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SerieZ:

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--- Quote from: TimFox on June 02, 2020, 04:28:06 pm ---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.

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I was taught to shoot with both eyes open but with a blank screen in front of the non dominant eye. Allegedly it is preferable for some weird neurological reason that I don't remember.

I also have the opposite eyes problem, so I generally shoot better right-handed using my dominant eye despite being a left hander, but I didn't realise this for a long time so all my early shooting was left handed, and heavier rifles I still tend to use left handed as I find I can hold them steadier. Not that I do much shooting any more, and some rifles are just unusable left-handed.

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I have better eyesight with my left eye and for Pistols I use the left eye to Aim.
Unfortunately I am right handed and with the rifle I cannot use the left eye to aim down the Diopter as I am not very good using my left hand precisely even though the Rifle is actually very usable with both Hands.
With both I shoot with both eyes open and I have tried it with one eye closed sometime (In some Swiss Competitions you are not allowed to use "eyesight claps") and your eyesight just gets tired much much quicker that way. At least that is my experience...

In order to get better results I would probably have to buy one of those really expensive shooter glasses to fix the sight of my dominant right eye while also "clapping" (I really do not know a better word for it) down the left.
VK3DRB:

--- Quote from: Cubdriver on June 02, 2020, 02:27:37 pm ---
--- 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

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We also had a Mr. Hammer (ironically his real name) who was a substitute teacher in the same year one day and in a case of mistaken identity, he called me out (with someone else's name) for something I supposedly did at lunchtime which I knew nothing about. He used a belt with plastic electricians tape wrapped around the end to add to the sting. After a victim would put their hand out to get the strap, he would aim for the fingers so it hurt the most, and he would hit very hard. He gave me the maximum legal number of straps by a teacher in the state of Victoria - eight. Things like that never leave you. Fortunately corporal punishment was abolished in this state in the 70's. I never let these bad experiences affect my academic life, after all most teachers were decent, but they might be one reason I have had a pastime for the last 20 years of studying wrongful convictions and the lack of justice in the USA, Australia and the UK.

These days, I don't think being left-handed is considered in negative light. We lefties cope well in the world mainly suited for right-handed people. I kick a footy with the right foot, write with the left hand, can use a mouse in either hand (although those right-handed biased mouses feel a bit odd). Most of us lefties who had fountain pens as kids have learnt to  write with our hand above the writing so out wrist does not smudge the ink, even though we now use ballpoint pens.

Now my handwriting is atrocious because I very rarely write anything. But I wonder how many Millennials know how to write out a cheque. Or what crossing it with "NOT NEGOTIABLE" means. I have not written out a cheque for 10 years.
Rerouter:

--- Quote from: jpanhalt on June 03, 2020, 09:10:13 am ---Does that make me dyslexic?

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No something much worse, a contortionist,

who's preferred position is thumbs facing out...  :wtf:
InductorbackEMF:
Left handed for almost all things other than typing/mouse stuff.
Can write fine using both hands if needed.
Alex.
wn1fju:
I heard this story years ago.  I have no idea whether or not it is true, but I would like to think it is.

A math professor stood in front of his calculus class and, as was his custom, started off by asking if there were any homework problems that the students had difficulties with.  One student blurted out a problem number.  The professor then asked if there were any others.  Another student yelled out a second problem number.

The professor calmly walked over to the blackboard, picked up a piece of chalk in his right hand, picked up another piece of chalk in left hand, and then proceeded to write the solutions to both problems side by side on the blackboard simultaneously!
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