Are you right or left handed?

LizT · 18-09-2014 05:29AM

Leftie here. Any time this thread is done, there's always a stupidly high number of lefties.

Aren't we great.

A cow called Daisy · 18-09-2014 07:49AM

I know several that dig/kick with the other (left) foot.

Otherwise known as been protestants.

smash · 18-09-2014 09:05AM

Right handed. It was always a challenge at teen discos when you met a leftie, me trying to use my right hand, her trying to use her left... awfully awkward.

Tony EH · 18-09-2014 09:58AM

My old man is a leftie, but writes with his right hand. He used to have the hand leathered off of him, if he was seen writing with his left in school.

Crazy shit.

Mr_Red · 18-09-2014 10:02AM

Im left handed and turn the page sideways when I write

So instead of writing from left to right I write from top to bottom:o

clappyhappy · 18-09-2014 10:08AM

I'm ambidextrous also, can write, use a knife with my left hand as well as my right. If I were playing tennis, golf, hurling it would be left handed, but kick a ball with my right foot.

Youngest just started school and is a leftie, he is finding it very difficult to hold the pencil correctly, have bought every kind for him, along with the triangular ones and grips. He will get there though.

mickdw · 18-09-2014 10:16AM

clappyhappy wrote: »

I'm ambidextrous also, can write, use a knife with my left hand as well as my right. If I were playing tennis, golf, hurling it would be left handed, but kick a ball with my right foot.

Youngest just started school and is a leftie, he is finding it very difficult to hold the pencil correctly, have bought every kind for him, along with the triangular ones and grips. He will get there though.

I'm fully left handed.
Write, work and kick ball left handed.
I have issues with inky pens, ten openers, scissors, ring binders, cheque books.

pajor · 18-09-2014 11:22AM

JupiterKid wrote: »

Years ago they tried to force left handed children to use their right hand - often with disastrous results. Were any lefties here forced to use their right hand for writing?

This happened to both of my mum's older sisters (definitely one of them anyway). This was in the late 50s/early 60s too. Had her left hand twisted behind her back and made to write with the right by the nuns. It has made her quite ambidextrous though. The oldest aunt told me now the only thing that annoys her now are scissors with one finger grip bigger than the other.