International Left Handers Day!

[lizdb]

Another left hander here!
Well, sort of.  I write with my left hand, but do just about everything else with my right. A few things I can do with either.


My son is strongly left handed, does everythnig with left, and left footed too. Doesnt change cutlery around though.  Exactly the same as my husband.


My daughter is right handed, does absolutely everything right handed - except she is the only one in the family who does change her cutlery around!!!


I have always thought there is far too much made of whether someone is right or left handed. After all, people are (more or less!) symmetrical to look at, its not as if hands are positioned centrally and so using one strangely out to the side on the left would be "awkward". It is no more or less awkward than using one positoned out to the right, for most things.

Just a few things specifically designed for right handers may be awkward. I remember when my son was quite a small baby (I know people say that no preference is shown for one hand or the other till later on, but I disagree) he had a toy when you had to press down a lever and a door opened and an animal popped out, only it was designed with the door to the left of the lever, so when he did it, always using his left hand, the door would never open properly as his hand was in the way when holding the lever! I always intended to write to Fisher Price, but never got round it!

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/VINTAGE-1987-FISHER-PRICE-FARM-BARN-ANIMAL-SOUND-ACTIVITY-CENTRE-TOY-1005-/132729177158

[Top-of-the-hill]

   I am right handed, but left eyed, also hold a phone in the left hand, which is useful if you write with the other one! My mother told me that when she was in the Waaf, she had a tendency, when marching, to lead off with the wrong foot. Like a lot of things in human behaviour, it seems to be a continuum, from very right handed to very left, with all sorts of oddities in between.

[Alan b]

I am right handed but hold a knife and fork as a leftie and always have done ever since my parents first put them into my hands. I just can't use them as a right hander as it doesn't feel right.

[Guyana]

I am right handed but hold a knife and fork as a leftie and always have done ever since my parents first put them into my hands. I just can't use them as a right hander as it doesn't feel right.

Our No.1 grandson is naturally right-handed, but eats left-handed, whereas his cousin, (eight months younger), is the exact opposite.

[Greensleeves]

I write with my right hand generally, but had to do the 11 plus writing with my left hand because I'd broken my right arm.  That showed that I could actually do most things with my left and I still - at an advanced age - try to swap hands about whenever possible.

My daughter is left-handed, my brother is left-handed, and my uncle (my mother's brother) was also left-handed, as was my father-in-law.  My father (who was not left-handed) came from Middlesbrough and referred to left-handers as cuddy wifters.  Never heard that expression before or since.

[sami]

Add me to the list of lefties.

sami

[Treetotal]

I write with my right hand generally, but had to do the 11 plus writing with my left hand because I'd broken my right arm.  That showed that I could actually do most things with my left and I still - at an advanced age - try to swap hands about whenever possible.

My daughter is left-handed, my brother is left-handed, and my uncle (my mother's brother) was also left-handed, as was my father-in-law.  My father (who was not left-handed) came from Middlesbrough and referred to left-handers as cuddy wifters.  Never heard that expression before or since.

That's a new expression GS...never heard that one before 

We have lived in four houses and each one we bought immediately felt right from walking into
It...I realised why some years later, that the lounge was situated left as you entered the front of the property in each one. Not sure if this is just coincidence, but as both myself and my Husband are both lefties it felt right for both of us.
Carol

[jaybelnz]

I just googled cutty wifters!  Have a go, there's lots came up!  😜😜👍

[Winslass]

 I'm also caggy handed - In the 1950s my needlework teacher insisted that when I turned up a hem by hand, I had to turn the work upside down, so that the stitches looked the same as the rest of the girls in the class (they were all right-handed).

 Winslass