Left Handedness

I guess I am one of the lucky ones in the fact that I am ambidextrous. I write with my left hand but I don't remember any problems at school regarding it. This might have something to do with the fact that everything else I did, from playing tennis to rounders (similar to baseball)..and cricket..I used my RIGHT hand to bat with! Whenever I threw a ball I used my right hand. In fact, the peeler you mentioned? I use my right hand to peel potatoes, etc. Stapler? Right hand! Mouse? Right hand! Scissors? Right hand! Ironing? Right hand! Telephone? LEFT hand! Brushing hair? Can use both hands. Whenever I played football (soccer) with "the lads" I amazed them all by using BOTH FEET. This is why I cannot understand why the overpaid players in the Premier League cannot use both feet. Some can but they are in a minority. The great Sir Bobby Charlton had a "wicked" left foot and he's said he wasn't naturally left-footed..he used to practice. It's a shame the overpaid guys don't seem to bother. Just play with morose expressions, then count the money afterwards!

I have some family members here after marriage who are left handers and i find them very strange when they are doing any work...i like to watch them...but i have never tried to do any work with left hand...nor can i do...as i am right hander i don't know what problems the left handers may have to face... i think you might be having problem with many things...

Two of my children are left handed, as are my dad and one of my brothers. My mom once told me she thought she had been a lefty, but had been made to use her right hand. I'm not sure what challenges the kids have run into, but I do remember, when my father-in-law was still alive, and he found out that Dearra was a lefty, that he wanted to know if we could "fix" that. "Why", I asked? Well apparently there's this German superstition that lefty's aren't as smart as rightys. But when I told him my dad is a lefty (my Dad is real smart), that shut him right up, and he never brought it up again.

im right handed so i dont think id have had a problem though since i dont ever and have never liked using a vegetable peeler i guess cause i was raised just using a knife to peel. i had one hubby that was left handed and didnt even realize it till he mentioned it. i would think tho in this age it might be hard to use a mouse i just thought of that.

i never thought of me being different or something. hahaha i am left handed, my best friend is left handed too.. well i never thought of me different or apart from the others because i have cousins who are left handed. But my son and daughter are all right handed it was never a challenge or hard.. i got used to it. i also observed that most left handed people i know are quite good in art ( not all but mostly)

I have a two year old who is showing left handed dominance. She definitely favors her left hand for eating and coloring. i had a mini mommy meltdown when I realized this. Not because she is a lefty, but because I am a righty and I do not know how to teach her to hold a pencil correctly or do things.

I'm right-handed but I think one problem is that there aren't enough things that are designed for left-handed people. Most of the stuff we use are right-handed friendly - even school desks. Although some manufacturers have considered left-handed people in the design of their products, I feel that most of them still do not take that into account. I have friends who are left-handed who feel they're being discriminated and that they are forced to make do with things designed for right-handed people which, accordingly, has adverse effects on them.

Hello, Dorannmwin. Happy heart's day. I am also a left handed person. When I was a kid I was teased because of this. I remember my great granma would poke my left hand when I used it for eating and writing. I remembered crying while eating because I could not eat with the spoon on my right. None of my kids inherited this. But, yes, there are a lot of inconveniences for a left handed person like us because most of the equipments are designed for right handed ones. Like a can opener. It is difficult for me to open a can using the standard can opener because the blade isn't working well. also, driving the cars. The gears are positioned on the right side so it is difficult to shift and maneuvered the car by the right hand for me. However, there are also gifts that go along with being a left handed. We do have great penmanship and we are good in logic and language. It must be the part of that brain that controls it.

I don't think I am very much help on this topic because I am a right handed person. But my brother is a left handed person. He really does find it tough to do stuff in a right handed society. I guess if I was him, it would take me a long time to learn to adjust to the world and make it easier for myself.

I'm a right handed person but my husband is a left handed person and so is my dad. They say there are some inconveniences of being a left handed person since most equipments are made for right handed persons. What is unique in some left handed persons like my dad is that he only writes using his right hand but does the rest of the work using his left hand.

Interesting to read this as I am right handed and always thought that left handed people simply did as we right handed ones. I did not know that you need special left handed items to be able to use products with ease. Always something new I learn here on myLot. Now I am playing with my mouse and can see that it would not be as comfortable as when I use it with the right hand.

Being a lefty for me is a gift. It's what I am and I am proud of it I say. Though I'm still fortunate that I am able to use both left and right in doing things. It has been a challenge also, but I trained my right hand to do other tasks and I'm surprised that people are impressed because I can use both hands. The only thing I can't do using my right hand is to write.

I am not a left handed person but would like to share about my sister who is one. Her biggest challenge was to learn how to play the guitar. Because playing it would mean she have to play the chords upside down (w/ the right hand). But since she is so determined and has the passion to learn, she did! And guess what, she played it the normal way, using the left hand for the chords and right hand for the rhythm. :)

I'm afraid that your son's passion soon is into playing the guitar. Obviously, he would find difficulty in strumming the strings but it would be a greater challenge for the tutor or trainer as the case may be. My simplest advise for you, Ms. Dorannmwin is to just let go of your child's left-handedness ability. He will learn things well and without difficulty as he grows old and grows up. Mind you, research says that most if not all left-handed people are brilliant and creative minds they as well are broad and open-minded beings and thus succeed in life. After all, its just letting go and letting God do it for your child. He is God's blessing to you.

Thank goodness we weren't born in the Middle Ages. We would have been considered eeevil! Anyway, being left-handed is kinda awesome sometimes, especially in social circles. And it's so funny when I write something with my left hand and people ask me "Are you left-handed?" Well, no, I'm just pretending.

My grandmother was left handed. My daughter is left handed but her father and I are not. My son isnt left handed either. They say the left handed people are usually more artistic and creative. I certainly find that true with my daughter. She holds her pencil in her left hand just as a right person holds it in their right. She doesnt hold it weird like so many left handed people I see do. So far she doesnt have a hard time doing anything different then any of the other kids.

I am a right handed person but I can do a lot of things with my left hand like using chopsticks and using knives and forks, one of the things that I cannot do with my left hand is writing.

I am a lefty.....and PROUD of it. The only thing I do left handed, is write, however. Everything else I am right handed. I can use both hands for some things though...like painting....while on a ladder I can use my left hand and right hand equally. My oldest son is left handed as well....but uses a right handed hockey stick and ball glove. My youngest son is right handed and used a left handed hockey stick and a left handed ball glove. We are a weird bunch.

I think I am inately left-handed. And because I also grew up in a right-handed world, I had to learn to be right-handed. Which is mostly writing. But everything else I do, my left hand is dominant (Maybe I'm just different). Shoot pool, throw darts, bowling, golf, etc. Anyway, my kids are both left handed. And I don't think there would be anything challenging for them as they grow up because a lot of oriented-left-handed things available. [i]Maybe looking for golf clubs... It is harder to find golf clubs for kids that are not right handed. At least in our area anyway.[/i]

I am a left-handed person. When I was a child, the biggest challenge wasn't for me but for my parents because in my class at school we were three left-handed children. And it was a right-handed society of a communist regime back then and all the teachers demanded that we started writing with our right hands. My parents struggled hardly to keep this from happening because no one can deliberately change nature's choices. And physiologically it was the worst thing to do. How can one change what nature gave him without any biological and neuron disturbances? Eventually my parents "won" this battle and nobody ever forced me to change my nature. My daughter is four years old and for now she tends to be right-handed. It's a challenge to me to teach her how to write because it is difficult to hold the pen with my left hand and at the same time holding her tiny right hand and showing her the letters. In fact my right hand serves me only when I use the scissors. Everything else I do with my left hand. And it's quite exciting for me to be "different". I never regretted, even for a second, that I was left-handed. Even more, I'm proud.