I'm 70 years old, so maybe things have changed, but my left handed brother was FORCED to use his right hand for everything, as we were growing up. Apparently left handedness is a sign of the devil, or some such crap. As a result, he was effectively ambidextrous, as an adult.
Which country did you grow up in out of curiosity? They definitely did this in soviet union because it was more optimal to not have to design anything for minority of left handed people.
a couple years ago some friends on a community driven wargame community and I were engaging in a worldbuilding discussion, creating factions and armies and such for our world
I Said "Im going to have a leftist insurgency" and everyone groaned. "why do you have to make it political cant we just have silly scifi tropes
"Who said anything about politics, 95% of your units are holding their weapons in their right hand. this is a left handed faction"
them
It was Lego, by the way...
I love that their assumption was that their highly fractured society going to war with one another wasn't political. What do people think politics is?
The original fracture in this society was a disagreement about whether socks and sandals is a fashion faux pas. Then someone brought up pineapple on pizza...
Yeah... Like honestly, someone's gonna get beat for the wrong opinion. Get some!
When need was young, you weren't allowed to BE left handed, even if you were. They forced you to do things right handedly, so Ned learned to do the things he does with his right hand, but in his soul he is left handed, as he's always had to work really hard at learning things with his right. He wanted to change the world for the better.
His parents never would've done that. Wouldn't. Couldn't.
While you are most definitely correct his parents wouldn't do that; schools back then absolutely did enforce that and he clearly did still go through school.
He was only ever sold right-handed pens his whole life.
wizard do things
Maybe the camera is flipping the image like a mirror in the most inconvenient of times.
Need Flanders is definitely old enough to have possibly been forced to work with his right hand, meaning that while his left is his dominant he was forced to use his right enough to be effectively ambidextrous.
Some left handed guitarists play right handed just because left handed guitars are much harder to find, or they just string it like Jimi Hendrix lol. I'm sure that's true of other tools and hobbies.
Yep. My brother is left handed and he plays right handed because it's just easier to get a right handed guitar
a friend of mine learned how to play upside down as well so he could play any guitar. not to the degree he played lefties but it was still impressive
I am cross dominant. I do somethings right handed, some things left handed, and there's a few things I can do with either. This blew the mind of every elementary school teacher I had until 4th grade because by then I had the vocabulary to explain myself.
For many years I only felt comfortable using right handed scissors in my left hand because my kindergarten teacher refused to give me a left handed pair since I write with my right hand. I argued with every adult that tried to teach me how to play baseball because I naturally line up lefty at the plate but I throw better right handed. Turns out I can bat switch but fuck them, they didn't know that.
I remember being out to dinner with my family and my brother was joking with me about how I would have to struggle to cut up my food being left handed because how the seats were arranged. I just switched to my right and him and a couple other people were like.... What?.. I didn't even know that people used a specific hand for their utensils.
We never had left handed stuff when I was in school so I guess I just learned on my own.
Oddly, using a fork is something that only feels comfortable with my left hand. I can eat right handed but it feels off somehow.
I'm like that with putting my contacts in. For whatever reason I can do it right handed without any problem but when I use my left hand it's a shitshow.
I wonder how much of handedness is really "real". I'm sure there's a bit of a preference there, but a lot of it might be also training.
For example, I started using my phone in my "off-hand" years ago to keep my "main-hand" free for other stuff. Turns out I do more on my phone than on my free hand, and now I'm much better with my "off-hand" with my phone than with my "main-hand".
It certainly felt real to me growing up. No matter how much teachers would insist that I use scissors right handed, I just couldn't. That being said, with enough training and descipline you can certainly overcome that. As an adult, I can use scissors in either hand but not particularly well.
n=1 of course, but my dad was forced to write right-handed in school (early 60's and an old-school teacher for those days). The result was more punishment as no matter how he tried, he simply couldn't (and still cannot) write very readable with his right hand. So no, I don't think practice is enough to make somebody ambidextrous. Might work for some, but certainly not for everybody.
I always felt like a lot of sites and apps were made to be used left handed anyway. It seems like the controls are often on the left side. Maybe it's just that I primarily used reddit and now lemmy though.
This shows abuse more than anything. He was likely forced to use his right hand growing up and has never fully recovered.
Spanked it right out of him..
THAT GUY IS SPANKING WITH HIS LEFT HAND!
It's clear that right conversion therapy doesn't really work.
I haven't LOL'd in a while. Thank you.
He's finally out of the closet and open about who he is!
Whenever you notice something like that, a wizard did it.
You're welcome
Tbf, if they didn't show him writing with his right hand, this would all be acceptable.
I write with my left hand, but play guitar right handed, pitch a baseball right handed, do basically everything right handed, except usung my left to write and do knife work in the kitchen.
Left handed folks are often ambidextrous.
Not to mention he's religious and back a number of years, you weren't allowed to be left handed, so maybe that is why he writes with his right hand in the scene, and maybe why it's such a liberation for him to come out as left handed? Idk
Left handed folks are often ambidextrous.
Pick a side already!
You right-handers force us into this position!
There's only one thing you use everyday that's made for the left hand and it's flushing the toilet!
Think of how that feels!
And where exactly was he supposed to find a left-handed bowling ball? Huh? D'jever think of that?
Not sure if your serious but I'm a left handed bowler. You normally buy the bowling balls without holes, then have a shop measure your hand and how you throw and drill the holes to based on you.
i know plenty of lefty guitarists who play right handed guitars. they're cheaper, for one.
This rings true of my experience as a left handed person, which is more like being ambidextrous, at least for people who were born at the tail end of society tending to think you’re evil if born left handed.
We lefty’s do things rightyandedly. Those kidney-shaped mouses weren’t left-hand friendly.
I just think they're neat!
