I'm left handed for everything, as was my father, his father and grandfather, except when I'm using scissors, my mouse and carving the roast....I also used to bowl left arm but bat right handed in cricket. Don't know about being any more artistic for it, though....unless writing can be included, cos I can't paint or draw to save my life.

When I was at school during the 50's and 60's the teachers were forever trying to get me writing right handed, and yes, I would frequently get a rap across the knuckles with a ruler or cane to get me writing with the other hand...that is until my father went to the school and put the fear of bejesus into 'em (and he did, literally). His theory was that if I'm naturally left handed, then it would be unnatural if I were forced into writing right handed. Dad also told them that he sent me to school to learn, not to bring it home, so thay had better not to give me any more homework as I had more than enough to do around the place as it was. As of that day I never got homework again...thanks dad!

Here's one for ya's! I have a nephew who can write equally well with both hands, but more than that he can simultaneously start at each end of the sentence and join it up in the middle to make perfect sense. Hows that for ambidextrous!


Another strange thing I inherited from my father, his father and several grandfathers before him, as did my brother, sister and most of my cousins on dad's side, is that the two toes next to the big toe are webbed on both feet. My children and grandchildren also have them, yet my sister, who does have them, did not pass it on to her children or grandchildren. How strange is that!

Sir Starkers, you sound like you are from Arkansas. Just kidding. Hey, I'm left handed too. And I can't write at all. Never could. The teachers did a real number on me. Not only do I curve my hand downward but I can't move it across the page so I just mamage a few letters and then everything collapses. Thank goodness for computers now and typewriters in the past.

Starkers, you sound like you are from Arkansas. The teachers did a real number on me.

So did mine, one in particular...which is why my father went to the school full of fire and brimstone, a dead-pan look on his face and the evil eye.....

One time I was writing with my left hand, as was instinctive and comfortable for me, when suddenly I was knocked unconscious by one of those wood/felt blackboard rubbers, thrown without warning at full pelt by a 6 foot 6 inch, 120lb plus teacher. By the time dad (5' 5", about 75lbs) was finished with him, I'll bet he only felt like 4' 6".

Arkansas, Arkansas?? Oh, isn't that where the original "Hills Have Eyes" was filmed, and those web-toed swamp creatures first started running amok? Nope, never heard of it...bin there neeether. But I came first a frog race once.

I have read the stories, well horrors of people trying to change you from what you are to what they think you should be. It is so sad to me. What is even sadder is that it will probably never end in time or in subjects. I would love to elaborate on this, but that is not what this thread is about.

6 foot 6 inch, 120lb plus teacher. By the time dad (5' 5", about 75lbs) was finished with him, I'll bet he only felt like 4' 6".

Sorry about this but I need to correct myself....the aforementioned weights should have been in kgs not lbs. Me sometimes finds converting the different measures so darned confusing...this was one of those times. Durrrr!

hey starkers....hows your wife doing????

   Would you believe, I am both. I can write with both left and right. I was suppose to be a leftie but I went to school and was forced to learn with my right.   That was then, this is now.    BTW, that was in the late fifties.

I'd give my right arm to be ambidextrous...

I'd give my right arm to be ambidextrous...

It sounds quite "handy" but I'm not sure it will be much "left" to use...

and it also became common for left handed children to be forced to become right handed

I am very left-handed! The nuns tried to break me of it...but, I was (and still am) more stubborn than they were...I won out! Of my 5 children, only one of them is left-handed.   

I can use both, I was left-handed, but in school the teachers smacked your hand with a ruler to force you to write with your right- hand!  

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My mother was broken of being left-handed.

The only things I do right-handed are bowl, toss a ball, and move the computer mouse. Everything else is lefty.

homeryulo thanks for a great thread

Ambidextrous - I can draw pictures equally bad with either hand.
Seriously, I think I started out to be a southpaw but was gently but firmly forced into using the right hand by family and teachers. No erasers up the side of the head but verbal pressure works just as well, trust me. Now I tend to do things 'my way' which means I use tools, hammer, broom, saw, wrench or what ever left-handed but write or eat right-handed.

okey my turn...I am left handed in everything I do..except when I am eating..we Filipinos used spoon in our rigth and fork in our left. My Mom used to tell me that I should eat like everyone else or I will never be accepted if I travel abroad. Ha! Now I'm in Japan..and Japs are praising me when they realized Im a left handed..hehe. Man they are weird!.

And Citizen skinhit..you are welcome.

hey starkers....hows your wife doing????

Not too well I'm afraid....she has sunk fairly low into depression. To make matters even worse, we had the Dep't of Families visit with us at the hospital with more pathetic excuses as to why they can't/won't act in the better interests of our 16 yo runaway daughter, who is running amok and doing all the wrong things. They were all full of promise and positives over the phone, but when it came to the meeting they were everything but positive or helpful.

Even our lawyer is frustrated, dumbfounded and alarmed at the evasive manouvres they're employing to avoid having to take responsibility for the parental guidance and controls they've forbidden to us. However, I must keep fighting on and not fall apart myself so they have someone who loves them to turn to when needed. Haven't seen the light at the end of the tunnel yet, but I'm sure we eventually will.

S'pose I got a few things in my favour.....I'm a Taurean, which is supposed represent strength and determination; my name is Mark, which is supposed to mean a warrior and warlike; and I'm a mollyduker (left-handed), which supposedly makes me more sensitive and caring, etc. Dunno about all that, but seeing as the right side of the brain controls your left side, I am in my right mind (I think)....heaven help us all if I happen to wake in the morning writing right handed.

Damn Starkers....i hope this all turns out well for you. sorry to hear about it. Seems like you have a positive outlook on it, which is a good start. as before, i will keep you and your family in my thoughts and prayers...

I'm lefthanded... in the mirror

I'm lefthanded... in the mirror

I'm lefthanded... in the mirror

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Damn Starkers....i hope this all turns out well for you. sorry to hear about it. Seems like you have a positive outlook on it, which is a good start. as before, i will keep you and your family in my thoughts and prayers..

Again, thanks tremendously for your thoughts and prayers. As for having a positive outlook, well I have no choice because I was born with a never say die attitude and I've never given up on anything that means anything....and even if Tanka's behaviour has kicked me in the guts over and over again, I'll never give up and will never end fighting for her. She mightn't like it now, but it's what good parents do and she'll appreciate the effort later in life, which is all that counts.

Also, I've picked up a couple of high profile allies who also believe what the Gov't and Family Services bureaucrats are doing is criminal, so the outlook is brighter today than it was a week or so ago.

I'm lefthanded... in the mirror

Darn it! Looked in the mirror this morning and I'm right-handed....sod it!

I'm Ambidextrous...does that count?   

All kak handed people should be shot at birth, It's just not normal...   

All kak handed people should be shot at birth, It's just not normal...

What!!! And rid the world of most of its literary and academic geniuses? I dunno, mad dogs & Englishmen!

If it weren't for kak handers, technology and the arts would still be in the Dark Ages ....given some neanderthal right-handers I know, probably still in the Stone Age. Yep, too many clear cut cases where teachers shoulda rapped 'em across the knuckles until they wrote left handed.