and they tried to train me to use my right hand
My dad, originally a south paw, started elementary school in 1923 and at that time they beat the left handedness out of him. Every time he tried to write or color he’d get slapped soundly on the left hand with a ruler to gently remind him to use his right hand. With stinging knuckles and through teared up eyes he came to realize the benefits of writing with his right hand but man his handwriting was horrible.
but wish we had a cool slang name like "shacknasty"!
I think the opposite of “Shacknasty” would be “Palaceprudish”. Not quite as cool, save for members of The House of Windsor.
I would be completely left-handed if not for the fact that my parents made me switch to my right hand for writing when I was very young
100% left handed.
My oldest and youngest are lefties. She writes with the pen clenched in her fist. My youngest helps me in the field and runs the gun. Because my back was bothering me the other day, I would let him set up and back sight, and then we would swap for stakeout, only trouble was the motion knobs are then on the "wrong" side of the gun for me.
I am so left handed. I can't even scratch right handed!!
Right handed but can use my left on anything with a numeric keypad. The rest of the time the left hand is like Gus the Fireman, peaceful until the left ear needs scratching or the left nostril needs a search and destroy mission for squatters and any ju-ju b’s leftover from adolescence.
Latin--right-handed = dexter
Root word for dexterity and other positive terms.
Latin--left-handed = sinister
Root word for all sorts of negative terms
See! That year of Latin in high school 53 years ago didn't go totally to waste.
Remember Nixon and the "sinister force" that erased 18.5 minutes of tape? That could truthfully mean the button was pushed with the left hand.
(I think that is historical enough to not be political now.)
Left-handed presidents of the United States
- James A. Garfield (March 4, 1881 – September 19, 1881) was ambidextrous; he was the only known left-handed president prior to the 20th century.
- Herbert Hoover (March 4, 1929 – March 4, 1933) was known to be left-handed.
- Harry S. Truman (April 12, 1945 – January 20, 1953) was left-handed as a child, he wrote with his right hand and used his left for most other activities.
- Gerald Ford (August 9, 1974 – January 20, 1977) was left-handed.
- Ronald Reagan (January 20, 1981 – January 20, 1989) was naturally left-handed but wrote with his right hand.
- George H. W. Bush (January 20, 1989 – January 20, 1993) was left-handed. All three major candidates for president in 1992 were left-handed: Bill Clinton won.
- Bill Clinton (January 20, 1993 – January 20, 2001) is left-handed.
- Barack Obama (January 20, 2009 – January 20, 2017) is left-handed.
The fact that Garfield was apparently the first shacknasty President and that he was assassinated after only five and a half months in office suggests how distrusted lefties were in those days.
I've been lefthanded since I first picked up a spoon. My Grandpa forced my little sister to be righthanded.
I can do most things righthanded, if I want to; except write. I have poor penmanship; using my righthand just makes it worse.
Being Lefthanded was thought to be evil because ancient zealot decided to punish people just because they were different...
The more things change, the more they stay the same.
What’s kind of funny is my lefty handwriting is totally different than the right, wouldn’t know it’s the same person. Probably explains some personality disorders.
https://news.yale.edu/2013/10/31/left-handed-people-more-likely-have-mental-disorders-schizophrenia
Looks like there is potential that it isn't the same person! Oh, no. Just kidding you.
I'm not a psychiatrist (although I might need one). But, I always wonder how well they have controlled these type of research articles. Seems like which hand you use would be much less of a matter than how you were treated as a child. Perhaps a left handed child faces more criticism or is ostracized more than a right handed one and develops issues from that.
One of my sisters was a lefty and she was very good with artistic things. Supposed to be a trait of left-handedness.
So Mt. Rushmore may not be representative in this regard.
Appears not to be, but 8 of 45 men who served a president wereshacknasty, bordering upwards of 18% of the POTUS’s (Grover Cleveland served two non consecutive terms, POTUS #22 and #24, hence the 46th prez is the 45th man)
Many years ago I read that the custom of shaking hands began as a means to signify that you were not holding a weapon in your attack hand. Shields were traditionally to be worn on the left arm with the weapon to be used in the right hand. A lefty, reversing the situation, forced the enemy to alter his standard attack.
I'm left handed too, in most everything. This topic has come up a few times on this site.
I agree that we're over-represented in the surveying profession. It's weird, though, because we're usually associated with artistic, non-math related fields.
And those who've mentioned hockey, it's usually opposite. Leftys usually shoot righty, and rightys shoot lefty. But I do shoot lefty, so I'm a righty in hockey
