Right Handed or Left Handed?

[Majikthise]

Right handed.


My mother has told me of how when she was in elmentary school (circa 1930s)the teachers would hit her knuckles with a ruler for writing with her left hand.Today she is vehemently left handed.My younger brother is left handed and is ,in my opinion a remarkable artist.

 

[SK2005]

Both...I can do just about anything with both of my hands! It is fun because I can confuse people!

 

[SK2005]

My Grandma would tell me stories about how she always taught her left-handed kids to write with their right hands because they would have to in school. It is interesting.

 

[½ Sane]

I'm a righty.

 

[SK2005]

I'm a righty.

right, righty......:biglaugh:

 

[Lightkeeper]

I'm right handed.

 

[Ceridwen018]

I'm right handed. In horseback riding though, both hands are used equally, so I've developed my left hand because of that. I can write and do other stuff with my left hand, but it doesn't feel as natural as my right.

 

[cardero]

Well this thread certainly went downhill fast .

Anyway, I am left handed. Can't really explain/remember why I chose that hand seeing as how I chose it so long ago... But there are two main things I do wtih my right hand: Brush my teeth, and use scissors (not my choice though, all the "lefty" scissors in school sucked).

What was up with them? As a lefty did I truly require to use these "special" scissors? What was the difference?

I have one question. How come I am left handed but play guitar like a righty but have always wanted to play lefty?

 

[Linus]

What was up with them? As a lefty did I truly require to use these "special" scissors? What was the difference?

I don't know what was up with them. They were just poor quality (not like the other kindergarted scissors were all that great either) and always felt awkward to hold and use.

I have one question. How come I am left handed but play guitar like a righty but have always wanted to play lefty?

I don't know that either. I play guitar like a righty too, but it feels natural because you use your left hand for more of the work like forming chords and such. I always thought it should be the other way around becuase of that.

 

[lilithu]

What was up with them? As a lefty did I truly require to use these "special" scissors? What was the difference?

Some lefties are so lateralized that they really do need those "special" sissors. But as far as I can tell, most don't.

They caused me a good deal of distress my first week in kindergarten. The teacher ask us to raise our hands if we were left-handed, and so I was thrust a pair of left-handed sissors. As Linus said, they were so bad that I couldn't cut my construction paper with them. But as a five year old, it never occured to me that the fault was in the sissors. I sat there tearing paper, convinced that I was truly defective because I couldn't use the sissors that were made especially for me. It was a week before I had the nerve to ask the teacher for a pair of right-handed sissors.

 

[Bastet]

I'm right handed, although I used to have more ambidextrous tendencies. I also wear my watch on my right hand, like several others here. I'm excited, I thought I was the only one who did that! :jiggy:

 

[No*s]

I'm pretty much right handed on anything that I was taught to do by others, but on self-taught things, I may well be able to do it either way. I may have been able to be fully ambidextrious, but well, I've grown up being taught you do everything with only one hand...so I'm pretty much righty now.

 

[michel]

I remember being taught to use my right hand as a child, rather than my left one, which was my preffered choice.
Now neither of them does whatever job properly!!:jiggy:

 

[FyreBrigidIce]

I remember in 8th grade my right shoulder popped out of joint after I tripped on a sidewalk and fell under a parked school bus. I had to have my right arm in a sling and could not write with my right hand. I tried taking notes but could not read them afterwards so I had to start having classmates take notes for me. What a pain in the tush.



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[Linus]

I dunno...Might be kinda cool to have your friends take all your notes for you...

 

[mrscardero]

I am right handed but I drive with my left hand. I sometimes do a
lot of things with my left since I injured my right hand a while back.
Had to learn to use left hand to do a lot of things. I am a fast learner
so it was easy.
But with carrdero being a lefty, we have to make sure that when we go to
a restaurant with friends, (we like to sit in booths) we don't bump arms...
lefty bumping righty. :bonk:

 

[kiwimac]

Leftie. When I was in primary school here (Elementary to those in the US) I was strapped (My hand was hit with a large leather strap) for writing using my left hand. My Gandma, who really raised me, stormed down to the school, after I came home tearfully, and apparently grabbed the teacher by her clothes & told her she'd ..... ummm.... incapable of doing it again because of the numberous contusions and breakages such a repeat would cause to happen.

Kiwimac