Left handed people have it bad

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Cristatus

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I'm a lefty (well, not totally: I write with my left hand only, use a spoon with my left hand, and do pretty much everything (and I mean everything else with my right hand)

This means that on PDAs and touch screen phones, it sucks for me with hardware buttons on the other side.

Why don't they make left-handed PDAs/phones/hybrids?


What hand do you guys write with?

I also wonder how many of your are ambi-dextruos (sp?).

And are there any other weird cases like me, where you only do somethings with one hand, some with the other?
 
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Lonyo

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I write with left, and do everything else right handed, from eating, to using scissors, mouse etc.
But when I pick up a guitar I pick it up left handed (I don't know how to play, but that doesn't matter).
 
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BDawg

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Left handed life isn't really that bad... I run into few problems.

My biggest problem may be not being able to use alot of pens because of smearing. I hardly call that life altering.
 
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iamwiz82

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Originally posted by: BDawg
Left handed life isn't really that bad... I run into few problems.

My biggest problem may be not being able to use alot of pens because of smearing. I hardly call that life altering.
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My handwriting is awful and the smearing doesn't help.

Lefties are significantly more likely to be injured because so much is made for right-handed people.
 
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zanieladie

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I am right-handed but can use both hands to eat and various other things. I shoot pool left-handed, though.
 
KLin

KLin

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Southpaws unite!!! :D

There is one thing I hate about being left handed. In school, after writing an essay or something I would end up with a bunch of graphite on the side of my hand that touches the paper. Very annoying.
 
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Red Dawn

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Problem, what problems, I don't have any steenking problems. Being a lefty as I am means that you learn to adapt at an early age which almost all Lefties have done..usually with ease.
 
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imported_Pablo

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I'm a lefty. Other than smearing the SH!T out of anything I write, its not really too bad of a problem. There's a certain bond among leftys sometimes, which is cool, and its a good way to start a conversation with random people(girls).

 
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tfinch2

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Originally posted by: KLin
Southpaws unite!!! :D

There is one thing I hate about being left handed. In school, after writing an essay or something I would end up with a bunch of graphite on the side of my hand that touches the paper. Very annoying.
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Ditto, althought that's the only problem I've ever encountered
 
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Descartes

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In my experience, most lefties are ambidextrous to some extent. I'm primarily left-handed, but I do a lot of other things right-handed as well. In most cases I'm proficient with both. I can mouse equally with both hands, I can throw almost equally with both, etc. The PDA problem doesn't bother me as I'll just use my right hand.
 
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Cristatus

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Originally posted by: BDawg
Left handed life isn't really that bad... I run into few problems.

My biggest problem may be not being able to use alot of pens because of smearing. I hardly call that life altering.
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Oh yea, I forgot to mention that problem as well.

The only downside is that we have to use pens that use inks that dry quickly (which means that you can't use fountain pens, or rollerball pens).

I like how fountain pens write, but to use them, I have to use an awkward position where I curve my hand over the top to write, so that my wrist won't smear the ink, and hopefully, if/when my lower arm passes over the ink, it's dry.

But mostly, I just don't use anything that doesn't dry quickly.
 
Tremulant

Tremulant

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I'm left handed. The only thing I do right-handed is play guitar. Never felt comfortable for me the other way.

Don't really have any problems though, except for the aforementioned pen smearing. Er, and when I'm in the kitchen and a right handed person is cutting something and passes it to me it ends up backwards, but I turning the cutting board around fixes that.

My brother actually wishes that he was left handed, just so he could be different from the rest of the family (well, except me)

Edit: Forgot that I use my mouse with my right hand too. I'm a mess using it with my left hand.
 
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Descartes

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Oh, one of the most annoying problems is eating with people in close quarters. I always have to tell people that I need the outside of the table on either side because I'm left handed. Nothing is more annoying than bumping elbows with people while eating.
 
nakedfrog

nakedfrog

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I was left-handed, then they made me use my right hand in school. I did recently discover that I'm about as good with my left hand as my right when I play ping pong.
 
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Tremulant

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Originally posted by: Descartes
Oh, one of the most annoying problems is eating with people in close quarters. I always have to tell people that I need the outside of the table on either side because I'm left handed. Nothing is more annoying than bumping elbows with people while eating.
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My cousin and I were talking about this the other day. He's also left handed, so we usually sit next to eachother to avoid bumping elbows.

Usually it's not a problem for me though..
 
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Tremulant

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Originally posted by: nakedfrog
I was left-handed, then they made me use my right hand in school. I did recently discover that I'm about as good with my left hand as my right when I play ping pong.
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One of my grandmother's is left handed, but they made her use her right hand growing up, so she writes right handed, but does most everything else left handed.
 
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Udel

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<- lefty. The one thing that bothers me most the lack of good gaming mouses for lefties. Most are right centric and the "neutral" ones are not that good.
 
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