Lefty 4 life <3

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awww yeah <3

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saaaame

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yup

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Yup

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Mmhmmm

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YESSSS! South Paw, that's all!

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yep <3

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late but yayyyyyyy I LOVE YOU FELLOW LEFTIES

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yass

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yasss we're superior

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yass

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jealous

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Yaaass

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Here! (super late but idc)



My handwriting sucks, it looks like Kafka's nagl

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we're the best

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I was a leftie as a small child... and then some idiot school teacher forced me to write with my right hand. I still hold the pen as if I wrote with the left hand. I should relearn to be a lefty~

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I have horrible handwriting. When I was 12, I got told I had the hand writing of a first grader. And I've recently started noticing that whenever I start a new word, I lift my hand up away from the paper.

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Me too - mine is so bad that I got occupational therapy for it when I was 12. It's still terrible, tbh.



Edited at 2014-01-27 10:47 pm (UTC)

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I love F. Scott Fitzgerald's and Walt Whitman's handwriting.

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My handwriting is so ugly I hate taking notes for class because sometimes I can't even understand it lol

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sameee i had to start bringing my laptop to class and taking notes on it when i could because i could never study my own notes

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I could never do that. I can't structure my thoughts without rogue arrows, signals and signs you can't find on a computer.

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Mine is awful too. I typed my lectures on my laptop tbh. I wouldn't have been able to re-read if I was writing at that speed.

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my handwriting is disgusting lmao. i write super quickly and all of the letters are ridiculously round and loopy, and it's a nightmare to read.

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my handwriting is absolutely terrible. i can't understand it half the time.

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Welcome to the messy handwritten club!

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I have that comic sans handwriting style lmao.



Edited at 2014-01-27 07:07 pm (UTC)

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when i was a kid i did most things with my left (using a fork, drawing, early attempts of trying to write) but my grandma told me that hang was wrong (lol i think her old school thinking had her thinking lefties are evil) so i was forced to use my right.



now i'm right handed but i'm curious if i was meant to be a lefty? or if i really was supposed to be a lefty maybe it would have been impossible for me to use my right hand. but now i'm completely righty and can't do shit with my left.

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I would assume you were supposed to be a lefty if that was what you were naturally inclined to do. It wouldn't have been impossible for you to use your right hand, either. You can condition yourself, especially at a young age, and it's something that was pretty common back in the day, I'm pretty sure, because, as you said, that stigma attached to left handedness.

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bias_against_left-handed_people The forced correction of left-handedness can cause quite a lot of problems to children, actually (not necessarily in your case, but just in case, check point 4)

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omg i love that there's an entire wiki page about this. ty! i'm just grateful switching to my right hand never caused any learning disorders for me. this whole page is so interesting lol

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whoa, I wonder if that's what happened to my cousin... he was a lefty but at a young age he was in a car accident and his left hand and arm were hurt very bad so he had to learn to use his right hand, and not long after developed stuttering and speech tics and has since struggled with dyslexia as well. I mean he was quite young when the accident happened (about 4, so just learned to write), but I wonder if the fact he was forced to become right handed had anything to do with his speech and learning problems or if they were already present...





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Could this explain my dyscalculia? I have problems with directions (I always have to pause when I'm giving someone directions to make sure I don't say "left" when I mean "right"), I cannot do a lot of simple arithmetic, and I have trouble reading out numbers properly (I sometimes say "n" instead of "9", or switch around numbers).



Really interesting wiki page. I totally didn't need to do homework anytime soon.... haha

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Oh wow I've read horror stories about what happens to kids who are forced to use their right hand and what they used to do to kids who would use their left hands.



I'm a lefty but I was supposed to be right handed though. I changed on my own, I copied my older brother in everything. I'm slightly ambidextrous, I can do most things with my right hand but eating (that never ends well! lol). I can write with my right hand too, the letters are rather big but it's legible. I'm hoping to write as well with my right as my left just because.

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My first grade teacher made me sit on my left hand while I wrote so I wouldn't be tempted to use it. I was supposed to be a lefty but I'm not. :(

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my hand writing is so bad, the other day i was taking notes in class while dozing off and i still cant understand what i wrote lol but it still looked similar to my other notes

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Wow, I must say, Fitzgerald's is much neater than I would have guessed, considering that he was three sheets to the wind like all the time.

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My handwriting gets worse and worse, probably bc it is so infrequently used.

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I was signing my name on Friday (which tends to be the only thing I write in cursive consistently these days) and I swear, my brain checked out halfway through, so when I went to sign my last name, I had a weird hiccup and scrawled some line that was definitely NOT my last name. It wasn't even legible anything. I even looked at my hairdresser and told him my brain just quit.

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yeah since finishing college years ago I hardly ever write these days outside of signing things and making grocery lists and it feels awkward. If I have to write for more than a few minutes it actually kinda hurts. But I find that my hand-writing does improve back to what it was if I just write for a little while.



I notice that every Christmas when I do my cards lol The first few always look terrible but by the time I get to last few they look gorg haha

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6 years in Catholic school, and I write like a doctor.

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Wow a lot of these are beautiful. My hand aches so quickly these days when I handwrite, it's sad.

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same my handwriting changes like every 3 sentences cause i have to readjust all the time

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Because I used the computer all day for work, I haven't really handwritten much in a very long time. It's kind of pathetic.

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Was anyone else given a special grip thing to put on their pencil to correct the way you held your pencil/pen? My third grade teacher gave me one of those things and it made my handwriting worse, so I stopped using it.

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Kids who couldn't write well used to get those at my school, I was jealous because they looked cool.

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I had to use those but not because I didn't hold my pen correctly. I think I would hold my pen/pencil so tight that it made a bump on my finger.

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I had/have this problem too. For short periods of time it was okay, but for extended writing I would really hurt my finger with the way the pen/pencil rubbed against it.

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yeah this is why I had to use one. But only my first and second grade teachers encouraged/enforced it so now my left middle finger and nail is like permanently malformed from my pencil grip. It's gotten a little bit better since I hardly ever write these days but it's still noticeable and ugly :/

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I have a permanent bump on one of my fingers from how I held a pen/pencil lmao.

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