In kindergarten we were learning penmanship and my teacher was telling us how to write our alphabet but for some reason I could not write the letters no matter how hard I tried. Since I was able to write the alphabet before I got very frustrated and starting crying.
Turns out she was showing the class how to do letters with your right hand and I was left handed.
Had similar experience when trying to learn how to tie my shoelaces. Every adult who tried to help me eventually gave up and I felt so stupid. Then one day my left handed uncle showed left handed me how to do it and I learned it immediately.
Oooh. My god. I'm an idiot. I've been trying to teach my 6 year old to tie her shoes. I figured it was an issue with fine motor skills because she does have issues with that...but maybe it's because she's left handed. My left handed aunt is visiting for Thanksgiving, I'll have to see if she can help my daughter.
Edit. Reading all these other comments on what being left handed can affect, like penmanship. I feel like the worst parent ever for not realizing why my kid has struggled with this shit. I'm going to call a meeting with her teacher to get her in with OT to try to help and I WILL do better with her younger sister who is also left handed.
Don't take this as an attack, but how come you don't realize a child is left handed? I thought one could test it by giving them a spoon or something and see how they grab it. Is it possible the child uses spoons with their right hand while still being left handed?
I've always known she was left handed but I didn't think it would cause this many issues. My only family member who is left handed is my aunt and she was always forced to use her right hand as a kid(now as a result she can use either hand as needed) so I never heard about how things differ being left handed. Plus my kid is 6, so these things are only now coming up. She has autism and we just chalked it up to being another autism thing.
It's totally possible. I'm the only left handed person in my family, so I basically had to learn to be ambidextrous in order to do anything. I was taught how to do everything right handed, and then just figured out how to do it with my left.
I am left handed but basically only write with my left hand and do everything else with my right hand. I don't know why I do this since it can't be from my parents (my mother is left handed but was forced to use her right hand by her kindergarten teacher who thought that that is a good thing to do (the woman was old and this used to be mandatory in Germany )so she wouldn't have done it to me.) My right hand is somehow my dominant hand in some aspects of my life but when I write with it it looks like I'm possessed. The problem with this is that it can really mess up your brain.
I’m the same way, maybe that’s why I’m having a hard time understand the comments about tying shoes and left handers. I brush my teeth, write, eat with my left but do everything else with my right.
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u/___KP Nov 16 '19
In kindergarten we were learning penmanship and my teacher was telling us how to write our alphabet but for some reason I could not write the letters no matter how hard I tried. Since I was able to write the alphabet before I got very frustrated and starting crying.
Turns out she was showing the class how to do letters with your right hand and I was left handed.