Left Handed People....talk!

Southpaw here. Finding sports equipment is a pain. Golf clubs, golf glove, baseball mitt. For cooking I use my right hand for handling the pans and do the stirring and such left handed.

I agree can openers are the worst.

I am a lefty. But my dad didn't want me to be, so everything he taught me, batting, throwing, catching, bowling, etc. was from a right-handed perspective. So I do alot of things right-handed, alot of things left-handed, and alot I can do with either. As far as scissors go, I've tried to use left-handed scissors but I can't, it seems odd. I was taught at school to use right-handed scissors with my left-hand because there were no left-handed ones available. But, I don't mind, it's who I am. I like being able to use both.

i know your pain!!
But like the above poster, I also use a folded kitchen towel.
Can openers and ice cream scoopers are what I can't find, ever!

I eat and write left handed but do everything else righthanded. It confuses those around me

same here, I was taught to do everything righty because I was the only lefty in my classes growing up.

I'm left handed and I use the ove glove it's made for either hand and really does protect

I'm left handed and love it!

-- except I'm really bad with scissors.

I'm left handed and love it!

-- except I'm really bad with scissors.

Lol! Me too :-)

i've never had a problem being a lefty. i use can openers that it doesn't matter if they're left or right handed and i buy oven mitts that are thick on both sides!

in saying that, i use my right hand for a LOT of things so some could say i'm ambidextris. i use scissors, throw, catch, pick up items etc in my right hand but i write with my left. it was something i taught myself growing up and it's a non issue for me.

I'm a leftie but it was litterally beaten out of me at school so I was ambidextrous till about my mid twentys.

:ohwell:

Scissors, can-openers or oven mitts have never bothered me, but my handwriting is ATROCIOUS, because I can't see what I'm writing til I've already written it! (Don't even get me started on trying to write on a dry-erase board.)

And in high school, they had those desks with right-sided mini tables attached, those were a pain. I got around it by sitting in the second-to-the-left row, and pulling an empty desk on my left to sit flush with my seat, and writing on that.

Tin openers! Bane of my life.
At my university there are seats with the little pull up table things for you to write on, but they're only on the right side so you have to write so awkwardly as a left hander when using them -_-

Yes! There are always about 2 desks which are usable for lefties, but they have a wider working space, so greedy right-handers always use them!

Gosh, it must be nice for all of you "lefties" who do things like throw, catch, and write with your right hand... I sure wish I could! But, I'm not even a little tiny bit ambidextrous (thank goodness no one tried to beat it out of me... I'm pretty sure I would have just ended up black and blue but still as solidly left handed as ever). My hand writing even with my left hand is pretty bad, but with my right it's literally only legible if I go at the speed of a kindergartener, and it turns out at a kindergarten quality.
There's absolutely no way I could catch or throw things with my right hand and be effective at all... which makes team sports tougher - example: the setter in volleyball sets the ball up high and to the right side of the player who's going to spike it. So, if they set to me I'm absolutely useless unless they remember that I'm a leftie and they set to that side of my body... needless to say, I generally only played server and back row specialist back in high school :-)
Can openers can be awful, and another kitchen item that has caused me much grief is a potato peeler! Many of them are much sharper on the side that a right handed person would use... which makes them both frustrating and dangerous for us lefties trying to force a sharp object to work against its will!
I too use right handed scissors because that's what was available in school, so I was able to train myself to hold those properly to make them work... so, I actually can't use left handed scissors because of the way I hold them.
As far as oven mitts, I either use a folded up towel or one of those square potholders, folded as necessary :-)
Ohhhh the joys of being a leftie in a right handed world! ;-)

life a few others have said, i use a towel instead of gloves.
and can openers can suck it. i taught my self to use both hands when i broke my wrist in 4th grade and had to use my non dominant right hand, so i will do some things righty if needed. but i would rather just do it the correct way, with the left hand. the way we were supposed to be :]

Your not the only one with those issues sister lol, another lefty here haha I can totally relate.


Nadia