left handed people are right brain dominated. They’re the ones that DON’T write upside down or with a hooked hand. The 60% of lefties that write upside down are left brain dominated just like 97% of right handed people. Only 3% of righties write upside down or with a hook, and are considered right brain dominated.
My maternal grandmother was born left-handed, but her mother forced her to use her right hand (she became ambidextrous). She was highly intelligent, creative, educated, a college professor and had her own TV show. When I was born, showing left-handedness, my great grandmother tried to do the same thing to me that she did to my grandmother, but my mother was not having it! Like my grandmother, I am intelligent, an artist designer and college instructor. I now have an 8 year old granddaughter who is left handed and who enjoys having two grandparents who are also left handed (her mother's mother, and her father's father). She is highly intelligent, and was identifying numbers and all letters of the alphabet before she could barely walk. Her imagination and creativity is off the charts. So, the stigma is gone!
I always made a special effort to find left handed tools for my daughter. Pinking shears were the most difficult to find. Sad fact: teachers used to abuse left handed children for using their left hand.😢 I made sure my daughter didn’t suffer that abuse.
59 year old, been in some form of construction all my life. As a lefty, learning to work with an electric saw, etc. took some getting used to. The sightlines are all wrong, because the blade is on the wrong side. I've gotten used to it, but I bet injuries with power tools like this are more common for lefties. I finally got a left handed saw ( cost an extra 100$ ) , and I can't use it, I'm too trained with the right handed stuff !
It is amazing how many tools are best (only) designed for righties. My neighbor is a leading design engineer for a major hand tool manufacturer and is left handed. He says that essentially there is no major market for left-handed tools. I am left handed but have an left eye affliction. So using hand tools such as saws is doubly difficult. Despite these "issues", I spent 50 years as a mechanical engineer in many cases, working with taking apart equipment and reassembling them. Still, today doorknobs sometimes bring be up short.
A lefty is more likely to adapt to right handed tools, than a righty to left handed tools. There is a very small market for lefty tools so they cost more.... it's all supply and demand. A friend gave me left handed scissors . I was fine with right handed ones by my teens. I tried the lefty ones and they didn't work.... I could not use them!!! 😲What's up with that!? 🤔 🤣
When I was young.......a long, long time ago, ink covering my hand was my biggest issue, as in those days we used to write alot. These days scissors are my nemesis. Something to note is that in my family many boys are lefties, while no girls.
I’m a lefty , and we do learn to adapt to a right handed world…the right handed desks in school really pissed me off and that started it all .! He didn’t mention that most tools are right handed circular saws for example….weed eaters , the controls on your riding mower , I could go on , but if you’re a lefty , there’s no need…..🇺🇸………!
The crazy thing is as little leftys as there is it wouldn't be an issue to invest in a handful of left handed desks. Inclusiveness goes a long way especially to younger kids.
Firearms are also a problem because most rifles eject the hot brass out the right side right in your face. Safeties also tend to be on the left side of guns although things are getting more ambidextrous.
Back in my day we always ironed our clothes. The stationary iron cord was my biggest enemy. Thank God for permanent pressed fabrics! Now days they make irons so the cord flips both ways. Good invention. The thing that bothered me a lot in school was having to sit close to a right handed person in the lunchroom. They would get so mad at me! Hahaha!
Negative He strung a right handed guitar left handed. Fact Look at pictures. Big (low E) string is on top. Also, he played the top string of a G chord using his thumb.
The ambidextrous point is soooo true. I find myself using my right hand for certain things because I've had to learn to do that with tools that are made for right handed people, like scissors for example. But if I had to just go by instinct and not think, about which hand to use, it will still always be left
Same. I write left, hammer left, throw right, strongest arm is right, detailed work goes left and power right. Lefty in the shower 😉 and right with my woman.
I'm ambidextrous too, like I can't throw anything with my left hand but one time my grandma got me lefty scissors and I remember it felt weird because I was so used to using right hand ones with my left hand but yeah my mom told me she used to take everything from the left and put it in my right and I drove her crazy because I would put it right back in my left, I always assumed that was the reason for but after watching this. I can relate to this 💯%
I’m ambidextrous too …as a child it was considered taboo to be left handed ..I learned to use right hand and as times changed …I used both .Whenever one hand gets tired ..I switch
My father’s family were covered up with lefties. When he caught my mother trying to force me to use my right hand when it was clear I was a leftie he stepped in and made my mother leave me alone. I’m forever grateful to him. My youngest daughter is also a leftie too.
I’m right handed and had 3 left handed roommates in college. The coffee pot handle was always facing the “wrong way.” I realized then what lefties go through in a 85-90% right handed world.
I am a southpaw. As a teen, I was learning how to use a chainsaw, luckily my uncle yelled "stop" and told me I have to use a chainsaw "Right handed", because no one makes a left handed chainsaw. Operating left handed, with hands crossed over a right handed chainsaw, if the saw kicks back, it would strike the operator on the right arm or face. (not a pretty sight). Since that day, I began thinking before using any power tools. Now a retired Design Engineer.
One not many people know of. In my trade we use copper/brass hammers, which deform. You will immediately know if you pick up a right hander's hammer, and you will immediately put it down and go get yours.
The rotation of drills is also an issue for left handed users. If the drill jams it pushes into the hand of a right hander but is pulled away from the hand of a lefty. The drill then swings around and his the back of the left hand or anything else that get in the way. Likewise power saws will shoot material past the right handed user but into the body or face of a left hander. Be Aware......
My ex wanted me to train( force) our left handed child to be right handed for that very reason. We both have left handed people in our families and I was super excited to discover one of our 3 children was left handed. But my mechanic ex husband blew a gasket so we fought about it. I realize that my ex was just being cautious but he went about it all wrong. Our lefty is brilliant and still a lefty but also uses the right hand for lots of things, like dangerous tools.
@karenscoville6307 I use both hands as needed. My Dad's Experience was more old school as a young carpenter. He was expected to act right handed but every job had some tasks that could only be performed by a left hander such as nailing in a constricted space. The solution was that they would wait til just before a break and tell him to finish a job while they went for coffee. They could use his skill without knowledge the sinister (left handed) success. Sinister is by the way a religious reference to Jesus being on the right hand of God with Lucifer was on the left before the fall.
My mother is a lefty! 😊 And even though I write with my right hand, she is the reason i appreciate my left hand so much. I tend to trust it for several everyday things, and others find this odd. 🙌
@list25 Thank you! Mainly eating, drinking and using my phone are things tasked to the left hand. But also additional subtle things throughout the day can only feel natural moves with the left. Plus whenever the right one feels tired it can take a break from most of its tasks if I put my mind to it!
I was born in 1950. When I was a small child my mother saw that I was favoring my left hand. She asked our family doctor if this was something she should be concerned about changing. Fortunately, he told her to let me use the hand I wanted to use. She followed his advice, which really mattered because she taught me to read and write before I went to school and she let me write with my left hand. Also significantly, I don’t write “upside down” as many lefties do because my mother realized that the paper needed to be slanted to the right instead of to the left as she did herself as a right-handed writer. I still remember that when I was in first grade (no kindergarten back in 1956 where I lived) I was working on a writing assignment and the teacher stopped in front of my desk and said, “What hand do we write with?” I looked up at her and said, “I write with my left hand.” She didn’t say anything else, but I told my mother what the teacher had said and she went to see my teacher and told her that I am left-handed because of our doctor’s advice. I am so very grateful for my mother and how she handled this significant difference in my life! I have always been quite happy to be left-handed. I do use scissors with my right hand for the obvious reason. Otherwise, I just do what comes naturally! Thanks so much for this fascinating and encouraging video!
@kaddyd1815Actually I used scissors for lefties once and it didn’t work for me. I just couldn’t cut a straight line. I use regular scissors with my left hand.
I've always used right-handed scissors ✂️ it feels strange with left-handed ones, but I think that's about all I use that's right-handed,I can write ✍️ a little with my right, though also,
@kaddyd1815 I've always used 'right-handed' scissors but did buy a pair designed for us lefties. Oh my, what an absolute mess I'd make trying to cut out material! 😫 Those lefty scissors are now relegated to opening large bundles of things like paper towels and toilet paper and nothing else.
When I was in junior college years ago, I went to the bookstore and found a few left handed spiral notebooks for sale. Surprise! As you said, just turn it over & it's left handed. As a retired person, I now notice many more things designed for righties, like the curling iron I couldn't figure out how to use til I turned it upside down, to me, and saw the digital temperature screen!
@terry1912 he'll yeah we should start rioting like the lgbtqs for being discriminated against 🤣 and when I went to school we couldn't afford Barnes and nobles so turn it around for me or suffer the Wrath of the spiral 🤣🤣
I’m a left handed artist;but I had a stroke; the brain damage was on the right side of my brain and now my left side is paralyzed,so I have no choice but to use my right hand to still draw or write; but it’s so unnatural; it feels like major confusion in my brain, because I’m still thinking of the left hand as I try to accomplish those things with the right hand. Really frustrating and weird stuff 🤬
My mom and grandma were lefties. It took me some time to learn not to tilt my paper when writing right handed. Grandma tried to teach me to knit and crochet but I wasn’t able to reverse her directions. I have a lot of left hand traits, though. I am my mother’s daughter!
Leftie artist too. Maybe, try playing with a stand up mirror ,close to your work, maybe next to your hand where you want to draw. Looking into the mirror. Moving it with your hand as you draw. Just thinking the mirror reverses the image, so the brain may then switch the image so it's easier to draw. Don't know if it will work, but as an artist, I know the heartache/ soulache when you can't create. May you be blessed with creative healing.
Allow me to offer some of my experience. I decided to learn to write with right hand. But I realized I had to quiet down my left hemisphere 1st. So I did what Leonardo DaVinci customarily did. Write from right to left, letters backwards (you can only read it with a mirror), practice/practice/ practice. Start slow 15 minutes once..twice a day. Then rest a couple of days. At the end of 2nd week: write left to right normally, and be amazed! You did it! Incredible, right? What you did, was turn off left hemisphere (the rational, logical analytical brain )because by writing backwards the left side couldn't understand, and stopped judging your scribbling. You also need a stronger wrist, so play tennis, or any sport with your right hand. It will help improving your now fascinating new talent. Best wishes!
#9: I am a Kerr. I am right handed but my older brother is a leftie (as is his son). When he found out about the Kerr leftie tendency, and especially the spiral staircase in Ferniehirst Castle, he made it his mission to travel there and stay at the castle. We surprised him with a gathering of family and friends in 2023 to celebrate his 70th birthday. 21 of us stayed at the Castle. Turned out to be good timing because he was diagnosed with cancer shortly afterwards and passed away a few weeks ago. I was asked to recount the story of him being proudly left handed and the trip to Scotland at his life celebration this past Sunday. Weird how this List 25 got uploaded the next day.
@hectorsmommy1717 it’s called Synchronicity. Similar but unrelated events happen simultaneously. I believe that it shows the connections in reality. It’s meaningful. If you look for them, and are onto them they will happen all the time.
I’m a lefty woman, and the most traumatic experience I had was in kindergarten. A visiting Art teacher refused to accept any of my art projects unless I drew, colored, and cut with my right hand. Thankfully, my real teacher advocated for me!
My mom says she had one teacher in highschool insist all papers/ class projects be written right handed. But when he wasn't looking she switched hands. Said all her writing slanted different angles of when he was looking or not. 😂 If confused: slant of left handed letters are / but right handed is other way.
I was never good at art work when scissors were involved. I even told my teacher the scissors didn't work. She tried it and of course the scissors worked perfectly. Many years later I realized that scissors only work properly when used with the right hand...
As a health scientist, with a particular interest in neurology, I have to say that I'm particularly impressed that you covered the mirror image twin link with lefties. To take it one step further, studies suggest that singletons who are lefties may be a surviving twin of a twin who sadly didn't make it. It's more common than people realise for singletons to start out as a twin with one twin sadly not making it before scans pick up on there being twins. Nice work researcher.
I was just mentioning that and interesting to know this is more common in studies! I'm a lefty as is my lefty partner. She said she always felt like she had a twin and even questioned her parents as a child if she had a twin that was being hidden from her! So freaky!
@RendaJane Unfortunately, it's unlikely you'll know now. Not all lefties have lost a twin, but the studies are only able to be done with both surviving twins. The information was gained by combining the knowledge from studies on surviving twins with the knowledge gained from studies involving very early pregancies. Peer reviews of multiple studies gather information to come to additional conclusions. I'm sorry I can't help you with that. You have a very valid question. I wish I could give you the answer.
That’s interesting because I’ve always felt that I might’ve had a twin in the womb because as I was growing up, I would often gravitate and make friends with twins.
My youngest sister is a lefty. As she started school her teacher first tried to "convert" her. Our mom marched into the classroom and laid down the mama law. No more conversion attempts.
Awesome! It definitely helped me in basketball for similar reasons. I'd usually be in double figures before defenders figured out what's going on & adjusted. It made me an awkward/mediocre fighter though since I, for some reason, adopted a righty stance. Quick/strong jab but, weak everything else. I've fixed my stance & worked on my jab but, still feels odd & always tempted to switch back.
I’m a lefty, my dad was too. Neither one of us ever had a problem. I taught myself how to crochet left handed that’s it no problem. I love sports winter and summer.. I’m still fine at 79 yrs old🤗🤗🤗
Lefty also. So was my dad and grandma. My grandma was forced to write right handed at school, this was WWI era so things were a little different. Your dad must have been the same generation as her.
@josebrown5961 I had the same problem, lol. The chalkkboard was the worst, though...the heel of my hand used to erase everything I wrote. My teacher used to smack my hand with the chalkboard brush & yell at me, telling me to use my right hand. That sort of abuse would not happen now.
I am a lefty. My dad was a lefty. All 3 of my nephews are left-handed. 2 of my 3 children are left -handed. In my house we are all Lefty's except one of my daughters. My grandson is too young to tell, but he seems to do a lot of things left-handed. I hear people say left-handedness is rare. I am like "where?" Because I am surrounded by lefties.
I was a natural lefty, but 60 years ago, elementary teachers were taught to force children to use their right hand. So, I basically became ambidextrous. My wife was right handed but held a writting skill that I found a bit facinating. She could write sentences backward from right to left, but not only did she write the words backward, she also wrote them upside down.. and not slowly but at a normal pace.
I'm 63 yrs old, hubby is 64, both of us are left-handed, neither of us were forced to write with our right hand in school. I always got A+ in penmanship, hubby's writing has always been like chicken scratch. Oh and neither of us do that weird thing where left handers curl their hand inward when writing. I had a girlfriend in elementary school that did that
I started school in England in 1967 and fortunately by then it was rare for teachers to force kids to write with the right hand. I already knew when I started school that I was left-handed (my older sister and one of my younger sisters are too), and teachers never forced me to use my right hand. However I had an accident and broke my left arm during my first year of school, so for a long period of time I had to use my right hand to write, however difficult it was. That's probably why I can still manage it today, although it never feels right and the writing looks terrible, although legible. One interesting exception to my left-handedness is I've always thrown with my right hand, and have always favoured my right arm for anything requiring strength. It might just be because my right arm is stronger than my left due to the injury when I was a young child. I also play the guitar and ukulele and have never felt the need to play left-handed.
My mother and I were left handed and she got the school to stop taking me out of classes to try to make me write with my right hand! Love you Mom I miss you 💕❤😊
Me too, I'm a lefty learned how to tie my shoes when I was 4. My wife, a righty, doesn't understand how I do it, I just do it. Granted we are different, not better just different.
I used to think I was terrible at cutting slices evenly until I found out that many knives are sharpened to favor righties. Got a lefty knife and suddenly cut more evenly. Also love my lefty pencil sharpener and can (tin) opener. 👍
Can openers are a pain, especially the old style stab and hook type. The worst thing in the world during school were 3 ring binders. In high school I decided to hell with it and wrote everything on the back of the pages instead of the front. Oddly enough, my English teacher thought it was a great idea but my biology teacher would give me half marks. To this day, I don't know if I disliked biology or just the teacher.
Worked construction on and off my whole life. I shoot right handed, kick right footed. Have to catch throw, write cursive left handed. Got good amount of ambidextrous to drive nails finish concrete operate power tools
As a left-handed tennis player in high school, my right-handed partner and I made a doubles team that opponents couldn't figure out until it was too late.
I’m an Architect and a Lefty 🥰 Teachers tried to change me to writing right handed. But soon gave up. When they made me use my right hand I would always use my left hand too 😅
same here. Fortunately my teachers didn't try to change me, but drafting was different because I learnt using a T square..... one that you operate with your left hand....very frustrating. Even when I starte working the office had a drawing head on a drawing board...again operated by your left hand. I was happy when we started a paraline. All before the invention of AUTOCAD......😄
Who else had to deal with those school desk, that were made for right handed people? Erasable ink pens, were the "enemy", lol! Ink would smear everywhere! And lets not mention our "loopy" cursive writing 🤣🤣🤣🥰🥰🥰
There were times in college that I had to sit with my backside hanging out of the desk so I could write. It looked like I was trying to look at the work of the person behind me .
My father who was right handed used to have a go at me about putting the padlock on the dog run the wrong way around, I’d lock the dog in at night and he’d open it in the morning, he used to shout “put the fucking lock on the right way around “😂
I have been left-handed my entire life. I have adapted to using right-handed scissors and some other things, and I place my computer mouse for my right hand to use, for example. However, everything else is done with my left hand. I cannot even hold a pen in my right hand unless I am mirror writing, that is, writing completely backwards so you need to hold it up to a mirror to read it. I am actually able to write with both hands simultaneously doing this. Oddly enough, my backwards signature looks just like my forwards signature. From what I understand, natural right-handers are not able to do this, although I would not be surprised to see it done. In my family, my mother, maternal grandmother, one maternal aunt, and two siblings are left-handed. While I am not sure about left-handed cousins, I also have several nieces and nephews who are left-handed, as are several of their children. It is a trait that runs strongly in my family. Out of five children, three left-handers were produced. I am curious to know if this is rare or more commonplace than we know.
My teachers, for 2 years, tied down my left arm to force me to use my right. I finally refused to do it and I was “set free”. PTSD? I can barely use my right hand for anything.
They used to force children at school to do everything righthanded. They always ended up reverting to their lefthand. My sister can do crochet lefthanded (used a RUclips video) but has to do knitting righthanded.
in the fifties in Europe, you had to use your right hand, so I am writing with my right hand, play guitar and banjo as a right hand person Traveling trough South East Asia where people eat with hands I had to watch myself which hand I am using to reach for food into the communal bowl. In the army I had to throw hand grenade with my right hand, :-(
You may have dodged a bullet- My First Cousin (the boy in a pair of girl/boy fraternal twins) was left-handed until he literally had it beat out of him by the nuns at his school and his parents (his father went so far as to tie his left arm down during family meals). He developed a stutter, became a petty criminal in his teens (this included B&E, vandalism, arson and drug use). He joined the military to avoid jail time, was discharged (for reasons I can't get anyone in the family to tell me). He is now living in a prepper community in Iowa with a quiverfull/broodmare wife and 8 children. I should find out if any of his kids are left-handed
The foolishness of some people in authority makes wrecks of people. My grandpa was also made to use his right hand, but the people who enforced this must have been more benign. He actually told me it helped him be better at guitar and art, and that he was ambidextrous as a result.
Yeah it’s weird. I’m pretty sure my oldest brother just taught me and my middle brother that’s why it ended up that way. It sort of stymied everyone around our family though, and now, I have a right handed daughter and a right handed niece and nephew too. (They’re the only grandkids)
You forgot the most famous left-handed musician in your short list: Jimi Hendrix. My case is strange, I write and eat with my right hand but my left hand & leg are the strongest... if I'm picking up something heavy or fighting I use my left... but when writing I'm right handed. Also, when I was a kid I made up a different way to tie my shoelaces, don't remember how that happened. On another note, as a ripperologist myself, yes a doctor suggested the ripper was left handed but we have to consider from what position he attacked his victims. More likely he did it from behind his victims to avoid getting sprayed with blood. Keep up the good work Mike!
One of the Beatles played guitar left handed. Can't remember which one though. Ah he just said it! I played hockey in school. As there were no left-handed hockey sticks back then I became the goalie for the school team.
It’s rare, but not strange. It’s cross body dominance. 1%-2% of the population has this. For some it’s simple mixed handiness, where task done with your hands may be a mix of left or right preference. For others like us, it applies to the whole body. Absolutely left-handed for fine motor control, but my right arm, leg, eye, and even my right ear are noticeably stronger.
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So what is the answer?! My guess is dyslexia 😊
How could you not mention Jimi Hendrix just saying
Jimmy Hendrix .......lefty guitar
He said most dyslexic ARE left handed.
@AmusingMichellehe said most dyslexic Are left haned.
Where my fellow lefty’s at
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Right here! 👍😁
Female lefty here
Here!!!
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Spiral notebooks and ink stains are our biggest enemies.
Yes
Can’t you just use it flipped over?
I’m a righty who flips it when I want to write/draw on both sides of the paper.
Those damn erasable ink pens..
YES!! YOU ARE 💯% RIGHT!! I HATE IT! AND, WHEN GOING OUT TO EAT I SIT AT THE END OF THE TABLE, DEPENDS ON WHAT SIDE I SIT ON. IF NOT, I KEEP BUMPING ELBOWS WITH THE RIGHT HANDED PERSON BESIDE ME!! 😢
@kelmac1618With spiral notebooks I turn the page over. And, ALWAYS hated the ink on the side of my left hand! 😡
I'm a lefty and dang proud of it!!
You're PROUD of it? I'm a leftie and I really couldn't give a rat's ass either way!
Me too! It always cracks me up when someone says "You're left-handed"! Like I'm the only one in the world! We're rare, I know, and therefore to be cherished!
@LadyGhislaine I don't consider 1 out of ten rare. In the minority, yes, but not rare.
Given left means right side dominant brain we think differently so if you want to cover all angles always have a lefty on the team.
I’m a righty, I had a measuring cup that I always had to “turn around” to read the numbers , I finally realized it was a “ lefty”, so, I gave it to my left handed granddaughter, making both of us happy.
I know quite a few left-handed people and in my experience, left-handed people are more artistic.
Yes, and very creative but depends in when and in what environment they have been raised. My relative who is 85 is a famous painter and teaches Feldenkrais
I’m a leftie and excelled in high school art.
I agree! Im a lefty
MOST EVERY PARENT CARRY
THEIR GROWING BABY ON THEIR LEFT HIP AND THE BABY REACHES FOR EVERYTHING WITH THEIR LEFT HAND 🫲 & THIS IS ALSO A LARGE ROLE IN HOW THE CHILD LEARNS TO USE THE LEFT HAND MORE & MORE…
I've found them to be more analytical as well. Lightning last processing speeds.
Every left handed person I know, are very smart and artistic!!
Not my experience!
My Dad was a leftie and he was a genius as a chemist, built magnificent ships in bottles, and he was a whiz-bang bridge player.
@kbrad4280 - I know I am!!!! HaHa!!!!
Thank you.
Same
I'm 80, my mother went to school with a potential leftie that was Forced to write right handed. She told me that when she discovered my left handiness, she decided to not let the teachers force me to be right handed. Thanks mom.
My mother did try. I remember sitting with her at the table at 3 or 4, and she kept trying to make me write with my right hand. It felt like my right hand wasn't attached to my brain. She gave up when I became hysterical. Later in school, the teacher tried the same thing. I told Mom, and it was the one time on my whole life that she ever stood up for me.
My grandmother has her fingers slapped with a yard stick when caught at school writing with her left hand. The teacher told her mother the devil was controlling her left hand & had to be beat out of her, leaving welts, bruising, broken fingers. This was accepted thinking. It was considered evil entering your child where drastic measures should be taken to prevent the spread of evil throughout the body. My grandmother became the first woman in her family to attend college. Her left handedness made her unable to find a man who was willing to marry her. So she had to work & became a school teacher teaching all her students that it was ok to use your left hand & encouraged it. She saved her money & at age 28 made a trip to visit her parents village in Denmark. It was there she met her future 21 year old husband & she was 28. She had to lie to everyone about her age because women her age did not marry. She was an old maid. So she may have been 30 or older. 28 was her lie & she loved to 80. My grandfather lived to 88. He was right handed. My mom married a left handed man my father & all their kids were left handed except the stupid one my sister who was right handed.
My eldest son is left handed but was not forced to use his right hand. He just learnt to write without smudging his work. My daughter uses both naturally she is more left handed. When learning to eat with a spoon she would pass it from one hand to another it was quite a while before we realised she was more left handed than right 😅
Teachers tried to change my brother but he flat out refused, with Mom's support. He was the only leftie in the family when growing up. I am deaf in my right ear so we always sat together at the table with him on the left and me on the right which could accommodate both his handedness and my hearing.
As a leftie woman I had 3 kids; I remember them using spoons/crayons etc at 1 year old with their right hands....and I tried to switch the item to their LEFT hand several times with no success! 😂 Am I the ONLY person whose ever done it in reverse? (Right handed to left?)
I just REALLY always wanted a lefty because there's 0, ZIP, NADA, ZERO lefties anywhere in my family (including cousins/aunts uncles/grandparents etc).
My daughter was left handed and was very proud of it. She passed sway from a fatal heart attack in 2003 at 35. She was loving and kind to everyone , with a smile that could light up a room. I miss her every single day. RIP my sweet girl.
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God bless you dear❤
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So sorry. God bless you 🙏
Sending you love and light!
I'm a seventy-two year old woman and was tortured by my first grade teacher trying to make me right handed. That truly sucked.
That happened to me in 1st grade also! It didn’t work.
I'm 75, and my first grade teacher tried that, too. My mother put an end to that.
Sorry to hear that. Such a stupid obsession when all they had to do was nothing because no problem actually existed.
Me too. My teacher said I refuse to teach a lefty because they are evil people. No kidding.
I too was tortured by my 1st grade teacher for being left handed. She refused to teach me to read and told me I was “slow” and stupid. She held me after school every day so I couldn’t walk home with my friends.
I’m left handed and when I went to catholic school at 5 years old, one of the sisters shoved my left arm up my back and forced me to start writing with my right hand! She said only the devils children write with their left hand!! My mother went up to the school and confronted the very nasty nun. After my mum was through with her she never bothered me again! My mum was class 😂
@julieford148 Way to go Mom!
@ she said some unholy things to the nun 😂
@julieford148 I had the same problem with a nun at my daughters school. After I invited her outside, and she didn’t want to go, my daughter being left handed was no longer a problem. This was in the 80’s
@julieford148 I went to a catholic school on the island of Malta in the 1960s. Every time I used my left hand those evil penguins would smack my hand with something. I became very ambidextrous
She was a nasty, unhappy nun and a bùlly, no excuse for such treatment
70 year old woman here. Starting school in 1959, the teachers told my mother they could "fix" my lefthandedness. My feisty Scottish mother, a nurse and a war bride, told them to leave me alone, she was convinced it would cause brain damage. Loved my Mum! ❤
My mum slapped my 2nd grade teacher, because she tried to make me write right handed
Had my hand beaten with rulers by teachers because left handedness was the sign of the devil .
Same thing grew up in Scotland and got hit every day by a yard ruler with a brass edge. Lost it one day and may of hit the teacher with a left uppercut. So they sent me off for testing. Its was only a few months before mandatory IQ testing in Scotland at age 11 I ended up in a school for the gifted the teacher didn't. 😂 anyhow parents moved to Australia not long after. So just lived with being a leftie they didn't really care here.
What a great and protective mother 🎉
@markdagostino9666what country was this and if it’s the states which one?You should mention the persons name as they were extremely cruel and abusive!
When my late husband was at College he was studying Building and Design or something like that. One day he became aware that three Tutors were standing behind him. This was because he was drawing with his left hand whilst at the SAME time writing with his right! He was a very clever man, with a wonderful memory right up till the day he past away at 91.
My oddity is a right left-handed. I sketch left-handed, but I also was a good airbrush artist and I use my right hand to do that.
Write ..opps
My dad also could do this . He had a brilliant mind .
I am ambidextrous but I couldn’t do it at the same time
@robertsklenka5823I'm a strange one too - write left, throw right, kick left, bat sports right, target sports left, musical instruments left, right eye dominant...
You didn’t mention. Jimmy Hendrix
I’m a lefty, woman, and darn proud 💕
Aah a fellow socialist ❤
Yes not only am I a left-handed woman, but I'm also green-eyed which is only 2% of the population. And I'm only 4 ft 11 and I think I'm pretty darn great. Rare yeah but heck who wants to be like everybody else right😊
@Venusandjupiteinunion6434 I am left handed and green eyed too 🙂
2 of my girl cousins are lefties....
I am the same
As a lefty teenager I visited a friend in her apartment building. The evening went on and I didn't think much about how the place felt, other than very comfortable. Finally, she asked me about it and revealed the architect told me he was left handed and had all the doorways and hardware oriented for left handed people so right handed people would have a taste of what left handed people deal with every day.
I luv it !
I switched a vegetable peeler to suit my needs and was very happy with it. When one of my daughters tried to use it she complained that it didn’t work well. “Welcome to my life!”
Except I’m mostly used to doing things awkwardly, like starting chainsaws.
As a lefty I find that hilarious.
My grandmother was left-handed my mother was left-handed and I am left-handed I believe it's all genetics
Those scissors!!!
I'm a lefty, and I'm fiercely proud of it.
Me too
I'm a third generation lefty that I know of. My mum was and her mum was left handed.💁
@juliefall2892 that has to be more than coincidence. Back-to-back-to-back left-handed women must be incredibly rare.
@jeffparnell5805
why be proud? It's an accident of birth. It's not something you achieved through effort.
Me too
Lefty from birth here. I am ambidextrous, but I could get lost in a paper bag. Navigation is not my forte.
Same here. It’s a miracle I could drive anywhere before the internet.
Yep I'm so dyslexic 💯💯💯🥴
Me too! I get lost so easily.
I'm ambidextrous & I never get lost. Blind fold me, spin me around 3 times & I'll find my way out somehow. So what does that mean?
My husband is left-handed & gets lost all the time, but will not stop & ask for directions either, that must be the man part of his brain, plus he sucks at video games but is very competitive at a lot of things. But I too am very, very competitive.
Our two children are right-handed though. They can play video games with ease. Must have got that from their mother. 😂😂
So, how do you deal with plastic wrap? do you struggle with it?
I’m a lefty woman which is even rarer. The biggest issue was when doing charting as a nurse. As writing is left to right my arm would smear the writing. One time my art teacher humiliated me by lifting up my arm to show the class the paint smears on my arm. Many tools are designed right handed. It’s a right handed world for sure. Yes and I’m very smart and creative as well.
Me too
Me three 👩 ❤🫲
Me four
Left handed lady gang? 😭💕✨
Me also
As a left-hander/southpaw, one day, four strangers and I were sitting at an outdoor table at a bar/restaurant, and when it came time to pay our respective tabs, all five of us were left-handed, as we realized it when we were simultaneously signing our checks. We were all so tickled about that, and wondered what the mathematical probability of that occurence was. Nevertheless, it was a neat and über-rare occasion.
Very cool.
There were 5 of us at the same job site.
That's so bizarre
You mean an
“ ULTRA-RARE"
Occasion.. 😂😂😂😂
There were 9 of us sitting at a restaurant table when we realized we were ALL lefties. Most comfortable dinner ever!
My late son was left handed and he was amazing. He was a brilliant sat nav too. We followed him on holidays and he always knew the right way. Miss him so much. Tears in my eyes watching this.
Sorry for your loss. My son was also a leftie, as am I, lost him two years ago. But he was fantastic.
So sorry, no one should able to utter the words my late son.
I also have a left handed son, the younger, he is a high functioning autistic young man and I adore him
I am really sorry for your loss. No parent should lose a child.
Mine too!
My son was also a lefty like me, gone 4 years now, miss him forever.
I’m a lefty and my teacher forced me to write with right hand and I became ambidextrous haha
1% LUCKYYYY
Me too.
I think most lefties are "semi" ambidextrous. We've had to become that to adapt to the right handed world. I can't write with my right hand, but there are a LOT of things I just can't do with my left hand that can only be done with my right. I don't know any lefties that are truly and totally ambidextrous.
I’m a lefty with an O- Blood Type. lol Sometimes people don’t get the way I think and analyze things. But, when you find that person who gets you and functions the same way, it’s amazing!
I'm the same..and I'm different..even though I don't see it but friends do..lol
@dishsoap1 I too am a lefty and 0 - Blood Type
I am also a left handed person with an 0- blood type.
But something extraordinary happened when I was in school. I taught myself how to write from the right side of the paper to the left. I script. The teacher said it is called
Mirror Writing and Only Left Handed people can write this way. It’s extremely easy once you practice.
Leonardo DeVinci who was also a Left Handed person, would write Mirror Writing frequently. Very interesting how our Minds Work!!
@maryflanagan8660Yes, I can write in cursive, from right to left.....my Dad was a lefty, played piano, banjo, guitar, because his teachers hit his left hand with a ruler, when he used his left hand.....caused stuttering.....
Ditto.......
I'm 74 now and I'm left-handed. My mother tried everything to try and make me "normal" but nothing worked. When my time comes I am going to have a serious word with her
Amazing that you’ve lived so long without realizing that when “your time comes” you’ll realize how silly that sentiment will reveal itself to be.
Don't worry school sorted us out. Had no choice but to do as they said. Use your right hand! Wasn't great back then.
I'm 62 and my mom did the same. I realized I was a lefty in my 40s. Realistically I am both now. 🎉🎉🎉
But lefties are more fun. 😋
Ignorance and brainwashing make people go against things ...as a child my father tortured me for being left.handed, he used to hit my left hand with a spoon and ordered me to use right hand. He would even yell at me saying that God would punish me because left handed people were from the devil.....it came to the point that I stuttered and unable to use my right hand was frustrating. A teacher once came for a visit and told my parents that I had speech problems and recommended a therapist who after talking to me gave them a scolding and explained to them why I was lefthanded. Father stopped the torture but not his uncanny beliefs. My son is lefthanded was bullied when in school but is very smart and knew how to handle the ignorant ones❤
I’m a lefty, my children are not. But two of my grandchildren are left handed. I love it. Left handed people are more creative! Even if your force them to use their right hand, they will create! I Love This!
I'm not a lefty, but I'm wildly creative. I do, however, have a lefty granddaughter and this child will create circles around me. Her grandfather, on the other hand (🙃) is left-handed and there's not a creative bone in his body 😁
This might be my situation as I’m left-handed and it does run in the family. My boys are not. Although I do think my youngest should have been left-handed, but he is not. I just recently became a grandmother, and my grandson seems to gravitate towards his left hand as early as two hours old! He’s only one so we have to give it time, but I am rooting for him being a SouthPaw.
My paternal grandfather was also left handed like I, and my dad right handed. They say it sometimes skips a generation. All three my daughters are right handed. My grand daughter is too young to determine dexterity.
make sure you put them in sports
I'm ambidextrous, I don't have preference for left or right.
My daughter is left handed. She is incredibly intelligent, very strong willed and determined. She has excelled at her job. Many of her skills are self-taught as when she wants to learn something, she digs her heals in, studies and researches until she knows the topic very well!! This draws people to her for assistance as she has become the “go to” person. She will then train/assist the others. This does create extra work load for her, as even when she takes a day off or if someone goes into the office on the weekend, coworkers call her for help. It seems her phone never stops. She’s the only lefty in the immediate family. I am super proud of her! I can attest to many things this video mentions when I consider my daughter. ❤️
Amazing! Studies really do day lefties are usually sharp. Even i know a few lefties who are super smart haha!
We learn so quick but we feel everything love that girl
You must be proud.
*digs her heels in
Truly cool! My wife is the same way and at only 6 years old my granddaughter is her grandma child, left handed and a brilliant sponge of knowledge. My uncle was the same. In my opinion lefties are awesome 👏
I'm a lefty on most things; writing, power tools, etc.. But I play guitar, golf, and swing a bat right- handed. However I throw and catch left-handed. And I can bowl equally badly with either hand.
I'm dominating lefty. Except for bowling and hitting baseball.
My second son is a lefty but he plays golf with his right, as well as throw a ball and so on. My fourth son is right handed and the only thing he does right handed is write, everything else from sports to eating he does left handed. I found that out when he was 5 and I had purchased his first set of golf clubs, he said "These golf clubs are broken" I realized then he's a lefty with everything else! My second son is a twin.
Same here!
I’m the same! Except I bowl
Left and when tendinitis got me I had a 218 avg.
I do everything right handed except for writing & using a knife.
I was a air traffic controller in the Air Force and then the FAA. There were so many of us lefties that you didn't even notice.
That’s really interesting, such a specific set of skills.
My son is a lefty, and he’s in the Australian Air Force lol.
I love it! When I was majoring in engineering, there were lefties *everywhere*! It was wonderful!
Yeah I'm convinced left handed people are smarter
lefties are the smartest.....it's true.....
I’m the right handed offspring of 2 left handed parents. My dad, born in 1916, was punished in school for it. My mother, born in 1923, was NOT punished. There were very strict rules for writing but the teacher simply tilted her paper the opposite way. My mother had exquisite writing. I was tormented, not for handedness, but for being a redhead! There’s always something…
I was born in 1955. Nuns were teaching in those days and I received the wooded ruler on my knuckles often for writing with my left hand. That is why I’m ambidextrous.
Teachers were trying to change lefties to use right hand; my son & my brother, both lefties
@carollewallingford9716 Oh my dad still is afraid of the " Penguins" to this day, as well as the priests.
Yes I am left handed and have big ears. These days I would have another problem...a 'priviledged' white.
It's funny you say that I was born in the '60s and my dad would force me to eat with my right hand. It was so hard! I would end up pouring it all over my self and missing my mouth.
But I've made up for it. I'm really good at geometry and spatial reasoning for some reason LOL
3:52 I’m a leftie and I have arthritis 😢
Saaaaame. Tri-compartment Arthritis in both knees. It sucks...
@tarawhitt6441yeah , it sucks, mine developed at 12 , I was so scared
@LilithJullifSame. Older people never believed me either. Said I was too young.
@tarawhitt6441fr, my first and second out of 3 doctors said I had period cramps
@LilithJullifoh geez... Yeah, some doctors can be idiots.
I'm glad I was underage because the doctor who diagnosed me, made it seem like my knees were way worse than they are & would've done knee replacement surgery. I found out (through some very shocked doctors) that I did not need that because I would've had to go in for surgery every 5 - 8 years.
As a 67-year-old leftie, I relate to everything this clip states. Everything.
IM WITH YOU. IM 68
Me too. Age 78
How’s your psychosis?
Me too 💯 yeah the craziness is Off The Charts 🤪😍🔙🔙🔙🔙
I knew my son was left handed before he was born just from ultrasounds. He is 15 now and is the smartest kid I've ever seen. He's way ahead of his grade level and is actually in a program where he's studying medicine while in high school. He has been planning his future career (doctor) since he was 4 yrs old. Lefties are truly extraordinary, intelligent, and special people 😊
You do realise it's not really.
@vickywilliams8320 Not really what?
Special😊
@MICHELLEKuzel-ut5zb Oh, that's not nice. If only 1 in 10 are lefties they have to be a bit special. I have the BRIGHTEST GREEN eyes you've ever seen and I think it's special (though I still wish I had blue cuz they are a bit unnatural looking and weird at the same time).
@MICHELLEKuzel-ut5zb Awh, that's mean. If only 1 in 10 are lefties then they are a bit special. I have BRIGHT GREEN eyes and I think that is special (though I really wish I had blue eyes )
Thank you for mentioning the spiral notebook, scissors and that most of us Lefties are ambidextrous. And I still hate chalks and whiteboard markers. They smudge. But I was able to practice handwriting with my right hand. And cheers to us all women lefties!
Spiral notebooks are the worst!
I absolutely hate spiral notebooks
im a lefty, my wife didn't understand the shit we go thru . we went camping and she bought sporks for us, well the knife part was one the wrong side. and when i mentioned it she went on amazon and found left handed spiral notebooks, sporks, writing pens , all kinds of stuff. also when we go to a restaurant she knows where i need to sit ( because of elbows bumping ) . she also started noticing actors who are left handed. every movie she would say " i didn't know she or he was left handed" .
@kerrymarkley7702 that's nice of her. My husband just dismisses me.
🥂
My only brother and I are left handed. My first grade teacher made me write with my right hand. Nevertheless, I maintained my left hand predominance but became apt at using my right hand. This became a blessing in disguise when I broke my left arm.
One small pleasure I've had over the years is when I found scissors properly moulded for a left-hander. It's fun watching righties try to use them as the moulding cuts into their fingers. Just like I've had to contend with forever.
I’m a lefty and I’ve used the right mind joke my whole life. Never gets old. 😅
Have you heard that God created man in His own image and then He created right-handed people. :) Be blessed - lefty to lefty.
@irishk.1041 God creates us as he wants because we are all special…..🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏
Same! 😂
Happy to be left handed
same, I always say, It's you right handed ppl that are crazy, we left handed ppl are in our right mind. ;) I'm left handed and red headed as well, so I fit into yet another low percentage category. I don't feel extra special or anything, but it is pretty cool.
Another Leftie here. Worked as a PhD-level scientist in Biotechnology my entire career, and am one of the principal inventors of PCR (Polymerase Chain Reaction), a technology that resulted in a Nobel Prize in Chemistry. Feel honored to have made a contribution to Society working as a Scientist. Cheers.
🎉🎉
huh! and i just figured out how to work my iphone lol good job my daughter is left handed and had a 98% average from kindergarten to grade 12 shes currently a CEO for a large oil and gas company and is doing well she never brought home homework (always did it on the bus) and was tutoring kids when she was in grade 3 one time she asked me about a math question when she was in grade 11 and i laughed and replied 'isnt there a homework hotline you can call' ya i hated school graduated but was glad to get out of there lol
You and Kary Mullis! Great work!
But never meant to "detect diseases", correct? 💞
@gertie9881: Kary won the Nobel Prize for the _conception_ of PCR, but Kary didn’t do *any* of the _actual scientific R&D_ to get it to work in the *real world:* with Accuracy, Precision, Repeatability, and Reproducibility. That hard, extensive and *real* scientific work was done by Randy Saiki, Glenn Horn, David Mack, Shirley Kwok, and myself in the Human Genetics Department at Cetus Corporation, under the Direction of Henry Erlich and John Sninsky. I know because I was there and part of that team. Cheers.
@JuneTranmerWellbeing The actual *R&D* for getting PCR to work with true scientific rigor was done by Glenn Horn, Randy Saiki, David Mack, Shirley Kwok, and myself under the direction of Henry Erlich and John Sninsky. Kary didn’t do *any* of the _ACTUAL_ scientific work. And PCR is very effective for detecting genetic and infectious diseases, genotyping, DNA sequencing, and forensic DNA analysis. Cheers.
I, and two of my sons are left handed. We are very creative in art, music and writing. There also seems to be a strong ( intuitive) side to us lefties.
Same I paint every day
I agree.
My profession is as a Portrait Painter. I was dedicated to portraiture. I won a national award, and Am retired now. It was such fun! For ever, women were ignored, and their work also.🎉🎉😊not now.
Am a true left hand and yet I play guitar and piano and banjo all right handed buti play the harmonica and the accordion back to front???
I call it my total bullsht alarm, TBA.
Lefty here and proud of it!
I’m left handed and was told we are more creative as well. I learned I could draw at the age of 50. Never tried so I was so surprised. Who knew
We lefties tend to think with our right brain, which is the creative side. I write novels for that same thing (started when I was 56).
A lot of musicians are lefty , I’m ambidextrous so I excel at anything dexterity based and I’m really creative but being ambidextrous causes other issues as don’t have a dominant side , I really struggle with languages growing up and I also have memory issues because of it .. but I never enjoyed academic stuff and always enjoyed and been into stuff that requires dexterity so I’m all good because of it .. and I can melt peoples minds trying to get them to do what I’m doing with my hands , my favourite is pat belly and rub head , I can do one pat , one rub on belly and the opposite on head then switch hands and do the same and do it fast and I can write with both hands at the same time but mirror what I’m writing so everything with the left hand is written backwards from right to left and I can write fluently like that , watching right or lefts try this make me laugh because it’s so easy for me I don’t even need to think about it and watching people get tied up makes me chuckle, I can also fight right or left , playing pool is super easy i just use whichever side is easier , im a scratch dj so it gave me a huge advantage with that , its a blessing and a curse at the same time
I can’t imagine nothing in my mind. I am left handed and have aphantasia. I play guitar though and hear music in my head.
How u make it 50yrs in this place and never drew anything???
I'm left-handed and can't draw a stick figure well enough to copy xkcd. But I am a published writer and can play a couple of musical instruments (poorly, but that's due mainly to lack of lessons.)
Jimi Hendrix was a leftie also. He restrung a right-handed guitar to be able to play it, when he was a child.
He also played upside down
A majority of sports/rock stars are lefties. I've never experienced any of the drawbacks in the video.
When I was learning guitar, my cousin who was teaching me said " you are not Hendrix and I am not restringing your guitar." He made me play right handed which I thought was better after I adapted.
I didn't even know there were leftie guitars, I just thought they strung it one way or the other.
@cherihoward9864 No, he didn't. He just played a right handed guitar,because left handed one were hard to come, by.Eric Gale plays up side down
As a lefty I can vouch 100% on the heightened sense of direction and spatial awareness.
Me too!!!
I design tooling (stamping, fixtures, gages, robotic EoA) in 3D. My colleagues always give me the hard stuff (which suits me just fine) because I can visualize it quicker before I create it in SolidWorks.
@scottrackley4457Early in my Navy career I was having trouble learning how to do fighter intercepts. All their training fell flat with me until one day, while running the simulator for another student I caught something he was doing we all had trouble with. I froze the program and showed him, and everyone else at the time, how to make it work. It was totally outside what we were being taught but it worked well. Turns out it was a more fundamental way to figure out the problem which allowed for far more flexibility and options to solve the dynamics of the 3D problem. Doing the math was slow and cumbersome. Doing the problem in your head, in 3D, as it happened was far easier for me. The other guys did pretty well. Other lefties caught it instantly and we all did far better than those righties…….and we all recognized it at the time. Instructors said we had to perform to their standards. (Navy for ya’) So, once we understood how to solve the problem our way we simply did it twice. I don’t think any of us ever told anyone else. Whether it lasted beyond our class/group I have no idea. It was a real eye opener for me and I’ve been hyper aware of these subtle differences since. I’m now retired but continue to use these skills to this day.
I'm a lefty and I have the opposite of that. My life sucks. Lol
As a righty I can verify I trip over air and could get lost in a back yard if it is a big yard😂
✋🏽Here😊
Hey!
0:44 I’m in left handed club 😌🎉 congrats to all the lefties
Not sure if it is still there, but was a shop in Beak Street, Soho area of London - that catered for left handers. Paradise for all us lefties!
A club? So cool! My granddaughter and I are left handed, three-colored mostly green eyes, and blonde.
Where do we sign up?
I was apparently ambidextrous in kindergarten and 17:28 my teacher wanted to force me to be right-handed. My mom had been forced to be right-handed and told that woman they could encourage me to use my more dominant hand but they could not arbitrarily make me use the right hand. Proud Lefty here. 😊
I don't know what your age is, but it surprises me that there are people probably younger than me (I'm 82) where there were attempts at forcing. I went to a convent school which seemingly was one of the worst places for lefties yet I have no memories of any of that. It could have been that I was taught by particularly enlightened nuns, or it could be that as a child as was as I am now : very stubborn.
I had the same issue and still use my left and in some ports and when cutting with sissors. I think the switch from left to right cause some problems like headaches and some coordination problems (ie: playing guitar, playing some sports etc.
@tonybennett4159, your lucky. I went to school in the 70s and was made to use my right hand. My unweighting never recovered. I also use the left hand for sissors and opening doors.
@CamanSL whats unweighting????
The nuns tried to force me to use my right hand.
Mom went down and asked them to stop it, and to let me use my dominant hand.
They relented, but it was a few years out from when I started school.
Fully left-handed now, but my writing is atrocious.
However I can write equally bad with either hand, and can write backwards too.
Every lefty i know is creative in some way. From painting to quilting, From poetry to musician, they all have that beautiful creative spark!
I’m a lefty but almost completely inept at the traditional “arts”. I have no natural abilities at painting, sewing, dancing, freehand drawing, poetry and only a slight ability at music (think more simplistic like bass guitar - I cannot comprehend how someone can play the piano). I have high regard and respect for people who CAN do those things. HOWEVER, I spent my career as an engineer, designing complex systems and am very proficient at home repairs and projects. I can fix just about anything and “build” projects in my mind prior to actually doing them. Perhaps just a different sort of “creative spark”?
Im lefty and creative
@hellofromrob imagining spatial relationships and engineering them into reality? That is an amazingly creative art!
. . . and we're also great at thinking outside the box!
I’m left handed and I speak 4 languages.
74-year-old lefty. Never hassled about it in school. I learned that scissors only worked right-handed, but later learned how to make scissors work left-handed, if necessary. By high school, I was starting at the back of a spiral notebook---simple way to cope. Forty years as a surgical technologist, and being able to use both hands was a big help.
Scissors at school as a lefty was at best clumsy lol 😆
57 yr old female lefty here, I think it helped me with life. I was made fun of all the time at a very young age, taught me early to not be bothered by criticism. Also taught me to not depend on others to teach me to do things, if you put your mind to it you dont need a teacher because all they say is I dont know how to do it left handed! Being left handed is a gift! Also, its fun when you find others lefties, brings smiles and instant friendships!
My mother warned me not to give in to pressure to change my "handedness", The head teacher took me for a walk to "tell me", but I remained adamant to her surprise. Support from my mother helped me to resist pressure, civilly, even coming from figures of authority. A valuable lesson in life, which has come in very handy in all sorts of situations. "What are you staring at?" being a quick retort, of course.
It's funny how you always notice lefties and they notice you.
57 also I'm a lefty ❤
I'm a 57 yo lefty as well. I remember my teacher telling me that before we started to write in cursive, that she didn't know how to teach a lefty. She said I was smart so I could just watch what she did and figure it out for myself. That's what I did. My dad's mom was a lefty also.
True, lefties is good people
Left handed folks are very artistic 💕
I agree /I am artistic very intuitive. .Sadly I was forced to use my right hand and I don't think it helped.I suffered most of my life from depression!
@astead2650 , my adult son has a tendency to see things negatively, and gets depressed. He's very artistic and played the saxophone 🎷 beautifully. It's hard to praise him, because he's too hard on himself. He's also great at video games other ppl would watch him. He's so fast and quick to learn. He was reprimanded a lot while young over how he held his pencil ✏️up in the air while writing. I sure didn't understand why, such a big deal he writes very well, and spells really well.
@cathyL8562 Your son sounds like he's very gifted & will find sucess! My son also plays the saxophone & very artistic. I cope very well these days & have learned to love myself! I l have learned to drive in my 60s😄
My son was a great guitarist and very artistic. We lost him almost 10 years ago.
@astead2650 sadly, he's now considered disabled and frustrated with himself. He did learn to drive a judge ordered him. He had said, about the written test, "this isn't about driving it's about the law." I said, you're exactly right. He was so depressed trying to get up the nerve to take the test but he knew it backwards and forwards, and passed. The hardest part was both my son's lost their dad to a long devastating illness and died early while they were young. I tried everything to get them motivated in life to find their strengths. Military school, and both needed lots of structure. Most of all a good man to guide them in their lives wasn't there for them.
I was born in 1960, in the second. grade at 7 years old, we we learning how to write, because of the binder rings, it was not comfortable for me, so I turned the notebook sideways, my teacher would stand behind me holding a ruler, every time I turned the notebook she would smack my hand with the ruler. When I got home, my mother asked me what happened to my hand, I told her, the next day my mother was at the school with the principal, he called the teacher to his office, my mother let her have it. She told the principal and the teacher that I better not ever come home with welts on my hand, let her write the way she is comfortable…..my mother was left handed as well….
I am left- handed
As a lefty, I approve of this message!
I'm left-handed, but I learned the word "ambidextrous" when I was 5 or 6 years old. (I never forgot it either.) I was watching my grandpa eat his lunch one day when I realized that he was using both hands. I asked my mom how he was doing it. She then explained about being "ambidextrous" to me. I remember that my grandpa looked at me, grinned and winked. Years later, at the age of 60, I started catching myself using both of my hands to do things, and happily knew that I'd taken after my Grandpa. ❤️
Bring truly ambidextrous means you use both hands equally well with everything.
My sister was ambidextrous, I’m not, I am left handed and I can only write with my paper slanted to the right. My second son is left hand and a pretty good artist.
During my sister's preteen years, she tried using both hands equally well for many tasks, because she thought it would be cool to be ambidextrous.
Then there is "cross-handed." I am nominally left-handed but do many things right-handed. I am not ambidextrous as there is nothing that I do favoring both sides equally. I write and eat left-handed, but many other things I do right-handed. Golfing and batting are the only things that I can do equally well with either hand. Oh, my handwriting slants to the right, so you cannot tell I am left-handed from my handwriting.
@jimrinaldi8357exactly the same here mate, finally learnt the right term for us , thanks👍
Left-handed toward body(eating, shaving, brushing teeth and hair) Right-handed away(throwing, writing, hand tools) A sleep study doctor told me I am 1 in a 100. She also mentioned chances are less for having a debilitating stroke. I took it as a left-handed compliment.
well my dad was left handed and he had a debilitating stroke
I write with my left hand but golf and bat right but throw with my left.
I'm left-handed for eating and writing, but right-handed for almost everything else, especially large-motor tasks. Being female also, I guess I'm pretty unusual, too!
I write with my left hand but throw, bat, shoot and play guitar righty.
I'm exactly the same. It is very strange to most people. Yet I never noticed until my father commented on using a hammer in my left hand but ran a saw in the right. I just accepted it as normal for me.
If you write left-handed and throw right-handed, you are considered cross-dominant or mixed-handed. This means your dominant hand changes depending on the task, with fine motor skills like writing favoring one hand (left) and gross motor skills like throwing favoring the other (right).
That's me!
This is exactly my situation
That is me. Fine motor skills with left hand and gross motor skills with right hand.
Me! I was diagnosed with cross dominance as a child, I write with my left hand but I am able to use my right for most other things. Can openers and other righty tools, I just use my right hand with relative ease. I'm artistic and musically inclined, read well but can't spell worth beans, nor am any good at math. lol
or as i like to say, right is for strength and left is for dexterity.
Tilting the paper for a lefty stops the craw hand position. A great example of what entrenched thinking does w/a simple & logical solution.
58 year old lefty female here! Typing class in Jr High school teacher would not permit me to place material to be typed on my left, it had to be on my right. To pass the class, I adapted by memorizing the sentence and then looking at the keys while typing. To this day I still can't touch type!
Next when Apple Computers came in with a mouse. I had to use my right hand. I learned and the BIG benefit to that was ... I could be on the phone, right-hand mousing the computer and writing left-handed at the same time! That's a asset!
I also use a mouse right handed. It really is an advantage sometimes.
Maybe tha5s what happened to me. I hated my typing teacher. She was a hag
I'm a lefty lady too. WE are the MVPs of adaptation! I'm an artist that paints and draws with both hands, but a downside is ADHD, and I get overwhelmed by noisy busy places. I used to be able to block most of it; now I had to redevelop my 'mental toolbox' to cope. Do you have one that helps you adapt?
That’s interesting, I’m a 52 year old lefty male! I don’t think I have ever seen anyone use a left handed mouse, and the only reason I didn’t say I have never heard of a left handed mouse is because one time setting up a new computer that was an option. I never thought about which side to put something that I was trying to type as the reason why I can’t type without looking at the keyboard, but it makes sense . I took typing in 9th grade, and I can type with my hands placed on the keyboard like they’re supposed to be but if I don’t stare at the keyboard I just don’t trust myself to hit the right key (I especially have problems with number keys and shift keys). I do realize that I do tend to put things on my left now when I need to type but I didn’t know that could be the reason.
@troywiltshire5272 My cordless is symmetrical, so I can use either hand. I've been a fluid typist since 10th grade, but I sometime go so fast I leave out words!
You omitted the most important aspect of left-handedness: Seeing life through the right brain. Many artists are left-handed as they "think" with the right brain, the seat of creativity.
Only 40% of left handed people are right brain dominated. They’re the ones that DON’T write upside down or with a hooked hand. The 60% of lefties that write upside down are left brain dominated just like 97% of right handed people. Only 3% of righties write upside down or with a hook, and are considered right brain dominated.
My maternal grandmother was born left-handed, but her mother forced her to use her right hand (she became ambidextrous). She was highly intelligent, creative, educated, a college professor and had her own TV show. When I was born, showing left-handedness, my great grandmother tried to do the same thing to me that she did to my grandmother, but my mother was not having it! Like my grandmother, I am intelligent, an artist designer and college instructor. I now have an 8 year old granddaughter who is left handed and who enjoys having two grandparents who are also left handed (her mother's mother, and her father's father). She is highly intelligent, and was identifying numbers and all letters of the alphabet before she could barely walk. Her imagination and creativity is off the charts. So, the stigma is gone!
You couldn't be more correct.
Perfect example: Leonardo da Vinci.
Nasty nuns were a problem in schools in a bygone era
As a southpaw, I've noticed how much everything is geared towards the right handed.
That's because the right handed fears it's superiors lol
I always made a special effort to find left handed tools for my daughter.
Pinking shears were the most difficult to find.
Sad fact: teachers used to abuse left handed children for using their left hand.😢
I made sure my daughter didn’t suffer that abuse.
@RendaJane
Good on you.
My dad bought me left-handed scissors. It cost 5 bucks more than the same one for right-handed. Come on 😂
@RendaJane, my maternal great grandmother made sure that her family was never punished for being left handed.
Lefty here 💙🪽
Me too. 👍
I'm a lefty, my dad was a lefty, his mom was a lefty & her mom was a lefty! Grew up thinking being a lefty was the coolest thing in the world!😊
❤❤ Dido ❤❤
My mom and her brother are lefty’s. Me and my brother are lefty’s and out of my two kids one is left handed.
It is!!!
My dad was a lefty, he was a genius. I miss him so much.😢❤
My son is a lefty, he has 140IQ. He is in the Australian Air Force, doing a job that you’d never think of. Takes smarts.
59 year old, been in some form of construction all my life. As a lefty, learning to work with an electric saw, etc. took some getting used to. The sightlines are all wrong, because the blade is on the wrong side. I've gotten used to it, but I bet injuries with power tools like this are more common for lefties. I finally got a left handed saw ( cost an extra 100$ ) , and I can't use it, I'm too trained with the right handed stuff !
Yep been there done that I was real fast how to be amidextrous!
It is amazing how many tools are best (only) designed for righties. My neighbor is a leading design engineer for a major hand tool manufacturer and is left handed. He says that essentially there is no major market for left-handed tools. I am left handed but have an left eye affliction. So using hand tools such as saws is doubly difficult. Despite these "issues", I spent 50 years as a mechanical engineer in many cases, working with taking apart equipment and reassembling them. Still, today doorknobs sometimes bring be up short.
Same thing with me! I bought a left hand circular saw but only used it a couple of times, I'm too used to the world standard right hand saw.
A lefty is more likely to adapt to right handed tools, than a righty to left handed tools. There is a very small market for lefty tools so they cost more.... it's all supply and demand. A friend gave me left handed scissors . I was fine with right handed ones by my teens. I tried the lefty ones and they didn't work.... I could not use them!!! 😲What's up with that!? 🤔 🤣
You left out the part about your hand tools always blowing sawdust in your face.
When I was young.......a long, long time ago, ink covering my hand was my biggest issue, as in those days we used to write alot.
These days scissors are my nemesis.
Something to note is that in my family many boys are lefties, while no girls.
you can buy left handed scissors
I’m a lefty , and we do learn to adapt to a right handed world…the right handed desks in school really pissed me off and that started it all .! He didn’t mention that most tools are right handed circular saws for example….weed eaters , the controls on your riding mower , I could go on , but if you’re a lefty , there’s no need…..🇺🇸………!
The crazy thing is as little leftys as there is it wouldn't be an issue to invest in a handful of left handed desks. Inclusiveness goes a long way especially to younger kids.
You are sure correct about those desks.
Firearms are also a problem because most rifles eject the hot brass out the right side right in your face. Safeties also tend to be on the left side of guns although things are getting more ambidextrous.
Back in my day we always ironed our clothes. The stationary iron cord was my biggest enemy. Thank God for permanent pressed fabrics! Now days they make irons so the cord flips both ways. Good invention.
The thing that bothered me a lot in school was having to sit close to a right handed person in the lunchroom. They would get so mad at me! Hahaha!
Used to have few left-handed desk in every classroom. Old school.
You left out Jimmy Hendrix. Re-strung his guitar and played it upside down.
i took that inspiration from him bc i wanted to try playing guitar. great idea
Many lefties play right handed too like BB King.
Jimmy Hendrix, tats what I shouted at him. The GOAT , much better than Paul and ...... don't even mention J Bieber
I thought Jimi play his regular guitar upside down
Negative
He strung a right handed guitar left handed. Fact
Look at pictures. Big (low E) string is on top. Also, he played the top string of a G chord using his thumb.
The ambidextrous point is soooo true. I find myself using my right hand for certain things because I've had to learn to do that with tools that are made for right handed people, like scissors for example. But if I had to just go by instinct and not think, about which hand to use, it will still always be left
Same here
Same. I write left, hammer left, throw right, strongest arm is right, detailed work goes left and power right. Lefty in the shower 😉 and right with my woman.
@NeoMK hahahahaha 😂 well that made my day. Funny enough I think my right hand is also stronger than my left. So weird 😂
I'm ambidextrous too, like I can't throw anything with my left hand but one time my grandma got me lefty scissors and I remember it felt weird because I was so used to using right hand ones with my left hand but yeah my mom told me she used to take everything from the left and put it in my right and I drove her crazy because I would put it right back in my left, I always assumed that was the reason for but after watching this. I can relate to this 💯%
I’m ambidextrous too …as a child it was considered taboo to be left handed ..I learned to use right hand and as times changed …I used both .Whenever one hand gets tired ..I switch
My father’s family were covered up with lefties. When he caught my mother trying to force me to use my right hand when it was clear I was a leftie he stepped in and made my mother leave me alone. I’m forever grateful to him. My youngest daughter is also a leftie too.
I’m right handed and had 3 left handed roommates in college. The coffee pot handle was always facing the “wrong way.” I realized then what lefties go through in a 85-90% right handed world.
We learn to adapt at very early ages
Lol yep😂 coffee mugs are deff for rightys. Being a lefty I have adjusted to it since I eat left handed, and drink with my right😂😂😂
This. Glad you noticed this💯🥂💐
I am a southpaw. As a teen, I was learning how to use a chainsaw, luckily my uncle yelled "stop" and told me I have to use a chainsaw "Right handed", because no one makes a left handed chainsaw. Operating left handed, with hands crossed over a right handed chainsaw, if the saw kicks back, it would strike the operator on the right arm or face. (not a pretty sight). Since that day, I began thinking before using any power tools. Now a retired Design Engineer.
Designing a left handed chainsaw in retirement? Or a retrofit kit? Something?
One not many people know of. In my trade we use copper/brass hammers, which deform. You will immediately know if you pick up a right hander's hammer, and you will immediately put it down and go get yours.
The rotation of drills is also an issue for left handed users. If the drill jams it pushes into the hand of a right hander but is pulled away from the hand of a lefty. The drill then swings around and his the back of the left hand or anything else that get in the way. Likewise power saws will shoot material past the right handed user but into the body or face of a left hander. Be Aware......
My ex wanted me to train( force) our left handed child to be right handed for that very reason. We both have left handed people in our families and I was super excited to discover one of our 3 children was left handed. But my mechanic ex husband blew a gasket so we fought about it. I realize that my ex was just being cautious but he went about it all wrong. Our lefty is brilliant and still a lefty but also uses the right hand for lots of things, like dangerous tools.
@karenscoville6307 I use both hands as needed. My Dad's Experience was more old school as a young carpenter. He was expected to act right handed but every job had some tasks that could only be performed by a left hander such as nailing in a constricted space. The solution was that they would wait til just before a break and tell him to finish a job while they went for coffee. They could use his skill without knowledge the sinister (left handed) success. Sinister is by the way a religious reference to Jesus being on the right hand of God with Lucifer was on the left before the fall.
That joke is one of my favorites. Also, all people are born right handed but only the best overcome it 😂. Yes, I’m a left handed woman.
My mother is a lefty! 😊
And even though I write with my right hand, she is the reason i appreciate my left hand so much. I tend to trust it for several everyday things, and others find this odd. 🙌
That's actually really cool :D sounds like you've got the best of both worlds. What kind of things do you usually use your left hand for?
@list25 Thank you! Mainly eating, drinking and using my phone are things tasked to the left hand. But also additional subtle things throughout the day can only feel natural moves with the left.
Plus whenever the right one feels tired it can take a break from most of its tasks if I put my mind to it!
I was born in 1950. When I was a small child my mother saw that I was favoring my left hand. She asked our family doctor if this was something she should be concerned about changing. Fortunately, he told her to let me use the hand I wanted to use. She followed his advice, which really mattered because she taught me to read and write before I went to school and she let me write with my left hand. Also significantly, I don’t write “upside down” as many lefties do because my mother realized that the paper needed to be slanted to the right instead of to the left as she did herself as a right-handed writer.
I still remember that when I was in first grade (no kindergarten back in 1956 where I lived) I was working on a writing assignment and the teacher stopped in front of my desk and said, “What hand do we write with?” I looked up at her and said, “I write with my left hand.” She didn’t say anything else, but I told my mother what the teacher had said and she went to see my teacher and told her that I am left-handed because of our doctor’s advice. I am so very grateful for my mother and how she handled this significant difference in my life!
I have always been quite happy to be left-handed. I do use scissors with my right hand for the obvious reason. Otherwise, I just do what comes naturally!
Thanks so much for this fascinating and encouraging video!
Buy yourself some left handed scissors…they’re great!
@kaddyd1815Actually I used scissors for lefties once and it didn’t work for me. I just couldn’t cut a straight line. I use regular scissors with my left hand.
Your Mother was smart.
I've always used right-handed scissors ✂️ it feels strange with left-handed ones, but I think that's about all I use that's right-handed,I can write ✍️ a little with my right, though also,
@kaddyd1815 I've always used 'right-handed' scissors but did buy a pair designed for us lefties. Oh my, what an absolute mess I'd make trying to cut out material! 😫 Those lefty scissors are now relegated to opening large bundles of things like paper towels and toilet paper and nothing else.
I'd just use my notebook back to front so spiral is on the right 😂
I did that! Just commented on it!
When I was in junior college years ago, I went to the bookstore and found a few left handed spiral notebooks for sale. Surprise! As you said, just turn it over & it's left handed. As a retired person, I now notice many more things designed for righties, like the curling iron I couldn't figure out how to use til I turned it upside down, to me, and saw the digital temperature screen!
smart
@terry1912 he'll yeah we should start rioting like the lgbtqs for being discriminated against 🤣 and when I went to school we couldn't afford Barnes and nobles so turn it around for me or suffer the Wrath of the spiral 🤣🤣
Not if you use the both sides of the pages
I’m a left handed artist;but I had a stroke; the brain damage was on the right side of my brain and now my left side is paralyzed,so I have no choice but to use my right hand to still draw or write; but it’s so unnatural; it feels like major confusion in my brain, because I’m still thinking of the left hand as I try to accomplish those things with the right hand. Really frustrating and weird stuff 🤬
Sorry to hear about the stroke. GOD BLESS YOU .🙏🏼
@cowboycactiTotally agree, give yourself time and grace.
My mom and grandma were lefties. It took me some time to learn not to tilt my paper when writing right handed. Grandma tried to teach me to knit and crochet but I wasn’t able to reverse her directions.
I have a lot of left hand traits, though. I am my mother’s daughter!
Leftie artist too.
Maybe, try playing with a stand up mirror ,close to your work, maybe next to your hand where you want to draw. Looking into the mirror. Moving it with your hand as you draw.
Just thinking the mirror reverses the image, so the brain may then switch the image so it's easier to draw. Don't know if it will work, but as an artist, I know the heartache/ soulache when you can't create. May you be blessed with creative healing.
Allow me to offer some of my experience. I decided to learn to write with right hand. But I realized I had to quiet down my left hemisphere 1st. So I did what Leonardo DaVinci customarily did. Write from right to left, letters backwards (you can only read it with a mirror), practice/practice/ practice. Start slow 15 minutes once..twice a day. Then rest a couple of days. At the end of 2nd week: write left to right normally, and be amazed! You did it! Incredible, right? What you did, was turn off left hemisphere (the rational, logical analytical brain )because by writing backwards the left side couldn't understand, and stopped judging your scribbling. You also need a stronger wrist, so play tennis, or any sport with your right hand. It will help improving your now fascinating new talent. Best wishes!
I asked a dog chiropractor if dogs are left or right pawed. She said definitely, yes, and went into a very detailed explanation with examples.
#9: I am a Kerr. I am right handed but my older brother is a leftie (as is his son). When he found out about the Kerr leftie tendency, and especially the spiral staircase in Ferniehirst Castle, he made it his mission to travel there and stay at the castle. We surprised him with a gathering of family and friends in 2023 to celebrate his 70th birthday. 21 of us stayed at the Castle. Turned out to be good timing because he was diagnosed with cancer shortly afterwards and passed away a few weeks ago. I was asked to recount the story of him being proudly left handed and the trip to Scotland at his life celebration this past Sunday. Weird how this List 25 got uploaded the next day.
@hectorsmommy1717 Nice story, I bet that was pretty Nostalgic for you and your family. I'm sure he was joyful til the end.
@hectorsmommy1717 it’s called Synchronicity. Similar but unrelated events happen simultaneously. I believe that it shows the connections in reality. It’s meaningful. If you look for them, and are onto them they will happen all the time.
Sorry for your loss. You are a beautiful sister. I am a Leftie
Sorry for your loss
Kerrigan leftie
I’m a lefty woman, and the most traumatic experience I had was in kindergarten. A visiting Art teacher refused to accept any of my art projects unless I drew, colored, and cut with my right hand. Thankfully, my real teacher advocated for me!
That’s a sad story.
Forced hand switching is child abuse, not "conversion".
It's as immoral and wrong as anti-LGBTQIA bigots and their "conversion therapy".
😳🤦🏼♀️
My mom says she had one teacher in highschool insist all papers/ class projects be written right handed. But when he wasn't looking she switched hands. Said all her writing slanted different angles of when he was looking or not. 😂
If confused: slant of left handed letters are / but right handed is other way.
I was never good at art work when scissors were involved. I even told my teacher the scissors didn't work. She tried it and of course the scissors worked perfectly. Many years later I realized that scissors only work properly when used with the right hand...
As a health scientist, with a particular interest in neurology, I have to say that I'm particularly impressed that you covered the mirror image twin link with lefties. To take it one step further, studies suggest that singletons who are lefties may be a surviving twin of a twin who sadly didn't make it. It's more common than people realise for singletons to start out as a twin with one twin sadly not making it before scans pick up on there being twins. Nice work researcher.
I was just mentioning that and interesting to know this is more common in studies! I'm a lefty as is my lefty partner. She said she always felt like she had a twin and even questioned her parents as a child if she had a twin that was being hidden from her! So freaky!
So, did I lose a fetus? How would I know?
@RendaJane Unfortunately, it's unlikely you'll know now. Not all lefties have lost a twin, but the studies are only able to be done with both surviving twins. The information was gained by combining the knowledge from studies on surviving twins with the knowledge gained from studies involving very early pregancies. Peer reviews of multiple studies gather information to come to additional conclusions. I'm sorry I can't help you with that. You have a very valid question. I wish I could give you the answer.
I know two lefties that lost their twin in utero
That’s interesting because I’ve always felt that I might’ve had a twin in the womb because as I was growing up, I would often gravitate and make friends with twins.
People who are ambidextrous:
😐
My youngest sister is a lefty. As she started school her teacher first tried to "convert" her. Our mom marched into the classroom and laid down the mama law. No more conversion attempts.
My mom Did the same. Would hit my hand
I won more fist fights growing up because the other guy didn't expect my left hook. Being a lefty rules.
So cool.
and thats the truth.
Awesome! It definitely helped me in basketball for similar reasons. I'd usually be in double figures before defenders figured out what's going on & adjusted. It made me an awkward/mediocre fighter though since I, for some reason, adopted a righty stance. Quick/strong jab but, weak everything else. I've fixed my stance & worked on my jab but, still feels odd & always tempted to switch back.
I’m a lefty, my dad was too. Neither one of us ever had a problem. I taught myself how to crochet left handed that’s it no problem. I love sports winter and summer.. I’m still fine at 79 yrs old🤗🤗🤗
Lefty here, first one in 3 generations that I know of. I learned to crochet by sitting across from my mother mirroring her right hand movements.
I am a left too but forced to write with left hand but I could not learn how to crochet with my left hand like u did but I sewing with left.
Lefty also. So was my dad and grandma. My grandma was forced to write right handed at school, this was WWI era so things were a little different. Your dad must have been the same generation as her.
I'm left-handed. My cursive is still illegible and I use a hybrid cursive (printing with connective flourishes).
Both my parents were right handed, had 5 boys and 3 of us are left handed
Another fun fact… August 13 is International Left Handed Day, my son’s birthday and that’s right( left) - he’s a lefty!
OMGG THATS TODAYY IM ALSO LEFT HANDED!
You're funny
Loved this! As a left- handed person, I've learned to adapt in a right-handed world. You can say I swing both ways, lol.
😂😂😂
We're switch hitters haha
When I was in elementary school I hated to write in pencil. My papers always were smudged because of the way I held the pencil.
@josebrown5961 I had the same problem, lol. The chalkkboard was the worst, though...the heel of my hand used to erase everything I wrote. My teacher used to smack my hand with the chalkboard brush & yell at me, telling me to use my right hand. That sort of abuse would not happen now.
@kimerickson1353❤💯!
I am a lefty. My dad was a lefty. All 3 of my nephews are left-handed. 2 of my 3 children are left -handed.
In my house we are all Lefty's except one of my daughters. My grandson is too young to tell, but he seems to do a lot of things left-handed.
I hear people say left-handedness is rare. I am like "where?" Because I am surrounded by lefties.
My only brother and only son and only grandson are all lefties.
So, at least sometimes, it's genetic. Or is it a programming, like religion & patriotism?
Same in my family. We are 50-50. That 10% was shocking!
My dad ,me, and my son are all left-handed....
Where I work there is an unusual number of left-handed people. I’ve never been able to figure out why, but it’s a nice change for me.
I'm a leftie 💙 My kids say I get lost in a shoe box 🤣 I'm lost all the time!
haha lol!
I was a natural lefty, but 60 years ago, elementary teachers were taught to force children to use their right hand. So, I basically became ambidextrous. My wife was right handed but held a writting skill that I found a bit facinating. She could write sentences backward from right to left, but not only did she write the words backward, she also wrote them upside down.. and not slowly but at a normal pace.
I'm a lefty and I'm pretty good at writing upside-down with good penmanship! I'm always experimenting how I write for some reason!
How unusual!!
Wow!!! I am just ambidextrous. Lol
I'm 63 yrs old, hubby is 64, both of us are left-handed, neither of us were forced to write with our right hand in school. I always got A+ in penmanship, hubby's writing has always been like chicken scratch. Oh and neither of us do that weird thing where left handers curl their hand inward when writing. I had a girlfriend in elementary school that did that
I started school in England in 1967 and fortunately by then it was rare for teachers to force kids to write with the right hand. I already knew when I started school that I was left-handed (my older sister and one of my younger sisters are too), and teachers never forced me to use my right hand. However I had an accident and broke my left arm during my first year of school, so for a long period of time I had to use my right hand to write, however difficult it was. That's probably why I can still manage it today, although it never feels right and the writing looks terrible, although legible. One interesting exception to my left-handedness is I've always thrown with my right hand, and have always favoured my right arm for anything requiring strength. It might just be because my right arm is stronger than my left due to the injury when I was a young child. I also play the guitar and ukulele and have never felt the need to play left-handed.
I'm left handed and proud of it. Never forced to be right handed.
Same here, a lot of bigots have piled on this thread.
@freddyferret2313 Screw those righties.
ever try tying a necktie knot -quite frustrating.
My mother and I were left handed and she got the school to stop taking me out of classes to try to make me write with my right hand! Love you Mom I miss you 💕❤😊
I’m lefty, woman, adhd, a leader and artistic
We tie shoes different too
Tell me about it. My kindergarten teacher had to "import" a left-handed first grader to show me how to do it.
@LadyGhislaine Yes we do! Lucky for me I had an older sister that taught me before I started school.
@ You were lucky! Who taught her?
My parents always told me it looks hard the way I was tying my shoes (lefty here).
Me too, I'm a lefty learned how to tie my shoes when I was 4. My wife, a righty, doesn't understand how I do it, I just do it. Granted we are different, not better just different.
6:15 no mention of Jimi Hendrix doing the same?
I used to think I was terrible at cutting slices evenly until I found out that many knives are sharpened to favor righties. Got a lefty knife and suddenly cut more evenly. Also love my lefty pencil sharpener and can (tin) opener. 👍
Can openers are a pain, especially the old style stab and hook type.
The worst thing in the world during school were 3 ring binders. In high school I decided to hell with it and wrote everything on the back of the pages instead of the front. Oddly enough, my English teacher thought it was a great idea but my biology teacher would give me half marks. To this day, I don't know if I disliked biology or just the teacher.
I was a hairstylist I had to have lefthanded shears to cut hair. Right-handed shears will NOT work for us lefties!
@MrGrumblierYep,could never negotiate those b can openers !!
I didn’t know there were lefty knives. Cool
I have a left handed scissors and my wife always complains about them😂, she says they won’t cut😅
I'm ambidextrous and I love being able to do everything with both hands. Anyone else ambi?
Worked construction on and off my whole life. I shoot right handed, kick right footed. Have to catch throw, write cursive left handed. Got good amount of ambidextrous to drive nails finish concrete operate power tools
As a left-handed tennis player in high school, my right-handed partner and I made a doubles team that opponents couldn't figure out until it was too late.
I had the same advantage playing #1 doubles in high school.
Same, it was great!
Often played tennis with lefties and we usually opted for both forehands down the middle!
@bobdear5160 My partner and I played with our forehands down the alleys for some reason I've long forgotten.
@ That was our plan B if we lost the first set!!
I’m an Architect and a Lefty 🥰 Teachers tried to change me to writing right handed. But soon gave up. When they made me use my right hand I would always use my left hand too 😅
So you became ambidextrous. It's a win win!
Same here.I would always tell them no and put it right back into my left hand
same here. Fortunately my teachers didn't try to change me, but drafting was different because I learnt using a T square..... one that you operate with your left hand....very frustrating. Even when I starte working the office had a drawing head on a drawing board...again operated by your left hand. I was happy when we started a paraline. All before the invention of AUTOCAD......😄
Who else had to deal with those school desk, that were made for right handed people? Erasable ink pens, were the "enemy", lol! Ink would smear everywhere! And lets not mention our "loopy" cursive writing 🤣🤣🤣🥰🥰🥰
There were times in college that I had to sit with my backside hanging out of the desk so I could write. It looked like I was trying to look at the work of the person behind me .
My father who was right handed used to have a go at me about putting the padlock on the dog run the wrong way around, I’d lock the dog in at night and he’d open it in the morning, he used to shout “put the fucking lock on the right way around “😂
Those desks were a nightmare 😂
I have been left-handed my entire life. I have adapted to using right-handed scissors and some other things, and I place my computer mouse for my right hand to use, for example. However, everything else is done with my left hand. I cannot even hold a pen in my right hand unless I am mirror writing, that is, writing completely backwards so you need to hold it up to a mirror to read it. I am actually able to write with both hands simultaneously doing this. Oddly enough, my backwards signature looks just like my forwards signature. From what I understand, natural right-handers are not able to do this, although I would not be surprised to see it done.
In my family, my mother, maternal grandmother, one maternal aunt, and two siblings are left-handed. While I am not sure about left-handed cousins, I also have several nieces and nephews who are left-handed, as are several of their children. It is a trait that runs strongly in my family. Out of five children, three left-handers were produced. I am curious to know if this is rare or more commonplace than we know.
My teachers, for 2 years, tied down my left arm to force me to use my right. I finally refused to do it and I was “set free”. PTSD? I can barely use my right hand for anything.
They used to force children at school to do everything righthanded. They always ended up reverting to their lefthand.
My sister can do crochet lefthanded (used a RUclips video) but has to do knitting righthanded.
in the fifties in Europe, you had to use your right hand, so I am writing with my right hand, play guitar and banjo as a right hand person Traveling trough South East Asia where people eat with hands I had to watch myself which hand I am using to reach for food into the communal bowl. In the army I had to throw hand grenade with my right hand, :-(
Same here!
You may have dodged a bullet-
My First Cousin (the boy in a pair of girl/boy fraternal twins) was left-handed until he literally had it beat out of him by the nuns at his school and his parents (his father went so far as to tie his left arm down during family meals). He developed a stutter, became a petty criminal in his teens (this included B&E, vandalism, arson and drug use). He joined the military to avoid jail time, was discharged (for reasons I can't get anyone in the family to tell me). He is now living in a prepper community in Iowa with a quiverfull/broodmare wife and 8 children. I should find out if any of his kids are left-handed
The foolishness of some people in authority makes wrecks of people. My grandpa was also made to use his right hand, but the people who enforced this must have been more benign. He actually told me it helped him be better at guitar and art, and that he was ambidextrous as a result.
I’m a green eyed left handed lady, with two left handed brothers and two right handed parents and 4 right handed grandparents.
I'm also a green-eyed, left-handed woman. Hello!!!
Grey eyed, red headed, lefty woman, pleased to find you here!
Wow!!🙀
Yeah it’s weird. I’m pretty sure my oldest brother just taught me and my middle brother that’s why it ended up that way. It sort of stymied everyone around our family though, and now, I have a right handed daughter and a right handed niece and nephew too. (They’re the only grandkids)
And two LEFT handed STEP DAUGHTERS!!! 🤦🏼♀️🤦🏼♀️🤣🤣 my hubby is a rightie though
You forgot the most famous left-handed musician in your short list: Jimi Hendrix.
My case is strange, I write and eat with my right hand but my left hand & leg are the strongest... if I'm picking up something heavy or fighting I use my left... but when writing I'm right handed.
Also, when I was a kid I made up a different way to tie my shoelaces, don't remember how that happened.
On another note, as a ripperologist myself, yes a doctor suggested the ripper was left handed but we have to consider from what position he attacked his victims. More likely he did it from behind his victims to avoid getting sprayed with blood.
Keep up the good work Mike!
One of the Beatles played guitar left handed. Can't remember which one though. Ah he just said it!
I played hockey in school. As there were no left-handed hockey sticks back then I became the goalie for the school team.
It’s rare, but not strange. It’s cross body dominance. 1%-2% of the population has this. For some it’s simple mixed handiness, where task done with your hands may be a mix of left or right preference. For others like us, it applies to the whole body. Absolutely left-handed for fine motor control, but my right arm, leg, eye, and even my right ear are noticeably stronger.
@gaiaiuliaRingo is also left handed.
Kurt Cobain.
I also immediately thought of Hendrix too