I am Left-handed anyone else?
By marciascott
@marciascott (25529)
United States
March 30, 2008 7:43am CST
Or who in your family is left-handed? I don't know why but what ever I do I always to it to the left, I don't know if it is a habit or my brain is just telling me that. Do you think It is Heriditary? I as over my Daughters house yesterday, and I notice my Grand-daughter is Left-handed, that is why I was asking is it Heriditary? My writing is kind of sloppy too. I try my best though. How about a Family member. I am always get humor about me being a lefty.
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@enola1692 (3323)
• United States
30 Mar 08
Yes i am left handed an my aunt is to an when my brothers use to tease me about it my aunt would always say its a proven fact leftyies think with the right side of thier mind an she also said a book she read said that lefties are also really creative an believe it or not she even found a store for left handed people
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@pergammano (7682)
• Canada
30 Mar 08
Just for the "pun" of it....Left handed people are the ONLY people in their RIGHT minds. Cheers.
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@hey_baby (425)
• Philippines
30 Mar 08
i'm left handed, and so are my sisters. but i don't think its hereditary. my parents are not. my cousin who taught me how to write is left handed, and i was the one who taught my sisters. i was the one who taught my son writing, but he's not left handed. i don't understand why people are making a big fuss about being left handed. although i read somewhere that lefties are the more talented & intelligent people. :)
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@Polly1 (12645)
• United States
31 Mar 08
I am right handed, but I can do lots of things with my left hand. I was in a car wreck a few yrs. ago, I had no use of my right hand and arm for many months. So I learned how to do lots of things with my left and still do them with my left.
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@Polly1 (12645)
• United States
31 Mar 08
I had surgery on my right when my wrist got dislocated, I have also had some problems with carpel tunnel. I will wear splints at night when it gets to bothering me. I do my best to keep my wrist straight at night, that seems to help. I have to shake my hands and arms sometimes too.
@marciascott (25529)
• United States
31 Mar 08
that is great vicky you do things with both hands, I have Carpel Tunnel syndrome, You know what that is were your hands get numb when doing different things. that bothers me a lot. my hand get numb and sometimes I half to shake them so they won't be to numb, usually when I am driving, my hands get numb, both of them. And I had Surgery done on My left wrist. so that tends to still bother me.
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@anniepa (27955)
• United States
4 Apr 08
I'm one of the chosen few who are in our right minds also! Welcome to the club. I was the only one in my family to be a lefty but finally, my granddaughter is also left-handed and she is extremely intelligent - high honor roll - and very artistic. I got good grades in school but I'm sure not artistic...lol! My handwriting is quite good, or so I've been told all my life so being a lefty doesn't dictate whether you write nice or sloppy. Remember back in the 1992 Presidential election all three candidates - Clinton, Bush Sr. and Perot - were lefties? That must say something about lefties having a large number of high achievers relatively speaking.
Annie
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@marciascott (25529)
• United States
8 Apr 08
I didnt know the Presidents, were Left-handed.
They do say lefthanded people are very smart and creative. Thanks for input.
@newzealtralian (3930)
• Australia
5 Apr 08
I'm able to use both hands equally for some tasks, but am right hand dominant when it comes to writing. Actually, I can use my feet just as well as I use my hands. Just call me a monkey!
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@marciascott (25529)
• United States
8 Apr 08
You are very funny, always good to have some humor here! Thanks for you input, I have been gone for 3 days.
@BUSSY1979 (1283)
• United States
8 Apr 08
hiya Marcy,
yes,i am a lefty.i write kinda sloppy too.and it still looks like $hit.LOL
but,it's what ya see is what ya get.LOL
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@marciascott (25529)
• United States
8 Apr 08
You are a lefty too, we have a lot of things in common, We are smart people too! Ok, I think I am going to go to bed, I am really tired it is 1:30 am, You are a Night owl! I will chat with you tommorow.
@whiteheather39 (24403)
• United States
31 Mar 08
My ex was a lefty and I could not sit close to him when we were eating as he constantly knocked my right arm with his left and my food went flying.
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@Debs_place (10520)
• United States
31 Mar 08
I am left handed and the only one in my family to be so. Remember only left handed people are in their right minds. Only 10% of the people are left handed as well. It has to do with brain dominance.
As a child, the nuns made me write with my right hand, I had so sit on my left hand, the left hand is the hand of the devil.n Give me a break.
I can't write with either hand now.
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@marciascott (25529)
• United States
31 Mar 08
LOL! LOL! Oh, Stop it! You are funny No dear we are Angels from heaven. Good to see you here!
@mimatexas (1818)
• United States
31 Mar 08
I am left-handed, so is my husband and my daughter. My mother had an accident, and she became left-handed, my two sisters are left-handed too. I guess it is hereditary!
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@marciascott (25529)
• United States
31 Mar 08
I think it is from what you are saying. believe that it is Heridtary. That's a lot f people in your family that is left handed.
@Modestah (11179)
• United States
31 Mar 08
I am not left handed, the only one in my family that I know of to be left handed is my brother.
I had such fun when I went to Boston several years back as in the Quincy Market there was a store that catered to lefties with all left handed products - such as notebooks with the spiral edge on the right side instead of the left... I think the name of the shop was South Paws, but I am not absolutely certain.
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@Batistabomb227 (21)
• United States
31 Mar 08
I am right handed, i don't think its hereditary because i know people who are left handed and they're the only ones in their family that are. Weird, but no one in my family is left handed
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@drknlvly6781 (6246)
• United States
31 Mar 08
I'm left handed too. My Great-Grandmother was, and my daughter looks like she will be, if she doesn't end up being ambidextrous. There is definitely a gene that runs through our family.
I have also heard that Gemini's tend to be left handed too, because we are more creative, and they say that left handed people are creative too.
My handwriting is only sloppy when I am rushing or I don't care what it looks like. When I take my time and actually pay attention, my handwriting gets compliments.
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@marciascott (25529)
• United States
31 Mar 08
I suppose if I was to take my time, My hand writing would be neat, I don't write very often, when I use to work, we had to log things in a Book about Patiece and Clients. So I would try to write neat.
@us2owls (1681)
• United States
31 Mar 08
Both my sister and I are left handed. Both of our parents were right handed, I only write left handed but my sister does everything left handed. When she got older she bought scissors and other things etc. for left handed people. She tried knitting and even did that backwards. It forsn;t bother me - my writing used to slope backwards and I worked at it until it now slopes slightly to the write. Being left handed has never been a handicap for me.
@marciascott (25529)
• United States
31 Mar 08
Being Left-handed has never cause a problem for me either.
@terri0824 (4991)
• United States
1 Apr 08
My mother is left handed, but she has pretty neat hand writing. I have several siblings that are left handed as well. Actually I think 3 out of 7 are left handed. Both of my daughters are right handed though. Actually my mom I know is ambidextrious(not sure on the spelling on that) Not for sure if my siblings are or not.
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@yogeshdhusa (2236)
• India
31 Mar 08
I think being a left handed is not heriditary, My sisters son is left handed. and no one in my family is left handed nor in her inlaws. i have heard left handed are creative, is that so?
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@marciascott (25529)
• United States
31 Mar 08
Now that could be true because I am very creative. Welcome to Mylot.
@rogue13xmen13 (14402)
• United States
31 Mar 08
My mother and my cousin are both left-handed, I am not, but I know how to do certain things with my left-handed. I drink water and tea with my left hand sometimes, and I can type words with my left hand only and play bass on the keyboard piano with my left hand.
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@Darkwing (21583)
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31 Mar 08
I could have sworn I answered to this discussion earlier my friend, but it seems to have disappeared into the Mylot Mist!
What I said before was that I'm not left-handed but my youngest granddaughter is, and I don't feel it can be hereditary because she is the only one in the whole two families, who happens to be left-handed.
Brightest Blessings.
@sacmom (14192)
• United States
31 Mar 08
I am left handed, though I don't know if anyone else in my family is. My mom, dad, and sister are right handed, as well as both of my kids. And I don't recall any of my aunts, uncles, or cousins being left handed. In my case, my being left handed is not hereditary, but rather a fluke. I had actually favored my right hand until I became deathly sick with spinal meningitis when I was a toddler. When I got better I favored my left hand from then on.
My penmanship isn't too bad, except for when I write something quickly or my hand is tired from writing. I'd have to say my writing was better during my school days though and I always got a good mark on my penmanship.
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@sweetcake1369 (210)
• United States
30 Mar 08
Hello fellow lefty. My mom is also left handed. Just the two of us. Weird. I cut right handed though. My teachers when I was little always gave me the left handed scissors and I would tell them I needed the right ones. They just said No your left handed. Made me so mad. Are you or any of you like that with the cutting or throwing a ball not with your dominate hand?
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@marciascott (25529)
• United States
31 Mar 08
No I don't seem to have any problems with that, cutting with scissors was kind of ackward.
@comfort55 (1574)
• India
31 Mar 08
I have not seen any left-hander in my family. My father is a right hander but he plays badminton with left hand. Same way I am also a right hander but I put thread in the needle with my left. Strange!
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