
Celebrate International Left-Handers Day on August 13!
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I've always been left-handed, but due to environment do many things right-handed, such as batting a ball, taking lids off jars, cutting with a knife. When bowling I have to try it with both hands to see which way is working best that day. I taught myself to write with my right hand after witnessing my brother's difficulty when he had his arm in a cast and was unable to use his dominant hand for several weeks. I cut with either hand, which is great when I'm doing sewing projects, neither hand gets too tired. As I've aged I think my right hand has become a bit more dominant, so I've decided I'm ambidextrous now. I had to use those horrible grass shears for trimming around the yard as a kid, they were only right-handed. Hated them and never did master using them before weed-eaters became popular for trimming. One of my sons teased me with heading down the left-handed road until he turned 6. We had purchased a lefty mitt for him for baseball at 5, then at 6 he decided to switch to right and became a right-handed adult. Maybe someone made some kind of negative comment to him, unbeknownst to me. It's been fun reading everyone's comments.
The 2 sides of the brain control the opposing side of the body. Therefore Lefthanded people are the only ones in their right minds.
I am a Lefty and proud to be one.What I don't like is all the stuff they make for right handed ppl.Us left handed ppl have NOTHING made just for us..Or if they do show me.Have a nice day.
Lefty here! Scissors always bother me. We demand compensation! (just kidding) though might as well get on the bandwagon of even being offended about everything and demanding money for it.
I'm right-handed but my sister and niece are left-handed. My sister had a horrible teacher in first grade. The teacher would slap her hand with a ruler and tell her, "Good children don't right with their left hand. Only wicked and evil children are left-handed." My mother didn't know this was happening until my sister brought a sheet of ABC's home to work on. When asked why she was trying to write right-handed my sister told her what was happening with the teacher. My mild-mannered Mom was livid! She called the Superintendent and the Principal to schedule an appointment the next day with them and the teacher. I can still remember her telling Dad, "I told them if they thought my daughter was evil then they've not ever seen evil and wicked if this right-handed mother ever sees or hears of this again." Needless to say, the teacher was fired the next week. Wahoo Mom!
Both my sister and niece although left-handed they bat, use scissors, cut meat, and open jars right-handed. I think this is due to how Mom taught them to do what was natural and comfortable to them and not what society wanted them to do. I only say this because my niece didn't have an awful teacher like my sister did.
I still give them guff after all these years for being left-handed. Heaven help those who do the same because I'm the first one there in defense of left-handers when they're called slow, stupid, backwards, slackers, evil, and other derogatory terms. Although, my sister does give a mean Evil Eye. Maybe she is a wicked child after all. LOL ;) Love you Sis
Left-handed,and,proud to be different.
I Love being a Minority, I am the only LeftHanded person in my immediate family , when I was young I used to think I was adopted !!!!
I love being left handed. My husband and our son are both lefties too.
I do not remember being reprimanded at all by teachers, but I do cut with scissors, use a knife to peel and hit with a bat using my right hand, so maybe a teacher influenced that back then.
Lefties are also very artistic and creative individuals.
I do everything left handed. Yes when I was a child the teacher would slap my left hand and told me I had to use my right. I went home and told my dad and he went to the school and told them if they did it again he would be whipping some butt.
I do almost everything left handed. When I was in grade school the teacher put a bag over my left hand and tried to force me to write with my right hand. I could not do it. I started to stutter all the time and my parents took me to a doctor. He knew right away what was causing the stuttering and he and my parents went to the school and talked to the principal about what this teacher was doing. She was made to stop doing what she was doing to me and the stuttering went away. Ignorant people called me a witch. To this day people make comments about left handed people. There are many kinds of prejudices in this world. I am very good at math, have beautiful handwriting, am artistic.
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