left handed rulers etc Any good?

ceh209

OP, don't assume he's left handed just because he writes with his left hand!!

For me:

Left handed: Writing, racket sports, peeling, snooker
Right handed: Hockey, guitar, scissors, cutlery, mouse

And in my experience, you soon just adapt to things anyway. I used to get really fed up when learning sports etc and teachers would demonstrate things then say 'ceh209, i'll come and show you it the other way round in a minute'. I'm not stupid, us lefties soon work out how to copy you the other way round !!!!!!!

pulliptears

gilly1964 wrote: »

The only everyday thing we really struggle with is eating with a spoon - this must be with the left hand or we seem to miss our mouth :rotfl:

When DS was about 6 months old he started to try and feed himself. Experts will tell you children don't show a preference for hands at that age....its crap.

Child feeding sets are made with the angled spoons for the right hand. I'd watch him desperately try and feed himself with the right handed spoon in his left hand, we'd change hands, he'd change back.

I tried everywhere, but 18 years ago they didn't make such a thing and had no plans to, of course, today its finally accepted that toddlers can be lefties too and feeding spoons are available.

In the end after a week of frustration for him I asked my Father In Law to bend me some teaspoons in a vice. They worked perfectly and DS could finally attempt to feed himself.

I've still got half a dozen bent teaspoons in the kitchen drawer. Can't bring myself to throw them out.

lovelyx

I'm a leftie - my parents found out when I was a premature baby and I used to pull out the tubes on the left side of my face with my left hand They assumed i'd be right handed and so thought I wouldn't touch the tube, haha.

Life is difficult as a leftie, but you get used to it. The best advice I can give you, OP, is to just be patient. My mum never used to understand why I couldn't cut properly using right handed scissors and used to shout at me for not doing it right - it made me feel bad as a child and she felt REALLY bad when she realised that you can get left handed scissors! As I grew up I just learnt to get used to using my right hand for certain things.

I'm 20 and at uni now and I keep noticing things that aren't made for lefties in every day life, such as chairs in lecture halls that have a table attached on the right hand side so you can write notes...it's so awkward for me because it's on the right and I often get cramps in my hand from having to twist it awkwardly.

Pens that are attached to the table in places like banks are annoying too because they're almost always for right handed people (though I've noticed this changing) ...even small things like which side I scan my uni card on to enter the library annoys me because I carry my books in my right arm to keep my left hand free, and I always have to remember to keep my right hand free to scan my card

hcb42

I am left handed, and never had any specific utensils or anything. I cannot even imagine a LH protractor or ruler, not sure what the problem is there. Then again a lot of lefties manage tasks with right hand, I wouldnt even think about using a mouse with RH, I always have done.

When I was growing up we had one of those potato peelers with the string around the handle. It was RH, so I peeled away from me, using my LH, as did my Mum. I think my hubby bought a LH version, where I would have to peel towards me, and I couldnt use it...!

i cannot peel with a knife though, in left hand, as blade is on wrong side. This is useful for getting out of having to peel vegetables...

I can write very well with RH too, I am a bit slower, but very neat, although tends to be smaller writing for some reason.

SingleSue

Jo_F wrote: »

I do pretty much everything the right handed way, the only thing I ever struggled with was fountain/cartridge pens, writing in a file folder/thickish book and cheque books.

Both of my kids are right handed, and for some reason have always favoured the left handed way of having their cutlery.

Weird, all of mine are right handed but eldest eats 'left handed' as does my elder brother (also right handed).

Confuzzled the life out of me at school when we had to make a three course meal and set the table, I set it out as I had it at home (right handed) and the teacher pulled me up on it, telling me I had set the table incorrectly (she knew I was left handed)...I spent the meal completely failing to be able to eat anything as I was trying to cut with my fork (in my right hand) and eat with my knife.