which hand and which foot?
06-21-2011, 11:48 AM
#71
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Originally Posted by writerwomen
I am a true born lefty. However, knowing things are right handed my maother against all odds taught me to cut with right handed scissors- can't even use left. I sew like I drive- with the left foot. I do a lot of applique and my left hand is the dominate for fine turns while the right is occupied with controls. I am very confortable doing most things in a right handed world but there are some things that rub the wrong way. my huusband is a righty and we often run into conflict in the way we set things up etc.
06-21-2011, 12:06 PM
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Like redkimba, pstoner, et al, I too am a leftie who uses the right foot to depress the pedal. Since this is a "right-handed" world we all had to learn to adapt. I cut and iron right-handed too, although after a car crash 40 years ago I learned to brake with my left foot and find it so much easier than lifting the right foot off the gas to find the brake.
06-21-2011, 12:38 PM
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I'm a lefty that was never made to use my right hand and I am very thankful for that. I find that I have some advantages because calculators are made for the right handed person, but I can write with my left hand and use the calculator with my right. I never thought about desks or spiral notebooks being made for a right handed person...I just did my work. The only thing I wish my mother had done is buy me a pair of left handed scissors when I learned to sew. I was 30 years old before I bought a pair for myself and oh what a difference it made! My hand didn't hurt and I didn't have deep grooves in my hand from using right handed scissors. I actually find left handed people to be more "polite" with their elbows because we have been dodging elbows all our lives! :D
I taught both of my left handed children to use right handed scissors, Dad said it would help them later in life; he was a lefty too.
Originally Posted by purplefiend
Originally Posted by writerwomen
I am a true born lefty. However, knowing things are right handed my maother against all odds taught me to cut with right handed scissors- can't even use left. I sew like I drive- with the left foot. I do a lot of applique and my left hand is the dominate for fine turns while the right is occupied with controls. I am very confortable doing most things in a right handed world but there are some things that rub the wrong way. my huusband is a righty and we often run into conflict in the way we set things up etc.
06-21-2011, 01:32 PM
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Originally Posted by toomanycats
yes suzee, my brother has told me that all my life! he is also amadexerous (close on the spelling?)and switches in the middle of a letter. He had started out left handed in school and the grade school teacher said it was wrong and used to whack him across the nuckles with a ruler to make him write with his right hand. (this was in the early 50's.) she didn't do that anymore after dad went up there and set her straight.
I am also ambidextrous but I use my right foot on the pedal. I think cause that's the way I learned. Also have a knee lift so it is easier. Have to try the left to see how it feels.
06-21-2011, 01:40 PM
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I feel that I have a left-handed mind in a right-handed body. Surely makes for poor coordination, though each hand has its particular work. Sometimes the whole world seems backwards; paper-piecing is very difficult, much as I like it. My mother wouldn't let me use my left hand to eat or anything else, so I was changed before going to school. NEVER try to change a child--common knowledge now, but not 80+ years ago!
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