Left-handed question.

My son is left-handed when he writes.

I'm right handed so I'm not up on the left handed world. I know my friend would complain about scissors & write backwards in her notebook so her hand didn't have to go over the metal spine.

Any other things from the left-handed world I should think about?

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A mouse for the computer?

Mine is shaped for a right hand person to use it.

I'm a righty...so I really don't know..

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Left-handed scissors are the worst. They couldn't cut dirt - I learned to do it with my right hand because of that.

The metal spine has always been the most irritating thing to me. That and people's odd comments about being left-handed.

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i must be the weirdest left handed person there is - (although i'm ambidextrous as well, so i guess i'm double weird... )
i throw with my right hand, i use right handed scissors, etc....

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im a left handed person. We're all smart

scissors are the worst
notebooks with the metal spiral
all binders
most school desks


I still use my right hand for the mouse

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Posted by Jessica

im a left handed. We're all smart

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I'm surrounded by lefties in my family and DH is one too. We minority righties always have to be conscious of the seating arrangement when we eat as well.

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The left handed scissors were awful.

I got used to the lack of left handed desks, and it didn't bother me that much.

I've always used the mouse with my right hand.

Whenever I wrote, I always got ink all over my pinky and hand. I used erasable pens for years b/c that ink was easier to take off.

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Lefty scissors are TERRIBLE!! I always used the regular ones.

He'll adjust to the 'righty' world. We all have to one degree or another. My brother and I are both lefty.

In college, I would either use a lefty desk or put two desks together so that I could right more comforable. Also, I write towards myself instead of left to right.

My brother was a baseball player and used a lefty mit. When I played softball I batted and pitched righty.

Did you know that the typewriter and it's keyboard was invented by a left handed person? Just a bit of trivia!

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Posted by MrsERod

i must be the weirdest left handed person there is - (although i'm ambidextrous as well, so i guess i'm double weird... )
i throw with my right hand, i use right handed scissors, etc....

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Posted by MrsERod

i must be the weirdest left handed person there is - (although i'm ambidextrous as well, so i guess i'm double weird... )
i throw with my right hand, i use right handed scissors, etc....

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Posted by MrsERod

i must be the weirdest left handed person there is - (although i'm ambidextrous as well, so i guess i'm double weird... )
i throw with my right hand, i use right handed scissors, etc....

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Thats so weird, I throw righty too, but bat lefty.
Its really annoying when you are eating and sitting close to a right-handed person, you're constantly bumping elbows.
I hated the right handed desks, my arm would get tired from just hanging there and having nothing to lean on.
The mouse is easy to get used to, I think I would feel awkward using a right-handed one.
Getting the ink all over the side of my hand when I am writing is very irritating, as is the spiral notebook issue - also the same with a three-ring binder, I could never write with paper in the binder, I'd have to take it out.

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I am left handed, but I can't think of anything in particular that has been a real PIA.

I wouldn't say I am ambidextrous, 'cause I think you have to be able to write with your right hand too and I cannot legibly (correct?) but I must have just acclimated myself to doing some things righty.

One thing that is annoying is when writing, the spine/spiral of books and the fact that my hand was always covered in ink because your hand passes over what you have written as you write.

My mouse is not shaped for either hand so thats ok.

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DH and I are both left-handed, but we play sports right-handed. I wonder how many people do everything with their left hands.

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My BIL is left-handed, and he said he always had a problem with door knobs....

But then again he's weird so......lol

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Honestly, I'm a lefty and I didn't find it too hard growing up. I mean, I don't have a super curve to my wrist and I always write with my pad of paper straight, not slanted. But I do have the problem of ink smudges...

As for scissors, I ALWAYS just used the righties and they were fine. For a mouse, I actually use my right hand and I can't even use a mouse with my left hand (unless it is a laptop mouse where you use your fingers. then I use my left)

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BASEBALL!
In school there, was alway a shortage of right-hand mitts ( for throwing lefty)


The school lefty scissors bite, but the adult eithor or ones are good. I don't know if they have soemthing likw that in safety scissors.

I mouse righty, b/c that's the way it was set up in school & I just learned that way.


In HS, those all in one desks that connect on the right side were annoying--a bunch of us had to make special requests for standarized tests.

I have awful handwriting, I blame it on being taught by righties, but it could just be me.

Learning calligrphy & learning to crochet were a pain, but I'm not sure that will be an issue for your son.

Powertools are a little tricky sometimes.

Learning to drive manual transition is hard too.

Ink smudges, notebooks are annoying to write in (lefty life gets easier after school :) )

If we are sitting in a booth, my brother & I try & sit next to each other , so we don't bump elbows with the righties.

Somethings, I didn't even realize I had been comensating for, until it was pointed out.

EX- My FIL asked how lefties use cameras, since the shuter is on the right, but I think it works to my advantage, b/c my left hand is stronger, and that what I use to hold the weight of the camera, since the right hits the shutter.


In general, learning things from righties is harder than the things you just do automatically on your own.

BTW- both of my parents are righty & both kids are lefty!

ETA- I never thought about mugs & dorknobs till just now, but I think have the same issues. And I still mouse righty on my laptop--it's the only thing I do righty.

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another lefty here!!!! they gave me the lefty scissors too...and I could never use them...learned to do it with my right...spines on notebooks are a PITA so I used binders where I could take the paper out and write in comfort then put it back...I also have the ink smudge problem from dragging my hand along as I write...oh I bat and throw right as well

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Posted by MrsERod

i must be the weirdest left handed person there is - (although i'm ambidextrous as well, so i guess i'm double weird... )
i throw with my right hand, i use right handed scissors, etc....

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does he do everything with his left hand, or just write?

FH writes with his left hand, but does EVERYTHING else with his right...

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Joseph doesn't have to worry about this yet, but when you go to a retail store and use your credit card and you have to sign the little machine. The pen is always set up for righties!!!!

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He'll adjust to different things...for example, somehow I ended up using scissors with my right hand. I also throw with my right hand. The worst thing is the pen/pencil smudges you get on the side of your hand. It washes off of course but it is very annoying!

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It never occurred to me why he always had smudges all over his hand. His sleeve is always covered in pen & pencil marks too. What an eye opener - it never even occurred to me until I read this.

Thanks everyone!

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