Seriously. I am left handed and 40 years old and just learned this from the video, just something I never thought about before , that is mildly depressing, ha.
*writing notes* Person: Oh! You're left handed? *drawing in art class* Teacher:Oh!you're left handed? *playing tennis* Coach:Oh!You're left handed? This legit happens!!
Going through school, I always took notice of how many fellow lefties there were. High school was the normal percentage. College was about 20-25%. Graduate school was 35-45%. Either lefties were more determined, or plain smarter. I actually had one class in grad school with 8 students. 4 righties, 4 lefties, and the teacher was a leftie! We outnumbered them 5-4. They had to use our scissors.
True story, in med school we had a module where we had to practice doing a digital rectal exam on a (well paid) instructor. There were 3 of us in the room, he asked if there were any lefties. All 3 of us raised our hands. He said in his 20+ years of his job he'd never seen that.
But we got each other. My music teacher was left handed. She always shouted out all of her left handers. Heck I just thought of this I rest more on my left and raise my hand more. My mom was supposed to be left handed but my grandma teached her to use her right hand. BUT... my dad is fully left handed.
I’m a lefty, who has adapted to the point of being ambidextrous. The main thing I had issues with was trying to learn to crochet! As a lefty, the righty patterns were upside down and backwards. When I caved and tried it right handed, my brain couldn’t compute. 🤷🏻♀️
Oh wow your entire comment is exactly me! And I remember my Nana teaching me how to crochet. She had so much trouble trying to figure out how to show me how, and I struggled to mimic her backwards 😅 My great-grandma gave me lessons too and we had the same difficulties! But we were all patient and I finally learned. It's been so long since I last crocheted that I would probably have to learn all over again. I'm also just finding out that the decals on the mugs lol.
My mom wouldn’t teach me to crochet because I am a lefty. I got a ball of her yarn, a hook, and a pattern and taught myself in 9th grade. I learned how to adapt patterns and I have designed my own afghans. I can’t crochet anymore because of my damaged nerves in my arm. I found a pattern for an American flag. You had to run over 20 balls of yarn to make the star section. The first time I made it I had to adapt the stitches so the flag would be correct. I made about 8 of these for raffles for the children’s hospital over time. The first one I made sold over $800 in tickets. I think that’s cool. 😎 ❤
My mum was ambidextrous back in her day at school they made her write with her right hand, had to laugh when they write a hundred times I must not talk in class she would use both hands an be done in half the time 😅
Left handed: Hey, can I use a pencil? Right handler: sure *hands pencil* Left Hander: Thanks *starts writing* Right hander: Whoa, your left handed? Left Handed: -pls help- yea, why
Okay but im ambidextrous. And so i ask for a pencil and start writing with my right hand, and then ill switch to my left hand because my right got tired ( it gets tired easily i use left for writing more ) and they'll be like *surprised pikachu face*
Right-handed mouses are the best part of being left-handed. It’s so handy to be able to write and use a mouse at the same time. I also taught myself to write in mirror image once during detention. I’ve been able to do it ever since, almost as fast as I can write normally.
The mug one is a daily struggle in the winter. I have all these awesome designs and no one but myself can see them. If I want to show I physically need to put it down and turn it
I love it when they say it multiple times. Me: writing at work. Him: I didn't know you were left handed. Me: yeah, you didn't know the last 3 times you've watched me write but that's cool, huh.
Growing up in a right handed world as a lefty brings challenges that we learn to work out by using our brains and eventually we become ambidextrous, and have the ability to use both sides of our brains and body equally well. We end up having an advantage over 90% of the population.
It' all about perspective. I still could be a right hand. And just graphically it looks better to have the flat sort of create a book-ended flat-edges.
I don’t do the pen smudging I write with my left hand and hold the pen as a right handed person would . My left handiness is monumental left handed in every mortal thing
There were no lefty scissors when I was a kid. Cutting paper in school was so painful. I didn't know why the other kids could do it without pain. 😕 It was years later that I realized I was holding the opposite side of the scissors that had a sharp edge!
Well if you like that then, this'll blow your mind... Observe them and you will see that she is always on the left, and he will always be on the right side... Of EVERYTHING, The table, bed, couch, everything really.
@@agustinasanchez7443 lol I'm left handed to I get what you're saying and I'm also a bts army. Its awesome that I found a bts army who's left handed :)
My grandmother (born 1908) was left handed and she had a left-handed iron! They make irons now with the cord at the back, making them useful for either left or right handed people. But they used to make irons with the electrical cord coming out the right side, but the left-handed iron had the cord coming out the left side.
When I was in primary school, my teachers said that "the left hand is the hand of Satan" and they thought I was somewhat possessed. Don't think me eating other children alive was related though.
@@danielignacio57 Can really really relate to what you are saying Daniel, I'm Australian and started school in the 50s. I was told I the child of the devil, was forced to stand at black board with my left hand my back and use my right hand. Was slapped with a ruler every time I went to use my left hand for a week. Proud to say I am still a lefty
There’s some “explanation” for people to think that. Left hand is often associated with satanism and dark magic in the west, hence the phrase “left hand path”. That’s why many ignorant people forced lefties to adapt onto the norm. I was fortunate to have born in a recent time, because this belief is less prevalent.
I just pull a Michael Angelo Batio and I play with my right on a left hander or my left on a right hander, or I just pull a Jimi Hendrex and switch the strings to make a right a left or a left a right lmao. But yes, the pain is real xP
Recently I took up guitar lessons, but the website I bought the guitar on never said it was designed for right handed people. Biggest waste of two weeks AND money I ever went through
Wow, I'm left - handed and I play my classical guitar as a right - handed since I was 10 years old, let my tell you that is totally possible IDK but the same happen to me with my skateboard 😅😅😅
I'm a 70 yo lefty, I've spent a lifetime in a rhed world, but I'm glad ! It taught me to be more adaptable, to think outside the box, which in turn has helped me in the workplace to be more valuable to my employers. I get a kick out of watching many righties using only that hand, as if the left didn't exist . When I've trained people I'll ask which hand they use, if they reply "right" , I watch carefully to see if they use their left and if they don't I'll ask if they know they have 2 hands and proceed to make them use both. I've trained lots of people and when I need to train them on a different job they are now using both. Lol, my moment in the sun. We lefties my not be brighter but we are certainly more adaptable ! Hugs ' n love 🤗🥰❤️
You are absolutely correct on all of these. I have experienced them since childhood. Thanks for pointing out the "smudging" that happens when we write (that was a real pain until I adjusted my hand to be lifted from the paper or turned my hand higher up.) Great to see a beautiful and truly left handed person talking about this. You Rock Brooke!
Actually you can see measurements lines on these and glasses more precisely when you keep it turned away from you~ that's what we did when I worked as a waitress...in that moment I had an advantage for once 😂
Cool Unicorn. I can relate 50% Me: *writes with left hand* Person: WOAHHHHH YOU’RE LEFT HANDED???? WHATTTT??? Me: No. Person: OH. Me: I can pretend to be left handed. Person: Wdym Me: *Starts writing with right hand* I’m ambidextrous
Ikr peeps make the biggest deal out of it. When i was younger i was more of and introvert then an extrovert and when some boy saw me write her was like, "omg a leftie"and inside my head im screaming for him to shut it before i cut my left hand off😭😂 anyway he told the whole class and everyone was like omg she left handed!! And im also thinking what's the big deal and i some sorta alien like dude!!!
Learning and forcing yourself to master the use of most right handed people’s items can be emotionally draining and a huge Herculean task. It has made me to be more detailed and impeccable with so many tasks along the way though … We Lefties, are great learners with huge improvisation and innovative minds👏🏽👏🏽❤️
One thing that definitely bothers me and wasn't mentioned: Pens that are attached to a string at offices and stuff. When you're supposed to give your signature and you can barely get the pen over to the other side 😅
Out of the 13 things you mention I had ever problems only with writing (and smeared hand). I first saw scissors for right or left handers when I was grown up. I used "neutral" scissors when I was young. The left or right handed desk is also something that I meet very rarely in my country. The writing on a mug or scale on meassuring cup is really something that I wouldn't notice if you didn't mention it. With jeans, you are not right, I'm afraid. Traditionally, men's trousers and shirts had zippers and buttons accessible from the right side, while women's trousers and shirts had the zippers and buttons open to the other side. Jeans were workmen trousers and that's perhaps the reason why they have men's zipper. I had to learn using can opener for right handers, as well as computer mouse. And I think that I am more skillful than right handed people thanks to it. I remember that holding musical instruments like a right hander was a problem for me when I was young, but nowadays it seems natural to me. The only tool that is not made for left handers and that I really miss is a chainsaw. :-)
Me: *writes something Friend: Oh you're left handed! Me: Yes ;-; Friend: Do you know I have a friend that has a cousin, and his cousin has a neighbour, and his neighbour has a daughter that has a friend that his left handed! Cool right!? Me: I don't even know who your cousin is...
Very good! You will live long and prosper. That is the beauty of adversity. Take it from someone with ambidextrous but poor dexterity, Mild ADHD/OCD (undiagnosed), reading/writing disorder who did become a physician. It can be done!!!!
From what I'm told, I was born left-handed and made to use my right hand when I was starting to write. During my school years, I was told a number of times that the way I held a pencil was weird. I'm still not sure what they meant. I knew another guy who supposedly wrote similarly with his right-hand, and he told me that he was technically left-handed. I wonder if our pencil-holding has to do with the switch.
YES, and then you cant put your hand on the side so you have to write with your hand awkwardly of the whiteboard and then everyone asks ARE YOU LEFT HANDED and your like yeah wtf is the big deal
I am right handed and can write with my left, although it is a lot slower or messier.....I can't do it both tidy and fast lol (only one). I can also do things like eat, brush teeth, throw, use phone and various other things with my left. I have always opened bottles and lids with my left (no idea why) In Cricket I bowl with my left, but throw with my right (even though I can throw with my left, but not as well).
I'm a lefty :D And someday in junior school, there was a girl who is her right hand is broken she tried to write with her left and then another girl screamed "mA'aM sHe Is wRiTiNg wHiT hEr LeFt 😱" like, wtf?
I annoy my sister(right handed) by giving her my left handed coffee mug, (she gets mad cuz she has to turn the mug around, like i do) then i say "NOW YOU KNOW HOW I FEEL"
i know exactly what you mean i have encountered all kinds of mean things for 52 years, my kindergarten teacher kept slapping my hand and tried to change me over because long ago it was considered an abomination to be left handed. i came home ond day and mom sat my lunch plate in front of me and i was confused at to what hand to use. so my mom questioned me and i told her, so the next morning mom took me to school and told the teacher that if i ever was touched in a bad way for being left handed. that mom was going to come back to the school and whip the teacher for touching me she told them i was born left handed and iam going to stay left handed. After that i was never made to change or was never smacked for using my left hand.
My grandmother told my Mom to tie my left hand behind my back. My Mother in turn said she'd raise her children in her own way. My left hand was never tied behind my back.
My 24 year old daughter is a lefty and you have provided a lot of information that I wish I knew when she was young. Wow, I’m going to look for items that are designed specifically for lefty’s. Thanks for sharing. I just found you today and have enjoyed the three videos that I’ve watched of yours. You are easy on the ears, lovely disposition and funny! Keep it up 👍🏼 😊
When my parents wanted to teach me how to write, they failed to make an example because they showed it to me with their right hand. So my grandma had to teach me how to write, since she's the only other left handed one.
Me: *starts writing with my left hand Person sitting next to me: woah your left handed! My cousins friend brother uncle kids friend is left handed Me: WTH
All of this is so true. I found this video because I was trying to figure out apple notes as a lefty and almost forgot that I’ve had to adapt my whole life
The scissor one was hard for me when I was younger with the paper always crimping instead of cutting. Never gave much thought about the ice cream scoop one, but now that I think about it it explain why I get ice cream on myself a lot. But everything else I adapted to.
The Creapers same here me and my niece are the only left 🖐 handers in a family full of right handers . I did hear a fact that if your mother is over 35 when you’re born the likelihood of you being a leftie goes up my sis was 36 when she had my second niece and my mum was 40 so I think that goes to proving this !
Most annoying question in the world: “How can you write like that?” .............................................. HOW TF DO YOU EXPECT ME TO ANSWER THAT????? HOW DO YOU WRITE WITH THE RIGHT HAND?!!!????!
Every left handed person I know, AKA me and mother (I'm a lonely left hander), has nicer hand writing than a right handed person. Literally. EVERY SINGLE RIGHT HANDED PERSON I KNOW HAS WORSE HAND THAN ME. (I am so bad at typing.. I said "has worse hand than me". Am I crazy? Oh god, I need grammarly XD)
Many things I do only with my left hand, many things I do only with my right hand, and most things I can do with either hand. One story that comes to mind was building a room with a right handed friend. When I came to a corner, I just switched the hammer to the other hand. He seemed dumb founded. I surprised some people when I annotated a diagram, from the other side of the table, printing upside down and backward for them.
Or the classic "yo cool ur ambidextrous" or the "nah bro ur lieing ur right handed ur just faking it" because aparently left handed people dont exist in some peoples worlds (thoes are two legit responses ive gotten from 2 different people when they found out im a lefty)
My mother had been a teacher. She knew the scarcity of those scissors. So from the beginning, she taught me to use a right-handed scissors. Forever thankful for that.
I HEAR BROTHER! IM ALSO LEFT HANDED! And I managed to purchase a hand tool? An ELECTRIC "HAND SAW" But for "RIGHT" Handers! I did see the same saw for LEFT Handers but it cost MORE! Can you believe that, for LEFT HANDED! I Have used it I just need to "place" myself in a different position! In order to use the saw! I WILL BUY another saw! And will make sure it's THE RI...Oops 🤭😁 LEFT HANDED ONE!
I found ONE advantage to being a lefty when it came to writing. When learning to write cursive, the letters were supposed to slant to the right. For us lefties, that slant was natural...but the paper was smeared with pencil lead and the side of my hand was black. I was always marked down for neatness.
Righty-“So you’re left handed?” Lefty- “Right” R- “Oh you’re right handed” L-“No, left handed” R-“So why did you say right” L-“Cos you’re right” R-“I know i am right but you’re left handed” L-“Right” R-“Wait, so you’re right handed?” L“Nope” R-“Ok so left handed it is” L-“Right” R-“stop it!”
Its awkward how right can mean three things in the three languages I speak Right ( opposite of left ) Right ( opposite of duty) Right (opposite of wrong) And sometimes it means straight when u say right in front of u In french and Arabic too 😂
my 1st grade teacher in 1969 bent my hand back and beat it when i would try to write left-handed - I must have protested cause it didn't work, i'm still left-handed
I was ambidextrous at school and got into that much trouble for writing with both hands and trained to use only my right hand that I cant write with my left hand anymore . Seems backwards they should of encouraged it imo but oh well lol. That punishment you got was bang out of order wow wth glad it's not allowed anymore sorry that happened to you ❤
My daughter is left handed. I try my best to find things that are designed for lefties. I’ve given her scissors, notebooks, and other left handed things. I feel for her.
I am 55 years old and left-handed. I cannot use scissors in my right hand. I also cannot use left-handed scissors. I learned how to use right-handed scissors with my left hand, and it always causes pain, discomfort and tiredness with my left thumb. When it comes to online gaming, as of right now, I cannot play most of them because it requires a right-handed mouse and left-handed keyboard. I cannot use a mouse with my right hand.
I know the feeling and i just write whith my left and not got good eye sight and been put down most of my life has some idios dont get and most leftys ar verey cleaver not saying i am i know there more understanding of it now but still not enough,shame on them,
The reason left handed people are smarter is that they have to adapt to a right handed world. This boasts creativity and adaptability. Some struggle is good for people 😉
@@muffinmonster2634 it's a nice complement but when you hear it ten 10,000 times a day it gets kind of annoying. And if you're not a leftie you don't even understand so stop being a jerk
Actually, I remember my 5th grade class in elementary school there were about 20 or 25 students including me in my particular room. I don't know why, but we probably had about 30 left handed scissors, and I was the only lefty in the room, so I had almost all the scissors sitting on my desk. Watching with amusement as all the rightys struggled to cut papers. I also remember struggling to learn to tie my shoes as a kid. My mom was getting extremely frustrated cause I was making my loop on the left side, and from her perspective it looked wrong, so she kept getting on me about doing it wrong. Then, she happened to be on the phone with my grandmother, who was the only other lefty in the family, and happened to mention the difficulty she was having in teaching me to tie my shoes. My grandmother told my mom to have me practice by tieing my moms shoes instead of my own. I was doing it right the whole time, but mom didn't realize what was going on until the perspective was switched and then she understood why it looked wrong to her when I tied my own shoes.
Shanica Iradukunda ikr I’m left handed too. Even one of my friends that I’ve known for a year said “OMG YOU’RE LEFT HANDED I DIDN’T KNOW THAT!!” I’m like “I’ve know you for a year you should know this by now.” 😂😂😂
SugarBellyFunLife I use my right hand for the mouse, if i try to use my left hand for the mouse it feels weird because I've already gotten used to doing that with my right hand
I really got confused. out of the billion people in the world to find someone 100% LEFT HANDED PERSON would use a mouse on left hand side. But please someone tell me why left handers use right hand to control the mouse they aren't ambidexterous though.
Thanks for making a video that is not full of all the usual myths and nonsense about being left-handed. Just some real world issues, some of which I recognise and others I hadn't thought about and a couple I don't recognise because I'm British. The worst examples for me are many power tools, some are positively dangerous for me to try to operate, but many everyday items (lots of electrical stuff) are awkward to use.
My school handing out scissors: * gives me right-handed* me: I’m left handed. My mind:AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
