All lefties check in. Today is National Left Handers Day.

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Here myself. It's often said that lefties are quite creative as we use the opposite side of the brain more than right handers.

[Bettie]

1. I'm left-handed

and one of my three children is.

My great-grandma tried to switch me over when I was young. It didn't take.

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15. Good. Another member of the left-handers resistance mvoement.

[33taw]

2. Good Morning!!

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8. It's noted that you are present and continue to successfully navigated the tricky twists and turns....

of a right-handed world.

[John1956PA]

3. At your left.

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10. Marked present. I like your turn of phrase.

[John1956PA]

19. Thank you. As an aside, I will mention that Bruce Willis is left-handed.

For the movie "The Sixth Sense" Mr. Willis had to learn to write right-handed so that his left hand would not reveal that his character was not wearing a wedding ring.

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21. Thanks for that info on Bruce Willis. Loved him in "Pulp Fiction."

[GoodRaisin]

37. Still my favorite movie ever.

[allegorical oracle]

46. Have read that Clinton and Obama are lefties, too. nt

[John1956PA]

53. Ford, Bush 41, Clinton and Obama all lefties.

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68. Clinton and Obama remain seated. Ford and Bush 41 report immediately to the principal's office.

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59. All right, then. I knew Obama is, didn't know Clinton is too.

[The Blue Flower]

4. Ambidextrous here

I write with my left hand. Everything else is righthanded. In high school, long ago, I tried doing my homework for a week using my right hand. By the end of the week, I was stammering when I spoke. I decided it was best not to mess with my brain that way, so I went back to my normal and the speech problem went away. I paint in oils, usually using my left hand. But if my arm gets tired, I can paint using my right hand.

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6. You are marked present and accounted for.

And you're an ambi. You are doubly blessed.

[C_U_L8R]

112. Same here.

Write and eat leftie. Curiously I'm right-moused. Throw a ball and most everything else rightie too. Not always well with either hand .

[PlanetBev]

5. Lefty on the Left Coast weighing in

In 1955, my kindergarten teacher tried to get me to switch hands. Didn’t work.

We deserve our special day.

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7. You are marked present and accounted for.

[Sneederbunk]

9. The other 364 days are Right Handers Days.

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12. Today we rule.

[snowybirdie]

11. Me too

✋️

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13. It is duly noted.

[sl8]

14. Ooh, sounds sinister. nt

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17. Strike that notion. We are creatures of the light.

[John1956PA]

26. Italian culture and language are favorites of mine.

I smile everytime I encounter the Italian word "Sinistra." I am sure that actor Gary Sinese is proud of his Italian heritage as well as his surname, which is a nod to all of us lefties.

ON EDIT: Spelling correction.

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39. OK. Italians being the direct descendants from the Romans whose word for left was/is 'sinister.'

It's hardly changed in the modern-day Italian. I took three years of Latin in high school.

[Delmette2.0]

157. We are the only ones in the right mind.

[RANDYWILDMAN]

16. Don't forget

both my grandparents were hit with rulers by their teachers and were forced to scribe with their incorrect hand.


My Daughter and I are both celebrating

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18. Welcome to the left-handers resistance movement.

[Zackzzzz]

47. Hit with rulers, as well.

The Public school teacher said being left handed was a sign of the Devil.
In my 5 year old mind, I was a witch.
I was frightened to go to school and I somehow forgot how to read.

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60. Some of those old-timey teachers did us dirty back in the day.

How many five and six-year-olds did they traumatize with. that sign of the devil crap?

[Torchlight]

20. Hated it in high school

Classroom desks and spiral notebooks were never very friendly to us. On the other hand (no pun), I don't think my world would be quite as interesting were I less sinister.

[33taw]

24. Hated spiral notebooks

[GoodRaisin]

40. And white boards.

Smearing everything i wrote.

[chowder66]

58. I always had dark grey silver pencil lead or ink on the side of my hand.

My brother was also left handed but he wrote with his hand curled over the top of the page to avoid that. I never did that.

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61. I did the curled wrist thing too. Learned to adjust. We're creative.

[Delmette2.0]

158. I learned to keep my hand below what I was writing

I still do.

Today lefties have it better. There are spiral notebooks with the wire on the other side. There are lots of items made for lefties.

[chowder66]

159. I didn't know they made left handed spirals!

[Delmette2.0]

160. Try searching for Left handed school needs.

I haven't searched for lefty stuff in years. So you might have to try different wording.

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48. "...my world would not be quite as interesting were I less sinister." I like that.

[mcar]

90. Oh yeah!

Even now, I use composition notebooks instead.

[EllieBC]

22. Present!

Though I do shoot right handed.

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23. I've got you checked in.

[Maeve]

25. Grandpa was ambidextrous, me and my brother are lefties

Grandpa may have been a leftie forced to be right-handed, tho. That's how it was a century ago.
A high percentage in my storytelling group are left-handed

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49. Always resist the switch attempters.

[Sequoia]

27. Lefty here

Writing, swinging a bat or club for sure. But had to use right hand for eating at table, scissors, knives...etc. So both hands, and can write with right hand as long as it isn't cursive. My brain must get confused.

[allegorical oracle]

42. Same here. Went to school a lefty but was "changed" to right hand for cursive writing. Nothing

brutal, just constant reminders from teachers to put left hand behind my back. Anything else, tho (spacing a keyboard, catching a ball, reaching for something suddenly -- all left-handed)

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52. It's a cruel and pernicious world we lefties face.

[calguy]

28. Me. Left handed since birth

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70. Welcome to the light.

[niyad]

29. Do ambis count?

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64. Ambis count. Doubly blessed.

[niyad]

71. Thank you

[Ursus Rex]

30. Ambi here

... I found out when I broke my right hand in 5th grade and had to finish the year writing with my left. I can still use either hand interchangeably but the right is my default bc of the way the whole world is set up.

I had an aunt who tried to force her kids to use their left hands bc she thought they'd be more creative (the left-right brain thing is mostly myth, AFAICT).

[mwmisses4289]

36. Another ambi here.

Fell off a backyard swingset when I was three and broke my right arm. Used right hand for writing as I grew up, but used my left for a lot of other stuff. Can still write left handed when I have to.

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110. Can't believe how many torture devices habitated American back yards.

Swing sets broke a lot of arms, changed natural lefties to righties.

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73. I dunno if it's a myth. My career was as an art director in publishing and I painted and showed work...

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as a member of a co-op gallery in NYC.

[leftstreet]

31. Thought there'd be more of us cool people here

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76. We're continuing to check in. The righty world presents challenges.

[electric_blue68]

32. Another Lefty! My 🩷 folks bought me the Left Handed Book when I was a tween.

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78. Welcome,EB.

[sdfernando]

33. Well, I'm kind of ambivalent about this

you see, I'm somewhat ambidextrous.

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79. Get off the fence. You're welcome to amble in and take a seat.

[Kingofalldems]

34. There were 7 kids in my family

4 were lefties including myself, both parents right handed.

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82. Good parents. They didn't try the switcheroo thing.

[johnnyfins]

35. I write and use a fork left handed.

I also play air guitar left handed(McCartney fan as a kid). But I play real guitar right handed.

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83. That's a switch, left air guitar, righty real guitar. Have you spoken to a professional about this?

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[EverHopeful]

38. Okay to check in if I started out left handed?

Got changed when I got my left hand and arm caught in my Grandmother's wringer washer just as we were learning to write. Sorta' ended up ambidextrous but there are some things I mostly do R-handed and some mostly L-handed.

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87. Bad luck, EH. Have to watch those old wringer washers. Sure you won't bring bad luck to the group?

[GoodRaisin]

41. Here.

I have a granddaughter who’s a lefty too.

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88. Welcome. Take a seat, GR.

[NNadir]

43. Can I check in on behalf of my son?.

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66. I will count him as present.

[MoonlightHillFarm]

44. Lefty here

My brother started out as a lefty, but school forced him to change. By the time I came along, they stopped doing that.

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67. They screwed with a lot of kids heads back then.

[Figarosmom]

45. I noticed yesterday

That my cat is a southpaw. Does that count?🐈‍⬛

[allegorical oracle]

51. Animals are definitely "handed" like us. nt

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91. If you're a member we'll grant him a legacy admission. You're stretching it though.

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[Figarosmom]

108. How is it a stretch?

He's a mammal just like us.

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128. Still streching it. Has the cat mentioned it?

[Figarosmom]

130. He showed me....nt 😊

[MoonlightHillFarm]

50. I'm a lefty

My brother started out a lefty but the school made him change. By the time I came along, they stopped doing that.

[chowder66]

54. Here!

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105. Marked present, C 66. Have a seat.

[bamagal62]

55. Lefty here!

Although I can do many things right handed. I’m a lefty through and through. I’m a lefty golfer, a lefty baseball player, I write and paint left handed. But, there are weird things where I’m mixed up due to being taught by a right handed person! I can never decide which hand to bowl with. 😂
When I was little, before I started school, I wrote everything completely backwards, perfectly!!!
Funny, my children are both right handed. However, they tie their shoes left handed! 😂 And, my daughter does left handed checks (like on a form)!!
Happy Left Handers Day!

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93. You sound qualified, B62. Have a seat. But that writing backwards thing, you better see the counselor.

[bamagal62]

115. 😂😂😂

[JustAnotherGen]

56. I'm here!

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94. You're always welcome, JAG.

[twodogsbarking]

57. Left handed son golfs right handed. Right handed son golfs left handed. Parents, righties.

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95. God! Take a seat.

[GaYellowDawg]

62. Proud leftie here!

I write the way I vote: with the left!

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96. Now you're talking, GYD. Have a seat.

[GreenWave]

63. former lefty coerced to righty by mommie.

But I still sweep a broom and "shoot" a hockey puck like a lefty!

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98. Hummmm? A switcheroo victim, huh? Take a seat in the back.

[LeftInTX]

133. My mom failed

[LT Barclay]

65. Creative in my head but no talent to match

[allegorical oracle]

75. Be patient. You have a talent. Just a matter of finding it. Lefties rule!

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101. If you're lefty, you're welcome.

[LT Barclay]

134. Very left, handed and voted

[marti]

69. lefty

more creative or just confused?:

[Historic NY]

72. Checking in

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113. Hey, HNY, Mets or Yankees?

[Historic NY]

148. LOL Nationals

[blogslug]

74. DU's "hi" smiley is a leftie!

[leftstreet]

80. LOL

I never noticed that!

We are truly superior then

[FadedMullet]

77. As a lefty, I always played first base. Anyone else?

[Mblaze]

81. I'm a righty but I look like a lefty in the mirror.

Does that count?

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114. You're in for being so clever.

[Mblaze]

129. 😀

[hauckeye]

84. Very lefty, but I use a mouse with my right hand

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116. You're ok, then. Keep the cheese in your left hand.

[buzzycrumbhunger]

85. My son & brother, plus I go both ways

😏

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117. Take a seat. If that's your printing, what does your cursive look. like?

[buzzycrumbhunger]

135. Um...

It’s a meme, not my actual writing. *shrug*

[Snackshack]

86. Always thrown w/ left arm...

but never had to write with it until I busted my right arm twice...

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119. Twice? Somebody's trying to tell you something.

[Snackshack]

161. Pt. made... but,

In my defense I wasn't responsible for all 4 of them.

[mcar]

89. I'm a left-handed daughter of a left-handed mother

which, according to some research, is about as right-brained as one can be.

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120. You're qualified. Take a seat.

[otchmoson]

92. Hey, I married a lefty.

I didn't marry hubby BECAUSE he was a lefty, but after 67 years, I continued to be amazed by his "different way" of processing stuff. He's amazingly creative (holds 3 patents) and finished his Ph.D. despite a high school teacher who advised his parents to send him to trade school because he'd never cut it in college. He HAS pointed out to me that it can sometimes be difficult to accommodate a right-handed world--everything from scissors, chain saws and power tools were obviously designed by and for righties, and present hurdles for lefties to negotiate. But I will tell him "Happy Left Handers Day (thanks for the heads-up) and express my admiration.

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121. Quite a story, otchmoson. Seems like you've had a good life with a lefty.

Carry on.

[kacekwl]

97. Hi,

Waving with my left hand

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122. Good move, kacekwl. Welcome to the club.

[ShazzieB]

102. I had a left handed father and sister.

Both are now deceased, but growing up in a house with 2 lefties taught me a lot about what they go through.

My dad used to tell stories about battling with the nuns in Catholic school who tried to force him to write with his right hand. I wish I'd paid more attention, but back then I didn't know anything about nuns or Catholic school (sis and I were raised Baptist) and didn't realize how badass it must have been to rebel the way he did.

Fortunately, the tide evidently turned by the time my sister and I were in school. To the best of my knowledge, no one ever tried to get her to switch, and I don't remember any of my teachers scolding lefties for writing with their left hand. Thank goodness, because forcing kids to switch is barbaric imo.

[otchmoson]

106. They weren't alone.

Hubby had his left hand blackened with a ruler as teacher insisted he switch. He told me it was one of the few times his dad actually had a discussion with a teacher . . . who never touched him again.

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124. Many of those teachers of old, well-intentioned but preaching that left-handedness is a sign of the devil...

crap was and is wack.

[twodogsbarking]

103. There was a time when they smacked you in school for being left-handed. Is there a plan to return to that?

to all lefties

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125. I don't think TSF has gotten around to it yet. He might though as he's trying to revert back to...

all kind of evil crap.

[Submariner]

104. How many have Dupuytren Contracture in left hand from

a Nun whacking the back of your (my) hand for using the hand of Satan to write?

[otchmoson]

109. Never thought of that!

Hubby has Dupurtren Contracture in both hands. He always thought it was because he was pretty rough on his hands himeself. Don't think he ever thought that the problem (or at least part of it) could have earlier roots.

[BOSSHOG]

107. Leftie Here

Me and My Beloved long gone Mother in law who put me in her Will giving me her left handed scissors. Wonderful gesture by a wonderful woman.

I think Lefties are the greatest bunch of people in the Universe.

HINT FOR OLD PEOPLE: DO CROSSWORD PUZZLES WITH YOUR NON DOMINANT HAND. STIMULATES PART OF THE BRAIN SELDOM USED.

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126. Welcome, BH. IMO us lefties are the bomb.

[CanonRay]

111. Me and Mrs. Canon are both southpaws.

[CrispyQ]

118. If the right side of the brain rules the left side of the body then only left handers are in their right mind.

That was my left-handed mother's favorite saying.

She had the most beautiful cursive ever, but when she wrote, she turned the paper sideways with the lines vertical, & wrote from top to bottom.

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140. Excellent logic.

[Coventina]

123. Here!!

Proud leftie!!

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141. You are welcome, C. Have a seat.

[FarPoint]

127. Left Handed....

That includes ME....

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142. Fair point, FarPoint. Come right on in.

[Quakerfriend]

131. Ambi here- but, mostly left handed.

3/4 in my immediate family are ambi- all of us born prematurely.

I worked in a clinic where brain injured children were cared for. The MDs there believed that children with mixed dominance (e.g., right eyed but, left handed) would struggle to read. All 3 of us were excellent readers in school. 😜. So much for that theory.

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143. Sounds like that theory is round file material.

[LeftInTX]

132. Me!

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144. LeftInTX, present and accounted for.

[superpatriotman]

136. My left hand destroys fascists

So does my right but not with same precision.

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137. That's all I need to hear. You're in.

[electric_blue68]

138. Here's the little book my folks bought me in the 1960's

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Hopefully this works
Yay! It's fun and useful info.

Yeah, scissors can be annoying! I might have had a left handed pair at some point.

[electric_blue68]

139. Nobody has mentioned pouring from a pot w a right side pour spout...

Eventually as I kept cooking more, I got used to pouring with that type of pot w my right hand.

Luckily I only used power tools occasionally in wood shop in Art College. A d they were "anchored" in place.

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145. Alas, it's a righty world. We should get combat pay.

[electric_blue68]

147. I like that! 👍😄

[Jersey Devil]

146. My Dad got me a baseball bat he said was left handed

I got a hit with it in Little League first time at bat. I wouldn't let my friends use it in sand lot games for fear they'd break it forcing me to try to hit with right handed bats.

[lindalou65]

149. Proud to be a lefty

There are many geniuses who were left-handed
I can’t speak to being a genius myself but I certainly like being a left hander.

[RussBLib]

150. I'm ambidextrous

Eat with fork or spoon in either hand, but favor the left side. Write left. Batted as a switch-hitter in baseball. Throw right. Took a while to yank with either hand. Oops, TMI?

My mother was a lefty too, in an age when they'd punish her for being lefty.

[NBachers]

151. Lefty here- And I give credit to Mrs. Nichols for telling us to try both hands and see which one we like best. After

several tries on both sides, I knew my left hand was the one, and never looked back.

[electric_blue68]

152. Hey, its Still before Midnight in 3/4's of the USA. Speak up, the rest of you Lefties! 👍😄.

[Hassin Bin Sober]

153. I go both ways

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[IzzaNuDay]

154. unconsciously ambidextrous

I recall during my formative years, my mother unsuccessfully tried to make me right handed. But what I noticed- don’t know if this was a side effect— I am unconsciously ambidextrous. Like when I iron, switching hands and not noticing when I switch. The other effect: I have horrible coordination. I do not know how to dance or do any activity requiring physical coordination. 100% klutz. I print only because my handwriting cursive is horrible.

[Tess49]

155. Leftie, here. Started out right handed as an infant. Then,

around age one I contracted bulbar polio, and started using my left hand exclusively.

[Solomon]

156. Very proud of being left handed.