evil penguins and the hand sinister
@scarlet_woman (23463)
United States
December 26, 2017 8:55pm CST
sounds like a harry potter book,huh?
i'm sure i'm not the only one here..
when i was born,i was left handed.by kindergarten,the nuns and the school department convinced my grandmother and mother that i would be better off learning to use my right hand.
their reasoning was
one:it's harder to find left handed tools
and two:the left hand is "the devil's hand"..you can guess which one said that.
basically,this left me ambidextrous to a degree.i can still write with the left.
lately within the last year tho,i've been having pain in the middle of my upper right arm..i have no idea what it's from,i never injured it.
so,i've been resorting to going back to using the other.
irony,huh?they took all that time only for me to have to revert.
i have heard nowadays they don't recommend you force the other hand-messes up the wiring in your brain,i guess.
well.that explains a few things.
i'm sure i'm not the only one here..
when i was born,i was left handed.by kindergarten,the nuns and the school department convinced my grandmother and mother that i would be better off learning to use my right hand.
their reasoning was
one:it's harder to find left handed tools
and two:the left hand is "the devil's hand"..you can guess which one said that.
basically,this left me ambidextrous to a degree.i can still write with the left.
lately within the last year tho,i've been having pain in the middle of my upper right arm..i have no idea what it's from,i never injured it.
so,i've been resorting to going back to using the other.
irony,huh?they took all that time only for me to have to revert.
i have heard nowadays they don't recommend you force the other hand-messes up the wiring in your brain,i guess.
well.that explains a few things.6 people like this
6 responses
@FourWalls (86628)
• United States
27 Dec 17
I didn't go to a Catholic school (not until college, anyway, when I was big enough to beat the nuns up ), but I did get whacked on the knuckles by my first-grade teacher and told to "put that pencil in your right hand where it belongs."
I told my mom about that. The next scene is almost like a cartoon: she had me by the hand and I was almost flapping in the breeze behind her. She marched into the principal's office, sat me down, and showed her my hand. She then said, "Listen, my mother was left-handed, I'm left-handed, and she's left-handed. And she'd better NEVER come home with another mark on her hand again!" The principal didn't get a chance to say a word before we were out the door.
Next day, I was in a different first grade class.....
BTW, did you know the chapter of Mensa devoted to just southpaws is called Sinistral?
), but I did get whacked on the knuckles by my first-grade teacher and told to "put that pencil in your right hand where it belongs."
I told my mom about that. The next scene is almost like a cartoon: she had me by the hand and I was almost flapping in the breeze behind her. She marched into the principal's office, sat me down, and showed her my hand. She then said, "Listen, my mother was left-handed, I'm left-handed, and she's left-handed. And she'd better NEVER come home with another mark on her hand again!" The principal didn't get a chance to say a word before we were out the door.
Next day, I was in a different first grade class.....
BTW, did you know the chapter of Mensa devoted to just southpaws is called Sinistral? 4 people like this
@Hatley (163772)
• Garden Grove, California
27 Dec 17
Iwas ambidexteous uitl a fewuears ago whenIO had a bad fall oitsdermu favoritge restar ant and broke mu sji;dr sp bad;u O: jadt p jae a st;; amd [;astoc sjpi;der kpo mtO ;pst a;ptpf isepf ,u ;eft ar, sp mpwO a, mpt a,b;dexgterps at a;; sa
2 people like this
@crossbones27 (52905)
• Mojave, California
27 Dec 17
How interesting. The teachers did at least use some common sense in this one, but always wonder why people always try to make people into something they are not. This had decent intentions but cannot fool mother nature.
3 people like this
@Srbageldog (7716)
• United States
28 Dec 17
I am also ambidextrous to an extent. I used both hands as a kid, with no preference for one over the other. My kindergarten teacher pushed for me to just use my right (why, I'll never know.) I can write and draw with my left hand, but it's pretty sloppy. But some things I am better at left handed...I never realized I could throw a ball until I tried it left handed (I had always sucked at throwing things before then.) I usually switch back and forth when eating. I wish I could improve my fine motor skills in my left hand and write and draw neater with it; it sure would help when my right hand gets tired or my carpal tunnel flares up. Of course, nowadays I do most my writing at a keyboard anyway.
1 person likes this
@teamfreak16 (43579)
• Denver, Colorado
28 Dec 17
I eat, write, and bowl left handed. Everything else I do right handed.
1 person likes this
