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become left handed.
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curious post. you can learn to write left handed, but to become left handed would imply that everything is done with the left hand, naturally, no? Not sure many right handed converts could pull that off. especially since us lefties face everyday issues with the right hand world. also, to those guitar players that favor the leftie guitars, well imho holding the frets and the whole fret movement is much more diffucult, so us lefties actually have it easier than the rights, again, just my opinion.
This guy from The (English) Beat is one such example. A right-hander who played guitar left-handed because he was a Paul McCartney fan if I remember rightly. He also mentions nuns beating his mum for being cack-handed, so this seems to be a tradition.
Practice!!! Use your left hand for everything you do
Nice resurrection.
Been there, done that, and just recently. Not recommended.
In my study days I forced myself to become "two-handed". It's not hard to do, it just takes time, loads and loads of time.
My advice for succes is to write a bit every day. Yes, your hand will get sore like none other, so stop in time. After a few weeks you will find that it starts becoming natural and your script will improve.
A more nice challenge is to learn to type 5 finger blind. I can do 5 finger blind with my right hand nowadays, working on my left hand. Want to be able to type fast with one hand while walking around holding a keyboard.
My advice for succes is to write a bit every day. Yes, your hand will get sore like none other, so stop in time. After a few weeks you will find that it starts becoming natural and your script will improve.
A more nice challenge is to learn to type 5 finger blind. I can do 5 finger blind with my right hand nowadays, working on my left hand. Want to be able to type fast with one hand while walking around holding a keyboard.
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
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.
OK, I'm going to help you out (I'm a real left hander so I know my stuff). This is the advice my 2nd grade teacher gave me back in 1961.
Teacher: What would you do if you worked in a factory and a machine came down on your left arm and crushed it?
Me: I would learn to write with my right hand.
Teacher: Why don't you go home and have your mom put your left arm in a sling and pretend it's broken. I'll go easy on you until you learn to use your right hand.
Teacher: You'll always be a failure in life until you learn to use your right hand. You'll smear the ink from your fountain pen when writing.
So... there you have it... just follow her instructions but reverse the hand.
We cover the whole spectrum. Some are 100% one handed... I suspect most are mixed.
For myself:
Write left handed
Throw left handed
Mouse, trackpad right handed
Golf right handed
tennis left handed
ping pong left handed
billards, pool left handed
hit a baseball right handed
shoot a rifle left handed
shoot a bow and arrow left handed
shoot a handgun (I'm getting confused here... either way would feel ok)
use scissors left handed (scissors are the worst)
So the rule is: if the sport is one handed I'm left handed, if the sport is 2 handed I'm right handed.
I remember back in '85 when I had to decide which hand to use the computer mouse with. I chose the right hand because that (here in Millis) is the hand I use to shift the car.
Ouch. Chewing spent shells is no fun.
Very few guns have actions discharging to the left.
The m16 didn't and while shooting in a kneeling position leaning against a telephone pole at the range at Fort Dix in 1971 the shell hit the post, bounced up in the air and somehow found the skin down my back bypassing my helmet and 4 layers of wool and field jacket (winter). Thanks for helping me remember that moment.
my mom did this to me, and I am also socially awkward. Well not too awkward, I just physically can't look people in the eye when I talk to them.
I'm still left handed
It would be nice... there needs to be a college fraternity where the only requirement to join is being left handed. I'm a little too old to start one... so maybe one of you younger guys...
Dexterity is funny. I write with my left hand, and kick with my left foot. But I play guitar like a right-handed person, I do regular stance on the Snowboard, and use a computer mouse with my right hand.
Can't write with my right to save my life though...
Can't write with my right to save my life though...
Dexterity is a funny word to choose in this context, coming as it does from the Latin for "right hand". You clearly write with sinisterity.
Dexterity is a funny word to choose in this context, coming as it does from the Latin for "right hand". You clearly write with sinisterity.
Again, I have been enlightened by the eternal wisdom of Mr. Skunk and his cerebral encyclopedia.
I'm ambivalent about the perceived advantages of being truly ambidextrous (which I am).
My parents found it very difficult to identify which was my dominant had when I was young. They would put a pen in front of me, switch around the cutlery, play 'catch' with me as a toddler - all because I was never consistent on what I did with which hand. All through primary/elementary school I switched my writing hand from day to day, and could never decide which felt more 'right'. Teachers despaired. The same occurred with some sports; should I address the bowler with a right-handed or left-handed stance? Golf was simply a mystery. And so on. I was (and am) as good (or bad!) at any given sport with either hand.
In short, I felt so evenly balanced between my two sides that I did not feel completely at home in either of them. In the end, I had to choose which side would become dominant, and in a strange way I went through the same process that the OP, and others, describe but in reverse. When I was about 13, I trained my left side to become dominant. I did so simply by using my left hand for everything: writing, all sports, brushing my teeth, etc. I stopped using my right hand unless the activity was two-handed, and even then I made it subordinate to my left.
As of 2011, I would describe myself as ambidextrous with left-handed dominance. Making that choice was one of the best things I ever did. It means I no longer have a mild identity crisis when I go to do something new, and I now feel comfortable in my body. To football enthusiasts, here's my analogy: it's like having Lampard and Gerrard on your team, but you just know you can't play them together. Once you've accepted that, you pick your favourite (Gerrard/left) and keep the other one in reserve (Lampard/right).
My parents found it very difficult to identify which was my dominant had when I was young. They would put a pen in front of me, switch around the cutlery, play 'catch' with me as a toddler - all because I was never consistent on what I did with which hand. All through primary/elementary school I switched my writing hand from day to day, and could never decide which felt more 'right'. Teachers despaired. The same occurred with some sports; should I address the bowler with a right-handed or left-handed stance? Golf was simply a mystery. And so on. I was (and am) as good (or bad!) at any given sport with either hand.
In short, I felt so evenly balanced between my two sides that I did not feel completely at home in either of them. In the end, I had to choose which side would become dominant, and in a strange way I went through the same process that the OP, and others, describe but in reverse. When I was about 13, I trained my left side to become dominant. I did so simply by using my left hand for everything: writing, all sports, brushing my teeth, etc. I stopped using my right hand unless the activity was two-handed, and even then I made it subordinate to my left.
As of 2011, I would describe myself as ambidextrous with left-handed dominance. Making that choice was one of the best things I ever did. It means I no longer have a mild identity crisis when I go to do something new, and I now feel comfortable in my body. To football enthusiasts, here's my analogy: it's like having Lampard and Gerrard on your team, but you just know you can't play them together. Once you've accepted that, you pick your favourite (Gerrard/left) and keep the other one in reserve (Lampard/right).
I would like to make the attempt because I just built a Tattoo gun that runs off power from my USB port and it would be nice to be ambidextrous to do some sleeve work on myself.
