25 Weird Facts about Left Handed People

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[@AmusingMichelle]

So what is the answer?! My guess is dyslexia 😊

[@kevinbrush6790]

How could you not mention Jimi Hendrix just saying

[@lexiyoutube]

Jimmy Hendrix .......lefty guitar

[@MaggieLogue]

He said most dyslexic ARE left handed.

[@MaggieLogue]

​@@AmusingMichellehe said most dyslexic Are left haned.

[@Diamondbraclet]

My daughter was left handed and was very proud of it. She passed sway from a fatal heart attack in 2003 at 35. She was loving and kind to everyone , with a smile that could light up a room. I miss her every single day. RIP my sweet girl.

[@lindahall1083]

❤️‍🩹

[@ClaireCopeland-n6y]

God bless you dear❤

[@widow237]

❤

[@esthershelton6672]

So sorry. God bless you 🙏

[@carlhurst6829]

Sending you love and light!

[@Palominohusky]

When my late husband was at College he was studying Building and Design or something like that. One day he became aware that three Tutors were standing behind him. This was because he was drawing with his left hand whilst at the SAME time writing with his right! He was a very clever man, with a wonderful memory right up till the day he past away at 91.

[@robertsklenka5823]

My oddity is a right left-handed. I sketch left-handed, but I also was a good airbrush artist and I use my right hand to do that.

[@robertsklenka5823]

Write ..opps

[@jacquelinewakefield2394]

My dad also could do this . He had a brilliant mind .

[@deemuzik5582]

I am ambidextrous but I couldn’t do it at the same time

[@alistairogilvy7696]

​@@robertsklenka5823I'm a strange one too - write left, throw right, kick left, bat sports right, target sports left, musical instruments left, right eye dominant...

[@joannehortensius3981]

I'm a lefty and dang proud of it!!

[@christopherdean1326]

You're PROUD of it? I'm a leftie and I really couldn't give a rat's ass either way!

[@cheriem432]

Me too! It always cracks me up when someone says "You're left-handed"! Like I'm the only one in the world! We're rare, I know, and therefore to be cherished!

[@rustybear5125]

@@cheriem432 I don't consider 1 out of ten rare. In the minority, yes, but not rare.

[@marywemigwase3354]

Congrats! It’s nice to celebrated for it for a change

[@marywemigwase3354]

@@rustybear5125agreed., wonder if certain blood types dominate us lefty folks?

[@PapaBushka]

As a lefty teenager I visited a friend in her apartment building. The evening went on and I didn't think much about how the place felt, other than very comfortable. Finally, she asked me about it and revealed the architect told me he was left handed and had all the doorways and hardware oriented for left handed people so right handed people would have a taste of what left handed people deal with every day.

[@annettev8362]

I luv it !

[@firstmkb]

I switched a vegetable peeler to suit my needs and was very happy with it. When one of my daughters tried to use it she complained that it didn’t work well. “Welcome to my life!” Except I’m mostly used to doing things awkwardly, like starting chainsaws.

[@marionabsher3592]

As a lefty I find that hilarious.

[@marciadoehrmann8227]

My grandmother was left-handed my mother was left-handed and I am left-handed I believe it's all genetics

[@johnrhodez6829]

Those scissors!!!

[@kathleenhartnellharper7234]

I’m a lefty woman which is even rarer. The biggest issue was when doing charting as a nurse. As writing is left to right my arm would smear the writing. One time my art teacher humiliated me by lifting up my arm to show the class the paint smears on my arm. Many tools are designed right handed. It’s a right handed world for sure. Yes and I’m very smart and creative as well.

[@EastSideTerri]

Me too

[@CharlieB.-]

Me three 👩 ❤🫲

[@DwightClark-x2s]

Me four

[@jessicam588]

Left handed lady gang? 😭💕✨

[@clarebebbington9984]

Me also

[@c.maciel4828]

Being a left-handed and color blind during the first year of school was interesting. My teacher treated me as a completely disabled person. I remember her saying I was so dumb that I would probably not learn a single thing at school. It turns out that I scored 148 at Mensa's IQ test, graduated in Computer Science and Physics, learned several languages (English is my third language), among other things.

[@kathleenhartnellharper7234]

@@c.maciel4828 Some of the greatest minds in history do not do well in conventional classrooms. I’m glad you persevered. My brother in law was dyslexic. He didn’t do well in school. His teachers berated him and called him dumb. Turns out he was a business genius. He started out with one cement truck and ended up a billionaire. He donated $100 million to fund a hospital expansion. Not bad for a high school underachiever.

[@donnacain9692]

😊👍

[@lilgto64]

My mom and oldest sister are left handed - and my sister would pretend to be less intelligent than she is by doing things like not turning in any more assignments after getting straight As on a mid-term report. My mom likes to play cards and we will often joke that you need to watch out because she deals left-handed.

[@c.maciel4828]

@@lilgto64 "she deals left-handed". I loved that!

[@skiph507]

I'm 80, my mother went to school with a potential leftie that was Forced to write right handed. She told me that when she discovered my left handiness, she decided to not let the teachers force me to be right handed. Thanks mom.

[@cheriem432]

My mother did try. I remember sitting with her at the table at 3 or 4, and she kept trying to make me write with my right hand. It felt like my right hand wasn't attached to my brain. She gave up when I became hysterical. Later in school, the teacher tried the same thing. I told Mom, and it was the one time on my whole life that she ever stood up for me.

[@cme98]

My grandmother has her fingers slapped with a yard stick when caught at school writing with her left hand. The teacher told her mother the devil was controlling her left hand & had to be beat out of her, leaving welts, bruising, broken fingers. This was accepted thinking. It was considered evil entering your child where drastic measures should be taken to prevent the spread of evil throughout the body. My grandmother became the first woman in her family to attend college. Her left handedness made her unable to find a man who was willing to marry her. So she had to work & became a school teacher teaching all her students that it was ok to use your left hand & encouraged it. She saved her money & at age 28 made a trip to visit her parents village in Denmark. It was there she met her future 21 year old husband & she was 28. She had to lie to everyone about her age because women her age did not marry. She was an old maid. So she may have been 30 or older. 28 was her lie & she loved to 80. My grandfather lived to 88. He was right handed. My mom married a left handed man my father & all their kids were left handed except the stupid one my sister who was right handed.

[@Maree-u3x]

My eldest son is left handed but was not forced to use his right hand. He just learnt to write without smudging his work. My daughter uses both naturally she is more left handed. When learning to eat with a spoon she would pass it from one hand to another it was quite a while before we realised she was more left handed than right 😅

[@hectorsmommy1717]

Teachers tried to change my brother but he flat out refused, with Mom's support. He was the only leftie in the family when growing up. I am deaf in my right ear so we always sat together at the table with him on the left and me on the right which could accommodate both his handedness and my hearing.

[@melissabrodie1484]

As a leftie woman I had 3 kids; I remember them using spoons/crayons etc at 1 year old with their right hands....and I tried to switch the item to their LEFT hand several times with no success! 😂 Am I the ONLY person whose ever done it in reverse? (Right handed to left?) I just REALLY always wanted a lefty because there's 0, ZIP, NADA, ZERO lefties anywhere in my family (including cousins/aunts uncles/grandparents etc).

[@Mike-f5r]

I am a southpaw. As a teen, I was learning how to use a chainsaw, luckily my uncle yelled "stop" and told me I have to use a chainsaw "Right handed", because no one makes a left handed chainsaw. Operating left handed, with hands crossed over a right handed chainsaw, if the saw kicks back, it would strike the operator on the right arm or face. (not a pretty sight). Since that day, I began thinking before using any power tools. Now a retired Design Engineer.

[@firstmkb]

Designing a left handed chainsaw in retirement? Or a retrofit kit? Something?

[@scottrackley4457]

One not many people know of. In my trade we use copper/brass hammers, which deform. You will immediately know if you pick up a right hander's hammer, and you will immediately put it down and go get yours.

[@billveldhoen8277]

The rotation of drills is also an issue for left handed users. If the drill jams it pushes into the hand of a right hander but is pulled away from the hand of a lefty. The drill then swings around and his the back of the left hand or anything else that get in the way. Likewise power saws will shoot material past the right handed user but into the body or face of a left hander. Be Aware......

[@verdeverde2763]

Where my fellow lefty’s at

[@toddtravis2596]

👍🏽💪🏾

[@jonberghello6877]

Right here! 👍😁

[@AngelCanal-i3k]

👍🏽💪🏽

[@sarahgroot5394]

Female lefty here

[@charlayned]

Here!!!

[@kbrad4280]

Every left handed person I know, are very smart and artistic!!

[@edithcunningham5713]

Not my experience!

[@winstonelston5743]

My Dad was a leftie and he was a genius as a chemist, built magnificent ships in bottles, and he was a whiz-bang bridge player.

[@libertygiveme1987]

@kbrad4280 - I know I am!!!! HaHa!!!!

[@JerrayDeem]

Thank you.

[@ferielesseghir1198]

Same

[@dishsoap1]

I’m a lefty with an O- Blood Type. lol Sometimes people don’t get the way I think and analyze things. But, when you find that person who gets you and functions the same way, it’s amazing!

[@SandySellards]

I'm the same..and I'm different..even though I don't see it but friends do..lol

[@brandymorris8162]

@@dishsoap1 I too am a lefty and 0 - Blood Type

[@maryflanagan8660]

I am also a left handed person with an 0- blood type. But something extraordinary happened when I was in school. I taught myself how to write from the right side of the paper to the left. I script. The teacher said it is called Mirror Writing and Only Left Handed people can write this way. It’s extremely easy once you practice. Leonardo DeVinci who was also a Left Handed person, would write Mirror Writing frequently. Very interesting how our Minds Work!!

[@valeriejewell2015]

@@maryflanagan8660Yes, I can write in cursive, from right to left.....my Dad was a lefty, played piano, banjo, guitar, because his teachers hit his left hand with a ruler, when he used his left hand.....caused stuttering.....

[@dawnhauton7543]

Ditto.......

[@JudyMurtagh-h1x]

At 75 years I suffer from chronic arthritis. I have a twin sister who is right handed. I am a problem solver and love a challenge. I slice bread etc with my left hand but at the dinner table I use my knife in the right hand. I am very intelligent and love word games which I don't like to lose. I was the stronger/protective twin growing up. I am kind, thoughtful and a caring person. Thankfully I was never 'forced' to use my right hand at school. Your video was fascinating, thank you.

[@clovermark39]

My late son was left handed and he was amazing. Miss him so much. Tears in my eyes watching this.

[@SandraDempsey-s8k]

Sorry for your loss. My son was also a leftie, as am I, lost him two years ago. But he was fantastic.

[@JoXcalibur]

So sorry, no one should able to utter the words my late son. I also have a left handed son, the younger, he is a high functioning autistic young man and I adore him

[@juliecarne7706]

I am really sorry for your loss. No parent should lose a child.

[@HeidisLovelyLovie]

Mine too!

[@laduke4324]

My son was also a lefty like me, gone 4 years now, miss him forever.

[@amberonenonly]

I knew my son was left handed before he was born just from ultrasounds. He is 15 now and is the smartest kid I've ever seen. He's way ahead of his grade level and is actually in a program where he's studying medicine while in high school. He has been planning his future career (doctor) since he was 4 yrs old. Lefties are truly extraordinary, intelligent, and special people 😊

[@vickywilliams8320]

You do realise it's not really.

[@DahHar117]

@@vickywilliams8320 Not really what?

[@MICHELLEKuzel-ut5zb]

Special😊

[@DahHar117]

@MICHELLEKuzel-ut5zb Oh, that's not nice. If only 1 in 10 are lefties they have to be a bit special. I have the BRIGHTEST GREEN eyes you've ever seen and I think it's special (though I still wish I had blue cuz they are a bit unnatural looking and weird at the same time).

[@DahHar117]

@@MICHELLEKuzel-ut5zb Awh, that's mean. If only 1 in 10 are lefties then they are a bit special. I have BRIGHT GREEN eyes and I think that is special (though I really wish I had blue eyes )

[@julieford148]

I’m left handed and when I went to catholic school at 5 years old, one of the sisters shoved my left arm up my back and forced me to start writing with my right hand! She said only the devils children write with their left hand!! My mother went up to the school and confronted the very nasty nun. After my mum was through with her she never bothered me again! My mum was class 😂

[@Nola5427]

@julieford148 Way to go Mom!

[@julieford148]

@ she said some unholy things to the nun 😂

[@mrs.diannalynn1383]

@@julieford148 I had the same problem with a nun at my daughters school. After I invited her outside, and she didn’t want to go, my daughter being left handed was no longer a problem. This was in the 80’s

[@jerrylisenbee7212]

@julieford148 I went to a catholic school on the island of Malta in the 1960s. Every time I used my left hand those evil penguins would smack my hand with something. I became very ambidextrous

[@sheilabrennan5543]

She was a nasty, unhappy nun and a bùlly, no excuse for such treatment

[@maggiespivey9575]

I'm left-handed, but I learned the word "ambidextrous" when I was 5 or 6 years old. (I never forgot it either.) I was watching my grandpa eat his lunch one day when I realized that he was using both hands. I asked my mom how he was doing it. She then explained about being "ambidextrous" to me. I remember that my grandpa looked at me, grinned and winked. Years later, at the age of 60, I started catching myself using both of my hands to do things, and happily knew that I'd taken after my Grandpa. ❤️

[@Kitkatty1313]

Bring truly ambidextrous means you use both hands equally well with everything.

[@robinsnest7627]

My sister was ambidextrous, I’m not, I am left handed and I can only write with my paper slanted to the right. My second son is left hand and a pretty good artist.

[@sonyaseybold9137]

58 year old lefty female here! Typing class in Jr High school teacher would not permit me to place material to be typed on my left, it had to be on my right. To pass the class, I adapted by memorizing the sentence and then looking at the keys while typing. To this day I still can't touch type! Next when Apple Computers came in with a mouse. I had to use my right hand. I learned and the BIG benefit to that was ... I could be on the phone, right-hand mousing the computer and writing left-handed at the same time! That's a asset!

[@carrieallen6535]

I also use a mouse right handed. It really is an advantage sometimes.

[@margaretpetersen9275]

Maybe tha5s what happened to me. I hated my typing teacher. She was a hag

[@sealyoness]

I'm a lefty lady too. WE are the MVPs of adaptation! I'm an artist that paints and draws with both hands, but a downside is ADHD, and I get overwhelmed by noisy busy places. I used to be able to block most of it; now I had to redevelop my 'mental toolbox' to cope. Do you have one that helps you adapt?

[@troywiltshire5272]

That’s interesting, I’m a 52 year old lefty male! I don’t think I have ever seen anyone use a left handed mouse, and the only reason I didn’t say I have never heard of a left handed mouse is because one time setting up a new computer that was an option. I never thought about which side to put something that I was trying to type as the reason why I can’t type without looking at the keyboard, but it makes sense . I took typing in 9th grade, and I can type with my hands placed on the keyboard like they’re supposed to be but if I don’t stare at the keyboard I just don’t trust myself to hit the right key (I especially have problems with number keys and shift keys). I do realize that I do tend to put things on my left now when I need to type but I didn’t know that could be the reason.

[@sealyoness]

@@troywiltshire5272 My cordless is symmetrical, so I can use either hand. I've been a fluid typist since 10th grade, but I sometime go so fast I leave out words!

[@found_at_midnight]

As a lefty I can vouch 100% on the heightened sense of direction and spatial awareness.

[@DennisPanek-j9b]

Me too!!!

[@scottrackley4457]

I design tooling (stamping, fixtures, gages, robotic EoA) in 3D. My colleagues always give me the hard stuff (which suits me just fine) because I can visualize it quicker before I create it in SolidWorks.

[@b.b.stanfield9829]

⁠@@scottrackley4457Early in my Navy career I was having trouble learning how to do fighter intercepts. All their training fell flat with me until one day, while running the simulator for another student I caught something he was doing we all had trouble with. I froze the program and showed him, and everyone else at the time, how to make it work. It was totally outside what we were being taught but it worked well. Turns out it was a more fundamental way to figure out the problem which allowed for far more flexibility and options to solve the dynamics of the 3D problem. Doing the math was slow and cumbersome. Doing the problem in your head, in 3D, as it happened was far easier for me. The other guys did pretty well. Other lefties caught it instantly and we all did far better than those righties…….and we all recognized it at the time. Instructors said we had to perform to their standards. (Navy for ya’) So, once we understood how to solve the problem our way we simply did it twice. I don’t think any of us ever told anyone else. Whether it lasted beyond our class/group I have no idea. It was a real eye opener for me and I’ve been hyper aware of these subtle differences since. I’m now retired but continue to use these skills to this day.

[@6kiddens]

57 yr old female lefty here, I think it helped me with life. I was made fun of all the time at a very young age, taught me early to not be bothered by criticism. Also taught me to not depend on others to teach me to do things, if you put your mind to it you dont need a teacher because all they say is I dont know how to do it left handed! Being left handed is a gift! Also, its fun when you find others lefties, brings smiles and instant friendships!

[@angelavonhalle5144]

My mother warned me not to give in to pressure to change my "handedness", The head teacher took me for a walk to "tell me", but I remained adamant to her surprise. Support from my mother helped me to resist pressure, civilly, even coming from figures of authority. A valuable lesson in life, which has come in very handy in all sorts of situations. "What are you staring at?" being a quick retort, of course.

[@brendairby9910]

It's funny how you always notice lefties and they notice you.

[@Mirandalee-h6k]

57 also I'm a lefty ❤

[@vettnetkramer1233]

I'm a 57 yo lefty as well. I remember my teacher telling me that before we started to write in cursive, that she didn't know how to teach a lefty. She said I was smart so I could just watch what she did and figure it out for myself. That's what I did. My dad's mom was a lefty also.

[@inadekock6999]

True, lefties is good people

[@billlee7225]

I am a 73 year old lefty man. I was kept after school almost every day but I stayed lefty. They tried to make me play guitar right handed but I saw how Paul McCartney did it I knew I could. I play guitar, bat, throw, golf, and kick lefty, I am hardcore lefty!

[@MrDavidBFoster]

I'm a lefty on most things; writing, power tools, etc.. But I play guitar, golf, and swing a bat right- handed. However I throw and catch left-handed. And I can bowl equally badly with either hand.

[@pGonzalez-b2k]

I'm dominating lefty. Except for bowling and hitting baseball.

[@bettyanthony2733]

My second son is a lefty but he plays golf with his right, as well as throw a ball and so on. My fourth son is right handed and the only thing he does right handed is write, everything else from sports to eating he does left handed. I found that out when he was 5 and I had purchased his first set of golf clubs, he said "These golf clubs are broken" I realized then he's a lefty with everything else! My second son is a twin.

[@AgnesMariaL]

Same here!

[@captainsouth4460]

I’m the same! Except I bowl Left and when tendinitis got me I had a 218 avg.

[@jend8694]

I do everything right handed except for writing & using a knife.

[@hectorsmommy1717]

#9: I am a Kerr. I am right handed but my older brother is a leftie (as is his son). When he found out about the Kerr leftie tendency, and especially the spiral staircase in Ferniehirst Castle, he made it his mission to travel there and stay at the castle. We surprised him with a gathering of family and friends in 2023 to celebrate his 70th birthday. 21 of us stayed at the Castle. Turned out to be good timing because he was diagnosed with cancer shortly afterwards and passed away a few weeks ago. I was asked to recount the story of him being proudly left handed and the trip to Scotland at his life celebration this past Sunday. Weird how this List 25 got uploaded the next day.

[@turneychris6228]

@@hectorsmommy1717 Nice story, I bet that was pretty Nostalgic for you and your family. I'm sure he was joyful til the end.

[@kathleenhartnellharper7234]

@@hectorsmommy1717 it’s called Synchronicity. Similar but unrelated events happen simultaneously. I believe that it shows the connections in reality. It’s meaningful. If you look for them, and are onto them they will happen all the time.

[@margarethurley334]

Sorry for your loss. You are a beautiful sister. I am a Leftie

[@christyjohnson918]

Sorry for your loss

[@keylimepie8426]

I’m a lefty, woman, and darn proud 💕

[@mariGentle]

Aah a fellow socialist ❤

[@kenjudithglover]

Thanks!

[@jobono1508]

I'm 74 now and I'm left-handed. My mother tried everything to try and make me "normal" but nothing worked. When my time comes I am going to have a serious word with her

[@Odin197188]

Amazing that you’ve lived so long without realizing that when “your time comes” you’ll realize how silly that sentiment will reveal itself to be.

[@janetmalcolm6191]

Don't worry school sorted us out. Had no choice but to do as they said. Use your right hand! Wasn't great back then.

[@stevenstasiukiewicz8222]

I'm 62 and my mom did the same. I realized I was a lefty in my 40s. Realistically I am both now. 🎉🎉🎉

[@TheDriller571]

But lefties are more fun. 😋

[@BMarthaGarcia-kf4qr]

Ignorance and brainwashing make people go against things ...as a child my father tortured me for being left.handed, he used to hit my left hand with a spoon and ordered me to use right hand. He would even yell at me saying that God would punish me because left handed people were from the devil.....it came to the point that I stuttered and unable to use my right hand was frustrating. A teacher once came for a visit and told my parents that I had speech problems and recommended a therapist who after talking to me gave them a scolding and explained to them why I was lefthanded. Father stopped the torture but not his uncanny beliefs. My son is lefthanded was bullied when in school but is very smart and knew how to handle the ignorant ones❤

[@kathleengeiser6956]

I, and two of my sons are left handed. We are very creative in art, music and writing. There also seems to be a strong ( intuitive) side to us lefties.

[@Laura_vokey]

Same I paint every day

[@cheriem432]

I agree.

[@annerodgers9149]

My profession is as a Portrait Painter. I was dedicated to portraiture. I won a national award, and Am retired now. It was such fun! For ever, women were ignored, and their work also.🎉🎉😊not now.

[@GMAGPIE1960]

Am a true left hand and yet I play guitar and piano and banjo all right handed buti play the harmonica and the accordion back to front???

[@sammarchetti2484]

I call it my total bullsht alarm, TBA.

[@silent2163]

Thank you for mentioning the spiral notebook, scissors and that most of us Lefties are ambidextrous. And I still hate chalks and whiteboard markers. They smudge. But I was able to practice handwriting with my right hand. And cheers to us all women lefties!

[@Aurorahart5515]

Spiral notebooks are the worst!

[@A_Rose_From_Concrete]

I absolutely hate spiral notebooks

[@kerrymarkley7702]

im a lefty, my wife didn't understand the shit we go thru . we went camping and she bought sporks for us, well the knife part was one the wrong side. and when i mentioned it she went on amazon and found left handed spiral notebooks, sporks, writing pens , all kinds of stuff. also when we go to a restaurant she knows where i need to sit ( because of elbows bumping ) . she also started noticing actors who are left handed. every movie she would say " i didn't know she or he was left handed" .

[@Aurorahart5515]

@kerrymarkley7702 that's nice of her. My husband just dismisses me.

[@marywemigwase3354]

Agreed ❤

[@Hortonfarms1]

5 kids in our family, I'm a lefty and one of my sister's is a lefty. These 25 weird facts aren't weird for me and my sister, they are spot on correct. Good video. Thanks.

[@kimerickson1353]

Loved this! As a left- handed person, I've learned to adapt in a right-handed world. You can say I swing both ways, lol.

[@christyjohnson918]

😂😂😂

[@T1230-x1j]

When as a student it was impossible to do my school work in my binder. My left hand kept bumping on the rings.

[@edithcunningham5713]

Also, I learned to write with pen and ink, and as I dragged my white blouse sleeve across the page it got Ink stained!

[@Maxx-mw2zt]

Yes! I had to slant my binder to write in it.

[@MrEli768]

I corrected the binder issue in first grade by writing in it from back to front so the ring binding wasn't in my way... I even solved the graphite/ink issue the same year, I slid a piece of paper under my hand and moved it as I went... But I wrote with a natural slant which weirded out my teacher because when I write, my paper is straight, but my writing is slanted (I don't know why either)

[@barbarawessel7103]

@@Maxx-mw2ztYes!! I turn my paper 45 degrees so I don’t have to write crazy with my hand curled upside down!!

[@CCW10251]

@T1230-x1j Me too. But it only takes a second to take the paper out, put it on the table, do the work, put it back in the binder. There's always a solution.

[@glittermama]

You omitted the most important aspect of left-handedness: Seeing life through the right brain. Many artists are left-handed as they "think" with the right brain, the seat of creativity.

[@TheBOG3]

Only 40% of left handed people are right brain dominated. They’re the ones that DON’T write upside down or with a hooked hand. The 60% of lefties that write upside down are left brain dominated just like 97% of right handed people. Only 3% of righties write upside down or with a hook, and are considered right brain dominated.

[@carylwinsor]

My maternal grandmother was born left-handed, but her mother forced her to use her right hand (she became ambidextrous). She was highly intelligent, creative, educated, a college professor and had her own TV show. When I was born, showing left-handedness, my great grandmother tried to do the same thing to me that she did to my grandmother, but my mother was not having it! Like my grandmother, I am intelligent, an artist designer and college instructor. I now have an 8 year old granddaughter who is left handed and who enjoys having two grandparents who are also left handed (her mother's mother, and her father's father). She is highly intelligent, and was identifying numbers and all letters of the alphabet before she could barely walk. Her imagination and creativity is off the charts. So, the stigma is gone!

[@spy8464BB]

You couldn't be more correct.

[@juliainnerhofer535]

Perfect example: Leonardo da Vinci.

[@maureensmith9328]

Nasty nuns were a problem in schools in a bygone era

[@charlotteseoighe3753]

Enjoyed your video. I have six adult children and four of them are left handed. I think that is unusual!

[@marygoff3332]

We have seven people in our family and five of us are left handed. 😊 If the mom is left handed, it usually is genetically transferred to the children more than if the father is left handed.

[@SuperMissblueeyes]

As a health scientist, with a particular interest in neurology, I have to say that I'm particularly impressed that you covered the mirror image twin link with lefties. To take it one step further, studies suggest that singletons who are lefties may be a surviving twin of a twin who sadly didn't make it. It's more common than people realise for singletons to start out as a twin with one twin sadly not making it before scans pick up on there being twins. Nice work researcher.

[@mspears_bobobuddytheseniorcat]

I was just mentioning that and interesting to know this is more common in studies! I'm a lefty as is my lefty partner. She said she always felt like she had a twin and even questioned her parents as a child if she had a twin that was being hidden from her! So freaky!

[@RendaJane]

So, did I lose a fetus? How would I know?

[@SuperMissblueeyes]

@@RendaJane Unfortunately, it's unlikely you'll know now. Not all lefties have lost a twin, but the studies are only able to be done with both surviving twins. The information was gained by combining the knowledge from studies on surviving twins with the knowledge gained from studies involving very early pregancies. Peer reviews of multiple studies gather information to come to additional conclusions. I'm sorry I can't help you with that. You have a very valid question. I wish I could give you the answer.

[@Sillybillyilly]

I know two lefties that lost their twin in utero

[@jcbvortex22]

That’s interesting because I’ve always felt that I might’ve had a twin in the womb because as I was growing up, I would often gravitate and make friends with twins.

[@lauraheacox9858]

Left-handed toward body(eating, shaving, brushing teeth and hair) Right-handed away(throwing, writing, hand tools) A sleep study doctor told me I am 1 in a 100. She also mentioned chances are less for having a debilitating stroke. I took it as a left-handed compliment.

[@dantronics1682]

well my dad was left handed and he had a debilitating stroke

[@NeuroRN]

I write with my left hand but golf and bat right but throw with my left.

[@Volkslady]

I'm left-handed for eating and writing, but right-handed for almost everything else, especially large-motor tasks. Being female also, I guess I'm pretty unusual, too!

[@nd6286]

I write with my left hand but throw, bat, shoot and play guitar righty.

[@anangryranger]

I'm exactly the same. It is very strange to most people. Yet I never noticed until my father commented on using a hammer in my left hand but ran a saw in the right. I just accepted it as normal for me.

[@irishhi8333]

I was apparently ambidextrous in kindergarten and 17:28 my teacher wanted to force me to be right-handed. My mom had been forced to be right-handed and told that woman they could encourage me to use my more dominant hand but they could not arbitrarily make me use the right hand. Proud Lefty here. 😊

[@tonybennett4159]

I don't know what your age is, but it surprises me that there are people probably younger than me (I'm 82) where there were attempts at forcing. I went to a convent school which seemingly was one of the worst places for lefties yet I have no memories of any of that. It could have been that I was taught by particularly enlightened nuns, or it could be that as a child as was as I am now : very stubborn.

[@CamanSL]

I had the same issue and still use my left and in some ports and when cutting with sissors. I think the switch from left to right cause some problems like headaches and some coordination problems (ie: playing guitar, playing some sports etc.

[@CamanSL]

@@tonybennett4159, your lucky. I went to school in the 70s and was made to use my right hand. My unweighting never recovered. I also use the left hand for sissors and opening doors.

[@SandyCheeks63564]

@@CamanSL whats unweighting????

[@PiggyBankes1]

The nuns tried to force me to use my right hand. Mom went down and asked them to stop it, and to let me use my dominant hand. They relented, but it was a few years out from when I started school. Fully left-handed now, but my writing is atrocious. However I can write equally bad with either hand, and can write backwards too.

[@jimbutler3973]

Fascinating! I'm a physiologist, and read a few years ago that there is a correlation between lefties and perfect pitch musically, yet the cochlea in the inner ear show essentially perfect mirror symmetry.

[@mimisthoughts4699]

I’m the right handed offspring of 2 left handed parents. My dad, born in 1916, was punished in school for it. My mother, born in 1923, was NOT punished. There were very strict rules for writing but the teacher simply tilted her paper the opposite way. My mother had exquisite writing. I was tormented, not for handedness, but for being a redhead! There’s always something…

[@carollewallingford9716]

I was born in 1955. Nuns were teaching in those days and I received the wooded ruler on my knuckles often for writing with my left hand. That is why I’m ambidextrous.

[@dmariewalker6880]

Teachers were trying to change lefties to use right hand; my son & my brother, both lefties

[@KTI-n8g]

@@carollewallingford9716 Oh my dad still is afraid of the " Penguins" to this day, as well as the priests.

[@DavidJohnson-yg8qm]

Yes I am left handed and have big ears. These days I would have another problem...a 'priviledged' white.

[@flamingpieherman9822]

It's funny you say that I was born in the '60s and my dad would force me to eat with my right hand. It was so hard! I would end up pouring it all over my self and missing my mouth. But I've made up for it. I'm really good at geometry and spatial reasoning for some reason LOL

[@debbiegibson3872]

I’m left handed and was told we are more creative as well. I learned I could draw at the age of 50. Never tried so I was so surprised. Who knew

[@charlayned]

We lefties tend to think with our right brain, which is the creative side. I write novels for that same thing (started when I was 56).

[@djdeemz7651]

A lot of musicians are lefty , I’m ambidextrous so I excel at anything dexterity based and I’m really creative but being ambidextrous causes other issues as don’t have a dominant side , I really struggle with languages growing up and I also have memory issues because of it .. but I never enjoyed academic stuff and always enjoyed and been into stuff that requires dexterity so I’m all good because of it .. and I can melt peoples minds trying to get them to do what I’m doing with my hands , my favourite is pat belly and rub head , I can do one pat , one rub on belly and the opposite on head then switch hands and do the same and do it fast and I can write with both hands at the same time but mirror what I’m writing so everything with the left hand is written backwards from right to left and I can write fluently like that , watching right or lefts try this make me laugh because it’s so easy for me I don’t even need to think about it and watching people get tied up makes me chuckle, I can also fight right or left , playing pool is super easy i just use whichever side is easier , im a scratch dj so it gave me a huge advantage with that , its a blessing and a curse at the same time

[@jip5889]

I can’t imagine nothing in my mind. I am left handed and have aphantasia. I play guitar though and hear music in my head.

[@oliverklozhoff]

How u make it 50yrs in this place and never drew anything???

[@SimuLord]

I'm left-handed and can't draw a stick figure well enough to copy xkcd. But I am a published writer and can play a couple of musical instruments (poorly, but that's due mainly to lack of lessons.)

[@echobeefpv8530]

59 year old, been in some form of construction all my life. As a lefty, learning to work with an electric saw, etc. took some getting used to. The sightlines are all wrong, because the blade is on the wrong side. I've gotten used to it, but I bet injuries with power tools like this are more common for lefties. I finally got a left handed saw ( cost an extra 100$ ) , and I can't use it, I'm too trained with the right handed stuff !

[@jackierumler100]

Yep been there done that I was real fast how to be amidextrous!

[@throne1797]

It is amazing how many tools are best (only) designed for righties. My neighbor is a leading design engineer for a major hand tool manufacturer and is left handed. He says that essentially there is no major market for left-handed tools. I am left handed but have an left eye affliction. So using hand tools such as saws is doubly difficult. Despite these "issues", I spent 50 years as a mechanical engineer in many cases, working with taking apart equipment and reassembling them. Still, today doorknobs sometimes bring be up short.

[@goldfieldgary]

Same thing with me! I bought a left hand circular saw but only used it a couple of times, I'm too used to the world standard right hand saw.

[@macforme]

A lefty is more likely to adapt to right handed tools, than a righty to left handed tools. There is a very small market for lefty tools so they cost more.... it's all supply and demand. A friend gave me left handed scissors . I was fine with right handed ones by my teens. I tried the lefty ones and they didn't work.... I could not use them!!! 😲What's up with that!? 🤔 🤣

[@MrDavidBFoster]

You left out the part about your hand tools always blowing sawdust in your face.

[@jeffsumner414]

I'm 58 now and when I was in the first grade in school, I was pushed into being a right hand writer. Naturally being a lefty, it somehow made me ambidextrous. I can use either method. It really freaks people out when I am drawing or painting lol

[@g-maald6884]

My youngest sister is a lefty. As she started school her teacher first tried to "convert" her. Our mom marched into the classroom and laid down the mama law. No more conversion attempts.

[@HalfWarrior]

I’m a left handed artist;but I had a stroke; the brain damage was on the right side of my brain and now my left side is paralyzed,so I have no choice but to use my right hand to still draw or write; but it’s so unnatural; it feels like major confusion in my brain, because I’m still thinking of the left hand as I try to accomplish those things with the right hand. Really frustrating and weird stuff 🤬

[@hummingbird275]

Sorry to hear about the stroke. GOD BLESS YOU .🙏🏼

[@cowboycacti]

Keep going... Eventually you'll find your groove again and it will probably be some of your best work yet!

[@zuzuspetals9281]

@@cowboycactiTotally agree, give yourself time and grace.

[@zuzuspetals9281]

My mom and grandma were lefties. It took me some time to learn not to tilt my paper when writing right handed. Grandma tried to teach me to knit and crochet but I wasn’t able to reverse her directions. I have a lot of left hand traits, though. I am my mother’s daughter!

[@sheilakaropchinsky6598]

Leftie artist too. Maybe, try playing with a stand up mirror ,close to your work, maybe next to your hand where you want to draw. Looking into the mirror. Moving it with your hand as you draw. Just thinking the mirror reverses the image, so the brain may then switch the image so it's easier to draw. Don't know if it will work, but as an artist, I know the heartache/ soulache when you can't create. May you be blessed with creative healing.

[@QScoobie]

I used to think I was terrible at cutting slices evenly until I found out that many knives are sharpened to favor righties. Got a lefty knife and suddenly cut more evenly. Also love my lefty pencil sharpener and can (tin) opener. 👍

[@MrGrumblier]

Can openers are a pain, especially the old style stab and hook type. The worst thing in the world during school were 3 ring binders. In high school I decided to hell with it and wrote everything on the back of the pages instead of the front. Oddly enough, my English teacher thought it was a great idea but my biology teacher would give me half marks. To this day, I don't know if I disliked biology or just the teacher.

[@susanbissell6319]

I was a hairstylist I had to have lefthanded shears to cut hair. Right-handed shears will NOT work for us lefties!

[@jillianluscombe8638]

​@@MrGrumblierYep,could never negotiate those b can openers !!

[@debrahunt5374]

I didn’t know there were lefty knives. Cool

[@MoNeeTah_Simone]

My 11 year old daughter is a lefty. This put me in a frenzy not knowing how i would teach her to do things with me being a righty. She can do any and everything. Smart and a fast learner ❤

[@cherylthomas1170]

In the 60s as a child, my parents tried to switch me from left to right because it's what was done in those days. I started stuttering so badly that they had to stop. The stuttering never returned.

[@janetmalcolm6191]

Yes school wasn't helpful. Trying to make people do what doesn't feel natural.

[@DennisPanek-j9b]

I too at age 79 was made to write with my right arm. I also had a stutter until I was in my 20's

[@CCW10251]

where? WHERE?? I was born in 1951. No one was trying to switch children's hand preference when I was a child in the 1950s. I don't understand where these comments are coming from. It may have been done some places, but never where I was.

[@janetmalcolm6191]

​@@CCW10251Well the world is a big place and people are different in it depending where you are in it! If your teacher was young in the 50's you might have been ok but if your teacher was old in the 50's quite possibly not so lucky. It was an old fashioned idea that left handers were better to get to being right handed. You'll be telling us children didn't get whacked for very little in a minute.

[@CCW10251]

@ you're right, it's a big world. But did you see what I said? None of my teachers were particularly young, and most were nuns, some definitely old. If I'd been in 1 school the entire time, you could assume that it was a particularly enlightened school- but I went to 3 different Catholic schools in America, and 1 each in Holland, Germany, and Ireland. How did I manage to find the only enlightened nuns existing in the 1950s and early 1960s?

[@Takes12know124]

Who else had to deal with those school desk, that were made for right handed people? Erasable ink pens, were the "enemy", lol! Ink would smear everywhere! And lets not mention our "loopy" cursive writing 🤣🤣🤣🥰🥰🥰

[@Lisa-ir2gz]

I am a lefty. My dad was a lefty. All 3 of my nephews are left-handed. 2 of my 3 children are left -handed. In my house we are all Lefty's except one of my daughters. My grandson is too young to tell, but he seems to do a lot of things left-handed. I hear people say left-handedness is rare. I am like "where?" Because I am surrounded by lefties.

[@Pitcher902]

My only brother and only son and only grandson are all lefties.

[@dareese6778]

So, at least sometimes, it's genetic. Or is it a programming, like religion & patriotism?

[@susanhoneycutt5610]

Same in my family. We are 50-50. That 10% was shocking!

[@jimmyroos1677]

My dad ,me, and my son are all left-handed....

[@debrahunt5374]

⁠Where I work there is an unusual number of left-handed people. I’ve never been able to figure out why, but it’s a nice change for me.

[@samanthahughes7783]

My great uncle was born in 1920, was left handed, but beaten into writing right handed. Both I and my son are left handed, and when he was younger, I used to tell him about famous people who were also left handed

[@AngelaVEdwards]

My left handed mom always reminds me that they are the only ones in their right minds. 😂

[@Isaiah42069]

its also not a true fact. we use both parts of our brain just the same. handedness means nothing.

[@megnotes7908]

My 6th grade teacher, a lefty, always said that. 😁 She was outstanding!

[@carlitocouture8640]

@@Isaiah42069if a lot of people say that saying it must be for a reason!

[@sicfxmusic]

@@Isaiah42069 Yet you still understand it was a joke. 🤦‍♂🤦‍♂

[@Louis-e6q]

Sounds like my brother 😂

[@QKROKC]

That joke is one of my favorites. Also, all people are born right handed but only the best overcome it 😂. Yes, I’m a left handed woman.

[@philippamalherbe4111]

58 year old here. My maternal grandfather was a leftie but he was made to change to right-handed when he was at school. As a result he was ambidextrous. My Dad was and my Mum is a leftie - Dad used the iron with his left hand, Mum uses her right. Mum sews lefthanded, Dad played cricket righthanded. Both wrote/write lefthanded but use(d) cutlery as a rightie. Both creative - Dad very musical and a talented woodworker, Mum artistic (drawing, needlecraft, design, baking). Both my brother and I are righties 🤷‍♀️. One of my cousins was married to a mirror twin - she is a rightie, her twin sister a leftie. Their internal organs are mirrored.

[@annairwin8147]

Left handed folks are very artistic 💕

[@astead2650]

I agree /I am artistic very intuitive. .Sadly I was forced to use my right hand and I don't think it helped.I suffered most of my life from depression!

[@cathyrenick8562]

​@astead2650 , my adult son has a tendency to see things negatively, and gets depressed. He's very artistic and played the saxophone 🎷 beautifully. It's hard to praise him, because he's too hard on himself. He's also great at video games other ppl would watch him. He's so fast and quick to learn. He was reprimanded a lot while young over how he held his pencil ✏️up in the air while writing. I sure didn't understand why, such a big deal he writes very well, and spells really well.

[@astead2650]

@@cathyrenick8562 Your son sounds like he's very gifted & will find sucess! My son also plays the saxophone & very artistic. I cope very well these days & have learned to love myself! I l have learned to drive in my 60s😄

[@debwestendorf2639]

My son was a great guitarist and very artistic. We lost him almost 10 years ago.

[@cathyrenick8562]

@astead2650 sadly, he's now considered disabled and frustrated with himself. He did learn to drive a judge ordered him. He had said, about the written test, "this isn't about driving it's about the law." I said, you're exactly right. He was so depressed trying to get up the nerve to take the test but he knew it backwards and forwards, and passed. The hardest part was both my son's lost their dad to a long devastating illness and died early while they were young. I tried everything to get them motivated in life to find their strengths. Military school, and both needed lots of structure. Most of all a good man to guide them in their lives wasn't there for them.

[@michellebolyard1388]

As a southpaw, I've noticed how much everything is geared towards the right handed.

[@waywardrebelace]

That's because the right handed fears it's superiors lol

[@RendaJane]

I always made a special effort to find left handed tools for my daughter. Pinking shears were the most difficult to find. Sad fact: teachers used to abuse left handed children for using their left hand.😢 I made sure my daughter didn’t suffer that abuse.

[@maryrosekent8223]

@@RendaJane Good on you.

[@sophiepomerleau708]

My dad bought me left-handed scissors. It cost 5 bucks more than the same one for right-handed. Come on 😂

[@michellebolyard1388]

@RendaJane, my maternal great grandmother made sure that her family was never punished for being left handed.

[@lynnquinn7244]

I'm a lefty old lady in my 70's. My dad was lefthanded & forced to write righthanded... his handwriting was always small, precise, and awkward looking, as if it were painful to do. When using a righthanded desk in college, I adapted by turning the paper 45 degrees to the left, and writing "uphill". I still do that. For a while I worked in a fabric store, where we had to cut fabric all day with cheap righthanded scissors, which really hurt my hand. I had really good lefthanded scissors at home, but wasn't allowed to bring them to work to use, nor would the store allow me to use any of the lefthanded ones that we sold at the store. The theory was that everything would go faster if each employee could just grab the closest pair of scissors on the cutting table. I offered to keep my lefthanded scissors on my person, and was told it was too dangerous, even if I were to make a leather 'scabbard' to keep them in. Fortunately, I only stayed 2 years, or I would likely still have nerve damage to my left thumb! On a side note, it is interesting to look at the etymology of the word "sinister"... "First recorded in 1375-1425; late Middle English, from Latin: “on the left hand or side,” hence, “unfavorable, injurious” (dictionary.com)

[@chickadeeacres3864]

I’m a lefty with ambi tendencies. I eat and write with my left, but throw, or swing a bat with my right. I can hammer, screw with either hand. It’s mainly because tools aren’t always designed for lefties and we’re forced to use our right. I must agree, I am great with orientation.

[@mrripper2u314]

You forgot the most famous left-handed musician in your short list: Jimi Hendrix. My case is strange, I write and eat with my right hand but my left hand & leg are the strongest... if I'm picking up something heavy or fighting I use my left... but when writing I'm right handed. Also, when I was a kid I made up a different way to tie my shoelaces, don't remember how that happened. On another note, as a ripperologist myself, yes a doctor suggested the ripper was left handed but we have to consider from what position he attacked his victims. More likely he did it from behind his victims to avoid getting sprayed with blood. Keep up the good work Mike!

[@gaiaiulia]

One of the Beatles played guitar left handed. Can't remember which one though. Ah he just said it! I played hockey in school. As there were no left-handed hockey sticks back then I became the goalie for the school team.

[@heatherqualy9143]

It’s rare, but not strange. It’s cross body dominance. 1%-2% of the population has this. For some it’s simple mixed handiness, where task done with your hands may be a mix of left or right preference. For others like us, it applies to the whole body. Absolutely left-handed for fine motor control, but my right arm, leg, eye, and even my right ear are noticeably stronger.

[@heatherqualy9143]

@@gaiaiuliaRingo is also left handed.

[@Isaiah42069]

Kurt Cobain.

[@jcbvortex22]

I also immediately thought of Hendrix too

[@knaad3715]

I am one of ten children siblings in my family. Neither of my parents were left handed. It is true that lefties are artistic and musically inclined.

[@knaad3715]

I am the only left handed one

[@debbietrent3857]

12 kids in my family/ 1 lefty female / 1 brown eyed female (of 9 females)/ 2 male brown eyed (of 3 males)…I use my left hand for many things but basically right handed, I can write fairly well with left hand. (Grandmother was ambidextrous…

[@Auddit-u7m]

Same for me I am the only one out of 10 children that was left handed, my dad’s sister was ambidextrous.

[@valindarobnett8594]

My teachers, for 2 years, tied down my left arm to force me to use my right. I finally refused to do it and I was “set free”. PTSD? I can barely use my right hand for anything.

[@katepoole6891]

They used to force children at school to do everything righthanded. They always ended up reverting to their lefthand. My sister can do crochet lefthanded (used a KZbin video) but has to do knitting righthanded.

[@baronj4210]

in the fifties in Europe, you had to use your right hand, so I am writing with my right hand, play guitar and banjo as a right hand person Traveling trough South East Asia where people eat with hands I had to watch myself which hand I am using to reach for food into the communal bowl. In the army I had to throw hand grenade with my right hand, :-(

[@TheBoss0405]

Same here!

[@sideordere]

You may have dodged a bullet- My First Cousin (the boy in a pair of girl/boy fraternal twins) was left-handed until he literally had it beat out of him by the nuns at his school and his parents (his father went so far as to tie his left arm down during family meals). He developed a stutter, became a petty criminal in his teens (this included B&E, vandalism, arson and drug use). He joined the military to avoid jail time, was discharged (for reasons I can't get anyone in the family to tell me). He is now living in a prepper community in Iowa with a quiverfull/broodmare wife and 8 children. I should find out if any of his kids are left-handed

[@FightingForFacts7074]

The foolishness of some people in authority makes wrecks of people. My grandpa was also made to use his right hand, but the people who enforced this must have been more benign. He actually told me it helped him be better at guitar and art, and that he was ambidextrous as a result.

[@vanessachalifoux4280]

This is fascinating! I am a lefty and left eye dominant but I use a left baseball glove or regular golf clubs. I've been curious about that my whole life.

[@HowieIsaacks]

I'm ambidextrous. This may have been a learned trait. I started out writing left-handed, but having to learn cursive writing made me try using my right hand. It was easier to write cursive with my right hand. I later switched back to left-handed writing. I can write equally well with either hand. For tasks that require more precision, my left hand is better. I can't snap my fingers with my right hand. I throw better with my left hand. Any time I need to press buttons such as to enter an ATM pin or any other type of keypad, my left hand feels more comfortable. I use tools with both hands. Over time, I just started using whatever hand feels more comfortable at the time. Because of my trouble writing in cursive with my left hand, I think I taught myself to be ambidextrous. I have level 1 autism, which makes me more detail-oriented than most people. I think this is one reason that led me to try writing right-handed when I was being taught cursive writing in 3rd grade. I wasn't aware that some people are ambidextrous until I first heard the term when I was about 13.

[@tastx3142]

My sister was considered a lefty but was truly ambidextrous. She could write the same words or phrases simultaneously with both hands. She had beautiful penmanship with both hands putting my terrible right handed penmanship to shame. She also excelled at playing the clarinet and oboe while I learned the trumpet with only 3 keys to worry about. Back in the 70’s she typed at over 100WPM and won contests because of her speed and accuracy. I never learned to type despite taking typing classes. While taking shorthand, from her work as a secretary as well as taking notes in HS and college, when her hand got tired, she switched hands. The only thing that I could do better was write incredibly small but legibly. Math teachers would often allow a 3x5” note card with all the notes needed for algebra and I could do that. My son is a lefty and while my sister died when he was a few months old, it was eerie to see some of her characteristics in his mannerisms.

[@randallulrich]

I can relate, being ambidextrous myself, as well as the part about using whichever hand is more comfortable.

[@cheriem432]

I believe the correct word is "ambisinistrous" - left-handed on both sides!

[@kaydotted]

Hey same!! I started out writing with my left, but my grade 1 teacher was hell bent on me writing with my right because apparently I wasn’t going to be “on the right hand of god” (catholic schooling). Now I write with my right, but I do everything else with my left by default. I golf, play tennis/badminton, snowboard, play pool, play guitar, eat all with my left. I can use chopsticks so well with my left but with my right I look like I was just born haha. I can do everything with both hands but I can’t write well with my left. I thought about changing back to left but it takes time and I don’t have that time during uni lectures to get everything down quickly haha

[@darrentowell1986]

I'm also ambidextrous and it's also a learnt trait, although I'm naturally right handed. These days I generally use whatever hand I pick up an object with whether it's a pen, a welding torch etc. It certainly confuses people 😂

[@nikibee70]

I'm a leftie and so is my mum, but my 3 sons aren't. My granny was forced to write with her right hand as a child. Drawing came naturally to me and the spatial awareness and the ability to visualise how something will look is rather handy 😊

[@12thDecember]

Interesting you say that. It's known in my family that my mother stopped 3 of her children, including me, from left-handedness and steered us toward unnatural right-handedness. I think it affected the wiring in my brain. I've been saying for years that I'm spatially challenged. My oldest brother is a leftie, and his spatial perception is a wonder to behold.

[@cheriem432]

I'm a leftie who suffered hypoxia during birth and my senses of direction and spatial awareness are almost nil. Poor me.

[@JazminYa]

I am a redhead woman with blue eyes, my sister has blue eyes and redhair aswell(gingers), I have a leftie son and leftie daughter. Me and my husband and one son are righthanded. Thank God we are not living in the days people were so juging of something different. God made it that way and it is beautiful. Everyone is unique and special in their own way. You can not believe everything "smart educated people" say.

[@marilynaicardi1860]

I’m 82 & female, a lefty. My kindergarten teacher tried to make me use my right hand, my mom told her to leave me alone. Thanks, Mom. Both my kids are lefties (1 male, one female). My son is a gifted artist & my daughter is the smartest and most creative woman I have ever known! I’m so glad that I’m a lefty, it makes me special! 😁

[@vanessawortham3002]

I'm left handed and proud of it. Never forced to be right handed.

[@jeffreywardle216]

I remember having my hand smacked with a ruler in grade school for using my left hand. Now i write with my left hand and do everything else right handed.

[@stephaniehowell1109]

When I started school in early 70's, and first started learning to write, I tried to use my left hand. The teacher said "that's the Devil's hand...the proper way is to use the right." This was a public school, not a religious one. That "teacher" literally tied my left hand down, forced me to use my right. Years later I learned many other lefty's were abused this way, at that time. She did me a favor tho, really...now I'm 58 and ambidextrous. 😂😂😂😂

[@heiditate6989]

I had a similar experience. I am 62 and use my left hand for almost everything. I write with my right hand but handwriting is atrocious. I can write with my left hand too.

[@jesswall5053]

This happened to me in the 80's, other children were told to bully me as I was a devil child

[@robklein583]

Everyone is born right-handed. Only the truly gifted can overcome it.

[@bethrios2782]

I am a lefty through the years I have become ambidextrous. In high we were not allowed to use the 10 key adding machine with our left so I learned right handed. I iron right handed. I crochet left handed and knit right handed . I taught my self to write with my left hand w/o smearing ink because I did not do it overhanded as most left handers do. I don't have ADHD, dyslexia, I do have some arthritis and I have lost my thyroid and gall bladder but I am 85 and still going strong.

[@mksparrow5398]

I was born left-handed...I was born in 1962. At that time, schools and parents discouraged using the left hand and trained us to use our right. So now at 62 years old I am completely "ambidextrous" . My father was left-handed and my grandson is left-handed also, lots of natural born lefties in my family.

[@sealyoness]

Our school didn't, but when the teacher told me to write my name on the right side of the paper, I got confused and wrote my name there, but backwards.

[@Patricia-b9u1p]

My brother was born in 1962 and I was born in 1966. They tried to force my brother to change hands... when it came to me, my mom was onto their ways. She taught me how to properly hold a pencil and print left handed without twisting my hand to make it more right like. She told me this is how you do it. If the teacher tries to tell you differently you tell her this is how mom said. If she continued I was to tell her my mom would be happy to have a meeting about it. My mom was amazing. 😊

[@newshodgepodge6329]

There was a video game that I used to play as a teenager that became too easy to play all the way through the highest level with my right hand. So I started playing it with my left hand and gradually improved until I could play it all the way through that way too. Now which hand I use depends on what I am doing.

[@cheriem432]

Good for you!

[@helengorton894]

Thank you so much!!! My son is a lefty....and he is amazing!!!!❤❤❤❤❤

[@Martin-ef4xh]

You left out Jimmy Hendrix. Re-strung his guitar and played it upside down.

[@TheMonkeyV]

i took that inspiration from him bc i wanted to try playing guitar. great idea

[@jugglerj0e]

Many lefties play right handed too like BB King.

[@berlingobob]

Jimmy Hendrix, tats what I shouted at him. The GOAT , much better than Paul and ...... don't even mention J Bieber

[@staceychamberlain810]

I thought Jimi play his regular guitar upside down

[@Thinkforwardnow]

Negative He strung a right handed guitar left handed. Fact Look at pictures. Big (low E) string is on top. Also, he played the top string of a G chord using his thumb.

[@spiritualjoy721]

I am naturally right-handed, but at 14 noticed I did many things left-handed. It became a problems years later when I was pregnant. Using public transportation I was always on the wrong side of the escalator. Normally I had no problem switching sides. But when pregnant, I was uncomfortable switching because I couldn’t see my feet.🤷🏽‍♀️

[@taurusarmas3822]

I'm the only left handed person in my family. I always say "it's a right handed world" because so many things are made for right handeds. They have never given it a thought. Like scissors, school desks and many other things like he mentioned. Those spiral notebooks are a real pain! I have occasionally used them upside down. But I'm 68 and happy that no one forced me to change. My kindergarten teacher slapped me on my back once though. I think she tried, but only once and I don't remember ever seeing her again....???

[@julietrask7497]

I’m a lefty and I endorse this ⬆️

[@Ellaloveslofi]

I remember my mom buying me left-handed scissors when I was a teen. Turns out I was so used to holding right-handed scissors and putting the pressure on them that I couldn't adjust to the left-handed ones. I'm 59 now and have made a lot of adjustments to tools made for righties as all us lefties do!

[@bl4531]

Exact same happened with me. I could not use left handed scissors despite being very strongly left handed.

[@user-mysterywriter]

Me too, but I'm more ambidextrous. I use a potato peeler in my right hand, play the drums right-handed and play racquetball right-handed and left-handed, to name a few. Basically, if I don't know how to do something already, I can learn right-handed. The only things i have difficulty using my right hand are, eating and writing. Oh, and painting and drawing.

[@TammyBirdBass]

Same here. I didn't like my lefty scissors. Now many scissors cut both ways. We do live in a right handed world

[@mspears_bobobuddytheseniorcat]

I'm lefty woman and strangely, so are many of my closest lifelong female friends! We all use scissors and computer mouse with our right hand, but write and open doors with our left and much more. We all must use a fork/spoon in our left hand when eating food which makes it hard to sit close next to right handed people knocking elbows! I grew up in the 80's/90's and writing on chalkboards and whiteboards was a challenge, as it literally smeared or erased things, not to mention the pencil/pen marks that still make a stain on the left side of the hand! Ha! Sadly though, my lefty partner and I both have arthritis so it's different for us than the study mentioned. Anyway, thanks for doing this awesome video! 🫶👍 P.S. Another strange fact is the theory of "disappearing twin syndrome" where the mirrored-image right handed twin was absorbed in early development in the womb!

[@NightmareRex6]

i usaly drink smoke and eat (without silverwear) with my left hand and with silverwear my right hand i write right hand and do most things write handed but golf clubs and a few tools i was told i was wearing it left hand.

[@UN33kWabb1T]

My daughters first pregnancy resulted in a disappearing twin. The surviving twin (a girl) is right-handed. Both me and my daughter are left-handed.

[@joycejean-baptiste4355]

My brother is left handed. Back in the day it was considered a birth defect. At school they were forced and encouraged to use the right hand. Thanks for the interesting and informative video.

[@4OHz]

0:13 That joke is as old as Moses’ toes and twice as corny.

[@colspiracy8326]

😂😂😂

[@amandabrown3574]

Good one 😂

[@4HorsemenINC]

Absolutely... 😂😂😂

[@sheke32]

😂

[@Firstthunder]

😂😂

[@meganhulatt6779]

I worked in an architects office all five of us were left handed, and quite a few in my current role I think it demonstrates a high tendency towards creativity , spatial design, technical graphic design skills , I am ambidextrous at most sports and tend towards my right hand when chopping or cooking, I’m leftie more dominantly but I can switch very easily.

[@sophiepomerleau708]

I’m a lefty and it makes a special connection with kids at daycare. In my extended family, we are 3 left-hand on 24. Me, my niece and my cousin’s son. I was alone until he was born in 2012 😂 Also I’m a woman, left-handed with green eyes (as grass). I’m unique 😂

[@kathleengeiser6956]

Ditto! Being Scandinavian with green eyes and left handed and a rare blood type, we are precious 😊

[@cheriem432]

Sadly not unique (one of a kind), but very rare and special nonetheless. I believe green is the most rare eye color. My husband's are green, and he is also a lefty.

[@Sine-gl9ly]

I'm an ambidextrous woman in my late 70s, from an ambidextrous/leftie family on my dad's side. All generations prior to mine were _forced_ to write with their right hands. My generation and younger were merely encouraged to use our right hands by our parents, to make doing 'stuff' with tools easier. I write with my right hand, but my left hand is much stronger for opening things and for doing fine work where steadiness is essential. We are also almost all redheads!

[@Georgia-zt7ss]

@Sine-gl9ly I've often wondered about left handedness and having red hair being genetically linked. My mother was one of seven siblings. There were four boys and three girls. One of each gender was both red haired and left handed. Is that common?

[@Sine-gl9ly]

@Georgia-zt7ss I honestly don't know that there's any genetic connection. Genes for red hair can be found, I have heard, in two or three different places on the human genome - each one associated with different places where red hair is (comparatively) common. I can't imagine that handedness will be directly linked with that.

[@Georgia-zt7ss]

@Sine-gl9ly Thanks 👍

[@ChandlerWheeling]

I’m 63 and I was forced to write with my right hand in school and by my parents. It didn’t stick. I would switch back to my left hand when no one was around. I could never write right handed, you can hardly read it. And I’m a blond, not a redhead:) no redheads in my family🤷‍♀️

[@jenniferhart559]

Lefty woman here. I'm 50, so went to school in the pen, paper, and cursive era. I lucked out during kindergarten / first grade (1979-81) as there was an aide who would show us lefty kids how to hold our pencil and angle our paper so we wouldn't smudge. Years later, after learning cursive, I easily taught myself how to write backwards in cursive. It feels better to write backwards, but isn't practical if others need to read it.

[@BigChucka419]

Pilot Frixion erasable pens were the first I've found in 40 yrs that didn't get ink on my hand!

[@Isaiah42069]

im 45. my K class tried to train the left out of me. my parents stopped that shit.

[@sherrieludwig508]

Michelangelo's notebooks were written in mirror image, and for a while in high school I tried note-taking in mirror writing. I found that once I got used to doing it I could write faster and more fluently that way. It also made people less likely to try to crib off me, or want to borrow my notes!

[@marypasco2213]

@@Isaiah42069- My cousin’s dad was left handed. My cousin is left handed. They tried to make her switch. My Uncle had a thing or two to tell them, face to face. In no uncertain terms!

[@lisachiappetti6092]

I can barely write forwards in cursive. Pretty much all I can do in cursive is sign my name. It looks chaotic and like I'm still in third grade, but I can do it. I'm jealous lol that's impressive

[@WeFrost62]

It was such a joyous time when my older step brother came back home after a few year stint in the Peace Corps, building fish hatcheries for villages in Africa. My dad was a lefty. Both of my step-brothers were lefties. I am a lefty. My step-mom was the only right hander in the house. We finally got to arrange our kitchen silverware drawer (think cutlery facing East/West...we wanted our spoons to the East to grab them with our left hand) as well as many other annoyances of daily living because we outnumbered her! 🙂

[@albertwells8503]

In 1992, it was absolutely definite we were going to elect a left handed president. There were 3 candidates, George H. W. Bush, Bill Clinton, and Ross Perot, all left handed!!

[@martinjohnfox]

Technically 96 as well. Bob dole had to switch to lefty after WWII injury

[@albertwells8503]

You’re right. I forgot all about that!

[@aqueenceereid4249]

Also Barack Obama

[@Grungefan2018]

Ross Perot was awesome . He was hilarious but he also made a helluva lot of sense

[@hildapompa4236]

I know that already since yrs n yrs. N YEARS AGO!!!! I SAID THAT YEARS AGO!!!!!!!!!!

[@August84118]

I am female and the only one in my family (as far as anyone could remember) who was left handed. My mother tried to put my spoon in my right hand, to no avail. As a small child I was always put at the end of the table so I wouldn’t “bump elbows” with anyone else. My mother taught me to knit right-handed and when I learned to play guitar I just played right handed since I felt it would be less of a hassle. I went to Catholic school and even in the 60’s I was taught to write left handed, but in the mirror image of a right handed person the way I held my pencil, meaning I wasn’t allowed to bend my wrist downward to write. I’m fairly ambidextrous, but as I get older I have difficulty threading my serger sewing machine sometimes, since the threading mechanism is on the right. I have 4 children, one of whom who is developmentally disabled and “prefers” his left hand but uses both.

[@coldlakealta4043]

I grew up in the 50s and 60s. I was absolutely forbidden to use my left hand - I had to sit with it behind my back in school. I was ridiculed to the point of giving up for using my left hand and left foot in sports, and I didn't dare pick up a fork with my left hand at the dinner table. All in all, a pretty miserable experience scholastically and socially. I had a slight stutter which I later learned can be associated with being forced to use your other hand. Out of habit I write (poorly) with my right hand but do everything else from using tools to playing golf with my left hand.

[@colleenr7268]

My dad was a leftie when writing, using knives and scissors, but played every sport right handed...it was conjectured that his close relationship with his leftie sister influenced him. My sister is a leftie as well, where I'm very ambidextrous, as was my mother. The only things I don't do with my left are using knives and scissors. This has definitely been an interesting listen.

[@countrygal2611]

Love this... all the special things about us being different... but also, I'm a lefty and almost died from stomach ulcers at 27...

[@peterparquer1873]

I'm convinced handedness is indeed genetic; when I was a toddler, my mother claims she would give me something to draw with (crayon, marker, something), and place it in my right hand, but that I would always transfer it to my left hand. I have no memories of doing this (and I can remember back to age 3, at least), and have ALWAYS used my left hand to write with....😔

[@Grungefan2018]

Me too ! 😊my brothers and sisters and mom would hand me stuff in my right hand and I would always move it to my left hand. I went to catholic school so first grade was 1969 and the nuns never bothered me about it . Thank God !

[@DeedraUnderwood]

That's what my mom did to me,Peter

[@cameronmartin931]

@@Grungefan2018 10 years earlier they would have beat it out of you.

[@freespirit4574]

Same here.

[@supremesancho5009]

I'd just use my notebook back to front so spiral is on the right 😂

[@VirginiaButler-px1uw]

I did that! Just commented on it!

[@terry1912]

When I was in junior college years ago, I went to the bookstore and found a few left handed spiral notebooks for sale. Surprise! As you said, just turn it over & it's left handed. As a retired person, I now notice many more things designed for righties, like the curling iron I couldn't figure out how to use til I turned it upside down, to me, and saw the digital temperature screen!

[@lisabrouillette5669]

smart

[@supremesancho5009]

@@terry1912 he'll yeah we should start rioting like the lgbtqs for being discriminated against 🤣 and when I went to school we couldn't afford Barnes and nobles so turn it around for me or suffer the Wrath of the spiral 🤣🤣

[@SandyCheeks63564]

Not if you use the both sides of the pages

[@kain772]

I enjoyed this one immensely

[@The_finestsocialworker]

Yay a video for us, lefties!! I'm always right 😂.

[@gloriapena3649]

My son used both. Drove his teacher crazy. They made him decide on one so they could better improve his penmanship on whichever he chose. Awesome in martial arts. Adhd and very productive.

[@eveadams4371]

One of my older brothers was ambidextrous and was also forced to choose one (his right). I always thought that was wrong of them at his school.

[@Clarice-rp7mh]

I don't know how old your older brother was, but until the last 20-30 years or so, schools taught penmanship. We actually received a grade on our report cards for it. How can a teacher teach a child to improve their penmanship, if the child is swapping hands daily, much less give a fair grade to the child? I don't think it is cruel to have the ambidextrous child choose whichever hand the child prefers, for writing, for school. It makes sense and is in the child's best interest. Once the child is old enough to have finished enough grade levels where penmanship grades are no longer given, then the child can use whatever hand the child wants, on any given day.

[@eveadams4371]

@Clarice-rp7mh my brother would have been going to school- elementary in the early 60's. I think they were just looking down on the left-handedness when he chose that route.

[@stacytadlock7666]

My mother and I were left handed and she got the school to stop taking me out of classes to try to make me write with my right hand! Love you Mom I miss you 💕❤😊

[@ryansanderson23]

So if 40% of schizophrenia patients are left handed, that means the other 60% is right handed. Just doing some basic math here, but that means that right handed people are more likely to have the disorder.

[@debrahunt5374]

It’s probably more that 10% of the population has 40% of the illness, instead of just 10% of it.

[@cameronmartin931]

Sorry but your math doesn't go far enough, because if 1 in 10 or 10% of people are left handed then in your theoretical group of 100 then only 10 or 10% should be left handed. So 40% is over represented.

[@ryansanderson23]

@cameronmartin931 my math is correct, since there are only 2 types of handedness in the research mentioned. 40% are left handed so the other 60% has to be right handed.

[@SparkesIsRunning]

Take a random sample of 100 people off the street. You would expect 10% of those to be left handed right? So 10 out of the 100. However this guy says that research suggests that if you take 100 people with schizophrenia then 40 of them will be left handed (40%) therefore more lefthandedness than you would see in the population at large.

[@SparkesIsRunning]

@@ryansanderson23see my explanation

[@sonianugent6429]

I am a 16:47 one thing you didnt mention is we are artistic and creative, more so than righties. Most of your famous artists were lefties. That is another fact for you. I jave paintings hanging all ober the country and a few in Europe.

[@quintanaquintana2212]

Facts

[@bunnyheywood]

Absolutely

[@pootninny]

I’m a lefty and a published artist, art, teacher, and color consultant but if you put me in the closet and turn the light off… I’m lost

[@annagray6491]

I’m a lefty-righty! Use both hands. Can write with both hands and confuse everyone at pottery using the wheel spinning both ways!

[@katiewest7908]

And my hands fight for dominance at the pottery wheel😂

[@keithherndon5317]

I play a right handed guitar upside down. Growing up there was. Nothing but right handed guitars and I was to poor to afford a lefty . So I adapted and over come. And became a upside down left handed. Beast. 🤘🤘

[@landscapedetective4064]

I have a similar story. My right-handed younger brother and left-handed me both wanted to learn the guitar as kids. My folks couldn't afford two guitars so we had to share and I had to learn right-handed. In my teens I saved up money from a part-time job (took me over a year) to buy a cheap Japanese left-handed bass guitar. I'm now 63 and still play. I have a right-handed Squier Bullet Strat and a left-handed Squier Jazz bass (1970s reissue). I get some funny looks from people when they see me swap over from one guitar to the other. I also tinker around on drums and weirdly enough I am a right-handed drummer! On a similar theme, back in the 1970s (my teen years), I was at school with a guy who built his own guitar from an old wooden school desk that had been dumped in a skip (along with many others) when our school updated to modern tubular metal framed 'units.' He slaved away on that project for weeks and kept all the scratches and graffiti intact. The result was a guitar similar in looks to a Gibson SG - and it was damn heavy. Just like your guitar, it was a beast to play. Oh and one last detail - his name was Pete, so we nicknamed his guitar the 'Les Pete.' Fond memories!

[@earthling8585]

Awesome! ❤

[@ericawildwood4273]

But the first thing you learn in guitar lessons is CHORDS, with your left hand!

[@BrendaPenepent]

Hi Mike❤ I’m the only lefty in my family except for my aunt. I’m ambidextrous for most things. Adapt and overcome! 😂 Two of my grandkids are lefties though. I had to fight for my left handedness. Teachers tied my hand back, used a ruler to smack my hand and more until I stood up and stomped my foot and told the teacher that my Mama would whip her butt. 😂When my Mom heard what happened, she was furious at the school. They never bothered me again.

[@whitneyanders5945]

Barbaric how lefties were treated! I’m thankful I was born in modern times as a female redhead who is left handed. I would have been burned at the stake in centuries past.

[@paulas_lens]

I am sorry you were literally abused. It is outrageous. Good for you, standing up for yourself.