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In 1989 a we undertook a major survey of our customers to determine their degree of left-handedness and allow them to put their views and experiences. From the enormous response to this Survey, it became clear that many left-handers wanted a forum to discuss aspects of left-handedness on a continuing basis.
To meet this need, the Left-Handers Club was formed in 1990. The Left-Handers Club aims to keep members in touch with developments, make their views known to manufacturers and others, provide a help and advice line, to promote research into left-handedness and development of new left-handed items.
Since its formation the Club has gone from strength to strength with members all over the world and is highly regarded as the foremost pressure group and advice centre on all aspects of left-handedness. Most notably, campaigns by the Left-Handers Club have been responsible for:
- The modification of potentially dangerous hand-held power tools by a major manufacturer
- The introduction of left-handed cheque books by all major banks in the U.K.
- The production of the only training video for teachers & parents of left-handed children to show the best way to assist them in attaining the vital basic skills of handwriting, cutting etc. without difficulty or discomfort.
On 13th August 1992 the Club launched International Left-Handers Day, an annual event when left-handers everywhere can celebrate their sinistrality and increase public awareness of the advantages and disadvantages of being left-handed. This event is now celebrated worldwide, and in the U.K. alone there were over 20 regional events to mark the day in 2001- including left-v-right sports matches, a left-handed tea party, pubs using left-handed corkscrews where patrons drank and played pub games with the left hand only, and nationwide “Lefty Zones” where left-handers creativity, adaptability and sporting prowess were celebrated, whilst right-handers were encouraged to try out everyday left-handed objects to see just how awkward it can feel using the wrong equipment!
These events have contributed more than anything else to the general awareness of the difficulties and frustrations left-handers experience in everyday life, and have successfully led to improved product design and greater consideration of our needs by the right-handed majority – although there is still a long way to go!!
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My immediate family are all lefties(my wife and 2 sons aged 10 and 13), we are the only ones in the rest of the family that are left handed.I do everything left handed so I am what is called a dominant left hander. Have tried to do things right handed but they are nowhere near as good as with my left hand particularly writing. So glad this site exists for us lefties , have only just discovered it after all these years.
hello. Im Rainbow. (yes its my REAL name) im a leftie. and im the only one in my immediate family that is. my parents are both right handed. and out of the 5 kids, me being the second oldest, im the only leftie they had. i must say being a left hander in a house of right handed people was awful!! i did everything “backwards” to them. writing my name, reading clocks, braiding hair, everything. it was very frustrating. im 23 now and engaged to a right hander.
but i wanted to say thank you for making a club for us lefties!!
Hi,I’m Yoly,left handed proud to be,but so dificult to do things in the right material world.
Hi! I’m a 14 year-old girl, and actually I think I’m a really weird case…. I write right-handedly but do everything else like eating, throwing (play handball), glue, brush teeth/hair… etc. with my left hand. I actually can write and draw really well with my left hand but prefer my right hand. I really don’t get how this is normal…??? And it is possible I was “changed” when I was younger by my parents from lefty to righty but not sure…??
THANKS
I have a question. I write with my right, but I tend to do all my chores with my left. My handwriting is also quite bad and I believe that it is because I write with my right. My handwriting with my left is also pretty good, but I don’t have the speed.
I read that cobblers measure the left foot because right handers have their left foot bigger and vice versa. I’ve always had the gut feeling that I’m left-handed. So, with your experience, can you say whether I’m left handed or not? In case I’m, how to change?
You would have to do more tests.. i could ask you some questions and get someone to ask them to you and make sure the analyze your eye movement when answering questions. Email me back and i will give you the Qs..
Hi.. M also a left handed.. I remember those day when i was in class 1 my teacher forced me to write from right handed bt i could not..then she scolded me…
Bt i proud to b lefty..
As i came to know about left hand club i join this
A wonderful job. Super helpful informtaoin.
Hello,
I joined this club to help and encourage my 9-year old son who is left-handed. I forced him to use right hand before. But, now I changed my mind and decided to help him.
Good to know this forum.
A right-handed father from Korea
A message back to Tizzy,
South Paw refers to lefthanded boxers.
I also think it must be unusual to be lefthanded and have two left handed children. I read that you thought that they may be lefthanded because you are lefthanded and you did their homework with them. I have two children both their father and I are left handed, I did their homework with them and they are both righthanded.
I am a leftie too. Today only I come to know about left handers club Immidiatley I enrolled and became a member. The interesting part for me is I was born on 13 th August
Wishing you all delayed Happy Left Handers Day!!!!!!
Hi I write by left hand.
I normally prefer my left hand when chat online.
But I play cricket with right hand.
I am a right hand batsman and left arm medium pace bowler.
I tuhhogt finding this would be so arduous but its a breeze!
What an awesome site to have discovered. I had my left hand tied with a ribbon to my chair in my first year at primary school. My father, being a “Molly Dooker”, as is lovingly known by righties in Australia, soon straightened that out. In my family, 3 out of 6 are lefties and proud. What percentage of the world are left dominated?, I love this site. I can’t wait to fill my kitchen with my left user friendly eqipment and watch them “look awkward”. I hated having to remove the paper from my lever arch folder at school, what a real pain in the neck that was, I used to turn the folder around and write towards the arch. My teachers weren’t very happy about it but they never understood unless they were left handed too.
well, I have difficulty with my cash register at work.. I work at Macy’s and the alpha pads are on the right and I have to cross over keyboard with my left hand to enter hundreds of numbers every day. Also, the slot for scanning the barcodes of charge cards runs from right to left and the scanning gun is in the way when I scan it left to right. The locks on the bathroom stall doors go from right to left…Most toilet paper rolls are placed on the right of the seat….I drive as well going in reverse as I do driving forwards…I can write words from right to left almost perfectly….(mirror image)….the dishwasher in my home is on the right of the sink…..difficult to load….calculators geared for rightys. I have adapted to certain tasks merely because right handed people trained me, Examples are ironing, I golf right handed, I hit a ball with my right hand and I use scissors with my right hand. I love this site..OHHH…and one last thing….I got horrible grades in shorthand in high school because the symbols flowed right to left and I smeared my ink and when I made each word it felt jerky and uncomfortable….
editing last post….the shorthand symbols flowed left to right…
IM LEFT FOOTED TOO – GREAT TO SEE THAT WERE BEING CATERED FOR IN A COMMON RIGHT HANDED WORLD.
lol yeah that’s what i said! I hate the right- handed world. Left handers are more peaceful and open minded. Less ciaos in the world we more of us around, lol.
I’m right footed, lol js
Great idea