Calling all lefties!

[alison]

I'm a lefty, are you? Find out what's so special about us!

http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/n ... ies03.html

My grandmother tried to get me to be right-handed, until my mom swatted her on the nose.

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Not a lefty, but my great grandfather was ambidexterious. What was amazing, was that he was an architect and would use both hands to draw. I never heard about this until this year, and thought was a wonderful family story, that no one has even shared!

My son is slightly ambidexterious, but has chosen to write right handed, but sometimes every once in a while he'll switch. I'm not into enforcing anything, other than consistancy - any way good in my book.

[alison]

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That's really cool!

Pretty much the only thing I do lefty is write - if you give me a ball, I'll throw it with my right hand. I play tennis and golf right-handed. I'm ambidextrous when it comes to cutting things with scissors. I'm really messed up!

[alison]

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I use my right hand for the computer mouse.

[rainbabies]

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ds is a lefty. when im showing how to write a letter, or to hold his pencil properly...i really have to think. stupid me.

dh and i have both agreed that NOBODY better try to change him.

[alison]

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I don't blame my grandmother, because it's really much more difficult to write Japanese characters with your left hand. She signed me up for a calligraphy class when I was young, and I really sucked. There's no way to get the brush to stroke when you've got the left-handed hook thing going on.

My mil asked if it was genetic, because she thinks the left hook looks pretty silly. Dh put her in her place, thank goodness.

I hope (all) my kids are lefties just to piss her off. Nearly all of our recent presidents have been.

[Auspicious]

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ds is a lefty. when im showing how to write a letter, or to hold his pencil properly...i really have to think.

My brother and his wife are both lefties, and their kids are both righties. it's hard to teach an opposite-handed kid stuff! My nephew has the most bizarre technique for tying his shoes--my mom thinks he had to sort of make it up himself because he couldn't follow what his lefty parents were showing him.

My husband is a lefty and he'll tell you it's the mark of a superior being.

My family has several lefties (more than the typical 10% anyway) and so they're usually taken into consideration when placing people around the dinner table--to avoid bumping elbows. It was always considered a courtesy, but my husband hates being relegated to "the left-handed ghetto" and avoids it. :huh:

[SuzySunshine]

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I have three lefties in our family, my two uncles and DH's brother. We do the same thing about seating them on the corners so they don't bump people. They hate it.

I think teaching an opposite child would be very hard. I assume its genetic? Since we have it on both sides does that make our kids more likely to be lefty's?

Hmmm...

[Auspicious]

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I assume its genetic? Since we have it on both sides does that make our kids more likely to be lefty's?

Hmmm...

That's what I was taught in high school biology but my husband says no, it's not passed from parent to child like that.

[alison]

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If you click on the link to the article, there's a discussion on genetics.

[moonlight]

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I'm a lefty... or as they call me back home 'southpaw.' My parents are both right handed and had the hardest time teaching me how to tie shoes! Mom says she knew I was going to be left handed when I was a baby because I was sucking my left thumb! LOL!

When I was in junior high there was a whole store dedicated to lefties back home. Of course it's out of business now, but they sold the cuties stuff.... left handed scissors, and spiral binders with the metal spine switched to the opposite side (right side) so your left hand didn't rest on it!

[Auspicious]

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If you click on the link to the article, there's a discussion on genetics.

But reading is hard!

(just kidding)

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Not a lefty, but my great grandfather was ambidexterious. What was amazing, was that he was an architect and would use both hands to draw. I never heard about this until this year, and thought was a wonderful family story, that no one has even shared!

My son is slightly ambidexterious, but has chosen to write right handed, but sometimes every once in a while he'll switch. I'm not into enforcing anything, other than consistancy - any way good in my book.

My fil too. We've heard from his co-workers how dexterous he was at surgery - I suppose the ambidextrous-ness helped! It kind of scares me to think of being able to use both of my hands equally well - - - freaky - - - I don't know what I'd do with it. Guess I'm just used to my clumsy left hand.

m

Re: Calling all lefties!

Not a lefty, but my great grandfather was ambidexterious. What was amazing, was that he was an architect and would use both hands to draw. I never heard about this until this year, and thought was a wonderful family story, that no one has even shared!

My son is slightly ambidexterious, but has chosen to write right handed, but sometimes every once in a while he'll switch. I'm not into enforcing anything, other than consistancy - any way good in my book.

My fil too. We've heard from his co-workers how dexterous he was at surgery - I suppose the ambidextrous-ness helped! It kind of scares me to think of being able to use both of my hands equally well - - - freaky - - - I don't know what I'd do with it. Guess I'm just used to my clumsy left hand.

m

ooooh, and I forgot to mention:

that although dh is right handed, he bats and plays hockey left handed. I guess he got a little of it from his dear old dad. Dd now plays hockey left handed too - although she's right handed. I remember when she was a toddler and pushing a stroller with her left hand while running our neighbors who were both left handed said she was certainly left handed. She now seems right handed but just uses the left for sports.

Once I heard on public radio that men who are left handed use their brains more like women? Something about the information moving between the two sides?

I've also heard that people are either left or right eyed. Someone I know found out about this doing archery.

okay, now I'm done.

bye!

[SuzySunshine]

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People do have a dominate eye, I have nothing to back this up but I wonder if its usually the same as your handed-ness. My BIL is a lefty but plays golf as a righty.