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[geezerette]

My father should have been left-handed, but his mother punished him when he used his left hand.  She also was mad at my mother when my oldest sister was born that my mother didn't force her to be right-handed too.

That was a bit of a joke in our family.  My mother used to say that when my sister was learning to feed herself my mother would put the spoon in my sister's right hand and my sister would immediately put it in her left hand and begin to eat.  My mother was perfectly fine with that, and the next kid in line was left-handed too.

[Carmie]

My left handed mother was born in 1918...one of seven girls.

At school, a teacher tried to force her to use her right hand and hit her fingers until they were raw.

My mother's father was a very quiet man...I only have ever heard him speak a few times, but my mother said he went to the school and told them that it was God's will for her to be left handed and they needed stop trying to change her.

My mother said that was the only time she ever heard her father speak up to anyone.

i have one left handed son.  He has taught himself to use his right hand.  He plays and collects vintage guitars ( super expensive ) which  are mostly right handed instruments.  He plays equally well left or right handed.

I am always amazed how well lefty's can use both hands. I'm right handed and can't do any detailed work with my left...

My right handed handed daughter ties her shoes like a lefty.  She was taught how to tie her shoes by my mother.  

[Bridgegal]

My sister and I are both left handed.   She is 100% a lefty but I only use my left hands for a few things.  My theory is that I just did things the way my right handed parents did and most everyone else did.  No one ever tried to change my left handed writing and eating.  My mother always thought she might have been born left handed but was converted to to using her right hand.  

I have read that overall lefties are more intelligent but have a shorter life expectancy due to being more accident prone.  I have no idea if that is true.  

[chickenbutt]

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@Bridgegal wrote:

My sister and I are both left handed.   She is 100% a lefty but I only use my left hands for a few things.  My theory is that I just did things the way my right handed parents did and most everyone else did.  No one ever tried to change my left handed writing and eating.  My mother always thought she might have been born left handed but was converted to to using her right hand.  

I have read that overall lefties are more intelligent but have a shorter life expectancy due to being more accident prone.  I have no idea if that is true.  

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That (bolded by me) is very interesting, as I'm about as klutzy as it gets.  About the only character more klutzy than I would be Steve Urkel (a pop culture ref to a sitcom character).   I don't take down a whole room like he did, but I can turn one dropped item into a clown car of incidences.  I'll bend over to pick it up, knock something else onto the floor, hit my head, pick up a piece of paper and get a paper cut.  By the time I get done with the initial dropping of one item I'll end up having dropped a few items and having at least one injury.

What's odd about it is that I'm actually very careful and VERY seldom do I break anything.

[on the bay]

@chickenbutt,

Maybe you are that way because you are also a scorpio!

We all know left handed people are special😄

Both my aunts are left handed but the oldest was changed to right handed which is what they did most of the time back in the day.

My mother never tried to change me and we had very good teachers who taught us how to write and not in that twisted way.

I think I am creative but never liked cutting with scissors or coloring either. Ironing, well lots of things can be awkward but I can't imagine what it would be like to change someone's dominant hand.

My youngest grandson is left handed also and I'm so proud!😀

I do bat and kick right handed and foot which I find very weird. 

[shoesnbags]

My mom was a lefty and her only brother was right handed.  Both of my mom's kids are right handed, but her brother's only child is left handed. Go figure. My grandparents were both right handed, so not sure where that lefty gene came from. 

[Malcontent]

@CelticCrafter 

While he’s not a lefty, he’s apparently ‘confused’ that Pops and I are and think it’s ‘weird’ that we are.

Almost like it’s some affliction that he may inherit.

[Malcontent]

@candys mine 

LoL I’d blame it on my son (his father) only…his father is right handed.

[Mindy D]

@Diva on The Q @Buy a pair of left handed scissors.

[pigletsmom]

That seems like a weird thing to be upset about but maybe he's just noticing that he doesn't get to spend that much time with you an that's the real issue?