**Left-Handed People**!!!!?

Question

What are some of the differences, gripes, and other stuff you have about living in this right-handed world?? Do we all left-handed people agree that we are better, and that there is something that kind of "bonds" us together??

Answer 1

I guess I never really thought about it, and just basically adapted to a right-handed world.Things like cameras, etc. are designed for ease of use with the right hand, so I guess I just learned to adapt.

My biggest peeves as a lefty are:
- Can openers (inconvenient)

- Erasable ink (really, getting covered in goopy blue ink is fun - lol)

- Notebooks, although I've tried the lefty ones, and you have the same issues with them when you flip the pages over, so it's just as easy to use a steno book, or start with a regular spiral book from the back.

- The credit card machines in stores with the touch pen - the cords are ALWAYS on the right, making it very southpaw-UN friendly!

My mother just bought me a left-handed knife yesterday. I never knew such a thing existed.

What's funny is that lefties ALWAYS notice and comment on other lefties - "hey! I didn't know you were left-handed!" or "You're a lefty, too!" are commonplace among lefties.

What's funnier still is the number of left-handed people who work in non-profit. I've been amazed at how many I've met....

Answer 2

I don't know if we're better, but I do know we have to be more flexible to use everyday things backward.

I remember in college, going into some big lecture hall. All the desks were right-handed, except for one lefty at the end of each row. I was never able to get one of those. Know why? You guessed it, they were full of righties.

My brother had a bigger problem, though. When he was in the army, the rifle he used would discharge spent shell casings up and out toward the right. Great if you're a righty. But if you're a lefty, they eject toward you. He said every third one either bonked him between the eyes, or went down his shirt. Did I mention that spent shell casings are EXTREMELY HOT?

Answer 3

I am left handed, damaged my left wrist badly so i'm having to use the right one! It's an absolute nightmare. Tin openers all seem to be made for right handed people, many other things do but what's worse is that i seem to do everything the wrong way round? Like washing myself for instance, i normally wash myself in a clockwise movement and I do it anti clockwise because it seems my right wrist has a mind of its own!

Some kind of a bond? Indeed! My daughter is right handed and when she broke her arm a few years ago ... She struggled just as i do right now. So we can understand and empathise with other!

Answer 4

wow. I am left handed. There are very day things that most people take for granted. Everything is right hand dominant. But i am thankful that things have changed. In elementary school i got my hand whacked with a ruler if i used the left. I had to sit out recess to practice writing with my right hand.
I feel that the majority (trying not to stereotype) of leftys are very creative people. It all really goes down to the side of the brain that is more dominant. lefties tend to favor the right side of the brain that deals with the processing of music and visual things. I for one stink at math.. except for geometry and physics it involved something you can see.

not saying that right handers dont have the ability to be creative or that left handers dont have the ability to be math geniuses.. it all goes down to how much and what parts of the brain you utilize, not the hand you write with.

Answer 5

I write with my left hand but do predominently everything else with my right hand. There are some things that I can do equally as well with either hand. Does that make me a righty, lefty or ambi?

I hope no one will be offended by this question...but do you lefties make um (manual) "self-love" with your left hand? I don't need to know any details, just a simple yes or no will suffice. Perhaps I'll do an "ask" in the Single-Dating category or something...

Answer 6

Umm, I guess the only thing I've ever appreciated about it is that my right brain is dominant because of it (which is actually a rarity, only 1/3 of lefties are actually right brained). I have, over time, become somewhat ambidextrous to compensate. I still write and draw and throw left, but I have adapted well enough that if I lost my left hand, i'd get by.

Answer 7

I found learning to write difficult as nobody taught me to hold a pen correctly until I was in my 20s but most things cause very little problem as, with practice, i have become virtually ambidextrous which certainly gives me the advantage over right handers. Corrie-fisters unite!!

Answer 8

I hate those desks at colleges where the desk is attached to the chair. The bad thing is that the desk is always on the right side. So annoying. And also, when you go the bank and those pens are attached to the ocunter. Damned those pens!!!!!

Answer 9

For me, I think that left handers get along better with other lefties than righties. I get no different attitudes from others when they see i'm a lefty and think that life is much easier for us. Sports seem to be easier to play, friendships last much longer and I think that our personalities are much more laid back than righties.

Answer 10

Copybooks (cannot write to the inner edge of the page, pens that leave smudge on paper and hands, I want left handed scissors.