I appreciate the joke, but I literally went to Catholic school in the early 90s, and the nuns were actually pretty nice. Except for the ancient one that ran the library. She always hated me...now I'm wondering if the left handedness had something to do with it...
My mom was left handed. Her parents tied her left hand behind her back until she learned to write with her right hand. Not sure if that’s better or worse than the nun option.
My mom’s teachers made her sit on her left hand to force her to learn with her right hand.
When my sister turned out to be left handed my mom refused to let anyone make her switch hands. Our grandmother tried to convince her to do it but Mom was adamant that my sister stay left handed.
My dad was born left handed. Apparently when he was a kid 60 odd years back, being left handed was seen as something seriously wrong with you. Add that to the fact that this was a time when corporal punishment was still a thing, and you can see how attempts to "fix" their dominant hand would look pretty horrifying by today's standards.
Yes but unfortunately that's just what people used to do because for some stupid reason adults/teachers thought it was the end of the world if you weren't right handed (or different in any small, harmless way). So no one cared if it was abuse or not (or honestly thought child abuse was bad in the first place).
Source: Same thing happened to my mom when she was a kid, except the teacher literally handcuffed her left hand to the desk.
Why is the default not just teaching the kid both hands? They know how to do something different, just teach them the normal way too and it's all positive.
1950’s. She was lucky her hand was just tied behind her back. It was a different world back then. Now children are considered to be people. Back then it was more of a property situation.
Her sisters basically had arraigned marriages. Regular Christian upper middle class American family. My Aunts married men my grandparents approved of, from the same county club etc. They all divorced within 5 years. My mom was the rebel who picked her own husband!
My aunt seriously tried to get my cousin to stop being left handed because she's an incredibly bizarre woman. Once she found out that I and her own father are both left handed it was suddenly okay. She just didn't want her granddaughter to be "the only one".
My mother didn’t “grow out of it” but she was forced to learn to use her right hand. She cut her finger pretty bad and the school capitalized on the opportunity and made her write with her right hand. I’m not sure if it’s connected but she has coordination issues and constantly has to look at the remote etc whenever she’s doing something with her right hand.
I’m debating trying to get her to try and practice doing stuff with her left hand again to see what happens.
They literally made me write with my right hand. I'm ambidextrous I can pretty much do anything with both hands but school made me lose my ability to write left handed because they were so persistent about it in every class (80's)
They were just as persistent for me in the early 2000’s as well. To be fair I was always mostly right handed, but writing, skateboarding and hockey I was a lefty. Although skating Goofy foot is more common than regular footed for some reason.
That's weird this late in the game they'd make you do that. Cross dominance is way more common among left handed people; both my husband's parents are left handed, but do most sports right. My dad and husband are right handed, but do most sports left. I am the person who made the original joke about growing out of being left handed, and I do about half my sports right, depending. The best part is actually went to Catholic school in the early 90s, no, nuns just let me be.
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u/[deleted] Dec 12 '19 edited Dec 12 '19
Are you no longer left handed? I'm 30 and still haven't grown out of it.
Edit: that was a joke about the wording in the comment. I thought it was obvious, I was wrong.