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Post by abbystevenson on Jan 29, 2009 18:07:31 GMT -5
Are you guys left handed or right handed? Somewhat of a pointless thread, but I find it interesting.
I am very left handed and it's nearly impossible for me to anything with my right hand. I actually enjoy being a lefty, but there are some things that drive me nuts! People are always like ZOMG!1111!1 UR LEFT HANDED?!? Um, yeah... got a problem with it? When I write, I always have pencil/ink all down my left hand from writing the way that I do. Plus, some things in this world are just not made for left handed people.
How many people do you know that are left handed? Mine came from my dad's side of the family. My dad, my oldest brother, and I are left handed. On my mom's side, only my youngest cousin and I are.
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Post by starrynight on Jan 29, 2009 18:17:01 GMT -5
I'm right-handed, although I tend to use my left hand for phone stuff. The only people I know for sure are left-handed are one of my grandpas and one of my brothers. I strongly suspect that one more more people in the office where I work are as well...I'll go back to the kitchen and find the coffe pot handle facing left instead of right.
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Post by sparklymouse on Jan 29, 2009 18:19:17 GMT -5
I'm right handed. I used to try to do things specifically with my left hand because I thought it would be cool to be ambidextrous, but that didn't work out so well. I just don't have enough strength in the left hand.
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Post by booboobrewer on Jan 29, 2009 18:33:11 GMT -5
I'm right-handed, but use my left hand a lot. It's weird. Ever since I was a kid, using my left always felt more natural -- throwing, catching, picking up stuff, using the telephone, brushing my hair, etc., etc. I can also write pretty well with my left.
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Post by greer on Jan 29, 2009 18:37:23 GMT -5
I'm right-handed.
Reagan, George H.W. Bush, Clinton, and Obama were/are all left-handed, which I think is interesting.
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Post by abbystevenson on Jan 29, 2009 18:43:36 GMT -5
That's cool! I didn't know that Obama is left handed. When I was in AP Lit my junior year, almost half of my class was left handed, including the teacher. I don't think I'd ever been around so many before.
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Post by booboobrewer on Jan 29, 2009 19:53:26 GMT -5
I had heard that about the presidents...it's pretty neat!
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Post by icequeen on Jan 30, 2009 7:03:25 GMT -5
I'm right handed. I used to try to do things specifically with my left hand because I thought it would be cool to be ambidextrous, but that didn't work out so well. I just don't have enough strength in the left hand. Hehe, me too. I thought maybe I could train myself to write left handed, after about a day I gave up. I can do some things with my left but more competent with my right.
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Post by ringdings on Jan 30, 2009 8:12:29 GMT -5
I'm right handed. I used to try to do things specifically with my left hand because I thought it would be cool to be ambidextrous, but that didn't work out so well. I just don't have enough strength in the left hand. Hehe, me too. I thought maybe I could train myself to write left handed, after about a day I gave up. I can do some things with my left but more competent with my right. Hah! Me tutti-frutti. I figured if my right hand was rendered temporarily useless, knowing how to use my left hand would be a good thing, so one summer, I tried to teach myself to use chopsticks and write with my left hand. I got bored after awhile and gave up. I am right-handed, but also use my left hand for other things, like using the phone and dealing cards. My mom thinks it's weird. Everyone on my family is right-handed. Some of my friends are left-handed, but I'm not OMG!! you're left-handed?! No biggie. One interesting thing though is I can sometimes tell by someone's handwriting that they're left-handed.
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Post by candykane on Jan 30, 2009 11:02:09 GMT -5
When I first saw the title of this thread I thought you were going to be asking about our political views. Anyway, I'm right-handed. In high school three of my good friends were left-handed. My mom was left-handed, too, but no one else in my immediate family was. When I was in elementary school I was friends with this one girl who was left-handed but her parents were trying to make her become right-handed. I don't recall whether that was successful or not.
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Post by greer on Jan 30, 2009 12:44:18 GMT -5
That happened to my uncle (it was common in the fifities) and it really messed him up.
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Post by blossom114 on Jan 30, 2009 12:56:56 GMT -5
That reminds me of a Judy Garland movie.. Easter Parade, her character couldn't tell her right from her left because they had confused her so much when she was a child because she was left handed but tried to make her right handed...
Yeah, way off topic.
I'm right handed , but I'm not too bad at using my left hand at such things... I can write fairly legibly (if not slowly ) with my left hand. I'm equally as bad at bowling with my left and aswith my right (sometimes i have more luck with my left hand than with my right though)... and when my next door neighbor tried to teach me how to hit a baseball, I couldn't hit right handed, but once he switched me to the other side of the plate i whacked the dang ball.
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Post by bsclover18 on Jan 30, 2009 16:14:35 GMT -5
I'm right handed and as far as I know, so is everyone else in my family.
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Post by sweetvalleygirl99 on Feb 2, 2009 17:16:27 GMT -5
Right-handed but when I write, my mom says I have a left hander's hook. She swears that if I hadn't been alone with my grandma (her mom) all day when I was little that I would be a lefty lol ;D. My grandma was the type of person who believed that if you were left-handed you were the devil or something like that haha ;D so she'd try to keep everyone from becoming a lefty.
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Post by GingerSnaps on Feb 2, 2009 22:49:51 GMT -5
I'm also left-handed. A lot of my female relatives on my dad's side are, so I guess that's where I got it. When I was younger I liked that ink smudge because it made me feel accomplished It didn't dawn on me that right-handed people don't get the smudge until middle school or so.
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