Left handed people

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Dogart1983

·May 22, 2023

Reading these answers are great, glad to see a mix of dominantly right handed people in here to doing things with the left side.

My wife and I are in our mid 40’s and she’s a righty but was supposed to be a lefty. Her grandmother was very old school in thinking that left handed people have learning issues and they are an embarrassment. So she managed to convince my wife’s parents to convert her to a righty when she was growing up. The things that people believe

 

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Engee

·May 22, 2023

Very much a lefty except I play double bass the orthodox way (left hand on neck, right hand plucks / bows), I hold a knife when eating with my right hand and I am right eye dominant. When I tried to play golf I used right-handed clubs (maybe that's why I was crap at it?) and when I tried tennis I played left-handed (also crap, so probably it's more of a hand-eye co-ordination thing). as @gbesq says, I also grew up using right-handed scissors but it shows - very hard to get the line right when holding with the left hand so I switched to left-handed scissors and they are much better.

 

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flw

·May 22, 2023·history nerd

I'm predominantly left handed - I write left and do most other things with my left hand, except shooting and fencing (ambidextrous for both). I took violin lessons in my youth, and for as long as I did that (which was brief), I played right handed. I wear my watch on my left wrist, though.

 

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chronolux

·May 23, 2023

I'm fully left-handed but my sister is truly ambidextrous. She can write, eat etc. with both hands.

 

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iamvr

·May 23, 2023

I'm a lefty and do everything with my left hand apart from handling scissors, computer mouse, and... well I guess that would be considered too much information 😀

 

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Twocats

·May 23, 2023·Married... with children

I am a lefty and do pretty much everything with my left hand. I can write with both hands equally badly because us true lefty's have crap handwriting.

My two kids are left handed with my daughter being like me 100% on the left and my son only writing with his left and everything else right.

I wear my watch on my left hand because I tend to knock my right hand off doors and furniture etc more often as I focus much less on it.

 

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MRC

·May 23, 2023

I am basically right handed. Ambidextrous for anything involving a screw thread, but deal cards the left-handed way. That is because my grandmother was left-handed and she taught me to deal and play cards. We played cribbage, not poker....

 

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X350 XJR

·May 23, 2023·Vintage Omega Aficionado

iamvr

I'm a lefty and do everything with my left hand apart from handling scissors, computer mouse, and... well I guess that would be considered too much information 😀

Now that you mention it, I'm right handed but do that with my left...😁

 

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iamvr

·May 23, 2023

X350 XJR

Now that you mention it, I'm right handed but do that with my left...😁

Not sure we’re talking about the same thing 😁

 

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RevZMan123

·May 23, 2023

iamvr

I'm a lefty and do everything with my left hand apart from handling scissors, computer mouse, and... well I guess that would be considered too much information 😀

Us righties call that "The Stranger"

 

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chronolux

·Jun 4, 2023

I'm 100% lefty and never use my right-hand. Among my siblings, it's 50/50 left and right-handed. Both parents are right-handed. I wear my watch on my right hand to prevent desk dents and scratches.