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re: Is left-handed in a left-to-right language objectively better than being right-handed?
Posted on 12/20/21 at 3:41 pm to Klark Kent
Posted on 12/20/21 at 3:41 pm to Klark Kent
quote:Yeah my wife is a lefty so I like to give people shite about being wrong-handed. Like you, she does most things right handed except writing and a few other things, I guess mostly fine motor skills stuff. She complains when she has to use regular scissors.
you say this, but a lot of left handed children end up becoming fairly ambidextrous in a lot a ways. I for one am almost completely a righty now minus writing.
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Posted on 12/20/21 at 3:42 pm to RaisingCanesOnly
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Natural selection has selected for right handed people. Left handers will hopefully be extinct in a few years nbd
There are more lefties today than there were 100 years ago..
Posted on 12/20/21 at 3:44 pm to UndercoverBryologist
No
Posted on 12/20/21 at 3:48 pm to Korkstand
ugh, scissors and spiral notebooks are f’ing devil.
Posted on 12/20/21 at 3:55 pm to UndercoverBryologist
I always just get ink all over my hand and the spiral in the notebooks always got in the way. -fellow left hander
This post was edited on 12/20/21 at 3:56 pm
Posted on 12/20/21 at 4:20 pm to Korkstand
quote:As a lefty, I learned to use regular scissors early on.
She complains when she has to use regular scissors.
I can't use the "left-handed" ones.
Posted on 12/20/21 at 4:41 pm to UndercoverBryologist
I have a left-handed friend and he writes in cursive from right to left in perfect mirror image.
He can read it fine, but it looks like gibberish. Hold a mirror to it and it’s perfect.
He says his brain just sees it like that…
He can read it fine, but it looks like gibberish. Hold a mirror to it and it’s perfect.
He says his brain just sees it like that…
Posted on 12/20/21 at 4:57 pm to Scoob
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As a lefty, I learned to use regular scissors early on. I can't use the "left-handed" ones.
True!
My husband and I are both left-handed. 
Posted on 12/20/21 at 5:00 pm to UndercoverBryologist
I am a lefty… As you're writing, you are blocking what is already been written with your hand. Therefore I disagree with you that is better to be a lefty writing left to right
Posted on 12/20/21 at 5:00 pm to Klark Kent
quote:
but a lot of left handed children end up becoming fairly ambidextrous in a lot a ways.
I became ambidextrous with my feet. I'm right footed (but left handed, oddly) but could kick so well with with my left that I'd get put at left wing in soccer in high school.
This post was edited on 12/20/21 at 5:01 pm
Posted on 12/20/21 at 5:39 pm to UndercoverBryologist
No. I can also write in Arabic, which is right to left, and it is way easier to right that way as a left hander.
Posted on 12/20/21 at 5:56 pm to UndercoverBryologist
Remember those Eraser Mate pens? Being left handed and using one was a joke. All of your notes were smeared.
This post was edited on 12/20/21 at 5:57 pm
Posted on 12/20/21 at 6:04 pm to UndercoverBryologist
This is the kind of out-of-the-box thinking I expect from the OT. Upvote.
Posted on 12/20/21 at 6:29 pm to UndercoverBryologist
Left handed people (I am one) tend to have much better handwriting than righties and are more creative, as we use the right side of our brains more.
Other than that, there is no advantage to being left handed. We smear everything we write and spiral notebooks and binders are a pain in the arse. And don't even get me started on scissors meant for right handed people...
The world is catered to right handed individuals
Posted on 12/20/21 at 6:59 pm to IAmNERD
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This post was edited on 12/26/21 at 6:44 pm
Posted on 12/20/21 at 7:06 pm to UndercoverBryologist
No. You don’t need leverage or strength to write, which is the only thing being “behind” the pen or pencil would help with, you just end up putting more weight on your hand and your fine motor skills suffer as a result. I’ve never seen another left handed person with remotely good handwriting. It’s easier to pull the writing utensil to you than it is to “push” it.
Posted on 12/20/21 at 7:47 pm to Forever
quote:My handwriting sucks, but I always could draw like a mofo.
I’ve never seen another left handed person with remotely good handwriting
In 3rd grade, they put me in a handwriting class. After the Christmas break, they gave up and put me in art
Posted on 12/28/21 at 7:43 pm to UndercoverBryologist
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This post was edited on 12/28/21 at 7:44 pm
Posted on 12/28/21 at 8:14 pm to UndercoverBryologist
Left handed people are the only people in their right minds.
Posted on 12/28/21 at 8:36 pm to RaisingCanesOnly
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Natural selection has selected for right handed people. Left handers will hopefully be extinct in a few years nbd
While being left handed has it’s drawbacks, we get gratification knowing we are generally smarter than most!
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