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General Discussions => General discussions => Polls => Topic started by: janetcgtv on June 30, 2014, 08:09:31 PM

Poll
Question: What hand do you prefer to use? Amputees please use option before loss.
Option 1: Right Handed votes: 17
Option 2: Left Handed votes: 25
Option 3: Ambidextrous Self votes: 8
Option 4: Ambidextrous Forced votes: 2
Title: Being Left Handed
Post by: janetcgtv on June 30, 2014, 08:09:31 PM
It is stated that members of the LGBT group are more likely to be born lefty's.
Title: Re: Being Left Handed
Post by: Jill F on June 30, 2014, 08:22:30 PM
I seem to have noticed a few other lefties here, especially in the guitar discussions.
Title: Re: Being Left Handed
Post by: King Malachite on June 30, 2014, 08:27:27 PM
Quote from: janetcgtv on June 30, 2014, 08:09:31 PM
It is stated that members of the LGBT group are more likely to be born lefty's.

I'm really interested in seeing the source of that statement.  :)

I'm left handed btw.
Title: Re: Being Left Handed
Post by: immortal gypsy on June 30, 2014, 08:32:09 PM
Use my left hand for most things. I use to be able to write with both hands when I started school. Now I am regaing the ability, (looks like a 6yr right now).

Higher a left hander its fun to watch us write

Title: Re: Being Left Handed
Post by: alabamagirl on June 30, 2014, 08:34:44 PM
I'm right handed.

Just for full disclosure on how I fit into the study, I'm a trans woman who is attracted to women. Not so much the body, but feminine personalities.
Title: Re: Being Left Handed
Post by: Beth Andrea on June 30, 2014, 08:58:11 PM
Quote from: Pikachu on June 30, 2014, 08:34:44 PM
I'm right handed.

Just for full disclosure on how I fit into the study, I'm a trans woman who is attracted to women. Not so much the body, but feminine personalities.


Oddball.

;)

Leftie here...and I'm in my right mind only occasionally.

:D
Title: Re: Being Left Handed
Post by: alabamagirl on June 30, 2014, 09:04:15 PM
Quote from: Beth Andrea on June 30, 2014, 08:58:11 PM
Oddball.

;)

Hehe~ I'm definitely odd, but I never thought I'd be odd for being right handed.  :D
Title: Re: Being Left Handed
Post by: janetcgtv on July 01, 2014, 02:34:31 PM
Pikachu:

I didn't know it was being an oddball for being interested in women for feminine qualities. I'm the same way. Not interested in being sexual with GG's. I'm best friends with women and they know that I'm feminine.I guess I'm an oddball too.

P.S. I'm a forced ambidextrous person who got used to using both. Didn't like being beaten up for being left handed.

King Malachite: It's common knowledge. You can look it up with WiKi and if you do web searches on left-handiness and homosexuality or transgender. I will look this up and give you the website.
Title: Re: Being Left Handed
Post by: Umiko on July 01, 2014, 02:44:57 PM
is that a fact o: i'm a lefty xD
Title: Re: Being Left Handed
Post by: immortal gypsy on July 01, 2014, 04:02:35 PM
Janetcgtv

You where forced to be ambidextrous. While I was forced to be a lefty. Every time we would write in kindergarten I would get told off because I would just grab the pencil in my closet hand. The teacher would go off at me but my letters still looked the same, was told to pick one hand and stick with it.

(starts humming Pink Floyd's The Wall)
Title: Re: Being Left Handed
Post by: alabamagirl on July 01, 2014, 04:46:51 PM
Quote from: janetcgtv on July 01, 2014, 02:34:31 PM
Pikachu:

I didn't know it was being an oddball for being interested in women for feminine qualities. I'm the same way. Not interested in being sexual with GG's. I'm best friends with women and they know that I'm feminine.I guess I'm an oddball too.

Oh, I didn't mean I was odd for being attracted to femininity. I mean, maybe I am. I've honestly never given it a whole lot of thought, but I just always sort of assumed most people were first and foremost attracted to physical characteristics. I've never looked at anyone and thought, "Wow, they're hot!" or fantasized about what my "dreamgirl" would look like. For me it was always thoughts more along the lines of, "I want someone who listens to me, understands me. Someone who is deeply in touch with her emotions and who I can form a strong emotional bond with. Someone nurturing, who encourages me and completes me. Someone who just makes my whole life better." That kind of stuff. Hehe~ I'm so glad I found a girl like that. It's definitely a dream come true. :)

Quote from: janetcgtv on July 01, 2014, 02:34:31 PM
P.S. I'm a forced ambidextrous person who got used to using both. Didn't like being beaten up for being left handed.
Quote from: immortal gypsy on July 01, 2014, 04:02:35 PM
Janetcgtv

You where forced to be ambidextrous. While I was forced to be a lefty. Every time we would write in kindergarten I would get told off because I would just grab the pencil in my closet hand. The teacher would go off at me but my letters still looked the same, was told to pick one hand and stick with it.

(starts humming Pink Floyd's The Wall)

This is the first I've ever heard of people being bullied for not having the "correct" dominant hand. Geez... That really disgusts me. People really will use any excuse to hurt others, won't they? *gives you both a hug*
Title: Re: Being Left Handed
Post by: janetcgtv on July 01, 2014, 06:10:37 PM
Pikachu:

It has something about being on the left hand  of God(Christianity) which means that you are considered evil an on the way to hell.  I'm happy for you because a GG is a trans best friend.

Many other society's  discriminated as well.

It is documented on WIKI.
Title: Re: Being Left Handed
Post by: Kyler on July 01, 2014, 06:45:45 PM
I'm left-handed. My right arm is nearly useless.

Off topic weirdness, my father and my step father are both left handed. What are the chances my mom has only ever been with lefties?!
Title: Re: Being Left Handed
Post by: Megan82 on July 02, 2014, 11:27:29 AM
I'm left handed. I was, thankfully, born around the time when teachers were no longer allowed to punish for handedness. Mostly I just received evil glares from the teacher who disapproved. Although I did tend to write letters/words/sentences backwards so that didn't really help me out!
Title: Re: Being Left Handed
Post by: Dani Davis on July 03, 2014, 03:04:47 AM
I am able to write with both hands, upside down and backwards.  Saw a family friend who was a door-to-door encyclopedia salesman demonstrate this when I was a kid.  He said it was how he would write notes and fill out paperwork for prospective buyers when sitting at a table or desk across from them.  It fascinated me so much, I taught myself how to do it.
Title: Re: Being Left Handed
Post by: janetcgtv on July 03, 2014, 03:18:43 PM
Kyler:

What's wrong with your right arm?

My guess your mom picks left handers subconsciously.

No  scientific fact about your MOM.(my opinion)
Title: Re: Being Left Handed
Post by: Lauren5 on July 03, 2014, 03:24:23 PM
Adextrous here. I can write legibly with neither hand. However, I'm used to writing with the right, due to habit.
I play guitar left handed, am a right shot in hockey (which is normally for left handed players) and eat in the left handed European style, so that would make me mixed handed.
Title: Re: Being Left Handed
Post by: Maleth on July 15, 2014, 07:22:09 AM
I'm left-handed and can write a little with my right hand but not so comfortably that I can consider myself ambidextrous.
Title: Re: Being Left Handed
Post by: KaylaMadison on July 21, 2014, 01:59:19 AM
I am ambidextrous although I've always considered myself left handed since I primarily use it for writting, eating and things like that. A few things I am better at with my right hand and I can pretty much do anything with either.
Title: Re: Being Left Handed
Post by: FindingJames on July 28, 2014, 04:32:35 AM
Some things I do left-handed and others I do right-handed. I think I was supposed to be a lefty because everything I learned to do through trial and error is with my left hand while the only things I do right-handed are the things I was specifically taught. So for example, I eat and pour drinks with my left hand because I figured out how to do that on my own when I was a kid...but I write and use a butter knife with my right hand because somebody physically taught me those things. I chose forced ambidextrous because in recent years I've been trying to reteach myself how to do my right-handed things with my left hand. Some stuff I've been successful with, but others (writing) I'm still working on. I decided to try to just do everything left-handed (my dominant hand, as far as I'm concerned) because sometimes using both hands for different things is a pain in the butt. And even in everyday situations it can get a bit weird...I always end up picking up my pen with my left hand out of natural instinct but then have to switch it to my right hand once I realise. Eh.
Title: Re: Being Left Handed
Post by: CynthiaAnn on April 08, 2019, 04:23:03 PM
another south paw thread discovered.

I prefer my left hand for most things, and even improvised on a right handed strung guitar / bass by playing it that way, it worked better for me, now I have custom made strung that way.


C -
Title: Re: Being Left Handed
Post by: CynthiaAnn on April 15, 2019, 07:39:27 AM
Quote from: Jill F on June 30, 2014, 08:22:30 PM
I seem to have noticed a few other lefties here, especially in the guitar discussions.

Yes we are out there  :)

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