Are you a rightie or a leftie ? Inquiring minds want to know .

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Are you a "south-paw" or a ...... ? ( I don't know what righties are called! )

I'm right handed and my hubby is a leftie . Our son is also right handed.

Growing up, my hubby learned to use both hands out of necessity . Back then , you were an "oddball" if you were a leftie ! NOTHING was made for them . You had to reverse everything in your head.:playful:

When I was young , I remember my grandma telling me she was left handed . When she was in grade school (geeze - early 1900's ?) - they used to tie their left hand behind their backs and force them to be right handed. I always thought that was so sad , but it happened so long ago. I guess that's what they did back then.

If you're a leftie .... does this right handed world bother you ? LOL
 

I'm a lefty, but when I went to Catholic school, that was considered "sinistra," the hand of the devil. They made me sit on my left hand and if I tried to use it, I got whacked by a ruler.

I'm ambidextrous. There are few things I can't do with either of my hands.

I'm also dyslexic. A friend of a friend was an early researcher in dyslexia. She said I may have been born with it, but switching my hands was guaranteed to make it much worse or even cause it. I especially notice it when I'm trying to read late at night and everything turns into alphabet soup. It's affecting me more as I age because I sometimes forget how to spell words that wouldn't have fazed me a while back. I second-guess myself a lot. Numbers have little to no meaning to me.
 
I am sort of ambidextrous. I write and hold fork or spoon in my right; but everything else I do with my left. Bat, pitch. golf, bowl I am a lefty. This caused no end of grief in school. During gym the teacher would scream at me for my natural unconscious desire to do whatever it was left handed and force me to do the opposite. I did not do well and avoided sports completely. My first boyfriend tried to teach me to golf and bowl and of course I failed. One day in my 20's a bunch of us started a softball game. I played and actually hit the ball very well much to my amazement. Other players pointed out to me I was batting leftie. They knew I wrote with my right. After that I tried golfing and bowling and could actually do it. When I sweep or shovel snow I can switch hands.

My Dad was a leftie and my mom a rightie.
 
Lefty. Never had trouble with anything, always found left-handed versions of what I needed, or I modified right-handed ones for my use, or I used them right-handed. Play bass guitar, righty: right-hand plucking, left hand fingering, play violin left-handed: left hand bowing, right hand fingering. Shoot left-handed, so some autos and rifles eject onto my right shoulder if I'm not careful. Golf and bat left-handed, shoot b-ball left handed, box lefty, throw lefty. Used to hear stories, at a very young age, of how my great aunt was traumatized by being forced to write right-handed, in school. I vowed to never let anyone tell me what hand I could or could not use, in my lifetime.
 
I'm a righty as well as my two kids. I don't know of ANY of my relatives (siblings, cousins, aunts & uncles etc.)

who are "lefties". It bothers me to watch somebody write left handed; So awkward ! Hands curled around.

Isn't Obama left handed ?
 
Yes - Obama was a leftie !

My old doctor was a leftie . I couldn't stand to watch him write . He held the pen and his arm hovered over the paper - he never put his elbow down . I'm sure becoming a doctor needs TONS of writing - I don't know how he did it. Pharmacists told me had the worst writing ever ! Before he retired, he used a small recorder to dictate his notes .... now I can see why ! LOL
 
I'm sure that my tendency was to use my left hand. Unlike so many of you who were slapped, tied, etc., I assume that my parents and teachers taught me to use my right hand as I eat, and write right handed. Anything that was an outdoor activity, throwing , batting, shooting a basketball and kicking a football was done left-handed.

I started school in the late 30's and am surprised to hear of the corporal punishment used to make you into a rightie. I don't even remember a tussle. I assume that I was told to use my right hand and I did. Maybe my folks kept putting my first crayons, when very young, into my right hand? The only game that I never tried was golf because, back then, it was hard to borrow or use anyone's golf clubs as left-handed golfers were close to non-existence. Even the driving ranges would only have one or two crappy clubs for lefties on hand. I understand today, it's more common.
 
Shalimar said:
Not all left handers write awkwardly. I don’t curl my hand, probably why my writing is straight up and down, rather than slanted. It is neat, and very legible.
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I taught myself to write with my left hand ages ago. Like you, I don't curl my hand. My left hand when I'm writing is the mirror image of my right hand when I'm using it, and my handwriting isn't all that different.
 
Smiling Jane said:
I'm a lefty, but when I went to Catholic school, that was considered "sinistra," the hand of the devil. They made me sit on my left hand and if I tried to use it, I got whacked by a ruler.

I'm ambidextrous. There are few things I can't do with either of my hands.

I'm also dyslexic. A friend of a friend was an early researcher in dyslexia. She said I may have been born with it, but switching my hands was guaranteed to make it much worse or even cause it. I especially notice it when I'm trying to read late at night and everything turns into alphabet soup. It's affecting me more as I age because I sometimes forget how to spell words that wouldn't have fazed me a while back. I second-guess myself a lot. Numbers have little to no meaning to me.
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All sinistra means is left handed. adestra means right handed.

they don't teach script writing any more. In those golden days they taught you to slant your paper to the right.

That meant a left handed had to drag the script across.

Now everyone just prints.

Im right handed in some things and left handed in others. Pitched right. Batted left.
 
Camper6 said:
All sinistra means is left handed. adestra means right handed.

they don't teach script writing any more. In those golden days they taught you to slant your paper to the right.

That meant a left handed had to drag the script across.

Now everyone just prints.

Im right handed in some things and left handed in others. Pitched right. Batted left.
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If you had heard the way the nuns hissed "sinistra," you would not consider it a neutral word. It is, in fact, the origin of the word "sinister."

http://www.latin-dictionary.net/definition/35129/sinister-sinistra
 
Shalimar said:
Not all left handers write awkwardly. I don’t curl my hand, probably why my writing is straight up and down, rather than slanted. It is neat, and very legible.
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I'm surprised no one mentioned this, unless this was not generally true. I went to grade schools that had individual chair/desk and they were all right-handed. We lefties didn't have anything under our arm and had to write holding our arm up (level to desktop) all the time. That resulted in holding one's arm at an angle towards the body to keep from getting so tired. When I was first taught printing in the early days, we had to form our letters the same way ---- make our circles and form the lines of letters the same way. Well, it had to be done same as right handers, which is backwards. It got worse, of course, learning cursive writing. I ended up printing most notes in high school and college as my cursive was so illegible.
 

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