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[–] [email protected] 135 points 1 year ago (6 children)

The first time I picked up a crayon, I used my left hand. My parents were concerned but waited it out. After watching me use my left hand the next few times they decided to convert me.

I was brought to a special Sunday school service where right is right. They started with drawing, then moved on to writing. Eventually they worked on my instincts, by throwing things at me, at random, to ensure I used the right hand to catch. I was slapped with a yard stick in the knuckles whenever I used the wrong hand.

Leftiism exists. Parents think they are helping but it's caused all sorts of problems in my life.

[–] [email protected] 45 points 1 year ago (3 children)

What in the definition of CIA training is this?

[–] [email protected] 40 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Common practice up to pretty recently.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago

When I was a kid in the 80s I knew an older man who said when he was a kid his school tied his left arm down behind his back to force him to use his right hand.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Which is strange given that so many world-class renowned inventors and artists are all left handed

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Obviously they were inspired by the left handed devil.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Well, it is where the word "sinister" came from.

People used to think left-handed people were demonic.

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

I'd be careful trying to deduce something from that (to my knowledge not too studied) factoid. It could (pure speculation) also be, that children growing up with the freedom to use whichever hand they wanted at a time when that wasn't generally the case also had other freedoms like developing their creativity.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

If you'd like to know a whole lot more, here's a Wikipedia page that could probably use some editing and reorganization but has over 80 references showing bias against lefties throughout history

A sample,

On March 8, 1971, The Florence Times—Tri-Cities Daily reported that left-handed people "are becoming increasingly accepted and enabled to find their right (or left) place in the world." The Florence Times—Tri-Cities Daily also wrote "we still have a long way to go before the last vestiges of discrimination against left-handedness are uprooted, however." The frequency of left-handed writing in the United States, which was only 2.1 percent in 1932, had risen to over 11 percent by 1972. According to an article by The Washington Post from August 13, 1979, a University of Chicago psychologist, Jerre Levy, said: "In 1939, 2 percent of the population wrote with the left hand. By 1946, it was up to 7 1/2 percent. In 1968, 9 percent. By 1972, 12 percent. It's leveling off, and I expect the real number of left-handers will turn out to be about 14 percent." According to the article by The Washington Post from August 13, 1979, "a University of Michigan study points out that left-handers may not be taking over the world but...7 percent of the men and 6 percent of the women over 40 who were interviewed were lefties, but the percentages jumped to well above 10 percent in the 18-to-39 age group." According to the article by The Washington Post of August 13, 1979, Dr. Bernard McKenna of the National Education Association said: "There was recognition by medical authorities that left-handedness was normal and that tying the hand up in a child often caused stuttering." In Japan, Tokyo psychiatrist Soichi Hakozaki coped with such deep-seated discrimination against left-handed people that he wrote The World of Left-Handers. Hakozaki reported finding situations in which women were afraid their husbands would divorce them for being left-handed. According to the aforementioned article, an official at the Japanese Embassy said that, before the war, there was discrimination against left-handers. "Children were not trained to use their left hand while eating or writing. I used to throw a baseball left-handed, but my grandparents wanted me to throw right-handed. I can throw either way. Today, in some local areas, discrimination may still remain, but on the whole, it seems to be over. There are many left-handers in Japan." In a further article in The Washington Post of December 11, 1988, Richard M. Restak wrote that left-handedness has become more accepted and people have decided to leave southpaws alone and to stop working against left-handedness. In an article by The Gadsden Times from October 3, 1993, the newspaper mentioned a 5-year-old named Daniel, writing: "the advantage that little Daniel does have of going to school in the '90s is that he will be allowed to be left-hander. That wasn't always the case in years past." In a 1998 survey, 24 percent of younger-generation left-handed people reported some attempts to switch their handedness.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

Religion is mind poison and this is an example of the symptoms.

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago

My grandma got her left-handedness beaten out of her by the nuns. Paragons of virtue, the whole lot of them, right up there with Teresa.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

Dad, is that you?

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[–] [email protected] 87 points 1 year ago (7 children)

Notebook thing dont really make sense?cuz you flip it for the other page anyway

[–] [email protected] 36 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Panels 2 and 3 happened for me anyway despite not being left handed

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I have seen lefties get in on their hand and I always wonder why they don't turn the paper and write towards themselves. That was the hack I learned from early. It also solves the notebook ring problem.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yes, I know some people who do this and it's easy if you do it from early on, but learning it later is like relearning writing altogether. It ain't impossible but neither is it easy

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Yeah but most of the time if you are just writing a fresh page it’s gonna be in that orientation, especially like back in school where it might be for an assignment or something, so more often than not it would be like that

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago (5 children)

If you write on front and back pages, it’s equally annoying to righties and lefties.

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[–] [email protected] 31 points 1 year ago (2 children)

My favourite part is when people that I've known for a while go "you're left handed?"

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

😂 this happens a lot

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[–] [email protected] 25 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I love being married to my left-handed wife. We can cook on the same stove together, we can read and hold hands, we can eat without bumping each other so long as we sit correctly. So many things are easier for us because one of us is a lefty.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

This is absolutely precious lol

I wish you and your wife unlimited happiness 🥰

[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 year ago (7 children)

And who could forget granny's: when you're left handed, "YOU'RE THE LITERAL SPAWN OF SATAN" ok, dear?

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I’m stumped old people didn’t die on their stupidity.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

Eh, living with themselves was punishment enough. I'm just sorry for the few level-headed outcasts who had to live thinking they were weird or pretending to fit in so they wouldn't be persecuted.

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Since handedness is genetic, there is a chance that that's what she was told when she learned to use the right hand (pun intended)

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/39092/how-did-sinister-the-latin-word-for-left-handed-get-its-current-meaning yea, stupid ideas are contagious and latch onto language and culture, apparently. In Italian, left is still "sinistra", so that creates other fun puns like learning to use the sinister hand.

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[–] rolofox 20 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Every time I do something wrong or I'm clumsy my mother blames it on "it's because he's left-handed" been this way for 36 years now.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (4 children)

I agree with all but the last one. From my experience, I'm the only one NOT noticing how anyone writes while I get "oh, you're left-handed" constantly.

But the smudging part reminded me of something that happened to me:

I had a maths teacher who always had one of us do the homework on one of those overhead projector foil things and show them in front of class. I had a geometry task and would always smear the rewritable pen with my palms, or mess the lines up because I had to hold my hand awkwardly high. He did make me do it over and over again because he thought it was sloppy. My mum tried to talk to the teacher and the principal, that I as a lefty kind of faced an uphill battle there, so having me re-do it when I wasn't able to do it the first time was not really going anywhere. The teacher only told her that I needed to learn ways around my left-handedness. So my mum had me do the homework with a permanent marker. No smearing anymore. The teacher even had a smug face on and was all like "See? You can do it after all". That smugness was gone when he tried to clean up the foil. No one said that he had to like the ways I found to deal with such BS.

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[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 year ago (10 children)

I use scissors exclusively with my left hand just to point out to any lefty around that you don't need to buy special scissors.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 year ago

As a lefty who didn't get my first pair until my 40's, they aren't necessary but boy do they make cutting on a line WAY easier. Crazy differences in difficulty level for a clean cut.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago

It depends, most scissors now are practically ambidextrous. Some though, have really angled interiors of the handles that make them painful to use for an extended duration.

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago (5 children)

Bottom left panel - writing from right to left?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

no, it's just squiggly lines, no writing on that paper.

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

When you write you accumulate graphite dust or ink onto your hand. Even if you lift your hand between words, the movement of your hand resting on your previous letters makes it happen.

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago (5 children)

Where is the love for all of us ambidextrous folk out there

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago

Everyone loves the privileged all the time!

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

As a left-handed person I resent being called out like this.

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I can relate to the bottom left image.

My first language is Arabic, which reads from right to left. I am right handed. As such, my hand gets covered in ink.

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (6 children)

It is advantageous in ancient combat though. When everyone is carrying a shield with their left hand and their sword on their right hand, the leftie can strike their relatively unprotected opponent's right shoulder, unless the opponent is in formation and has an ally to its right.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago (2 children)

The opponent can just as easily strike one's unprotected left shoulder though.

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

Also helpful when storming a tower; spiral staircases are generally spiralled to give a right-handed defender the advantage against a right-handed attacker

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Handedness doesn't really matter, it's all about how you were taught (or weren't) to do things. For example, my brother is left-handed, but he uses a mouse in the right hand. I'm right handed, but I'm holding the fork in the right hand.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (4 children)

I hold a mouse in my right too. But that's because most mice are designed for right hands.

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

The second one is stupid though... The rings get in the way 50% of the time regardless of handedness. If you are right handed, writing on the back of the page sucks. If you are left handed, writing on the front sucks.

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