Is being left-handed a non-issue these days?

[Svanhildur]

Just wondering because DS looks like he's going to be left-handed. Thankfully we have moved past the days when this would be 'corrected' at all and I'm sure that in the grand scheme of things it is of very small significance. But I'm sure the world is designed for righties in a way that I don't always notice, being right-handed myself.

Those of you who are left-handed, does it cause any annoyances in your everyday lives or would you say that now the stigma is gone, that being left-handed is basically a non-issue?

I'm left handed. The only thing that annoys me is notepads with ring binder to the left hand side.

Two of my dc are left handed the other two right handed. I bought left handed scissors for my first but they’ve long been lost & both manage fine with right handed ones. Their handwriting is no worse than the others (!) - smudging is a pain though. The only trouble we’ve had is when I (right handed) have tried to teach them things the ‘wrong way’ - we muddle through though.

There are loads of lefties in my family (including my now very elderly grandparents) I’m not aware of it causing any problem.

I am the only RH person in my family. As a result I iron, carve meat, sew, cut bread, open tins etc with my right hand but in a left-handed way... with crossed over hands and twisted wrists. It looks really awkward.

I'm left-handed too and recognise the 90 degree rotation of paper for writing that pp have mentioned. My writing can be neat - or it can be chicken scribble.

I think one of the advantages a left-hander has is that muddling along in a right-handed world, they become far more ambidextrous that a right-hander will be.

I look dangerous cutting bread,, carving meat, anything with sharp implements - but I'm quite good at nail polish, looks even and glossy and it's effortless. I'm fabulous at peeling potatoes, rotating the potato very fast in my left and peeling with the right. Those are my two talents.

When it was obvious I was left handed my parents argued over whose 'fault' it was . My cousin was also left handed and there were negative comments to both of us about being weird. Nothing was done at home to accomodate me but at school I had a teacher with a LH child and she taught me to angle my paper. My aunt taught me how to tie shoe Iaces and to knit. My Mum thought it was impossible but I always thought copying someone was easy because I just had to mirror them.

I now live in a majority lefty house. It makes me giggle watching DM struggle with the left handed scissors and the fact that the kitchen layout is designed for a left hander - knives on the left etc. I did not know about symmetrical knives though, this is a revelation. I knew why I had a problem with serrated knives and had looked for LH knives but didn't know about symmetrical knives. My life is now transformed!

I ruin every single card I write

"I have known you over 30 years and still wince and avert my eyes when you slice bread or use a sharp knife. You look so clumsy even now I'm convinced you'll lose a finger tip"

DH today when I mentioned this thread and blithely stated left handedness is a none issue 😂

Following this thread with interest as my toddler is left handed. It was obvious from when he first started to bat at toys with his left hand every time, so I guess he has a pretty strong preference.

I’m right handed and my DH winces when I slice bread. It’s got nothing to do with which hand I use.

My DD had a v strong preference for her left hand from as soon as she started mark making etc at around 1. However it doesn’t seem to cause her the slightest problem. She has lh scissors but can use any, her hw is beautiful and she has a good pencil grip not the hand twisted round one a lot of lefties seem to. Luckily my mum is also a leftie so they discuss challenges and DM has been able to help DD solve specific lh challenges (see pencil grip for one). It is such a non-issue for dd that I pretty much forget most of the time that she is lh.

Me and DH are both right handed and so was everyone through our families, then we had a left handed DC, the other DC is right handed. Never noticed any problems but our leftie is probably a left favouring ambidextrous as they use cutlery conventionally and writing is very neat.
Haven't noticed any problems or issues.

I think it may be that more left handed people these days are just left handed for certain things and not necessarily everything?

But aren’t we all on the spectrum of handedness? (That’s a word right...?). My right handed child peels oranges with his left hand as does my DM. My DC also hold a racquet left handed.

I write using my right hand but use my left hand for tasks such as using a screw driver or undoing nuts and bolts. I swap between both.

My other DC who school says is right handed for writing uses his left hand for absolutely everything else.

My son is a total leftie! Uses his left for everything. He is left footed too.

Saucepans have the lip on the wrong side, also measuring jugs. Scissors have he blade on the wrong side which can be tricky. Tin openers I have struggled with, as well as most card machines etc because the slot is always on the wrong side.
Also, following craft instruction things because I have to reverse things as well as following the guides.
It's still cool and many many people comment on it!!!

My 7 yo DS is a leftie, me and DH are not. His handwriting is beautiful, really impressive and he gets by just fine.

Used to.live in an islamic country, had to sit on my left hand so I wouldn't use it! Had evil medieval primary school teacher in the UK who used to rap our left hand with metal ruler when trying to write. Particularly hate key pad code operated doors & i apparently put my clothes in my wardrobe back to front!

I think the wincing thing is normal if someone is different handed to you. I hate those adverts where there's a hand writing out the story because it just looks so wrong looking at a right hand writing from above.

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