Crabhands ( @Crabhands@lemmy.ml ) 86•11 months agoThe 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?
Magnetar ( @Magnetar@feddit.de ) 23•11 months agoCommon practice up to pretty recently.
Which is strange given that so many world-class renowned inventors and artists are all left handed
Helldiver_M ( @Helldiver_M@kbin.social ) 12•11 months agoObviously they were inspired by the left handed devil.
😂
Magnetar ( @Magnetar@feddit.de ) 4•11 months agoI’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 ( @argv_minus_one@beehaw.org ) 6•11 months ago
Religion is mind poison and this is an example of the symptoms.
dutchkimble ( @dutchkimble@lemy.lol ) 1•10 months agoSo now are you ambidextrous?
YaketySax ( @YaketySax@discuss.online ) English1•11 months agoI wish this was unbelievable. When/where was this? I’m guessing the US and hopefully a long time ago.
aman25ta ( @aman25ta@lemmy.dbzer0.com ) English56•11 months agoNotebook thing dont really make sense?cuz you flip it for the other page anyway
Solivine ( @solivine@sopuli.xyz ) 27•11 months agoPanels 2 and 3 happened for me anyway despite not being left handed
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 ( @lugal@sopuli.xyz ) 6•11 months agoYes, 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
😂
Batman ( @Batman@sopuli.xyz ) 3•11 months agoI 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!
Resonosity ( @Resonosity@lemmy.ca ) 2•11 months agoWas thinking the exact same thing
Gsus4 ( @Gsus4@feddit.nl ) 21•11 months agoAnd who could forget granny’s: when you’re left handed, “YOU’RE THE LITERAL SPAWN OF SATAN” ok, dear?
bleistift2 ( @bleistift2@feddit.de ) English11•11 months agoI’m stumped old people didn’t die on their stupidity.
Gsus4 ( @Gsus4@feddit.nl ) 5•11 months agoEh, 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.
lugal ( @lugal@sopuli.xyz ) 5•11 months agoSince 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 ( @Gsus4@feddit.nl ) 4•11 months agohttps://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.
petrescatraian ( @petrescatraian@libranet.de ) 2•9 months ago@Gsus4 In my country kids were beaten with rullers on their hands at school until they were able to write right-handed IIRC. Not sure if this brought to them anything else than trauma anyway.
Zaphod ( @Zaphod@discuss.tchncs.de ) 2•11 months agoI’ll gladly be a spawn of satan for people who discriminate over something as handedness
Da_Boom ( @Da_Boom@iusearchlinux.fyi ) English2•11 months agoMy grandma is left handed, yes she now can write with both hands because they tried to beat it out of her, they did not entirely succeed.
ScrivenerX ( @ScrivenerX@lemm.ee ) 15•11 months agoI 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 ( @Batman@sopuli.xyz ) 14•11 months agoAs 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.
😂
- argv_minus_one ( @argv_minus_one@beehaw.org ) 2•11 months ago
Aren’t most scissors symmetric?
Da_Boom ( @Da_Boom@iusearchlinux.fyi ) English1•11 months agoEvery time I use right handed scissors I have Soo many issues, the paper usually folds or rips instead of giving me a clean cut, unless I used a certain part of the scissors to cut and no more. To the point that although it was uncomfortable, I used my right hand to cut things with scissors.
When I got older I bout myself a dedicated set of left handed scissors… fucking amazing, I can make clean cuts with my dominant hand utilising the entire length of the scissors, and it works every time.
And those scissors are now the sharpest scissors in the house because I’m the only one who uses them, the other pairs of right handed scissors in the house are blunt af and barely cut even when I use my right hand.
ScrivenerX ( @ScrivenerX@lemm.ee ) 2•11 months agoThat’s because you are weak. I bet you have a peanut allergy too.
Da_Boom ( @Da_Boom@iusearchlinux.fyi ) English1•11 months agoNope, I actually love peanut butter, goes well with jam/jelly
Vegemite is not bad either.
TheSlyFox ( @rolofox@lemmy.zip ) English12•11 months agoEvery time 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.
neutronst4r ( @neutronst4r@beehaw.org ) English8•11 months agoThe 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.
Gork ( @Gork@lemm.ee ) 6•11 months agoIt 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 ( @crystal@feddit.de ) 7•11 months agoThe opponent can just as easily strike one’s unprotected left shoulder though.
Malgas ( @Malgas@beehaw.org ) 5•11 months agoBut the leftie is more accustomed to fighting right-handed opponents than vice versa.
Revan343 ( @Revan343@lemmy.ca ) 6•11 months agoAlso helpful when storming a tower; spiral staircases are generally spiralled to give a right-handed defender the advantage against a right-handed attacker
thanks_shakey_snake ( @thanks_shakey_snake@lemmy.ca ) 4•11 months agoBut 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.
QuazarOmega ( @QuazarOmega@lemy.lol ) 5•11 months agoHuh, was it just me always getting super dirty hands when writing despite being right-handed? I even thought it looked kinda cool with that metallized skin color
ToroidalX ( @ToroidalX@beehaw.org ) English4•11 months agoI 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…
kworpy ( @kworpy@lemm.ee ) English2•11 months agoI’m left-handed and I relate to none of these
LINKO ( @LINKO@feddit.de ) 2•11 months agoThe first three definitely. The last one not at all.
anonymous ( @anonymous@discuss.tchncs.de ) 1•11 months agoEven tho I am right-handed, I can relate to the top left pic. For some reason, I started eating like a left-handed person when I was little and now it’s weird to do it the correct right-handed way, so I won’t change it.