This is probably the most relatable video ive ever watched

When I first started school I was left handed. But my teachers made me switch to my right. So now, years later, I can do just about anything with either hand equally well.

@PhilipThompson

Жыл бұрын

I had a similar experience.. Have adapted in many ways to be ambidextrous!

I am not a complete lefty, knitting and using scissors I do right handed. We are a rare breed.

A comment section where I can feel belonged.

@UsherChimutumbira

24 күн бұрын

Same here

The dominance of the eye is at least as significant as the dominance of the hand. All these left-handedness videos seem to leave that out.

Forcing a left-handed child to write with their right hand can surprisingly lead to them having a stutter. It must be something to do with how our minds are wired up, and it speaks to the devastating effect of this type of cruelty. There are a few advantages to being left-handed, most notably in sword or hand-to-hand combat. That is because it is almost impossible for their opponent to predict where their next blow will come from, and therefore they cannot defend themselves against it. You have my sympathy and my admiration for how you have mastered doing certain tasks right-handedly. Judging from how completely useless I am at using my left hand for anything dexterous, I can only try to imagine the immense amount of effort and determination you have had to put into successfully learning how to do so. Serious respect to you, especially becoming a right-handed guitar player! Bravo 👏 👏 👏 🎉 🥉

You should have been born in Canada - in ice hockey, many players shoot left, even those who are right-handed.

I am left handed and did play field hockey in high school, needless to say I was horrible at it.

I can relate

You're not just left-handed, you're left-sided. You can see from the way a person walks, kicks a ball, steps up a ladder and hops onto an escalator- if they put out their left foot and leg first for any of these tasks, they are left-dominant. You can pick out the 'lefties' in a crowded shopping centre or even in a day-care centre before a child learns to hold a pencil. I'm right-handed but played piano from the age of seven so learnt to use both hands almost equally. I also learnt to write and read Arabic for a while which meant writing from right to left, including writing a question mark backwards. Strangely enough, despite all this, the only way I can write comfortably now is to turn the page or device 90 degrees and write as though I am moving up a column. I have no idea how this begun.

@fllyingthundershot

Ай бұрын

This is true

To be honest I do not remember what hand I started writing with during early years of elementary, today I write with my right hand but because of injuries I've gotten over the years I've had to learn how to write lefty. Interestingly enough I throw a football (American football) with my right hand, baseball with my right hand, shoot basketball with my right hand, but I play lacrosse and hockey left handed, also shoot left handed.

I'm left handed and right footed. In tennis I serve with my left then instinctively put the racket into my right. I don't do backhands, I just put the racket back into my left hand and hit a forehand. In cricket I bowl left arm and bat right handed. In AFL I kick with either foot and handpass with either hand. I play right handed guitar. My boxing stance is orthodox. I guess I'm weird.

Fascinating. I was punished for the way I hold my pencil so much, but I still do it. I don't think those kinds of teachers have a clue what learning really is. They seem to want subjects not students.

so true man , so true

As a lefty, I had to learn to write with my right hand by the nuns in primary school (sixties). Later when I got a guitar, I learned that a standard right handed guitar was no problem to learn to play since you need both your hands anyway and I found that the most difficult thing in guitar playing was the position of the left hand on the neck (fretboard), done by my dominant hand. So I advise everyone who’s left handed not to bother looking for a left handed guitar.

Well, on a football (soccer) team it's quite common to use left-footed players on certain positions. In close combat sports, it can be an advantage to be left handed, because it's difficult to defend your own hitting side, and the left handed people are more used to doing just that. In tennis and badminton it's also often an advantage, also because right handers are not used to it to the same degree as left handers. Also, don't forget to mention that Arabic is taught strictly to be written by left hand. Also Chinese historically wasn't a left to right system. There's been lots of claims about intelligence and personalities of left handers... I believe it's difficult to find any hard evidence of a difference. Anyway, I'm strictly a right hander, for full disclosure, but I've grown up with the European dining table layout, so you won't see me switching sides for knife and fork all the time, as is quite common with the American layout. Cheers!

@PhilipThompson

Жыл бұрын

All valid points! Come to think of it, playing squash left handed is to my benefit as my opponents often forget and end up serving to my forehand (whereas the norm is to serve to a person's backhand).

@SaltyChickenDip

Жыл бұрын

@@PhilipThompson It can backfire for combat spots though. fighting southpaw puts your liver right in front of opponent. Getting hit in the liver is not good to say the least.

Honestly I am an lefty but my mom saved me when I was little and told me to right with my right hand and that saved me so much but now in school lefty are rare and are getting more popular and I cant prove this to anyone 😢

My grandfather was naturally a lefty. As a child he was forced to "become" a righty. (Interesting that Google doesn't recognize "righty" as an actual word, I'll have to add it to the dictionary.) He wrote in an awful chicken scrawl his entire life with his right hand, and when encouraged in later years to try using his left hand he couldn't figure out how to hold the pen.

Keanu Reeves is also a "lefty" 🕺

There should be reverse alphabet letters.

Are you from South Africa

The struggle is all to real

@addrock7695

7 ай бұрын

“Left Lives Matter”

Happy Left-hander's Day!!

I'm a lefty!

Am left handed

They also statistically die younger. 😞

@PhilipThompson

Жыл бұрын

What!? Don't tell me that! 😂

@newtronix

Жыл бұрын

@@PhilipThompsonThe world is a harsher place for lefties. Sorry old chap! 😵

@Quon

6 ай бұрын

ok i'm not that versed in history but I feel that statement maybe applied better in days where being different than other people gets you killed in survival settings

thank you for acknowledging that us “TransLEFTuals” are the last group, and real group who still suffer discrimination.

@PhilipThompson

6 ай бұрын

🤣

Lefties unite

Ha love the trans hair being associated with victim hood. Nothing could be more accurate.