idk I was curious if anyone else is left handed, how has sailing the water of life been? uhhh I am! it felt unfair when we would shove our desks in a big U shape to make room in our public school classrooms. instruments are more expensive because less demand for left handed guitars ect. learning to tie your shoes from a right handed person is still a weird memory. I learned to use most right handed things with the proper hand! for example. I use a mouse with the right, and so from that drawing with a mouse in the right feels way more comphy than left. but I draw left handed. I hold most sporting equipment right ( I'm not a big fan of sports. But I do enjoy the physical part of sports. oh! but I throw a ball left handed, catch with my right.
something I've felt when throwing knives, sometimes I like to spin the knife in my right hand. because theres a sensory feeling that im trying to explain.... when I flick one in the air with L theres a firm muscle memory where I dont need to really think about catching it. it just happens. But when I do it with my right, theres a.. theres a buffering period in between the milliseconds like my brain has to go through this whole process of ok its going to do this so we need x ammount of more energy into eye sight compared to the left hand, but its not in a language or it is the language of feeling idk im yapping.what was I talking about? ( i scrolled up to remind myself) looking forward to hearing your stories :3
I'm not left handed but my sibling is. They alternate mouse hand between work and home to reduce strain. Games expect right hand on the mouse, but normal computer use is quite agnostic if the mouse itself symmetric.
It seems to me many left handers end up training to become ambidextrous because of the inconvenient world they're forced into.
Fellow Southpaw reporting in! If memory serves, rarely did anyone teaching me something think I would need to handle things differently, meaning I would have to figure out any adjustments as needed. The only two things that I can remember really bugging me: everything I wrote getting smudged since I would rest my hand along what I just wrote, and scissors with grips made to be held with a right hand never sat right in my hand. For the most part, I just accepted things as they were. I did always feel a little bummed on the arm rests on single unit desks were basically useless for me though. Otherwise, I never did too much that required super specialized equipment, though I just noticed that all of my current cutting implements have ambidextrous grips, so yay for that being more available. Pretty much everything that needs fine motor control falls to the southpaw. Otherwise, I also use my mouse with my right hand and will do vector work with it. If I want the quick movement of sketching, I'll switch to my left hand and drawing tablet. I think the few times I've shot a rifle have also been right handed (right hand on grip and trigger, left on foregrip.) but I've noticed I'll default to the left when doing VR shooting games. Otherwise, it's always just been a banal little fact of life for me.
woa. this got my noggin joggin... let me yap lemme cook
So the left hands motor functions are mainly operated by the right hemisphere of the brain.. and vice versa with the left brain. Does being left handed allow certain things to be easier? 
typing intensifies
A larger or better-connected corpus callosum (the bridge between hemispheres), allowing faster information transfer.
More balanced hemispheric use, which can enhance integration of diverse inputs.
Interactive/Time-Pressured Sports:
Left-handers are overrepresented in elite levels of sports like baseball, tennis, boxing, cricket, table tennis, and fencing. Reasons include:The "surprise factor": Right-handed opponents (the majority) are less practiced against left-handed styles.
Faster reaction times and better processing of rapid, multi-directional stimuli due to enhanced hemispheric crossover.
Studies show this advantage is stronger in one-on-one, high-pressure interactive sports but not in non-interactive ones (e.g., swimming or gymnastics).
Quicker multitasking or handling complex stimuli (e.g., gaming or high-volume info processing).
Better episodic memory (recalling events) in some studies tied to family left-handedness.
No strong evidence for overall higher intelligence—IQ differences are negligible.
These advantages are statistical trends, not guarantees—individual variation is huge.
Left-handers may face disadvantages elsewhere, like slightly higher risks for certain conditions (e.g., schizophrenia) or adapting to a right-handed world.
Myths like "lefties are inherently more creative/intelligent" or strictly "right-brained" are oversimplified and debunked by modern neuroscience
Leonardo da Vinci (1452–1519): Renaissance polymath, artist (Mona Lisa, The Last Supper), inventor, and scientist. His mirror writing and sketch directions confirm left-handedness.
Marie Curie (1867–1934): Pioneering physicist and chemist; first woman to win a Nobel Prize (twice)—for discovering radioactivity elements.
Nikola Tesla (1856–1943): Visionary inventor and engineer; revolutionized electricity with alternating current (AC) systems.
Alan Turing (1912–1954): Father of computer science and AI; cracked Enَلigma code in WWII.
Bill Gates (1955–): Co-founder of Microsoft; tech innovator and philanthropist.
Barack Obama (1961–): 44th U.S. President; known for eloquent leadership and policy reforms.
( full transparency im using grok to learn. I don't have grammar this proper ) :3c
OK so i dont know how to type it without making it sound bad but here we go aniway XD.
i am originally left handed and when i started to go to my rural school with old as hell teachers as a kid my teachers did NOT like it, because it wasn’t the “correct way”
, so they would bitch about it to me every day because it was “the wrong hand”, there was another kid who was also left handed and they bitched to him too every day, and as a around 5-6 year old while i clearly was more intelligent than average because i am that smart 
, i didn’t have enough “will for in-dependency of ideas”
so while the other kid didn’t give a fuck since he didn’t like to be told what to do, he kept being left handed and we actually became friendly-ish, while i eventually “became” right handed and i literally forgot i was originally left handed and all of the mentioned about the teachers bitching too.
my writing was total shit always and nobody knew how or why and no matter how much it was practiced my right hand always sucked at writing and it became a universal law that i just typed like shit because “skill issue”.
when i was 13-14 or something like that i fell downstairs on my school and ended up with a cast on my right arm, so because i was way too fuking bored and my phone ran out of battery i tried to play some PC game (i dont remember witch) with my left hand, and i was like “wait a fuking minute arent i supposed to suck?” so after discovering this and making some questions i ended up remembering everything after thinking about it for 2 days and when i woke up in the morning i was like “aint no way bro”
and after just some weeks of randomly writing with my left, while i wrote slower people COULD ACTUALLY READ WHAT I WROTE WITHOUT HAVING TO WRITE EVERYTHING IN CAPS LIKE A FUKING IDIOT.
so i ended up becoming ambidextrous, i still use my right hand to mouse and left to keyboard not because i am the most comfortable with it, but because i have 9 years of non stop gaming mechanical memory with it, and while i can use the left with the mouse i have right now since is “mostly” symmetric, i cant use the right with my keyboard because it aint symmetric.
so while i have been leaving it for “later” the last 2 years i want to eventually have a keyboard and a mouse that a are mirrored so i can play left handed without having to rebuild all my hard coded mechanical memory.