Lefties

[robbo82]

Any other left-handed people out there? I feel that we're the one minority group left in society that is unfairly prejudiced against without recognition. No-one understands the trials we have to go through just to get by in this right-centric world we live in.

[LazyGun]

Im left handed, and I agree!!

Down with all the fascist Right Handed Scum!!

I demand my Rights!! see?!! Correctly, it should be Lefts!!

[Zorr0]

Im right handed and tried to use someone s left handed scissors at work.....failed miserably

[Buenchico]

You might not feel that you were in a minority if you were a member of my family! Both my parents, all 4 of my grandparents, all of my many aunts and uncles (including by marriage!) and all of my numerous cousins are left-handed. (Some, but not all, of these cousins also have left-handed partners and left-handed children)!

I've never really experienced many problems with being left-handed. Admittedly I wouldn't mind a left-handed cheque-book (like the one's they've got in Australia) but, apart from giving up learning the guitar because everything's the 'wrong way round', I can't really recall any difficulties.

Chris

[Zorr0]

Ive heard of a left handed cheque book in this country...someone at work was on about one the other week Im sure..belonging to one of our clients.

[pagey]

Does anyone know what causes people to be left or right handed. I presume its genetic - but is some part of the brain different?

I can tap my right foot at twice the rate of my left (at the same time) but not the other way around. Weird.

[mimififi]

I can write with whichever hand I happen to pick the pen up with. I do many things left or right handed, many things in my kitchen are left handedly done, i.e the kettle handle is pointing left, etc etc. I can cook, sew, knit etc left handedly aswel as right handedly.

However, i normally try to favour my left as I think it looks much nicer.

I'm quite creative, but rubbish at rotating objects in my brain and map reading. I often get big left/right discrepancies and can't tell the difference between them both.

I married a left hander and two of my children are utterly left handed to the point of may aswell not having a right hand.

However, I cannot and do not use a right handed mouse with my left hand, I have to use a left handed mouse with my left hand and right one with my right hand. It used to really irritate me at uni when the lefties used to leave the mouse on the left hand side, but it was a right hand mouse.

I can also write with my left hand and right hand simultaneously the right way and also as a perfect mirror image of each other, the left handed writing going toward the left and the right handed writing going toward the right.

I've just read this post: I sound like a freak!

[Zorr0]

I can play pool left handed and often better than right handed...apart from that Im completely right handed

[lia*]

i can use both my hand comfortably to do everything, i believe it is classified as being Ambidextrous.

[dancealot13]

Im left handed, and honestly I rarely think about it. I can use my right hand just as well as my left. I never knew they made things like a left handed mouse, that is so funny. Writing is the only thing that is totally necessary for me to use my left hand.

[mimififi]

my husband is a leftie, but plays guitar right handed as he had a right handed dad who taught him, Buenchico!

He is a diluted leftie though, does lots of things right handed. my son, on the other hand, is practiacally disabled if you take away his left hand. He can't even eat yoghurt right handedly.

I would like a left handed cheque book too.

My daughter is left handed and uses left handed scissors. My son never did, he keeps the scissors still with his right hand, and rotates the paper with his left (weirdo).

funny how only 2 out of 5 of my children are left handed.....

[Drusilla1S]

I'm left handed and have a left handed cheque book which is wonderful. Sadly, I grew up using right handed implements in my left hand and cannot cope with those designed for lefties.

I thought about buying my leftie daughter products from the Left Handed Shop in London, but like me she has decided to make do.

I've noticed Nicole Kidman, Julianne Margolis from ER and the actress/model Saffron Burrows are all left handed. Does anyone know any other famous lefties?

[Drusilla1S]

Why didn't you buy a left handed guitar, Buenchico? That's what I did, as I didn't fancy learning the Jimi Hendrix way. (Just remembered, Kurt Cobain was a leftie, too.)

[smudge]

I'm left handed & left footed.

I've come across many obstacles in my life time regarding being left handed & one of them is when buying purses. You open up the wallet part, only for it to be upside down!

I'll think of some more tomorrow, but I'm very tired & off to my bed. Nitey, nite.

[smudge]

P.S. When we used to go shooting, my husband even bought me a left handed Winchester .22 rifle!

[mollymandy]

lets shake on it ..

[veritymoon]

me and my boyfriend are both left handed!!!

[CT]

I'm right handed but I can use the mouse left handed when necessary. Just to say though, if you have a non specific mouse then you can change the settings to make it left handed. Go to start > control panel > mouse > under the button tab, check the box for button config. This'll switch the right & left buttons round.

[robbo82]

I have to say, I don't really approve of these part-time left-handers who do everything with their right hand except writing. I do literally everything with my left hand- writing, playing pool, playing guitar, playing cricket, using scissors, other more crude activities...

I remember I always used to struggle in exams because the writing books only had lines on the right-hand page so us lefties had to write with the centre binding digging into our hand. Also, I often got told off for smudging all my writing, but I couldn't help it as I naturally went over my words with my hand after I'd written them!

[xxlizziexx]

im left handed! hehe x

[scampchen]

I'm left-handed too. Just a thought - was there ever such a thing as a record player designed to accommodate left-handers? Or doors?