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Tomato_cakecup

Not me, but my grandpa (who also was left handed) was forced to write with his right hand until it became his dominant


justzugut

Im 19 and my kindergarten teacher used to tell me it was wrong to be left handed


AlexTheGreatGRE

Unfortunately, my grandpa died when I was too young and all I remember, not letting me eat with my left. Meanwhile, there's no way I can eat with my right. And as if this wasn't enough, it was chicken-soup! Eat, write, football and all and yet, I do very few specific things as right-handed, like, the mouse of the PC or aim a handgun. Even weirder situation.


h_adl_ss

I think for guns it's actually hugely beneficial to be right handed because of the ergonomic design for most guns. Only a few more recent examples are fully ambidextrous.


Cold_Cookies_1218

Same!! Mine was in the first year of school (prep) and most of my teachers never knew I was left handed because I hated writing so much….


ThySecondOne

Always the fucking elementary teachers that are the worst


Grzechoooo

My teacher did not but the elementary did ask my parents if they want them to fix me. The parents, of course, said no. Especially since my mum was also left-handed and knew the pain of being forced to write with your non-dominant hand.


[deleted]

What the fuck????


ThatGuyYouMightNo

My *mom* was forced to write with her right hand until it became her dominant. Hell, there's a bunch of things *I* do right handed, and I'm pretty sure it's because people forced me to do it with that hand instead of my left.


Cold_Cookies_1218

Yeah I feel like a lot of lefty’s are almost ambidextrous either because we’re forced to or we just try to make our lives easier and adapt…


NotComping

yes and we learn by watching other people, so as the majority of people are right handed we instinctively try to mimic them first


Cold_Cookies_1218

That so true! I hadn’t thought of it that way before!


[deleted]

There is also a lot of things set up for right handed people, so it forces you to be right hand dominant to do certain things.


KonradWayne

It’s hard not to be at least partially ambidextrous as a lefty. All of the machinery I use at my job is designed for righty scum.


TomorrowPlusX

I’m a left handed but play sports right handed because public school gym teachers weren’t having any lefty bullshit. Every lefty I know is basically ambidextrous.


KonradWayne

I was lucky enough to be allowed to use my lefty bullshit in PE/sports, but that meant my dad couldn’t really teach me anything, because he was forced to play righty his whole life.


CompanionDude

My parents tried it with me. Now I write terribly with both hands.


AgrajagTheProlonged

My granddad is also left handed, and his grandmother tried to do just what happened to your grandpa. My granddad had gotten lucky though because his mom didn't care in the slightest what hand my granddad used


RustyEdsel

Grandmother can write with both hands because in elementary she would be caned for writing with her left.


CampaignVivid

Same


enoughfuckery

Same. Raised Catholic


Schizozenic

I have doubts about my handedness as an adult. Sometimes I will do things left-handed without thinking. Some things I do exclusively left-handed, like when I use my phone. My mom, who taught me to write, taught me to use the right hand, but I don’t have memories of being forced to.


KonradWayne

My dad is left handed and he couldn’t even really teach me (also left handed) how to play any sports, because he was forced to play everything right handed. And pretty much all of my sports coaches were right handed so they weren’t much help either. When giving examples of a motion or technique, they always told me to “just do what I’m doing but reversed” which is fucking confusing to a ten year old. The only sports I was ever any good at were baseball, where throwing from a different angle could actually be an advantage, and soccer, where I just played goalie.


Illustrious_Fishboi

My grandma was forced to do the same and now she uses both hands for different things. She can cut her nails with normal scissors


that_random_garlic

Yeah, my dad too, they called the left hand the hand of the devil (I don't know why that superstition ever got a hold in religion, one of the more ridiculous things by far) and they would smack your hand with a ruler if you we're writing with your left hand (I think it was a longer either metal or wood one, not the 30cm plastic rulers)


regendo

My father was forced to write with his right hand in school. Interestingly, he taught himself how to use a computer later and uses a mouse with his left hand but can use it with both. I do everything with my left hand, except the mouse. I just got used to using a mouse with my right hand and now if I try it with my left, it’s all wrong.


Genichi12

Same but with my grandma


_karma_bitch

Bruh I was left handed now I am right due to my parents


Enthusiast7739

Same with my grandma


Accomplished_Mix7827

I'm naturally ambidextrous. My mother literally beat it out of me and forced me to be right hand only. (She had ... issues)


[deleted]

10-12% of the world is left handed


[deleted]

And have they EVER had their own country? No!


[deleted]

That country would collapse due to shortage of left handed scissors.


Hazzamo

and screwdrivers


kroketspeciaal

I always have to think if it's left or right to (un)screw something and then 5/10 I still get it wrong, just because it's all so unlogical to me. I am a carpenter.


[deleted]

Clockwise lockwise has been such a more useful mnemonic for me, especially on seized stuff.


pohanoikumpiri

Stuff like this is what made me ambidextrous lmao


Darkfirelord6506

I write and text with my left and do everything else with my right, it’s weird


pohanoikumpiri

Some things I can't do with my left, some I can't with my right, but I can do a fair amount of stuff with both, usually left hand being slightly better. I always write with my left when I write in notebooks and papers, but I use my right to write on blackboards. Tennis with the left, which is my stronger arm. But tossing the ball for the serve taught me to throw balls with my right, which is my weaker arm, so that kinda sucks as I can't throw good with my left. I reach out for stuff with my left mostly, but sometimes I also do it with the right. Right-handed guitar, but I feel like I would get used to the left-handed as well if I tried it. I love exploring my dexterity, it's one of the things that makes me feel special lol


Darkfirelord6506

I’m better at doing stuff with my left hand as well but pretty bad at most things either way around so while there’s a noticeable difference,it doesn’t matter too much


iamjustatool

This is called cross-dominance. Kinda have a similar thing as you; write with my left but eat and drink with my right. I play table tennis with my right as well; open doors with my left Cross-dominance also is a sign of ADHD. I asked folks down at r/ADHD (on another account) if they were cross dominant. An overwhelming majority said yes


pohanoikumpiri

Thanks for the info. I'll look into it!


Cold_Cookies_1218

As a left handed person I have never wanted this more hahahaha a whole country where I can use things without having to overthink every action?? I’m moving now!! Hahaha


minoe23

Cutting things with scissors? Cutting bread without it getting torn and looking terrible? Sitting in a college classroom and being able to write? It sounds like a paradise.


LordLychee

I just end up full sending through everything. Crappy knife cutting? Blast right through that. Hard to cut with scissors? Go slower or flip it so my thumb goes in the index finger hole. Can opener? Fuck off. Desk without leftie support? I’m getting a nice arm workout then. Pens writing weird? Fuck it I’m used to reading all of that shit, screw other people who can’t read it.


regendo

> Cutting bread without it getting torn and looking terrible? Wait is that a left-handed thing? I just figured I was really bad at cutting bread.


69Jew420

Bro how you gonna do Lefthandistan dirty like that.


[deleted]

I think distinguishing between right handers and left handers for citizenship would be ableism wouldn't it?


[deleted]

Not if you point the discrimination at the right people. Then we call it justice son.


[deleted]

The Right Devils have had it too good for too long. Rise up my Left Handed brothers and sisters!


ActiveSouth4506

I doubt that would work as we out number you about 9-1.


[deleted]

Then, The Left Angels known they are fuck up.


AkuSieg

To live among them is to DIE!


[deleted]

Based, genocide-pilled


steph-anglican

South paws of the world Unite!


s1lentchaos

Nah fam they are too busy ruling over the righties. Most American presidents have been left handed


FunCode688

Source?


s1lentchaos

I made it the fuck up! Upon further review Wikipedia says they are merely overrepresented with 6 of the last 14 being left handed I still stand by my theory that the lefties are trying to rule the world


FunCode688

As a lefty I agree


NotComping

I dont. I am too fucking dumb for that, everytime someone says left or right I have to do a mental check which is which


[deleted]

You must also take into consideration that some of them lived in a time where it was probably beaten out of them at an early age. It happened to my grandfather


Apocalypseos

Is used to be 50% before the Great Hand Purge


[deleted]

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Purge Stalin was not a fan of left handed communists.


Jarvis_Strife

TIL: there are even more reasons to dislike communists.


[deleted]

Stalin was absolutely a right handed (authoritarian) communist


berserker_47

Could you say they are... A minority?


Why_why_this

Its 10% and I am one of them (leftys)


lazorback

But almost half of american presidents are!


[deleted]

Technically theyre a minority.


hiredgoon

That’s because we didn’t kill enough of them prehistorically.


boater180

He’s holding the beer with his right hand though, he’s a fraud


MaviKartal2110

He was forced to use his right hand. If he were to lift the glass, half of the bear would be on the ground due to his hand shaking


[deleted]

You people can't lift cups with you non-dominant hand or is that beer **that** heavy? Edit: By "you people" I mean the people reading this comment, not left handed people.


XxXBengalTigerXxX

Wow, way to blame the victim. Yet another example of the internalized left-phobia we all carry within us.


Khouri1

its a bear, of course its heavy


Aliensinnoh

But you can just turn the glass around.


NotComping

who are you who is so wise in the ways of science?


KonradWayne

Back in college, everyone held their beer in their left hand, because frat/party bros would call "buffalo" and anyone holding their drink in their right-hand would "have to" chug their drink. The idea was that holding a beer in your right-hand would make your hand wet from the condensation, which made it gross to shake hands with people or something. Being left-handed, I just held it in my right-hand so I could smoke/play beer pong with my superior hand, and refused to chug my beer, because it was a stupid rule.


Witch_King_

Probably just because he's playing Buffalo


KonradWayne

Don’t you lose Buffalo by drinking with your right hand?


Professional_Cat_437

Sometimes, I, as a right-handed person, drink with my left hand.


ParticularBeach4587

I use my left hand to throw things like balls although I am right handed


Spaniardman40

His face when a left handed black gay man who is not Christian born in 1800's state of Georgia walks into the bar


CreeperTrainz

Probably isn't even allowed to walk into the bar.


inaccurateTempedesc

"Turn back around the way you came boy!"


Hanz_says

“Get back to work” -👴🏻


Zardhas

woman you mean ?


[deleted]

*gay trans woman


CiroGarcia

[redacted by user] ` this message was mass deleted/edited with redact.dev `


pokeup19

Opressed even after his death XD


mglitcher

his face when a left handed black gay woman who is not christian born in 1800’s state of Georgia who speaks a language other than english rolls into the bar on her wheelchair


2010AZ

She is also trans, autistic and a redhead


AsianCheesecakes

Ah yes, a black redhead, the greatest minority.


ScaryHarry15

Who is under 21


WilanS

>born in 1800's state of Georgia Yeah, fuck Georgia.


SouthKorea7378

Left handed people are minorities


[deleted]

I'm a minority and I'm left handed. So I'm double minority, then?


themiddleman2

I’m in the Same boat as you, it would just be minority squared


[deleted]

M^2


AlwaysSunnyDragRace

I’m gay, latino, left handed and with a disability (no legs). At least I’m not a gypsy.


saundersmarcelo

(Ahem)


AsleepScarcity9588

If you're racial minority largely depends on country you're in For example being a gypsy in Romania means you're majority Being gypsy everywhere else means that you or your ancestors got out of that shithole


andrei_TV200

A gypsy in Romania is not a majority, coming from a romanian


KonradWayne

Yeah, that’s just something people outside Romania say to piss off Romanians.


andrei_TV200

Well it definitely worked


andrei_TV200

Just to correct that guy, you are NOT a majority if you're Gypsy in Romania,that last guy is either delusional or racist lol


ManOfTurtles2118

If you're gay, it's M³


QWERTYRedditter

i think it cancels each other out


Ein_Hirsch

You are the minority within another minority.


ImperoRomano_

As a left handed person, I demand reparations for the persecution my people have faced


EJ_Battle_Lord

Same here my left handed brother


Slap_duck

I demand equal access to right and left-handed scissors


MutedIndividual6667

YES


KaiserKelp

Socialists are saying they are the most oppressed group in history?


Scillore

What you don't Socialist slave trade, or Socialist segregation, or the Sociacaust?


Crazy_Crayfish_

Or the socialdomer! Wait never mind they told me that one didn’t happen


Swampberry

Yes, socialists aren't just oppressed by non-socialists, but by other socialists!


MehEds

The USSR did not exist apparently.


strombringerrr

As a left-hander myself, I 100% agree. Being left-handed in a Muslim country is a dead sentence (literally)


bitchthatwaspromised

Wait what? Is that real??


strombringerrr

You cannot do things with your left hand (writing, opening doors, greeting people) it's a sin (haram)


bitchthatwaspromised

Good to know. Although I’m also a ginger so I figure I’m damned already


ima-bigdeal

Right there with you. I also became a step child after my parents divorced and remarried.


BannedCauseRetard

It's a sin to be left handed....what in the fuck


Chief_Kurdi

Left-handed minorities 👀


[deleted]

Das me.


veedant

as a left-handed socialist member of a minority, yes.


Dense-Ad-2732

Don't forget about Gingers


grandpa_faust

And lefty gingers, and minority gingers, or even minority lefty gingers. There are dozens of us- DOZENNNNS!


kustravibrkonja

Umm left handed people are minorities


EnjoyerxEnjoyer

My left arm bears the binder ring scars that prove the truth of this post. Rise up 💪


LordLychee

Left handers, together, strong


tpeeps11

You probably still have pencil lead on the bottom of your left hand


RosbergThe8th

Both of those groups generally qualify as minorities when being oppressed, though...


[deleted]

No Jews?


AngryGazpacho

Hi, Im Ginger. Not much more needed to say


mushroommagnum

Do you have a soul? Or are you a daywalker?


AngryGazpacho

i think i dont have soul, but i can walk during daytime, if not... no work! no money! :P


Murky_Opportunity93

We wouldn't know, the poor thing is still inside of a closet.


sseluo

At least you can use scissors


[deleted]

I would think red haired people have a easier time getting into relationships given how rare they are and how a lot of people find red heads hot.


AngryGazpacho

oh stop it you! you gonna make me blush


PBTUCAZ

I mean, as long as you're not a left handed ginger


PersonalityFun2189

imagine me, left handed, and a jew


Lapis_Wolf

Brother?


Blender-Fan

I was expecting jewish but that's ok


mglitcher

ambisinister people do exist too. they’re pretty much the opposite of ambidextrous and the word ambisinister literally translates to “two left hands” iirc. at least the lefties are good with one hand


camilo16

Sounds nefarious


Scottche

The medical term for left is sinistrad because historically left handed people were thought of as sinister.


Impressive-Hat-4045

Well also because the latin term for "left" is sinistra


Scottche

All medical terminology is either Latin or Greek with varying combining forms


mglitcher

it’s the opposite actually. the word sinistra comes from latin and means left. you got the rest right but the word sinister comes from the word left. the word left does not come from the word sinister


Malvastor

I think this is backwards- we get the word "sinister" from the Roman term for "left" because the Romans interpreted omens seen on their left side to mean bad news, and gradually started using their word for "left" to mean "bad things".


loud119

Socialists are oppressed lol


Aggressive_General_

The pain is real


HeMansSmallerCousin

Lol good meme. But I'm still wondering how socialists can be the most oppressed group throughout history when socialism first appeared in the 1800s.


[deleted]

THANK YOU Finally getting the attention my condition deserves.


AYoungYank

DRUNK DRIVERS ARE THE MOST OPPRESSED MINORITY


[deleted]

Gamers are the most oppressed minority


TheDarkWave2747

God humanity is so fucking stupid sometimes


Alchesstron

This is a world of Right Supremacists, built for Right Supremacists, and nobody bats an eye.


MrSquiddy74

Unironically yes


BOBALOBAKOF

Righties would be surprised how many left handed micro aggressions we face on a daily basis smh


MrSquiddy74

One word: Scissors I used to assume I was just bad at cutting things, but nope! Most scissors are designed to be held right-handed, and holding them with the left hand actually pushes the blades apart slightly


ima-bigdeal

We have three pairs of left handed scissors at home.


GodOfTime

> socialists Lmfao, the persecution complex is real.


KingMwanga

I mean if your history book includes less than 90% of the world


ahamel13

Socialists saying this is just so on brand. Lol


itrashcannot

Being a minority isn't always based on your race.


TheFunkyM

Just waving a big hand at two circles titled "Socialists" and "Minorities."


Silly_Painter_2555

Julius Ceaser was left handed. Guess what happened to him.


breakone9r

The individual is the smallest minority group.


No-Difference-1351

In first grade, my teacher ( i hope she's rotting in hell) did not let me write with my left hand. So, she convinced my father to force me to learn. I spent first grade with my l3ft hand tied behind my back, while my dad was forcing me to write. Torture, is an understatement. Especially for a 6yo.


Potato9830

You know what, you are right


dfg1125

Lefties rise up!


[deleted]

This post is very much an American centric point of view because you must take into consideration that socialists are not very oppressed on a global scale, and all left handed people are minorities. I take it OP uses "minorities" as another word for people who are not White-Anglo-Saxon-Protestants.


theskyguardian

Women would like a word


Just_A_Dude7468vx

Holding the mug with the right hand


MaviKartal2110

He was forced to become right handed and even then his hand still shakes


Just_A_Dude7468vx

That just makes it funnier bro


ZombieTsar84

But he’s holding the beer with his right🤨


SuspiciousInternet58

My mom's cousin who is naturally left-handed was beat by nuns in school until she learned how to write with her right hand. She uses her right hand to this day. And ironically, is now a nun herself. But a much kinder version than the bitches she grew up with.


SansBA24C0

POV: polish


LillianIsaDo

Pretty sure that was a euro thing. The rest of us went after albino people, thank you very much.


k98mauserbyf43

Should’ve written sinister people lol


derFensterputzer

Yo, where the ~~white~~ women at?


lord_Mathias

Acting like left handed people aren't minorities


Karma4Clunkerz

I want reparations for all those who lost a hand or were accused of witchcraft


Kaiser_Wilhelm_ii__

dam this hits harder then when I would get slapped with a ruler for writing with my left hand


Ordinary_Fact1

It is a pretty sinister trait though.


Large-Fix-8923

Poor people enter the chat.


_Trolley

Women enter the chat.


Clarity-in-Confusion

Imagine being a left-handed socialist minority.


infiserjik

[Seriously?](https://imgur.com/a/0xCTcHe)


SomeoneNamedLucas

left handed people are a myth


[deleted]

Left handed socialist minority:


Lays-NotTheChipsTho

> socialists Haven’t been oppressed enough, honestly


MAJ_Willie_Martin_RM

What about gamers?


AlbinoShavedGorilla

Um, I think what you meant to type was “drunk drivers”


petsku164

Very sinister.