Are you a lefty?

Biblioklept

Anyone else here left handed? 

At school I was almost always the only lefthanded person in my class.

One of my earliest memories is being at school and them trying to force me to write with my right hand - and it wasn't that long ago either!!

66Mustang

I thought this would be another political thread...  

I'm right handed though.

Grinchy

I am  left handed but can use my right hand when working with artwork pieces, it was discouraged in school, but i just carried on

janer1967

I'm left handed and was never discouraged from using my left hand 

Strange the only thing I do left handed is write everything else I do right handed 

vikingqueen

    I'm a leftie and so is my daughter. 

poppy123456

I’m right handed. My brother is left handed and I remember him being discouraged from using his left had when he was a young boy.
My grandson is also left handed. 

SueHeath

Wellllll my body leans to the right ha ha 
I'm right handed hubby writes with his right but eats the opposite ie his knife in left hand x

Sandy_123

Right handed I thought was another political post too

ShirleyW

I'm not left handed but...

My son is
My Father and Grandfather were
Both my brothers are

My Grandfather's left hand was tied behind his back in school to force him to write right-handed.  😡

OverlyAnxious

Under normal conditions around 20% of people worldwide are left handed.  So you'd expect about 5 or 6 in a school class of 30 on average.

I'm right handed.  Though having OCD has made me fairly ambidextrous.  I can do most things lefthanded, can even type fine lefthanded, the only thing I can't do successfully with my left hand is handwriting.

Biblioklept

66Mustang said:

I thought this would be another political thread...  

I'm right handed though.

I thought the title was apt given the current political turmoil  

Biblioklept

janer1967 said:

I'm left handed and was never discouraged from using my left hand 

Strange the only thing I do left handed is write everything else I do right handed 

Same with me, I always figured it was from how much I was discouraged from being left handed growing up. 

Biblioklept

SueHeath said:

Wellllll my body leans to the right ha ha 
I'm right handed hubby writes with his right but eats the opposite ie his knife in left hand x

I never knew that how you hold knife/fork was left or right handed! So with knife in left hand is the left handed way?

Biblioklept

ShirleyW said:

I'm not left handed but...

My son is
My Father and Grandfather were
Both my brothers are

My Grandfather's left hand was tied behind his back in school to force him to write right-handed.  😡

I'm glad I was only made to sit on my left hand rather than having it tied!! Honestly it's shocking it was ever a thing. I'm only in my 30s and it was made such a huge deal of when I was in primary school.

SueHeath

Biblioklept said:

SueHeath said:

Wellllll my body leans to the right ha ha 
I'm right handed hubby writes with his right but eats the opposite ie his knife in left hand x

I never knew that how you hold knife/fork was left or right handed! So with knife in left hand is the left handed way?

Thats what we were brought up to believe Biblio - hubbys Mom and one of his brothers are left handed, 
If you lay a table you always put knife on the right and fork on the left, the same as soup spoons, for starters are always on the right x

L_Volunteer

Right handed!

C_J

I'm left handed.

Grinchy

i'm a lefty, i can sculpt in clay with my right hand, but can't write with it,
 EDIT didn't realise i'd already posted in the thread, doh!

rebel11

It's amazing that, left or right, it can effect your ability regards sports, i.e. left handed batsman  - cricket, right footed footballer (shoot with their right foot) etc. 

JessieJ

I'm ambidextrous. As a kid I always ate left handed, still do & did some things cack handed as my mum used to say. Then, as an adult, after breaking both wrists several times (thankfully at different times) it forced it really. It is er...handy though!

Hannah_Alumni

I'm right handed. But I eat left handed.

My brother is left handed. But eats right handed