How many are you in your right mind?

[Matthew3590]

I also think that the reason most of us curl our
hand to write, is because we had those one
arm desk.....for right handers!

I doubt it is because of the desks when there are right handers who curl their hands "weird" when they wright. In my school system all desks are not attached to the chairs so there is no right or left handed desk.

 

[theoldchick]

I don't do that left hand curl thing when writing. My brother does, though. However, he and I do not share any genetic ancestors. We were adopted and some how mom managed to adopt two lefties.

 

[cravenchx]

My oldest son is the only one in our family who is left handed. There may be others on my husband's side, but none of my immediate family are lefties. My son writes with his left hand, bowls left, but throws a ball right-handed and bats either way. I asked him if there has been anything frustrating about being a lefty and he said the only thing he could think of is picking up a pair of scissors only to find they don't work for a lefty.

ETA: I remember him complaining last week about trying to write in a spiral bound notebook because the spiral kept getting in his way.

Yes, I remember that too. I even tried to turn it upside down, that didn't work either!

 

[MustLoveHens]

I'm a South Paw!! Mom was, my brother is and my Dad is a righty. I think both my half brothers are righty's too but I'd have to ask.
I use right handed scissors with my left hand and I've never been able to get left handed scissors to work for me-either left or right handed!
Yes, I remember those spiral note books marking my hand and I don't curl my wrist to write but my brother does. He told me he does it to kept ink off his hand. Me, I just drag my hand through the ink! LOL!
If I got stuck in the left hand desk school, I could not write nor could my mind get going in class. I hated to sit in those things and I refused to sit in one on a test day.
I toss a ball and with my right hand, but toss a frisbee with my left. I bowl with my right hand as well.
I took a gun safety course when I got my new .357 revolver. What was interesting was learning the correct way to handle the gun turned out to be a huge challenge for me and the teacher! The poor teacher (a righty) had a heck of a time trying to teach a lefty how to safely handle and load a right handed gun. It never occurred to either me or my DH that we'd need to find a left handed revolver!

 

[hippiehen]

Lefty here too

 

[suebee]

I write and eat with my left...everything else I do right handed.

 

[Lothiriel]

Right-handed people seldom notice which hand I use, but other lefties often do. Occasionally, someone who has known me for years will be surprised to find out that I'm a lefty; maybe I'm not as "gauche" as I feel! For the most part, the ways I've adapted are automatic - things like sitting at the left corner of a table so that I don't lock elbows with a righty - so even my nearest and dearest forget that there is anything different about the way I do things.

The thing I find most frustrating is the "ergonomic" way that some things get designed. Right-handed scissors with straight handles are a little trickier with the left hand, but the sculpted handles that are so comfortable for the right hand are downright painful for the left hand. A brand of dish soap had a bottle that was designed with a grip in the shape of the bottle - for the right hand (that bottle has since been redesigned). When I crochet something, I have to reverse the directions; not everything translates the same when you hold the hook in the other hand!

Gah, those scissors kill me! There's a place... in the UK I think... that sells all lefty stuff, and I got some scissors from them and they are amazing. They have tons of things, from kitchen utensils to fountain pens to left handed clocks that run counterclockwise! (I'm not that bad...

) I wish I could remember their website....



On the other hand (no pun intended) I shoot right handed. Tried left but my right eye is dominant, so left didn't work.

 

[Lothiriel]

Lefty here too

LOL How true.... Stating the obvious...

 

[Royd]

Left handers have to go through life, running everything through a filter, and then, making it work. I had a little girl tell me once, that I wrote the A to my last name backwards...I never even thought about it, but I do. I start at the bottom right hand, come up and down the left leg, and tail it out to the left.

I am an expert at formwork. We have to look at everything backwards, and that's how formwork works. What's out is in, what's left is right, etc.

 

[cravenchx]

Left handers have to go through life, running everything through a filter, and then, making it work. I had a little girl tell me once, that I wrote the A to my last name backwards...I never even thought about it, but I do. I start at the bottom right hand, come up and down the left leg, and tail it out to the left.

I am an expert at formwork. We have to look at everything backwards, and that's how formwork works. What's out is in, what's left is right, etc.

That's why we are such good problem solvers...most of the time