Sponsor |  LaGriotte | Nov 15, 2004 7:44am | | Do any of you lefties ever feel at all ill at ease? Like someone mentions you're the ONLY LEFTHANDED PERSON in the room, at the table, etc.? I'm also checking this out for myself. Usually I'm quite diplomatic. usually. |
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Sponsor | | Ewokie | Nov 30, 2004 4:42am | | ok ..confession time - wasnt sure where else to place this..Im not left handed but Im definately and totally attracted to left handed people and thats why I joined the group :). Um ..and the question..ill at ease lefties..? well Im not really sure about that one. |
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 |  152298 | Nov 30, 2004 6:58am | | Only during the first 6 months of getting hit for being left handed by my Grade One teacher after that I started quoting the biblical anti-left propaganda back at them, of course I'm a little jumpy now when I hear certain sounds... lovely world we live in... |
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| | 214775 | Dec 1, 2004 12:27am | | Quite often i've been the ONLY LEFTHANDED PERSON in the room. People are surprised to see someone write with the left hand.( Like it's some kinda miracle!) I'd say most of the times, they are jealous cos i can write with my left hand and handle the mouse easily with the right:) I did feel ill at ease being the center of attention...but then again, it's nice getting all the attention once in a while:)) Must say, being left handed is quite a blessing:) |
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Staff | | geoff | Dec 1, 2004 12:42am | The worst part about being left-handed is those right-handed desks in university. Usually in a class of 200 there will be 1 or 2 left-handed desks, right at the back of the room, usually broken, and some clueless right-handers will always get them before you do.
They are okay in class if you are not a big note-taker. But when you are trying to write an exam they are awful -- you have to lean to the right so you can get pen to paper, and then it looks like you are trying to copy off the person next to you.
Everything else about being a lefty is great. |
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Sponsor | | LaGriotte | Dec 8, 2004 9:53pm | | Childhood 'hand coercion' = POST TRAUMA STRESS?? |
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| | imagefalling | Dec 19, 2004 7:32am | | i have definitely never felt ill at ease. granted i am young enough so that i wasn't exposed to the draconian measures employed by educators in the past ('left' being the latin word for 'sinister')..i have always felt proud of being left handed, and felt a certain kinship with with other lefties. also, i have noted that among groups of friends i found myself part of at various times, the prevalence of left handed people was much greater than the statistics would indicate (the norm being 1 out of 9 or 10, i think). |
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Sponsor | | Blueeyez | Dec 19, 2004 8:56am | Are we _that_ rare? I didn't know that! I must admit being clueless to Geoff's plight in that, I never notice when things are out of proportion due to my left-handedness. Are any of you lefties of the ilk that twists their hand all the way inwards and looks like they are writing upside down? That's how my father writes to this day.
Lefty (in more ways than one!) B. |
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Sponsor | | LaGriotte | Dec 25, 2004 11:12am | | Sometimes I write "contorted" like Blueeyez describes. Sometimes not. But my penmanship is almost always gorgeous ( Merry Christmas lefties & lefty lovers!! |
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