Poll of the Day > I am 23 and left handed, and I just got my first pair of lefty scissors.

(+) Yeah! (+)

Praise be to Amazon for having all the things that none of the small stores around here do!
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I can't believe you're a year younger than me.
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I can't believe it's not butter

EclairReturns posted...

I can't believe you're a year younger than me.

Why not? I'm sure you believe other things that are less plausible. Or maybe you don't. I don't know you.

SkynyrdRocker posted...

I can't believe it's not butter

I've been conned! I was told it is butter!
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Im 24 and left handed and never used a pair of lefty scissors in my life
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This topic makes me feel old.
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Ambidextrous master race.
Whichever hand is closest is the hand that does it. Handwriting is atrocious with either.

I'm 25 and left-handed, and I actively rejected left-handed scissors in school because I preferred right-handed scissors in my left.
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Muscles posted...

Im 24 and left handed and never used a pair of lefty scissors in my life

Have you ever cut something with your left hand? Maybe it's worth getting a pair. I don't know yet because I haven't had anything to use them on yet.

wwinterj25 posted...

This topic makes me feel old.

It's OK. You're young at heart.

Questionmarktarius posted...

Ambidextrous master race.
Whichever hand is closest is the hand that does it. Handwriting is atrocious with either.

I'm weird and inconsistent. I call myself a lefty because my left hand is less shaky and has more control which often causes me to default to it.

Some activities I do with whichever is closest. Others things favor one hand or the other. But more commonly, I'll default to doing something left handed. I write with my left. I played guitar with my right. I throw with my right. I use mobile devices with whatever hand picked it up until that hand gets tired. I eat with my left. And I switch a lot when doing me stuff.

Kyuubi4269 posted...

I'm 25 and left-handed, and I actively rejected left-handed scissors in school because I preferred right-handed scissors in my left.

Why? The actual design of them makes it more difficult to cut with scissors that aren't made for that hand? Just holding something normally, your thumb instinctually pulls inwards. With a left hand using right-handed scissors, it pulls the blades apart so that paper can just slip right between them.
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Mario_VS_DK posted...

And I switch a lot when doing me stuff.

I think that's pretty common for a good amount of people, if that's what I think it is...
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Mario_VS_DK posted...

Why? The actual design of them makes it more difficult to cut with scissors that aren't made for that hand? Just holding something normally, your thumb instinctually pulls inwards. With a left hand using right-handed scissors, it pulls the blades apart so that paper can just slip right between them.

Press with your index finger, pull with your thumb and have the thumb loop press in to your knuckle, viola it's held together securely! Also, when you have a choice of 10 red safety scissors, or 1 or 2 green and yellow scissors, it's more tempting to choose the more ubiquitous, better looking pair.
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LinkPizza posted...

I think that's pretty common for a good amount of people, if that's what I think it is...

Yeah, I wouldn't be surprised. It's just an example that I brought up because I felt it was kind of funny though. And also because I just can't think of many activities off the top of my head that requires only one hand.

Kyuubi4269 posted...

Press with your index finger, pull with your thumb and have the thumb loop press in to your knuckle, viola it's held together securely! Also, when you have a choice of 10 red safety scissors, or 1 or 2 green and yellow scissors, it's more tempting to choose the more ubiquitous, better looking pair.

I can't seem to quite figure out what you mean. Every position I try using your description, things just don't line up right and it feels uncomfortable.
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Mario_VS_DK posted...

I write with my left. I played guitar with my right. I throw with my right. I use mobile devices with whatever hand picked it up until that hand gets tired. I eat with

I eat and drink almost exclusively left-handed for some reason, especially so when alcohol is involved.
Yet, I cook right-handed. I dunno.

Mario_VS_DK posted...

I can't seem to quite figure out what you mean. Every position I try using your description, things just don't line up right and it feels uncomfortable.

"right" is subjective, I grew up handling right handed scissors in my left so that feels natural to me.
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Questionmarktarius posted...

I eat and drink almost exclusively left-handed for some reason, especially so when alcohol is involved.
Yet, I cook right-handed. I dunno.

I normally drink with my right. I alternate when cooking. Left hand normally stirs and right hand normally picks things out of the oven though.

Kyuubi4269 posted...

"right" is subjective, I grew up handling right handed scissors in my left so that feels natural to me.

Yeah, I suppose that's true. I still can't seem to get things to line up in any way resembling "right" though. If the thumb loop is against my knuckle, my I can't get my index on anything.
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Mario_VS_DK posted...

Praise be to Amazon for having all the things that none of the small stores around here do!

If only somebody had told him about the Leftporium...

Questionmarktarius posted...

Ambidextrous master race.
Whichever hand is closest is the hand that does it. Handwriting is atrocious with either.

Then how can you be sure that you're ambidextrous?
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Zeus posted...

Then how can you be sure that you're ambidextrous?

Both hands are awful?

Mario_VS_DK posted...

If the thumb loop is against my knuckle, my I can't get my index on anything.

Why? Like, I can't comprehend how that would be an issue unless your hand was in a firework accident.
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Questionmarktarius posted...

Zeus posted...

Then how can you be sure that you're ambidextrous?

Both hands are awful?

That's undextrous.
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I am supposedly lefty, and I possess a wonderful hand writing in the left hand, and a terrible one in the right.

....... and then, most other tasks I pull with the right as default. Not even sure what's the deal with that.
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Kyuubi4269 posted...

That's undextrous.

That's not a real word.
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i have used lefty scissors in my right hand, it's not that hard
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Zeus posted...

If only somebody had told him about the Leftporium...

The Simpsons?

Kyuubi4269 posted...

Why? Like, I can't comprehend how that would be an issue unless your hand was in a firework accident.

https://imgur.com/RvgSe76

I can wrap it around, but if I'm pushing on it like that, it's pushing the blades apart. If I'm not wrapping it around, it's just sticking straight out. (That's a pair of righty scissors by the way.)

x_Kalecgos_ posted...

I am supposedly lefty, and I possess a wonderful hand writing in the left hand, and a terrible one in the right.

....... and then, most other tasks I pull with the right as default. Not even sure what's the deal with that.

Could be that you're left-handed, but no one realized and just taught you to do everything right-handed. Maybe? I don't know.

Krazy_Kirby posted...

i have used lefty scissors in my right hand, it's not that hard

Could be that they're new or unused enough that the blades still press against each other naturally. I can use a new pair of righty scissors with my left hand, but an old pair and not thick enough material and it just ends up bending between the blades.
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^
it was elementary school, they certainly weren't new
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Mario_VS_DK posted...

Could be that you're left-handed, but no one realized and just taught you to do everything right-handed. Maybe? I don't know.

You know this actually might be it. I remember Mother telling me that they tried to put the coloring pen in my right hand when I was young, but they just let nature take its course.

Then it was that most things I had to handle are designed for right hand, like mechanical saws having their handle on the right side, and scissors of course among other tools. I found that very easy to handle, despite never shedding off left hand writing.

You might be onto something.
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