How many of us are left handed ?

[minitnkr]

Was told by the nuns they were spawn of the devil. Never bothered me though.

[Tim Marlow]

Was told by the nuns they were spawn of the devil. Never bothered me though.

Never been too keen on Nuns myself…..now I know why…..they are spawn of the devil…..

[Jim R]

I was a teacher and teaching writing to left handers was difficult. A right hander reveals the writing as they move across the page from left to right. A left hander covers the writing they have written as they move across the page. Left handers often turn their wrist or turn the page in order to get around this problem. Left handed children have an extra hurdle to overcome.

[Lee W]

Weirdo's! :tears-of-joy:

[The Smythe Meister]

....an I ain't no freaking Alien! :tongue-out3:

.... are you sure?!!

[The Smythe Meister]

Now't but weirdo's.

Shouldn't be allowed out!

.... used to hang em you know.

[The Smythe Meister]

... I'm amphibious too

[Tim Marlow]

I was a teacher and teaching writing to left handers was difficult. A right hander reveals the writing as they move across the page from left to right. A left hander covers the writing they have written as they move across the page. Left handers often turn their wrist or turn the page in order to get around this problem. Left handed children have an extra hurdle to overcome.

That’s exactly the explanation given for my daughter’s mirror writing. She was mimicking revealing the writing by going the other way.

[stillp]

Forgot to say…..my daughter is a left hander, and when she started writing she used to write in perfect mirror writing……. readable when reflected in a mirror, but totally unintelligible when looked at normally. According to her school at the time that is very common,…..they lent us a very good DVD to explain it all…..

Didn't Leonardo da Vinci write like that?
Pete

[The Smythe Meister]

Didn't Leonardo da Vinci write like that?
Pete

Nah.... well, not in "Titanic" anyway

[Tim Marlow]

Didn't Leonardo da Vinci write like that?
Pete

He certainly did…but in his case it was deliberate….

https://www.mos.org/leonardo/activities/mirror-writing

[Jim R]

That’s exactly the explanation given for my daughter’s mirror writing.

I had one child who did almost perfect mirror writing but over the years there were quite a few who did it to varying degrees.
Some left handers who were in primary school in the 50s and earlier were actually forbidden to write with their left hand. Even when I started teaching in the 70s I remember having a "discussion" with a dining room supervisor because she was trying to insist that a left hander held his knife and fork in the "correct" hands.

[Tim Marlow]

I had one child who did almost perfect mirror writing but over the years there were quite a few who did it to varying degrees.
Some left handers who were in primary school in the 50s and earlier were actually forbidden to write with their left hand. Even when I started teaching in the 70s I remember having a "discussion" with a dining room supervisor because she was trying to insist that a left hander held his knife and fork in the "correct" hands.

My Gran was probably like that Jim. She wrote (very badly) right handed but did everything else left handed. It was the only explanation we could think of. Funny thing is, my Mum is also left handed, and would have been at primary school at that time, but writes left handed. That could possibly be due to lack of schooling at the crucial time due to her family regularly moving around Hastings, and then being evacuated before starting school again at secondary level when she got to Salisbury.

[outrunner]

I started school in 1952 and no effort was made to make me change but I remember my mother saying that when she was at school they would sometimes force left handers to use the right one.

Andy.

[Peter Gillson]

I'm one of the lucky 10% to be left handed. Apparently we have better spacial visualisation which is why (I was told this but have not checked it) that more than 10% of the best tennis players, artists and architects are left handed.

peter