I'm just curious how many lefties are around here and how you feel / think about it. I consider myself left handed. I write with my left hand but do many other things right handed. I play baseball, basketball, soccer all right handed, but I play pool and throw a frisbee left handed. I also use my cpu mouse with my right hand which is cool because I then can write simultaneously. But I remember being in school looking at 30 people in my class all with their pen in their right hand while mine was in my left. You can't help but feel different. You also can get annoyed with everyday things like spiral notebooks, ink stains on your hand, etc. Using different hands for different tasks, I sometimes have felt stuck between two worlds and I have kind of wished I was completely one or another because things can be very awkward for me. I'm also a pretty liberal guy, and I wonder if philosophical thinking is at all influenced by brain hemisphere dominance. Any thoughts?
I consider myself somewhat ambidextrous. Both my parents are left-handed, yet none of me and my 2 bro's are. They wanted one to be, so they picked me. Here's the details: Writing: Dominant Right but Lefty capable Baseball: Throw Right but Bat Left Soccer: Either R or L Now my specialty Basketball: Dominant Right but anywhere around the bucket and it's either or. Can even pop 10 footers Southpaw style. I got skills-is.
My Pop was born a righty, but hurt his hand early ( about 4 or 5 I think, right around when you're learning to write) and had to learn everything lefty...which he stayed with, all the way to being signed as a CF by the Orioles. But he can write, throw, etc. with either hand, switch hit, etc. ( Actually, his better knucler is righty) I was born a righty, and despite repreated attempts from my father to make me ambidextrous, I remained so, although I bat, golf, etc. lefty. If I try and throw lefty, I do a fair impersonation of what we used to say was " like a girl."
I'm a righty. I write right (hmm...write..right..) handed, but my handwriting sucks so much that I could probably write left handed and it would look about the same. For some strange reason, I eat with my left hand or it is my "dominant eating hand", I guess. I never really noticed it until someone asked if I was left handed since I had my fork in my left hand. I then freaked out about it since I always thought I did everything right handed.
I was born left-handed, but apparently that's frowned upon in Old Word/underdeveloped countries, so I was taught to use my right hand. I am now a "righty".
That's actually the proper way to eat. (Unless you are in the US, that is...) I am totally right-handed. I even have trouble eating properly, with the fork in my left hand.
No joke, I actually think that lefties are legitimately screwed,and it's really not fair. I actually would support some taxes going towards creating certain public facilities( student desks, etc.) proportional for lefties.Watching so many of my sinister students screwing their torsos around, or writing on binders in their lap just to take notes, you gotta feel for them, although there are some end desks in some classromms for lefties.
Do you honestly mean that? Is it not so that lefties always support taxes for anything...and is this not an example of that? Be it lefties or any other purpose...
I actually read somewhere that lefties die 7 years younger than right-handed people. I don't believe it, but it is kind of a persistent myth.
I'm a lefty. I, too, hate using sprial notebooks and getting pen and pencil ink all over my hand. Plus, I feel it's discriminatory that there is not at least one left-handed desk in each class. Being left-handed is cool though.
Started out Lefty...but like DoD was exorcised of this peculiarity. Write, bat and golf (all poorly) right handed. Shoot left ... (hockey -- not guns ).
I'm the exact opposite. I was born lefty and i broke my wrist right when 1st grade started. My teacher made me right with my right. I play golf lefty (but never play), same with hockey. In b-ball i tend to go left. I hold my manhood with left and drink water with my left. water can also be substitude for any liquor or beer.
I used to be a lefty in childhood, however, mom thought it not a lucky thing for me, so I was forced to be a righty since growing up.
Sports and computer use have allowed me to flex my ambidexterity. Though, like most, the states have forced my right to become dominant. Of course, the true question of which hand I brush my teeth with shall remain a mystery.
As I recall the fact the most people are right handed has to do with an historical event. In the Middle Ages people feared the Devil,Satan,Evil etc... and if any thing that differentiated you from the others was considered Witch Craft(?). Therefor if you were born lefty you were either killed or forced to to be righty! BTW I'm right handed but would have prefered to be Ambidextrous(?). ALA
Just like the fact that lefties are suppose to be more intelligent than righties.But that just have to do with statistiques(more righties than lefties in the world...). ALA
