Brilliant post. When I went to school the teachers tried to “correct” molly dookers- and these were not Nuns.
My daughter (along with former President Gerald Ford according to a book my wife bought me at the left handed store on Pier 39 in SF), is left handed sitting down and right handed standing up. She throws right, bats right, writes left, eats left. Me, I’m left handed all the way, all the time, except for scissors and a few other things where the dexterous world prevails over us downtrodden minority.
According to this link: http://www.infoplease.com/askeds/left-handed-presidents.html Garfield, Hoover, Truman, Ford, Regan, Bush I, and Clinton are/were left handed and Bush II was the first right handed president since Carter.
According to my mom, I started out doing things left-handed but was forced to change by my grandmother. I’m not sure if it’s possible to change orientation, but I’m right-handed now.
No wonder I’m so confused! 
It could be worse…maybe Unauthorized Cinnamon’s daughter wants to be the POPE! (not that there’s anything wrong with that!) Pope Joan - Wikipedia
A southpaw pope? Ouch!
Love, Phil
My son is five, and has been writing his name since he was 3, and still uses both hands! I have heard of kids not picking a dominant hand until they are 5 or 6, but it seems so odd to me.
If I had to guess I would say he will pick his right hand. But will be rather ambidextrous.
Lefty here for most things except writing.
Family dinner sitting will never be the same again!
You should burn her at the stake!!!1111111!!!
Amusing Ujest Family Tale: My brother is also weird. He is the only left hander in the family. We went to a Catholic school that was, as you can imagine, infested with Nuns. (this was the mid 60’s when this occurred.) His elementary nun in the 3rd or 4th grade told him that anyone who wrote with their left hand was posessed by the devil. She forced him to write with his right hand that entire year.
His hand writing has been poop ever since. And as far as being posessed by the devil, hanging out with this brother is the equivalent of reading tax forms and *The Statutes of Toothpick Manufacturing for pleasure. *
One of our BFF is BI. He throws and writes with his right and bats and golfs left. He also can punch equally well with each hand ( use to box) so he has that going for him. which is nice.
Hey, my Mom is a rightie and we set her up at the head of the table whenever possible because she seems to have quadruple elbows. Having her in the copilot seat is horrible when your car is manual, too 
Does anybody know of any research studying the relationship between elbowness and handedness?
Shirley, your brother’s nun went to nun school with the nun I had in kindergarten. “It’s the Devil’s hand!” and smacks with the wooden ruler, ouchies.
[filch] God, I miss the beatings[/filch]
My stepsister and my niece are both left-handed, as was my step-grandmother. My step-grandmother was trying to teach my step-sister to crochet. Well, Grammy crocheted right-handed and Sarah couldn’t get that. So Grammy taught me right-handed, and I figured out how to show Sarah to do it left-handed. I also had to “translate” a manual machine-related task for left-hander at work, because she couldn’t figure out how to do it by being shown right-handed. So, while I’m VERY right-handed, I do a pretty good job of “speaking” left-hand.
You think that’s bad? I think my daughter might go both ways! What will her grandparents think? :eek:
Another lefty here. I sucked my left thumb as a toddler. I went to a parochial school where I was taught by a forward-thinking nun who actually helped me learn to write comfortably. She figured out that turning the paper clockwise 90° allowed me to write without the horrible cramped turned-down hand position that I see so many lefties use. My handwriting is very often complimented.
I think we learn to adapt much better than the left-brains think we do. We just figure it out. I started out using a computer mouse left-handed but then taught myself to use it right-handed, for instance.
ETA: Although I did learn to knit, I never could quite learn to crochet.
I’m pretty sure my oldest is a lefty too. She eats with her left hand most of the time, picks up most stuff with her left hand and tries to draw mostly with her left hand as well. Makes it hard for me to try and help as my left hand just kind of sits there. She does however suck her left thumb.
You know the loud part with hair and eyeballs ? That goes on top.
Sadly, I am one of those. I always thought my handwriting was atrocious due to being spoiled with computers, though 
I am a bit shocked that neither of my kids turned out to be lefties, since both their dads are and I am a reformed one. Of course, no nuns were involved in my reformation, just one really hateful, evil kindergarten teacher who loved to smack the fuck out of me with her yardstick.
My brother is a lefty who didn’t seem to have a problem becoming ambidextrous.
I’m a righty, and if I try to write with my left hand of course it looks awful. Funny thing is though, if I use my left hand to write backwards, it’s actually quite legible. You just have to turn the paper over and hold it up to the light to read it. Anyone else ever try that? I was surprised writing backwards with my left hand was easier than I thought it would be.
Yeah, that made me actually sort of laugh out loud.
With my last breath, I curse Der Trihs! [/Farnsworth]
I started out left-handed, but was compelled to become right-handed. But no nuns were ever involved in my upbringing; my parents did it. They were thorough, too; I’m pretty much completely right-handed now. As for my handwriting, well, I already submitted a sample in the handwriting thread recently.
Is there any explanation then for why the ratio of ‘lefties’ to ‘righties’ isn’t split 50:50? Or is it, and I’ve just not met enough of them? Do we know the exact-ish percentage of ‘handedness’?