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This shows abuse more than anything. He was likely forced to use his right hand growing up and has never fully recovered.
Spanked it right out of him…
THAT GUY IS SPANKING WITH HIS LEFT HAND!
I haven’t LOL’d in a while. Thank you.
It’s clear that right conversion therapy doesn’t really work.
yeah my dad was a leftie forced to be a righty.
I had a teacher in high school who was ambidextrous because of nun-based leftie abuse.
Tbf, if they didn’t show him writing with his right hand, this would all be acceptable.
I write with my left hand, but play guitar right handed, pitch a baseball right handed, do basically everything right handed, except usung my left to write and do knife work in the kitchen.
Left handed folks are often ambidextrous.
Not to mention he’s religious and back a number of years, you weren’t allowed to be left handed, so maybe that is why he writes with his right hand in the scene, and maybe why it’s such a liberation for him to come out as left handed? Idk
Left handed folks are often ambidextrous.
Pick a side already!
You right-handers force us into this position!
There’s only one thing you use everyday that’s made for the left hand and it’s flushing the toilet!
Think of how that feels!
In europe almost all toilets have flush button in the middle of the tank
Both my toilets have the flushing thing on the right side.
NOW THEY TOOK THE TOILETS FROM US
Most things cater to right-handedness, there isn’t much of a choice 🤷♂️
One oddity for me at least: I’m left handed, but right eye dominant; which means I aim a gun or draw a bow with my right hand, to line up with my right eye.
ay i’m right handed but left eye dominant so i shoot left handed. hello chiral twin!
I’m cross-dominant and left eye dominant but when I draw bows I use my right hand, pistols I use my right hand, but rifles I use left handed
I can’t explain why beyond that it’s just comfortable to do this way
Yeah, I used scissors as a main tool in my manufacturing job that I had nearly a decade, …many tools are right handed. Even driving a stick shift is right handed work.
You adapt.
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Technically you are mixed-handed as you use one hand mainly for particular actions, just different hands. Ambidexterity is being able to do anything equally well with either hand.
To be more exact, you are “criss-cross-applesauced” but it’s a technical term.
i prefer the term “ambisinister”
That’s actually the technical term for being equally kack-handed with both hands. Right-handed propaganda, I know.
Left handed folks are often ambidextrous.Not to mention he’s religious and back a number of years, you weren’t allowed to be left handed, so maybe that is why he writes with his right hand in the scene
I had a teacher in high school who wrote poorly with both hands, he explained, because he went to a catholic school where they slapped his left hand with a ruler when wrote with it.
Yep, same situation for me. “Ambidextrous” roughly means “two right hands,” so I like to joke that I’m ambisinistral - I’ve got two left hands.
I’m right handed for writing but I prefer left for a lot of stuff. I ride primarily left forward on skateboard and snowboard. Throughout my childhood years everyone fucking hated my lefty hockey stick especially since the three lefties played right handed. Some games they forced me to either play right hand or sit out too.
Need Flanders is definitely old enough to have possibly been forced to work with his right hand, meaning that while his left is his dominant he was forced to use his right enough to be effectively ambidextrous.
Some left handed guitarists play right handed just because left handed guitars are much harder to find, or they just string it like Jimi Hendrix lol. I’m sure that’s true of other tools and hobbies.
a friend of mine learned how to play upside down as well so he could play any guitar. not to the degree he played lefties but it was still impressive
Yep. My brother is left handed and he plays right handed because it’s just easier to get a right handed guitar
I am cross dominant. I do somethings right handed, some things left handed, and there’s a few things I can do with either. This blew the mind of every elementary school teacher I had until 4th grade because by then I had the vocabulary to explain myself.
For many years I only felt comfortable using right handed scissors in my left hand because my kindergarten teacher refused to give me a left handed pair since I write with my right hand. I argued with every adult that tried to teach me how to play baseball because I naturally line up lefty at the plate but I throw better right handed. Turns out I can bat switch but fuck them, they didn’t know that.
I remember being out to dinner with my family and my brother was joking with me about how I would have to struggle to cut up my food being left handed because how the seats were arranged. I just switched to my right and him and a couple other people were like… What?.. I didn’t even know that people used a specific hand for their utensils.
We never had left handed stuff when I was in school so I guess I just learned on my own.
Oddly, using a fork is something that only feels comfortable with my left hand. I can eat right handed but it feels off somehow.
I’m like that with putting my contacts in. For whatever reason I can do it right handed without any problem but when I use my left hand it’s a shitshow.
I’m righty for everything except specifically throwing a Frisbee. I just can’t do it with my right hand, unless it’s an overhand chuck. Makes disc golf a bitch because no matter how I throw, it usually breaks right from the spin.
On some courses that’s a big advantage. I always threw left and my dad always threw right, it was interesting how the geometry of the course could tilt our fortunes.
I wonder how much of handedness is really “real”. I’m sure there’s a bit of a preference there, but a lot of it might be also training.
For example, I started using my phone in my “off-hand” years ago to keep my “main-hand” free for other stuff. Turns out I do more on my phone than on my free hand, and now I’m much better with my “off-hand” with my phone than with my “main-hand”.
n=1 of course, but my dad was forced to write right-handed in school (early 60’s and an old-school teacher for those days). The result was more punishment as no matter how he tried, he simply couldn’t (and still cannot) write very readable with his right hand. So no, I don’t think practice is enough to make somebody ambidextrous. Might work for some, but certainly not for everybody.
I always felt like a lot of sites and apps were made to be used left handed anyway. It seems like the controls are often on the left side. Maybe it’s just that I primarily used reddit and now lemmy though.
It certainly felt real to me growing up. No matter how much teachers would insist that I use scissors right handed, I just couldn’t. That being said, with enough training and descipline you can certainly overcome that. As an adult, I can use scissors in either hand but not particularly well.
My school did this to me in the 2000s :(
Why :( ?
We have a skill that most don’t have. Give someone who’s single hand dominant only, a steak. Watch as they constantly have to shuffle the silverware back and forth. Or go play like baseball or racquetball or tennis or badminton, etc. and just keep swapping the hand, it’ll throw them off.
shuffle the silverware
This is a telltale sign of an American. In other regions everyone uses both hands. https://youtu.be/fypq2qhRZnI
Oh! I had no idea that was very much an Americanism! Next time I travel overseas I’m definitely going to pay more attention to that.
Literally people who don’t know how to properly use silwerware.
I cannot do pretty much any precise stuff with my left hand. I can however eat perfectly fine without switching the fork to my right hand (unless there is nothing left to cut I sometimes switch).
Why :( ?
No idea. They did this thinking they were doing a good thing for me, for some reason. It was just ignorance and lack of information from them, I think.
Well, at one hand, I became ambidextrous, and got no bad side effects that I’m aware of, but on the other hand, this didn’t improve anything in my life. Pun partially intended :D
Boy, I really hope someone got fired for that blunder.
Or paddled.
A wizard did it.
A wizard spanked him.
Whenever you notice something like that, a wizard did it.
You’re welcome
And where exactly was he supposed to find a left-handed bowling ball? Huh? D’jever think of that?
Not sure if your serious but I’m a left handed bowler. You normally buy the bowling balls without holes, then have a shop measure your hand and how you throw and drill the holes to based on you.
i know plenty of lefty guitarists who play right handed guitars. they’re cheaper, for one.
They are not actually, at least the dozen or so I looked at on Sweetwater before buying my leftie. They right-handed selection is better, but the price was the same.
Huh, til. They were at the shop I looked at 30 years ago and the market has not changed I refuse to accept it.
I play guitar right handed because I was taught by a right handed person and those were the only guitars he had. Right privilege is real.
Just string a right handed guitar the wrong way
This rings true of my experience as a left handed person, which is more like being ambidextrous, at least for people who were born at the tail end of society tending to think you’re evil if born left handed.
When need was young, you weren’t allowed to BE left handed, even if you were. They forced you to do things right handedly, so Ned learned to do the things he does with his right hand, but in his soul he is left handed, as he’s always had to work really hard at learning things with his right. He wanted to change the world for the better.
His parents never would’ve done that. Wouldn’t. Couldn’t.
While you are most definitely correct his parents wouldn’t do that; schools back then absolutely did enforce that and he clearly did still go through school.
He’s finally out of the closet and open about who he is!
a couple years ago some friends on a community driven wargame community and I were engaging in a worldbuilding discussion, creating factions and armies and such for our world
I Said “Im going to have a leftist insurgency” and everyone groaned. "why do you have to make it political cant we just have silly scifi tropes
“Who said anything about politics, 95% of your units are holding their weapons in their right hand. this is a left handed faction”
them
It was Lego, by the way…
I love that their assumption was that their highly fractured society going to war with one another wasn’t political. What do people think politics is?
The original fracture in this society was a disagreement about whether socks and sandals is a fashion faux pas. Then someone brought up pineapple on pizza…
Yeah… Like honestly, someone’s gonna get beat for the wrong opinion. Get some!
How sinister!
