This might well be true in my case. My parents said that I nearly died because the nurses waited too long to call the doctor, (Not wanting to bother her on Easter. Since she was from India, I don’t know if she even celebrated Easter) so it was too late to do a c-section which is what should have been done. Suffice to say, you don’t want to know what they did instead, I wish I didn’t… If this was the true cause of my left-handedness, should I consider suing the hospital? After all, it would be there fault that I’ve had to live in a world made for people of the other hand. Or maybe I ought to send them a thank you card, because I’m glad I’m not a rightie! You sheep! You conformists! Ha!
nerv has an inkling of the kind of lateral thinking we will need to get beyond our old paradigms, but this clearly is still limited.
With the advances in bioelectronically-activated prosthetic technology available today, why should we be limited to just two hands? It is sertainly possible to build a backpack-like structure on which can be mounted a third or even a fourth arm. With suitable training and control by reading galvanic skin currents, one can use a third or fourth hand in concert with one’s originals!
Yes, I present to all: the anyhanded society, a society where people of any handedness are equally accepted. In addition to the traditional left- and right-handed people, there are ambi-handed and null-handed individuals. And it doesn’t stop there. Three-handed and four-handed people mix happily with the two-handed.
Since the additional hands are technological accessories, anyone can learn to use them. Little by little, the the obsession with defining oneself by one’s handedness drops away, and the idea that there is only One True Solution For All fades, and we realize that we’re all just people, no matter which gripping linb we use.
Utopia. At last.
To define someone only by their handedness is to not see the rest of them.
i on’ kno i in l hn i hoi o no, u i ponlly m l-hn.
hnk oon h i h h iliy o u oh my l n ih hn.
i n’ imin h i’ o i i h ih-hn kyo lik h o you hi…
I don’t know if being left handed is a choice or not, but I personally am left-handed.
Thank goodnes that I have the ability to use both my left and right hand.
I can’t imagine what I’d do if I had a right-handed keyboard like the rest of you righties…
My uncle was a right-handed all his life until he had a severe paper cut accident rendering his opposable thumb of his right hand un-opposable. The four fingers of his right hand were left without opposition and my uncle soon found himself a lefty. He never wanted it to be, the shame he felt over his forced left-handedness. He was once witnessed on a rooftop in stormy weather screaming to the sky: “God, what have I done to deserve this fate! Why have you made me into a horrible crippled left handed monster!!” At which point he was struck by rain and got extremely wet. His wife left shortly after this incident taking the kids with her.
He got depressed and started sleeping in the doghouse with Millie, a very friendly Golden Retriever because quote: “Dogs don’t have hands, and they don’t care which hand feeds them.” Apparently this was not true, as Millie soon ran away with a Rottweiler named Butch.
Over the years, my uncle grew ever more moody until he met a woman who was a lefty from birth. She convinced him that left-handed people are people too, and that there is no need to be shameful of being left handed.
He soon overcame his depression and became more and more convinced that being left-handed was right. He became fanatical and formed a terrorist group and called it “God’s Left Hand”. The group went around cutting off peoples right hands forcing them to become left handed against their will.
Then something terrible happened to him, he lost all four fingers of his left hand when a Rottweiler named Butch bit them off and swallowed. Apparently Butch had been dumped by a bitch named Millie and was in a really bad mood.
So now, with neither hand functioning properly, he was forced to use the thumb of his left hand together with the fingers of his right hand in order to perform simple daily functions. The only way he was going to survive was if his left and right worked together. And they did and he lived happily ever after.
The moral of the story isEatch out for paper cuts!
No, um…Golden Retrievers can be bitches too!
No, um…well it’s in there somewhere, you figure it out.
I have an older and younger brother, both left-handed. I, on the other hand, feel ambidextrous is the way to live as one with the universe. Even molecules have left- and right-handed versions and what’s the matter? Never mind.
But all seriousness aside, I truly believe that being ambidextrous is a great comfort, especially if you find yourself alone and can still have a menage a trois! :eek:
And we won’t even get into my juggling habits!!
Free yourselves from duct tape and steel rulers! Remove your biases and liberate your cranial hemispheres! Always remember to say: “On the other hand…”!!!
For those of you that actually are or know of people who have been “discouraged” from using their left hand, does the “ex-leftie” have a hard time remembering which direction is right or left? I was forced to use my right hand by my Japanese mother (she was successful with all activities except for writing, which I still do left handed) but I’ve also grown up with an inability to quickly discern right and left. (Getting verbal directions from people is a bitch!) I’ve met one other person who has a similar problem and was also discouraged from being a leftie.
Is this a normal abnormality?
My mom has had trouble with the left-right directions her whole life. When she was small and refused to use her right hand for writing, despite getting her knuckles cracked with a ruler daily, the nuns decided to tie her left hand to her side. (Weren’t the early 60’s grand?) So…it’s not just you! I don’t know if I’d call my mom “normal” though
No, this is not at all normal. This is God punishing you because you refuse to behave correctly. You need to free yourself from Satan’s left-handed grip! It is your only way to salvation. Until you “right the ship,” so to speak, and learn how to write/right correctly you will continue to be deceived by Satan and his minions.
There are plenty of people out there willing to help you lefties, my patience has run out, but there are others far more benevolent than I. Seek their help and they will show you how to do things right.
Perhaps not, but I’m not sure whether this particular motion would constitute a rude gesture, a weird habit, or, well, “self stim,” as my jargon-laden social worker friends would say. Sorry, I’m not well versed on the mysterious ways of young lads and their privates.
I have trouble with right and left, and I’m 100% right-handed all the way. I often have to tap my middle finger against my third finger to feel the pencil-callus on my right third finger to know which is Right. Of course, it’s mildly kinky to rest my pencil on my third finger too, but it’s not the sort of depravity practiced by those… “lefties.” :eek:
My grandaughter is a leftie and is 10 years old, I have seen her struggle with doing things. From painting my fingernails I have to set the opposite direction so it will be easy for her and if I didn’t, my hand would have to be at a 90 degree angle, just cannot figure out why anybody would what their kid to be in a small percent against the grain. And if this is not bad enough, the little one that is 2 years old, I see them handing her stuff to her left hand also! Geezzzzzz get a grip! only put it in the right hand, literally!!! So to an answer of how do they get to be left handed, somebody is not paying attention, it is not cute as you may think it is, they are awakard for a long time…
I don’t get it, either, Tenar. I figure Mangetout means that they are literally handling themselves, but I’ve never heard of anyone doing such a thing, so I can’t figure out why they would, and how it could have any effect on how low one tesiticle hangs…
I find wearing a codpiece reduces the need for cupping for whatever reason and with whichever hand. If you do have a cupping problem you should go out and get one. Not that I wear one for that reason, I just think they are stylish and am trying to start a fashion trend.
In reading through this thread, I’ve noticed that those of us who are bidextrous get only a passing acknowledgment. So often, bi people–bidextrous, that is, feel invisible, ignored, and unwanted on both sides of the fence!
Left-handers call us traitors because we have right-hand privilege. True left-handers can never hide who they are and are continually battling for left-hander equality. Or they say we are hiding our true, left-handed nature behind a facade of right-handed normalcy. Left-handers think we are scared of coming out and using ambidextrousness as a small step towards acknowledging who we really are. They remind us of their forebearers who had to endure unspeakable horrors of rapped knuckles and forced right-handedness to remind us that we will never truly be a part of their world. Being bi, dextrous that is, is “only a phase”. Or worse yet, they see us as jumping on the supposedly trendy bandwagon of left-handedness.
Right-handers fail to notice our left-handed qualities. So often, someone I have known for years will suddenly realize I write left-handed. “You’re left-handed!” They exclaim. They puzzle over that. They had never noticed my dualism before. Right-handers tell us it is “just a phase” until we can find a good pair of right-hand scissors. Right-handers tell us horrific stories about their relatives who were forced into right-handedness. . . as a warning to us to abandon our leftist tendencies. They treat us as a joke, people who dabble in left-handedness because we’re rebelling against ‘the right’, or they treat us as a threat because we can go either way.
Both left- and right-handers are afraid to become emotionally involved with us because our needs and viewpoints are somewhat different from theirs. Left-handers fear we’re just ‘experimenting’ with a left-handed lifestyle and will go ‘back’ to being a righty. They don’t want to suffer emotionally because we’re perceived as being flighty and unable to commit to someone who is only one-handed. Right-handers fear our dualism, thinking we’re different and weird, and they might face hostility due to their association with a bidextrous person. As well, right-handers share the same fear that we are flighty and cannot commit to anyone one-handed. Everyone suspects us.
Those who are in medicine and science fail to study us as fully as they do left- and right-handers. We get short-changed socially as well as medically.
I see the times changing, and bi pride is becoming more visible. All we want is respect and understanding.
Cool! I always wanted to be mildly kinky! I write that way, too. And I do calligraphy and painting funny, too. Must be the guitar playing… Or all that cupping I do in my spare time…
I’m not suggesting that it does have an effect on which way you hang, it’s only that, if there is indeed a corellation between lefties and right-danglers, it would have to be a genetic or physical factor.
What I’m referring to, BTW (as if you really hadn’t guessed) is the tendency for young men to sit cradling their genitals, it’s more common than you might think, although obviously deviant.
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Geezzzzzz get a grip! only put it in the right hand, literally!!! So to an answer of how do they get to be left handed, somebody is not paying attention, it is not cute as you may think it is, they are awakard for a long time…
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So basically you’re saying, we should force our children to be right-handed? I’d like to see a little more backup as to why I should, besides “it’s not as cute as you may think it is,” please.
One of the few pieces of advice I ever took from a child-care-advice book was on how to determine which way your child will swing in the handedness department. The book said basically to just watch your kid. They’ll figure it out themselves. Oh, and when giving things to your child (like toys, eating utensils, etc), place them in front of the child, not in a particular hand. The child will reach for it with whichever hand works best for them.
I’ve got two kids. Followed this piece of advice for both of them. End result: one left-handed kid, one right-handed kid.
Kid Lefty doesn’t have trouble with anything, really, except playing guitar. But she’s only four, and I just can’t afford a left-handed guitar for her yet. She’s compensated for that, though, by flipping the guitar upside down.
The only real discrimination I’ve encountered against left-handed children is by the manufacturers of MagnaDoodles. Those things are BLATANTLY right-handed. My daughter LOVES hers, but the darn string that holds the magnetic pen to the board is always getting in her way. But she’s just too young for me to even begin explaining “toymaker conspiracy” to her. She’d never understand, and I just don’t want to break her little heart.
I write that way, too. And I do calligraphy and painting funny, too. Must be the guitar playing… Or all that cupping I do in my spare time…