being left handed sucks!!!

[HardcoreRobot]

im righty, but batting always felt more comfortable lefty. still does.

 

[BurnItDwn]

I'm left handed, but I don't consider that one of my problems.

 

[Fern]

I'm more ambidextrous.

In elementary school, the pencil/notebooks were accessed from the left side of the desk. I'd grab my pencil with my left hand and learned to write with it that way. I can use my right to write if needed. I injured my left and wrote right-handed in school for a while.

Unlike many left-handed writers I do not curl my hand around. I look like a right hander, but a mirror image. I've never smeared ink etc.

When writing on the blackboard or something similar I prefer to use my right hand. I write easier and neater with it on a large surface.

I played a lot of sports, but my mother said left-handed equipment was too hard to find and too expensive. I played sports right-handed.

I can shoot a gun either way, but prefer left-handed for rifles because my left eye is dominant.

When eating I use the fork and knife as they are properly found at the table setting. I.e., the fork stays in my left hand and I use my right for the knife. I don't swap back-n-forth like true righties and lefties.

My only complaint is right-handed scissors suck if trying to use the left hand so I rarely use my left hand for scissors. That sucks because some times it would be easier, usually due to the position of something you're trying to cut, to use my left hand.

Fern

 

[Phanuel]

Writing and eating = left handed

Everything else, batting, computer mouse, throwing, firearm = right handed.

I don't feel awful except when it comes to writing on an erasable surface or with a really inky pen and then I leave a smear of what should have been text and writing on dry erase is a giant pain in the rear.

 

[MotionMan]

I use both hands, but I am not ambidextrous (i.e. I generally cannot do any one thing with both hands).

I eat, write, and baseball bat left-handed. My fork is always in my left hand and my knife always in my right.

I throw, kick, mouse, use scissors and dribble and shoot a basketball right-handed (I use to mouse left-handed, until I had to share a computer with three righties in college. I also have memories in pre-school of needing left-handed scissors, but that was gone by the time I was in kindergarten. Though I dribble right-handed, my left-handed is dribble is very good.)

I now bowl right-handed but I bowled left-handed in my pre-teenage years.

I shoot a pistol left-handed, but I shoot a rifle right-handed. I am left-eye dominant.

I play tennis mostly right-handed, but I will often use a forehand on both sides and no backhand. I serve right-handed. I play racquetball right-handed (wrist strap prevents switching). I can only play badminton left-handed (I do not have a lot of strength in my shot that way, but I do not enough touch in my right hand to play well).

BTW, despite being so screwed up, I played three varsity sports in high school (I was a left-handed batting catcher and a 3-forward with a nasty cross-over dribble).

Finally, I "identify" with being left-handed and like the relative uniqueness of it.

MotionMan

 

[Wag]

Just visit here and you're all set.

 

[MotionMan]

Just visit here and you're all set.

Lefty's - One of favorite places to visit on Pier 39.

MotionMan

 

[SparkyJJO]

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

It was good times causing family dissidence.

I liked it because I always knew exactly which seat I'd get

 

[ch33zw1z]

I liked it because I always knew exactly which seat I'd get

lol, 50/50. I hated the booths, cause they would try to stick on the inside corner and I'd get all claustrophobic.

 

[Lounatik]

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.

Can i get an amen to that? Evil, evil bastards. Forcing us normal folks to make them special scissors. Special fucking scissors! La de fucking da!

Now that I think about it, I actually eat left handed. Always have. I also feel using a screwdriver is more comfortable in my left hand than right. Weird shit the brain does.


Peace


Lounatik

 

[n7]

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.

Hockey has far more left handed shooters, in spite of most players being right-handed.
There are various arguments for why, but the main ones are that your dominant hand controls the upper portion of the stick, and that when using the stick one handed, it'll be your dominant hand on it.

Those same left shooters in hockey will bat and golf right.

I'm that way as well.
Right handed, shoot left in hockey, bat and golf right.

 

[SlitheryDee]

Doesn't bother me. I can mouse with both hands too, but that's because I spent the formative years of my life doing it the way everyone else did it for convenience's sake. I think I didn't switch until about 4-5 years ago, but now I'm as good with the left as I am the right.

 

[Cerpin Taxt]

Lefties are sinister.

 

[mistercrabby]

Writing and eating = left handed

Everything else, batting, computer mouse, throwing, firearm = right handed.

Same with me. Never been an issue. About half of our exec team is left-handed.

Wish my penmanship was better. I try using good pens and slowing down. Dunno if its cause i'm a lefty.

I don't feel awful except when it comes to writing on an erasable surface or with a really inky pen and then I leave a smear of what should have been text and writing on dry erase is a giant pain in the rear.

True dat homey!

 

[Svnla]

Some titbits about being left handed = http://news.yahoo.com/left-handedness-stumps-science-205805054.html

southpaws tend to excel at visual and spatial tasks, and seem to be overrepresented amongst geniuses

<<--Kinda smart sometimes

 

[Mixolydian]

Some titbits about being left handed = http://news.yahoo.com/left-handedness-stumps-science-205805054.html



<<--Kinda smart sometimes

I'm not very smart. :hmm::\

Studies have found southpaws have higher rates dyslexia, schizophrenia and immune problems, such as allergies and lupus.

Damn.

 

[Jaskalas]

Allergies... check. :\

 

[JTsyo]

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:

So now you're on the quest to find your real family? At least you know they are lefties, that should narrow down the possibilities.

 

[KidNiki1]

No, it doesn't.

 

[Mixolydian]

So now you're on the quest to find your real family? At least you know they are lefties, that should narrow down the possibilities.

Unfortunately, I'm 99% sure my family is my REAL family. :\

 

[Murloc]

Damn.

dodged that.