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The first time I picked up a crayon, I used my left hand. My parents were concerned but waited it out. After watching me use my left hand the next few times they decided to convert me.
I was brought to a special Sunday school service where right is right. They started with drawing, then moved on to writing. Eventually they worked on my instincts, by throwing things at me, at random, to ensure I used the right hand to catch. I was slapped with a yard stick in the knuckles whenever I used the wrong hand.
Leftiism exists. Parents think they are helping but it's caused all sorts of problems in my life.
What in the definition of CIA training is this?
Common practice up to pretty recently.
When I was a kid in the 80s I knew an older man who said when he was a kid his school tied his left arm down behind his back to force him to use his right hand.
Which is strange given that so many world-class renowned inventors and artists are all left handed
Obviously they were inspired by the left handed devil.
Well, it is where the word "sinister" came from.
People used to think left-handed people were demonic.
You can still see it in the italian senestra and in the french senestre (mostly obsolete)
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I'd be careful trying to deduce something from that (to my knowledge not too studied) factoid. It could (pure speculation) also be, that children growing up with the freedom to use whichever hand they wanted at a time when that wasn't generally the case also had other freedoms like developing their creativity.
Religion is mind poison and this is an example of the symptoms.
The word "sinister" is used to mean something evil and conniving, but it really just means "left," whereas "Dexter" is "right," but dexterous is now used to mean very skillful, agile.
My grandma got her left-handedness beaten out of her by the nuns. Paragons of virtue, the whole lot of them, right up there with Teresa.
So now are you ambidextrous?
I wish this was unbelievable. When/where was this? I'm guessing the US and hopefully a long time ago.