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become left handed.

bit of a thread rez but meh whatever.

Been visiting with my grandma and she noticed that I was using my left hand quite proficiently and she found it quite interesting. She watched over me a lot when I was little, instead of me going to a daycare.

She told me that I used my left hand a lot and she would "correct" me by moving pen/pencil/marker/whatever to my right hand.

This is kinda weird.
 
Rokem said:
bit of a thread rez but meh whatever.

Been visiting with my grandma and she noticed that I was using my left hand quite proficiently and she found it quite interesting. She watched over me a lot when I was little, instead of me going to a daycare.

She told me that I used my left hand a lot and she would "correct" me by moving pen/pencil/marker/whatever to my right hand.

This is kinda weird.
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Why would anyone consider writing with your left hand incorrect?
 
Rokem said:
bit of a thread rez but meh whatever.

Been visiting with my grandma and she noticed that I was using my left hand quite proficiently and she found it quite interesting. She watched over me a lot when I was little, instead of me going to a daycare.

She told me that I used my left hand a lot and she would "correct" me by moving pen/pencil/marker/whatever to my right hand.

This is kinda weird.
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Yeah, it took my friends a couple days to realize it, but they eventually figured out that my mouse was on the left side. :)

I'm gonna try again, because I basically failed the last time. This time, I'll start smaller, with just the mouse.
 
My left handed-ness is often a pain in the arse.

I just went through hell trying to buy a guitar. When you walk into a music store, there are probably 400 different guitars, but only 10-15 are left handed.

When I went to buy a new baseball mitt, there were once again, hundreds of mitts to select. I wished to buy a first baseman's or catchers mitt, to no avail. The only option I had was a mid-grade utility mitt. Maybe 10 mitts overall.

I've played hockey for about 14 years. I've found that hockey pro-shops are a little more forgiving, as they stock about 90% of all models in left handed.

And don't get me started on using a notebook to write with. I have to buy reversed binded notebooks for lefties in order to write. I'm an English major, so you can imagine how much writing I do on any given day. The metal spiral is always in my way, and the ink/graphite of my writing utensil always smears on my left hand.

A curse I tell you! :p
 
someguy said:
Why would anyone consider writing with your left hand incorrect?
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Left handedness has been associated with deficient mental capacity, and seen as sinister i.e. evil (from Latin "sinister" - left).

To echo some of the very early posts in this thread, one of my teachers used to hit the back of my hand with a ruler when I was 6, in 1961. Oh yeah, and parade me in front of the class as a freak. Mrs Cowie.
 
Well now I'm using the mouse with my left hand, and it's pretty hard, lol. I have the settings switched, but i dont know how im gonna survive at school if i get used to this (We can't access our settings :()

But I'm not gonna give up this time. I'm gonna start out with the mouse, and work my way up. I can do this!
 
I'm right-handed, but a while back I injured my right arm so I had to write lefty for a couple weeks. It was a very strange feeling, and my penmanship was horrendous. It is possible though, my grandfather was a left-handed but had always written with his right hand.

Jschultz said:
The metal spiral is always in my way, and the ink/graphite of my writing utensil always smears on my left hand.

A curse I tell you! :p
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I'm right-handed and I have that problem too. :eek:

But then again I have horrible hand-eye coordination, so that's probably why. :p
 
Rokem said:
This may sound weird but I want to become left handed. Anybody want to give me hints, tips or anything they can think of. or give me their college thiesis paper on why this is impossible :rolleyes: .

I have been using my left hand for my mouse and writing all of today and i have muscles hurting in places i didn't even now their were muscles their.:eek:
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Its NOT your hand that you must train ... but your MIND.

My sister was brought up to be ambidextrous. I personally taught her to write with her right hand, as I am as well, but my mother taught her to write in her left. she STILL has a preference to pick up a knife in her right had to cut meat with but she can do just fine on the fly with her left without thinking about it.

You'll realize that although your right-hand/arm is STRONGER than your left, your LEFT has more endurance!

Your hand hurts due to FINE MOTOR CONTROL.

STart by writing capital letters of the alphabet JUST LIKE kindergarten ;)
Then go small case letters when caps is perfected. Once small case is perfected then write upper/lower-case letters in cursive ... by this time your hand will not hurt so much, barely at all but you'll notice your strokes will become smaller or tighter (man this sounds like a masturbation class lol - back on topic).

Then is words & sentences with cursive.
Thne its eating ... eat steak ... cutting with the knife .... this is where fine motor control isn't so important but controllled strength in measurements - precise measurements is used/focused. Funny how you can use a fork in the left hand which needs precision & fine motor skills for balancing rise on and getting it to your mouth without thinking about it. strange no?

then practice holding a table spoon heaping with water (surface tension in full effect).... and go upstairs in your house WITHOUT spilling a drop at normal pace. ALso note NOT to fixate your elbow to your side of ur body ... on touching.

All done :)
This is just off the top of the dome but something I noticed my sister doing when she was 4 .... she's 26 now. I'm 34.

This is how I'd do it.
 
kiwi-in-uk said:
Left handedness has been associated with deficient mental capacity, and seen as sinister i.e. evil (from Latin "sinister" - left).

To echo some of the very early posts in this thread, one of my teachers used to hit the back of my hand with a ruler when I was 6, in 1961. Oh yeah, and parade me in front of the class as a freak. Mrs Cowie.
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Afaik Lucifer sat at the left hand of the Lord before he was cast down, so the natural(!) association is that the left is evil. There are other examples such as the "left-handed compliment".

Lefties are also known as sinistrals and as kiwi says the modern use of that word is to connotate evil

At least we don't live in Roman times - they used to bind boys left hands - something about a left hander being a bit useless in a wall of shields.
 
swiftaw said:
Years ago being left-handed was considered an affliction that had to be "unlearned". School teachers would force people to write right-handed, using suitable motivation (i.e. ruler on the knuckles)

Anyways, back to the point. It can be done, but you will be fighting your body's natural tendancy so it wont be easy.

Interestingly, Phil Mickleson, who is nicknamed Lefty because he plays gol left handed, is not actually left handed.
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I'm right handed, and I swing a baseball bat, golf club, and hockey stick left-handed.

For baseball and golf, probably because I feel really comfortable swinging my left arm in a back-handed motion. For hockey, I'd probably be better playing right-handed, but I'm too used to left.

Dunno why.
 
Jschultz said:
And don't get me started on using a notebook to write with. I have to buy reversed binded notebooks for lefties in order to write. I'm an English major, so you can imagine how much writing I do on any given day. The metal spiral is always in my way, and the ink/graphite of my writing utensil always smears on my left hand.
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LOL. You buy reverse binded notebooks do you? You don't just buy ordinary ones and turn them upside down then? :p:D
 
nplima said:
because of margins...
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DO you write on both sides of the page - if you do then 50% of the time you'll be using it the wrong way anyway.

If not you should be beaten for wasting paper and damaging the environment unnecessarily :mad:
 
Jschultz said:
And don't get me started on using a notebook to write with. I have to buy reversed binded notebooks for lefties in order to write. I'm an English major, so you can imagine how much writing I do on any given day. The metal spiral is always in my way, and the ink/graphite of my writing utensil always smears on my left hand.

A curse I tell you! :p
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Interesting—you actually buy left-handed notebooks? I'm left handed and I would personally never bother because I figure that half the time i use it anyway, the spiral's on the other side, so its essentially a non-issue for me.

And have you ever used Pilot G-2 pens? They smear horribly. But luckily I haven't had that problem with writing, because in about fourth grade, I realized that I dragged my hand along the paper, and that was why the side of my hand was always blue. So, subconsciously, I started picking up my hand when I write. Which is such a blessing with gel pens, because if you don't already pick up your hand when you write left handed, you learn really quickly to.
 
I am right handed but both my parents are lefties. When I was young, they tried to get me and my brother to learn to use our left hands to no avail. They wanted an entire family of left-handed people but got two right-handed kids.
 
Many years ago I read somewhere that being forced to switch handedness can cause stuttering, at least in children. Any grain of truth in that?
 
Warbrain said:
Now I'm an odd cat...

I write right-handed. I throw right-handed and I bat right-handed. However, when I fish (which hasn't been in years), I cast left handed. When I play hockey, I shoot left-handed. When I get the chance to shoot archery or rifle, I shoot left-eyed.

It's almost odd that I can't write left-handed, especially the way I switch off between everything.
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Same here. I use a mouse in my right hand, yet when I'm playing the piano if I'm ever going to mess up it'll be with my right hand. I hold a knife and fork the same way a left handed person does - my brother and sister are the same too. I play the guitar better right handed, but I'm much more creative with writing songs if I'm using my left hand :confused:

I like this thread and I'm going to try to write left handed too :)
 
Us south paws have a bit of an exclusive club, and we wanna keep it that way...:D
Speaking of the reverse, through years of using a mouse on the right side, i can now use it to an acceptable degree.
 
d_and_n5000 said:
Interesting—you actually buy left-handed notebooks? I'm left handed and I would personally never bother because I figure that half the time i use it anyway, the spiral's on the other side, so its essentially a non-issue for me.

And have you ever used Pilot G-2 pens? They smear horribly. But luckily I haven't had that problem with writing, because in about fourth grade, I realized that I dragged my hand along the paper, and that was why the side of my hand was always blue. So, subconsciously, I started picking up my hand when I write. Which is such a blessing with gel pens, because if you don't already pick up your hand when you write left handed, you learn really quickly to.
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I do buy them. You bring forth a valid point, that the spiral would be in your way half the time anyways. However, my professors are kind of weird in the sense that they only accept notebook pages which are written on the front side only. If there is writing on the back, it is disregarded.

I've found that typing notes on my powerbook is 10x easier, and not specific to any hand. :D
 
Jschultz said:
I do buy them. You bring forth a valid point, that the spiral would be in your way half the time anyways. However, my professors are kind of weird in the sense that they only accept notebook pages which are written on the front side only. If there is writing on the back, it is disregarded.

I've found that typing notes on my powerbook is 10x easier, and not specific to any hand. :D
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Oh - in that case I might consider them. Are they much more expensive than your average notebook?

And yes, typing just trumps everything. :) Much faster, and MUCH more legible.
 
I've been tempted for a while.

In infants school one day the teacher told us to write a sentence with each hand and then she looked at each and told us which hand to use from now on, my sentences are just as bad as each other so she told me to use my right. My handwriting is atrocious and I use my left hand for most other things so i'm wondering if it's worth switching over.
 
I throw a ball with my right, a frisbee with my left, am left-footed but write mostly with my right hand. My sisters are similarly mixed in their preferences for writing and throwing. I taught myself to write left-handed in my teens just because. It freaks people out in meetings when they watch me switch from one hand to the other. Some people are convinced that I am left-handed because that is all they have seen, whereas others are convinced of the opposite. I have actually overheard an argument between two colleagues who were discussing who the lefties in the office were when it came to me.

I started getting aches up my wrist and forearm due to excessive use of the mouse after some marathon Excel sessions with a too small screen. I switched from my right to my left. It took surprisingly little time to become accustomed and I only switched back after a year or so when the tell-tale aches started in my left by which time my right arm had fully recovered. It is a worthwhile skill to pick up and will save you from RSI in the long run.
 
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