1 is writing. Especially if it’s a pencil or gel pen. It gets all over the side of my hand trying to write across a page. But I’ve found felt tip pens are this lefty’s godsend.
Slanted turners/spatulas and freaking can openers. I fact when I designed my kitchen I made sure it was left friendly, from counter layout next to stove to how the fridge opens.
This world, and everything youd use your right hand for, is oriented for a right handed person to use it. So its “Use your right hand or strain” and naturally until 21/22 I chose strain.
My lower back and my knocked knees did not help my situation whatsoever. As they wouldve never caused me trouble had I lifted or moved all those things all these years with my right side as intended.
I only became “left handed” because I played baseball as a kid and my right arm for some reason is slightly deformed and won’t bend all the way. I can’t use it to throw, but I can use it for writing etc. So I’m left with an awkward combo of doing some things left handed and some things right handed.
I’ve lived in a right handed world my whole life that nothing feels strange or weird to me. But, getting ink smeared across my hand when writing is always annoying
My dad is left handed. In his high school shop class, the hand guard to the circular table saw could only accommodate right handed people. He has had a raised scar across his palm from that saw for his entire life.
I stopped being a PC gamer when the games I wanted to play locked controls to stuff like WASD to move and shift to jump, as they expect players to use the mouse with their right hand and it’s too clunky for me. A few games have “southpaw controls”, but in my experience, they tend to be useless and I doubt they were designed by an actual lefty. Bully Anniversary Edition is the exception and I was pleasantly surprised when I played it for the first time.
Recently saw in a different thread that ballpoint pens are suboptimal for lefties because they are better when primarily pulled as they are when righties use them.
I have a nice Shun chef’s knife that is actually right handed because of the D-shaped handle. I assume I’m missing out using that wrong handed. Didn’t realize that when I bought it.
School desks with one arm rest and spiral binding was not pleasant.
Emergency stop buttons on most machines are by the operator’s right hand to make it easier to hit. For a lefty, it takes critical seconds longer to find/hit💀
Scissors and sports equipment were a pain in school. Right sided chairs with writing pads were bad too. So much unnecessary back pain. Our uni had 22% left handed students but only 10% lefty seats 🤷
I’m also always confused between left and right. Especially with driving directions.
Learning to knit and crochet took ten times longer but I got there in the end.
Some older folks still judge and there’s a few cultural hiccups but I’ve learned to be ambidextrous so I just have to be mindful and don’t really struggle.
When I was little I was forced to write with my right hand instead of my left, even though I’m left handed. I still write with my right as thats all I know now, and its very un-natural as its not my dominant hand so the “writing posture” I guess you could call it is totally wrong. So my wrist cramps faster than others, and my writing is terrible.
So I’m kinda ambidextrous, so my gripe is whenever I’m learning/trying something new I don’t know if I have zero natural talent for it or am using the wrong hand.
This might be random but when playing a card game and you have your cards fanned out in your hand, you can’t see the numbers in the corner because left handed people hold cards different than right handed people do (or at least I think….). It’s always bothered me lol
So I write with a right, everything else like sports, using tools, driving, etc…im left dominant and right feels weird lol. But in my case my only struggle has been getting asked by friends and family if I’m l or f handed. And me having to explain this.
Random fact: I just typed this with my right hand as my left is holding my ice cream cone and if I flip it I don’t like typing on phone with my left…yet my phone was in my left pocket. Fuck sakes.
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scissors
Having to sign my name on a clipboard or grocery store payment terminals.
There isn’t anything that I particularly struggle with.
scissors, ASL, Stringed instruments and rarely golf clubs
Well dang someone said scissors, that’s my #2.
1 is writing. Especially if it’s a pencil or gel pen. It gets all over the side of my hand trying to write across a page. But I’ve found felt tip pens are this lefty’s godsend.
Slanted turners/spatulas and freaking can openers. I fact when I designed my kitchen I made sure it was left friendly, from counter layout next to stove to how the fridge opens.
Having to move the glass when I sit at a restaurant every time they put the drink down
This world, and everything youd use your right hand for, is oriented for a right handed person to use it. So its “Use your right hand or strain” and naturally until 21/22 I chose strain.
My lower back and my knocked knees did not help my situation whatsoever. As they wouldve never caused me trouble had I lifted or moved all those things all these years with my right side as intended.
My friend has trouble writing on whiteboards because he’ll erase the stuff he just wrote if he rests his hand on the board
Writing I think. My hand side would pick up ink
I only became “left handed” because I played baseball as a kid and my right arm for some reason is slightly deformed and won’t bend all the way. I can’t use it to throw, but I can use it for writing etc. So I’m left with an awkward combo of doing some things left handed and some things right handed.
I’ve lived in a right handed world my whole life that nothing feels strange or weird to me. But, getting ink smeared across my hand when writing is always annoying
My dad is left handed. In his high school shop class, the hand guard to the circular table saw could only accommodate right handed people. He has had a raised scar across his palm from that saw for his entire life.
I stopped being a PC gamer when the games I wanted to play locked controls to stuff like WASD to move and shift to jump, as they expect players to use the mouse with their right hand and it’s too clunky for me. A few games have “southpaw controls”, but in my experience, they tend to be useless and I doubt they were designed by an actual lefty. Bully Anniversary Edition is the exception and I was pleasantly surprised when I played it for the first time.
It was those darn spiral notebooks back during my school days.
I stir, butter, and can cut to divide with my left hand.
If I’m using a knife & fork together, I have to swap the knife into the right hand.
Writing of any kind never bothered me
Recently saw in a different thread that ballpoint pens are suboptimal for lefties because they are better when primarily pulled as they are when righties use them.
I have a nice Shun chef’s knife that is actually right handed because of the D-shaped handle. I assume I’m missing out using that wrong handed. Didn’t realize that when I bought it.
School desks with one arm rest and spiral binding was not pleasant.
Smeary hand-writing. Other than that, nothing too bad.
At fancy coffee shops my latte art is always upside down!
Most chairs with writing pads are made for right handed people, and I have to sit crossed and a lil hunch so I can write, it’s exhausted
Eating at a crowded table and bumping elbows with the rightie beside me
smudging ink on my hands
scissors. Writing in notebooks/binders because the spine/rings get in the way. Those fuck ass right handed desks. mugs with words on them.
Golf
Whiteboards
Emergency stop buttons on most machines are by the operator’s right hand to make it easier to hit. For a lefty, it takes critical seconds longer to find/hit💀
Scissors and sports equipment were a pain in school. Right sided chairs with writing pads were bad too. So much unnecessary back pain. Our uni had 22% left handed students but only 10% lefty seats 🤷
I’m also always confused between left and right. Especially with driving directions.
Learning to knit and crochet took ten times longer but I got there in the end.
Some older folks still judge and there’s a few cultural hiccups but I’ve learned to be ambidextrous so I just have to be mindful and don’t really struggle.
When I was little I was forced to write with my right hand instead of my left, even though I’m left handed. I still write with my right as thats all I know now, and its very un-natural as its not my dominant hand so the “writing posture” I guess you could call it is totally wrong. So my wrist cramps faster than others, and my writing is terrible.
So I’m kinda ambidextrous, so my gripe is whenever I’m learning/trying something new I don’t know if I have zero natural talent for it or am using the wrong hand.
So no one’s gonna mention thlse dafted lecture room seats? My personal hell.
Modern faucets with just one little hot/cold handle in, of course, the right side.
Smudging ink on my hand when writing with a pen or felt tipped marker. Not good enough to write backwards.
Fallowing the damn rights scooping something out of a pan
This might be random but when playing a card game and you have your cards fanned out in your hand, you can’t see the numbers in the corner because left handed people hold cards different than right handed people do (or at least I think….). It’s always bothered me lol
Can openers – I just can’t work them. I always buy tins will the pull tab now
So I write with a right, everything else like sports, using tools, driving, etc…im left dominant and right feels weird lol. But in my case my only struggle has been getting asked by friends and family if I’m l or f handed. And me having to explain this.
Random fact: I just typed this with my right hand as my left is holding my ice cream cone and if I flip it I don’t like typing on phone with my left…yet my phone was in my left pocket. Fuck sakes.
An ice cream scoop. You know, the kind with the lever you press with your thumb to get the ice cream out?
Holding it in your left hand puts the lever on the bottom and it drags through the ice cream.