r/lefthanded

Does anyone put their belt on clockwise??? I do, and the logos always end up upside-down.

I write and eat with my left, fight southpaw (left hand back) but throw a ball with my right

If you had the option of two identical rest-rooms but one was a mirror reflection of the other, which rest-room would you consider to be left handed friendly (without detail, keep it PG)?

(And yes there is toilet paper, I just didn't have time to draw it .)

Option B, sink to the left and toilet to the right.

Option B, toilet to the right.

Option A, toilet to the left.

Option A, sink to the right and toilet to the left.

Mine is buttons. idk why!

Those Electronic Tablets with the Pens tied to the Right at Banks and a Right Handed Computer Mouse for me...

Hi! I'm a right-handed person, but everyone else in my immediate family is a lefty! Both my parents and my two brothers are all left-handed. My grandmother is as well. What are the odds of that? Idk I think it's kinda cool. Anyone else have a lot of left-handed people in their families?

I work in an office of nine full-time employees, all of whom are smart, funny, lovely people. I am the only lefty.
This is the first time this has happened in many years, and it’s strange. Statistically spot-on, I know, but …

Hey all! Hope your having an alleft day!

I know school starts in a good couple of weeks but does anyone have any pen recommendations? I love Gell pens but I know that they don't always dry in time, and ink pens are just a nightmare, so if you have any recommendations please let me know!

Thank you for your time!!! ❤️

International Left Handers Day is coming (August 13th)! (Edit: And it'll be the 50th Anniversary!)

The perfect opportunity to raise some awareness!

So how's about devising some activity challenges for righthanded people?

Keep in mind that Left Handers Day is not the Day of Reckoning!

The idea is to give Righties a managable task, so they can get an idea of what it means to be confronted with righthanded tools as a Lefty. Whereas making them do things lefthanded, like writing or drawing a line inside a maze, would be the same unfair disadvantage as asking you to do it righthanded. Tho having them complete a [buzzing wire] or use a Yoyo with their left hand might make for some innocent fun when approached with a friendly attitude.

Here's a suggestion:

Required Materials

• 1 Righthanded Person
• 1 pair of true, non-ergonomic(!), lefthanded scissors
• 1 pair of non-ergonomic righthanded scissors, preferably identical (OPTIONAL!)
• 1 Printout of the following image

When printing the image on US-Legal-Size or A4, use \"best fit\" so it fills the page.

Instructions:

Hand the printout and LH scissors to the righthanded person. Hand them both at once, holding the scissors in your left and the paper in your right, do not point out that you are giving them LH scissors!

Casually instruct them to cut along the spiraling dotted line as accurate as possible!

Regardless of which snake they start with... the LH scissors obstruct their view and they will likely mention that this is hard to do. Suggest they try the other snake as it might be easier for them.

As this will turn out to make not much of a difference, you can next hand them the RH Scissors to "see if it's easier this way". (This part is optional)

Important: Make sure to not embarass your candidates by exposing their lacking skill as a weakness or making fun of them. A simple "Now do you see...?" works a lot better than a taunt.

Remember: You are an ambassador for a good cause, not The Punisher getting even with 'em!

P.S.: Since the completed snake is a "convection spiral", this test can also a be made into a fun activity for young children. Just add some coloring pens, a roll of yarn and a tape dispenser to your setup and let them personalize their snake before testing - under adult supervision(!) - what type of scissors they prefer. A length of yarn attached to the end of the snakes tail completes the kinetic sculpture they can then take home with them.

I think this would be the right place to put this?? Ok so why the exactly do people even say this? I’ve always felt like, depending on which point you start at, going left could potentially be tightening things up. Why do people not just say clockwise or counterclockwise. This has always been confusing to me, maybe that’s just because I’m left handed and really overthinking the whole thing. Just wanted to get other’s input on this because everyone I’ve asked which way does it go? They yell, “lefty-loosely, righty-tighty” to which I respond “clockwise or counterclockwise” then they just look at me like I’m dumb.. is this a left handed thing, errr wut?

So I go to a gym, and I met a guy there. We kind of hit it off and became good friends. After chatting for a while, we split up to do our own workouts.

Before we did, he went for a dap (that clasped-hand bro handshake). Since I'm left-handed, I couldn't do it properly with my right hand. I thought that was the end of it.

The next day, I found out he'd been telling other people at the gym that my handshake wasn't firm, and that I was gay and weak.

To be honest, I was really disappointed because I genuinely thought he was going to become my gym partner or at least a good friend.

It also made me wonder why so many right-handed people assume their way is the "normal" way. Throughout college, even some of my teachers have commented that my handshake wasn't firm enough. As a left-handed person, using my right hand for these kinds of handshakes just doesn't feel natural.

Hi! Just came across this subreddit with my friends and it made us wonder: are all left handed peoples handwriting horrendous or is it just mine? lol. My mother has incredible hand writing (right handed) and she said my handwriting might be this ugly because I had to teach myself how to write. Are there any left handed people with left handed parents? What’s your handwriting like? I’m so curious.
Edit: if you use non lined paper… is it also abhorrently crooked?? Like it all goes downwards and crooks lmao.

I'm left-handed and write with a lateral tripod grip (first image). I've been reworking how I form letters around this grip that I found much more comfortable than how I wrote before, and I'm turning it into a workbook specifically for the same grippers. Before I do that, I need to know whether it works for people other than me. Problem is, lefty writers with this grip are incredibly hard to for me find. I've asked everyone I know and found no one.

I posted some photos to show how the grip looks like and to show the idea on some letters.

Here's my ask: I'll ask a few quick questions to learn more about your writing, then send a customised PDF sample. Try it for ~10 minutes and tell me what felt natural and what didn't. Everyone who tests gets the finished workbook free. Comment or DM if you’re interested!

Suggestions on where else to find writers with this grip or general comments are welcome too.

lateral tripod grip

'spring' with direction guide with where I placed my hand

Edit 1: Apparently I'll sell the thing eventually but that's not my main intention here. It's why I don't share any links and product name and promise to give it out for all participants to respect this subreddit space.

Edit 2: If the reference photos I shared are confusing, feel free to check this out, see if this helps in identifying your grip. It's ok whether you write under or over the line. It's also possible that you found your self in between the 4 or hold it completely different. One of my friend hold his pen like a FPS gaming mouse

Edit 3: I'll limit to 5 participants first and I'll see if I need more and where this is heading

Edit 4: Sorry for leaving comments unreplied. I'm just hopelessly bad at any scale of multi tasking and bad texter in general due to that. I'll get back to more when I can. Regardless, you guys should know I really appreciate all the responses 🙏