Calling all left handers

[TheStakeIsNotThePower]

My boys are both lefties, age 12 and 7. One manages right handed stuff pretty well (was very late settling on a hand, is not true ambidextrous but close) but the other doesn't. Realised today I probably need to graduate from the left handed kids safety scissors!

What things really make a difference?

Scissors is the obvious one but what other things do I just take for granted as a right handed person?

Pencil sharpeners.

Probably won't effect them too much until you have them helping cook dinner (if they don't already) but can openers

Computer mice. I use it in my left hand but use my middle finger to click the left button and index finger for the right.

Oh yes tin opener, the big one does cook.

I'd never thought about pencil sharpeners, neither has complained. I shall ask them.

Also those chairs they use at school/college where there is a small writing area attached only to the right hand side of the chair. They are a pain.

Yeah I can't do much about shitty college desks.

Computer mice less of an issue, they use the track pad.

My parents taught me how to eat right handed, which is useful because restaurants are set out that way. I don't use anything specifically designed for left handers, maybe I should have so interested to see what people suggest.

Eating is strange, my most strongly left handed child who can't use right handed scissors eats right handed but the younger one will happily use right handed scissors but insists on setting the table the "wrong" way.

Playing cards ?
Steak knives ?

I am left handed but I do everything except write with my right hand no idea why lol

Ds2 has never asked fir any of these things!

Nothing, except I found playing the violin and knitting quite hard!

In the kitchen, tin openers and veg peelers. I also put the kettle down facing the other way on the base and annoy DP and DD Scissors, a ruler if you're actually measuring. When they get older, cheque books and paying in books perforated at the other side, although they'll probably be obsolete by then. I can eat with my cutlery either way round, but prefer my glass where I can pick it up with my left hand.
I play guitar right handed though, and knit right handed.

Tin opener, bread knife, nail scissors.

I'm one of your weird people who writes left handed but does a lot of things right handed such as chopping with a knife when cooking. I can't swap hands though I tried writing with my right hand thinking I would pick it up since I do other things right handed but I can't get it.

DF & DSis left handed, following their example I tried to get DS to put his writing paper at about 90 degrees to his body, but school kept making him change it to straight, which has resulted in him doing a bit of an awkward over the top sort of writing.

cheque books and paying in books perforated at the other side, although they'll probably be obsolete by then.

I can't recall last time I wrote a cheque. Maybe when DS was at school - 7, 8 years ago ?

As for paying in book ... I don't know if we ever had one since we moved banks in 2008.

I've never found most of these things an issue. It has never occurred to me that pencil sharpeners had a side. Never had specific scissors either or needed them.

I do do an awkward, crossbody manoeuvre going through ticket gates as I use my left hand to swipe/put ticket in. The desks are annoying too.

Eating "left-handed" is just wrong and annoys me when people call it left-handed.

I'm left handed but my parents never adjusted anything for me and didn't provide left handed items. As a result, I never knew any different and nothing was awkward because of being a leftie. I didn't have to 'transition' from a leftie item or constantly have to have access to one.

Ooh this is full of things I would never have thought of - pencil sharpener, bread knife?? Can’t imagine how they would depend on handedness - me and DH both right handed and DS is a lefty so this is very helpful!

@teacakeandalatte my mum is the same, she does everything right handed but writes with her left.

I'm not sure if I've just adapted to right handed ways, never even thought about pencil sharpeners!
I think I just do that right handed.

It's very weird being a leftie, you get some true lefties and others with varying right handed abilities.

I write left, but could never play tennis or suchlike with my left hand.

I've adapted to 'normal' scissors, bottle openers tho, have to twist the bottle not the opener, which confuses people!!

I'm left handed. I don't have any specific left handed equipment except for dressmaking scissors. ( I use ordinary scissors for everything else.)
Yes, I used to put the kettle on the base the opposite way to everyone else, but solved that one by getting a kettle tap! Also, I never buy unsliced bread - I can use a regular bread knife, but my bread cutting slopes the opposite way to my DH , leading to wedge shaped slices if we are cutting from the same loaf.
The place the cords come out of irons can be very annoying- it is something I always check before buying. Like wise, Henry vaccuums are infuriating due to the 90 degree angle between the flex and the hose opening- I always end up trying myself up in knots with them and yet lots of people really rate them ( right handers I presume!)

I'm a lefty and do most things right handed... left hand scissors are stupid 😂 I also eat right handed. My SIL who is right handed, eats left handed 🤷🏻‍♀️

Someone pmease explain about the pencil sharpeners because I've never found this an issue.

I would hold pencil in my left hand and sharpener in right. Is that me doing it the "right-handed" and unconsciously adapting or is that "left-handed" and it just works anyway?

For tennis at school they used to send the only other leftie and me down to the end court and basically ignore us which given I loathed every aspect of PE was great for me! Rounders was hilarious as I'd step up, the whole field would move round and then I'd take one of my usual incompetent swing and misses and they'd all move back again.