It just so happens I’m not the only Lefty in my family; I have 2 uncles, and two brothers whom
are also left-handed. I was adopted to a family of 1 sister and six brothers. (TOO many brothers, if you ask me!) None of us are related to one another. Each of us came from seperate biological parents.

Sitting down at dinner can be quite a hassle. “Ow, Kimi, your elbow is hitting me! -”Well excuse me, I say back with a tiny dose of sarcasm. Or sometimes,”Hey David, stop swiping my glass!”-No, you sit at the left, no the other left!!” And so on and so forth….

David, my younger lefty brother, can bat a ball clear out of the park! (Let’s hope he doesn’t hit down a jet in the sky!) Just kiddin’. Oh yeah, be careful whenever he throws a football- you might get K.O.ed.)

I used to train in Martial Arts. My instructor was very excited when I started. He told me out of the many students he had, only ONE other was left handed like me. He said I’d make a great sparring partner. That made me feel kinda’ special inside. However, I never really got the chance to learn how to spar because the rest of my brothers were in boyscouts and football. And my sister lived far away.

I got to Green Belt and decided to move on to other things in my life. Fortunately, I am going to start again soon. Then, I will finally find out what it is like to spar with Righties!

My older lefty brother, Jere, is very gifted in arts and crafts, (basing this opinion on how we
as “South-Paws” are naturally extraordinary at excelling in the creative process in an area of the
brain.) -according to Sigmund Freud, a well known researcher in the study of pshycology and other sciences.

I read this information in a book called,”Left Hand Turn around the World, everything
about South-Pawed.” I came across this book at Barnes and Noble at the Inland Empire Center in Redlands,CA.

You should check it out, it has lots of interesting and out-of-this-world facts! The author of this book is also left handed and talks a little about his own life growing up left handed and how he adapted to the world of right handers. He enjoys traveling the world, seeking out the quality and benefits of anything…-and everything, south pawed.

-Kimi 6/15/2011

I think that it is nice to have the ability to see Art and Music, to have better Language Arts, and to know emotions that are happy and sad. It is beautiful to have a mind right brain sided, with some left brain sided.

I am left handed and was in the first year (1965) that the school did not force lefties to use their right hand. Instead I was marked down for S, E and B being written backwards, even though it was obvious what the words were. my 2′s and 5′s were a bit universal as well. I don’t remember having any difficulty or predjudice later on in school.

Now, thought its not so much a novelty for people I still get comments like “oh, your left handed” in a tone of voice that you would use when you discovered that a 44 year old has her belly button pierced. Or being given a pen in my right hand when I need to sign anything. That does annoy me so I fish out my left handed pen to use.

I watched the video on scissors and its so true. before LH sissors we had to use RH sicssors, and had to adapt to using them. Now we have LH sissors we have to adapt to them as well. being a leftie is about adapting, not fitting in but adapting. I am a dress and curtain maker and have given up with sissors altogether as some fabrics are so thick it hurts my hand. Many fabrics blunt scissors quickly as well (linen and cotton, wool). I now use a very sharp craft knife and board.

I often do christening gowns with family names embroidered on the under dress. I print the names off the computer in an artistic font. I stick this upside down on the window with the tracing paper on top and trace over this. It is infinately easier to draw the curves of the letter this way than the normal way. I then place the tracing paper on the dress where I want the text and sew over this. When finished I rip the paper off.