Lefties and Righties, another article Options

[lkajsfklajskds]

Are you a lefty or a righty?
I write with my right hand, but i realize that i do many things with my left.

http://people.howstuffworks.com/left-handed.htm

All those parents in the '70s and '80s who made their left-handed children struggle to use their right hands may be kicking themselves right about now.

My sister is a lefty, but my dad tried to force her to use her right hand when she was old enough to write. It didnt work, but he doesnt really care about now anways.

left-handed people are faster at processing multiple stimuli than righties.

Darn

[S-Majere]

A common righty.

[LoveToMySilas]

Sadly, a righty. I was trying to become an ambi over the Summer. It didn't work. My friend is an ambidexterous. She was orignally was leftie but since she was into art, she had to learn to draw with her right.

[MissHygienic]

I use my right-hand for basically everything. I don't get along with left-handed people. It's strange, but I've known quite a significant amount of left-handed people, and we don't get along.

[lkajsfklajskds]

Sadly, a righty. I was trying to become an ambi over the Summer. It didn't work. My friend is an ambidexterous. She was orignally was leftie but since she was into art, she had to learn to draw with her right.

I think ambi's are awesome. Its just sad that they really dont two different things at once, only write and work neatly with both

[superficial]

I'm commonly a righty and I only know about one person who I'm good friends with that is a lefty. My family thinks that it's bad to be a left handed person (yeah, my family's weird lol). I was left handed when I was baby but I guess some time between the ages I turned into a right handed person. O_o;; All my family members force my little baby cousin to write with his right hand (he writes with his left hand atm) and my grandmother gets mad because he always moves it back to his left haha. He'll probably change. =P

[1angel3]

I am right handed but my brother can right with both. I am trying to right with my left hand.

[*paperplane*]

First lefty on the page. I love that there are left-handed desks in college.

[Crash2]

I'm right-handed. It seems that left-handed people are becoming more common. I know a whole bunch of them. I've attempted to learn to write with my left hand several times but it never works... :-/

[synatribe]

I write with my right eat with my left, but when my right gets tired I write and eat with my left:]]

[stephinika]

Everything with my right, haha. My left hand can't do much. =p

[karmakiller]

So people that can write with both hands can only half proccess as fast as lefties? Haha. I'm right handed, and I'm glad... that means that I don't have to change up everyday things like baseball and archery to fit my leftiness. (Yeah, I realize those aren't everyday things)

[moninja]

I am right handed but my brother can right with both. I am trying to right with my left hand.

my brother can write with both too. i can only use my right hand. my left is useless -___- i only use it for basketball when i need to.

[misoshiru]

fail.

[markmejia]

My left arm has no willpower.

[aahdnm]

righty :]

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[freeflow]

Right. Right. Right. My left hand doesn't cooperate too well.

[transcendentalis...]

left-handed here.

[DoubleJ]

I right with my left, but I can pitch with both hands.

[tokyo-rose]

I love the "right" vs. "write" mix-ups going on in this thread.

I'm right-handed. For a little while a few years ago I tried to become ambidextrous, but it didn't work.

[libertie]

First lefty on the page. I love that there are left-handed desks in college.

DAMN YOU! *defeated*

I'm left-handed as well, and I attract all sorts of attention when I write because I write with the page turned sideways so my arm isn't all twisted.

Sadly, I don't get the luxury of left-handed desks at my college. That would be amazing. How does that even work? Do they just like, put left-handed desks in one small area of the room so you guys are all segregated, or are they intermingled throughout the class? This concept is so confusing to me!

[annalucky]

At my college, all the left handed seats are towards the left end seat in the row..like in big auditoriums? and the seat next to it would be right handed so there would be a space..I don't think I'm explaining this well... hahha. the left handed desks are just mirror images of the right handed desk.

Oh, I'm ambidextrous. lol.

[libertie]

Oh, so they're alternated left-right-left-right?

What if your boyfriend's in the same class and he's left-handed too? I WOULD SACRIFICE AND SIT IN A REGULAR DESK TO SIT NEXT TO HIM, THAT'S WHAT.

..This is still all so new to me! Pardon my complete amusement by this subject.

[hypnotique]

I'm ambidextrous. Been one ever since I was little,My 2nd grade teacher once said to my mom that I had a issue making up my mind as to what hand I wanted to write with and that literally I would sit there and have to chose which one i wanted to use like if i was picking out a color paint.

[Gryffindor-Girl]

Sadly, a righty. I was trying to become an ambi over the Summer. It didn't work. My friend is an ambidexterous. She was orignally was leftie but since she was into art, she had to learn to draw with her right.

Same I am a righty but I was an ambidextrous up to 7th grade then my Teachers forced me to just use my right hand so I lost the use of my left hand.

[illriginal]

I'm left handed. Mommy taught me to write with her right hand holding my left hand. But thanks to her my penmanship is gorgeous. I learned to write cursive before I learned script.

[hypnotique]

Same I am a righty but I was an ambidextrous up to 7th grade then my Teachers forced me to just use my right hand so I lost the use of my left hand.

I would have told my teachers to shove it.

[Gryffindor-Girl]

I would have told my teachers to shove it.

I didn't have the strength to stand up for myself like I do now so I couldn't.

[illriginal]

I didn't have the strength to stand up for myself like I do now so I couldn't.

No offense.... but I don't believe you. Why would a teacher or an adult give a damn or frown upon a child who can write with either hand? o.O; If anything they should be applauding the fact you can do something that 99% of the classroom couldn't.

[hypnotique]

No offense.... but I don't believe you. Why would a teacher or an adult give a damn or frown upon a child who can write with either hand? o.O; If anything they should be applauding the fact you can do something that 99% of the classroom couldn't.

My teacher actually bitched at me about me using both hands because "It game my classmates distracting ideas".This nut actually called my mum up and nagged about it.So I can understand where shes coming. from.

[illriginal]

My teacher actually bitched at me about me using both hands because "It game my classmates distracting ideas".This nut actually called my mum up and nagged about it.So I can understand where shes coming. from.

o.O; Tell the principal that your teacher is oppressing you of your born natural freedom and talent with an excuse that deserves to be laughed at.

That's pretty messed up that teachers would do that to their students... dammit I wish things like that would happen to me. I'd shout so loud they could feel my voice attacking their ears.

[hypnotique]

Well for me this happened like back in they sandbox days so I just ignored it.

It really helped me during culinary school (Both ignoring idiots and being ambidextrous)

[arghrawr]

Meh some teachers are really weird like that. And Diana, your story about sitting in class trying to make up your mind about which hand to use was so cute! It made me laugh.
I'm a righty all the way. I'm so tempted to say add a sadly in there, but I'm determined to stay proud of my right handed-ness! It'd be cool to be ambidextrous though.

[annalucky]

Oh, so they're alternated left-right-left-right?

What if your boyfriend's in the same class and he's left-handed too? I WOULD SACRIFICE AND SIT IN A REGULAR DESK TO SIT NEXT TO HIM, THAT'S WHAT.

..This is still all so new to me! Pardon my complete amusement by this subject.

No..lol. I guess I can't explain things so well. at the end of every row, there's a left handed desk. All the desks in the that row to the right of that desk is right handed. So, if you're sitting in the left handed seat, your little desk thing that comes from the side of the seat is toward the aisle, while everyone else's little desk thing comes on the right? haha. But yeah, the left handed people don't sit next to each other..they sit in front/behind each other in each row.

[libertie]

rofl so it is sort of like segregation. And the same applies for the whole "what if you and your boyfriend are both lefties" scenario. =P

EQUAL RIGHTS FOR LEFTIES OKAY THANKS. XD

[austinoutloud]

I wish I was left handed! It looks really cool when they write.

[MissHygienic]

I wish I was left handed! It looks really cool when they write.

Except for the fact that when they start writing, they also get pencil smudges on their wrist/palm area.

[weed]

im a righty. im a regular righty. :D

[libertie]

Except for the fact that when they start writing, they also get pencil smudges on their wrist/palm area.

Haha. I've learned to deal with that. xD

[transcendentalis...]

Except for the fact that when they start writing, they also get pencil smudges on their wrist/palm area.

how do we get smudges on our wrists? i don't get smudges on my wrists...

[MissHygienic]

Because the direction in which you write does not go along well with left-handed people. Some don't do it, but most I've seen do. When they write with pencil, their palm also goes over the letters as they write because they don't lift their hand up and the leftovers gets smudged on their hands.

[heyo-captain-jac...]

Ambidextrous. I play bass right handed (entirely because right handed basses are so much easier to find) so my left hand is about as strong if not stronger than my right; but my thumb, index, middle, and ring finger on my right hand is strong because of the strumming.

[*yrrnotelekktric*]

^and pen marks, too.

I wish I was left handed! It looks really cool when they write.

sucks, for you Austin.

[transcendentalis...]

Ambidextrous. I play bass right handed (entirely because right handed basses are so much easier to find) so my left hand is about as strong if not stronger than my right; but my thumb, index, middle, and ring finger on my right hand is strong because of the strumming.

if that's true, then shouldn't a lot of people be ambidextrous?
i'm left handed in writing and play "right handed" cello, guitar, and bass guitar, i slice and dice food with both hands, eat and drink with both hands, but do i consider myself ambidextrous?

... no.

[heyo-captain-jac...]

if that's true, then shouldn't a lot of people be ambidextrous?
i'm left handed in writing and play "right handed" cello, guitar, and bass guitar, i slice and dice food with both hands, eat and drink with both hands, but do i consider myself ambidextrous?

... no.

I've always been somewhat ambidextrous, just bass helped it. And I can write with both hands just as well so by definition, I'm ambidextrous.

[transcendentalis...]

oh, that makes more sense.

[*paperplane*]

DAMN YOU! *defeated*

I'm left-handed as well, and I attract all sorts of attention when I write because I write with the page turned sideways so my arm isn't all twisted.

Sadly, I don't get the luxury of left-handed desks at my college. That would be amazing. How does that even work? Do they just like, put left-handed desks in one small area of the room so you guys are all segregated, or are they intermingled throughout the class? This concept is so confusing to me!

I guess I twist my arm. I've had people ask me why if I was left handed I don't turn my paper, but it just doesn't seem necessary.

Yeah, I guess that other person explained it already, but on the left ends of the rows in auditoriums, the desk comes from the aisle rather than the last chair, so it's on the left. What irritates me is when I go into a lecture and find all the left handed seats filled; there's no way all of those people need them. I've also had classrooms that just randomly had oppositely built desks though, too.

Except for the fact that when they start writing, they also get pencil smudges on their wrist/palm area.

Yeah, that sucks. I also can't manage to write on white boards without erasing what I've written as I go along.

[Gryffindor-Girl]

My teacher actually bitched at me about me using both hands because "It game my classmates distracting ideas".This nut actually called my mum up and nagged about it.So I can understand where shes coming. from.

Thank you! Dominatrix. I hate being called a liar especially since I hate liars.

[*Steven*]

Thank you! Dominatrix. I hate being called a liar especially since I hate liars.

Liar.

[Gryffindor-Girl]

Liar.

But Steven you make it funny.

[pandora]

i was left handed at first, but my mom beat it out of me because it wasn't the "proper" way of writng. so now im right handed.

[illriginal]

Because the direction in which you write does not go along well with left-handed people. Some don't do it, but most I've seen do. When they write with pencil, their palm also goes over the letters as they write because they don't lift their hand up and the leftovers gets smudged on their hands.

I learned to write with the page nearly upside down... just so I can avoid it :P

[libertie]

^That's pretty much what it looks like when I'm writing. I should record it sometime so people know what I'm talking about.

[Gryffindor-Girl]

Diana, your story about sitting in class trying to make up your mind about which hand to use was so cute! It made me laugh.

Ha ha me too!

[JokeInsideJoke]

right.......... i want to be BOTH

[Dnarr]

I'm a lefty in writing.
But a righty in everything else....kinda =]

[Jennifer]

I'm a lefty with everything I do. Writing, eating, being on the phone, playing sport. My right hand is just.. useless :P

"If the right side of the brain controls
the left side of the body
and if the left side of the brain controls
the right side of the body,
then lefthanded people are
the only ones in their right minds."

Hah, found that on some website. Amusing.

[libertie]

^I used to have a teacher make that joke all the time when I was in middle school.

I just realized, though, for doing literally EVERYTHING left-handed, my right hand is actually more productive on the piano. The left hand is always the one I have to slow down for. :P

[1angel3]

my brother can write with both too. i can only use my right hand. my left is useless -___- i only use it for basketball when i need to.

My other brother is left handed and my mom is right handed, so she had to learn how to right with her left hand to teach him how to right when he was younger.

[MidnightRain]

I'm ambidextrous. ^^

[lkajsfklajskds]

http://people.howstuffworks.com/left-handed.htm

[Hollstar]

[[color="#9932CC"]size="4"]I write with my right hand, but i can cut my nails with my left tricky huh? one of my friends writes with her right and cuts with her left (how strange). [/size]

[madilove]

I use both.
when i was in first grade my teacher told me that being
left handed was a mental illness or something.
and so everytime she saw me (or anyone, for that matter)
write with their left hand, she'd have them
stand in a corner of the class
holding out those heavy history books for like 10 minutes or something.
but i do 3/4 of my stuff with my left hand.