Have you ever thought.., Something that I have wondered for a while. |
Have you ever thought.., Something that I have wondered for a while. |
Feb 27 2010, 06:40 PM
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Veteran Trash Can Diver Group: Raccoons Joined: 23-July 07 |
What if you were supposed to do something with the opposite part of your body? Like with writing or throwing. What if you were supposed to do it with your other hand, but were taught to do it with another?
When I was learning to write they thought it was odd how I held a pencil, and kept trying things like rubber banding my hand, or making me us some odd looking grippers to hold it "correctly", but now that I think about it they never tried letting me use my left hand. The only reason that I even wonder about this is because for other things such as throwing, and kicking I use the left side of my body, but I only use the right side of my body for writing, so to me it seems as if the left side of my body is dominant, and I wonder why I don't write with my left hand. I know some people are like this, but I'm really the only one in my family that I know is, and we've had some lefties in my family like my dad's mom, and I forget, but some one on my mom's side of the family is a lefty that was in her intermedite family. Also when I was younger I could write using both my hands, but over time they wouldn't let me do it really and basically forced me to use my right, so I grew out of that. My hand writing isn't that great, but I wonder if it would be better if I learned how to write with my left hand. Have any of you wondered if you were supposed to use the opposite part of your body, but you were forced to use another because of the social norm? |
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Feb 27 2010, 06:48 PM
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Respawn Group: Oscar Joined: 12-August 08 |
I had the same problem growing up! They made me use the rubber pencil holder things and I hated them. It's not too late for you to try with your left hand, at least I don't think it is.
Maybe I'll go practice with my left hand too. |
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Feb 27 2010, 06:50 PM
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Veteran Trash Can Diver Group: Raccoons Joined: 23-July 07 |
Well by now I've practically wrote with my right hand all of my life, and I have attempted lefty, but can't seem to make anything more than a scribble right now. Unlike when I was younger and coule write basically the same both ways. Think it might be a little too late for me, but it's just kind of those "What if?" questions to me.
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Feb 27 2010, 07:21 PM
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Saffy's the wolf Group: Guitar Smasher Joined: 11-March 07 |
My mother is left handed and in elementary school she was forced to write with her right hand. Of course now she only uses her left.
I'm right handed and in hockey learned to shoot left (this is common), but when I started learning to play golf my dad forced me to learn hitting right. Seemed a bit unusual but I learned just fine. |
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Feb 27 2010, 07:55 PM
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Melted Wings of Wax Group: Global Moderators Joined: 22-January 08 |
I'm a left. They tried making me write completely with my right (I can use both), but they learned that I wasn't real interested in that. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/lalaexdee.gif)
I actually use my left for writing and throwing, but my right I use for cutting things out and drawing. It's awesome. :3 |
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Feb 27 2010, 08:32 PM
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I leave you alone for TWO minutes! Group: Veterans Joined: 27-November 08 |
Forcing people to use their right hands? These people are jerks! I'm sorry, but that's just what it sounds like. Allow a bit of uniqueness. Anyway....
I'm not exactly left handed, but when I play mini putt-putt, I can play left and right handed. I dunno why. I just turn depending on which way I think feels best. I didn't even think anything of it until my youth director who took us said something along the lines of, "I find it interesting how she plays both right and left handed at this...." o-o And while it's got nothing to do with the whole left/right handed thing, I hold my fork really weird. My mom's dad held it like me, too. But he was her step-dad. So we have no idea why I hold it like I do.... |
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Feb 27 2010, 09:14 PM
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Member Group: Veterans Joined: 4-March 07 |
I hear left handed people aren't real people.
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Mar 2 2010, 01:21 AM
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Tin Soldier Group: Veterans Joined: 1-September 08 |
Didn't read all the posts but I find it kind of dumb that anyone would be forced to use their right hand. What, is now being a lefty like being black or homosexual?
I don't see this as being any kind of real issue, now that you're all grown up, try and teach yourselfwith your left hand, fight back. -.- |
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Mar 2 2010, 01:22 AM
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Member Group: Veterans Joined: 4-March 07 |
BEING BLACK
Whoa, calm down matey. |
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Mar 2 2010, 01:27 AM
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The Not-Quite-Crazy Cat Lady Group: Site Contributor Joined: 22-June 09 |
I was kind of the other way around. I thought left-handed, but I automatically used my right hand. Mom (who is left-handed) is always telling me I should have been left-handed. I used to write in my notebooks back-to-front and stuff like that, but I just ended up being right-handed. I wasn't forced. I was homeschooled and Mom would've loved it if I were left-handed.
For whatever reason, it just didn't turn out that way. =/ |
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Mar 2 2010, 01:38 AM
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Because I said so. Group: Chicken Joined: 8-March 07 |
I'm a lefty. My great aunt got the crap beaten out of her wrist for being "left-handed". D:<
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Mar 2 2010, 02:43 AM
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The World Traveller Group: Global Moderators Joined: 14-June 09 |
Well, I'm a lefty too, but no one ever tried to force me to learn to use another hand. Both of my parents have several left-handed relatives (though neither of them are left-handed themselves) that had to deal with being forced to write and do other things with their right hand, so when it became extremely obvious that I was left-handed (Yeah, no confusion on anyone's part; I'm as left-handed as they come - from the second I could grip an object I was using my left hand to do it. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/lalaexdee.gif) ) they just accepted it and let me go about my way. Now, this did result in all the right-hand oriented "baby's first spoon/fork" things they bought becoming utterly useless, but it didn't matter, because they thought my left-handedness was adorable and made up for the few dollars they lost. >:D
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Mar 2 2010, 04:34 PM
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Tin Soldier Group: Veterans Joined: 1-September 08 |
Tolby, how would you rather me have said it? Black people used to have to conform to other peoples' rules, same as this supposedly. -.-
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Mar 5 2010, 04:20 AM
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Member Group: Veterans Joined: 4-March 07 |
Its a bit of an extreme, and you were using it as a present analogy, not a past one.
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