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Question For My Fellow Southpaws

Love my grandkids — Sat, 09 Apr 2022 16:19:17 GMT

I've always HAD to put my right sock on first, then the left. I recently tried putting on my left sock first but it just was too weird. Seriously, I'm not being funny. Do any other lefties do stuff like this?

I have other lefty quirks as I know other lefties who do, too!

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gidgetgh — Sat, 09 Apr 2022 16:20:12 GMT

It doesn't matter to me which sock I put on first.

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Spurt — Sat, 09 Apr 2022 16:35:24 GMT

@Love my grandkids

I DO put on my left sock first......

I also find even though I'm left handed I do a lot of stuff with my right hand....cut with scissors, when I'm cooking stir stuff with my right hand, I'm pretty good at typing on a laptop keyboard one handed using my right hand too ...One thing I alwas found difficult using my left hand is ironing, the ironing cord gets in the way.......

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Imaoldhippie — Sat, 09 Apr 2022 17:37:39 GMT

Im not a southpaw but I dont think which sock you put on first or shoe for that matter has anything to do with being a righty or leftie. I believe it comes from as far back as when you were taught to dress yourself and as our peronalities develop with our little quirks we begin a habit. As we age some habits stay the same and sometimes they change.

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Love my grandkids — Sat, 09 Apr 2022 17:39:57 GMT

@Spurt I am the exact same way with the things I can do only right handed, pretty much. I cannot iron with my left hand. Tried for years when I was young and gave it up. When I did iron (I quit years ago!) it was ONLY with my right hand.

I know other lefties who absolutely cannot iron lefthanded. None fo us can figure out why!

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Love my grandkids — Sat, 09 Apr 2022 17:41:18 GMT

@Imaoldhippie I see what you are saying and agree to some degree. But this habit only started a few years ago!

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PinkyPetunia — Sat, 09 Apr 2022 17:52:03 GMT

I am a lefty but it doesn't matter to me which sock goes on first.

I prefer to wear a watch on my right wrist. I can't remember which hand I iron with as it's been years since I had the iron out.

I have a terrible sense of direction though. Don't know if this is a left handed thing. This drove my late husband nuts. I would point left and tell him to go right when giving him directions while driving.

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Love my grandkids — Sat, 09 Apr 2022 17:47:56 GMT

@PinkyPetunia Agree about the watch. I've never known a lefty who wore it on the left side.

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CelticCrafter — Sat, 09 Apr 2022 17:52:15 GMT

I iron with my left hand.

I use scissors in my right hand, I tried left handed scissors once and that was the end of that.

I use a chef's knife in my left hand but I use the dinner knife in my right, I've always held the fork in my left hand.

Glass measuring cups are made for right handed people, if you want to see the cups and ounces, not the metric measurements, you need the handle to be on the right side.

Fancy tea cups are made for right handed people too, if you use your left hand to pick it up you don't get to see the main design.

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SurferWife — Sat, 09 Apr 2022 18:01:06 GMT

I'm a left to right girl...just like in reading.

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KingstonsMom — Sat, 09 Apr 2022 18:18:01 GMT

@Imaoldhippie wrote:
Im not a southpaw but I dont think which sock you put on first or shoe for that matter has anything to do with being a righty or leftie. I believe it comes from as far back as when you were taught to dress yourself and as our peronalities develop with our little quirks we begin a habit. As we age some habits stay the same and sometimes they change.

@Imaoldhippie

Sorry to go off topic for a second, but I love your new siggie.....so true, LOL!

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Spurt — Sat, 09 Apr 2022 18:27:26 GMT

@Love my grandkids wrote:
@PinkyPetunia Agree about the watch. I've never known a lefty who wore it on the left side.

@Love my grandkids @PinkyPetunia

I DO wear my watch on my left wrist....LOL

And I DO have a poor sense of direction....

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chickenbutt — Sat, 09 Apr 2022 18:37:48 GMT

I'm not sure on the socks. I had recently removed them because it was getting warm and just now I grabbed them to see, but this was already in my head so I grabbed the right one first. Will have to re-evaluate when I'm not thinking about it.

I think I put my left shoe on first, though.

I love being different and I love meeting other left-handed people.

My husband is also left-handed and one thing that kind of makes me cringe is that he writes with his hand twisted over the pen. It always looked so painful to me. I did finally figure out why some left-handed people do that. I never did. Oddly, I'm the one who has wrist problems and I don't think he does. hmmm....

One thing for me has always been scissors. When I was a kid they had right-handed and left-handed scissors. But scrawny little me, I could never snag the one pair they would have at school, so I just learned right-handed.

Now that the scissors I have are all the same on both sides I can't figure out why I cannot cut with my left hand. I will put the pair of scissors in my left hand and try to cut something - nothing! It doesn't even make a mark. Same pair (and none of mine are right-handed scissors!) in the right hand and I'm cooking with gas.

I can't seem to figure that one out.

I think they have a whole day for us. Haven't looked it up, but that sounds like something I've heard.

Overall, my right hand is dumb as a box of rocks though. When I broke my left arm a few years ago I was having the hardest time. One of the most frustrating was when I was using my waterpik. It was like some kind of cruel cartoon, I tell ya! It would go flying out of my hand and here I am in a cast and trying to grab that sucker, as it flies around spewing water everywhere, with my stupid hand. Oh boy! Fun times.

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DianeJ2 — Sat, 09 Apr 2022 18:45:36 GMT

@Love my grandkids Yes i do this too! As a leftie I put my my right sock on first, my right shoe and i wear my watch on my right wrist. Just doesn't feel right starting from the left. Like the balance is off I can't explain it lol Maybe it's a weird OCD left handed quirk. I'm not OCD with other things.

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on the bay — Sat, 09 Apr 2022 20:22:27 GMT

I do most everything with my left hand.

I do kick a ball and bat with my right-weird.

I am terrible about directions too! And reading maps-like looking in a mirror backwards and trying to figure it out.Ironing and cutting is hard because of the cords and the way scissors are.And writing, the pen smears.

I'm so glad my mother didn't force me to be right handed which was the norm back in the day,

though one of my aunts got by-they are both left handed too.

We all know left handed people are special!😁I guess you could debate special in what way lol but that's ok too!

I wear my watch always on my left wrist. It feels weird on the right.

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chickenbutt — Sat, 09 Apr 2022 18:52:25 GMT

I always heard that left-handed people were known to be more creative. Does this apply to others here?

As usual for me to be adverse to everything normal I have absolutely no creative ability. I'm more calculative and technically minded. I have great appreciation for creative abilities - maybe more so because I have none.

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Love my grandkids — Sat, 09 Apr 2022 19:56:25 GMT

@chickenbutt I've read that for years due to the dominance of one or the other side of the brain. As a child I taught myself embroidery by use of a library book (I was about 10), I've done knitting and cross stitch for most of my life. I still like to color! And I loved fingerpainting with my grands when they were little LOL.

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chickenbutt — Sat, 09 Apr 2022 20:03:56 GMT

@Love my grandkids wrote:
@chickenbutt I've read that for years due to the dominance of one or the other side of the brain. As a child I taught myself embroidery by use of a library book (I was about 10), I've done knitting and cross stitch for most of my life. I still like to color! And I loved fingerpainting with my grands when they were little LOL.

Several decades ago I wanted to learn to knit. I was lucky that my best friend was also left-handed and she taught me to knit. I haven't done it for ages but I feel like I still might know how. I was always so appreciative that she taught me.

For whatever reason, trying to learn thart sort of thing from a right-handed person seemed beyond difficult.

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Oznell — Sat, 09 Apr 2022 20:21:54 GMT

@Love my grandkids, I'm left-handed. I do do a few things with my right hand, but, typical of me, it's hard for me to picture and remember which ones, ha. I think scissors I do right-handed.

Socks, I'm not sure. Probably the one on the right. I've always been dizzy about noticing that kind of thing.

Things other people notice, I can be quite oblivious to-- and some things I notice, others don't...

Have mentioned before that I think that an aversion to filling out extensive forms, is, or could be, a left-handed attribute. At least, that's my excuse-- I have a special loathing for it! Do you have that?

Of my 3 sisters, 2 of us were left-handed, and 2 right-handed. My left-handed sister was great at fine art, and anything mechanical (which I am not). But we were both ultra-interested and passionate about interior design.

I would say we were both a bit more "spacey" than other family members....

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annie-g — Sat, 09 Apr 2022 20:38:28 GMT

I am left handed and always wear my watch and tennis bracelet on the left wrist. Just seems normal. I too cannot remember which handI I iron with as it has been so long since I used an iron. I cut paper with my right hand and cannot with the left. I was lucky enough to have had a smart teacher in elementary school, who told us to turn our tablet to go under the left or the right hand. Hence I always had pretty handwriting and do not twist the hand and arm to look upside down. My dear mother who was really left handed, was made to write with her right hand in school in the old days and the teacher would hit their hand with a ruler, iif they were caught going back to the left hand. Think I would have slugged her! I still see lefties curled to write with the paper pointed to the right side.