International Left Handers Day - August 13th

My brother and I are the lefties in our family, our older sister is right handed as were our parents My brother's wife is also a lefty, all 4 of their kids are righthanded. When I went to girl's boarding school in the late 60's part of the uniform was a wearing a tie. My dad taught me how to tie it by standing me in front of a mirror. I can still do it today. When I played softball I threw with my left hand, caught with my right,batted right handed
 
My favorite Baseball pitcher ( my baseball position ) was Sandy Koufax. Fantastic left handed pitcher.

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"Koufax led the league in strikeouts four times; in 1965, he struck out 382 batters, which established a major league record. That season, he walked only 71 -- he remains the only pitcher in major league history to have a season in which he had 300 more strikeouts than walks. "Trying to hit Koufax," Willie Stargell once said, "was like drinking coffee with a fork.""

https://www.espn.com/mlb/story/_/id...ing-hit-sandy-koufax-was-drinking-coffee-fork
 
A famous myth was that my ancestors were all left handed. The ancestral homes in the Scottish borders were built to suit and be defended by left handed people. My family are mainly right handed, by elder daughter and two uncles are / were left handed. There have been conflicting pieces of research into the incidence of left handedness, but at most I think there is only a small increase in my family.

A more likely explanation is that the clan members learned to fight left handed as this gave them a tactical advantage over right handed opponents.

On the point of being forced to write right-handed, at my primary school in the 50's, left handed pens were available for left handed pupils. I'm told that this was very unusual for the time.
 
I'm left handed. My first grade teacher used to hit my hand with a ruler
and draw blood because she told me to write only with my right hand
and I didn't obey her!
I use both hands though for other things.
 
I am the only southpaw in my family. My mother instructed my teachers in school never to try and change me, and they did not. I did learn to write via the Palmer Method, however. This means that I do not curl my hand around my wrist to write. It can cause a problem if one is using real ink when writing with long sleeves on.
 
Lewkat said:
I am the only southpaw in my family. My mother instructed my teachers in school never to try and change me, and they did not. I did learn to write via the Palmer Method, however. This means that I do not curl my hand around my wrist to write. It can cause a problem if one is using real ink when writing with long sleeves on.
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Yes, I don't twist my arm around either. The Palmer method, yes, and PHONICS!
 
Yaaaay for me! I'm left handed..well actually ambidextrous but eat and write with my left hand. People marvel at how I sign my name. I turn the paper sideways and according to where they are standing, people perceive me writing upside down. :D Here's a list of left handed celebrities:
https://www.imdb.com/list/ls074739345/
Here's another list of famous lefties that includes historical figures:
https://bestlifeonline.com/famous-left-handers/
 
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OneEyedDiva said:
Yaaaay for me! I'm left handed..well actually ambidextrous but eat and write with my left hand. People marvel at how I sign my name. I turn the paper sideways and according to where they are standing, people perceive it as being upside down. :D Here's a list of left handed celebrities:
https://www.imdb.com/list/ls074739345/
Here's another list of famous lefties that includes historical figures:
https://bestlifeonline.com/famous-left-handers/
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Di Vinci, Michelangelo, Aristotle, but they misspelled my name and put someone else's picture in! haha!
 


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