I'm right handed but play cards left handed. Not that good right enough. 

Well i arent a leftie Skylark, but I will be interested to hear from peeps who are

I'm ambidextrous so I have the best of both worlds 

I'm right handed and can't use my left for toffee, my daughters ambidextrous and uses both hands for everything except writing 

Cack handed

*runs*

Mr Yogi is left-handed and he seems to cope okay with most things.

He did have to buy leftie golf clubs.

Right handed, both my sons are left handed though.

It was murder teaching them to tie their shoelaces!

I have a friend who's left handed and she knits loads. She has to read the patterns backwards though

I am nearly at the end of my tether....and i will tell you why.
I work bloody hard, have 2 kids and one grandaughter...i try so hard to keep my son from getting into trouble, he is 17. He started a job today, had the induction day today. They give him trials of the work tools he would have to work with. He said, on 2 or 3 of the tools, after being told to deal with it, that he found them the "other way round" , which of course is right for him. The guy who was doing the induction just dismissed him, as tho he was stupid. My son came in tonight, just exhausted.I am furious to say the least

Skylark, what kind of tools did he have problems with?

I am wondering if there is somewhere he could get left-handed versions.

He has gone out now, after talking to his pals, dont think he is going back  He is not one happy bunny, He was giving me names of the tools..but he was so mad, i couldnt pick the names up...

Tell him not to let an insensitive, unhelpful toad put him off. There must be some others who are left-handed, get him to ask around and find out how they cope.

If by which hand I use to write, then I am right handed, but I do many other things more comfortably with my left hand, so technically I suppose I am right handed.

One of the biggest building companies in Scotland, and a left handed person, they cant deal with???? I despair, i really do    Put that on Twitter , yes i may name and shame..

Awww Skylark  How narrow minded of the guy!!! There must be hundreds of thousands of left handed people (both my son and grandson are left-handed).  I am not surprised you are angry and upset, but quite frankly it's the person doing the induction that has the problem... not your son

Im left handed and I do everything left handed.

I cant say I've ever noticed it being a right handed world, I guess we just adapt and get used to how things are.

That sucks Skylark. It's horrible when people upset your kids.

Try the anything left handed site and see if they have any links or ideas to help you. The only other thing is to go above the guys head and complain but that might make it really hard for your son.

Good luck

His nibbs is left handed and he uses reg tools. The only thing he can't use is the spud peeler, well he does but I can't watch him peeling them as he peels towards him and not away freaks me out.

Sister is left handed too and I can't think of anything she uses that's special for left handed persons.

I right handed use the potato peeler and peel towards me too.  People that peel away freak me out as the peelings go everywhere 

Nooo peel away not towards and in the sink so the peel goes into the sink, gather up and throw in brown bin. I always knew you were strange.

ERMMMM.....NO peel towards you and on to paper towel, then put in the brown bin.  This is why you are strange 

I peel towards me too.

See see using a paper towel, think of the trees.

As a left-hander, I've never has that much difficulty, but I've always tried to "fit-in" to a right-handed world whenever possible. I knew a lot of kids at school who switched their knives and forks round at dinner, and one or two colleagues who switched their computer mouse to left-hand mode, but I've always tried to use my right whenever "convention" dictates. The one big exception was writing, but then my generation had the advantage of not having to use fountain pens: my Aunt wasn't so lucky and was forced to use her right hand. She has some real horror stories about that...

Much of my work and hobbies aren't too badly affected though: I've known some people who have had bad experiences similar to Skylark's son, however. One I particularly remember was a friend's brother who took up guitar lessons. His teacher couldn't cope with him being "the other way round", and treated him as if he was just being awkward.

Having said that, there are a surprising number of things things which are designed for right-hand use, and I often find that friends and colleagues are shocked when I point it out to them. I've mentioned computer mice (I always use mine right-handed as it leaves my left free to write, but I sometimes have to change the button reaction times as my right forefinger isn't as fast as my left), traditional landline telephones (they're designed to be held in the left hand, leaving the right free to write), scissors (ask your son if he has to use any cutting tools, Skylark) and of course potato-peelers as others have pointed-out! (My mum eventually got fed up and bought me an either-handed peeler! )

Skylark: I would suggest that your son has a quiet word with his instructor (or someone-else more sympathetic if necessary) ASAP, and ask if he can have left-handed tools, or else have the existing tools changed for left-hand use (as per computer mice). Most decent companies should be able to cope, but it's probably not a good idea to let it lie too long...

i think you're both just saying that so you won't to peel veg in my house.

Sorry for the hi jack Skylark.

Me too 

Ooooooh is that an official invite to the house of moonbeams?

One of my brother's is right handed, I am too and mam and dad were also. Other brother is only left handed one in the family. He learnt to adapt and could manage most things     But someone that is left handed shouldn't be belittled 

Totally agree sprout, my parents are right handed, myself and 3 of my sisters are also right handed, but my eldest sister is left handed and I can't say I ever noticed a problem or difference, but I am going to ask her next time I see her about it.

My shed door is always open.

My 2 year old twins make a hell of a mess with both hands. One favours the left, the other one the right. Madamoiselle will be the only leftie in the house (of 7) if she continues.

I think i've caused a problem with my daughter  her dad is left handed and so is my mum, after watching my mum struggle with things when we was a kid, when my daughter started picking up a pen in her left hand i always used too move it too her right, now she writes with her right hand but uses her left for sport, even kicjks with her left foot but she can't use a knife with her right hand she just uses a fork (she's nearly 17)  and when i see her chopping some cheese off the block i go running in like a mad woman, it scares the shit out of me that she will chop her finger off  

My dad made me laugh the other day, he said my mum has broke sooo many tin openers, she was winding it the opposite way and the whole thing came apart

I know a couple of twins where one is a leftie ...............is this because they are a mirror image?

   *gives Ev a hit with my south paw followed by a right hook*  

I am left handed not found it an issue,it has been said I look awkward when I iron .

I can imagine that left handed ironers do look awkward!

My Dad was a leftie in most things ..........when he took p golf he played right handed (I'm guessing he bought second hand clubs to kick off with and just made do). awwwwwwwwwwwwww bless him - he loved his golf - if he'd have had the right tools he may have gone on to be as good as his heroes Jack Nicklaus and Arnold Palmer 

Not mine, they're fraternal.

I'm a leftie, as is my Sis, none of my children have followed, Although I write with my left, I'm right handed in most other ways.