Do you think that your ability has anything to do with your handedness? You know, you hear about people who "can't go left (or right)" and then there is the real avantages that lefties have in lots of sports. It is an interesting thought.
Its MOLLYGRUBBER I was called it everywhere I lived in Australia since I was 7 years old. Its definately that way in New South Wales a large state of Australia. Also in the Australian Capital Territory. THATS FACT in those two major areas. I lived in lots of different places in New South Wales so the whole state called it that.
Love Christine
Well I have just managed to join this group after many attempts over time without actually getting my name to stick, but now I have suceeded. I am not only a Leftie, but also moderately dyslexic. Although both hampered me through much of my school life, I didnt fare too badly due to one very understanding teacher during my last year at the place. Dyslexia had not been "discovered" way back then... you were just thick and/or disruptive!!!!
Now where I come from (Notting Hill, London; born & raised) we are classed as "Cack Handers"....
In most British works of reference, the direct association with cack is from the Old English term "excrement or dung". Cachus was Old English for a privy (crude inside closet or toilet), and both of these words derive from Latin cacare, to defecate.
It is thought to derive from the very ancient tradition, which has developed among peoples who were mainly right-handed, that one reserved the left hand for cleaning oneself after defecating and used the right hand for all other purposes. At various times throughout history, this has been known in most cultures, with some considering it rude even to be given something using the left hand. So to be left-handed was to use the cack hand or be CACK-HANDED.
There can be found similar terms in other languages, i.e. the French "main de merde" for somebody awkward or butter-fingered (polite versions..
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..and welcome to the group. Looks like I'm your next door neighbour. I live down the road in Kensal Rise.
Sorry, but it had to be said.
Do you suffer from word dyslexia (as in reading), number dyslexia, spatial, verbal...
I am slightly dyslexic with numbers, I hopeless spatially, and sometimes can't think of a word even when I can see the object and describe it.
I believe in the Middle East, the left hand is still the only acceptable one for "sanitary" use.
Anyone know statistics on dyslexia/left-handedness?
Peace & blessings,
Marge
Hi Martin, my best friend is a dyslexic leftie. You had difficulties joining? How strange...
...oops, sorry. I thought you lived in Scotland. 
I was wondering why you asked me how to make haggis, lol. Don't worry, I'm not offended, the Scots are a great race of people.
Anyone could join, as long as the jokes are made with a wink and a nod.
When I visited Ireland, I was given a profound complement. After I made a "smart remark" to the bus driver at the Waterford Factory, he told me: You don't need to kiss the Blarney Stone. Kiss me instead!"
Peace & blessings,
Marge
PS: I'm still looking into where my ancestors came from in Ireland. Kenney, Kelly, Howard, Conner (or maybe O'Conner), there are probably more too.
My husband found "his" Coakleys. We haven't looked for the Farleys yet.
My dyslexia is just with reading the written word and spelling..... catching a ball was a problem too, but I think that is called dyspraxia
To overcome reading, I use a thick cardboard 'mask' with a long horizontal slit cut into it, and that just gives me one line at a time to digest. Reading that way gives me almost zero problems.
Spelling must purely be a mental block, because most large words present little problem for me, but common short ones are a constant nightmare; and I have a miriad of these short ones typed out and affixed around my screen here. Things like... 'very'... I can never remember if it has one or two 'Rs', and I must check every time I use it! A lot of it is self doubt, and of course, the more I think about a word, the greater my confusion.
It was a great downer for me a school until in my final year (15 to 16) when a fantastic teacher helped me and set me right about so many things..... and later, at Uni, a very helpful tape recorder (by permission) meant I could take my notes etc., at my own speed after the sessions.
As for L/H dyslexics... there four adult dyslexics that I know living quite near me, and all are lefties, so I would think that there must be a strong link somewhere.
Opps, guess I missed it, it's at the bottom of the list, guess I should put on my glasses,,LOL,
Thanks for the informationa, Clive
No I can't cut with my left either... but my leftie friend and I keep having competitions to see who can use both hands at the same time and get the best results (I win all the time)
This is how we entertain ourselves in maths lessons. Does anyone here have MSN messenger?
Boss
Mr. President
Your Majesty
Extremely Talented Artist
It is just too bad so many people can't learn how to use their "GOOD HAND."
Ah Nepoleon was a leftie... can't go spreading that around...
Did you know that Hitler was a vegetarian?
There have been lots of American Presidents that are/were left handed. In fact, even though we are only 10% or 11% of the population, it is something like 40% of US Presidents have been left handed. I think the current one is a rigthy.
for sharing the thing about hammers. You've just saved me! I ALWAYS bend nails, and my Dad never could figure out why. We all just thought that I was a bit uncoordinated when it came to that, but your explanation makes SO much more sense!
Hammers.... oh that's good; I thought I was just the worst in tech class. Oh, on the proportion of lefties topic, I counted the lefties in lots of my classes:
registration: 3/30 (10%)
art: 8/16 (50%)
latin: 7/16 (44%)
drama: 8/30 (27%)
child development: 1/16 (6%)
Those were the only ones I found interesting... because art is the creative subject (lefties are obviously very creative); latin is the most difficult subject (I got the highest in the year in the exam - not boasting - much) so lefties are very intelligent; drama is another creative one; child development is a bimbo subject and I was the only leftie stupid enough to choose it (accounting for the 6%) - so lefties are not bimbos. Besides me.
Poohy on them .They are just jealous because lefties are so cool.
Light&Laughter,Rhia
I am left handed
My 2 sons are left handed
I am an Aries, I am Irish (born in Texas) ... basically this is a true right handed left minded world!!!
Dixie
I have a translation to the swedish one in the list. Vänsterhand simply means lefthanded. Not any rudeness there.
I read somewhere some while ago that in the U.S there are something like 1000 (or was it 100.. can't remember) lefthanded people dying per year in work because all the equipment which is designed for the right-handed. Do you know if it really is so? Sounds kind of scary...
"It has been discovered that the left-handed minority are not all that sick and declined(?) people"
- Finnish neuropsychologist Niilo Maki in 1944. 
(this is a free translation from Finnish, you can find the original from my page billboard)
I'm left-handed, and I'm not afraid to let everybody know it!
hi all!
I'm a lefty and I always had been horrible at English and Math in school always D,E's. I never knew why I was lousy at the time I just thought I was stupid! anyway I figured out that I'm deslexic with numbers and I read ok but my spelling is nasty even simple words somtimes are bad. Too bad they don't test for learning disabilities in school I could have been an "A" student since my other subjects were high grades and I liked learning them because I felt like I was smart. Who know's what I could have achieved If I was taught diffently, the way the specialists teach deslexics to see right. If any of you have kids that aren't doing too good in a subject be an angel and get them tested !! don't let them feel stupid!!
Hello all you "South Paws"...
My name is Fran and I am 30 and from Ct. I am a very proud leftie..I always had a hard time in school. All of the seating arrangements left me banging elbows with my neighbor until middle/high school where we had individual desks.
I could NEVER use the leftie scissors. The teacher said I was a leftie and I needed to practice. I went home crying because my little art projects came out funny and had ragged edges. I told my dad my problem and he bought me my own pair of scissors that I used all the time. Till this day I can't use those darned green handled scissors.
I always did good in English, reading, art, social studies, psychology classes. Not math though. To this day I can't do the complicated math.
I eat with my left but cut with my right. In certain things the right is dominant. I use left more than right. I guess it evens it self out.
I used to play tennis and my idols were left handed players. I did not know at the time they were lefties. John McEnroe, Jimmy Connors, Stephi Graff. I thought it was kinda cool when I found out they were lefties.
I used to get a catalogue for left handed items/gifts. Alot of pretty cool stuff in there.
Glad to meet you all...
Peace, love, happiness
When you use your left hand or do more things with your left hand that works the right side of your brain which is the sensitive,feeling side. So that means left-handed people should be nice. But does left handed mean "mostly" everything is done with the left hand? I write with my left hand,but throw balls and hold the cooking pans with my right hand,.It doesn't matter which handed-ness we are. Am I considered "partial left handed?"then?
