I have a few left-handed friends, and it always surprised me how hard it can be to find a mouse or scissors suited for them
Scissors I get but I and many other left handed people I know just use their mouse with their right hand.
Indeed, but it must be quite annoying.
I imagine having to use my mouse with my left hand, would be really weird, not just because I’m not used to it, but because this is not my main hand.
I grew up using it like that. So it’s not weird at all.
You also don’t feel weird using cutlery in both hands, do you?
I learned to do some basic things like that with my left hand after developing chronic tendinitis in my right. Brushing my teeth or eating, for example. It’d be surprisingly easy if it was just moving the cursor, but it’s so ingrained that the index finger does the main clicking and the middle finger the secondary key that I couldn’t get used to it.
Been in IT for over 20-years and have never seen anyone using a mouse on the left.
I once mentioned to a left handed friend that I should really own my leftyness by learning to use a mouse with my left hand. She pointed out that by using our right hand we can also use our left hand to write notes at the same time, which is basically a superpower. That had never occurred to me before.
I’m left-handed but I use my right hand for mousing and cutting. That’s never been a problem for me.
On the other hand, (ha) I actually only use my left hand to write and to eat. For nearly everything else I use my right.
EDIT: apparently I discovered this morning I also use my left hand to shave.
I do things very similar! Write, eat, pull open doors and drawers with my left. However I grab and carry, use scissors, wipe, use a mouse, and brush my teeth with my right. Anything else is literally either hand.
This is actually called mixed-handed and I find it to be so much more useful rather than restricting myself to one handed living - I can scroll using a mouse wheel with my right as I take handwritten notes with my left. Once you start to see your ability as not being restricted by your hand choice I think you may find this fact about yourself to be super cool and unique as well as highly useful!
When will the ambidextrous have their day?
I’m right handed, but eat left handed.
25% of the US astronauts were lefthanded.
Most lefties are at least somewhat cross-dominant and/or ambidextrous. Unclear whether that’s biologically or societally caused.
For me, I use a mouse and scissors right-handed. I also bat right handed (whether in cricket or baseball). Same with golf.
It’s adaptation. Most things aren’t made for left handed people so you’re forced to learn how to do things with your right hand. I do everything with my right hand except eat and write
I use my mouse/trackball with my wrong hand, trackpad I use with either, I shoot a bow and a gun wrong handed (bow because there were only righty bows when I learned, and a gun due to an eye injury injury and I had to relearn).
My parents were very supportive of my left handiness, my father even going as far as learning stuff lefty to teach me.
I golf right handed, bat either (but prefer left), pitch either (but prefer left becauxe I only had the one glove lol), scissors gotta do right handed or the pressure is wrong for cutting it seems like. When I eat I use both hands, not the cave man stab, cut, and switch hands for fork.
Not sure how it happens, but youre right, I do feel like I have decent mastery over both of my hands. My brother is a lefty also, but he’s an obligate lefty so I’m not sure it’s biological. I bet someone has written a paper on it.
scissors gotta do right handed or the pressure is wrong for cutting it seems like
Yeah that’s exactly it. Your hands don’t actually cut by pressing totally up and down. There’s a slight lateral motion which, when using scissors in the hand they’re designed for, pushes the blades away from each other where you’re holding them, which has the effect of pushing them into each other on the other side of the pivot point.
When I eat I use both hands
Eating right-handed means the knife is in the right hand, fork in the left.
Outside of knife-and-fork eating, the spoon goes in the dominant hand, unless doing the spoon + chopsticks you get with some noodle soups, in which case chopsticks are in the dominant hand and spoon in the secondary hand.
scissors gotta do right handed or the pressure is wrong for cutting it seems like.
And that is why there are left handed scissors.
Only problem is I can only buy a case of 72 and no more!
In actuality though, the scissors I use most are my beard scissors and now I’m not sure I could do it with lefties.
