being left handed sucks!!!

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blankslate

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It's fine you just got to get used to doing things like catching and throwing with your right hand and writing and other fine tasks with your left hand.
 

drillrod

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i fucking hate this shit!! why the hell cant i be normal?!?!?! :mad:
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Left handed is normal, didn't you get the memo? Fuck the right handed overlords!

Edit: Play ping pong with right handers, you will always win they aren't accustom to the spin
 

ch33zw1z

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One of my favorite things to do is dictate where I'm going to sit at a rectangular dinner table. I get one of the ends, or else someone is bumping elbows with me the whole time! That's how I put it at least...
 

Mixolydian

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One of my favorite things to do is dictate where I'm going to sit at a rectangular dinner table. I get one of the ends, or else someone is bumping elbows with me the whole time! That's how I put it at least...

Ugh! Whenever my family would go out to eat we would always get into a big thing about where everyone had to sit, because I was the lefty and "screwed everything up". :mad::sneaky:
 

ch33zw1z

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Ugh! Whenever my family would go out to eat we would always get into a big thing about where everyone had to sit, because I was the lefty and "screwed everything up". :mad::sneaky:

My response to "screwing it up" == Deal with it :colbert:

It was good times causing family dissidence.
 

ch33zw1z

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When I was in school learning how to write I looked around at the kids around me and noticed everyone was using their right hand. Me of course, I had to be a dick and be different. I've been writing with my left had ever since then.

I bat left. I throw left. I write left.

I use all tools equally well with either hand. I tend to prefer using hammers with my right hand, but if it gets tired I switch it out to my left hand back and forth. The times I've been on construction sites someone usually brings it up and I hear people talking about it lol.

People haven't ever found it weird. People say it's cool.

But if you ask me to write with my right hand I'll look at you and be like, "I can't do that."

All my kids are strictly right-handed, I even tried to persuade one to try to use their left hand. Didn't work. Oh well.

Letting my kids decide for themselves hasn't been to hard for me. We had an issue with my sons first kindergarten teacher(he had to switch from this class) because she was so surprised he couldn't write well...or really at all..

We sat in the meeting listening and only had to ask one question: what hand is he using?

Of course, this teacher was trying to force the right hand, we told her he's left handed, and she was surprised. My wife, myself, vice principal, and guidance counselor all looked at each other like :eek:

My older son is basically the same as me. My younger son is strongly right handed so far, like my wife.
 

Mixolydian

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In the past I've heard there's a genetic component to handedness. But not a single other person in my extended family, or any of my ancestors, are/were left-handed. :hmm:
 

ch33zw1z

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lol, I've heard the same. Yet nobody else in my family knows someone who is left handed. maybe a few generations back or something...

just me and the older son now..
 

zCypher

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I'm a lefty and it's never been a problem for me. I do many things as a right-handed person though (for example, any racket-sport like tennis, badminton, etc). Hockey is left handed. Guitar is right-handed. Writing is left-handed. Depends on the activity, some things just don't feel right left-handed! I can write with my right hand as well, but it is quite horrible. Even more horrible than my normal writing.

Fapping goes either way of course.
 

purbeast0

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south paw myself. never really had an issue with it, other than having to change some settings in guitar hero.

i eat both left and right handed though.
 

techs

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I hold a hockey stick left handed. In fact I can't use it right handed. Everything else I do is right handed.
Oh, and I can swing a bat equally well from both sides. Weered.
 

Platypus

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You know whats worse than being left-handed?
Being left-handed and not getting enough socializing and growing up weird which makes it even harder to socialize and not having any real friends for 5 whole years after you move across the country and leave behind the handful of people you could get close to.

*sad trombone*

You're completely in control of that situation, so take control of it.


OP: nothing wrong with being left handed except smearing the shit out of ink when you write. I am naturally left handed but was forced to write right handed in school because 'that was normal.' Needless to say my handwriting sucks and I can only really do cursive because it's easier for me to flow connected characters together without picking up my hand as much. I do most things left handed.
 

Jinny

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born lefty, forced to write and use chopsticks with right hand. so i play ball and do everything else left handed, including kicking.
all of my lefty friends call me an impostor though since i don't' write with my left.
 

dank69

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Hopefully in the not-too-distant future we will be able to drown kids once we discover they are left-handed so we won't have to deal with this problem anymore.
 
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