May I add the following negative aspect of being left-handed. When right-handed people write, they pull the pen to the right (since this is how western text is written), so their right hand follows a natural curve at the wrist, which imparts less stress to the tendons in the wrist. But when left-handed people write they have to PUSH the pen to the right - which causes them to depress the wrist and place a lot of stress on the tendons in the wrist. This can lead to carpal tunnel syndrome or painful tendonitis which gets worse as the years roll by. The condition can be alleviated by ensuring the left wrist is rounded, not depressed - but this takes a lot of present moment awareness - and it's tedious and very awkward. Left-handed Alexander teacher.
Turn your paper sideways and write towards yourself . I had no choice but to do this , since I sat at a right handed desk in school . It messes people up when they see me writing like this, lol I’m a pretty happy lefty
Interesting, my granddaughter is a lefty and things have been awkward for her ,and despite been very knowledgeable at 8 , she gas trouble writing, things are back to front . Her reading is spot on though .
Interesting, my granddaughter is a lefty and things have been awkward for her ,and despite been very knowledgeable at 8 , she gas trouble writing, things are back to front . Her reading is spot on though .
I have read as good a reason for the teaching issue as I have ever heard...ball-point pens didn't exist and left-handers would smear the fountain pen ink as they wrote! As a left-hander I've struggled through life with the smearing.
In 1958, Sister Mary Chainsaw used to smack my hand with a ruler and screamed at me for using the wrong hand to write. I could not even hold a pencil in my right hand. I still have to turn wire bound notebooks upside down to write in them so that the binding is off to the right and won't bother me.
I'm 70 and when I was in school I was treated like crap! Now apparently, we are somehow these "special" people? Tell you though I learned typing quicker than the right handed. My left hand is proficient on the left side of the keyboards.
In college I was working out in a boxing gym on the heavy and speed bags. The house trainer approached me and asked if I could spar with his boxer who was going to fight a ranked fighter on USA boxing network in about a month. I didn’t have great skills but he needed work with a southpaw. The kid was cool and took it easy on me even after I bloodied his nose in the first couple minutes. He taught me plenty and was grateful for the opportunity. He won his fight on tv and we were friendly afterwards. Good times and was glad to help!
Does that mean I’m half great? I’m mixed handed so do some things lefty and some things righty. I write lefty…but I don’t need those left-handed scissors!
52 year old lefty here! Love being different! Was ecstatic when i found out my 8year old nephew is a lefty as well! Its hard but i do ok in this righty world! LEFTYS FOREVER!
It's also just me and my nephew who are lefties in my family. I was an athlete in my youth and always thought I had a bit of an advantage over my opponents.
This is an interesting line of comments for me. I am left-handed and so was my uncle. Furthermore, I am an aunt to a left-handed nephew! I am an art major and my nephew is currently studying to be an architect. Does anyone ever think about how the writing on coffee mugs isn’t right for us lefties? Here’s a weird one, I can’t cut with a left-handed scissors even thought I’m a lefty. It’s the pits how much a scissors can hurt from the angle of the handle because of that. I actually love being a lefty!
That’s really unfortunate, and I understand why you’re against it. Kids should be supported to be who they are, not forced into something that doesn’t come naturally to them.
I am lefthanded too but think being taught to write with my right hand would have been better as "writing" (direction of text) is designed for righthanders. I can (without any problem) drive a car and use a chainsaw and camera, all of which are designed for righthanders. It never occurred to me to hold a camera upside down and take photos with my left thumb, I just did so with my right index finger like everyone else. So even if I am "lefthanded", why wouldn't it be better for me to be taught to write in the way that writing was designed to be written? This would have improved my writing ability considerably, as well as not otherwise being inconvenienced by smudging my hand, and having to deal with ring binders, university lecture theatre seats etc designed for right handers. The problem is (I think) the traumatic way that very young lefthanded kids (including you) were forced (including by corporal punishment and humiliation) to write with their right hands, not the idea of writing with their right hands per se.
@@maddyg3208 The fact is that a "natural" lefty being forced to change to right had strong effects in my life. Just think, a left handed person operates on the right side of the brain. When switched then the right "handed" person now functions in the right side not the left. I struggle with dyslexia, learning issues and other minor struggles.
They tried that with me too in elementary school. Had to wear this brace that was attached to the desk. I refused to go along with that and cried...it was so embarrassing. The teacher stopped after she saw how hurt I was. I'm sorry you had to go through that.
My parents were both right handed. Everyone on either of their closer extended family sides was also right handed. My parents had three children. My older brother came first. Then me. Then my little brother. So from two right handed parents, TWO of their three children were born left handed (me and my little brother). I think that is very unusual. My mother's mother said that we should be changed to being right handed...this was back in the late 50's and early 60's But, our mother said no. She was not going to do that to me and my little brother...which I commend her for. Today I still enjoy drawing, painting and cartooning. All left handed. But all my younger life while I was playing softball and baseball, I would bat right handed. LASTLY, I will say that I have always written left handed and that my writing is not pretty at all. It's very legible, just not nice looking. 😂
I am a lefty, and was born in a generation where we were treated like a disability, and schools tried to force you to write right handed...I am still a lefty lol!
I'm 69 and started out as a lefty. When I started school, they changed my writing handedness and throwing hand. Fortunately, I still bat, golf and do other sports as a lefty. They couldn't beat those out of me.
I'm not a " lefty ," and I'm 58 and I still remember in elementary school a teacher kept trying to fail my best friend because he wrote different than the rest of us, she kept trying to get him to write with his right but he never did. This kinda haunts me every time I see someone who is left handed because she yelled at him and tried to degrade him for being different even called him a freak. I hope her grand kids are lefrty's .
My father was left - handed, and a very resourceful, inventive man who was great at solving problems, coming up with solutions that probably wouldn't occur to most people.
As a kid I learned to play the guitar along with my younger brother. My folks could only afford one guitar at the time, so, as a lefty, I had to learn right-handed as by brother was right-handed. In my teens I saved up to buy a cheap left-handed bass guitar. These days (I'm 63) I play both right-handed 6 sting guitar and left-handed bass guitar. I certainly get some odd looks from people!
As a lefty, and a graphic arts instructor at a community college, I observed a new group of 23 students as they filled out paperwork. Out of the group made of 23 students and 2 faculty, over 50% of the people in the room were left handed.
I have noticed that among British actors there are more left handers than among the average population too. I don’t know what its like among American actors. They don’t seem to write as often in films and tv series.
I'm a lefty, but was not allowed to use my left hand as it was evil and demonic to be left handed. I'm now ambidextrous but still write and use my left hand. I'm very proud to be a lefty.❤❤❤
I’m 74 and left handed. No one in my whole life ever tried to change me. I feel very sad for the people who have had to go through change and disapproval, sometimes with lasting ill effects. Why does the world want or need everyone to be the same?
I’m mixed handed. Due to writing lefty, my parents and my teachers labeled me lefty so as a result, I probably did worse with some things, such as some sports, because I tried to do them lefty when I should have tried them righty. Archery and tennis come to mind. I did know that I bat and putt left, and throw and dribble right. It also explains why I couldn’t get the hang of crocheting when my great aunt tried to teach me as a kid. I tried to do it lefty when it turns out I crochet right. Thus, while I don’t have all the struggles that full-left handers do, I still have some struggles of my own as to which hand to use.
As a German boomer lefty I often had to suffer at school. Some of my teachers (then mostly still from the naz! era) obliged me to write any test right handed ... and, thus, made me fail. Bad memories.
Thankyou very much for sharing this with us. Anyone doing research may be interested in the rest of this. I am left-handed. But I was made to write with my right hand. So I am now both. The computer mouse is on the left side. Scissors are a real pain to use. Tools I can use either side. I can paint with either hand. Taps use to give me real grief. When I redid the kitchen sink. I put in a lever control that is vertical. And the tap was changed to RHS cold water, LHS hot water. How ever the bath is on the LHS hot water. This mostly stopped my brain from fighting with itself. Cell phones, the left thumb is used. Knives are mostly used right-handed. Un doing jars, the left hand is stronger. In the military shooting. I was left handed. I brush my hair with my left hand. Sometimes my brain has a real conflict doing certain tasks. Which hand do I use.
It’s incredible how you've managed to adapt and make the best of both worlds. Being forced to use your right hand while naturally being left-handed must have been a real challenge for your brain, but it sounds like you’ve found a way to make it work for you. I love how you’ve made adjustments to your surroundings, like with the kitchen sink and taps, to make things easier. It’s so inspiring to see how you’ve embraced your unique situation and found ways to work with it. Thanks for sharing this - it’s a great reminder that we can all adapt, even when things feel a bit tricky!
I am also left handed but my right is almost an equal depending on the job. Writing - left hand. Right is worse than a Doctors scribble. Scissors - right hand. Bottles / jars - left for lid, right for the jar. Computers - left for keyboard, right for mouse. Shooting - right for trigger. Tools. Right is primary, but left if space is a problem . Broke my right wrist a few years ago, never really rights since then, so sometimes the left is stronger. For a single strength right hand, repeated or repetitive like scissors may need the left hand, but that will mean accuracy is lost. Cut in a circle, when ment to be straight.
Hi!..I'm a proud lefty!...I know a woman, who is also a Lefty. She had 4 children, 3 boys and a girl. All lefties!WOW!..what do you think about those odds?..Keep up the good work!..Thank You!..👍🤣
I am left handed for righting throwing eating, but I do lots of things right handed like hitting tennis hand ball. Things like house painting are crazy, left for trim right for roller. And I can't play golf at all, neither way is comfortable. Always used scissors right handed not really noticing I was supposed to be using my left.
Born in 59. In school it was torture as a lefty trying to use right handed desks. Actually my teacher discouraged me from using my left hand to write. Tried to make me write right handed. Now some things I do left or right handed. I'm called ambidextrous. Actually I had to adapt as a lefty to live in a right handed world. I'm a true lefty.
The handshake goes back to 500 BC. Left handed people were perceived to be possessed. Everyone carried their weapons in their right hands. If you extended your right hand to shake you were displaying that you were unarmed.
I'm 71 y.o. and thankfully no one ever tried to force me to use my right hand. I was the only lefty in my family (except a cousin) and none of my children are lefties. I am a full fledged lefty, even left footed. Whenever I start walking I always step off with my left foot.
My mother was lefthanded - she had very fast reactions when driving, she was super creative (cooking, homemaking, dresstaste), she had a high IQ (like me), and she had twins (my sisters). So all the boxes ticked.
I started school in 1945. My firsut grade teacher was instructing the class on the proper slant of your paper for writing. She then walked around the room to check on the placement. When she saw that I was left handed, she turned my paper to slant towards my right. I will always remember her, Mrs Young. I never smudged my paper and my penmanship was nice and I didn’t write with my hand upside down. I managed the right handed world to my advantage. I learned to use the ten-key calculator by touch with my right hand while writing figures down with my left. I played all my sports right handed. In tennis, I had a two handed backhand and because of my left hand I was able to get incredible angles. In sewing, needle work is with my left. In my case, I have to work at creativity. 😄Unfortunately, in my case left handedness and creativity didn’t meld. My son is left handed and all through elementary school I tried to get him to slant his paper correctly. I failed. He write with his hand upside down with his paper slanted for right. He was blessed with creativeness. So, I consider it a good trade off. ,
I'm left handed, writing and eating. I'm a retired diesel mechanic so I learned to adapt using tools in both hands. I also play the drums on a right handed kit. Scissors, can openers, and drinking all right hand. My older brother is right handed, however when it comes to throwing he's left handed, nothing else...
My husband (74) is left-handed and so is his sister. When he was in elementary school, the teachers tried to change him by tying his hand behind his back which I think is awful!
That’s truly awful! It’s hard to imagine the struggles left-handed people faced in the past just for being different. I’m glad we’ve come a long way in understanding and accepting these differences today.
I'm a left handed but there always have been things I do right handed. I write with left, but on a chalkboard in class I'm right handed. Stepping on my bike is left handed but as a child used my step scooter as a right handed.
I was born left handed but switched by school. I write my name very neatly with my left hand and scrawl with my right. I use both hands, my left is stronger for tightening/opening. I think 'out of the box' . My daughter is also lef handed, but not forced to use right, she is very artistic and also good at IT..
As a lefty, I remember trying to catch a baseball with a right handed mit. Trying to fire a shotgun with a right side ejection port. It took time to overcome many obsticles.
I'm left handed and I am an artist and I had twins. I was raised in the 50's and in certain regions at that time left handed children were forced to write with right hand but fortunately it was not the case where I lived. I'm the only one in my familly who is lefty.
I was born in 1948 and as soon as i can remember, if my mum saw me using my left hand, she put whatever it was in my right hand. It was a real battle of wills as i was growing up, so eventually i was left alone. It was difficult as everything was made for right handers, but these days you can get stuff for left handers. Proud to be a Lefty 😊😊
I'm a lefty. I've been good at drawing for as long as i can remember. Im a portrait artist now. I was in a snooker team, we were in a tournament final and my opponent had left me what he thought was an awkward shot, my team advised me on a play to get out of it safely. I looked at them , smiled ,walked up to the table potted the ball with accuracy and confidence, the audience applauded. We went on to win and afterwards all players said they would've never played that shot. My opponent shook my hand and said that tonight he had learned bit about playing a lefty. My son is a footballer (soocer) he is left handed but right footed. My Dad says he was left handed but he is of the generation where the schools beat it out of him😢 he has the scruffiest hand writing of anybody I know. I play a left handed guitar yet my friend who taught me how to play is a lefty but plays a right hand guitar, right handed. Yet when he does "air guitar" it's always left handed.
I am a lefty. Certain tools I find hard to use because they are for right handed people. I was taught to kick a football and to through a ball right handed. The best was when I was doing a computer course I use to change the mouse buttons to left hand, man didn't the teacher go off a times. One student couldn't work out why her mouse wasn't working properly. She spent nearly half the class trying to figure out what was wrong with the mouse until the teacher realised I had change the buttons... HaHa
Haha, that's a classic lefty move! The mouse switch is a genius touch-bet it kept things lively in that computer class! It’s amazing how lefties adapt and add a unique spin to everyday things. Thanks for sharing! 😄
Dad was a leftie, so I was never pressured to go right. I learned that scissors only worked in my right hand, and I batted right-handed. I use my Trackball mouse right-handed, leaving my left hand free for note-taking. As for right-handed equipment, add my Mr. Coffee machine. The top opens from the right, so I have to pour in the water right-handed.
I'm left handed, supposed to be a twin but my Mum miscarried my twin when 3 months pregnant. She gave birth to me when she was 6 months pregnant and I was 1 and a half pounds. Mum was not lefthanded, nor was Dad, but my husband was. He was a modern classical composer and wrote on music, did music proof reading, mentored music students etc. Some of you may have heard of him : Giles Robertson Harding Easterbrook. I am trying to finish off a novel, myself. Lefties reign!!!
Wow, that’s such a fascinating story! You’ve been through so much, and it sounds like your life is truly inspiring. Your husband clearly was an incredible talent, and props to you for working on your novel - I’m sure it’s going to be amazing. And honestly, from all these comments and research, it’s clear lefties really do rule!
My mother's step-sister (who happened to be a nun) was ambidextrous. She could do the same with both hands. I have a touch of this, but far from how she was.
I am 84 and a lefty. I feel it a privelage to be different. Had no problems at school (good teachers). I play left handed guitar, banjo and bass - sadly all music (chord diagrams) are right handed and are difficult to reverse mentaly. In the armed forces I used to shoot left handed (and was a marksman) BUT the majority of automatics eject to the right and I used to come off the ranges covered in bruises As the majority of automatic weapons eject to the RIGHT straight into the right side of my face! COME ON YOU LEFTIES we cope better than the rest.
My maternal grandmother was left handed. As a child, taught by nuns, she had her left arm tied behind her back, to try and make her right handed, it didn't work! Both my oldest son, and one of my grandkids are left handed. I didn't realise it was such a small percentage of the population! ❤🇬🇧🇬🇧
Poor grandmother, what she must have had to endure. And as for left-handed people, I have to admit, I thought it was an even smaller percentage of the population. I'm really surprised, especially after all these comments.
I'm a lefty. I was a florist for years and more than 50% of my fellow florists were lefties. One last sport where we have an advantage, fencing. As a lefty, I beat fencers bigger and stronger, simply because they weren't used to fencing a lefty. Every fencing team I was on, the coaches had me fence with my right handed team mates. Just to give them a chance to get familiar with the difference. 🤺🤺🤺🤺🤺
I’m not purely ambidextrous, but there are several reasons things I cannot do right handed. I bat left and throw right, golf right, skateboard left, for examples. I think of myself as having “mixed dominance,” more right handed than left. I don’t worry about any of it; I just get stuff done and that’s what matters.
I write, use scissors, and eat with my left. Pitch, golf and basketball right handed. Shoot guns/darts and bat with both. A bit of a mix for me as well and there’s really not a pattern that I can identify with.
@@anthonyhernandez3569: I can shoot a pistol with either hand, though left feels more natural. But with a rifle, it's left only. Bowl and shoot pool with left only too, but bat and throw right only. Go figure.
@ I bowl and play pool with my right. I feel it’s just how we were taught and in cases where we were self taught it turned into being our dominate hand.
I’m 73 and was left handed as a child until grade 3. My teacher refused to look at any work done with left hand . I have 4 sisters and 3 of us are left handed.
Leftie here! In todays world, Prince William is left handed, Obama, Bill Clinton, even Jerry Seinfeld, and Jason Alexander in entertainment.… on and on…
I use both hands for different tasks. I write with left hand, use a knife with the right. I bat left handed, i pitch right handed, i dry dishes right handed. I crochet left handed. I consider myself different from most. Strangely my siblings are right handed
I am left-handed, which is to say that I have always written with my left hand. I was chatting about it to a teacher friend who took me into his classroom and asked me to write something on the board. When I'd done that, he asked me to try it again with my right hand. I was surprised to find that this was no problem. The way he explained it was that I am left-handed, but right-armed. I'm pretty much ambidextrous with many tasks, like using a screwdriver, although I favour my right hand. When I have played a guitar I have done it right-handed without thinking and on the odd occasion that I've played cricket or baseball I've done it right-handed.
My father was a lefty. My mother was a lefty, but had her hand beaten until she stopped writing with her left hand. My brother is a lefty. I write with my right hand, yet in a lot of things I’m ambidextrous. My parents never forced me to be left or right handed.
I’m mixed-handed. I do several things lefty (such as writing), several things righty (such as using scissors and playing instruments), and a few things with either hand or both (brushing teeth and hair…I can use a fork or spoon with either hand but cut righty. Usually I’ll use the fork or spoon in my left hand and therefore don’t have to switch utensils to cut my food.
I was born left-handed. But the adults were attentive to help me use the 'right' hand. And, as a result I use right hand for writing and dining, but I use my left hand for almost everything else. My father and my son are also left-handed.
I’m a lefty, well actually cross dominant. I’m a musician with a high IQ. Doesn’t mean much though. I’m just another person who works for a living and doesn’t get paid enough.
In my career as an accountant I there always seemed to be a disproportionately high number of left handed people where I worked The most extreme example of this was in the first place where I worked - there were five of us in one room and four of us were left handed
@@Didyouknow-facts3 Pure coincidence but there always seem to have been well over 10% of left-handed colleagues in any accountancy office in which I have worked.
I believe left-handed. People have more than one career too. I’ve had at least five. I’ve been a barber a truck driver, a gold miner, Recreation management, tourism, and special events and a hairdresser. My son has been a truck driver, a welder owned his own trucking company owned his own welding company, renovating company and cement Worker also left-handed
they beat my left hand in catholic high school to force me to write right handed, now I'm ambidextrous. one kid even stabbed my left hand with a freshly sharpened pencil. those were the days.
Went to a parochial grammar school in the '50s, where the nuns insisted that being left handed was not only a sin, but an insult to god. In the third grade, a nun tied my left hand to a leg of the chair/desk combo before an exam so I couldn't use it to write. I didn't get past writing my name, and she gave me a minus 10 because she decided my name was illegible. My father, born left handed and forced into right handedness as a child, went to the convent that night and tore her a new asshole. I never had an issue with my handedness in that school again. Sinister (sinistra) in Latin means left and evil. For what it's worth, despite my right hand's uselessness in writing, I have never had even a hint of a problem with normal hand tools. But I never played baseball, because I could NOT catch a ball with my right hand. even if there were any right hand gloves around for me to use. As far as I can tell, left-handedness runs in families. My dad and his brother were both lefties. But not their sister, although one of her sons is. My younger brother and I are lefties. But my older brother is the odd duck. My son is left handed, but my daughter is not. Her son is, though.
It sounds like you went through a lot because of something that’s completely natural. I’m glad you had the support of your family, especially your dad. Left-handedness is such a fascinating topic, and the family patterns you mentioned are really interesting!
Im a lefty and was also forced to use my right hand in school. Teacher would hand me a scissors and when i reached with my left hand i got my hand slapped. So I caught on and I would take the scissors with my right hand and transfer them to my left once she looked the other way😂What a dumb idea to make us do what isnt natural. Now im proud to be a lefty.
Those Nuns that told you that are actually stupid and ignorant, most of all they don't read the Bible. I don't if they even know God's word .If they read the Bible then they will know what it says about left-handed
My mom, my day, myself and all 4 of my children are left handed. It is truly difficult to work in manfacturing and be left handed. We rearrange our world every shift.
Born a dominate lefty. Did everything left handed until my time in the US Army. Was required to qualify with the 1911A1 45 sidearm. Though I grew up hunting with shotguns and long rifles I never fired or even held a sidearm. When I told the drill sargeant I was a lefty he informed me that the army issued right side holsters only. I learned to fire sidearms right handed then and still do. I cant even hold a long gun right handed.
It’s incredible to hear how you adapted and overcame the challenge of switching to right-handed shooting in the Army-especially as a born lefty. That must have taken a lot of patience and determination. It’s amazing how habits and skills like that can stick with us for life. Thank you for your service and for sharing this part of your journey with us. It’s truly inspiring!
Visiting Sweden while working, I was at Stockholm Airport when one of the policemen on duty approached me, as I was looking for where my flight was leaving, back to the UK. He was tooled up to start WW 3, with a Heckler and Koch machine gun, extendable baton, pepper spray and on his left side, a 9 mm handgun. I didn't make any sudden movement to cause him alarm, but I could figure out he was a lefty, like myself...
I'm mostly ambidextrous-right hand dominant. When I was a kid playing sand-lot baseball, I was a pitcher. When a left handed batter would come up, I'd switch to pitching left-handed. When right-handed batters were up, I'd pitch right-handed. Switch hitters were really perplexed! They'd switch 2 or 3 times before settling in to bat. They were totally confused! ⚾↔
I’m not ambidextrous but am mixed handed so I do several things lefty and several things righty. I do use either or both hands for brushing hair and teeth, and I can use a fork or spoon with either hand.
I'm left handed but I can write with both hands. I eat with my right hand. I can do everything with my right hand that I do with my left, it's only slightly weaker and slower. I've never not been able to do something with my right hand. When one arm is tired, I can simply switch over to the other.
Have you ever been asked to write your name with both hands at the same time - the normal way with your right hand, and backward (mirrored) with your left? I did that once in one of those silly 'team building' meetings at work. As a leftie, I didn't have much trouble doing it. Not great penmanship, but doable. Everyone else's head exploded - no other lefties in the room to compare my experience to, but I think that had something to do with it.
Same here except right handed. But it took something dramatic to force me to learn. I broke both of my arms and had to relearn how to do things. Later, I injured my right mouse finger so switched over and never went back. I now find it awkward to mouse from the right because I am so out of practice! My brother is left handed so I have always been concious of it. For people who have their dominant arm amputated they don't have a choice.
@@David_Crayford Interesting, isn't it, how the brain rewires itself for a new situation. Did you get a leftie mouse, or do you use a rightie mouse and just compensate?
@@WhiteTiger333 I bought an ambidextrous mouse which has two extra buttons on each side and has a balanced, uniform shape. I am thinking of replacing it because the software it comes with is not great, but the next one will again be ambi. I kept the button mappings the same as for use on the right. Miles better than the years old one it replaced. 🙂
I'm right leaning bilingual, back when I was in elementary school our teachers frowned upon people that were left handed, but at least they weren't as hateful as when my parents were in school
From a family with five kids. Handedness? Right, Left, Ambidextrous, Right, Left. I'm the 1st leftie. EVERYONE had their specific seat around the dinner table, to reduce potential elbow-bumping when eating. Class note-taking and Test-writing in Uni wasn't fun - 3 hours twisted around, writing on a right-handed desk. The stress is REAL. Even things like veggie peelers, etc., are set up for right-handed folks. We lefties adapt, as we've been adapting our whole lives...
My wife & I are both lefties. I'm also slightly dyslexic. In school, when ball point pens were new to students, we lefties ALWAYS smeared our written work, because the ink didn't dry fast enough. And going to a restaurant with friends, I made sure I got an end seat so I would not bump the person on my left. Oh, poor me... At least I had two hands that worked.
I’m 61 and my first school teacher was insistent I should use my right hand, it caused many problems, including speech problems which thankfully weren’t long term.
Since everyone who taught me or trained me was right handed, I can do a ton of stuff with either hand, shoot a bow or gun, swing a bat or racket, catch or steer and many other things too. Gives you an advantage in life.
It's worse. When you use scissors with your right hand, your hand tends to squeeze the blades together as you cut, making for a tight cutting motion. But when you use scissors with your left hand, your hand tends to push the blades away from each other, making a sloppy cut.
I write, eat, and play drums left-handed. I do most everything else right handed. Oddly enough, I eat "finger foods" right-handed, although I hold a fork or spoon in my left hand.
I'm basically left handed but was forced to use my right hand in school. What I have discovered over time is that I can mirror write with my left hand. I'm now using this ability to play word games with my grandkids.
In barber school in 1978 after paying tuition I was told there are no left handed barbers. Shaving with a straight edge razor was the hardest for me but I ended up a good barber.
Same with shearers here in Australia. The cutting comb has a particular design and can only be used by shearing with right hand. Your post made me think of it straight away.
I am a 72 year old ambidextrous person. In my youth, switching sides in softball was cool because it confused pitchers. Kick left, throw left, write right. Scissors - right-handed for me. I just couldn't master the left-handed ones. Had injury to my right hand as a teenager and had to write left-handed. It was legible but not preferable to me. :) This is an interesting video!
I was born ambidextrous, but in the first grade I dislocated my right elbow twice within six weeks. The second time, I wound up spending the rest of the school year in the hospital, as they had to do surgery on my elbow, because I messed up that elbow much worse the second time. Due to that double injury to my right elbow, I had to use my left hand a lot more, so now there are several things to this day I only do left handed. Other things I do right handed, like playing guitar. Then there are things I can do with both hands equally well, like switch hitting in baseball using different hand tools, etc. In high school, I played in sports a lot. two years in basketball, one year in baseball, one season in diving competitions, and three years in volleyball. In baseball I was my team's lead pitcher, and pitched nothing but no hitters the whole season. My lefty curveball was a sidearm pitch that would come at the batter in an anticlockwise corkscrew path, that when hit would go foul, or pop up which me or the catcher would invariably catch! In the season end series, I pitched all no hitters, and wound up being named MVP! I wanted to play in the next year but I had to move to another location and could not get on the team, as it had already been establish in my area. In basketball I was good enough to make it onto two teams, and we were undefeated, though it was not solely because of me. We had a really good set of players on both teams. Volleyball was not played against other schools except for one game, bit I could spike the ball with the best of them and even make an opposing team member eat the ball. In diving I took first place ribbons for two of my dives, and one third place ribbon for my swan dive. Art is what has driven my adult life , as I am into many different arts and I'm very good at it. I put my art skills into every type of job I ever had, making it fun, and doing high quality work because of it. My main work profession is woodworking, and Carpentry, so yes I fit right in with the description given about that. Jobs I have had doing carpentry and woodworking showed my skills to the world. At Metrotrans (now defunct) I quickly became their number one cabinet designer and builder, and had customers asking for me by name to build the cabinets for their buses. One special bus was given to me to design and build the way I chose, and I chose to make it a coach limousine. I chose all the materials for the cabinetry, the upholstery, and even the paint for the vehicle exterior; shiny black. The coach limousine won its category in an auto show outside of Los Vegas, Nevada. Then it sold for $3,000,000.00! That just one of my successes in my lifetime. If I were to tell about all of my exploits, I'd be writing a small novel. Other arts I am doing include drawing, painting, sculpting, @d and 3D computer art, music, songwriting, story writing, cooking, etc. Yes I know, this seems like it cannot be true, but I tell you it is absolutely true. I don't ask you to believe it! I do a lot of projects on my computer, with several 2D and 3D art applications on my computer, including a few 3D modeling apps. My mouse on my computer is used with my left hand rather than my right, but I can still use it with my right if I so choose! I prefer using it with my left hand. So there it is! My life of left handed working, with a fair amount of right handed work also! Thanks for posting this video, and confirming things I always thought to be true about myself and other lefties. That teacher in the second grade that rapped the back of my left hand, and claimed my left handedness was evil, did not know what she was talking about! She was superstitious, and for that, my Mom nearly snatched a knot in her scrawny butt!
@ Yes seriously,so I suppose it does.Statistics like these remind me of the time I once bought lottery scratch cards.They were advertised as one in five was a winning card,I purchased 7 attached just to make sure I was covered and not one was a winner!.
I read a book about handedness, and studies show that people have more mixed dominance than they ever think about. You may think you are 100% right-handed, but if studied you will prove to be using your left hand more than you think. Same is true for lefties. I am lefthanded and rarely give it a thought. I think some righties make up stuff about all the difficulties we have to make themselves seem superior.
I might be one of those people who doesn’t even realize how much I use my left hand in daily life. It’s funny how we can be so focused on what hand we 'should' be using that we miss the little ways we mix it up.
My brother and I are both left-handed, and 1 uncle is as well (out of 13 aunts/uncles) ... I learned to use a mouse and crochet like right-handed people, also play Xbox like a right-hander ... I have trouble with scissors ... I am very artistic and creative ... I struggle to name left/right when pressed although I do know which is which - - Very interesting video, but the comments are even better.
Thank you for your comment as well! Yes, I haven’t missed a single comment yet because there’s still a lot to hear/learn from them. I have been left speechless a few times myself.
Left handed swordsmen were feared. As a lefty you would wear and draw a sword on your right hip. As a righty it would be on your left hip. The offer of a right handed hand shake shows you have an empty hand, but a lefty swordsmen would be able to draw his own sword while holding the right hand in a handshake of the person he was trying to kill!
I’m left-handed…sort of. I’m mixed handed so I write, putt, bat, hand-sew and do a few other things lefty. Some tasks, such as brushing my teeth and hair, I use both/either hand). Righty things I do include throwing/dribbling a ball, using scissors and knives, crocheting, knitting, playing musical instruments such as violin, using a computer mouse… Being mixed handed also comes with some confusing or frustrating moments. If I’m trying something new or haven’t done something (such as knitting or crochet) in a very long time, I may not know or remember which hand I’ll do it in. As a kid, all my teachers and my parents labeled me left-handed because it’s the hand I write with. As a result, I likely didn’t do well with some activities, such as sports in gym class, because I tried to do them left-handed. Archery is one and tennis is another. When my great aunt tried to teach me crocheting as a kid, I tried to do it left-handed, opposite of what she was doing and I couldn’t get the hang of it at all. When I tried it again in college, I learned that I crochet righty.
My parents were both right handed but 4 of 5 of their children are left handed. Makes me wonder if they were forced to change as kids in a parochial school in the 1920’s.
As a leftie, the only thing I've done right handed is shoot a bow and arrow. It's weird. I can't shoot a bow and arrow as a leftie. It feels as weird and impossible as doing anything else as a rightie. That means I had to learn to compensate my aim for sighting down my non-dominant eye. I restrung my guitar, and can only play simple chords on a right-handed strung guitar. To be fair, if I hand my guitar off to a rightie, they are lost. I do use a computer mouse right-handed. I just learned it that way. And some things, like manual can openers, have to be used the way they are made. No choice. As you said, the reason lefties do well in some sports is because we are competing against majority righties. We are used to it, but we put the righties off balance. For instance, I remember exceling in fencing in high school...until I fenced with another leftie. We confused each other, because we were totally used to sparring with righties. LOL!
Can you not just hold the bow upside down? I suppose a modern one with sights you might need to get a left handed bracket but we old folk didn't have those back in the middle ages.
I could read at 3 and write at 4 but left handed. They tied up my left hand until I learn to use only my “good hand”. I still use my right hand for things that are taught like write scissors etc. But grasps with any hands. Open bottle etc with my left hand. Fold laundry with my left hand as main hand. Sweep with left hand as main hand etc.
I have always told people that i am a left handed person in a right handed world. Plus I tell people that at least I am in my right mind when they complain at me for whatever reason. Hehehe.
My sister, both son and daughter and 2 of my grandchildren are left handed. I didn't realize it was only 10% that were. My son did learn to play baseball and guitar right handed though. He bought his daughter a left handed guitar. She and her teacher learned to play it together. 🙂
As a lefty while attending college I had to write a paper on suppressed minorities. I picked left handers. I wrote all about what everyone knows today. Scissors, rulers, tools, believe me the paper is rather lengthy. But. I once had opportunity to have some dress shirts tailor made. So I decided to fix the one thing wrong with all dress shirts. The pocket.vI had them put on my right side. Pretty cool. I was a smoker back then, and Everytime I went to put my cigarettes in my pocket, I had to bend down and pick them up. Lesson learned.
May I add the following negative aspect of being left-handed. When right-handed people write, they pull the pen to the right (since this is how western text is written), so their right hand follows a natural curve at the wrist, which imparts less stress to the tendons in the wrist. But when left-handed people write they have to PUSH the pen to the right - which causes them to depress the wrist and place a lot of stress on the tendons in the wrist. This can lead to carpal tunnel syndrome or painful tendonitis which gets worse as the years roll by.
The condition can be alleviated by ensuring the left wrist is rounded, not depressed - but this takes a lot of present moment awareness - and it's tedious and very awkward.
Left-handed Alexander teacher.
Thank you for such a comment.
Turn your paper sideways and write towards yourself . I had no choice but to do this , since I sat at a right handed desk in school .
It messes people up when they see me writing like this, lol
I’m a pretty happy lefty
Mechanical drafting classes In the 50s-60s was a disaster for this lefty. Lettering with ink was a mess.
Interesting, my granddaughter is a lefty and things have been awkward for her ,and despite been very knowledgeable at 8 , she gas trouble writing, things are back to front . Her reading is spot on though .
Interesting, my granddaughter is a lefty and things have been awkward for her ,and despite been very knowledgeable at 8 , she gas trouble writing, things are back to front . Her reading is spot on though .
I struggled when I was small, I am 72 and school didn’t like to teach lefties! I am glad times have changed, we are unique! Thank you
I have read as good a reason for the teaching issue as I have ever heard...ball-point pens didn't exist and left-handers would smear the fountain pen ink as they wrote! As a left-hander I've struggled through life with the smearing.
In 1958, Sister Mary Chainsaw used to smack my hand with a ruler and screamed at me for using the wrong hand to write. I could not even hold a pencil in my right hand. I still have to turn wire bound notebooks upside down to write in them so that the binding is off to the right and won't bother me.
My father was hit with a ruler in school because he was left handed.
Me too, I had my left hand hit with a ruler at primary school.@@ronbelanger4113
I'm 70 and when I was in school I was treated like crap! Now apparently, we are somehow these "special" people? Tell you though I learned typing quicker than the right handed. My left hand is proficient on the left side of the keyboards.
Being left handed is a sign of greatness, that's what I've always told myself. My nan, mum, myself and my daughter all left handed
In college I was working out in a boxing gym on the heavy and speed bags. The house trainer approached me and asked if I could spar with his boxer who was going to fight a ranked fighter on USA boxing network in about a month. I didn’t have great skills but he needed work with a southpaw. The kid was cool and took it easy on me even after I bloodied his nose in the first couple minutes. He taught me plenty and was grateful for the opportunity. He won his fight on tv and we were friendly afterwards. Good times and was glad to help!
Does that mean I’m half great? I’m mixed handed so do some things lefty and some things righty. I write lefty…but I don’t need those left-handed scissors!
Good on you! And them! 🙃
52 year old lefty here! Love being different! Was ecstatic when i found out my 8year old nephew is a lefty as well! Its hard but i do ok in this righty world! LEFTYS FOREVER!
It's also just me and my nephew who are
lefties in my family. I was an athlete in my youth and always thought I had a bit of an advantage over my opponents.
This is an interesting line of comments for me. I am left-handed and so was my uncle. Furthermore, I am an aunt to a left-handed nephew! I am an art major and my nephew is currently studying to be an architect. Does anyone ever think about how the writing on coffee mugs isn’t right for us lefties? Here’s a weird one, I can’t cut with a left-handed scissors even thought I’m a lefty. It’s the pits how much a scissors can hurt from the angle of the handle because of that. I actually love being a lefty!
Yes
I was switched from being left handed to right in the first grade. It's caused a lifetime of struggles. Don't change your child please.
That’s really unfortunate, and I understand why you’re against it. Kids should be supported to be who they are, not forced into something that doesn’t come naturally to them.
I am lefthanded too but think being taught to write with my right hand would have been better as "writing" (direction of text) is designed for righthanders.
I can (without any problem) drive a car and use a chainsaw and camera, all of which are designed for righthanders.
It never occurred to me to hold a camera upside down and take photos with my left thumb, I just did so with my right index finger like everyone else.
So even if I am "lefthanded", why wouldn't it be better for me to be taught to write in the way that writing was designed to be written? This would have improved my writing ability considerably, as well as not otherwise being inconvenienced by smudging my hand, and having to deal with ring binders, university lecture theatre seats etc designed for right handers.
The problem is (I think) the traumatic way that very young lefthanded kids (including you) were forced (including by corporal punishment and humiliation) to write with their right hands, not the idea of writing with their right hands per se.
@@maddyg3208 The fact is that a "natural" lefty being forced to change to right had strong effects in my life. Just think, a left handed person operates on the right side of the brain. When switched then the right "handed" person now functions in the right side not the left. I struggle with dyslexia, learning issues and other minor struggles.
They tried that with me too in elementary school. Had to wear this brace that was attached to the desk. I refused to go along with that and cried...it was so embarrassing. The teacher stopped after she saw how hurt I was. I'm sorry you had to go through that.
My parents were both right handed.
Everyone on either of their closer extended family sides was also right handed.
My parents had three children.
My older brother came first.
Then me.
Then my little brother.
So from two right handed parents, TWO of their three children were born left handed (me and my little brother).
I think that is very unusual.
My mother's mother said that we should be changed to being right handed...this was back in the late 50's and early 60's
But, our mother said no.
She was not going to do that to me and my little brother...which I commend her for.
Today I still enjoy drawing, painting and cartooning.
All left handed.
But all my younger life while I was playing softball and baseball, I would bat right handed.
LASTLY, I will say that I have always written left handed and that my writing is not pretty at all.
It's very legible, just not nice looking.
😂
I am a lefty, and was born in a generation where we were treated like a disability, and schools tried to force you to write right handed...I am still a lefty lol!
That’s really unbelievable! Luckily, they don’t do that anymore, but I’m really glad you stayed true to your natural left-handedness! 😄
Same here. Fortunately my parents told my teachers to let me use whatever hand I wanted.
I'm 69 and started out as a lefty. When I started school, they changed my writing handedness and throwing hand. Fortunately, I still bat, golf and do other sports as a lefty. They couldn't beat those out of me.
I'm not a " lefty ," and I'm 58 and I still remember in elementary school a teacher kept trying to fail my best friend because he wrote different than the rest of us, she kept trying to get him to write with his right but he never did. This kinda haunts me every time I see someone who is left handed because she yelled at him and tried to degrade him for being different even called him a freak. I hope her grand kids are lefrty's .
@@waynemillard7426 LOL! I think another trait of lefties is that we can be stubborn when it matters. :)
My father was left - handed, and a very resourceful, inventive man who was great at solving problems, coming up with solutions that probably wouldn't occur to most people.
As a kid I learned to play the guitar along with my younger brother. My folks could only afford one guitar at the time, so, as a lefty, I had to learn right-handed as by brother was right-handed. In my teens I saved up to buy a cheap left-handed bass guitar. These days (I'm 63) I play both right-handed 6 sting guitar and left-handed bass guitar. I certainly get some odd looks from people!
As a lefty, and a graphic arts instructor at a community college, I observed a new group of 23 students as they filled out paperwork. Out of the group made of 23 students and 2 faculty, over 50% of the people in the room were left handed.
Wow really? Whats happening lol
@@zuikoglass4091 we’re an arty lot😊
I have noticed that among British actors there are more left handers than among the average population too. I don’t know what its like among American actors. They don’t seem to write as often in films and tv series.
I'm a lefty, but was not allowed to use my left hand as it was evil and demonic to be left handed. I'm now ambidextrous but still write and use my left hand. I'm very proud to be a lefty.❤❤❤
Who knew left-handedness came with such a dramatic backstory? Sounds like you’ve turned your “evil” hand into a superpower!
That happened to me too, my parents were very superstitious.
@susiew.9012 Funny the things they believed back then.
Since you started out as a lefty, you actually became "ambi-*sinistrous*.
I’m 74 and left handed. No one in my whole life ever tried to change me. I feel very sad for the people who have had to go through change and disapproval, sometimes with lasting ill effects. Why does the world want or need everyone to be the same?
I am a seventy six left handed. My parents didn't mind having a left handed child...
We were lucky to have broad minded people as parents.🥂🍾
I’m mixed handed. Due to writing lefty, my parents and my teachers labeled me lefty so as a result, I probably did worse with some things, such as some sports, because I tried to do them lefty when I should have tried them righty. Archery and tennis come to mind. I did know that I bat and putt left, and throw and dribble right. It also explains why I couldn’t get the hang of crocheting when my great aunt tried to teach me as a kid. I tried to do it lefty when it turns out I crochet right.
Thus, while I don’t have all the struggles that full-left handers do, I still have some struggles of my own as to which hand to use.
As a German boomer lefty I often had to suffer at school. Some of my teachers (then mostly still from the naz! era) obliged me to write any test right handed ... and, thus, made me fail. Bad memories.
I'm really sorry to hear that. It's truly unbelievable how left-handed people were treated back then.
Im left handed and a friend once bought me a left handed pencil.
You could tell it was because it said so on it.
Love it! 😂❤
Left-handed pencils have the lead/erasers on the opposite ends, as opposed to right-handed. True!
😂Normal ones work really well in Australia. It's "Down under" 👍 @@Lengsel7
Did not know pencils had hands! Gotta remember that one! LOL
I have a left handed hammer and screwdriver set, I’m so glad that I bought it, as otherwise I would be stumped
Thankyou very much for sharing this with us.
Anyone doing research may be interested in the rest of this.
I am left-handed. But I was made to write with my right hand.
So I am now both.
The computer mouse is on the left side.
Scissors are a real pain to use.
Tools I can use either side.
I can paint with either hand.
Taps use to give me real grief.
When I redid the kitchen sink. I put in a lever control that is vertical.
And the tap was changed to RHS cold water, LHS hot water.
How ever the bath is on the LHS hot water.
This mostly stopped my brain from fighting with itself.
Cell phones, the left thumb is used.
Knives are mostly used right-handed.
Un doing jars, the left hand is stronger.
In the military shooting. I was left handed.
I brush my hair with my left hand.
Sometimes my brain has a real conflict doing certain tasks. Which hand do I use.
It’s incredible how you've managed to adapt and make the best of both worlds. Being forced to use your right hand while naturally being left-handed must have been a real challenge for your brain, but it sounds like you’ve found a way to make it work for you. I love how you’ve made adjustments to your surroundings, like with the kitchen sink and taps, to make things easier. It’s so inspiring to see how you’ve embraced your unique situation and found ways to work with it. Thanks for sharing this - it’s a great reminder that we can all adapt, even when things feel a bit tricky!
Thanks for your comment; it saved me from writing the same thing. Except, well except I never did any military shooting.
The same happened to me in the 70s I don't write left .I use scissors left ,typing this left .I belive I am choice dextrous?
I am also left handed but my right is almost an equal depending on the job. Writing - left hand. Right is worse than a Doctors scribble. Scissors - right hand. Bottles / jars - left for lid, right for the jar. Computers - left for keyboard, right for mouse. Shooting - right for trigger. Tools. Right is primary, but left if space is a problem . Broke my right wrist a few years ago, never really rights since then, so sometimes the left is stronger. For a single strength right hand, repeated or repetitive like scissors may need the left hand, but that will mean accuracy is lost. Cut in a circle, when ment to be straight.
Left handed but right footed.
Hi!..I'm a proud lefty!...I know a woman, who is also a Lefty. She had 4 children, 3 boys and a girl. All lefties!WOW!..what do you think about those odds?..Keep up the good work!..Thank You!..👍🤣
Always remember........the left hand is always the right hand!!!
I am left-handed when writing but learned to use a computer mouse with my right hand, which was handy.
Me, too.
Same. I'm left but I use a computer normally
I am left handed for righting throwing eating, but I do lots of things right handed like hitting tennis hand ball. Things like house painting are crazy, left for trim right for roller. And I can't play golf at all, neither way is comfortable. Always used scissors right handed not really noticing I was supposed to be using my left.
Me too.
Me too.
As a lefty, I find that I am more ambidextrous. For most tasks, I can switch to whichever hand feels most comfortable to use at the time.
Born in 59. In school it was torture as a lefty trying to use right handed desks. Actually my teacher discouraged me from using my left hand to write. Tried to make me write right handed. Now some things I do left or right handed. I'm called ambidextrous. Actually I had to adapt as a lefty to live in a right handed world. I'm a true lefty.
I call my left hand my finesse hand, and my right my strength hand!
The handshake goes back to 500 BC. Left handed people were perceived to be possessed. Everyone carried their weapons in their right hands. If you extended your right hand to shake you were displaying that you were unarmed.
Thank you for sharing this interesting insight! It’s amazing how much history is behind such a simple gesture.
So we always got the jump on our opponents
I love that. Good Call. Lefties have rights too.
I'm 71 y.o. and thankfully no one ever tried to force me to use my right hand. I was the only lefty in my family (except a cousin) and none of my children are lefties. I am a full fledged lefty, even left footed. Whenever I start walking I always step off with my left foot.
I'm left handed and i own a pair of left handed scissors ✂️
Me too. Definitely worth paying extra for something that works properly.
I gave up on using my left hand for scissors. I trained myself to use my right hand. Same with the mouse.
My mother was lefthanded - she had very fast reactions when driving, she was super creative (cooking, homemaking, dresstaste), she had a high IQ (like me), and she had twins (my sisters). So all the boxes ticked.
I’m really glad to hear that! Did your sisters inherit anything from your mother also?
@@Didyouknow-facts3 yes
I'm 51 and just learned about the twins 😂😂 I'm left handed and my twins are now 30.
I started school in 1945. My firsut grade teacher was instructing the class on the proper slant of your paper for writing. She then walked around the room to check on the placement. When she saw that I was left handed, she turned my paper to slant towards my right. I will always remember her, Mrs Young. I never smudged my paper and my penmanship was nice and I didn’t write with my hand upside down. I managed the right handed world to my advantage. I learned to use the ten-key calculator by touch with my right hand while writing figures down with my left. I played all my sports right handed. In tennis, I had a two handed backhand and because of my left hand I was able to get incredible angles. In sewing, needle work is with my left. In my case, I have to work at creativity. 😄Unfortunately, in my case left handedness and creativity didn’t meld. My son is left handed and all through elementary school I tried to get him to slant his paper correctly. I failed. He write with his hand upside down with his paper slanted for right. He was blessed with creativeness. So, I consider it a good trade off.
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I'm left handed, writing and eating. I'm a retired diesel mechanic so I learned to adapt using tools in both hands. I also play the drums on a right handed kit. Scissors, can openers, and drinking all right hand. My older brother is right handed, however when it comes to throwing he's left handed, nothing else...
My husband (74) is left-handed and so is his sister. When he was in elementary school, the teachers tried to change him by tying his hand behind his back which I think is awful!
That’s truly awful! It’s hard to imagine the struggles left-handed people faced in the past just for being different. I’m glad we’ve come a long way in understanding and accepting these differences today.
I'm a left handed but there always have been things I do right handed. I write with left, but on a chalkboard in class I'm right handed. Stepping on my bike is left handed but as a child used my step scooter as a right handed.
I was born left handed but switched by school. I write my name very neatly with my left hand and scrawl with my right. I use both hands, my left is stronger for tightening/opening.
I think 'out of the box' . My daughter is also lef handed, but not forced to use right, she is very artistic and also good at IT..
As a lefty, I remember trying to catch a baseball with a right handed mit. Trying to fire a shotgun with a right side ejection port. It took time to overcome many obsticles.
I’m thinking that shooting is determined more by eye dominance rather than hand dominance.
It is not easy to find a baseball mit for left handers.
I'm left handed and I am an artist and I had twins. I was raised in the 50's and in certain regions at that time left handed children were forced to write with right hand but fortunately it was not the case where I lived. I'm the only one in my familly who is lefty.
I was born in 1948 and as soon as i can remember, if my mum saw me using my left hand, she put whatever it was in my right hand. It was a real battle of wills as i was growing up, so eventually i was left alone. It was difficult as everything was made for right handers, but these days you can get stuff for left handers. Proud to be a Lefty 😊😊
I'm a lefty. I've been good at drawing for as long as i can remember. Im a portrait artist now.
I was in a snooker team, we were in a tournament final and my opponent had left me what he thought was an awkward shot, my team advised me on a play to get out of it safely. I looked at them , smiled ,walked up to the table potted the ball with accuracy and confidence, the audience applauded. We went on to win and afterwards all players said they would've never played that shot.
My opponent shook my hand and said that tonight he had learned bit about playing a lefty.
My son is a footballer (soocer) he is left handed but right footed.
My Dad says he was left handed but he is of the generation where the schools beat it out of him😢 he has the scruffiest hand writing of anybody I know.
I play a left handed guitar yet my friend who taught me how to play is a lefty but plays a right hand guitar, right handed.
Yet when he does "air guitar" it's always left handed.
I'm an artist, I do photorealistic graphite drawings, and I'm right handed. My son is left handed, and can't draw at all.
I am a lefty. Certain tools I find hard to use because they are for right handed people. I was taught to kick a football and to through a ball right handed. The best was when I was doing a computer course I use to change the mouse buttons to left hand, man didn't the teacher go off a times. One student couldn't work out why her mouse wasn't working properly. She spent nearly half the class trying to figure out what was wrong with the mouse until the teacher realised I had change the buttons... HaHa
Haha, that's a classic lefty move! The mouse switch is a genius touch-bet it kept things lively in that computer class! It’s amazing how lefties adapt and add a unique spin to everyday things. Thanks for sharing! 😄
As a lefty, I didn't know that was possible. It probably wasn't when I was growing up, but I can see how someone finally thought of it.
As a lefty myself, this doesn't seem any funny to me.
Dad was a leftie, so I was never pressured to go right. I learned that scissors only worked in my right hand, and I batted right-handed. I use my Trackball mouse right-handed, leaving my left hand free for note-taking. As for right-handed equipment, add my Mr. Coffee machine. The top opens from the right, so I have to pour in the water right-handed.
I'm left handed, supposed to be a twin but my Mum miscarried my twin when 3 months pregnant. She gave birth to me when she was 6 months pregnant and I was 1 and a half pounds. Mum was not lefthanded, nor was Dad, but my husband was. He was a modern classical composer and wrote on music, did music proof reading, mentored music students etc. Some of you may have heard of him : Giles Robertson Harding Easterbrook. I am trying to finish off a novel, myself. Lefties reign!!!
Wow, that’s such a fascinating story! You’ve been through so much, and it sounds like your life is truly inspiring. Your husband clearly was an incredible talent, and props to you for working on your novel - I’m sure it’s going to be amazing. And honestly, from all these comments and research, it’s clear lefties really do rule!
In the Bible we are told, that the great strength of the Benjaminites were all left handed.
Correct handed. I fixed it for you.
we make the best guitar players the best ever was a lefty
I am left-handed and have always felt that I can think outside the box. That’s why I’m not a Democrat.
I'd give my right arm to be ambidextrous.
My mother's step-sister (who happened to be a nun) was ambidextrous. She could do the same with both hands. I have a touch of this, but far from how she was.
I am 84 and a lefty. I feel it a privelage to be different. Had no problems at school (good teachers). I play left handed guitar, banjo and bass - sadly all music (chord diagrams) are right handed and are difficult to reverse mentaly. In the armed forces I used to shoot left handed (and was a marksman) BUT the majority of automatics eject to the right and I used to come off the ranges covered in bruises As the majority of automatic weapons eject to the RIGHT straight into the right side of my face! COME ON YOU LEFTIES we cope better than the rest.
My maternal grandmother was left handed. As a child, taught by nuns, she had her left arm tied behind her back, to try and make her right handed, it didn't work!
Both my oldest son, and one of my grandkids are left handed. I didn't realise it was such a small percentage of the population! ❤🇬🇧🇬🇧
Poor grandmother, what she must have had to endure. And as for left-handed people, I have to admit, I thought it was an even smaller percentage of the population. I'm really surprised, especially after all these comments.
We live in a world of Right Privilege.
I'm a lefty. I was a florist for years and more than 50% of my fellow florists were lefties.
One last sport where we have an advantage, fencing. As a lefty, I beat fencers bigger and stronger, simply because they weren't used to fencing a lefty. Every fencing team I was on, the coaches had me fence with my right handed team mates. Just to give them a chance to get familiar with the difference. 🤺🤺🤺🤺🤺
I’m not purely ambidextrous, but there are several reasons things I cannot do right handed. I bat left and throw right, golf right, skateboard left, for examples. I think of myself as having “mixed dominance,” more right handed than left. I don’t worry about any of it; I just get stuff done and that’s what matters.
In cricket, I bowl left but bat right...tried playing squash for a while, but never knew which hand to hold the racquet with |-)
Same.
I write, use scissors, and eat with my left. Pitch, golf and basketball right handed. Shoot guns/darts and bat with both. A bit of a mix for me as well and there’s really not a pattern that I can identify with.
@@anthonyhernandez3569: I can shoot a pistol with either hand, though left feels more natural. But with a rifle, it's left only. Bowl and shoot pool with left only too, but bat and throw right only. Go figure.
@ I bowl and play pool with my right. I feel it’s just how we were taught and in cases where we were self taught it turned into being our dominate hand.
I’m 73 and was left handed as a child until grade 3. My teacher refused to look at any work done with left hand . I have 4 sisters and 3 of us are left handed.
The insidence of left handed is doubling in every generation. Right handedness caught on with the use of swords
Leftie here! In todays world, Prince William is left handed, Obama, Bill Clinton, even Jerry Seinfeld, and Jason Alexander in entertainment.… on and on…
Don’t forget David Bowie! He was also a lefty.
I use both hands for different tasks. I write with left hand, use a knife with the right. I bat left handed, i pitch right handed, i dry dishes right handed. I crochet left handed. I consider myself different from most. Strangely my siblings are right handed
I am left-handed, which is to say that I have always written with my left hand. I was chatting about it to a teacher friend who took me into his classroom and asked me to write something on the board. When I'd done that, he asked me to try it again with my right hand. I was surprised to find that this was no problem.
The way he explained it was that I am left-handed, but right-armed. I'm pretty much ambidextrous with many tasks, like using a screwdriver, although I favour my right hand. When I have played a guitar I have done it right-handed without thinking and on the odd occasion that I've played cricket or baseball I've done it right-handed.
I'm a lefty and had twins. Both of my twins are left handed. 🙂👍👍
My father was a lefty. My mother was a lefty, but had her hand beaten until she stopped writing with her left hand. My brother is a lefty. I write with my right hand, yet in a lot of things I’m ambidextrous. My parents never forced me to be left or right handed.
I'm a lefty but only for eating, writing & brushing teeth. Everything else I do is rightly. I met another one, too.
I’m mixed-handed. I do several things lefty (such as writing), several things righty (such as using scissors and playing instruments), and a few things with either hand or both (brushing teeth and hair…I can use a fork or spoon with either hand but cut righty. Usually I’ll use the fork or spoon in my left hand and therefore don’t have to switch utensils to cut my food.
I was born left-handed. But the adults were attentive to help me use the 'right' hand. And, as a result I use right hand for writing and dining, but I use my left hand for almost everything else. My father and my son are also left-handed.
I’m a lefty, well actually cross dominant. I’m a musician with a high IQ. Doesn’t mean much though. I’m just another person who works for a living and doesn’t get paid enough.
I'm lefty and lazy with no goals in life
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I'm not creative at all
In my career as an accountant I there always seemed to be a disproportionately high number of left handed people where I worked
The most extreme example of this was in the first place where I worked - there were five of us in one room and four of us were left handed
I can't believe it! Very interesting fact, is this just a coincidence?
@@Didyouknow-facts3 Pure coincidence but there always seem to have been well over 10% of left-handed colleagues in any accountancy office in which I have worked.
I believe left-handed. People have more than one career too. I’ve had at least five. I’ve been a barber a truck driver, a gold miner, Recreation management, tourism, and special events and a hairdresser. My son has been a truck driver, a welder owned his own trucking company owned his own welding company, renovating company and cement Worker also left-handed
they beat my left hand in catholic high school to force me to write right handed, now I'm ambidextrous. one kid even stabbed my left hand with a freshly sharpened pencil. those were the days.
Catholic K_8, my dad set those nuns straight in like third grade.
Went to a parochial grammar school in the '50s, where the nuns insisted that being left handed was not only a sin, but an insult to god. In the third grade, a nun tied my left hand to a leg of the chair/desk combo before an exam so I couldn't use it to write. I didn't get past writing my name, and she gave me a minus 10 because she decided my name was illegible. My father, born left handed and forced into right handedness as a child, went to the convent that night and tore her a new asshole. I never had an issue with my handedness in that school again.
Sinister (sinistra) in Latin means left and evil.
For what it's worth, despite my right hand's uselessness in writing, I have never had even a hint of a problem with normal hand tools. But I never played baseball, because I could NOT catch a ball with my right hand. even if there were any right hand gloves around for me to use.
As far as I can tell, left-handedness runs in families. My dad and his brother were both lefties. But not their sister, although one of her sons is. My younger brother and I are lefties. But my older brother is the odd duck.
My son is left handed, but my daughter is not. Her son is, though.
It sounds like you went through a lot because of something that’s completely natural. I’m glad you had the support of your family, especially your dad. Left-handedness is such a fascinating topic, and the family patterns you mentioned are really interesting!
Im a lefty and was also forced to use my right hand in school. Teacher would hand me a scissors and when i reached with my left hand i got my hand slapped. So I caught on and I would take the scissors with my right hand and transfer them to my left once she looked the other way😂What a dumb idea to make us do what isnt natural. Now im proud to be a lefty.
Those Nuns that told you that are actually stupid and ignorant, most of all they don't read the Bible. I don't if they even know God's word .If they read the Bible then they will know what it says about left-handed
Im sorry..
@@diane3271I identify with that, there was a lot of negativity in the 50s when I was a kid, but glad it's changed. I'm proud of being a lefty.❤
I am left-handed - sinistra. Table-tennis....say no more... I am an artist + a musician.
My mom, my day, myself and all 4 of my children are left handed. It is truly difficult to work in manfacturing and be left handed. We rearrange our world every shift.
Born a dominate lefty.
Did everything left handed until my time in the US Army.
Was required to qualify with the 1911A1 45 sidearm.
Though I grew up hunting with shotguns and long rifles I never fired or even held a sidearm.
When I told the drill sargeant I was a lefty he informed me that the army issued right side holsters only.
I learned to fire sidearms right handed then and still do.
I cant even hold a long gun right handed.
It’s incredible to hear how you adapted and overcame the challenge of switching to right-handed shooting in the Army-especially as a born lefty. That must have taken a lot of patience and determination. It’s amazing how habits and skills like that can stick with us for life. Thank you for your service and for sharing this part of your journey with us. It’s truly inspiring!
Visiting Sweden while working, I was at Stockholm Airport when one of the policemen on duty approached me, as I was looking for where my flight was leaving, back to the UK. He was tooled up to start WW 3, with a Heckler and Koch machine gun, extendable baton, pepper spray and on his left side, a 9 mm handgun. I didn't make any sudden movement to cause him alarm, but I could figure out he was a lefty, like myself...
I'm mostly ambidextrous-right hand dominant. When I was a kid playing sand-lot baseball, I was a pitcher. When a left handed batter would come up, I'd switch to pitching left-handed. When right-handed batters were up, I'd pitch right-handed. Switch hitters were really perplexed! They'd switch 2 or 3 times before settling in to bat. They were totally confused! ⚾↔
I’m not ambidextrous but am mixed handed so I do several things lefty and several things righty. I do use either or both hands for brushing hair and teeth, and I can use a fork or spoon with either hand.
My wife and I are both lefty, but we do some things right-handed.
I do some things left and some things right so am mixed-handed. I write left though.
I'm left handed but I can write with both hands. I eat with my right hand. I can do everything with my right hand that I do with my left, it's only slightly weaker and slower. I've never not been able to do something with my right hand. When one arm is tired, I can simply switch over to the other.
Have you ever been asked to write your name with both hands at the same time - the normal way with your right hand, and backward (mirrored) with your left? I did that once in one of those silly 'team building' meetings at work. As a leftie, I didn't have much trouble doing it. Not great penmanship, but doable. Everyone else's head exploded - no other lefties in the room to compare my experience to, but I think that had something to do with it.
As a right-hander, I can't even hold a pencil with my left hand, let alone write with it.
Same here except right handed. But it took something dramatic to force me to learn. I broke both of my arms and had to relearn how to do things. Later, I injured my right mouse finger so switched over and never went back. I now find it awkward to mouse from the right because I am so out of practice! My brother is left handed so I have always been concious of it. For people who have their dominant arm amputated they don't have a choice.
@@David_Crayford Interesting, isn't it, how the brain rewires itself for a new situation. Did you get a leftie mouse, or do you use a rightie mouse and just compensate?
@@WhiteTiger333 I bought an ambidextrous mouse which has two extra buttons on each side and has a balanced, uniform shape. I am thinking of replacing it because the software it comes with is not great, but the next one will again be ambi. I kept the button mappings the same as for use on the right. Miles better than the years old one it replaced. 🙂
I'm right leaning bilingual, back when I was in elementary school our teachers frowned upon people that were left handed, but at least they weren't as hateful as when my parents were in school
Wow, that’s wild! Glad things are a bit better now, but it’s crazy how schools used to be. Keep being bilingual and awesome!
From a family with five kids. Handedness? Right, Left, Ambidextrous, Right, Left. I'm the 1st leftie. EVERYONE had their specific seat around the dinner table, to reduce potential elbow-bumping when eating.
Class note-taking and Test-writing in Uni wasn't fun - 3 hours twisted around, writing on a right-handed desk. The stress is REAL. Even things like veggie peelers, etc., are set up for right-handed folks. We lefties adapt, as we've been adapting our whole lives...
The word genius gets thrown around a lot these days, but who am I to argue with the narrator of this video.
Thank you very much.
My wife & I are both lefties. I'm also slightly dyslexic. In school, when ball point pens were new to students, we lefties ALWAYS smeared our written work, because the ink didn't dry fast enough. And going to a restaurant with friends, I made sure I got an end seat so I would not bump the person on my left. Oh, poor me... At least I had two hands that worked.
My brother was left handed and a genius. He had a Masters in music and played seven instruments.
He could have had a career as a one man band, definitely.
I’m 61 and my first school teacher was insistent I should use my right hand, it caused many problems, including speech problems which thankfully weren’t long term.
Since everyone who taught me or trained me was right handed, I can do a ton of stuff with either hand, shoot a bow or gun, swing a bat or racket, catch or steer and many other things too. Gives you an advantage in life.
Not only right handed scissors handles can be uncomfortable for lefties but the top blade covers the line you are trying to follow!
It's worse. When you use scissors with your right hand, your hand tends to squeeze the blades together as you cut, making for a tight cutting motion.
But when you use scissors with your left hand, your hand tends to push the blades away from each other, making a sloppy cut.
Thank you, as a lefty I agree. We are more creative. I design custom cars and bikes. Don't think I could have done it right handed.
I write, eat, and play drums left-handed. I do most everything else right handed. Oddly enough, I eat "finger foods" right-handed, although I hold a fork or spoon in my left hand.
I'm basically left handed but was forced to use my right hand in school. What I have discovered over time is that I can mirror write with my left hand. I'm now using this ability to play word games with my grandkids.
Truly special!
I don't find anything hard about being a lefty but then growing up 3 our of 4 in the family were lefties. No one tried to stop me either. 59 here.
In barber school in 1978 after paying tuition I was told there are no left handed barbers. Shaving with a straight edge razor was the hardest for me but I ended up a good barber.
Same with shearers here in Australia. The cutting comb has a particular design and can only be used by shearing with right hand. Your post made me think of it straight away.
I am a 72 year old ambidextrous person. In my youth, switching sides in softball was cool because it confused pitchers. Kick left, throw left, write right. Scissors - right-handed for me. I just couldn't master the left-handed ones. Had injury to my right hand as a teenager and had to write left-handed. It was legible but not preferable to me. :) This is an interesting video!
I was born ambidextrous, but in the first grade I dislocated my right elbow twice within six weeks. The second time, I wound up spending the rest of the school year in the hospital, as they had to do surgery on my elbow, because I messed up that elbow much worse the second time. Due to that double injury to my right elbow, I had to use my left hand a lot more, so now there are several things to this day I only do left handed. Other things I do right handed, like playing guitar. Then there are things I can do with both hands equally well, like switch hitting in baseball using different hand tools, etc.
In high school, I played in sports a lot. two years in basketball, one year in baseball, one season in diving competitions, and three years in volleyball. In baseball I was my team's lead pitcher, and pitched nothing but no hitters the whole season. My lefty curveball was a sidearm pitch that would come at the batter in an anticlockwise corkscrew path, that when hit would go foul, or pop up which me or the catcher would invariably catch! In the season end series, I pitched all no hitters, and wound up being named MVP! I wanted to play in the next year but I had to move to another location and could not get on the team, as it had already been establish in my area. In basketball I was good enough to make it onto two teams, and we were undefeated, though it was not solely because of me. We had a really good set of players on both teams. Volleyball was not played against other schools except for one game, bit I could spike the ball with the best of them and even make an opposing team member eat the ball. In diving I took first place ribbons for two of my dives, and one third place ribbon for my swan dive.
Art is what has driven my adult life , as I am into many different arts and I'm very good at it. I put my art skills into every type of job I ever had, making it fun, and doing high quality work because of it. My main work profession is woodworking, and Carpentry, so yes I fit right in with the description given about that. Jobs I have had doing carpentry and woodworking showed my skills to the world. At Metrotrans (now defunct) I quickly became their number one cabinet designer and builder, and had customers asking for me by name to build the cabinets for their buses. One special bus was given to me to design and build the way I chose, and I chose to make it a coach limousine. I chose all the materials for the cabinetry, the upholstery, and even the paint for the vehicle exterior; shiny black. The coach limousine won its category in an auto show outside of Los Vegas, Nevada. Then it sold for $3,000,000.00! That just one of my successes in my lifetime. If I were to tell about all of my exploits, I'd be writing a small novel.
Other arts I am doing include drawing, painting, sculpting, @d and 3D computer art, music, songwriting, story writing, cooking, etc. Yes I know, this seems like it cannot be true, but I tell you it is absolutely true. I don't ask you to believe it!
I do a lot of projects on my computer, with several 2D and 3D art applications on my computer, including a few 3D modeling apps. My mouse on my computer is used with my left hand rather than my right, but I can still use it with my right if I so choose! I prefer using it with my left hand.
So there it is! My life of left handed working, with a fair amount of right handed work also!
Thanks for posting this video, and confirming things I always thought to be true about myself and other lefties. That teacher in the second grade that rapped the back of my left hand, and claimed my left handedness was evil, did not know what she was talking about! She was superstitious, and for that, my Mom nearly snatched a knot in her scrawny butt!
I used to be a mechanical inspector for British Aerospace.There were twelve of us in the department and ten out of the twelve were left handed.
Seriously? By that logic, 10% of the population being left-handed goes out the window.
@ Yes seriously,so I suppose it does.Statistics like these remind me of the time I once bought lottery scratch cards.They were advertised as one in five was a winning card,I purchased 7 attached just to make sure I was covered and not one was a winner!.
I am lefthanded and I learned writing with my right hand. Also learned kicking a football with my right foot. Even than I am totally a lefty.
I write and eat with my left hand and do everything else with my right hand.... I don't know what I am but I am unique! 🤣
So am I! I eat and write left handed. Most other things I do right handed or equally with either hand.
I am left handed, my 3 children are left-handed and so is their mother. All lefties!!
I read a book about handedness, and studies show that people have more mixed dominance than they ever think about. You may think you are 100% right-handed, but if studied you will prove to be using your left hand more than you think. Same is true for lefties. I am lefthanded and rarely give it a thought. I think some righties make up stuff about all the difficulties we have to make themselves seem superior.
I might be one of those people who doesn’t even realize how much I use my left hand in daily life. It’s funny how we can be so focused on what hand we 'should' be using that we miss the little ways we mix it up.
I'm also a lefty and have found that many tools designed for righties are awkward for me to use - and I'm not making that up.
I'm a left-handed drummer that plays on a right handed setup.
I’m a lefty and happy to be so. I always notice when people are lefties. I also excelled in sports when I was younger.
Left handed, when I had a stroke, lost use of left arm, hand, shoulder and weakened left leg. It took 6 months but I got use of them all back.
It must have been really tough, but it’s incredible that you were able to recover. Your effort and strength are truly inspiring!
All of the left handed people I have ever known were clearly of superior intelligence than right handed people.
We are in our right minds!
My brother and I are both left-handed, and 1 uncle is as well (out of 13 aunts/uncles) ... I learned to use a mouse and crochet like right-handed people, also play Xbox like a right-hander ... I have trouble with scissors ... I am very artistic and creative ... I struggle to name left/right when pressed although I do know which is which - - Very interesting video, but the comments are even better.
Thank you for your comment as well! Yes, I haven’t missed a single comment yet because there’s still a lot to hear/learn from them. I have been left speechless a few times myself.
Left handed swordsmen were feared. As a lefty you would wear and draw a sword on your right hip. As a righty it would be on your left hip. The offer of a right handed hand shake shows you have an empty hand, but a lefty swordsmen would be able to draw his own sword while holding the right hand in a handshake of the person he was trying to kill!
I’m left-handed…sort of. I’m mixed handed so I write, putt, bat, hand-sew and do a few other things lefty. Some tasks, such as brushing my teeth and hair, I use both/either hand). Righty things I do include throwing/dribbling a ball, using scissors and knives, crocheting, knitting, playing musical instruments such as violin, using a computer mouse…
Being mixed handed also comes with some confusing or frustrating moments. If I’m trying something new or haven’t done something (such as knitting or crochet) in a very long time, I may not know or remember which hand I’ll do it in.
As a kid, all my teachers and my parents labeled me left-handed because it’s the hand I write with. As a result, I likely didn’t do well with some activities, such as sports in gym class, because I tried to do them left-handed. Archery is one and tennis is another. When my great aunt tried to teach me crocheting as a kid, I tried to do it left-handed, opposite of what she was doing and I couldn’t get the hang of it at all. When I tried it again in college, I learned that I crochet righty.
My parents were both right handed but 4 of 5 of their children are left handed. Makes me wonder if they were forced to change as kids in a parochial school in the 1920’s.
As a leftie, the only thing I've done right handed is shoot a bow and arrow. It's weird. I can't shoot a bow and arrow as a leftie. It feels as weird and impossible as doing anything else as a rightie. That means I had to learn to compensate my aim for sighting down my non-dominant eye. I restrung my guitar, and can only play simple chords on a right-handed strung guitar. To be fair, if I hand my guitar off to a rightie, they are lost. I do use a computer mouse right-handed. I just learned it that way. And some things, like manual can openers, have to be used the way they are made. No choice.
As you said, the reason lefties do well in some sports is because we are competing against majority righties. We are used to it, but we put the righties off balance. For instance, I remember exceling in fencing in high school...until I fenced with another leftie. We confused each other, because we were totally used to sparring with righties. LOL!
My son trains in boxing and says it's much harder for him as a right-hander to box against a left-hander than against another right-hander.
Can you not just hold the bow upside down? I suppose a modern one with sights you might need to get a left handed bracket but we old folk didn't have those back in the middle ages.
@@David_Crayford I never shot a bow with sights. I stopped shooting after high school, and never had a "fancy" bow.
Strange for me, batting and golf feel better using the right hand way.
I could read at 3 and write at 4 but left handed. They tied up my left hand until I learn to use only my “good hand”. I still use my right hand for things that are taught like write scissors etc. But grasps with any hands. Open bottle etc with my left hand. Fold laundry with my left hand as main hand. Sweep with left hand as main hand etc.
I have always told people that i am a left handed person in a right handed world. Plus I tell people that at least I am in my right mind when they complain at me for whatever reason. Hehehe.
My sister, both son and daughter and 2 of my grandchildren are left handed. I didn't realize it was only 10% that were. My son did learn to play baseball and guitar right handed though. He bought his daughter a left handed guitar. She and her teacher learned to play it together. 🙂
As a lefty while attending college I had to write a paper on suppressed minorities. I picked left handers. I wrote all about what everyone knows today. Scissors, rulers, tools, believe me the paper is rather lengthy. But. I once had opportunity to have some dress shirts tailor made. So I decided to fix the one thing wrong with all dress shirts. The pocket.vI had them put on my right side. Pretty cool. I was a smoker back then, and Everytime I went to put my cigarettes in my pocket, I had to bend down and pick them up. Lesson learned.