How many ABers are left handed

[micmak]

Please tell of your experience of being a leftie, good or bad.

For me it was Catholic school education. According to the nuns I was the devils child. They stood over me and constantly put my pencil / spoon in my right hand.

[karenmac60]

I never had it that bad, but when learning to write with pen rather than pencil at primary, i often missed breaks because i was made to stay in class and redo my 'ink exercises'. My hand had inadvertantly smeared all the ink as I wrote.

[SpikeyBush]

My father is left-handed, so is my wife. I am ambidextrous, it gives colleagues at work the willies watching me write with both hands simultaneously.

[erin-x]

I used to be right handed. I started losing strength in my right hand when I was about 15 and it left me unable to hold a pencil :| So through frustration I tried my left hand and it was easier than I thought! I'm sort of half and half now!! :-)

[HowardKennitby]

My old man was left-handed but was forced to write with his right hand. It was illegible.
I am basically right-handed but regularly practice with left; apart from writing, sawing and hammering I can do pretty much everything else with either hand.

[gness]

I`m right handed mic but know what you mean. I saw the "devils children" smacked on the knuckles and made to sit on their left hand and have to use the right. Why? There must have been left handed nuns surely.

[erin-x]

I can do mirror writing Spikey. The effort that it takes to hold the pen in my right hand is totally agonising though :|

[Mick-Talbot]

I'm ambidextrous too.


I can't write with both hands though.

[ladyalex]

Not me, but my Mum was....she had the most beautiful handwriting and sewed, crocheted and knitted left-handed beautifully too.
I do not think anyone ever tried to make her use her right hand for anything...probably wouldn't have dared as she was quite a force. She was born in 1924 so probably had enlightened teachers etc...or ignored them.

[shoota]

'Left' is sinister.......
From sinistre in Latin.

[micmak]

At lunch break I was often still eating long after classes resumed. I was not allowed to leave until I had eaten every thing. I'm still left handed though, despite their interference. Imagine that happening today.

[ladyalex]

or gauche...from french

[HowardKennitby]

MicMak

Which hand do you use the computer mouse in?

[micmak]

gness. Were you in my class at school.?

[micmak]

Left Howard. Why.

[SpikeyBush]

erin-x whatever hand I write with I hold the pen "wrong". I never found it comfortable holding the pen the way I was shown at school and get cramp quickly. Thank goodness for the advance of technology, I no longer need pens for my sideline of freelance journalism

[HowardKennitby]

Just wondered. If I am working I switch every month to even the load. My right hand once got into trouble with RSI so I look after them both now. I also have a graphic tablet and pen available.

[micmak]

The nuns were not only anti leftie. They told us by going to the seaside on a Sunday and missing Mass, If the train/coach/car crashed we would go to purgatory.
When my sister and I cried (we were very young) that we didn't want to go, Father attempted to get to the bottom of it.

[nungate]

When I started school the teacher used to take the pencil from my left hand and put it in my right - I'd just change it back! (this was 1960's and not a RC school) However, I play tennis and table tennis right handed, though occasionally I switch to the left just for fun, I can also write rather well with both hands (though not at the same time) and I stitch with both hands and use scissors in both hands, I reckon I must be ambidextrous.

[excelsior-1]

i'm right handed, as is my mother.

my late father was left handed.

...i'd give my right arm to be ambidextrous.......

[zebo]

When I was about 16 I was pealing an apple or something and my mother asked Why are you using your left hand? ( Yes I know the joke about using a knife) It was only then that I realsised that I use different hands for different tasks. I'm left handed for pealing, slicing etc but write right-handed. If I need to pick something up I am more likely to use my left, but tennis etc I'm right-handed. I'm not ambidextrous as I can't interchange, it causes problems buying knives as they're often only honed for a right-hander.