Problems with being left handed?

[silver minion]

My sister in law is left handed and she struggled with right handed scissors. Her mother (right handed) tried to teach her to knit, even using a mirror to "reverse" the action but she found it very confusing and gave up.

 

[Chris Hobson]

My late Mum was left handed and used to knit all the time. I don't know if she did it the opposite way around though, I think that she just knitted normally.

 

[SB2015]

My sister in law is left handed and she struggled with right handed scissors. Her mother (right handed) tried to teach her to knit, even using a mirror to "reverse" the action but she found it very confusing and gave up.

A friend wanted to learn to crochet, but found the videos etc did not work as they were all right handed ones. She managed to find a LH teacher locally, and is now creating wonderful things. I am not sure how knitting works. I suspect a mirror can be useful for learning from a RHander

 

[everydayupsanddowns]

I’m left handed, but right footed, so my brain must cross-over somewhere in the middle.

I found scissors annoying to use with my left hand, so used them with my right. I think I’d feel quite clumsy and uncoordinated if anyone gave me a pair of LH scissors to try now!

When I started playing guitar in the early 1990s there were very few left-handed models available, so I started to teach myself right-handed. It sort of made sense to me because a lot of the more intricate work in beginner playing happens with the left hand, and the additional strength made barre chords easier.

I’ve heard some suggest that learning on a LH guitar helps later when playing becomes more advanced - which may explain a lot!

 

[Lisa65]

This left hander managed grade 8 guitar playing the right handed way, I had to give up shortly after that though, because of recurring synovitis in my wrist which made playing painful. I haven't touched a guitar in about thirty years, sadly.

 

[grovesy]

My late Mum was left handed and used to knit all the time. I don't know if she did it the opposite way around though, I think that she just knitted normally.

I can knit but if I remember right if my mum had to take over she had to think because I did differnt.

 

[trophywench]

Knitting was one of the things we were asked to do in Junior school - 'knit a scarf' was The Plan because most lads that age at that time wanted 'a football scarf' hence theirs were usually navy blue and white ones and in fact I learned whereas my mom and big sister both right handed like me, because my desk partner at that time was a lad called Peter Short, who was left handed so he just sat a bit sideways on the double desk bench facing me so I could just copy him! He knew to do that cos his own right handed parents had taught him to do all sorts of things by doing that very thing so simply assumed it would work OK the other way about. It did!

 

[Sally71]

My daughter and I were having a discussion about whether she’s ambidextrous or ambisinistrous. Ambidextrous means “both right”, ambisinistrous means “both left”, and someone who is ambisinistrous has both hands equivalent to a right-handed person’s left hand. She is quite clumsy and not always terribly dexterous so thinks she’s probably ambisinistrous; however, in the summer after she took her GCSEs she took it upon herself to teach herself to crochet, and is currently making a blanket for her cousin’s new baby. I think that if she had both her hands as clumsy as my left, I doubt she’d be able to do anything like crochet! I am very right handed and can’t do much with my left at all other than simple stuff! She however can use both equally so she’s definitely ambi- something 🙄