Happy Left-Handed Day, Southpaws!

Same here. My daughter and I are the only lefties. Her father was too. In the second grade, right after my grandfather's funeral my grandmother told me I got my left handedness from him and I accepted that and believed it for years even tho I was fully aware the man was my fathers step dad. LOL. I think I just loved him so much I wanted it to be true.

Another leftie here and I'm the only one in my immediate and extended family.  I do almost a everything with my left except write.  I went to Catholic school as a child and those nuns were adamant about using your right hand to write.  I crochet with my left but I knit like a right handed person.  I also paint and color with my right hand. 

I'm virtually the same as you lindas - I blame those nuns for my dreadful handwriting
I married a southpaw

Leftie here! The only things I really NEED to use only my left hand for are eating with utensils and writing. When I was 7 and wanted to play baseball my Dad refused to buy a leftie glove for a girl who in his mind was probably only going to lose interest a few weeks into the season. Little did he know I would play Baseball and then softball up through high school and beyond. I was even an All-Star pitcher for my LL team. I can bat and throw leftie a little bit, but the rightie became more natural after time. I think like many lefties I've learned to adapt, but always hated spiral notebooks and every cubicle/desk I've ever worked in had to be arranged the opposite of how it's been set up. Oh, and how about always sitting at the table in certain places so you're not bumping elbows with the person next to you.

My kids and DH are righties. I have 1 nephew that is a lefty too.

Another leftie checking in.  

I do almost everything left handed.  I do use a mouse and key/number pad with my right hand.  When I first started at a bank many years ago in the check processing department our encoding machines were all for right handed people.  I had to adapt, it took me some time but I got good (and fast) and still use my right for computers, adding machines, etc.

People at work always know when I have checked something off because my check marks go the opposite way from everyone else's.  So no being able to deny that it was me that did it if it is wrong. 

ETA:  My mom hates to watch me use scissors (we craft/make cards together quite a bit) she says that I look so awkward.  

I also have a hard time tying my shoes so that they stay tied.  A friend watched me one day and said it is because I do it so that everything twists in weird ways.  I can triple knot my laces and they will still come untied.

What is it with scissors?! My oldest DD is another lefty who used scissors with her right hand. Oddly, I am a righty who uses scissors with my left hand! Sometimes I think she just rebelled and did everything opposite from me!

Another lefty here! My dad was lefty but the teachers smacked his hand with a ruler and made him change. He was in school back in the 30s so that was typical back then I guess/I hear.

My son is lefty also.

I do just about everything with my left except I do also use the right hand for the mouse and for the phone because I am often holding/writing with my left hand during that time. Oh I also putt mini golf with my right, ha ha. But that's the only sport I do right handed. 

I was never able to play softball/baseball because I throw with my left but then also was wanting to catch with my left and couldn't figure a way to do either of them with my right.

My dad is left handed and my brother technically is but my dad made him switch - then when I came along I guess he gave up! I write with my left hand and use utensils and answer the phone. Everything else is right handed including using scissors, the mouse, can openers, sports...

I had three dds and the oldest is a lefty. She is a tire lefty and uses her left hand for everything. Took me quite a while to figure out why she absolutely could t use a can opener!!!! Haha

Sorry had to add, that right handed people hate to fold sheets with me. I fold and turn in opposite directions. However I stand my ground and don't give in. Usually that is not the case and I need to conform to the way of the majority. If they want me to help fold sheets you turn and fold my way...hahaha.

It really is amazing how things are geared for right handed people. I have a hard time Opening water bottles that have a flip top, when I try to pull the little security tab/strip it is always the wrong way and it breaks it so that it doesn't pull off.

Ohhh the woes We lefties have. ;

I'm a leftie. The only right handed thing I do is run a computer mouse (rest of the family were all righties so I had to learn their set up) Beyond that I have a right hand to look like everyone else. Surprisingly, alsmost half of my office are lefties. When we go out to lunch together there is the right hander's side of the table and the left hander's side of the table.

My maternal grandma is a leftie that was forced to switch, my mom is a lefie as am I. Non of my kids were lefties (even with my sister in law being a leftie) I've got two grandkids that are lefties.

Interesting tangent: Some Deaf people have trouble "reading" a left-handed sign language interpreter.

More interesting, it doesn't matter what side dominance the reader has; it's just what their brain has gotten used to seeing.

Oh I can't use a side cutting can opener. Only the top kind. I have awkward hand position when using it.
My brain never figured out how to adapt to it.
Not sure why. I keep one around for opening tuna cans.
My husband usually ends up doing it for me because he says it looks painful the face I make trying to use it.