Left Handed Question!!

[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.

[Wompet]

My two favorite coffee mugs:
"Everyone is born right-handed. Only the greatest overcome it."
"Everyone is born left-handed. You become right-handed when you commit your first sin."

I am left handed, the only difference it makes to my kilt wearing is where I put my sgian dubh, when wear it.
I know what you mean about "right" handed people doing things funny.

Same here.

[johnnym]

Been a lefty all my life. It's the rightys that are strange to me.

[bunchdescendant]

I've been a lefty since birth.

A first grade teacher tried to tape a pencil to my right hand but that lasted a few days until the day I wore it home from school. My Mom was P***ED! that teacher was told to never do that again!

My absolute joy in life is to watch right handed people try to use my left handed Fiskars scissors! Now they feel my pain growing up!

True left handed scissors have the upper and lower blades reversed so that you are putting pressure/torque against the cutting edges to make a clean cut. A right handed person is taking the pressure away from the cutting edge, making it harder to even just cut something!

I shoot both right or left depending(Edited to prevent thread from going into the penalty box), I golf(shank/hook/slice) left, waterski left leg forward (if that makes sense?!?) paint the house ambi, shoot/throw balls left (when my shoulder cooperates), play guitar right.

I use both fists to pound on the computer keyboard, however.

Ray

[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.

[The F-H.C.A.G.]

I'm also a leftie. I have always used scissors with my right hand, because growing up we could not afford left handed scissors on the commune. Also, when I was in veterinary school, I basically learned how to do surgery right handed as well (again, could not afford the left handed surgical instruments). So I have a bizzare surgical technique-I do closure and cutting with scissors right handed and everything else left handed. When I sew, I drive the needle left handed, but do all my cutting right handed. I actually cannot use left handed scissors!

Be well,

[pdcorlis]

I'm very impressed - who knew so many of our kilted brothers and sisters are southpaws! My dad is a leftie but unfortunately I wasn't blessed with that trait.

[O'Neille]

Unfortunately, my left hand doesn't know what my right hand is doing. Always had a near sighted right eye after a sandstorm injury when I was a child. Got it lasered about five years ago but I still do all visually loaded tasks as a lefty.