Are you left-handed or right-handed?
By Simone
@Janet357 (75646)
June 18, 2020 6:17pm CST
34 years ago, my mother taught me how to write and I was 6 years old then. She got so mad when I used my left hand.
She scolded me with a stick, threatening me that she would use that stick if my left hand would be used in writing.
That was when I learned to use my right hand. And it was not easy then.
Now, I write with my right hand, but I use my left hand when I cut or slice something with a knife, but left hand when I use scissors.
Most people in the world use their right hands. My husband uses his left hand so he is a bit slow in writing.
What about you?
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@Adie04 (17360)
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19 Jun 20
Oh, I was wondering why some people don't like to see us using left land. I still wonder until now. Do they have beliefs in curse or something?
But for me, since I play piano, I naturally can do things with both hands. I mean, I can write with right and left hand, play bowling with right and left hand, wash dishes with right and left hand.... Hmmm, am I considered as ambidextrous then?
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@youless (112621)
• Guangzhou, China
19 Jun 20
I agree with you that there are more right-handed people and this is why some parents want their children to adjust to it. I am also a right-handed person. However, I use mouse with my left hand so that I can use my right hand to do something else, such as writing. And it will be much more efficient
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@kobesbuddy (78871)
• East Tawas, Michigan
19 Jun 20
I am left handed, just like my father. What people might not know, the brain is reversed, according to which hand a person naturally favors.
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@kobesbuddy (78871)
• East Tawas, Michigan
19 Jun 20
@Janet357 You are correct. My father was born to be left handed. As you, he was punished and forced to write with his right hand. For this reason, Dad was slow when it came to writing and his thought patterns. Was his mind damaged by this? Nope, he was a genius when it came to mathematics!
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@Janet357 (75646)
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19 Jun 20
@kobesbuddy I believe it. Because left handed people are really good in math. my husband is like that. and I know some more people who are good at math and who are left-handed too.
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@pitsipeahie (5014)
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19 Jun 20
I'm right dominant but I can write with my left hand too. But my left hand writing isn't as legible as my right's.
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maybe they got it from their relatives.
@RasmaSandra (81127)
• Daytona Beach, Florida
19 Jun 20
From stories, I was told I kept taking everything in my left hand and mom put it in my right. So I became righthanded but I can write with my left hand too not very well but understandable.
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@Deepizzaguy (104659)
• Lake Charles, Louisiana
19 Jun 20
I am a right handed person.
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@snowy22315 (182791)
• United States
19 Jun 20
I am right handed, but I do a couple of things left handed. My son is left handed.
@lovinangelsinstead21 (36850)
• Pamplona, Spain
19 Jun 20
I am also left handed and it was forced out of me when I was at school to write with the right hand but in reality I still pick up a lot of things with the left hand still without thinking about it.
That´s how I got to learn to use the left hand.
@Kaleidoscop (132)
• Lagos, Nigeria
19 Jun 20
I use my right hand mostly. In my culture you do not give an elderly person something(e.g a pen) with your left hand, it's seen as disrespect.
My brother uses both hands, my dad threatened him too when he started out writing with his left hand. it made his writing skill sloppy in his childhood .. But now he's good at it
@Kaleidoscop (132)
• Lagos, Nigeria
19 Jun 20
@Janet357 I'm a Nigerian. Left-handed handshakes are frowned upon as well. I think it has something to do with the fact that the left hand is commonly used to rinse butt after using the toilet :-|
