RIGHT HANDED OR 'SINISTRE'? (41)
True story
My late wife was Left handed and in 1948 was punished by various means Verbally and in writing for being so at a Private School in Birchington, for which her Father payed and her brother.to be educated. --- After receiving 3 reports that she MUST be taught RIGHT HANDED HANDWRITING to get into line her father (Foreman Bricklayer) at the time, went to the school & confronted the Mr Pickwick type head master (what they were called) then) and the Uriah heap weedy teacher who signed the letters in the Heads office.
When they saw how big and angry he was after he said he had no objection to left handed Architects, Brickies Chippies and Plasters and then read her Piano teachers report on her abilities they were forced to back down. My brother in Law who could write with both hands eventually left there to go to another Private school in sandwich Kent and went on to become a Brigadier and my wife stayed but a year or 2 after she left school,she became a civil servant eventually reaching HEO rank and did 38 years of highly confidential work & was still - Left handed.
My late wife was Left handed and in 1948 was punished by various means Verbally and in writing for being so at a Private School in Birchington, for which her Father payed and her brother.to be educated. --- After receiving 3 reports that she MUST be taught RIGHT HANDED HANDWRITING to get into line her father (Foreman Bricklayer) at the time, went to the school & confronted the Mr Pickwick type head master (what they were called) then) and the Uriah heap weedy teacher who signed the letters in the Heads office.
When they saw how big and angry he was after he said he had no objection to left handed Architects, Brickies Chippies and Plasters and then read her Piano teachers report on her abilities they were forced to back down. My brother in Law who could write with both hands eventually left there to go to another Private school in sandwich Kent and went on to become a Brigadier and my wife stayed but a year or 2 after she left school,she became a civil servant eventually reaching HEO rank and did 38 years of highly confidential work & was still - Left handed.
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Thanks for sharing MikeD12. Your stories are inspiring.
My brother forced himself to write right-handed but I didn't care what anybody else thought and luckily wasn't forced to write right-handed. My only problem was writing with a fountain pen as I tended to smudge what I was writing (quite logical if you think about it). However, I certainly wasn't allowed to write from right to left or backwards. Shame!
My brother forced himself to write right-handed but I didn't care what anybody else thought and luckily wasn't forced to write right-handed. My only problem was writing with a fountain pen as I tended to smudge what I was writing (quite logical if you think about it). However, I certainly wasn't allowed to write from right to left or backwards. Shame!
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If the hands are controlled by the opposite hemisphere of the brain. Do right and left handed people have different talents or abilities or excel in different areas?
Have there been any studies on this?
Anyone know?
Have there been any studies on this?
Anyone know?
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There's a lot more than this but i don't wish to post a three page answer. Here's the start of what I just read:
'The belief that there is a link between talent and left-handedness has a long history. Leonardo da Vinci was left-handed. So were Mark Twain, Mozart, Marie Curie, Nicola Tesla and Aristotle. It’s no different today – former US president Barack Obama is a left-hander, as is business leader Bill Gates and footballer Lionel Messi.
But is it really true that left-handers are more likely to be geniuses? Let’s take a look at the latest evidence – including our new study on handedness and mathematical ability.
It is estimated that between 10% and 13.5% of the population are not right-handed. While a few of these people are equally comfortable using either hand, the vast majority are left-handed.
Hand preference is a manifestation of brain function and is therefore related to cognition. Left-handers exhibit, on average, a more developed right brain hemisphere, which is specialised for processes such as spatial reasoning and the ability to rotate mental representations of objects.'
There is more but I don't wish to bore people. Let me give you the link:
'The belief that there is a link between talent and left-handedness has a long history. Leonardo da Vinci was left-handed. So were Mark Twain, Mozart, Marie Curie, Nicola Tesla and Aristotle. It’s no different today – former US president Barack Obama is a left-hander, as is business leader Bill Gates and footballer Lionel Messi.
But is it really true that left-handers are more likely to be geniuses? Let’s take a look at the latest evidence – including our new study on handedness and mathematical ability.
It is estimated that between 10% and 13.5% of the population are not right-handed. While a few of these people are equally comfortable using either hand, the vast majority are left-handed.
Hand preference is a manifestation of brain function and is therefore related to cognition. Left-handers exhibit, on average, a more developed right brain hemisphere, which is specialised for processes such as spatial reasoning and the ability to rotate mental representations of objects.'
There is more but I don't wish to bore people. Let me give you the link:
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CossackCat: If the hands are controlled by the opposite hemisphere of the brain. Do right and left handed people have different talents or abilities or excel in different areas?
Have there been any studies on this?
Anyone know?
I can't refer to specific studies, but have certainly heard the 'south-paws' are more artistic, academic and better disposed to lateral thinking... My wife was left handed and a perfect example of someone exhibiting all three qualities...Have there been any studies on this?
Anyone know?
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Arthur_Sixpence: I can't refer to specific studies, but have certainly heard the 'south-paws' are more artistic, academic and better disposed to lateral thinking... My wife was left handed and a perfect example of someone exhibiting all three qualities...
I gave the link to what I'd read. Mostly it isn't proved apart from being more mathematical at a certain age. I believe there must be something, however, in the link between the two cerebral hemispheres.------ This poll is Archived ------
John333333: I gave the link to what I'd read. Mostly it isn't proved apart from being more mathematical at a certain age. I believe there must be something, however, in the link between the two cerebral hemispheres.
Living in a right-handed world. As a left hander, I was taught to knit, crochet and play hockey right handed....because I was taught by right handers. Ecstatic to find left handed scissors a few years ago, only to find that I can't use them, I'm so used to right handed ones 
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unlaoised: Living in a right-handed world. As a left hander, I was taught to knit, crochet and play hockey right handed....because I was taught by right handers. Ecstatic to find left handed scissors a few years ago, only to find that I can't use them, I'm so used to right handed ones
Yes. I played hockey right handed, plus when I played a few rounds of golf, tin openers and scissors the same as you, I use a knife and fork right-handed but a spoon for soup left-handed. Table-tennis I'm obviously best left-handed but can also play a mean game right-handed. Ummm..... maybe too much info but I wipe my bum with my right hand! 
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John333333: Yes. I played hockey right handed, plus when I played a few rounds of golf, tin openers and scissors the same as you, I use a knife and fork right-handed but a spoon for soup left-handed. Table-tennis I'm obviously best left-handed but can also play a mean game right-handed. Ummm..... maybe too much info but I wipe my bum with my right hand!
Soooo I could have lived without the last bit of info 
Yep, same with golf and tin openers, knife and fork right handed as well. Left handed at tennis, table tennis and I obviously write left handed. I feel your pain with fountain pens...the bane of my life at school
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It would appear left handed people have quicker reflexes as a disproportionate number of professional goalkeepers are left handed.
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bodleing2: It would appear left handed people have quicker reflexes as a disproportionate number of professional goalkeepers are left handed.
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unlaoised: Soooo I could have lived without the last bit of info
Yep, same with golf and tin openers, knife and fork right handed as well. Left handed at tennis, table tennis and I obviously write left handed. I feel your pain with fountain pens...the bane of my life at school
Yes, it upset me trying my best to write neatly and ending up smudging everything and having the outside of my hand dyed with ink. I never wrote sort of overhand like some left-handed people. it looks kinda weird even though it's practical. Sorry about the t.m.i. wiping bit.Yep, same with golf and tin openers, knife and fork right handed as well. Left handed at tennis, table tennis and I obviously write left handed. I feel your pain with fountain pens...the bane of my life at school
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bodleing2: It would appear left handed people have quicker reflexes as a disproportionate number of professional goalkeepers are left handed.
Maybe left-handed people just prefer to be hit in the face by footballs (just joking). I have read that a disproportionate number of sports people are left-handed. I used to box in the Army as a south-paw and never lost a fight but was sensible enough to get out before I got brain damage (I had enough brains to realise I was good but nowhere near the best and sooner or later I'd get destroyed in the ring).
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John333333: Yes, it upset me trying my best to write neatly and ending up smudging everything and having the outside of my hand dyed with ink. I never wrote sort of overhand like some left-handed people. it looks kinda weird even though it's practical. Sorry about the t.m.i. wiping bit.
It's ok, I have to say that I've never really thought about which hand I use for that.We had no choice for our last two years of school but use a fountain pen, particularly for English. So, like you, I spent those years with ink all over the outside of my hand and the pen invariably leaked as well
Looking back, it was really unfair on lefties!
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CossackCat: If the hands are controlled by the opposite hemisphere of the brain. Do right and left handed people have different talents or abilities or excel in different areas?
Have there been any studies on this?
Anyone know?
I know sinistres are more artistic so am I but whether they have a higher intelligence or not I don't knw & I am going out on a Snoeky limb here to say I am Have there been any studies on this?
Anyone know?
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unlaoised: Living in a right-handed world. As a left hander, I was taught to knit, crochet and play hockey right handed....because I was taught by right handers. Ecstatic to find left handed scissors a few years ago, only to find that I can't use them, I'm so used to right handed ones
me too & I hated making mistakes in my sewing 'cos Mama couldn't take over for me 
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Cervatilla: me too & I hated making mistakes in my sewing 'cos Mama couldn't take over for me
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unlaoised: That's why Mama taught me to knit right handed. She's right handed
Mamma never taught me how to knit. I think that was Papa. He was akhanded . No, no....don't believe me please - I was joking!
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unlaoised: That's why Mama taught me to knit right handed. She's right handed
Mamma never taught me how to knit. I think that was Papa. He was akhanded . No, no....don't believe me please - I was joking!
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John333333: Mamma never taught me how to knit. I think that was Papa. He was akhanded .
No, no....don't believe me please - I was joking!
Papa taught me how to darn socks.No, no....don't believe me please - I was joking!
You should learn to knit, very therapeutic
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unlaoised: Papa taught me how to darn socks.
You should learn to knit, very therapeutic
Every time I got promoted in the Army I panicked as new badges of rank had to be sewn on ALL my uniforms. Luckily I managed each time to get somebody to do it for me. Phew!You should learn to knit, very therapeutic
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If I remember correctly from lectures long ago, that overhand writing which avoids smudging the ink is because the brain hemispheres are swapped round. The overhand lefties are using the same side of the brain as the righties, but the hemisphere is in a different place. The same with overhand righties who use the leftie's hemisphere.
Me? I can do some things better with my right hand, some things better with my left and some things with either. Apparently, it's a dyspraxic thing and classified as learning disability, but I've never found it to be so. Quite the opposite of a disability in fact - it's really rather...erm...handy.
I have both an academic and artistic background and I'm definitely a lateral thinker, much to the annoyance of many of my fellow forumites over the years.
Me? I can do some things better with my right hand, some things better with my left and some things with either. Apparently, it's a dyspraxic thing and classified as learning disability, but I've never found it to be so. Quite the opposite of a disability in fact - it's really rather...erm...handy.
I have both an academic and artistic background and I'm definitely a lateral thinker, much to the annoyance of many of my fellow forumites over the years.
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John333333: Every time I got promoted in the Army I panicked as new badges of rank had to be sewn on ALL my uniforms. Luckily I managed each time to get somebody to do it for me. Phew!
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jac_the_gripper: If I remember correctly from lectures long ago, that overhand writing which avoids smudging the ink is because the brain hemispheres are swapped round. The overhand lefties are using the same side of the brain as the righties, but the hemisphere is in a different place. The same with overhand righties who use the leftie's hemisphere.
Me? I can do some things better with my right hand, some things better with my left and some things with either. Apparently, it's a dyspraxic thing and classified as learning disability, but I've never found it to be so. Quite the opposite of a disability in fact - it's really rather...erm...handy.
I have both an academic and artistic background and I'm definitely a lateral thinker, much to the annoyance of many of my fellow forumites over the years.
Edward de Bono (Maltese) came up with the concept of lateral thinking decades ago and spent the rest of his life cashing in on it. He wrote dozens of books - all about lateral thinking. I only read the one as I might have laterally thinkingly wanted to do him harm. Oh, I like to think I'm capable of thinking laterally - it's got me out of tricky situations many times when a solution seemed impossible on the face of it! Me? I can do some things better with my right hand, some things better with my left and some things with either. Apparently, it's a dyspraxic thing and classified as learning disability, but I've never found it to be so. Quite the opposite of a disability in fact - it's really rather...erm...handy.
I have both an academic and artistic background and I'm definitely a lateral thinker, much to the annoyance of many of my fellow forumites over the years.
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We were issued with a White housewife full of goodies but unfortunately the bags were only 6" x 4"
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Ha! I had a text on philosophy by de Bono - and never managed to get beyond the first page.
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jac_the_gripper: Ha! I had a text on philosophy by de Bono - and never managed to get beyond the first page.
I thought Philosophy was an interesting challenge and did an OU course. I did very well, but once I'd finished I didn't have a clue what I'd learned if anything! It was just very hard work and my tiny little brain couldn't cope. ------ This poll is Archived ------
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Tis the mark of the devil
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I might be left-handed but I struggle to decide which digit of which hand to pick my nose with.
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RIGHT HANDED OR 'SINISTRE'?(Vote Below)