How many folks in DU land are left handed?

[seaker]

I am...are there many more?

[Richardo]

1. Yo.

:hi: <-- waving with left hand.

How about degrees of lefty-ness? I bat, throw, golf, bowl, play tennis, play guitar, shoot, eat and write left-handed, but use scissors and computer mouse right handed. I figure I'm 90% left handed.

[seaker]

62. Hmmmm

That could be very interesting to know. I am 100% in my right mind!
Thanks doll!:hi:

[Lydia Leftcoast]

2. (Raises left hand)

:-)

But only for writing, eating, and sewing. I do other things right handed.

[seaker]

63. Were you taught that or is it a natural

or is it a natural inclination?:hi:

[Lydia Leftcoast]

70. It was just a necessary adaptation

Scissors don't work left-handed, and special left-handed scissors are hard to find, so in my early years I learned to cut right-handed. The same was true when I took violin lessons. Then, when I tried to learn to knit, the instruction books were all for right-handed people, so I just followed them. I can eat right-handed, but it feels "wrong." When I try to write right-handed, though, I can't control the pen properly.

[seaker]

75. Scissors have been a trauma for me

since elementary school..:banghead:

[BeachBaby]

3. Me!

Southpaw here! And sick and tired of pencil lead and pen ink rubbed on the edge of my left hand. :P :hi:

[seaker]

64. That is a drag, isn't it?

Takes longer to write too! :thumbsup:

[skooooo]

4. me me me

[seaker]

65. Yes, yes, yes

It is you, you you too too too!:thumbsup:
Thanks for sharing.

[RebelOne]

5. Left-hander here. n/t

[seaker]

78. We are here there and everywhere

[mainegreen]

6. I was born a lefty, but switched for most stuff at 8-9 years old.

Still, I eat left handed, shave left handed, brush my teeth left handed and some other fundamental, daily things.

Dad was a lefty, and so is my kid.

[Gormy Cuss]

22. Nice post, ambi.

I had a highly ambidextrous mother who choose the right hand only when re-engineering the task for the left was too awkward or impossible. It made life easier for me and her other left handed kids. We're all fairly ambi. I used to flip out people at work when I'd switch the mouse over to the other hand when I needed to write. I'm at least a third generation lefty.

[mainegreen]

23. My teachers accused my mom of forcing me to switch hands.

She had no idea why I switched over for writing. I really don't remember either, but I'll say this: I have the worst penmanship of almost anyone.

[Gormy Cuss]

26. I can write with either hand.

Another thing I learned from my mother, although my right handed scrawl is a bit messy.

I suspect that you decided that right was correct and just "fixed" your writing hand. Smart little kids sometimes outsmart themselves like that. I started pronouncing the Rs in words at about that age because I noticed that people on TV said them that way.

[seaker]

77. Interesting observation

I am mulling. Thanks!

[seaker]

68. Impressive!

I am totally a lefty. :thumbsup:

[seaker]

89. There is strengths in numbers

[Dyedinthewoolliberal]

7. *Raising my left hand*

eom

[seaker]

92. I am raising mine back at ya!

:hi:

[alsame]

8. Me too. n/t

[seaker]

84. Hooray !!!

[southpaw]

9. Just for the record

I am not.

I only vote lefty.

[seaker]

67. Very cute

and nice to know and appreciate the subtlety of your 'handle'
Thanks:thumbsup:

[hobbit709]

10. Lefty here

[seaker]

94. Here there and everywhere

:thumbsup: :thumbsup: :thumbsup:

[Maine-ah]

11. me too

[old mark]

12. Mom was left handed. She used to talk about the shit she got

in school for it even when she was in her 40's and 50's.
I guess I'm just a wannabe....

Forgot : Our President is left handed, too.

mark

[Chan790]

13. Me.

:hi:

(So is the : hi: smiley)

[Richardo]

15. So is the :thumbsup: smilie

DU is sinister!! :thumbsup:

[City of Mills]

14. Sign me up

I'm left-handed :)

[Roon]

16. I do everything with my left hand but write and use a mouse.

I use my right hand to do that.

[Tuesday Afternoon]

17. checking in

another lefty here.

[seaker]

91. Glad to have you aboard on the SouthPaw Express!

:hi:

[jobycom]

18. 11, 879.

Okay, that's just a guess. Do I win?

Oh, and I'm not.

[Bertha Venation]

19. Yep.

:hi: <-- notice left hand waving

[yoyossarian]

20. Yo, baby, yo!

:hi:

I'm as lefty as they get!
Some truly great artistic geniuses are notably left-handed,
including Da Vinci, Michelangelo AND M C Escher!

Oddly enough, 5 of our last 7 presidents were lefties!
Unfortunately, 2 of the 5 were real a-holes who caused more
untold destruction upon the modern world than any others!

Ronald Reagan 40th
George H.W. Bush 41st

The last two, though, seem pretty cool:

Bill Clinton 42nd
Barack Obama 44th

(Perhaps this is because the a-holes were both right-wingers,
whereas the last two have stayed true to their natural--and
dare I say it, superior?--left-leaning predilections!)

An exhaustive list of famous lefties can be found at
http://www.indiana.edu/~primate/left.html

This here guy was NOT left-handed... he was, in fact,
rather pig-headed, ham-handed and swinish in the extreme!



Lovely and Elegant Pig-Mittens!
For today's fashion-conscious fascist!

Great gift tee shirts, mugs, buttons and other cool stuff at


Laugh City!

President Evil Online has risen from the grave!

[Richardo]

21. In 1992, all three presidential candidates were left-handed

:)

[snooper2]

24. half and half here

shoot a rifle and play pool left handed-

swing a hammer and write right handed...

can wack off with either :rofl:

[mentalsolstice]

25. My dad and I both lefties. nt

[Wapsie B]

27. Present!

[keroro gunsou]

28. oresama de yon

oops. i'm ambidex... but i write/draw left handed.

[seaker]

79. Clever!

:bounce: :bounce: :bounce:

[jellen]

29. lefty

always been a lefty

[applegrove]

30. Most of the Presidents in the last 50 years have been left handed.

[LeftyMom]

31. I'm actually not.

Which throws people, what with the screen name and all.

[Ohio Joe]

32. I'm mostly left handed

I do a lot of things better with my left then my right, the notable exceptions being I bat, catch and throw better right handed. Golf, pool, eating, writing, shaving and most other things I do better left handed.

[nickinSTL]

33. righty here, but...

I'm somewhat ambidextrous. I can write left-handed, though I'm a bit slow. I eat pretty much ambidextrously. Whichever hand is more convenient. I can do most things as well left-handed as right, except throwing a ball. Never have really gotten that down left-handed.

My wife is a lefty, though.

[Witchy_Dem]

34. I am!

[BOSSHOG]

35. Count Me In!!!!

[mulsh]

36. I'm a lefty

although I play stringed instruments right handed. read those interviews where Paul McCartney talked about learning to play guitar in a mirror due to being left handed.

[5thGenDemocrat]

37. Me

Have been my whole life -- well, not in the womb, but immediately thereafter.
John
Two exceptions: I operate a rifle (but not a pistol) right-handed, and can golf with either hand.

[Mad_Dem_X]

38. I am!

I use my right hand when I use scissors, but other than that, I'm a proud lefty!

ETA: I use a right-handed mouse, too.

[soleiri]

39. I'm a lefty!!!

[Iggo]

40. You are all the spawn of satan.

Or hadn't you heard?

[Spike89]

41. I'd give my right arm to ambidextrous!

I don't use that useless thing for much anyway.

[SoxFan]

42. Bats Left, Throws Left

Lefty:

Throw
Bat
Swing a tennis racket
Golf
Basketball lay-up
Shoot a hockey puck


Righty:

Write
Eat


Anything sports related I do left-handed. I write right-handed, but my handwriting is so atrocious that I have to wonder if I should have been doing it the other way for all of these years. I also use a fork/spoon with my right hand, which, again, is probably the result of childhood coaching.

Some things I forced myself to do right handed as a matter of convenience. I play a guitar right handed, even though my natural inclination would be to restring the damn thing McCartney style. I can fire a rifle either way, but generally went right handed because of the way the M-16 is designed.

[Fleshdancer]

43. I am!

The only thing I'm able to do with my right hand is cut with scissors. By the time I was in school, teachers were very accommodating to lefties...so much so that they kept insisting I use left handed scissors instead of the right handed pair I preferred. :)

[deepthought42]

111. You too???

Wow. :) spiffy!

[Justpat]

44. Another lefty here.

So is my daughter and my husband.

[X_Digger]

45. Yup, me too.

[derby378]

46. Another lefty

I bowl and use the mouse with my right hand, however.

[dembotoz]

47. everything about me is to the left--hand included

[Left Is Write]

48. I am left-handed.

[AmyDeLune]

49. Meeeeeeeeeeeeee!!!!!! !!!!!!

:D

[Jamastiene]

50. I am too.

:D

[dgibby]

51. Me too!

[backwoodsbob]

52. yep yep

one here

oh and as payback for years of torment at righthanded tools...we bowl better :)

[MrSlayer]

53. I'm a lefty.

I'm ambidextrous with most things but I write and throw with my left.

[BlueJazz]

54. Lefty Here.

[lumberingbear]

55. Raises hand of the Devil.....

:hi:

[Forkboy]

56. Bunch a damn freaks.

:hide:

[Skittles]

57. I CAN KICK SOUTHPAW ASS WITH MY LEFT FOOT

YES INDEED

[Forkboy]

59. I'm ambidextrous.

Not only that, I can use both hands.....


:silly:

[XemaSab]

58. Woot!

:D

[davsand]

60. Yes, put me on the gauche list.

Or would the sinister list be more appropriate?

:shrug:

Never knew for sure.


Laura

[seaker]

93. Insightful and sexy list of course!!!

[NNadir]

61. My boy's a lefty as are two of his maternal aunts.

He's pretty tolerant of the righty mouse on the computer, more tolerant than I am when I go this aunt's place and try her computer.

[EvilAL]

66. I'm not right handed,

nor am I circumsised.

[SoCalDemGrrl]

69. I love being a lefty!! It's a badge of honor especially after my 5th grade teacher

tried to "change me" - basically I said screw that!! I'm different and I embrace it...:)

[blueraven95]

71. lefty here

:hi:

[NYC_SKP]

72. I am not, but I'm attracted to them.

Not the left hands, per se, but left-handers.

:hi:

[seaker]

74. I have been known to be drawn

to righties of the Democratic persuasion:blush:

[NYC_SKP]

80. Yes, you have!

:loveya:

[HereSince1628]

73. Cough!, hack!, hmmmm... Me, me, me, me; me, me-me, Me Meeeeeeeeeeee!

[seaker]

76. Yeah for us!

Maybe we could make a special, secret handshake!
:fistbump:

[gblady]

81. another lefty....

actually pretty ambidexterous...
but write and eat left handed.

[mike_c]

82. semi-ambi here....

Truthfully, I'm right handed, but I use my left hand for lots of things, including the computer mouse and often eating.

[seaker]

83. Now I think about it,

I have been known to eat with 2 hands upon occasion...does that make me ambi???

[deepthought42]

85. We are everywhere...

Bwahahaaaa! :evilgrin:

[Zavulon]

86. Another one here.

I say we should get special interest group status. I had to learn to use righty scissors in school because funding wasn't adequate to provide me with lefty scossors. I also struggle to find the right baseball glove.

[deepthought42]

110. I can't use lefty scissors.

Weird, I know. I tried in art class in elementary school, but they'd just bent the construction paper. So I use my right hand for cutting things. I think I really confused co-workers when I worked at Jo-Ann Fabrics; they'd see me cutting with one hand and then later writing with the other. OH MY FSM! :eyes:

[Xipe Totec]

87. Zurdo I am!

(left handed)

[seaker]

101. Very cute

:hi:

[TomorrowNeverKnows]

88. I eat and drink left-handed,

Does that count?

[Ava]

90. i'm ambidextrous

does that count? :shrug:

[AirmensMom]

95. Here!

:hi:

I had 4 sibs who were lefties and have one daughter and a grandson who are also. We are good with our right hands as well. ;)

[seaker]

100. I admire your flexibility

:hi:

[AirmensMom]

105. Well, thank you.

But it was trained into me, I think, because the schools wouldn't let me be left-handed. So I wrote with my right hand while I was in school and did my homework left-handed.

:hi:

[Awsi Dooger]

96. Me

Everything lefty except golf, and that was a huge mistake.

My dad and grandfather didn't have lefty clubs. But the strong hand should never be the lead hand in golf. Leads to wild dispersion.

[annonymous]

97. I am ambidexterous

I can write with both hands; however there are some things I do right handed such as use a fork, use scissors, throw a ball and brush my teeth. Things I do left handed are write, draw, use chopsticks, use a knife. My children are both left handed and left handedness runs in my family.

[tjwmason]

98. Another one here...

I write with my left-hand, but actually do lots of other things with my right. I eat "right-handedly", but I don't see any particular bias there as both hands are being used.

[seaker]

99. Maybe an 'ambi' post is in order

:thumbsup:

[closeupready]

102. I use both, actually.

n/t

[seaker]

103. Extremely practical

After all, wouldn't it be awful to wear one of them out?
:silly: :hi:

[closeupready]

106. Good point.

:rofl:

[Lucian]

104. I can use my left hand for some things...

and my right hand for some things.

I'm ambidextrous.

[MineralMan]

107. All the popular ones.

[seaker]

108. You bet!!!

:party: :party:

[vixengrl]

109. Mostly! I write left-handed, and draw left-handed and eat that way,

but I use regular scissors and never really *got* the idea of things made just for left-handers. But I can write with my right hand, and have a trick I can do where I write "forwards" with my right hand while writing backwards with my left--although I haven't practiced it for awhile. I use screwdrivers with my right hand and hammers, too. But put a fork in my right hand? (Say, at a crowded dinner table.) I lose my appetite.

Except for chopsticks. There is no hard and fast rule to which hand I prefer at any given task. I "mouse" right handed without problem. My right arm is a little stronger lifting weights.

[deepthought42]

112. There is something about lefty scissors here...

I just could never get them to work. Still can't. So I would just use my right hand for cutting (scissors, knives, etc). But eating, writing, holding things, and so on I use my south paw. The computer mouse I can use either hand.