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13 August 2006
Raise your left hand, it's a left handed day. It's ten percent of the population, they say, so out someone today.→[More:] Lewis Carroll, Harpo Marx, Marilyn...
do something with your south paw
*gesticulates*
I wonder how accurate that can be. People still occassionally flip out with the "You're left handed?!" thing, and now people just do less writing in public. And most of the sinister sided use both so--
The Harpo thing makes sense with the mirror skit--
oh, and Oprah.
I don't know how I feel about that.
I smoke with my right, but i kinda accidentally stopped
*lights up*
My mom's left-handed, and she was one of those kids they tried to force to write right-handed in grade school (late 1930s), until my grandma, who was also left-handed, gave 'em hell for it. Yay Grandma!
Mark Twain, Jimi?
A bunch of musicians and writers but i can't think right now.
I know a lot of left handed women and I think nearly half my male friends are.
My dad's left handed but he was forced to use his right hand as the dominant one. He mouses and writes with his left hand now. My sister's left handed but plays raquet sports right handed. I'm mostly right handed but I can use chopsticks with either hand. When throwing knives, I can only throw sidearm or underarm with my left hand.
JanetLand same thing with my mom only no one stepped up to bat for her. She had some crazy handwriting and it probably screwed with her brain all her life to be forced to be right handed.
i am left handed. sort of. i write left handed, use eating utensils left handed, except the knife which i must switch to my left hand, i play guitar right handed and though i have never actually hit a baseball in my life if i were to actually succeed at that, it would be by batting right handed, i mouse with my right. i am left eyed (and thus rather dyslexic) and left footed, though when making out i prefer to have the woman on my left and use my right hand for groping.
I hate being left handed. I used to think it was distinctive, but as I've gotten older I've realized it doesn't mean shit, apart from annoyance with gravy ladles and a statistical probability of dying earlier.
I'm left-handed (for writing) but I use my right hand to hit & throw balls, shoot guns, draw (with charcoal on big paper), etc.
My grandfather wanted my mom to tie my left hand behind my back to force me to be right-handed and my mom was like "uh, fuck you old man."
Oh. I also use scissors in my right hand because my kindergarten teacher didn't realize I was left-handed until a parent/teacher conference with my mom where the teacher was like "Maggie can't use scissors very well" and my mom was like "Uh yeah she can. She cuts stuff at home all the time. You do realize she's left-handed?" and the teacher was all "OH." I'd been using left-handed scissors in my right hand in class for long enough that it still screws with my mind to cut with scissors using my left hand.
Almost everyone in my family, on both sides, is left-handed. My parents called me "Lefty" when my mom was pregnant because a) they didn't know my gender yet and b) they assumed I'd be left-handed like them. Which I was, before my nursery school made me be right-handed. I still do lots of things left-handed, though. But I write with my right hand.
My mom's left-handed, and she was one of those kids they tried to force to write right-handed ...
This happened to me, too.
I do almost everything left-handed, but play any sport using both hands (golf, cricket etc) right handed. Anything using one hand (tennis, throwing etc) I do left-handed. I eat right-handed.
Lefties unite!!
I actually had a funny (kind of) experience related to left-handedness and the different way we lefties do things once. I was on a training course where all the participants had to teach the rest of the class a skill. A woman tried to tecah everyone to knit and it was only after much frustration and her almost being in tears because almost nobody could get it right that we realised that, out of a class of 12, 9 were left-handed. I also once worked at a college where all but one of the admin staff were left-handed. Funny the way these things happen sometimes.
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