I knew that would get your attention and no, there is not a typo. I am ballock handed, bang handed, gauche, corrie pawed, a cuddy wifter, Kack handed, sinister and coochie. A quick Google shows links to special shops, special societies and even a link to the Islam view of lefthandedness - I think I'll pass on that one.
I think I have always felt slightly out of wack with everyone else and I'm more and more convinced that it's due to lefthandedness and living in a right handed world. I could give you lists and lists of things that are normal to you and wrong to me. For a start there's writing. I'm one of these strange people who has turned my had upside down to write and it never fails to raise a comment or two. The numbers section on this keyboard is to the right, tin openers favour the righthanded, the dials on the microwave and cooker are on the right. I have tried to convince my daughter, who is righthanded , that left handed people have superior intelligence because they have to adjust everything mentally before they start. Clever clogs with a 2:1 degree in spychology poo poos this, but I like to wind her up anyway.
Today's picture is a photo of an old poster in the bar on Lundy island.
Years ago lefthanders were punished by having their left arm tied behind their backs or their knuckles rapped for daring to try to do what came naturally to them. Happily things have moved on since then and it's getting more common. We will take over the world one day.
So all you southpaws raise your [left] arm ands let's hear it for the coochies of this world.
12 comments:
My sister is left handed, she was forced at infant school to write with her right hand, she 's had a complex ever since.
My cousin who is laft handed has the most beautiful hand writing, because she always does it so slowly and carfully holding her hand above the page.
sadly the world seems to be made for right handed people, but lots of very clever intelligent people are left handed, so you're not alone!
My uncle was left-handed and remembered having his arm tied behind his back at primary school in the '30's. How dreadful is that? Didn't hold him back, he bacame a ship's engineer, so maybe there is something in what you say after all! It still goes on though - one of the mums at school was recently complaining that there aren't enough left-handed scissors in the classrooms. Having never had to worry about things like keyboards or scissors, I can only imagine how frustrating it must be.
Well I was right handed until Jan 2007! Now I have no option but to be left handed as right arm lives in a david Beckham type splint- it has been an eye opener! I think I may well be ambidextrous when right arm is better but will not forget my time as a leftie!
My elder daughter is left handed and it has been a struggle for me to teach her how to do things - from using cutlery to knitting - as I don't seem to be able to transpose things very well.
Fortunately this fits in with her character and she just goes away on her own and fathoms things out for herself.
She is a good pianist - I think as she spent so long mastering the right hand that putting the left hand in way easy.
Thanks for stopping by my blog
J
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I remember as a child desperately wanting to be left-handed! No idea why, just sheer cussedness, I think. I even taught myself to write with my left! I am left-eyed though! And James is teaching himself to be ambi-footed as apparently being left-footed gives you an advantage in football. It should make you more creative - isn't it that the left hand links up with the right hemisphere of the brain which governs spatial awareness and creativity? But can quite see it's a pain in practical terms....
Wow, imagine being punished for being left-handed. How medieval. I wonder if it means the right-brain is more developed. that would be fascinating to discover. Aren't human beings utterly amazing?
my father is left handed but when at school [1930s] he was made to use his right hand. now he is, please excuse the spelling, ambidextrous, & carries 2 debit cards, each carrying the different signatures. he doesn't seem to have suffered from his school experieces but he is dyslexic but loves all things electronic / aeronautic & still manages to fly when ever he has a chance.
Really interesting-I remember having left hand tendencies and my nan MAKING me use my right hand more!! Probably explains why I am a bit skew whiff sometimes!!
warm wishes
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I am both which is useful, in Brittany there are lots of left handed peoplemore than I ever saq in the Uk. It is rumoured that this is beacuse Breton swordsmen were taught to fight left handed to give hem an unfair advantage fighting going up teh stirs in castles. Don't know how true that is tho!!
You should have a more active brain becasue you are excercising both sides I suppose!
I love all the different names!!
Mum was left handed as is my brother. I escaped with a right hand. Mum says she was made to write with her right, and I know my brother was given a hard time. Both their writing was/is atrocious
but my brother is brill at cricket and badminton. Mum could knit for England and bake and cook. Writing was the biggest problem.
Poor you with equipment and utensils though.
It always amazes me that left handedness was considered to be so wrong. I am right handed but like Jane I always wanted to be left handed - I think i liked the idea of being different. But then I was at school!
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