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Cubdriver:

--- Quote from: VK3DRB on June 02, 2020, 11:53:13 am ---A couple of years ago, I was in a room of 15 engineers and embedded programmers. Eight of us were left handed which is a statistical anomaly considering only 10% of people are left handed in the general population.

Some of us were punished for being left handed as kids. I am lucky to be still left handed after a teacher tried to bash it out of me. In primary school in grade three one day, students had to correct the work of the student sitting next to them. The teacher whose name was Mr. Godden noticed I drew the ticks backwards and knew I was left handed. He belted me with an 18 inch wooden ruler on the hand repeatedly whilst gloating but I refused to cry despite the intense pain. He would have stopped if I cried. He stopped at thirty hits one for each tick drawn backwards, leaving my hand red raw. He also did other horrible things at other times I won't mention here.

But I am proud to be lefty.

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Damn!!  That's hardcore!  Certain people shouldn't be teachers!  Sheesh!  I never encountered anything remotely close to that, but do clearly remember a substitute teacher in about third or fourth grade telling me I was underlining things wrong (being a leftie, I started at the end and underlined 'backwards' to the beginning). Weird what sticks with you over the years.  As I got a bit older and (debatably) wiser, I've always regretted not being sharp enough to ask her to turn away and while I drew several lines, some left to right (the 'correct' way in her opinion) and others right to left, then asking her to identify which was which.  Sad.y, thatsomewhat mischievous thought did not occur to me until several years later.

On a slightly different note, I do often tell people I missed my calling - should have been a doctor - I have the handwriting for it.

-Pat

TimFox:
As I understand it, the dominant eye is usually the opposite from the dominant hand.  Somehow, that left me (naturally right-handed) in the situation of being able to close my right eye independently of the left, but unable to close the left eye by itself, which makes shooting a rifle very difficult.  I can live with that problem.  When my mother taught elementary school, they would identify the dominant eye by handing the pupil a cardboard tube and tell him to play telescope, noting which eye the pupil used.

wn1fju:
Born a lefty but my grandmother proclaimed "it is a right-hand world," and so I was forced to eat and write with my right hand at an early age, and that's how I ended up.  Sports are somewhat random - I throw and kick left-handed but play racquet sports such as ping-pong or tennis right-handed.

IconicPCB:
I would give my right arm to be ambidextrous.

Seriously!

Rerouter:
Another ambidextrous, Use what ever hand is most convenient at the time, though my writing is a little better on my left. but any tools, which side I swing a Bat, etc, can use both equally as good,

I annoy people with typing sometimes as I can use literally any combination of hands or fingers without issue, each time I damaged a finger or hand I just learned around it.

Schools where very strict on trying to "correct" my left handed-ness as a kid, which led to all this.

As a side effect, I am effectively left-right disoriented, any time someone gives a direction I will glance at my hands to see which one makes an "L" for left.

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