Worst: Using scissors is painful. Best: We get to use a (right-handed) mouse and a pen at the same time.

@ExtraVirgin0liveOil

Жыл бұрын

ikr scizzors hurt like hell

@esmolol4091

11 ай бұрын

That's actually really useful.

@lakas_tama

10 ай бұрын

I can use scissor properly im lefty

@ExtraVirgin0liveOil

10 ай бұрын

@@lakas_tama well like i can too but it hurts. it digs into my hand next to my thumb and leaves blisters over an extended period.

@BubbaSparkxx

10 ай бұрын

Yup LMAO till this day I can never get it right

I'm a lefty, and my god, if you're into archery, it will be torture for you to find the proper equipment for a lefty.

@RissaFirecat

Жыл бұрын

Truth! I'm a lefty as well

@Coolio_Ash

Жыл бұрын

The worst thing is that it's based on your dominant eye in that case right (if my archery unit in high school PE is anything to go by) and you can't even control that

@sorwdofcho

Жыл бұрын

This is funny because I found out that I'm a left when I wanted to try archery the instructor noticed that all my shots pulled to the right. So, he said to try with my left hand and all of a sudden I could aim properly and hit my targets no problem. Turns out my mom made me do things with my right hand all the time. Now I'm learning to do stuff with my left hand, and it feels more natural.

@RissaFirecat

Жыл бұрын

@Cavachoncx3 we are talking about ARCHERY! This is not a platform for you to say stuff about your god.

@RissaFirecat

Жыл бұрын

@@sorwdofcho I got tired of my teacher in grammar school (and yeah, I'm old) telling me to write with my right hand, and it made me stubborn enough to tell her that I wasn't changing and that nothing she could do would make me change to my right hand! I got a ruler smacked down on my hand until I complained to my mom. That was the last time she hit me, lol!!

I had a traumatic childhood because I was lefty. Got beatings soo hard as a kid from my parents and teacher just for using my left hand. Shits annoying

@KnowledgeRaiders

Жыл бұрын

I'm so sorry to hear that you had to go through that. It's really sad when people are mistreated for things out of their control. Just know that you have a community here that supports you and is here if you need someone to talk to.

@jeremysheather4149

3 ай бұрын

@@KnowledgeRaiders people were dumb, i was lucky this kind or treatment of lefties just went out when i started school, they still tried to get me to use my right i just didnt get beat for it.

@DuoLingo_Editz

Ай бұрын

​@@KnowledgeRaidersNice Video Bro👍🏻😎

@HT-vb1qw

Ай бұрын

Same with my dad. It was common back then.

@Vigilance108

Ай бұрын

I was caught using my left hand and my dad slapped me across the face, boy did he regret it.

Hey! I'm a leftie. I have no problem with anything! I adjust pretty quickly if there's something I have to do with my right hand. Like using a mouse. My first PC was shared with my dad who is a righty, so everytime I wanted to use a PC I had to drag the mouse to the other side of the keyboard under my left hand. I quickly grew tired of doing this everytime so I just decided to get used to using a mouse with my right hand. It was weird and difficult at first, but I quickly got used to it. Same with playing guitar. I taught myself to be proud of it and though it's not really my achievement I feel unique and original. and I don't mind people pointing it out. It's a conversation starter for sure. The only thing that really bothers me is that I can't write with fountain pen cause I really like it, I just smear whatever I write instantly.

@random_an0n

Жыл бұрын

learn to anchor with your pinky and raise your palm off the paper so you dont smudge it

Scissors! They're almost always molded for righties and are uncomfortable to use left-handed. The blades are also naturally pushed apart when used left-handed, making it much harder to cut unless you intentionally apply pressure like a right hand naturally would.

@jesselanganki558

Жыл бұрын

Yep, this is the only problem I've ever had. Old style scissors don't work from the left hand.

@hello-xo6pl

Жыл бұрын

My cutting is so bad cuz I have to do it with my right hand lol

@mandilynn47

Жыл бұрын

I've adapted to using my right hand for most things..❤

@adamgill537

6 ай бұрын

I just flipped the scissors upside down . They work fine then

As a Vietnamese, us lefties tend to get molded into the "right hand norm" from a young age. I had to learn to write with my right hand when I was 5, among other things. That resulted in me using left hand for things like sports and fighting, while the right hand is for using chopsticks and writing, etc. Now it's both funny and cumbersome at the same time to explain to my friends which is my dominant side and how it works.

@chatgpt4135

9 ай бұрын

I was conditioned to write with right hand , but each time my mom kept pencil near me, toddler me used use left hand to write, my mom got confused and thought i was a baby so i was accidentally using left hand, so she made me a habit of writing with right hand Later i started eating with left hand, my father noticed and he n mom confirmed i m left handed, they didn't taunt my eating habits Hence , i write with right hand, all other activities with left

@fatimahamjad

6 ай бұрын

I do everything with my left hand except eat and drink

@dieglhix

6 ай бұрын

My mum is Chilean, naturally leftie and was forced by Spanish Catholic nuns to use her right hand or they would slam her left hand with a ruler on the spot. She actually has the same skills as you but this right hand enforcement is not done anymore.

@user-kg6nb9ew5k

5 ай бұрын

I was also forced to write with my right hand but still can write with my left. I used this in my favour when punished at school. You Bart Simpson style punishment writing lines repeatedly. I wrote them using my both hands thus drastically reducing the time I spent on them

@arrorred

4 ай бұрын

I was completely free to do this in kindergarten, as the teachers didn't discriminate my with others. Then primary school, the worst time I could have been. I got beaten out of the shit by either my new teachers or my parents. Also I eat with left hand

I'm left handed, as are three of my aunts and uncles. My dad was one of the right-handed siblings, and he did try to change me as a baby. My mom was going to intervene but she saw I was dealing with it myself so she just let me do that. Apparently he'd force me to take something with my right hand, and then I'd give him a dirty look and then switch whatever it was into my left. I've had to deal with things not working for me like they should my whole life. And it's some of the weirdest little things, too. Like why can't I spread butter like a normal person? Well, if you look closely at the knives, they're keyed to be easier to use by right handed people. I switched to a knife that had the little serrations on both sides, and suddenly I could spread butter. You get really good at picking the seat at the left end of the table so you aren't bumping elbows with anyone.

@Thorfinn911

9 күн бұрын

I had the same experience, my dad also forced to use right hand but my mom was lefty too so she let me use my left hand and left hand gives you advantage sometimes but we lefty looking much wired using our left hand for literally anything so I'm starting to use my right hand more like waving hands, picking objects and drinking water etc

Lefty are born warrior's ⚔️

I can’t believe that there is so much history and hardship for people who are left handed, highly underrated vid dude

@RissaFirecat

Жыл бұрын

I can't believe that there is so much biased toward handedness. It's dumb, and all it did for this lefty was make me more stubbornly left handed

@eltonluz94

8 ай бұрын

Im lefty. There is no hardship

@BarbaraHale-ep5yu

2 ай бұрын

For the people that are right hand stop it with the ungly comment

@BarbaraHale-ep5yu

2 ай бұрын

Why is that the right hand people have something to say about it and why is that you are saying bad things and you are not a left handed person

@BarbaraHale-ep5yu

2 ай бұрын

People need to be quiet and not say anything about it if you are not left handed

Being left-handed I hate scissors ✂️ 😡

@Vigilance108

Ай бұрын

me too

Being left-handed has always presented a challenge to me growing up and into adulthood. I've had to adapt to using my right hand in plenty of scenarios but I'm very strongly left-side dominant. You get used to being the odd man out as a lefty but it never entirely stops being frustrating. Plus everyone is always like 'oh man you're left-handed I never noticed' or 'wow you write so weird with your left hand!' Like duh, I don't want to smudge the ink. I just want to exist and I don't expect anyone to cater to it lol.

@mbe102

Жыл бұрын

Same! Had to learn to play Guitar upside down haha. Left-handed people certainly don't have it easy.

@stephaniehargon3800

8 ай бұрын

I had to force myself to use scissors with my right when I was little. It's part of the reason I was held back in kindergarten and why I skipped 7th. (I'm almost 50... the stigma was going away but I had an old bitty for a teacher that didn't "believe" in left-handedness) I'm not sure if I'm semi ambidextrous or I just forced myself that way. lol I use both except for writing.

@ricekrispies1917

6 ай бұрын

Ironically, I am right handed but many people notice-- and this is something that still confuses me endlessly-- that I write similar to a lefty where my wrist twists upsidedown. That's why I find it easier to write sideways similar to how Japanese sentences might be written, which also freaks them out lol

I’m left-handed, and I recently found out something quite interesting. So it was a science experiment in school testing reaction times, where someone would drop a ruler and would see how fast you caught it. It was tested on both your dominant and non-dominant hand. The results came out with right-handed people having faster right hands than left hands, but left-handed people having a much smaller margin between their hands. The teacher explained that this is because of how left-handed people have learnt how to fit in within society, and have had to conform, so their hands are actually more equally functional. So yeah, strength in number of hands I guess 😅

I am neither left nor right-handed. I'm also not ambidextrous. I am cross-dominant, AKA probably the most frustrating hand dominance. I perform a majority of tasks with my left hand, but also a considerable amount with my right. I write, cook, bat, use scissors and eat with my right hand but throw, swing racquets, hammer, and basically everything else with my left. Interestingly, my mother once said that I used to write with my left when I was younger, but one day I just changed to my right. I also used to use scissors with my left hand, but I changed a couple years back because it was easier. The 2 things taught myself to be (somewhat) ambidextrous with is cutting with scissors and writing. I taught myself how to write with my left hand and cut with my right. The only thing that i'm NATURALLY ambidextrous would be operating my phone one-handed. I can type well with both hands.

@KnowledgeRaiders

Жыл бұрын

That's really fascinating! It's amazing how adaptable we can be as humans. It's great that you've found ways to become somewhat ambidextrous with certain tasks. Thanks for sharing your experience with us!

@chatgpt4135

9 ай бұрын

Me too, cross dominant I started out as instinctual left handed when i was a baby ir toddler type, and for years i used to struggle to handle scissors, craft and all with right hand which felt difficult Then , now I adapted naturally to right dominant world in a way that i can, do certain tasks with left hand as I used to in childhood certain with right too, and can't intermix the roles now

@n31x

5 ай бұрын

I cannot even type properly with 2 hands 💀

Being a lefty has made my handwriting worse, and darkened my hands with the stains of ink and graphite. Like the video said, I tend to prefer to always be on the left corner of the table so I don't rub elbows. But I also hear there are some interesting cognitive differences in being left handed, like being more naturally creative and more of an information sponge, so I'm totally fine with the tradeoffs.

@fauzaocha5802

Жыл бұрын

Hahah yes but lemme tell u. Those “normal” people can not peek/ cheat by copying our answers in exam. Coz us lefties always “cover” our writing directly 🤣

@Box_Does_Things

9 ай бұрын

Same

@cyrusmeads6791

8 ай бұрын

@@fauzaocha5802😂😂I was in an exam and was trying to let the bro copy me, but he was getting mad because my left-hand kept covering the paper

boy do I have a leftie story. there was a wedding in our apartment, and during the reception, me and my mother sat across our next door neighbours. I'm Indian, so it's already a societal thing that you're not supposed to eat w your left hand like you said, but that's what I do 🤷‍♀️ this lady looks at me eating, and says, "Oh, she's a leftie?" then looks at my mom and goes, "you probably never got a chance to teach/show her the right way" in a very apologetic manner. me and my mom still laugh about that to this day.

@chatgpt4135

9 ай бұрын

Lol , I am South asian, and community literally treats like a foreigner or anti social for being lefty 😂😂 I was in science college, where we were taught about genetic nature of handedness Then a guy started. To morally police me amd shame me using contexts of how left hand is used for that work meaning poop washing, not because he was illiterate but cos he was too orthodox and cultural to believe lefties should be morally forced to behave in certain way to be socially accepted lol I feel sorry for him It is tight slap on my face whem somebody says it is offensive to eat with left hand in front of Indians , cos left is poop hand I am like, don't worry I'm normal human amd I don't discriminate, there is nothing bad to be normal and different. Left handed ppl are shown same stares as if a another race person or an lgbtqia person will suffr from

@ridge7524

7 ай бұрын

😂

Another interesting fact regarding the very keyboard these comments are all typed on: the left-side of QWERTY keyboards contain most of the commonly used letters. So were they designed for lefties in mind? Of course not! Back in early typewriter days, typewriters could easily get jammed if typing too quickly, so a keyboard lettering layout was designed to make it as difficult as possible for right-handed dominant people to type by slowing them down with most of the commonly used letters being on their non-dominant, left-hand side. The letters most commonly strung together were also placed as far apart from each other as well to prevent jamming. The world all around us has been designed by right-handed people with right-handed dominance in mind. It's all quite fascinating really when you really look into why things are the way they are. Very well-made video, I wish your channel rapid success and growth. And shout-out to all my fellow lefties out there since we're totally the best handedness ;D

@foreigncontaminant2015

Жыл бұрын

The more common keyboard letters being on the left is actually an advantage for us, can use more fingers on the left hand when typing ;-)

When I moved to live and work in Vietnam (from US) "tay trái" (left-handed) was one of the first Vietnamese words I learned because it's so unusual to be left-handed here. I've seen a few Vietnamese people that use chopsticks with their left hand, but not one that writes with it. This is due to "forced handedness"' that is very common across all of Asia.

I hope this channel blows up. Great presentation and entertaining as hell

The reason I was always a lefty and wasn't forced to be a rightie was because one of my uncles was stunted mentally and my family chalked it up to the fact that they forced him, a natural lefty to a right handed norm, that probably wasn't the reason but they saw it like that anyways. So my parents always encouraged my leftiness because of it

Great video! Leftie here, I had no idea that Arabic/Hebrew scripts also have origins in right handed bias. In fencing handedness plays a noticable role and once a left handed fencer has gotten used to fighting a right handed fencer, it becomes a slight advantage until they spar against very experienced fencers. It's definitely fascinating for sure to see how much culture is built around right handedness. I think my favorite fun fact is that "sinister" come from Latin for left while "dexterous" comes from Latin for "right".

@doraortega1927

Жыл бұрын

Very interesting facts

0:33 the wrench is being held in the unscrew position so right to left. Either the animation is being run in reverse or the animator doesn't know that there is a specific way to hold it to ensure maximum torque and ensure the wrench lasts. Holding it the way it is shown in the animation will put most of the strain on the adjustable jaw rather than the fixed jaw and it will break much more quickly.

@stanriner1831

Жыл бұрын

I noticed that too!

I'm an odd lefty. I use my left hand to write and eat, swing a bat left handed, and generally use my left as my main hand. (Think of what hand you put on a ladder first, or use to brace yourself when standing up/getting down) However. I use scissors with my right, I suck with left handed ones, use a knife with my right and left, shoot right handed, use a bow right handed, naturally want to use my right hand to shift a car , which makes sense because I'd rather my dominant hand be on the wheel!! I can also write right handed as well. Oh and chopsticks I use with my left also, but I paint pictures with my left, and big things like walls with my right.....😅

@1percentguy

11 күн бұрын

Im left handed and cross dominant at the same time. I play pool with both hands, light stick with the left, and heavy stick with the right. Same with the integrated mouse. On the bed, im left handed, sitting back hunched and if i was sitting up, im a righty. Saw, im left only standing up. Im southpaw only with camera rotating on a gaming controller, portable mouse left handed with audiosurf and 360° rotations too, batting, writing, etc. Right hand does mostly cutting depending on the item, bins, archery, brushing my teeth.

Parents attempted to change my handedness, but gave up after seeing 2 yr old me use my left hand to grip my right hand to accomplish the tasks they told me to use my right hand for. As for inconveniences, ink smudging is mentioned a lot but not much about refillable pens that unscrew in the middle opening up when writing in an exam. It does come with benefits though, I can jot down notes with the left hand while using the computer mouse with my right.

Annoyances: Bumping shoulder and Arm to your neighbour while eating or writing, Difficult to find equipment when doing Arching, Rifle, etc., Teachers and Parents didn’t know how to teach me to write with the fountain pen so I had to figure it out on my own. Advantages: The world of Right-Handedness made me learn how to use my right hand making me partially ambidextrous. I cut (with scissors and knives) only with my right hand and even learned Chinese calligraphy with my right hand. I can use my can opener with my right hand. My stuff get’s rarely stolen when I actually buy equipment for left handed people.

Great and informative vid! As a leftie, the most inconvenient thing must be bumping into others elbows..that is why I always tried to sit at the most left site in school haha. But I should call myself lucky to label this as my biggest problem, because to this day still many left-handed born children are being forced to only use their right hand which makes me furious! Nothing is as bad for a young human than fucking their brain up

@KnowledgeRaiders

Жыл бұрын

Thanks for sharing your thoughts! It's great to hear that you found the video informative. I agree, it's unfortunate that left-handed individuals still face discrimination and forced to use their non-dominant hand. What was the worst experience you had for being left-handed?

You never disappoint. Great work!

When Rossi retired he revealed his biggest career secret as to why he was so incredible no matter the turn: he is ambidextrous.

5:30 this happened to me in my childhood, I was naturally a leftie but because of the culture my family made me use my right hand instead

Hi again!!!!! Great video like always, keep up the good work!!😃😃❤️🙌🔥

Everything I ever learned doing after learning how to write (the elementary school teacher won that one) I do primarily with my left hand. such as shaving, steering the car and cutting food. I can use my right hand decently well, and sometimes it comes really useful - for some tasks, any hand will do, even two tasks at the same time. Lefty and proud, that's what all lefties should feel!

I've read somewhere that it takes a certain kind of stubbornness to grow up and to grow old as a left-handed person. And I certainly effin agree.

Scissors when I was a kid weren't made for both hands. They also tried to see if I could make my right hand be the dominant one but that didn't work. I love being left handed as my right hand is better than any right handed persons left.

Grew up fighting as a southpaw ... It's amazing how many people don't know how to defend the right side of their bodies in a fight you can end most fights pretty quickly by simply swinging for the right side of someone's face because most people don't bother to get both hands up

@ddcs0s

10 ай бұрын

Also I'm slightly ambidextrous my only struggle is my handwriting I even throw right handed which adds to some of the weird stuff I do that throws people off I used to play baseball and people would just assume I was right handed until I decided to bat lefty which I think gave me a slight advantage

The difference between the incidence of left handedness is cultural, in most places in ghe past, and still many places now, it is common to force left handed children into writing or eating with their 'proper' hand

I was right handed until I lost use of my right arm/hand when I was 13 and couldn't be more proud to be sinistre

Man this guys content is amazing

I'm right-handed, but I trained to my write with my left hand back in February 2023. One of the greatest decisions I made. It's so cool to sort of be a "lefty" :D

The nuns who ran my preschool used to steal my left handed scissors. Seriously-- I was there for a year and they took my scissors away at least 10 times. Add to it that I'm colorblind (horrible choice on the colors for your graphs btw) and I have zero chance of doing well in preschool.

Hey thanks for this! It’d be so interesting to see one video about dyslexia too… I am both, left-handed and dyslexic 😝 Thanks again for the video!

@PlanetJ32

8 ай бұрын

Me too..and I'm a red head..I deff would have been burned at the stake.

I'm a lefty and it is usually my response to why I do and think different than anyone else I come across. I meet a few lefty's now and then and would love to know what they actually think about on a daily basis.... I'm usually hyper-focused on things like creating formulas for winning the lottery or how I'll write that formula in Excel. I also contemplate the next stock I want to buy. I occasionally find myself daydreaming about random things or future plans. I did this long before I had this current job. Thankfully it's VERY repetitive so I have a lot of free time for thinking. The trick is not to get so deep into my thoughts that I zone out and stop working... It does happen occasionally though.

@chilliecheesecake

11 ай бұрын

Creating formulas for winning the lottery lmmfao.... You're a mark, bro.

@Fritha71

2 ай бұрын

Hahah, this is exactly why I've been fairly content at working a very repetitive job my entire life - it gives me the chance to keep my feet on the ground at work as far as a routine goes, but then be completely "in outer space" in my free time as far as my inner life is concerned! The right side of my brain has gotten a lot of use over the years, lol...

Im a lefty bowler, and the oil is always more consistent on the lanes on the left side. Its a nice advantage over right hand bowlers.

I was born a lefty and both my oarents amd in 1st through 3rd grade teacher would beat me when I would use my left hand. Well, finally in third grade, I had enough and told my Mom of my abuse. That was the end of that school. Unfortuneatly, I was already trained to be a left hander and this has been affected me negatively my entire life. Until now. Beomg forced to use your right hand when you are a left hander is terrible for brain development, by rewiring your brian. This is then mistaken for learning difficulties.

MY GRANDPA AND MY DAD WERE LEFTYS AT BIRTH BUT IT WAS CUSTOMARY TO "MAKE" THEM RIGHT HANDED BY RESTRAINING THE LEFT HAND BEHIND THE BACK WHILE BEING FORCED TO LEARN HOW TO BE RIGHT HANDED. MY FAMILY OWNED DAIRY FARMS AND DELIVERY SO IT WAS SUPPOSEDLY TO HELP IN USING AGRICULTURAL EQUIPMENT THAT WAS ALL RIGHT HANDED. IM A NATURAL LEFTY BUT I ONLY PREFER WRITING WITH LEFT AND WAS MORE POWERFUL AT BATTING WHEN USING LEFT SIDE BUT PLAYED WITH BOTH. I PITCHED LEFT AS WELL. BUT WHEN I USE A CHAINSAW OR WEEDEATER I DO THEM RIGHT HANDED.

I love being a leftie. However, it arises some problems. When writing, as you said, my hands get darkened with the stains of ink and graphite. Also, I was a gamer a few years ago and I played on PC. It sucked to change ALL the controls on EVERY game I play to adapt it being my left hand the hand in the mouse. And some games didn't even have the option to change controls so I couldn't play them. Also, using normal scissors is a nightmare. I always thought I was dumb and I couldn't use scissors for whatever reason till I realized it was because scissors are also made for righties! Now I use lefties scissors.

I am full lefty, It helped me in so many ways!. Left footed in soccer (REAL FOOTBALL). Me being left midfield/wing proved advantageous on so many occasions "score 1 for the lefties"!. Fist fights,.. anticipating the opponent is key and helps alot. I AM PROUD TO BE AMONG THE LEFTIES POPULATION😊

I am a righty, currently (yes I said currently because I am practicing for total of 6 months but did not find time to improve it) using my left hand to do everything my right hand does. and for a fact, using scissors are hard. Finding items are also not surprisingly HARD. One advice to lefties is to also prepare your right hand for some situations, be ambidextrous, it has made my life better than before. For me, it took about 15 days to get a handwriting good and fast enough to write on exams.

Being left handed is kinda hard ngl, especially at dinner.

This video was awesome!!! -- Very nice. The best AND worst thing about being left-handed is when people see you write with your left hand or something, and then proceed to ask, "Are you left-handed?" LMAO

I am a lefty who needs to be always conscious about where I sit at a table when more than 4 ppl are eating. Subway card swipes(touches), hand writings, scissors, knives, sauce spoons … you name it. But Trying to overcome those discomfort probably let me to have some of the traits I like about myself. I like being one of the rare East Asian lefty.

Growing up beaten in school by the teacher, as a 8, 9 yr old kid for using left hand to write, and having hand tied on the back not to use it. That was late '60s

@n31x

5 ай бұрын

Oh my. I am so sorry!

@Fritha71

2 ай бұрын

What country is this? I grew up in Sweden and here corporal punishment was probably made illegal in schools pre-WW II...!

@n31x

2 ай бұрын

@@Fritha71 Best country

favorite youtube channel 👌

Being a lefty..it's frustrating to blow dry your hair with a regular blow dryer..you end up turning the blow dryer off or mess up the settings serval times before your hair is dry. You can buy a left handed blow dryer but they are more expensive. Sitting at a a round table that is full of people is excruciating..bumping elbows and all.

@faywillowstream

Ай бұрын

which hand do you hold the dryer with? i struggle with blow drying so much.

I'm typing this message with my left hand for support all the lefies, banger video btw.

@yolanda9177

Жыл бұрын

Lefty here and Grateful we are the ones

@doraortega1927

Жыл бұрын

I’m also a lefty and I’m grateful to be different

Power tools like skill saws are dangerous for lefties. The saw blade is exposed to the right side of the saw. For righties, they grip the trigger with their right hand and stand on the left side of the saw. This leaves them protected from the spinning blade. If a leftie grips the trigger with their left hand, they are standing on the right side of the saw and exposed to the blade. I've had to learn to use other tools like scissors with my right hand in order to adapt.

So I was born left handed, but broke my arm when I was about 5 or 6, so I had to start using my right hand. My dad is left handed, and my mom’s dad is left handed. I’m now ambidextrous 49.5/49.5% when texted by a doctor. Life is Interesting like this, I never know how to go at a task so I have to try it both ways. Playing all aspects of baseball, I’m right handed. But with golf, left handed I do better at.

Everybody talking about scissors and nobody talking about those old-fashioned basic can openers that we had at home - it wasn't until decades later that I realised why I had such a hard time learning to open a can: I had to learn to do it with my right hand! DUH!

I often used my left hand and foot growing up, when I was in kindergarten I was learning to write with my left hand, the teacher switched my pencil to my right hand, ever since then I've used my right hand. Although, I have been learning to use my left hand again.

My parents , teachers, fsmily members tried various ways from the first time i picked something up as a toddler with my left hand to ' slap it out of me' , words like ' no man wants a left handed woman etc' to pure bullying but i am still left handed, i did learn to use my right hand but my rebellion was always to use the left hand in the presence of others especially those i knew would say silly things about it. I am glad i prevailed and did not change for anyone!!

@BarbaraHale-ep5yu

2 ай бұрын

I don't see the big deal about it

Greatest thing i learned was to mimic right hand dominant movement when in sports. It’s like the left becomes invisible!

well, I am the only lefty of my whole entire family. the first one in 4 generations and honestly I feel honored to be a left handed person although it does come with a lot of daily disadvantages it is really just one big advantage. I am proud to be left handed

@watermelonindianboi

4 ай бұрын

Hey me too agrees scissors are a disaster to use

I've never really had problems with being left-handed. I used right -handed desks without issue, I've driven manual stick shift right-handed with no trouble. The only oddity I've experienced in life are the occasional people who look at me being left-handed and then ask me: "Hey...are you left-handed?" I say yes and they act like it's an impossible feat. It really isn't.

As a hunter/ skeet shooter, for me, using a rifle is particularly difficult. Its one thing being a lefty, but I am also right eyed (meaning my right eye is dominant). In short i have to compromise using my right hand so i can properly look down the sights of the rifle. as for a pistol, I can easily just move the pistol to my right side while still being able to use my left hand to pull the trigger.

I am left handed I knew I was different from everyone else

Born Ambidextrous like my mother and my grandmother before me. Grew up largely switching between the two sides and even using both at the same time for writing or drawing. However.. due to a lot of work-related injuries to my right arm/wrist growing up.. I've had to rely largely on my left hand for most things. For all intent and purposes.. I've been a lefty for a long time- I can't claim the ambidextrous title until I get that motility back. But.. Hello fellow lefties!

As a left-handed person i can say, whe are depressed. And you cannot blame us

Being a lefty it was not easy to learn to write as a kid when your teacher smacks our hand for using your left hand. I write with my left, bowl with my left, throw and catch softballs with my left but there are a few things i do with my right.. like scissors. Using my fork I can use either.

Lefty here, it gives me a very good advantage in Kendo.

For those interested in a good left handed story look up Judges 3:12-30.......God used a left handed man to bring peace to Israel for 80 years.

Fun fact: discrimination against lefties is called being sinistral

My family is an oddity. Of my parents and siblings, 3 or 5 are left handed. Of my children, 2 of 3 are left handed. Of all my cousins, 9 of 16. Aunts and uncles, 5 of 9. I know this because we actually talked about it very recently at various family functions over Christmas. That gene runs strong in this tribe.

@Fritha71

2 ай бұрын

How odd...! I have had the complete opposite experience: coming from a large family, with four aunts and two uncles on my mom's side and four aunts and an uncle on my dad's side, with twenty plus cousins, I am the only left-handed person. My mother only knew of my great-grand father being a leftie in our family! And she in turn had twice as many aunts and uncles! Even in school I can't remember there being any other lefties in my class, certainly not once junior high school started... none of my friends were lefties either. But now, at work, we all of a sudden have several lefties at once so that's been nice, lol.

@Vioven

24 күн бұрын

I’m honestly positive that it’s just because being left-handed is so heavily discouraged, and that there’s actually quite a lot more of us than thought.

@Fritha71

24 күн бұрын

@@Vioven Don't think it's that discouraged here in Finland where I am from. I was really surprised to learn that in countries like The US parents and teachers might still try to turn a leftie into a rightie while they are young! That never happens here, a leftie is readily accepted, would be weird to have the teacher or a mother trying to put the pen in the right hand in this day and age... We also don't have those weird desks in the class room that were designed for right-handed people only. Just normal desks here!

I actually looked up this video because of my Arabic writing. I'm right handed for most things but I can only write Arabic script with my left hand. It looks better with my left hand and is too frustrating to try to use the right hand when writing from right to left because I like my palm to start on the page.

Im ambidextrous (use of both hands) and i can say, having two hands is much better then one. Still interesting how lefties have some benefits

True, I can punch my opponents almost as if they don’t have their guards up, apparently they never “see” the left punch coming to their faces, only after they’ve felt it first, followed by combined left and right strikes in an opposite direction of what most are used to, a strong left hook ends most of the fights, same with kick. I kinda am “the rebellious son” of my family but respected over time for being unique, thinking for myself and staying true to what I believe, individualistic and competitive, I can say I’m pretty good at art and things related to “thinking out of the box”

In high school a bully in my school keyed the principles car and framed it on me forgetting that I am left handed. We wore uniforms hence difficult to tell apart and the cctv behind him could not of course show his face. When i saw the footage i could not hold my laughter as the guy keyed through with his right hand.

I write right to left down as to not smudge my ink, typical handwriting practice for lefties in the UK. My Asian friends do the same.

As a lefty I will say it's not as bad as people make it seem and I feel unique in this world and it feels great knowing that some of the greatest people to walk this earth were/are lefties is really cool

I'm a lefty and I've actually noticed over the years that playing video games with the movement stick always used with my left thumb gives me a mad movement advantage in stuff like smash bros. Shit even elden ring I seem to have a little better movement timing and control

I'm a lefty but only in teens and when writing in class it is annoying since my elbow bumps with the person next to me. Luckily you can get past this by sitting on the very left side of the table

i only write with my left hand, everything else i do with my right e.g. sports, eating, lifting stuff im not sure if my left hand really is that much stronger than my right

@dmarak30045

3 ай бұрын

I guess it's called Mixed handness

Actually, in lift-labe traffic, you have to use your left hand to STER, so if you have a dominant right had, gers aren't going to save you

We do train our entire lives against right handed opponents, and I can attest from studying martial arts and from what my master has confirmed, we translate training over to our dominant side (left) very easily- which is good, you need to train both sides for Balance. Also, Scissors are the worst.

The latin word for left is "sinister". My grandma tried to train me to write with my right hand by giving me small gifts if I complete an A4 page this way. She gave up within two month.

People don’t force right handed people to not use their right hand. This is something that’s very specific to left-handed people. I’m very sure the number of left-handed people is actually much higher than reported. I was never forced or discouraged from using my own left hand and just naturally adapted to using right handed tools as I grew up because that’s what you get in this world. Both my hands do specific tasks but my left one is for precision.

I had difficulty time as a kid my parents used to tie my left hand so i can use the the right hand… my first born is a lefty like me we understand each other

As a left handed chef, I can attest that most kitchen utensils and equipment are designed for right handed people.

I can only do things with my left hand. I tried teaching myself how to use my right hand for tools only created for righties but I couldn’t. 😕 I ended up having to teach myself how to use things upside down or in a weird angle in order to get things done.

As a leftie string instruments are easy to use . Such as gutair

that's not right, I'm left handed

Middleeastern dialects are written right to left, read right to left, and books are bound right to left with the back cover being the front cover so.. left-handed. I have been right-handed for all my life but just recently taught myself how to write with my left hand.

Fellow lefties, start larping, left hand swordswman are dope in a 2 man shield phalanx with a pikeman in the middle.

I'm left handed and/or right handed depending on the action. Using cutlery to eat a meal: knife in the right hand. Cutting up veggies or putting butter on a sandwicht: left bby. I write with left, but don't fking ask me to shift gears using that hand. Neither throwing a ball. Right is actually my dominant hand/side. Aside from my kindergarten teacher trying to beat it out of me (she managed to try it once before mom stepped in), I never had much trouble growing up....I just learned to use the majority of right handed tools/actions as any other..

As much as it sucks to grow up and live in a right-handed society, (because they don't think of the left-handed people,) the advantage we have in sports and how rare we are, and the fact we have a whole DAY to ourselves REALLY overrules all the bad things. But at the same time, as a lefty, the feeling I get when walking into a classroom knowing that there are ONLY going to be right-handed desks, scissors, etc.---that's a thing I really want to get rid of. I'm currently in high-school, and not a SINGLE time I spent in school from kinder to high-school did I EVER see a left-handed desk or left-handed scissors. It really sucks. But again, hey, at least we have an advantage in sports, are rare, and we have "Left-Handers Day" on August 13! (A holiday nobody even talks about or celebrates, sadly....)

@Fritha71

2 ай бұрын

@dababyconvertiblelesgo1561 Oh, thank goodness here in Scandinavia such desks were never introduced in schools! We had normal table-like desks, with a loose chair. It was always exotic to see those American-style desks in movies, hahah.

@MilkyWayMarsBar

2 ай бұрын

@@Fritha71 You guys are so lucky 😭

Southpaw here. Damn your right handed scissors!

This is neat. I never really worried about things being right handed. That's life and I'm used to it so I have never paid it much heed. Yet I had seen people struggle mightily and be defeated by left handed scissors. Maybe left handed people exist just in case of the event we can't give up?

I’m a lefty and all I can say is learn to be ambidextrous. The world won’t change to fit your needs.

I use both hands to accomplish all sorts of tasks, it just depends on the task requires. Right hand for power. Left hand for precision

I am left handed, and biggest problem was when I was young I wrote with my right hand, ofc because everyone else was also doing it, and my handwriting was and still is terrible but fear not, with the power of the almighty keyboard writing became easy ;D

I am a teacher. I can write with both my hands, which is sometimes convenient to write on the blackboard without moving too much. Again, I draw better than most people around. But, I do not know why.

So you telling me I shouldn’t exist?

@KnowledgeRaiders

Жыл бұрын

Haha, no no, I'm not saying that at all! You definitely should exist, otherwise who would leave comments for me to respond to? ;)

@starragon6198

Жыл бұрын

@@KnowledgeRaiders lol I know it was just a joke 😂

I dont think lefties should not go extinct cause its a gift from god lefties are kind and have very good fighting skills.