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.
Which is strange given that so many world-class renowned inventors and artists are all left handed
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.
Notebook thing dont really make sense?cuz you flip it for the other page anyway
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.
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
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
If you write on front and back pages, it’s equally annoying to righties and lefties.
It isn’t really because when it gets in your way as a righty you can just switch to the next line and it’ll look fine. As a lefty, it’s in your way at the very start.
I personally think that its not as much as an issue as thicker notebooks creating an uneven writing surface.
Being right handed, your hand is supported at the same level as the writing surface until the very end of a line, where you typically leave more space.
Being left handed, you start every line of writing without your hand being on the same surface as the writing surface, which especially sucks if you have issues with handwriting (which I annecdotedly notice is more common in lefties).
My favourite part is when people that I’ve known for a while go “you’re left handed?”
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.
And who could forget granny’s: when you’re left handed, “YOU’RE THE LITERAL SPAWN OF SATAN” ok, dear?
Well the plot twist is, they were generally exceptionally smart at what they needed to know to survive. It’s easy to forget how difficult life was for average people up until fairly recently. Like less than a century ago. Education and literacy really weren’t a priority.
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)
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.
One of my favorite theories, by no means provable, is that since the left side of the brain controls the right side of the body and also language (both of those are true actually), it’s literally disparaging the side of the body it doesn’t control and praising the side it does, which is why so often “left” develops negative connotations and “right” positive ones.
Go hang out with some Koreans (possibly other Asian people too), they will think you must be smart because of being left handed.
@Gsus4 In my country kids were beaten with rullers on their hands at school until they were able to write right-handed IIRC. Not sure if this brought to them anything else than trauma anyway.
