The people who call sexuality a choice are speaking from experience. They have chosen to be straight and are suppressing their authentic selves while thinking everyone is doing that.
I write left handed... and that's it. Can't even hold a fork properly left handed. Nature just decided it would be a funny prank to make me do one single task with my left hand.
My uncle is the weirdest one I've seen. Shoots rifle left handed, pistol right. kicks a ball left footed, throws a ball right. eats right handed, writes left. And I got demonized for skating goofy. The only things that should be done right handed is brass instruments...kinda cuz they're just made that way. I'm sure in history there has been a lefty Euphonium though.
When I was a kid I could write and do pretty much everything equally (or equally bad) with both hands. My mother made me choose one dominant hand because as she said "using both causes issues with your brain". She never did give me a solid reason. She then heavily implied that being left handed was weird and the whole world is right handed. I became right handed but can still do most things with both just as easily.
This was literally a thing. My mom also had the left-handedness slapped out of her in school and that was California in the late 60s. Left handedness is the origin of the term Sinister.
I'm am absolute freak show then: I'm mostly right-handed, but there are a few major tasks that I naturally do with my left hand. Cross-dominant, I think it's called. But I'm no stranger to being a statistical anamoly, lol
My first grade teacher didn't mind which hand I used to write but the rumor was that the second grade teacher was very strict on it that you should use your right hand. Well, he unexpectedly died during that summer vacation and I must admit I was never more relieved of someone's demise. Hey, I know it isn't right but I was a kid and he scared me.
Mother-in-law is a class A bitch. Old school, ex judge's secretary, you know the type. Adopts the mantle of her former boss. She used a rod to hit the back of the hand of her grandchildren showing let-handed tendencies as they picked-up a pen etc. My wife is left-handed... My wife went to fucking town on the old cow when she did that. It stopped. Quickly.
NSFW I'll be honest, it felt like he was getting into it so much that when the clip finished I genuinely said out loud to myself "I'm not actually sure if this is meant to be satire or not". I wouldn't be surprised if there are actually still people that are so fervently against left-handed people.
I see that look as shame. He suddenly felt shame at saying something so close to 'white power' even knowing it's a joke. I see that as quite honourable really. He really really deep down does not want to be anywhere near that phrase. I think in that moment he regrets the joke, not because of consequences but because of his own values. Well, IMHO anyway
I wasn't casting shade. As others pointed out he was tactful and it's all in the name of humor. There is just that flash in his eye when he realizes it and it caught my attention. Glad to see carefully considered responses here though. Gives me hope that Society hasn't completely collapsed.
I think most left handed people are more ambidextrous on average than right handed people are, due to being forced to use the right hand on many occasions.
I'm ambidextrous as well. In school leaning to write they said put the pencil in the hand that felt more comfortable, which was very confusing for me. Thankfully the teacher told me right hand was more common, so I did not end up on the sinister side like some kind of weirdo. /s
I learned to write with my right hand. I feel like I would have been a natural lefty because I'm better at underhanded throw, smoking cigarettes, knife, texting, peeling garlic, shooting, tiddlywinks, and sex with the left hand.
So envious. My mom is left handed so everything at home was geared for leftys, scissors, seating arrangements, learning to write, dishwasher location, etc. I didn't know right handed scissors existed until kindergarten. I'm still the only girl in my family who isn't right handed, even amongst my sister in law. Also currently recovering from carpal and cubital tunnel release surgery on my right side so I currently have to use my left hand for everything and it's not been fun.
My FIL is left handed but writes with his right - as it what was forced on him at school. Reality is, we can do all the things with the other hand, we just have a preference and that develops the dexterity and muscle memory.
im ambidextrous as well but my left hand penmanship is garbage (right is not great but better) mostly due to lack of practice but i handle all other tools with which ever hand is more convenient. ive broken 2 peoples brains while eating with chopsticks by just switching hands because one got tired. oh there is one thing i cant do for shit with my left hand is throw a ball. but that may be because i never tried to develop the mussel memory for the action
I got a guy at work with that. I was swinging a hammer driving concrete anchors in. Right got tired so I switched to my left and kept chugging along. I watched him try it and got a good chuckle every time I heard a glancing strike on them. It's harder than it sounds.
I never considered chopsticks something easier with the handed hand. Both are pretty much the same to me. TIL. Only writing and especially guitar are things I find difficult left handed. Writing is just a little tricky but not even that bad.
Polar bears are not always handed but they often prefer one paw if you see one digging with one paw more than the other or something like that it’s likely the paw they will use to strike in their first attack. Hopefully knowing that gives you the advantage needed if you ever find yourself in a fight with a polar bear
Yes... knowing which paw it's going to lead on will definitely be the secret sauce that will otherwise break the stalemate between man and polar bear boxing.
People really did believe that left handed was wrong and the left handed kids just needed to be trained to use the right hand, because it's the correct hand.
In kindergarten, my "old school" teacher tried to stop me from being left-handed. Glad my mom lost it on her back then. Since then, I've had to adapt to a right society, so I do many things right-handedly. So, I guess I'm bi.
I have two cousins that were born left handed. The older one was retrained to use his right hand when he was young but they didn’t bother doing that with the younger one when he came along
I was one of those kids. The results were a low quality ambidextrous writing style. My hand writing is terrible with both hands, but worse with my left (native) hand, because it wasn't used during school. My hand writing is hard to recognize because it changes constantly. School issued penmanship lessons made it worse, because now I write in any style I choose, and its always a bit different. In late adulthood I have settled on using engineer block lettering and strive to use only that. ->
-> As a result my votes frequently do not get counted because the signature on my ballot does not match what they have on file. I have to go to the voting office and fill out 20 voting cards and ask they keep them all on file to ensure my vote gets counted. I have been denied money from my own bank account because my signature didn't match the signature card. I use scissors, chopsticks, knives etc with my left hand. Im left footed, and skate goofy. Dont interfere with a childs dominant hand.
Literally the word sinister means what it means today because it originally meant left and they hated left handed people so much that sinister meant evil because left handed was evil and left handed people were sinister. Not like the right handed people who were dexterous.
My uncle was left handed and raised in catholic school and they would hit you with a ruler every time you tried to use the left hand to write. They really believed it was evil.
Pretty sure it goes further than that. That being left handed was the devil. Also, studies that showed all of the sudden the amount of left handed people spiked once such a ridiculous mindset was abolished. (I believe often cited for openness in lgbtqa communities as well). Basically, stop demonizing humanity for its own existence and you’ll find out that humanity has a larger demographic than you thought.
My dad is a leftie. His mom was a leftie, too. His mom had it beaten out of her. He was free to live life free and open as a proud leftie. Before I came out of the closet as trans, I would always cite the history of left-handedness over time to him and he never got it. Now I don't talk to him.
Same for mental health diagnostics, cancer, etc. Oh autism spiked suddenly? Huh, it aligns with times when the definitions were elaborated or combined, or better trained to professionals. Crazy, must be a conspiracy! /s
My mum, back in the dark ages, (1920's) had her left hand tied to the back of the chair and got beaten if she didn't write properly with her right. And yes, I know this isn't about handedness, but it's interesting how things can become normal.
I'm left handed and every weekend when I was a teenager I would hang out with all my right handed friends like I was no different. My mum was really supportive. Dad never talked about it even when he was beating the shit outta me with a set of jumper cables.
I'm left handed but only for writing. Because every device is designed for right handed people. So I was forced by society to be right handed. I propose a left handed revolt! Viva la lefties! No longer shall we have to live in fear of white boards!!
My mother told me that my early grade teacher asked her if she wanted them to force me to use my right hand. Apparently I was using either one to write. Turns out I write terribly with either hand.
When i was a kid in the 80s my dad went apeshit when a drunk farmer passing by on a cart whipped me once because i apparently didn't get out of the way fast enough.
I don't want to think about what he would have done to a teacher and later the school if they had laid hands on me.
At school in tx in the 90s, still smacking kids with a ruler across the nuckles for using left hand. Wouldn't surprise me if they still are in some of the rural shitholes.
My first job was at a convenient store. A cop would occasionally come by and write a check. She'd write with her head nearly touching the counter and right arm wrapped all the way around the check like a horror movie monster. She was forced to be right handed growing up. My uncle also has an issue after also being forced that way. Glad I never had to undergo that as a lefty.
Oh, it was still a thing in 70's rural Finland as well. Sans tying and beating, but 1st & 2nd grade teacher, who was probably held together with embalming fluid and some lich rituals forced me and another classmate to write with our right hand. Used left, and it was a automatic fail.
I was born in 93. My preschool teacher would hit my knuckles with a ruler trying to force me to use my right hand.
I added this to say, we may talk about these mentalities as if they are things from a bygone era but they are very much kept alive today by regressive holdouts and secluded, insular regions that are never exposed directly to cultures outside their limited bubble.
Even in the late 90s (small town of course) my teacher would make me stay in from recess to practice my handwriting because i was left handed and she didn’t like it. When I was taught sports, only shown the right hand/leg dominant way. No left handed gloves, or clubs etc
My hand writing is now impeccable but I also now i can only write with my left hand and everything else I became right hand / leg dominant. Still can’t write with my right hand tho, if I do it’s very poor.
My grandfather was punished for writing with his left hand. That stopped when he was told "write your assignment with your right hand or don't write at all!". So he put his pen down and sat there, when the teacher asked what he was doing he said not-writing, as that was a presented option. His mom backed him up on that.
I started out left handed and was smacked around by my very religious parents until I became right handed. This was back in the late 70s when it wasn't considered child abuse.
Also interesting looking deeper at how with writing the pen grip style was force fed to everyone as dynamic tripod. It was the most common after all so to measure children’s metrics they graded on how well children used the dynamic tripod. My daughter writes with a lateral quadrupod grip. My hell for her up to grade 1 fighting her trying to force dynamic tripod. Eventually a teachers assistant told me about the other 3 main grips and things got a lot better.
My youngest boy started ‘drawing’ when he was about 2 and a half. He graduated to writing little stories— stick people but they became very detailed. Every year at back to school night my husband and I would get the lecture that he didn’t hold his pencil’right’ and yet he was praised by his art then his letters were perfect. By his third year I could tell the teacher wanted to say something and I’d tell her off saying “just don’t watch.”
At 27 years old I've recently switched to modified tripod, and goddamn, has it significantly reduced the strain I feel when writing. It used to be absolutely immediate that I'd just death grip the pencil and start cramping up in wrist/forearm and now I can just float along the page for a bit. My handwriting has always been shit, and now it's different shit bc adapting to new grip, but maybe if I had known sooner I'd have decent handwriting by now
Don't know the names for them in English (or barely in my own language for that matter) but while only one type of grip was hammered in in school, in my art schools several were taught. So you could try which ones suited you best, and which ones suited different techniques of drawing and writing best. I'm very grateful for having that opportunity to learn several, and being able to tell my school teacher that they could talk to my art teachers if they only thought one was "right".
You might just surprise yourself. I passed my insurance license test by printing out the concepts I needed to learn. I put them in a 4×11 column and printed a chapter each time. In the OTHER column I wrote out longhand (using different color pens made my study sheets look like the aftereffects of a diarrhetic unicorn but I avoided carpal tunnel symptoms that way.) my penmanship AUTOMATICALLY Iimproved. I just needed practice.
In terms of social acceptability, it is entirely up to us to decide what is "normal" or not. As long as it is not strictly made physically impossible by the laws of the Universe, anything can be deemed "normal".
My first grade teacher told me I was a disgrace for being left handed. She also said she hated when people put a line through their sevens, so I've been doing it ever since.
My mom's hand was beaten at school in the 60s/early 70s if she used her left hand to write. It got so bad that my grandpa, who served in Korea, went down to the school and threatened the teachers if they didn't stop, and he was a man who would follow through. My mom is ambidextrous now.
I know you're being facetious but just reading this made me physically angry. I know people who use this backwards logic. Takes every ounce of restraint not to just slap em.
Some people NEED a slap. Some people need a slap with a chair. Some people need a slap with a flaming chair. Some people need a slap with a flaming chair on the edge of a cliff. Some people need a slap with a flaming chair on the edge of a cliff of razor blades. Some people need a slap with a flaming chair on the edge of a cliff of razor blades over a sea. Some people need a slap with a flaming chair on the edge of a cliff of razor blades over a sea of rubbing alcohol. These are they. Slap away.
My dad came from a family of 7 brothers, 3 sisters, a grandma and a grampa. If you had a left-handed sibling, it made sitting at a crowded dinner table awkward, always jabbing the person next to them with an elbow. So Dad's left-handed brother learned to eat right-handed.
When I heard that story, I started training myself to eat left-handed. I was always such a rebel.
7 brothers and 3 sisters, parents, and grandparents all at the same table. Space is limited so you're gonna be sitting next to someone on either side of you regardless of where you sit. It actually is a problem.
Metalsmith21
The people who call sexuality a choice are speaking from experience. They have chosen to be straight and are suppressing their authentic selves while thinking everyone is doing that.
Quizz25S
This guy has some George Carlin energy
epistlero
In Latin left handed is sinister
IlluminaBlade
I write left handed... and that's it.
Can't even hold a fork properly left handed.
Nature just decided it would be a funny prank to make me do one single task with my left hand.
HeresYourSauce
And we did that, for a long time. Long enough the technical term for being left handed is just sinister.
Sinister, which today means evil, terrible, plotting, sinful, is just latin for left.
danggucci
My uncle is the weirdest one I've seen. Shoots rifle left handed, pistol right. kicks a ball left footed, throws a ball right. eats right handed, writes left. And I got demonized for skating goofy. The only things that should be done right handed is brass instruments...kinda cuz they're just made that way. I'm sure in history there has been a lefty Euphonium though.
TheViolinCon
That's a bit like me. Right handed, left eye dominant, left footed. Bodies will body uniquely.
thatwoodguy
I'm 60 years old, and I still have a scar on my left thumb from a middle-aged ruler my fourth grade teacher smacked me with riding with that hand.
CorgisButtsDriveMeNuts
MelfsAcidArrow
Yeah left handed people were demonized for a very long time.
DrankTooMuchMead
In the early X-Men comics, the racist humans were called "The Right".
MiserableBustard
The X-Men have always been a weird analogy for racism because the humans are 100% right to be afraid of them and want them gone.
Futuron
When I was a kid I could write and do pretty much everything equally (or equally bad) with both hands. My mother made me choose one dominant hand because as she said "using both causes issues with your brain". She never did give me a solid reason. She then heavily implied that being left handed was weird and the whole world is right handed. I became right handed but can still do most things with both just as easily.
malachilenomade
SOUTH PAWS UNITE!
AlwaysDownvoteDots
Meh. Maybe later.
fastlaserjockey
This was literally a thing. My mom also had the left-handedness slapped out of her in school and that was California in the late 60s. Left handedness is the origin of the term Sinister.
ChunkySmoothie
I'm am absolute freak show then: I'm mostly right-handed, but there are a few major tasks that I naturally do with my left hand. Cross-dominant, I think it's called. But I'm no stranger to being a statistical anamoly, lol
GuyPilot
This would work effectively as written satire ... but as stand up?
I heard cheering and approval more than laughter.
SprinklesMckitten
There's an American dad episode where the kids realize francine's catholic nun education denied her her left landed tendencies
Dolenmorgul
My first grade teacher didn't mind which hand I used to write but the rumor was that the second grade teacher was very strict on it that you should use your right hand. Well, he unexpectedly died during that summer vacation and I must admit I was never more relieved of someone's demise. Hey, I know it isn't right but I was a kid and he scared me.
TheFleets
A very gauche feeling.
CBadger
In the 90s (CT USA) I got bullied like crazy by teachers for being left handed. Older teachers tried to force me to switch.
I take solace in the thought that they are likely dead now. Vicious boomer assholes.
5MillionAlcoholicsClingingToARock
Mother-in-law is a class A bitch. Old school, ex judge's secretary, you know the type. Adopts the mantle of her former boss. She used a rod to hit the back of the hand of her grandchildren showing let-handed tendencies as they picked-up a pen etc. My wife is left-handed... My wife went to fucking town on the old cow when she did that. It stopped. Quickly.
KleptoKea
Brilliant. I wonder how many right-wing homophobic morons won't get the irony.
friendsofsandwiches
How many right HANDED...
JustDriftingAboutTheInterWebs
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Badmusick
More than three
aface62
Probably all of them. Because it's satire.
Whoisthisdoctorwho2000
What... I don't get it.
SilverFoxChaser
I feel like a lot of the audience didn't understand the satire.
IMarkEverythingISayAsNSFWBecauseModsDontKnowWhatMatureMeans
NSFW I'll be honest, it felt like he was getting into it so much that when the clip finished I genuinely said out loud to myself "I'm not actually sure if this is meant to be satire or not". I wouldn't be surprised if there are actually still people that are so fervently against left-handed people.
LifesLittleLunatic
I went to a private religious school that believed this in the 90s. Good point but theres no use arguing with that level idiocy. Got to go around them
Aranon1183
Left-handed people are sinister.
baconandmorebacon
Yes, this is indeed how right handed people sound. /s
METOCalot
You can see on his face that he felt the "right power" fist raise at the end was taking it right up to the edge.
Firestar002
Oh yeah he’s like “oh shit, was that too far?”
But… he DOES realize it. I’d say let it slide so long as he doesn’t slip like that again.
Also he could’ve said “right hand power” but I feel like that would’ve been a mouthful.
Cranbananarama
Right? "Hooh, that was a very thin line there. I am so glad this landed."
6060scrabble
I see that look as shame. He suddenly felt shame at saying something so close to 'white power' even knowing it's a joke. I see that as quite honourable really. He really really deep down does not want to be anywhere near that phrase. I think in that moment he regrets the joke, not because of consequences but because of his own values. Well, IMHO anyway
METOCalot
I wasn't casting shade. As others pointed out he was tactful and it's all in the name of humor. There is just that flash in his eye when he realizes it and it caught my attention. Glad to see carefully considered responses here though. Gives me hope that Society hasn't completely collapsed.
DonnayWinter
I'm ambidextrous lefty, people have their brain assplode when they see me using both hands equally well lmao
Subtilico
Same. If my right hand gets tired from sawing something, I'll use my left one for a bit.
keyblader1985
I think most left handed people are more ambidextrous on average than right handed people are, due to being forced to use the right hand on many occasions.
Tenugui
I'm ambidextrous as well. In school leaning to write they said put the pencil in the hand that felt more comfortable, which was very confusing for me. Thankfully the teacher told me right hand was more common, so I did not end up on the sinister side like some kind of weirdo. /s
astrangehop
I learned to write with my right hand. I feel like I would have been a natural lefty because I'm better at underhanded throw, smoking cigarettes, knife, texting, peeling garlic, shooting, tiddlywinks, and sex with the left hand.
periwinklepanda
So envious. My mom is left handed so everything at home was geared for leftys, scissors, seating arrangements, learning to write, dishwasher location, etc. I didn't know right handed scissors existed until kindergarten.
I'm still the only girl in my family who isn't right handed, even amongst my sister in law.
Also currently recovering from carpal and cubital tunnel release surgery on my right side so I currently have to use my left hand for everything and it's not been fun.
punditzy
I'm Bambi-dextrous myself
demosteness
Imagine their brains when they learn you fuck both ways equally
dashers
My FIL is left handed but writes with his right - as it what was forced on him at school. Reality is, we can do all the things with the other hand, we just have a preference and that develops the dexterity and muscle memory.
umbrellamaker
So you swing both ways?
killernat
im ambidextrous as well but my left hand penmanship is garbage (right is not great but better) mostly due to lack of practice but i handle all other tools with which ever hand is more convenient. ive broken 2 peoples brains while eating with chopsticks by just switching hands because one got tired. oh there is one thing i cant do for shit with my left hand is throw a ball. but that may be because i never tried to develop the mussel memory for the action
Subtilico
I write with right and throw with left.
HulaJesus
I got a guy at work with that. I was swinging a hammer driving concrete anchors in. Right got tired so I switched to my left and kept chugging along. I watched him try it and got a good chuckle every time I heard a glancing strike on them. It's harder than it sounds.
rbudrick
I never considered chopsticks something easier with the handed hand. Both are pretty much the same to me. TIL. Only writing and especially guitar are things I find difficult left handed. Writing is just a little tricky but not even that bad.
droningonaboutsomething
Polar bears are not always handed but they often prefer one paw if you see one digging with one paw more than the other or something like that it’s likely the paw they will use to strike in their first attack. Hopefully knowing that gives you the advantage needed if you ever find yourself in a fight with a polar bear
nomikos
This could definitely make a difference in the case where the polar bear is also blind, deaf, old and disabled.
dashers
Yes... knowing which paw it's going to lead on will definitely be the secret sauce that will otherwise break the stalemate between man and polar bear boxing.
ThatOtherGirlYouKnow
Step 1, don't fight a polar bear.
J3lek
People really did believe that left handed was wrong and the left handed kids just needed to be trained to use the right hand, because it's the correct hand.
OnyxTurret
In kindergarten, my "old school" teacher tried to stop me from being left-handed. Glad my mom lost it on her back then. Since then, I've had to adapt to a right society, so I do many things right-handedly. So, I guess I'm bi.
Darklinkinfinite
I have two cousins that were born left handed. The older one was retrained to use his right hand when he was young but they didn’t bother doing that with the younger one when he came along
SCP1504
I think it was only in 1990 that Japan finally no longer considered being left handed as a mental illness.
METROlD
I was one of those kids. The results were a low quality ambidextrous writing style. My hand writing is terrible with both hands, but worse with my left (native) hand, because it wasn't used during school. My hand writing is hard to recognize because it changes constantly. School issued penmanship lessons made it worse, because now I write in any style I choose, and its always a bit different. In late adulthood I have settled on using engineer block lettering and strive to use only that. ->
METROlD
-> As a result my votes frequently do not get counted because the signature on my ballot does not match what they have on file. I have to go to the voting office and fill out 20 voting cards and ask they keep them all on file to ensure my vote gets counted. I have been denied money from my own bank account because my signature didn't match the signature card. I use scissors, chopsticks, knives etc with my left hand. Im left footed, and skate goofy. Dont interfere with a childs dominant hand.
FaeVikingPrincess
Literally the word sinister means what it means today because it originally meant left and they hated left handed people so much that sinister meant evil because left handed was evil and left handed people were sinister. Not like the right handed people who were dexterous.
MechKelly
My uncle was left handed and raised in catholic school and they would hit you with a ruler every time you tried to use the left hand to write. They really believed it was evil.
chiefrunswithscissors
And in some cases the attempt to force that into people actually caused things like dyslexia and other developmental issues
iquestionthepinappleeveryday
Pretty sure it goes further than that. That being left handed was the devil. Also, studies that showed all of the sudden the amount of left handed people spiked once such a ridiculous mindset was abolished. (I believe often cited for openness in lgbtqa communities as well). Basically, stop demonizing humanity for its own existence and you’ll find out that humanity has a larger demographic than you thought.
Thegalwiththetie
My dad is a leftie. His mom was a leftie, too. His mom had it beaten out of her. He was free to live life free and open as a proud leftie. Before I came out of the closet as trans, I would always cite the history of left-handedness over time to him and he never got it. Now I don't talk to him.
zFUBARz
Same for mental health diagnostics, cancer, etc. Oh autism spiked suddenly? Huh, it aligns with times when the definitions were elaborated or combined, or better trained to professionals. Crazy, must be a conspiracy! /s
Thegalwiththetie
Since I haven't seen it cited elsewhere...
AbelardSnazz
Well there is something a bit sinister about them
noReallyIamPrincessBob
PastureofMuppets
And somewhat gauche
NotSomoneElse68
Damnit, that was going to be my reply.. I guess I'll just go sit with the goats.
GuyWithDog
I see what you did there
noReallyIamPrincessBob
PauliePlaysPoorly
My mum, back in the dark ages, (1920's) had her left hand tied to the back of the chair and got beaten if she didn't write properly with her right. And yes, I know this isn't about handedness, but it's interesting how things can become normal.
Subtilico
In 1803 the last person in the Netherlands got executed for having gay sex. https://media.at5.nl/images/555688.800e3df.webp
Clockworkdancerobot
It's almost as if groups of people always want a scapegoat and will invent something to have one.
ultralunar
I'm left handed and every weekend when I was a teenager I would hang out with all my right handed friends like I was no different. My mum was really supportive. Dad never talked about it even when he was beating the shit outta me with a set of jumper cables.
IlluminaBlade
My mother said she got smacked for writing left handed until my air force veteran grandfather paid the school a visit.
cuttlefishsticks
I wasn't beaten at least, but even in kindergarten in the year *2000* I was corrected for writing with my left hand.
MattoJanai
I'm left handed but only for writing. Because every device is designed for right handed people. So I was forced by society to be right handed. I propose a left handed revolt! Viva la lefties! No longer shall we have to live in fear of white boards!!
TyrannusEquus
My mother told me that my early grade teacher asked her if she wanted them to force me to use my right hand. Apparently I was using either one to write. Turns out I write terribly with either hand.
nclu
My youngest son came out as left-handed, but we could tell he was different when he was 2
LenneSamunai
My grandma the same. But she always wrote left when I saw her write so you eventually didn't give a fuck anymore
SilverFoxChaser
My mother did as well. 1970's. Hell, I got beat in school in the 90's.
FPAlpha
When i was a kid in the 80s my dad went apeshit when a drunk farmer passing by on a cart whipped me once because i apparently didn't get out of the way fast enough.
I don't want to think about what he would have done to a teacher and later the school if they had laid hands on me.
SilverFoxChaser
Meh. My mom beat the shit out of me too. She didn't care.
magus200342
At school in tx in the 90s, still smacking kids with a ruler across the nuckles for using left hand. Wouldn't surprise me if they still are in some of the rural shitholes.
InkyBlinkyPinkyAndClyde
In the 50s/60s, my mom got her left hand hit with a ruler when she wrote with it. She kept doing it though, and has beautiful penmanship.
SlyMrFox
My first job was at a convenient store. A cop would occasionally come by and write a check. She'd write with her head nearly touching the counter and right arm wrapped all the way around the check like a horror movie monster. She was forced to be right handed growing up. My uncle also has an issue after also being forced that way. Glad I never had to undergo that as a lefty.
dffksh
Oh, it was still a thing in 70's rural Finland as well. Sans tying and beating, but 1st & 2nd grade teacher, who was probably held together with embalming fluid and some lich rituals forced me and another classmate to write with our right hand. Used left, and it was a automatic fail.
NergalJester
I had that done to me in the late 1980s, the dark ages weren't that long ago.
TheDoctorCrankenstein
I was born in 93. My preschool teacher would hit my knuckles with a ruler trying to force me to use my right hand.
I added this to say, we may talk about these mentalities as if they are things from a bygone era but they are very much kept alive today by regressive holdouts and secluded, insular regions that are never exposed directly to cultures outside their limited bubble.
I also know this isn't about handedness.
skeletor1992
Even in the late 90s (small town of course) my teacher would make me stay in from recess to practice my handwriting because i was left handed and she didn’t like it. When I was taught sports, only shown the right hand/leg dominant way. No left handed gloves, or clubs etc
My hand writing is now impeccable but I also now i can only write with my left hand and everything else I became right hand / leg dominant. Still can’t write with my right hand tho, if I do it’s very poor.
TinyBadger101
My grandfather was punished for writing with his left hand. That stopped when he was told "write your assignment with your right hand or don't write at all!". So he put his pen down and sat there, when the teacher asked what he was doing he said not-writing, as that was a presented option. His mom backed him up on that.
080080
i blame church
ElvisExMachina
The 20s you say, I got that treatment from a nun in the 70s.
acme64
dark ages? my aunt got beat for being a lefty in the 70's
HalifaxEast
I started out left handed and was smacked around by my very religious parents until I became right handed. This was back in the late 70s when it wasn't considered child abuse.
erinaceus
in my elementary school they would buckle the right hand into a metal jig to contort it into the shape to write with
NostraDamnEveryone
Also interesting looking deeper at how with writing the pen grip style was force fed to everyone as dynamic tripod. It was the most common after all so to measure children’s metrics they graded on how well children used the dynamic tripod. My daughter writes with a lateral quadrupod grip. My hell for her up to grade 1 fighting her trying to force dynamic tripod. Eventually a teachers assistant told me about the other 3 main grips and things got a lot better.
SlickWithaLimerick
I have hitchhikers thumb and it was always a struggle to hold a pen right. Now as an adult I never use the stupid tripod.
oneduringwanderer
Same thing for me back in the 90s. TIL there's a word for it.
nuclearmomm
My youngest boy started ‘drawing’ when he was about 2 and a half. He graduated to writing little stories— stick people but they became very detailed. Every year at back to school night my husband and I would get the lecture that he didn’t hold his pencil’right’ and yet he was praised by his art then his letters were perfect. By his third year I could tell the teacher wanted to say something and I’d tell her off saying “just don’t watch.”
50m31AW
At 27 years old I've recently switched to modified tripod, and goddamn, has it significantly reduced the strain I feel when writing. It used to be absolutely immediate that I'd just death grip the pencil and start cramping up in wrist/forearm and now I can just float along the page for a bit. My handwriting has always been shit, and now it's different shit bc adapting to new grip, but maybe if I had known sooner I'd have decent handwriting by now
mouthfullofpebbles
Don't know the names for them in English (or barely in my own language for that matter) but while only one type of grip was hammered in in school, in my art schools several were taught. So you could try which ones suited you best, and which ones suited different techniques of drawing and writing best. I'm very grateful for having that opportunity to learn several, and being able to tell my school teacher that they could talk to my art teachers if they only thought one was "right".
WholeWheatBunnyHugger
You might just surprise yourself.
I passed my insurance license test by printing out the concepts I needed to learn. I put them in a 4×11 column and printed a chapter each time. In the OTHER column I wrote out longhand (using different color pens made my study sheets look like the aftereffects of a diarrhetic unicorn but I avoided carpal tunnel symptoms that way.) my penmanship AUTOMATICALLY Iimproved.
I just needed practice.
Imademyselfsquirtle
My hell for her up to grade 1 fighting her trying to force dynamic tripid? Uh.
NostraDamnEveryone
Was hell for her up to grade 1; fighting her, trying to force her to use the dynamic tripod grip.
Imademyselfsquirtle
Ty
PoweredByPotato
Same thing happened to me, in the 90’s
DrKonrad
In terms of social acceptability, it is entirely up to us to decide what is "normal" or not. As long as it is not strictly made physically impossible by the laws of the Universe, anything can be deemed "normal".
TheDoctorCrankenstein
Based mentality.
awetasticadventure
My first grade teacher told me I was a disgrace for being left handed. She also said she hated when people put a line through their sevens, so I've been doing it ever since.
MelfsAcidArrow
Line through my 7s and Zs
ToSisPoS
I only keep my Facebook account so I can see my elementary school teacher obituaries.
ComoSeIguana
My mom's hand was beaten at school in the 60s/early 70s if she used her left hand to write. It got so bad that my grandpa, who served in Korea, went down to the school and threatened the teachers if they didn't stop, and he was a man who would follow through. My mom is ambidextrous now.
mitharas
See? Your mom came out better for it, so the teachers did everything right!
BeaverOnFire
You forgot your /s.
mitharas
It's sad that it seems to be necessary
TheDoctorCrankenstein
I know you're being facetious but just reading this made me physically angry. I know people who use this backwards logic. Takes every ounce of restraint not to just slap em.
UnpinionedPoplars
Some people NEED a slap. Some people need a slap with a chair. Some people need a slap with a flaming chair. Some people need a slap with a flaming chair on the edge of a cliff. Some people need a slap with a flaming chair on the edge of a cliff of razor blades. Some people need a slap with a flaming chair on the edge of a cliff of razor blades over a sea. Some people need a slap with a flaming chair on the edge of a cliff of razor blades over a sea of rubbing alcohol. These are they. Slap away.
mitharas
Sorry if it had that effect, my comment was indeed only missing the /s
TheDoctorCrankenstein
It's cool. Lot of things these days make me angry. These are bad times.
JusticePhrall
My dad came from a family of 7 brothers, 3 sisters, a grandma and a grampa. If you had a left-handed sibling, it made sitting at a crowded dinner table awkward, always jabbing the person next to them with an elbow. So Dad's left-handed brother learned to eat right-handed.
When I heard that story, I started training myself to eat left-handed. I was always such a rebel.
Doompug
Could you elaborate on this? Why would you jab ppl with one elbow butnot the other?
JusticePhrall
If you're left-handed, when you raise your arm while eating, your elbow intrudes on the elbow space of the person eating on your left.
Doompug
I get that USians only eat with one utensil so they only use one arm, but are you raising your elbow outward towards the person next to you?
AutoBat
Yeah. Source: am USian
AlwaysDownvoteDots
You just sit on the left. It's not a problem.
TheDoctorCrankenstein
7 brothers and 3 sisters, parents, and grandparents all at the same table. Space is limited so you're gonna be sitting next to someone on either side of you regardless of where you sit. It actually is a problem.