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[–] Crabhands@lemmy.ml 111 points 1 year ago (4 children)

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.

[–] sabreW4K3@lemmy.tf 41 points 1 year ago (3 children)

What in the definition of CIA training is this?

[–] Magnetar@feddit.de 35 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Common practice up to pretty recently.

[–] demlet@lemmy.world 12 points 1 year ago

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.

[–] sabreW4K3@lemmy.tf 9 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Which is strange given that so many world-class renowned inventors and artists are all left handed

[–] Helldiver_M@kbin.social 12 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Obviously they were inspired by the left handed devil.

[–] droans@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Well, it is where the word "sinister" came from.

People used to think left-handed people were demonic.

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[–] Magnetar@feddit.de 6 points 1 year ago

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.

[–] argv_minus_one@beehaw.org 6 points 1 year ago

Religion is mind poison and this is an example of the symptoms.

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[–] SuddenDownpour@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago

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.

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[–] aman25ta@lemmy.dbzer0.com 74 points 1 year ago (6 children)

Notebook thing dont really make sense?cuz you flip it for the other page anyway

[–] solivine@sopuli.xyz 33 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Panels 2 and 3 happened for me anyway despite not being left handed

Yes but it happens EVERY time we write in pencil

[–] sabreW4K3@lemmy.tf 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I have seen lefties get in on their hand and I always wonder why they don't turn the paper and write towards themselves. That was the hack I learned from early. It also solves the notebook ring problem.

[–] lugal@sopuli.xyz 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yes, I know some people who do this and it's easy if you do it from early on, but learning it later is like relearning writing altogether. It ain't impossible but neither is it easy

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[–] duckington@lemmy.world 13 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Yeah but most of the time if you are just writing a fresh page it’s gonna be in that orientation, especially like back in school where it might be for an assignment or something, so more often than not it would be like that

[–] stevehobbes@lemmy.world 14 points 1 year ago (1 children)

If you write on front and back pages, it’s equally annoying to righties and lefties.

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[–] BloodSlut@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

I personally think that its not as much as an issue as thicker notebooks creating an uneven writing surface.

Being right handed, your hand is supported at the same level as the writing surface until the very end of a line, where you typically leave more space.

Being left handed, you start every line of writing without your hand being on the same surface as the writing surface, which especially sucks if you have issues with handwriting (which I annecdotedly notice is more common in lefties).

[–] Batman@sopuli.xyz 4 points 1 year ago

I flip my whole notebook over and use it back to front. Had a friend buy me one made that way for lefties once as a gift, it was actually really nice to have the cover face the right way for once!

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[–] Gsus4@feddit.nl 21 points 1 year ago (5 children)

And who could forget granny's: when you're left handed, "YOU'RE THE LITERAL SPAWN OF SATAN" ok, dear?

[–] bleistift2@feddit.de 13 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I’m stumped old people didn’t die on their stupidity.

[–] Gsus4@feddit.nl 6 points 1 year ago

Eh, living with themselves was punishment enough. I'm just sorry for the few level-headed outcasts who had to live thinking they were weird or pretending to fit in so they wouldn't be persecuted.

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[–] lugal@sopuli.xyz 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Since handedness is genetic, there is a chance that that's what she was told when she learned to use the right hand (pun intended)

[–] Gsus4@feddit.nl 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/39092/how-did-sinister-the-latin-word-for-left-handed-get-its-current-meaning yea, stupid ideas are contagious and latch onto language and culture, apparently. In Italian, left is still "sinistra", so that creates other fun puns like learning to use the sinister hand.

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[–] Norgur@kbin.social 17 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I agree with all but the left one. From my experience, I'm the only one NOT noticing how anyone writes while I get "oh, you're left-handed" constantly.

But the smudging part reminded me of something that happened to me:

I had a maths teacher who always had one of us do the homework on one of those overhead projector foil things and show them in front of class. I had a geometry task and would always smear the rewritable pen with my palms, or mess the lines up because I had to hold my hand awkwardly high. He did make me do it over and over again because he thought it was sloppy. My mum tried to talk to the teacher and the principal, that I as a lefty kind of faced an uphill battle there, so having me re-do it when I wasn't able to do it the first time was not really going anywhere. The teacher only told her that I needed to learn ways around my left-handedness. So my mum had me do the homework with a permanent marker. No smearing anymore. The teacher even had a smug face on and was all like "See? You can do it after all". That smugness was gone when he tried to clean up the foil. No one said that he had to like the ways I found to deal with such BS.

[–] rolofox@lemmy.zip 17 points 1 year ago

Everything I do something wrong or I'm clumsy my mother blames it on "it's because he's left-handed" been this way for 36 years now.

[–] ScrivenerX@lemm.ee 16 points 1 year ago (10 children)

I use scissors exclusively with my left hand just to point out to any lefty around that you don't need to buy special scissors.

[–] Batman@sopuli.xyz 14 points 1 year ago

As a lefty who didn't get my first pair until my 40's, they aren't necessary but boy do they make cutting on a line WAY easier. Crazy differences in difficulty level for a clean cut.

[–] BloodSlut@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago

It depends, most scissors now are practically ambidextrous. Some though, have really angled interiors of the handles that make them painful to use for an extended duration.

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[–] CADmonkey@lemmy.world 14 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I love being married to my left-handed wife. We can cook on the same stove together, we can read and hold hands, we can eat without bumping each other so long as we sit correctly. So many things are easier for us because one of us is a lefty.

This is absolutely precious lol

I wish you and your wife unlimited happiness πŸ₯°

[–] Poem_for_your_sprog@lemmy.world 13 points 1 year ago (5 children)

Bottom left panel - writing from right to left?

[–] lemmonade@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

no, it's just squiggly lines, no writing on that paper.

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[–] Dasnap@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)
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[–] Kylah@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

As a left-handed person I resent being called out like this.

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[–] neutronst4r@beehaw.org 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

The second one is stupid though... The rings get in the way 50% of the time regardless of handedness. If you are right handed, writing on the back of the page sucks. If you are left handed, writing on the front sucks.

[–] Slwh47696@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Where is the love for all of us ambidextrous folk out there

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[–] Gork@lemm.ee 6 points 1 year ago (3 children)

It is advantageous in ancient combat though. When everyone is carrying a shield with their left hand and their sword on their right hand, the leftie can strike their relatively unprotected opponent's right shoulder, unless the opponent is in formation and has an ally to its right.

[–] crystal@feddit.de 11 points 1 year ago (2 children)

The opponent can just as easily strike one's unprotected left shoulder though.

[–] Malgas@beehaw.org 5 points 1 year ago

But the leftie is more accustomed to fighting right-handed opponents than vice versa.

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[–] Revan343@lemmy.ca 6 points 1 year ago

Also helpful when storming a tower; spiral staircases are generally spiralled to give a right-handed defender the advantage against a right-handed attacker

But as long as neither you nor your opponent plan to fight in formation, it's all good! This "fighting in formation" thing probably isn't going to catch on.

[–] Aux@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Handedness doesn't really matter, it's all about how you were taught (or weren't) to do things. For example, my brother is left-handed, but he uses a mouse in the right hand. I'm right handed, but I'm holding the fork in the right hand.

[–] sabreW4K3@lemmy.tf 7 points 1 year ago (4 children)

I hold a mouse in my right too. But that's because most mice are designed for right hands.

[–] elxeno@lemm.ee 4 points 1 year ago

Im right handed but use mouse with left.

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[–] kworpy@lemm.ee 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'm left-handed and I relate to none of these

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[–] ToroidalX@beehaw.org 4 points 1 year ago

I hate number 3 with passion. It happens to me all the time, you know, a leftie. I'm a leftie everyone! Isn't being leftie the best thing in the world? Man we are the bes...

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