Left-handedness

[Bii]

There's a really interesting (but brief) report on the BBC about left-handedness as follows:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/6923577.stm

It appears they have finally discovered the gene that causes left-handedness, and that left-handedness can give some advantages (although getting a fountain pen to work ain't one of them!).

I was particularly interested to see that it is estimated that approximately 10% of the population is left-handed, and I wondered if this was true of lit-netters also? I ask mainly because in my area of work there appears to be a large proportion of left-handed people, particularly in detailed, technical roles, and I wonder if there will be a disproportionate percentage of lefties who visit this site, and if so, what does that say about lit-net, or left-handedness?!!

Please vote in the poll, and share your left handed experiences!

I for one am a dyed in the wool 'cack hander' (as we're known round these parts). It always amazes me how surprised people are when they find out, as though I'd just told them I had an extra head on my right knee.

[BlueSkyGB]

I am a rightie.....but thought I would post this interesting fact...
My staff of 14, consists of 10 lefties....:)
Wonder if there is a correlation between working in a library and left-handedness...:lol:

[Niamh]

I'm one of three left-handed children in my family. I know exactly what you mean about people being amazed when they find out your left handed. Like you are some kind of freak! Its refared to as cle tog/Ciotog here in Ireland. The amount of times people have said to me "Christ Niamh, i never knew you were are Cle tog!"
I read that article. Find it hard to believe that its "gene" is linked to mental imbalances.
I grew up being told that left-handed people are more creative and artistic. Yeats was left-handed (although it was probably beatin out of him at a young age. was the hand of the devil in the eyes of the church after all!:rolleyes: ) Also it is believed the Leonardo DaVinci was also a leftie!:p

[grace86]

I am a leftie as well. People I've known for years are so surprised when they find out I am left handed. Like it is something so extraordinary. Made it a little tough with playing baseball, and yeah, fountain pens or calligraphy pens kind of suck.

But, I think most lefties agree when I say we are kind of used to doing certain things right handed. How about those stupid little desks that have the arm rest on the right side!! Then people wonder why I write funny. I can't balance a darn thing on those desks!

My mother in law has bought me an agenda two years in a row now for Christmas, it is called a Leftie calendar. It is spiral bound and has the pages with the dates to write in stuff on the left side of the spiral instead of the right. On the right side it says some neat stuff about lefties, even birthdays of famous lefties...and there are a lot. I will find it and post a couple.

[Bii]

But, I think most lefties agree when I say we are kind of used to doing certain things right handed. How about those stupid little desks that have the arm rest on the right side!! Then people wonder why I write funny. I can't balance a darn thing on those desks!



We didn't have those kind of desks over here, but you raise an interesting point on writing. I think most left handed people struggle with their handwriting because right handed teachers teach them incorrectly. I was lucky that my sister was left handed so I had the benefit of her experience, but my nephew's teacher tried to teach him to write the right handed way but with his left hand, so his wrist was all twisted and wrong, and then wondered why he struggled with his written work!

[Annamariah]

I'm right-handed like the rest of my family. One of my brothers can use his left hand better than most righties, though.

[Annamariah]

We didn't have those kind of desks over here, but you raise an interesting point on writing. I think most left handed people struggle with their handwriting because right handed teachers teach them incorrectly. I was lucky that my sister was left handed so I had the benefit of her experience, but my nephew's teacher tried to teach him to write the right handed way but with his left hand, so his wrist was all twisted and wrong, and then wondered why he struggled with his written work!

I think that what makes writing difficult for left-handed people, is that we write from left to right. So you can mess the text up with your hand while you write if you prefer left hand.

[bluevictim]

It always amazes me how surprised people are when they find out, as though I'd just told them I had an extra head on my right knee.
I know exactly what you mean about people being amazed when they find out your left handed. Like you are some kind of freak! Its refared to as cle tog/Ciotog here in Ireland. The amount of times people have said to me "Christ Niamh, i never knew you were are Cle tog!"I'm one of those people who react with amazement when I find out a friend is a lefty! I have no idea why I feel surprised. I think it might be because it's something I figured I would have noticed sooner, since it shouldn't be hard to observe. I don't think I'd have much of a reaction if a stranger were to tell me he/she is a lefty. So, maybe you should take our expression of surprise as an embarrassed apology for having known you so long but not noticing your left-handedness. :)

[Niamh]

I hated those god damn desks!
But yeah like you i've learned to do some things with my right hand. opening tin cans for example. I'm still bad at cutting with a scissors with my right hand, and have learend to adapt to using a righthanded scissors in my left hand.
Yeah sports were terrible. When ever we played volley ball in school they always made me play dispite my objections. You would think they would have learned after the first few times i knocked it up into the high windowsills of the P.E hall.:p
Also i use to tilt my page when writing so that ant the start of a line my hand wasnt close to where i wrote until i was almost finished the line. I Use to get in to so much trouble for messy home work. Teachers just dont think of the hand thing.

[motherhubbard]

I’m right handed, but I remember a lefty in school who was forced to wear a brace on his right hand to write. How cruel! I never understood that and wondered what the adults were thinking.

[Niamh]

I’m right handed, but I remember a lefty in school who was forced to wear a brace on his right hand to write. How cruel! I never understood that and wondered what the adults were thinking.

Back in my mams day, at school if you should to be inclined to write with your left hand you'd get a wallop across the knuckles, and were forced to learn to write with your right. The church believed that lefthandedness was a sign of the devil. Rediculous. My aunt was lefthanded and it happened to her. She can kind of write with both hands now.

[motherhubbard]

The church believed that lefthandedness was a sign of the devil.

funny, i've often thought that boy, man now, a devil.

[grace86]

Oh my a brace?! How mean!!! Like the person had some sort of disability! I do remember volleyboll and some fellow students didn't want me on their team because I hit funny.

I was going to mention the bit with the right handed scissors...in my left hand!

Niamh, you crack me up...I thought I despised those desks! They were so small to begin with, and then you have to be all angled in order to write.

My pinky fingers have a slight curve to them, it is genetic on my mom's side, so whenever someone sees ink on my left pinky (from all the writing smeared up) they thought something awful had happened to my finger. I used to hate eraseable pens because the ink would stay wet too long and smear down to my wrist. EEEEEWWW.

That's kind of gross forcing children to write with their right hand. Poor babies.

[Bii]

Yeah sports were terrible. When ever we played volley ball in school they always made me play dispite my objections. You would think they would have learned after the first few times i knocked it up into the high windowsills of the P.E hall.:p



He he he! Did you ever play rounders? It always makes me laugh that the fielding team completely reorganise themselves when I step up to bat without realising I can't hit the damn ball! All that effort over nothing :lol:

[Niamh]

when we played rounders we us to just throw the ball instead of using a bat. Was a great wayto confuse people. Also i was handy for us lefties!:p

[Pensive]

I write with right hand. I can not write with left hand much.
I play sports with left hand. And I can not play with right hand at all!
I eat with both hands, but usually the left one.
I talk through telephone with left hand and put the phone receiver on left ear, don't feel comfortable when holding it with right hand or listening through right ear.

I wonder what does it make me?


Back in my mams day, at school if you should to be inclined to write with your left hand you'd get a wallop across the knuckles, and were forced to learn to write with your right. The church believed that lefthandedness was a sign of the devil. Rediculous. My aunt was lefthanded and it happened to her. She can kind of write with both hands now.

Back in school, class-mates used to ask me why my mother never slapped me across the face for doing most of the tasks with left hands. And I hear similar kinds of things but I don't see the logic behind this!

[Lily Adams]

I have tentacles, duh.

[grace86]

Back in school, class-mates used to ask me why my mother never slapped me across the face for doing most of the tasks with left hands. And I hear similar kinds of things but I don't see the logic behind this!

You still hear people saying that junk?!

[Niamh]

I have tentacles, duh.

:lol: hehehe.....

pensive: yeah i dont see the logic either.

Wikipedia has a lot to say about lefties. Including the association with the Devil and a list of famous lefties.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Left-handed

[Pensive]

You still hear people saying that junk?!

Well, not that they slap on these things in school but as for strict Muslim houses, I don't really know. The way that girl said about the left-handedness that my mother should have slapped me for that seemed to be the extreme of it. Still, some say a thing about it now and then but most don't have a problem with it. After all they are seeing around them much more what-they-call-anti-religious-things to comment upon. But yes, this is not considered very normal. I think I am the only person in my grade who plays left-handedly. (as far as I remember)

Oh and I had a teacher who wrote with left hand. No one had the nerve to say anything against her.

[Bii]

:lol: hehehe.....

pensive: yeah i dont see the logic either.

Wikipedia has a lot to say about lefties. Including the association with the Devil and a list of famous lefties.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Left-handed

It's an interesting article, thanks for sending the link Niamh.

I do have to point out that they have the explanation of 'cack handed' all wrong, it's incredibly derogatory. It refers to the fact that before the days of toilet paper people would generally wipe their rears with their left hand, 'cack' being another term for excrement.

[littlewing53]

leftee here too...loved reading the stories and can identify w/all of them..especially the desks...and then the scissors...i tried to use the left handed scissors but got so frustrated went back to right...the blade was upsidedown...it was a double whammee so to speak..of course, i couldn't cut a straight line if my life depended on it..and the binding on the left side...that would be awesome...i finally put my computer mouse on the left side...not really sure why other than to feel good and empower myself as a left hander..tho i havent changed the left and right clicker...my son's father was left handed but the nuns at school tied his left hand and made him use his right....i am absolutely positive it affected his whole life...something abt those catholic nuns terrified him...what abt cups...never see the pictures...b/c they're on the wrong side!!!....i am a crazy gardener and you cannot imagine how many tools are geared towards right handed people...adaptable is what i would say we've had to become...in sports when i played baseball and was at bat i'd switch depending on who was pitching...but never had a left handed mitt...golf...tried playing right handed for awhile...but just sorta gave it up and had more fun driving the cart....that's my story and im stickin to it...

[Niamh]

littlewing your talk of tools reminded me that when i was working in archaeology i was an ambidexterous troweler. Was one of the only ones on site. They way you can tell is because after a while your trowel starts to wear down on the side you use most. Mine wore down almost equally on both sides. Other people on the sites were worn down on one side only.

[kilted exile]

I use different hands depending what I am doing.

[Lily Adams]

:lol: hehehe.....

What? Are you making fun of me? :(


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[papayahed]

Another Leftie forced to live in a Right handed world. I too despise those right handed desks, but what really befuddles me are light bulbs and screws I can never remember which way the bulb/screw is suppossed to go. "Lefty Loosey, Rightie tightie" helps.

I fon't know if this is because I'm left handed or not but I also have trouble telling time and when giving directions I have to tell people to watch my hands and not listen to the words I'm saying, I will usually say the opposite of what I mean but point in the correct direction. Example - We need to turn left, I will say "Make a Right" but will point Left.

[Poetess]

I was JUST discussing a similar topic in another forum.
We were arguing about left-handed people!
Long ago, parents used to force their children to write in the right-hand, doubting something evil in being left-handed!
Others say that left-handed people are smarter..
My brother is a left-handed person and it`s all normal!
i`m right-handed

[Lily Adams]

Okay, who's the amidextrous one? I'm jealous.

That whole "lefties are evil" is lame. There's this really interesting story that my 6th grade English teacher told us about a left-handed guy who killed a king or something...dont' know if it's true. I should look it up.

[Poetess]

"why the big deal in the over-religious retard families about the Left-handedness ?? I never understood what the relation between Left-handedness and religion , and why in the past (and still few in the present) Left-handedness is considered as taboo in some societies and some parents were used to force (and some still!) their children to write in the right hand ?
From where these people got these interpretations about Left-handedness ?"


Oh yea, this was the topic.. do you believe left-handedness has to do with RELIGION?

[kilted exile]

Okay, who's the amidextrous one? I'm jealous.


I voted for the "I can do both" I throw with my left hand, kick with my left foot, & whilst I naturally use my right hand for writing I learned to use my left just as well for writing when I broke my right hand punching a wall...

[motherhubbard]

funny, i've often thought that boy, man now, a devil.

I hope no one thought I was talking about him being very wicked because he was left handed - that's insane! It had nothing to do with that. I sure hope I didn't offend anyone

[Virgil]

Back in my mams day, at school if you should to be inclined to write with your left hand you'd get a wallop across the knuckles, and were forced to learn to write with your right. The church believed that lefthandedness was a sign of the devil. Rediculous. My aunt was lefthanded and it happened to her. She can kind of write with both hands now.

My mother who is an elderly lady is convinced that you must force lefty children to be right handed. There was some real ignorance back then. Lucky for us three children we're all naturally right handed.

[Shalot]

what about shaking hands? Is it an insult in some cultures to offer the left hand for a hand shake?

I am right handed and I do everything with my right hand. The signals from my brain just don't get to the left hand. I try to do things like write or dribble a basketball with my left hand and I can't do it.

If I practiced writing with my left hand could I ever master it? And dribbling - if you expect to play ball and win, you need to be able to dribble with both hands. Do great basketball players make themselves master their left hands (or if they're left handed, their right hands)?

Things to ponder....

[motherhubbard]

My husband is right handed. He is a retired police officer and was a firearms instructor. He can shoot as well with his left hand as with his right and he won top gun in the state. it took years of practice.

[Granny5]

My grandmother was and one of my brothers is left handed. This much I know, can openers are almost impossible and almost everything made for left handed people is more expensive, like ball gloves.

[Bii]

what about shaking hands? Is it an insult in some cultures to offer the left hand for a hand shake?

Historically people would shake hands with their right hand as a gesture to show that they weren't holding a sword, and therefore weren't about to attack. That's why hand shaking is used as a greeting, and a sign of peacable relations between the two people.

[SleepyWitch]

grace, Niamh, papaya, what kind of right-handed desks do you mean? are you talking about those chairs with wooden flaps attached to the armrest, like you see in American high school movies?
don't you have normal desks at school at all? I mean the ones that look like a table, only for writing on?

aren't there leftie fountain pens where you live? ... hehe sorry if I sound cranky, I'm just curious, coz over here most stationers do leftie pens...

I'm a rightie.. i can do some things with my left hand but only the ones that don't require precise hand-eye-coordination or fast movements :D

i heard it's good for your brain to learn to do things with your left hand (for righties)/right hand for lefties)

[RoCKiTcZa]

Here in my school, which is a science high school, people are mostly right-handed.
According to what I've read, the dominant hand is associated with the dominant hemisphere of the brain. Right-brained people are often left-handed, while left-brained people are predominantly right-handed.

[thevintagepiper]

what about shaking hands? Is it an insult in some cultures to offer the left hand for a hand shake?

Things to ponder....

It would generally be very insulting to offer your left hand where I live (the middle east).
I'm a righty but my sister is left handed....the rest of my family is right handed I think, except for perhaps one cousin.

[Pensive]

It would generally be very insulting to offer your left hand where I live (the middle east).

Back in childhood, I have done this what-they-call-mistake, not that I meant it all that time but it just came as natural to me but I think I have come over it now. I think now before I shake hands with someone. Like this: Left or right or bow your head (yes, shaking hands with men is also not thought to be polite for even girls of ten or twelve usually and there is this manner of bowing your head so they can give you their best wishes) or don't greet at all (this is for boys of your own age when in the company of adults). Personally I feel there are many more important things to ponder about in life than these anyway.

Back to the left-handedness, I sometimes get this feeling that if I would have learnt to write with left hand, it would have been better. I just feel that this arm/hand possess more energy and is more active.

[Niamh]

Another Leftie forced to live in a Right handed world. I too despise those right handed desks, but what really befuddles me are light bulbs and screws I can never remember which way the bulb/screw is suppossed to go. "Lefty Loosey, Rightie tightie" helps.

I fon't know if this is because I'm left handed or not but I also have trouble telling time and when giving directions I have to tell people to watch my hands and not listen to the words I'm saying, I will usually say the opposite of what I mean but point in the correct direction. Example - We need to turn left, I will say "Make a Right" but will point Left.

I Always do that as well!:lol: arm pointing to left, voice saying right! now i say it and dont use my hands.

what about shaking hands? Is it an insult in some cultures to offer the left hand for a hand shake?

Things to ponder....

You just made me realise that i ALWAYS stick out my left hand. no wonder there is sometimes a hand dance before eventually shaking.:(


grace, Niamh, papaya, what kind of right-handed desks do you mean? are you talking about those chairs with wooden flaps attached to the armrest, like you see in American high school movies?
don't you have normal desks at school at all? I mean the ones that look like a table, only for writing on?
We have normal desks in school but in the odd lecture hall in college they had those desks that came up from the right side of your chair and only stretched half way across you tum.


aren't there leftie fountain pens where you live? ... hehe sorry if I sound cranky, I'm just curious, coz over here most stationers do leftie pens...

You can get lefthanded fountain and caligraphy pens but they are dearer.

[B-Mental]

Hey Bii, thanks for not making the results public! I don't need none of the inferior right handed people calling me up for advice or filling my mailbox up just because I'm a leftie.

Oh yeah, there are 4 lefties in my family of 6

[Silvia]

I am left handed, and I usually have problems with pens, especially those which leave a strong mark of ink on the paper, and it is a nightmare every time I am called to the blackboard, because I tend to erase what I have written....It is true that sometimes people look amazed when they find out I'm not right handed, but most of times they do not even notice it!!
I manage quite well to write with my right hand, too, but since I'm not used to using it, I'm not fast at all and get tired very soon!
I don't know if it's because I'm left handed, but I prefer subjects such as Italian, Languages, Philosophy rather than those which imply logic such as Maths or Chemistry, I like to write and draw while I'm not good at all at practical things!!

[Niamh]

Hey Bii, thanks for not making the results public! I don't need none of the inferior right handed people calling me up for advice or filling my mailbox up just because I'm a leftie.

Oh yeah, there are 4 lefties in my family of 6
there are three in mine out of six. neither of my parents are lefthanded. Just me, my brother and older sister val. my twin is righthanded.

[papayahed]

I did a project for a statistics class in HS that had to do with news sources, handedness, and how often you read the news. I wish I could remember what the outcome was.......The only thing I really remember was conducting a portion of the poll at a Jimmy buffett concert and having to throw out some of the data because it was illegible.

[papayahed]

I've often wondered....It's very easy for me to right backwards (like Davinci) I'm wondering if that has to do with handedness?

[Niamh]

I've often wondered....It's very easy for me to right backwards (like Davinci) I'm wondering if that has to do with handedness?

i thought that had to do with a form of dyslexia?

[littlewing53]

niamh...back there when you guys were talking abt shaking hands and what a dance it is..absolutely...i have such trouble with that...in business i have to shake a lot of hands and sometimes i become anxious and hesitate wondering where is my hand and where is that person's hand...i could never figure out why i have such trouble w/something so simple...thanks for bringing it to light...

[Pensive]

niamh...back there when you guys were talking abt shaking hands and what a dance it is..absolutely...i have such trouble with that...in business i have to shake a lot of hands and sometimes i become anxious and hesitate wondering where is my hand and where is that person's hand...i could never figure out why i have such trouble w/something so simple...thanks for bringing it to light...

I have not much problem against it but it would be good if this way of greeting can be changed! 'Hi' seems quite fine to me (but it's a pity at work this doesn't work). I also find it difficult to follow this 'hug' greeting. In different parts of the country, it's done differently... I wish I didn't have to reply to that, but people can take it as if you don't want to meet them... :( Shaking hands is at least better than that!

Oh I hope I am not sounding too much like Christopher from TAoDaMNT.

[Niamh]

niamh...back there when you guys were talking abt shaking hands and what a dance it is..absolutely...i have such trouble with that...in business i have to shake a lot of hands and sometimes i become anxious and hesitate wondering where is my hand and where is that person's hand...i could never figure out why i have such trouble w/something so simple...thanks for bringing it to light...


I have not much problem against it but it would be good if this way of greeting can be changed! 'Hi' seems quite fine to me (but it's a pity at work this doesn't work). I also find it difficult to follow this 'hug' greeting. In different parts of the country, it's done differently... I wish I didn't have to reply to that, but people can take it as if you don't want to meet them... :( Shaking hands is at least better than that!

Oh I hope I am not sounding too much like Christopher from TAoDaMNT.

maybe we should have them changed ti a small polite wave of the hand, or bow in the manner of the japanese.

[Pensive]

maybe we should have them changed ti a small polite wave of the hand, or bow in the manner of the japanese.

My ego is not letting me enjoy the idea of bow! ;)

[NickAdams]

I'm a south paw ... mostly.

It's hard for me to catch and throw with my left.
When I signed up for baseball as a child, my mother got me a left-handed mitt. It wasn't until practiced that I discovered that I catch and throw with my right. After catching the ball, I had to remove the glove so I could throw it.

[Virgil]

I'm a south paw ... mostly.

It's hard for me to catch and throw with my left.
When I signed up for baseball as a child, my mother got me a left-handed mitt. It wasn't until practiced that I discovered that I catch and throw with my right. After catching the ball, I had to remove the glove so I could throw it.

Well, that must have been hard. I would have had to try to take an extra base on you Nick, knowing that you catch and throw with the same hand. ;) :p

[Bakiryu]

I'm ambidextrous but my handwriting is equally bad with both hands. Not even doctors can read it! In school I had to write with my right because the teacher hit my left hand with a ruler if she saw me using it. Weirdly I can only hold a spoon with my right and chopsticks with my left. Weird.................



I have not much problem against it but it would be good if this way of greeting can be changed! 'Hi' seems quite fine to me (but it's a pity at work this doesn't work). I also find it difficult to follow this 'hug' greeting. In different parts of the country, it's done differently... I wish I didn't have to reply to that, but people can take it as if you don't want to meet them... :( Shaking hands is at least better than that!

Oh I hope I am not sounding too much like Christopher from TAoDaMNT.

You should become a Latina then! People don't shake hands they just kiss you! Of course, this can also be very awkward sometimes :blush:

[NickAdams]

Well, that must have been hard. I would have had to try to take an extra base on you Nick, knowing that you catch and throw with the same hand. ;) :p

Maybe that's why I was an out fielder.:(


In school I had to write with my right because the teacher hit my left hand with a ruler if she saw me using it.

You know this is why the number of left-handed people go down as the age group increases. Left-handed people are forced to live in a right-handed world and we conform. Fight the power!

[jon1jt]

I'm left-handed. growing up, i always hated how after a day of writing in school with a pen the ink would accumulate on the outside part of my pinky and sometimes smudge the page, making my work appear sloppy next to right-handed kids. very distressing for a nine-year old. :)

[Niamh]

You know this is why the number of left-handed people go down as the age group increases. Left-handed people are forced to live in a right-handed world and we conform. Fight the power!

Lefted handed and proud of it! Maybe we ahould all protest around the world looking for equality!:p :brow:

[littlewing53]

Did you know it's lefthander's day today...!!!

the official site is down due to hi-traffic...what does that mean???..a lot more lefties than we thought...www.lefthandersday.com

Nick, that is so funny what you sed abt throwing your mit down to throw a ball...really brought back some memories going thru school and playing softball...there were no lefthanded mitts so i had to use a right handed mitt and when i caught a ball i had to throw down my mitt too...thanks for reminding me...

[NickAdams]

Did you know it's lefthander's day today...!!!

the official site is down due to hi-traffic...what does that mean???..a lot more lefties than we thought...www.lefthandersday.com

Nick, that is so funny what you sed abt throwing your mit down to throw a ball...really brought back some memories going thru school and playing softball...there were no lefthanded mitts so i had to use a right handed mitt and when i caught a ball i had to throw down my mitt too...thanks for reminding me...

You know, I forgot about it myself and this thread brought it all back. What was your position? That would be an interesting character trait don't you think?

[Bakiryu]

You know this is why the number of left-handed people go down as the age group increases. Left-handed people are forced to live in a right-handed world and we conform. Fight the power!

You said it dude!

[littlewing53]

hi nick...i was outfielder too...don't think i ever discussed the whole mitt dilemma w/anyone...laughing to myself just thinking abt it...had to throw that mitt down fast to throw to whatever base i was aiming out to get the person out...hilarious!!!...yes, it would be an interesting character trait study...curious if any other lefthanders had the same problem?...

[Bakiryu]

Well I've never been anygood at sports but sometimes the mitt tended to slide of my hand and hit somebody in the eye. Damm small hands!

[papayahed]

HaHa I forgot about softball. When I was younger I used to play baseball with the neighbors and I always had to borrow a mitt, of course there weren't any lefthanded mitts so I used a righty. For one of my birthdays I finally got a left handed mitt but it felt so weird I stopped using it and stole my mom's right handed mitt.

[NickAdams]

Are there left-handed leagues?

[stephofthenight]

I'm ambidextrous but my handwriting is equally bad with both hands. Not even doctors can read it! In school I had to write with my right because the teacher hit my left hand with a ruler if she saw me using it. Weirdly I can only hold a spoon with my right and chopsticks with my left. Weird.................

You should become a Latina then! People don't shake hands they just kiss you! Of course, this can also be very awkward sometimes :blush:


lol im abmidextrious too and i use to play base ball until i was 13 then they made me switch to softball. well anywoo. i use my right hand for my spoon, left hand for my fork and chopsticks for my hair...;p hints how ive earned this lovley stomach of mine, eathing lots with both hands.:thumbs_up