#456498 - Sun Oct 11 2009 12:50 AM
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Registered: Wed Jan 28 2004
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Loc: Canada
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I have scissors for lefties, notebooks for lefties, fountain pen nibs that have been modified for lefties...
The worst part for me at school was the "right handed desk". Not one of the many schools attended had a desk that accommodated a lefty. Discrimination! 
I am envious you have left-handed products. I must get my hands on some of those!
I was the same way in school. The majority of my peers were right handed, and if I sat next to a right-handed kid, we'd always knock elbows. Not good when you're trying to write!
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#456499 - Tue Oct 13 2009 09:31 AM
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Loc: Upper Marlboro Maryland USA
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 It appears that our new President is left handed.
This sort of thing facinates me.  So, have there been a lot of left handed presidents?
President James Garfied was ambidextrious. He could write in two different languages with both hands at the same time. Too bad he only served a short time. (assassinated 2.5 months)
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#456500 - Wed Feb 24 2010 02:52 PM
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Registered: Wed Feb 24 2010
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Being ambidexterous?
It's the last thing I can think about...
I'm a leftie and to be honest...I can do nothing with my right hand...can't even play instruments...I had to quit it...!sadly!
But according to my friends..I'm really creative..and am capable of doing many stuff they don't even think of...
I've never had problems with chair for right handed people...
Whenever there's an exam,they recommend me to choose another chair for lefties...but I'm not comfortable with that!
I guess lefties are more creative or much smarter...
'cos they are not the majority of the society and somehow they have to cope with the situation-EVERYTHING FOR RIGHT handed PEOPLE-and this fact has made them stronger during the history...
I'm so happy that there's a day for lefties...
You know,about the list..of famous lift handed people...
Once I shared the same list with my friend...
He was like:"So ?The rest of the famous people in all around the world are right handed!"
I had nothing to say then!
About those who are ambidexterous...
the idea can be:
They are somewho forced to use the other hand-right one-by their parents or teachers...maybe!
There's an old belief saying..Right handed people can have more success!They want their children to go with the flow!
I'm so not in favour of this idea though!
On the other hand I'm proud of being a leftie..you know Why!'cos I can be noticed so easily wherever I go!I write in a strange way!-The way I put my hand on the paper_
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#456502 - Wed Feb 24 2010 07:04 PM
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Registered: Sat May 03 2008
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Loc: California USA
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I have scissors for lefties, notebooks for lefties, fountain pen nibs that have been modified for lefties...
The worst part for me at school was the "right handed desk". Not one of the many schools attended had a desk that accommodated a lefty. Discrimination!
I am envious you have left-handed products. I must get my hands on some of those!
I was the same way in school. The majority of my peers were right handed, and if I sat next to a right-handed kid, we'd always knock elbows. Not good when you're trying to write!
Surely the answer would be to swap places with the right handed person so you sat to their left?
Not if there are more than two people in the row.
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#456503 - Thu Feb 25 2010 06:53 AM
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Registered: Sun Dec 19 1999
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Right, I am with you. When I was at school we had either single or double desks only.
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#456504 - Sat Apr 03 2010 12:10 PM
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I see where this is going! I'm left-handed, and all you righties out there would just LOVE to blame the world's problems on us! It's terribly sinister 
I don't know if you know this, but the Latin for left is "sinister", and since they thought left-handed people were evil, well, that's how the word "sinister" came to mean what it does today! A coincidence if you didn't know, awesomely sneaky if you did.
I'm a lefty, so is my nephew, and my niece shows some signs of becoming one, but she's still so young that she's trying both hands out. I can't really think of many problems I've had, except bumping elbows with righties and struggling a bit with scissors. I was worried about beginning the violin as my right arm isn't very great at mobility (I broke my arm at 5) but it means that, as a lefty, I'll have an advantage with the fingering! 
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#456505 - Thu Apr 15 2010 03:39 PM
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Registered: Wed Jan 28 2004
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Loc: Canada
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I have scissors for lefties, notebooks for lefties, fountain pen nibs that have been modified for lefties...
The worst part for me at school was the "right handed desk". Not one of the many schools attended had a desk that accommodated a lefty. Discrimination!
I am envious you have left-handed products. I must get my hands on some of those!
I was the same way in school. The majority of my peers were right handed, and if I sat next to a right-handed kid, we'd always knock elbows. Not good when you're trying to write!
Surely the answer would be to swap places with the right handed person so you sat to their left?
Well this was in grade school. You were to sit where the teacher told you to sit. Sometimes I was lucky to sit on the left side of someone - and sometimes I was unfortunate to sit on the right side. It happens.
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#456506 - Thu Apr 15 2010 05:42 PM
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Another lefty here.. and while neither of our parents were left handed, three of the six children are.. and we three are all born in May.
At work, five of the seven women who work there are left handed !
It's going to be fun when we take over the world.
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#456507 - Sat Apr 17 2010 02:46 PM
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Registered: Mon Dec 06 1999
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Loc: Wyoming USA Way Out West
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Is it possible that left handedness has anything to do with birth month? I'm a lefty, also born in May. Ooeeee.
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#456508 - Thu Apr 22 2010 05:26 AM
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Registered: Wed Oct 31 2007
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I was left-handed until I went to school when I switched to being a rightie. Now I do most manual tasks left-handed but write and play sport right-handed. I am also acutely logical but work in a creative industry.
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#456511 - Sat Jul 10 2010 11:20 AM
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To add to the confusion, there is also left footedness (which is great for a left wing soccer player), left eyedness and even left earedness.
I'm right handed but left footed.
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