Question For My Fellow Southpaws - Page 2

KingstonsMom · ‎03-09-2010

@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.

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Spurt · ‎03-20-2010

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

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

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

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chickenbutt · ‎03-09-2010

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.

DianeJ2 · ‎08-07-2015

@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.

on the bay · ‎03-09-2010

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 · ‎03-09-2010

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.

Love my grandkids · ‎11-24-2013

@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.

chickenbutt · ‎03-09-2010

@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.

Oznell · ‎11-08-2014

@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....

annie-g · ‎04-20-2011

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.