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International Left Handers Day 2014

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FlagDUDE08 said:
To all of my fellow natural southpaws out there, whether it's writing, throwing, using a hockey stick, putting, shooting billiards, using a mouse, sending morse code, some combination of these or any other things, I want to wish you and ours a Happy International Left-Handers Day! :D
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I dressed as a mascot named Southpaw, does that count?
 
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So we're celebrating the 2015 National Left Handers Day?
 
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I just learned that three of our last four presidents, including the guy who presides over 57 states, are left handed.
 
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St. Clown said:
I just learned that three of our last four presidents, including the guy who presides over 57 states, are left handed.
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Gerald Ford as well. There are reports that Reagan was left-handed, but video shows him writing right. Perhaps he bat or golfed left-handed? I think Truman did...
 
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Gerald Ford was left-handed...only while sitting down. Right-handed otherwise (that includes writing: sitting down? Left handed. Writing on a blackboard? Right handed).
 
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Kepler said:
Lefties of the world, unite! :)
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One of the last forms of discrimination still permissible: those class room desks with the writing surface on the right and butter knives are just two examples. I'm old enough to remember class mates whose parents evidently gave permission for teachers to force their kid to write right. One guy in particular suffered terribly it seemed to my childish mind. Nobody said a word to me, so I'm assuming Dr. & Mrs. Pio were cool with it. In those days ball points hadn't yet taken over the world. And I had a devil of a time with fountain pens: dragging my left hand through the ink left me with a pronounced stain on the hand all the time.
 
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Brenthoven said:
Gerald Ford was left-handed...only while sitting down. Right-handed otherwise (that includes writing: sitting down? Left handed. Writing on a blackboard? Right handed).
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I did not know that. And had never heard of it before, either. I'm a mixture: throw left, bat right, tennis & bowling left, golf right, write left.
 
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Old Pio said:
I did not know that. And had never heard of it before, either. I'm a mixture: throw left, bat right, tennis & bowling left, golf right, write left.
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I play sports right-handed, but pretty much left-handed in everything else.
 
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Brenthoven said:
I play sports right-handed, but pretty much left-handed in everything else.
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Same here. Playing sports righty just felt natural. My dad was the exact opposite - right-handed for writing/eating, and lefty for all sports.
 
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Brenthoven said:
I play sports right-handed, but pretty much left-handed in everything else.
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I do precision functions (writing, eating) lefty and power functions (batting, throwing, chopping trees) righty. I thought I was a superfreak until I read that it's really not that rare. Something like 10% of lefties (1% of the gen pop) do that.

Now, people who do precision functions righty and power functions lefty? THAT'S superfreak. I've never met anybody like that and supposedly it's about 1 in 100,000 of the gen pop.
 
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CLS said:
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Well played. :D

I CAN sort of write right-handed, but it looks like a kindergarten child's writing.

My grandma (maternal) was another odd one. Due to school trying to make her switch her writing hand, she could write in cursive, stop mid-word, continue writing with her other hand, and you couldn't tell where she switched hands.

I did try to switch-hit in softball, spent a couple years practicing, but it didn't exactly work out. If I hit the ball with any power, it was straight down the right-field line every time. Gave up on that.
 
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Technically I'm also a bit of a mix, as I use a mouse and send morse code right-handed, but write, bat, wrist-shot, throw, all left. Shooting billiards, both. Mini-golf I can also do both, but predominantly left.
 
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The computer mouse...I guess it was kind of forced, as at the time I started on computers, that was the only option. There are many things like that, if you think about it. Scissors, notebooks, etc.
 
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Brenthoven said:
The computer mouse...I guess it was kind of forced, as at the time I started on computers, that was the only option. There are many things like that, if you think about it. Scissors, notebooks, etc.
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My mother always tried to force me left with a computer mouse... quite unnatural, and not because of the shape of the mouse, because the computer was a mac.

Also, I play stringed instruments "right-handed". Although, like video games, you'd think it would be better for a left-handed person to use said system, because of the precision necessary with the left hand.
 
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Brenthoven said:
I CAN sort of write right-handed, but it looks like a kindergarten child's writing.

My grandma (maternal) was another odd one. Due to school trying to make her switch her writing hand, she could write in cursive, stop mid-word, continue writing with her other hand, and you couldn't tell where she switched hands.
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Leonardo da Vinci was another famous leftie, IIRC. I remember reading when I was a kid that he had a secret code or something like that where we wrote upside down and backward using his right hand, and so I practiced using my off-hand to write backward (with a mirror propped up in front of the paper).

I can write "normally" with either hand but it sure looks different depending upon which one I use. Useful I suppose if I'm ever going to be a spy: "hey, that's not my handwriting: here's a sample, take it to an expert analyst and he'll agree."
 
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