Left Handed Question!!

[Gaisgeil]

I'm a lefty as well! I still wear my sgian dubh on my right side though as a matter of tradition, not like I'm likely to need to draw the thing overly fast anyway.

Lefties generally have a greater propensity for being somewhat ambidextrous in that we live in a right handed world. If you think of how many things are set up that way it makes a lot of sense. I can do a lot of things right handed, but do them better left handed. I'm also a drummer, so that helps me in particular.

I don't have good vision out of my left eye though, so I shoot right-handed and oddly enough I'm a right handed shot in hockey, can't shoot left handed to save my life for some reason.

[turpin]

I echo McClef's sentiment, but run with scissors in my left hand.

Try using most scissors. They're made to be used by righties. About 25% of people are lefties, and that is the same percentage as lefties in my children.

If the right side of the brain controls the left side of the body, then only left-handed people are in their right minds.

[ccga3359]

Try using most scissors. They're made to be used by righties. About 25% of people are lefties, and that is the same percentage as lefties in my children.

If the right side of the brain controls the left side of the body, then only left-handed people are in their right minds.

I thought it were closer to 10% lefty, 90% normal.

[Gaisgeil]

I thought it were closer to 10% lefty, 90% normal.

The generally accepted number is between 8-15% of the population. The rest of you are trite conformists.

Has anyone else ever heard the term "Ciotóg" before? It's Irish Gaelic for 'strange person' but in everyday use it usually meant someone who is left handed. I thought that pretty appropriate for this forum.

[Richland]

Yup. I'm left handed but play hockey and golf righty. Probably because those were the only sticks/clubs available when i was a lad. Bat righty (extension of the golf motion.) But in all else very lefty. (Right brained Scientist go figure) Was thinking about how this will effect playing the pipes? Might take them up this year.

[Gaisgeil]

Was thinking about how this will effect playing the pipes? Might take them up this year.

On the pipes it will really depend. You CAN play left handed, but you'll be heavily lobbied to just play right handed. That's been the case with all the lefties I know who play.

In highland snare drumming being a lefty is a bit of an advantage, the left hand plays with a particularly unnatural motion that right handed players have a hard time with but lefties pick up easier because of it being their main hand. Right hand technique is a lot more natural in either case.

[Dreadbelly]

Nothing left in my right brain, nothing right in my left brain.

[Dreadbelly]

I read something several months back that applies to this topic, but it might be a bit controversial. Well, maybe not, but it is all very interesting. People on LSD tend to become left handed, except left handed people, which tend to become right handed while experiencing the effects of the drug. Prolonged use of LSD seemed to awake the experience of ambidexterity in many people, but the full cause of how or why has not yet been explained. The same effect has been found with certain types of magic mushrooms as well, though it is interesting to note that not all types of magical mushrooms seem to cause this odd behaviour.

The human body is absolutely amazing in its complexity and how it works.

[TJP33928]

I read something several months back that applies to this topic, but it might be a bit controversial. Well, maybe not, but it is all very interesting. People on LSD tend to become left handed, except left handed people, which tend to become right handed while experiencing the effects of the drug. Prolonged use of LSD seemed to awake the experience of ambidexterity in many people, but the full cause of how or why has not yet been explained. The same effect has been found with certain types of magic mushrooms as well, though it is interesting to note that not all types of magical mushrooms seem to cause this odd behaviour.

The human body is absolutely amazing in its complexity and how it works.

That's Trippy Dread!
Here's to us Lefty's, The Surgeon General has found that 4 out of 5 Kilties are Left handed.

Tim

[KiltedCodeWarrior]

A leftie here, with ambidextrous tendencies due to societies dictates!

Can do most thing with my right hand after 40+ years of "education". Although that makes me pretty much hand independent at this point. I guess that's a good thing.