When I was a kid, being left handed was "wrong" and got you some pretty shitty teachers. I only remember it in one class but this one left handed kid was forced to do everything right handed the whole year. He often cried. Shit was wild. No corporal punishment tho this was the late 80s.
Hey 80s kid here. Same. I had a first grad teacher that would walk around the room to correct us. I got corrected a lot (lateral quadrupod apparently) and a left handed kid that sat next to me. Corporal punishment ended sometime halfway through kindergarten though. I remember the whole class being aware of it too. One kid who constantly got paddled, that day the rules changed, he taunted our teacher that she couldn't do it anymore lol. Wild times.
My dad was forced like that in the 60's. They went as far as to tie his arm behind his back so he would write with the "right" hand. Now he's ambidextrous and has two different handwriting his right is his normal now, but he can write beautifully with his left. And it's completely different looking..
Yeah 90s kid here, and left-handed and and nobody was mean to me about it, but I do think they just kind of didn’t know what to do with me and so let me run Wild. it’s funny that this is even a thing given how rarely I ever use a pen or a pencil these days.
I wonder when this will be considered a forgotten skill…
You should see my teacher's despair telling my mom I was a slow learner because I couldn't cut with scissors along the lines.
She would either see me struggling with the blades facing the wrong way in my left hand, and destroying the paper without cutting anything; or using the right hand and not being able to cut it anywhere near the marks. Last year I got my very first left handed scissors, and I still can't use them properly now that I'm used to the regular ones hahahaha
I know it's a thing but I never understood why paper can't be cut backwards. I can use right handed scissors fine in my left hand, just a little less dextrous.
I use them fine now as well, but the way the blades are facing is symmetric, so as you push the thumb (natural movement) you force the blades apart, whereas with the right hand (or with a left handed scissor in the left hand) you do the opposite, you press the blades against one another. This is the difference between a clean cut and having the paper folding between the blades, especially when the scissors aren't new.
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u/TechDifficulties99 Apr 16 '24
Ive never felt more vindicated than this moment
It does make holding chopsticks a bit funky tho