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For some reason, I have a lot of left-handed friends and they tell me my writing looks like a leftie's, but right-handed folks can also write backhand. My brothers and I, all right handed, learned Palmer Method - I could and still can write like straight out of a penmanship book, but always had to struggle to keep my letters from slanting left, finally just gave in as a teen and started writing in a slightly eccentric backhand (told it's pretty and legible), my oldest brother also has backhanded writing, while the other brother always wrote just beautifully with a 'correct' right slant (as did my Mom). Not sure what that says about our brains...

~Cheryl

 

I never can understand how some lefties write holding their pens upside down, I find it fascinating to watch them.

Only approximately 10% of the world are left handed too, amazing that

Sorry all.... we went off topic a bit

 

I got a magnifier app for my iPhone. It takes pictures. I find it very helpful when trying to read something small, blurred or missing parts. I take a picture then expand it on my phone. This may help substitute for your missing macro It costs $1.99 for the version with a light.

 

There were very few things in life my mom felt confident enough about to hold firm, but education was one.

Before I was old enough for school, she would hand items to my right hand -- I immediately switched the item to my left hand. Every time.

That was good enough for her.

 

I don't know why, but even as I typed that I had a feeling you were, Maybe because of your ability to see handwriting with a different slant.

I'm terminally right-handed, left-brained & a bit embarrassed about it.

 

Glad to see he's not Gorgge anymore.

 

My dad was a leftie but was forced to learn to write with his right hand and did so all his life though was left handed for everything else. Apparently he had a stuttering problem as a young person and we always wondered if the forced right-handed thing had something to do with it.

I'm a rightie but write with a back slant, one of my daughter's is left-handed as is her son. Maybe it's genetic and skipped me

 

Thank you, I have an iPhone so I'll check that out.

 

Our brains are wired differently to those of righties

 

It certainly would have had some effect on him

You wouldn't know from my writing that I'm a leftie, no slant.

 

Just waking this up in case there is any more info

 

My brother was left handed. The Catholic schools we all attended forced him to use his right, and he too ended up with a stutter. Later, the connection between using his right hand and the stutter was diagnosed, and his stutter gradually subsided when he started using his left hand to write.

 

My sister is left handed, so us two girls are lefties and the three boys righties, parents righties, it's a fascinating subject.
My sister had a stutter too, I didn't connect it with that though, now I wonder.

 

Let me say that this theory has been subsequently rejected because it was based on anecdotal research. I have mixed emotions about attending Catholic schools, so my statements are colored by this fact. Though I received a superb education, the rigid behavioral models, especially for girls, was stifling. I think it played a role, because it got better but maybe it would have gotten better because his brain function matured.

 

Bit of a coincidence though isn't it that that's three stutterers identified, all lefties just in this thread alone.

 

Hi,
My MIL and FIL are left handed, four of their children are left handed only one is right handed. I used to think that left handed people were mirror twins when the right handed ones did not develop. My one cousin had two sets of twins, the boys in both sets were left handed, the girls were right handed.
greg

 

Hi Greg,
So interesting isn't....
There is an online site called the Left Handers Club, a lot of fascinating facts in there.

 

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Hi,
I used to get a catalogue from the Left Handed store. It was amazing what it contained. My favorite was a left handed frying pan, it was exactly like a regular pan except it had the pouring lip on the right not on the left.
greg