View Full Version : Left or Right Handed
reiverix
11-14-2005, 8:32 PM
Go Lefties :thm:
Kasakato
11-14-2005, 8:39 PM
Rightz Rulz!
FreddytheFish
11-14-2005, 8:39 PM
Left Is Right!!!
mishi8
11-14-2005, 8:57 PM
I'm Right (handed, that is). :)
But what about ambidextrous?
reiverix
11-14-2005, 9:04 PM
Didn't even cross my mind :rolleyes: Oh well I guess if you're ambidextrous it comes down to preference.
Hereford
11-14-2005, 9:21 PM
If the left side of the body is controlled by the right side of the brain, only left-handed people are in their right mind.
wendyinwichita
11-14-2005, 9:49 PM
Both of my kids are lefties even though I am a rightie.
daveedka
11-14-2005, 11:05 PM
But what about ambidextrous?
Err Umm I'm "equally akward" (ambedexterous) . I am naturally right handed, but with 7 broken arms on my resume, I have developed considerable skill with both hands. I write either way, eat like a lefty, when I played ball I was close to equal left and right handed (not all that good with either) I can throw a beaseball and field with either hand. The only time I stick to right handed is when shooting because my right eye is dominant by far.
dave
cyberbeer65
11-14-2005, 11:10 PM
I'm right handed.
Hereford
11-15-2005, 1:19 AM
I'm Right (handed, that is). :)
But what about ambidextrous?
Amni: (lat) "Both (around)..."
Omni: (lat) "All..."
Dexter: (lat) "Of or located on the right side..."
Sinister: "On the left side..."
I guess I must be omnisinisterous. (Gulp!)
Hereford
11-15-2005, 1:25 AM
I'm Right (handed, that is). :)
But what about ambidextrous?
Ambi: (lat) "Both (around)..."
Omni: (lat) "All..."
Dexter: (lat) "Of or located on the right side..."
Sinister: "On the left side..."
I guess I must be omnisinisterous. (Gulp!)
hcgirl80
11-15-2005, 9:27 AM
I have three cousins and an uncle that are leftie, A brother and a sister that are ambidextrous, and baby jake, we can't tell yet, but I think he will be leftie because he reaches out to you with his left hand most of the time, and everyone else I know is rightie. But I don't tend to go around asking.
:D
~HC
SnakeIce
11-15-2005, 10:02 AM
When I was younger adults would try to help me remember which hand was my right hand.
"Which hand do you use a fork with?"
I'd just stick both hands forward and say this one. I have a learning bias towards my left hand, but was pushed to use my right hand by my grandmother.
Harlock
11-15-2005, 10:23 AM
In baseball I field right handed and bat left... In hockey and golf, I am left handed. I write with my right hand. I type with 5 fingers but distributed over both hands... I skate and surf "goofy footed" and kick well with both feet in soccer. Of course, in basketball I just suck. Anything else?
nursie
11-15-2005, 3:05 PM
I have a learning bias towards my left hand, but was pushed to use my right hand by my grandmother.
My mother in law tried to do that with my youngest who is a leftie, and I would not put up with it. She needed to do what she was "wired" to do. I was not the favorite daughter in law becasue I would have nothing to do with all the old wives tales she kept trotting out.
Just curious...you have any learning or language problems over being pushed to be a "rightie"?
tomm10
11-15-2005, 3:36 PM
I'm a lefty who learned to do a fair amount of things right handed. I use a mouse right handed (I'm a designer so my mouse is not just for highlighting text ;) ). I learned to use scissors right handed but that was mostly because of those lame "Left Handed" scissors they handed out in kindergarten. You know the kind, they reversed the blades and then coated the finger loops in two inches of rubber so once you jammed your fingers in there you couldn't pull them out. The right handed world bugs me.
FreddytheFish
11-15-2005, 3:38 PM
Yep, we lefties get screwied :(
In fact, the only thing that left handers have an easier time with than righties are tollbooths.
I'm in my right mind ,"left handed." Of course like most of us lefties I'm pretty comfortable with either hand. I can use either to write, draw, throw a ball etc.
What's sort of funny is that I picked up a pen in my left hand for the first time when I was in 5th or 6th grade. I could nearly instantly write with it as well or better than I could with my right. My teachers had been making me use the large baby pencils and all sorts of stuff up until that point. I solved my own problem by useing the correct had I often times wonder how many other kids were stuck in that situaion.
SnakeIce
11-15-2005, 8:25 PM
I've had more problems with motor skills like taking a nut off a bolt or taking the oil pan plug out to change the oil. I've had a long history of not knowing which way to turn things. Lefty loosy, righty tighty did and still does nothing for me as a memory aid on that.
I have had some problems, but it would be a false assumption to say that specific thing is the cause of those problems. The other things my Grandmother pushed me to do caused way more problems. Aside from that source is the little bit of disgraphia/dislexia from my dad's side.
I am a perfectionist when it comes to what I want to say or write, so I can't say if the hesitation at comeing out with my thoughts is due to that or some nebulous problem. The brain is adaptable, so I personally think the lack of social acceptance great enough to lead to switching hands causes more problems than actually changing. Nothing I did made my grandmother happy, and personally I don't ever want to make her pleased with me.
:OT: Snake.....I REALLY like that avatar of yours ! Very pretty pic ! http://www.planetsmilies.com/smilies/love/love0084.gif
OH....I"m a rightie.....even though left is right and right is wrong....so they say......However.....being right handed makes me left minded, so I guess I'm alright !! http://www.planetsmilies.com/smilies/confused/confused0083.gif http://www.planetsmilies.com/smilies/confused/confused0069.gif
SnakeIce
11-15-2005, 8:52 PM
I love it when, lets say, you fall down, and people ask "Are you all right?" because I get to tell them "No, I'm half left." :D
:OT:
:OT: Snake.....I REALLY like that avatar of yours ! Very pretty pic ! http://www.planetsmilies.com/smilies/love/love0084.gif
I like it alot too, as it is my fish and my tank. I have another picture that is like a cropped version on my desktop.
nursie
11-15-2005, 9:50 PM
Interesting info, SnakeIce. My argument against my mother in law trying to tell me to switch my daughter to a "rightie" was that it could lead to learning problems. Glad I stuck to my guns.
She said...well it's a right handed world and she'll get along better...I said..I'll buy her left handed scissors.
Wow... I'm just like snakeice! I used to write with both hands as a child, I can remember writing my name with both hands at the same time, drawing pictures with both hands, etc... but my parents pushed me to use my right hand, because it was the "right" one to use. I didn't have any learning problems that I know of. I did hate school though and just did the bare minimum to get by...
I used to use the L that's made up of my thumb and index finger to remind me of the left, but now I use my wedding ring. :) It just doesn't seem to be that "instant" for me like it seems to be for other people!
saltyc
11-21-2005, 10:18 AM
To this day, I'm still directionally misguided-my husband knows if I'm giving directions, to watch which way I'm pointing, not what I'm saying, cause about 70% of the time, it comes out backwards!
I finally have solved most of that by saying north, south, east or west, rather than right or left! Course, that drives him nuts, because he doesn't always know which direction we are going!
fishcatch22
06-16-2006, 9:51 PM
I ALWAYS use my right hand to clean my tank, and my left to feed them and change filter pads
Toirtis
06-16-2006, 9:55 PM
Dexterous, which means that I will likely outlive the average sinistrous folk by a good 25% (typically due to accidental deaths).
Toirtis
06-16-2006, 9:58 PM
I'm a lefty who learned to do a fair amount of things right handed. I learned to use scissors right handed but that was mostly because of those lame "Left Handed" scissors they handed out in kindergarten.
You are fortunate....in, and just before, my time, kids that used their left hands in school were often beat on the knuckles with a wooden ruler for the 'inappropriate behaviour'.
fishman1979
06-16-2006, 10:05 PM
write right handed. when it comes to sports, bat and golf lefty though. but can not throw a ball left handed, or swing a golf club or baseball bat right handed
petfairy
06-17-2006, 6:31 PM
Wow, this all seems so familiar....
When i was in preschool, i wrote with both right and left. And my teacher also told me that it was wrong. She told me that i needed to choose one hand to write with and to stop being so different. I didnt understand at that age that i was different in that class because i had red hair, everyone else was normal and had blonde or brunette hair. Of course i never thought i was different, until she told me that i was wrong for writing the way i wanted to. So when she told me to pick one.... i picked left.
Although, i can still write with my right hand, but it looks like a kids handwriting, that is where the skills stopped for my right hand. Its interesting, i actually turn letters around like little kids do when they right, and not on purpose either.
I remember switching direction around also, and i also had a lot of issues with teachers growing up. I never took anything seriously, i always felt like someone wanted to change me. So, I would express all of my feelings on the outside, and show everyone how different i was.. when i realized that no one cared anymore, i just stopped caring about anything. I suppose that a lot of my mentality comes from feeling like i have to be myself and not letting anyone tell me that what i like, want, or do is wrong.
Janell
fishcatch22
06-17-2006, 6:41 PM
Wow, this all seems so familiar....
When i was in preschool, i wrote with both right and left. And my teacher also told me that it was wrong. She told me that i needed to choose one hand to write with and to stop being so different. I didnt understand at that age that i was different in that class because i had red hair, everyone else was normal and had blonde or brunette hair. Of course i never thought i was different, until she told me that i was wrong for writing the way i wanted to. So when she told me to pick one.... i picked left.
Although, i can still write with my right hand, but it looks like a kids handwriting, that is where the skills stopped for my right hand. Its interesting, i actually turn letters around like little kids do when they right, and not on purpose either.
I remember switching direction around also, and i also had a lot of issues with teachers growing up. I never took anything seriously, i always felt like someone wanted to change me. So, I would express all of my feelings on the outside, and show everyone how different i was.. when i realized that no one cared anymore, i just stopped caring about anything. I suppose that a lot of my mentality comes from feeling like i have to be myself and not letting anyone tell me that what i like, want, or do is wrong.
Janellyup, yup! it,s hard out here for us weridos!
:cool: :thm: :clap:
DeputyChiefJR
06-17-2006, 7:47 PM
I eat lefty with a knife, played street hockey goalie lefty but in everything else i'm righty...I find it funny that we're starting to get perfectly normal demographis regarding this
you made me ink
06-20-2006, 11:47 AM
just for the record I have nothing against leftys but i once had a football coach that used to tell us that all left handed people were ... lets just say not right in the head -lol- ... but as for me im righ handed although i started to write left handed when i was little but my parents made me wright with my right because "the world was designed for right handed people" -lol-
Theatre1sm
06-20-2006, 2:12 PM
Definite Lefty though have had to adapt to more ambidexterous over time. Similar to other comments - right handed mice, right handed 10-key pads, etc. have forced multi use.
Went to Catholic school where (1st grade only!) the nun tried to tie my left arm down so I would "learn properly". Parents found out and the fur went flying. Thankfully my kindergarten and Pre-K where I'd already mastered reading and basic writing skills were accepting of lefties. Was "permitted" to write left but had to take tests, etc. with the right. :confused:
Am amazingly directionally challenged - can't do left or right or N, W, S, E - have to go "Turn toward the hotel" "turn away from the restaurant". Can't play a musical instrument - on piano I play melody left and chords right, guitar is apparently upside down chord spacing ?!?
But otherwise considered acceptable in civil company.
patoloco
06-20-2006, 6:42 PM
... but with 7 broken arms on my resume, I have developed considerable...
dave
I knew it! You are an octopuss!! Else, how can you have 7 broken arms...
Getting serious. I'm left handed, and fortunately never had someone telling me to do thing with the right hand. However, it's true how we lefties have to become more ambidextrous than right handed people. It's hard for me to find a suitable lefty scissor, so I had to learn to use scissors with my right hand (never been able to do a straigth cut. Thank God for knives and rulers).
About 7-8 years ago, I was on the hypa iwith a StarWars PC game and went out to buy a suitable joystick. To my surprise, I found a GenX500L. Wow! Everything was designed to be used with the left hand. Excellent? Not really. None of my family was ever able to use that joystick... (actually this is good cause I'm a selfish pig when it comes to share my videogames :D )
Also, when I write with a pencil or ink, I pass my hand ovwer then recent trace and it get fuzzy or spotty. The wire coild on the left margin of the college notebook always harm my hand.
On the plus side, being a lefty makes you become pretty much equally handed, so if you ever get you left arm broken (or any of your left arms, in Dave's case :D ) you'll have the right one pre-trained to do many of your stuff.
SAD FACT: (Not for the easily offended).
One day, I was playing with my friend air hockey at the local arcade. The place was empty so we played for 6 hours straight. We like to play really hard, so, in the night, I had pain in my left shoulder/arm.
At 10 pm, I went to the bathroom, did number 2, and when it was time to do the "wiping maneuver", I was unable to move my left arm. Had to do it with the right hand. I was a mess. After several tries, I decided to hit the shower.