Posted on 09/28/2024 11:09:20 AM PDT by DallasBiff
Lefties historically have had a tendency to get left behind. Until relatively recently, being left-handed was stigmatized, sometimes as an abnormality or sign of weakness. Left-handed children were forced to learn to write with their right hands, often to their significant disadvantage.
Of course, we now know that there’s nothing wrong with being left-handed. As University of Toledo psychologist Stephen Christman recently explained in Scientific American, there’s almost no evidence to suggest that lefties are at any sort of physical or psychological disadvantage. For one thing, lefties have comprised roughly 10 percent to 15 percent of the general population for many thousands of years. The fact that the trait has remained stable over many generations suggests that left-handedness is not an evolutionary weakness, as many psychologists of the past believed.
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The easy way to remember L or R is to make an L shape with your thumb and pointer finger. On the left side the L will be correct, and on the right hand it will be backwards. Maybe that trick can help him.
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I shoot right handed too, but I’m left eye dominant. No, I can’t hit a thing.
When in Egypt I interacted with a group of kids who wanted to meet an American. I moved to pat a kid on the head with my left hand and he recoiled.
I eat and write with my left hand but almost everything else with my right hand. My right hand and arm are stronger, which is a problem right now because I have an upper arm/shoulder injury.
I’m left handed, I guess. I only eat and right left handed. I’m 68 and still don’t know right from left.
I went to Catholic school for 1st and 2nd grade. My mom went to school and told them they better not try to make me right handed.
I worked in Saudi awhile. I am a lefty. I had problems shaking hands with my Saudi trainees….and rarely ate with the Sauds….it took awhile to be informed of a natural fact: Lefties eat with their left hand, and naturally wipe their butts with their right hand. I learned to eat with my right hand.
There were no toilets and no toilet paper in Saudi bases, but holes in the ground to stoop over with a rinsing hose to “ clean up”.
God made a few perfect left-handed dominants. The rest he made right-handed.
I’m left handed and so is my oldest daughter. It was a pain growing up trying to work on my penmanship in class, especially with only 1-2 desks for lefties in a class of 35 kids. I can’t do calligraphy either unless I buy a special adapter pen that’s not cheap. The world is made for right-handed ppl, unfortunately, and lefties have just had to shut up and deal with it for centuries, which sucks.
If your first response to each question is logic based instead of emotion based, you will score higher in the MDB category.
I suspect that you are the type of woman who cannot tolerate drama and are disgusted by “games” people play.
If so, you are my kind of person!
I’m a left-handed Catholic but went to public school. My dad was in the USAF and in 1957 we were stationed in England for 5 yrs. My 3rd teacher gave me such a hard time for being a lefty. She made fun of me and picked on me, which is when I started thinking being left handed was a liability. You can’t blame it mainly on the nuns because crappy teachers exist everywhere.
We know ourselves best. Welcome to the outliers club!
It’s possible. He was forced to rely on one side more than the other.
Being ambidextrous is a great skill. I’m glad you both have it.
Left handedness is associated with depression, ADHD, alcoholism, and dyslexia.
Which is NOT to say that if you are left handed you will have any of those problems.
But, statistically speaking, you are more likely to.
I excelled at math all throughout school, into college, too. I had many great math teachers, but my HS teacher was the BEST. She was tough but very fair. Lots of kids didn’t like her, they were afraid of her, but she was really a very, very nice person who didn’t want to appear weak to her students. Plus, she was self conscious about her smile, so she didn’t smile much.
I’m still very good at math, but my husband has some sort of affinity for numbers the way I recognize faces. It’s a gift. I swear I hear his coworkers ask him math questions sometimes just so they can hear him figure it out without pen and paper, which is what I need. (I’ve always been very visual, even with math). He can do complex computations in his head. He makes me think of those NASA dudes sometimes, who put a man on the moon with a slide rule. I never got the slide rule, I think because calculators were becoming a thing when I was in middle school.
The great thing about my husband is that he isn’t just an engineering nerd. He can hold his own in a social situation just fine. He is the best of both worlds.
I do several things left-handed, but am stronger right-handed.
Basically, I eat and write left-handed, but throw and play guitar right-handed. I can write with my right hand if I needed to do so. I also taught myself to be a switch-hitter in baseball. I shoot with my right hand.
To avoid the long explanation, I just tell people I am ambidextrous. No one has ever asked me to prove it.
The nuns did not beat the left handed people enough. : )
The Blues Brothers (1980) - Filthy Mouths & Bad Attitudes Scene
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ujxDA9VsQG4
Same here. With the bat it's how I saw everyone else in my neighborhood do it. With the golf clubs it was basically the same thing...nobody had left handed clubs that I knew so better learn right handed.
You are fortunate.
Mr mm does have the usual engineer social skill set.
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