MFP Left-Handers Stand up and be Proud!!

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  • bucs75
    bucs75 Posts: 3
    Left handed here. Used to do everything right handed in sports though because none of the coaches could teach a lefty. Damn right handed world!
  • beebee0925
    beebee0925 Posts: 441 Member
    Southpaws stand up! woot woot! I guess I fit the creative bill. I love to sing and perform in community theater. I was great with the piano as a child but didn't keep it up.
  • Dead_Darling
    Dead_Darling Posts: 478 Member
    Lefty and proud!

    - I use the computer mouse with my right hand, but the trackpad on my laptop with my left hand.
    - My last job included a lot of maths, and I'm a Marketing graduate XD
    - All the artwork we've got in the house were painted by me
    - I play guitar left handed (a lot of my right handed, guitar playing friends say I'm playing the guitar upside down :huh:), and I play piano too
    - I danced for 10 years and have been swimming since I was a kiddo, so I can see clearly underwater
    - I can catch a ball with both hands, but can't throw a ball with my left hand :\
    - My dad was right handed and so is my mum and brother
    - My mum recently bought a pair of scissors recently, and the happiness on my face when I found out they were left-handed scissors :laugh:
  • Titanuim
    Titanuim Posts: 331 Member
    I love being left handed!

    My both of my grandparents on my mothers side were left handed and lived to their nineties so they didn't get the memo about dying young. Amusingly they were also very left wing being proud Marxists/Communists till the day they died.

    My dad is left handed. My sister is left handed.

    None of my kids are left handed and it makes me sad.

    I am extremely clumsy but I put that down to lack of 3d vision and being on the ASD scale rather than due to hand dominance.
  • angelndskies44
    angelndskies44 Posts: 13 Member
    True lefty here. Right hand not needed at all. My husband and oldest son are as well. My youngest son is the lone ranger in our house. LEFTY"S ROCK!!!!
  • Lauren8239
    Lauren8239 Posts: 1,039 Member
    Lefty here. I write with my right mostly since I was forced to in school, to "conform to the majority".
  • HollywoodDJ
    HollywoodDJ Posts: 296
    TOTAL LEFTY HERE TOO and so is my husband but none of my kiddos are! =(

    I love being a lefty !
  • HollywoodDJ
    HollywoodDJ Posts: 296
    Lefty here. I write with my right mostly since I was forced to in school, to "conform to the majority".

    Teachers tried to get me to write Right-handed too. I can even remember having my hand slapped
    for writing with my left.
  • melizerd
    melizerd Posts: 870 Member
    I'm a lefty and I'm VERY left handed. I can use a scissors right handed but I'm much better at it lefty. I play all sports lefty, and kick left footed even. As far as we know I'm the only lefty in my family ever. At least none of the oldest generation even remembers "trying" to be lefty when it wasn't allowed. So I'm a freak :D

    My husband and son are both right handed. I was sort of hoping that the kiddo would be a lefty.
  • lwoods34
    lwoods34 Posts: 302 Member
    Im a leftie!!!:smile:
  • GodsGirl37
    GodsGirl37 Posts: 348
    well I am in good company! I 'm 100% left handed. It would be cool to be friend lefties.
  • annahiven
    annahiven Posts: 177 Member
    Left handed... I use my left hand for everything except controlling a computer mouse.
  • mslack01
    mslack01 Posts: 823 Member
    Fellow south-paw. I do most things left -handed. I'm also left-footed.

    I can use the calculator, shoot pool, and bowl with my right-hand but I wouldn't say I'm good at any of that. LOL
  • StirFriedGiblets
    StirFriedGiblets Posts: 89
    I'm left handed despite my grandparents trying to change that! :laugh: Outta the six of us at home half are left handed, half are ginger and I'm the only one with green eyes (rest are blue-eyed) strange huh?

    My boyfriend calls me "cack-handed" the cheeky bugger!
  • majordlite
    majordlite Posts: 266 Member
    I'm mostly left-handed, but I golf, bat, kick, and shoot right-handed. I think I wouldn't make it if I had to do fine-motor-skills sort of things with my right hand...it's useless that way. :-)
  • flstarlady65
    flstarlady65 Posts: 129
    I am a lefty and do almost everything left handed. I have a sister a cousin and uncle that are also lefties.

    Recent Left handed Presidents: George W. Bush, Bill Clinton and President Obama!!

    We are in our Right Mind!
  • laurenr85
    laurenr85 Posts: 11
    I'm a lefty!!! Only thing I do right handed is cut with scissors and use my computer mouse. I'm definitely creative and athletic. My dad and grandpa are the only left-handers I know of in my family.
  • aperfectionista
    aperfectionista Posts: 15 Member
    I am a lefty! let's all be friends!
  • BoxingAli
    BoxingAli Posts: 117 Member
    southpaw here! as a child, i did gymnastics right handed. i use scissors righthanded b/c no place ever has LH scissors! everything else is lefthanded.
  • sunsetwest
    sunsetwest Posts: 199 Member
    southpaw here, too! i do everything leftie except use scissors, a computer mouse and ... one other unmentionable ... :blushing:
  • nswars
    nswars Posts: 2
    I am left handed!!! I do almost everything with my left hand but since no one else in my family is left handed I learned to play most sports the right handed way. I am always having to adjust to the right handed world haha.
  • wendyt77
    wendyt77 Posts: 18 Member
    I am a lefty too! I only use my right hand to use scissors & computer mouse. In my house of 5, my daughter is the only right hander. :happy:
  • susiebear29
    susiebear29 Posts: 266
    Im a leftie...well kind of!! I write with my left hand, brush my teeth and put my make-up on with my left hand but everything else right handed!! not very artistic but I can be quite creative when I have time!! I'm the only one in my family and proud of it!! :smile:
  • saragato
    saragato Posts: 1,154
    Left-handed. When I was a baby and started picking up things with my left hand, my father tried to make me use my right hand and blamed my mother because she used to sit in front of my highchair at feeding time and hand me stuff with her right and he swore I was mirroring her. His attempts never worked.

    I've learned to be minorly ambidextrous when it comes to some things, mostly using my jewelry tools or certain mediums when I'm drawing/painting. I did manage to learn how to draw with my right hand using the computer mouse for 4 years. I couldn't afford a digital drawing tablet back then and I wanted to draw digitally so I just worked with my right hand. I can also eat with my right, I learned that when I had 4 different surgeries on my left arm when I was 19 and the bandaging was almost to my shoulder for roughly a month.

    My boyfriend was born left-handed as well but his mother was more adamant about which hand he used so he's a righty now.

    I've actually had people be bothered with me using my left hand and I'm never sure why. Go to sign a receipt and a cashier makes the comment, "oh... you're left-handed...." like I just gave her bad news. I've had people in restaurants stare as I eat, especially when I was a kid. It was like they were thinking I was experimenting with the "wrong" hand and just waiting for me to drop food on myself.
  • mrpearson253
    mrpearson253 Posts: 20 Member
    Do most things lefty, even scissors (adapting to the right handed world I guess), bat, throw, play tennis, but I eat with mostly with my right. Go figure. But the only left-hander in my entire family...on both sides!
  • Laura_Ivy
    Laura_Ivy Posts: 555 Member
    Aww I'm a lefty too! But I do a ton of things with my right hand like cutting with scissors :)
  • taxacctdfw
    taxacctdfw Posts: 67 Member
    100% left handed. And I am very accident prone :( I love being left handed. !!!!
  • direwolfprincess
    direwolfprincess Posts: 261 Member
    Born a lefty, school tried to force traditional right handed practices...
    I WON! Still a lefty and proud of it! :bigsmile:
  • AliceKlaar
    AliceKlaar Posts: 275 Member
    Left-handed and -footed here! :-) The only thing I do right-handed is eat finger foods, everything else is southpaw!
  • lavieboheme1229
    lavieboheme1229 Posts: 448 Member
    lefty! when i first got my job, i had to specifically ask for a pair of scissors that wasn't already molded for a righty.

    Ever notice how gas pumps are set up for righty's too? As if the gas line never seems to twist the right way!
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