Left Handed Forum Members

[jeff540]

Left handed here. Write, throw, eat, use knives and other tools left handed. But I'm right eye dominant, so I use scissors and shoot right handed. I can recall being given those stupid green handled scissors for left handers in grade school, just to use in my right hand - then getting criticized for not cutting the lines properly. Idiots.

I also play guitar right handed - it never made sense to me to play "left handed" guitar, since my most dexterous hand was left, I always thought that should be the one you fret with. There have been several famous guitarist who are left handed but play righty. Gary Moore, Joe Perry (Aeorsmith), Duane Allman, Mark Knopfler (Dire Straits) just to name a quick few. I also suspect Yngwie Malmsteen, since he wears watch on the right wrist, a clear sign of left handedness.

 

[mortonbriar]

I gotta hand it to you, I have not seen this one come up before. I am only left handed in the mirror.

 

[username]

Parents are both left handed. I’m right handed. Thu I do hold my pipe with my left hand.

 

[Sidehatch]

Lefty here but like others I do some things righty.
Left: write, eat, throw, bowl, shoot a basketball, swing a bat, operate
Right: Hockey stick, bass guitar, golf, eye dominance

 

[cshubhra]

This poll was inconclusive. Only the left handers spoke up. The right handers did not bother

 

[Chasing Embers]

Born lefty, forced righty, accidental ambi. Left eye dominant.......surely someone gets the joke.

 

[anotherbob]

If you’re right handed, why are you conducting a poll about left handers?

Are you targeting the opposition?

Are you trying to figure out who the smarter among us are?

Are you trying to figure out how oppressed my people are?

Now I’m grateful I’m left handed.

oh he just wants to round them up and put them in a special left handed "utopia" that's all. Don't worry about it. Oh you told him, at least you know where your shovel is .

 

[ADKPiper]

I'm a leftie. Not politically though.
Being left handed served me well as a baseball pitcher. Which put me through college.
Like most lefties I do many things rightly.
Shooting a rifle, playing guitar for instance. I'm not entirely sure about the left/right brain issue. I may have a high capability for "visualizing". I've been a programmer for 25 years and I've found that I seem to have knack for visualizing an overall solution while others seem better at assembling solutions from modules. It might owe to experience. But I think it's always been there.

 

[dPero]

Left handed

 

[Piping Rooster]

Left handed for writing, eating, smoking, right handed for everything else. Right eye domimant. My wife and youngest daughter are leftys as well. I'm actually surprised by the amount of leftys here.

 

[mso489]

As mentioned, my older sister was left handed, and I'm happy to report that it was never an issue. My parents never had any question about it at all. My wife's mom was "reformed" into a right hander, so she was entirely ambidextrous. She was a good mathematician, but spent her life farming, and took over those responsibilities when her father died, since the brothers had all moved on, and raised cattle on into her eighties.

 

[captpat]

I'm left-handed, as was my mother. Though the nuns in parochial school tried their best to force me to write right-handed -- still have knuckle scars to prove it. I prefer a fountain pen and since I'm an underwriter I don't get ink on my hand, spiral notebooks were clearly invented by the unenlightened.