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[palominocorn]

There's a small but mighty petty part of me that wants to take a bunch of pictures of myself doing things left-handed and send it to my parents.

Turns out that the kid who kept doing things left-handed and insisting that she wasn't right-handed... was in fact a lefty.

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[yvannairie]

I would love to see some of these pictures, too. Comparisons between "this is how I do it on the right"/"this is how I do it on the left" has always been interesting to me.

[palominocorn]

I've been thinking about this a lot so, no pictures, but here's a rundown:

-I hold a pen the same way, but tilt the paper a different direction.
-I wash dishes like a lefty pretending to be a righty: hold the sponge in right hand, rub the dish against it with my left.
-Knives and glass cutters, I grab onto for dear life with the right, but hold properly (index finger over the blade) with the left.
-Kitchen utensils I hold the same way with both hands, but I have better grip with the left.
-Forks and spoons I hold "properly" with the right hand, and with the left I hold them differently depending on who I am that day.

Any others you want to hear about? :D I have nothing better to do than sit and watch my work chugging along.

[yvannairie]

I remember you saying about doing some stuff on your left already before you switched fully, how do you use your phone and computer?

[palominocorn]

Phone I keep in the left pocket, use the left ear to call, hold it in the left if I'm just reading, and I type with both thumbs typically.

Computer, I defaulted to using the mouse with the left until my father beat it out of me, struggled with the right for years before switching back earlier this year. I don't like using the numpad and I switch a lot of key bindings to work with lefty mousing.

[yvannairie]

What about at work? IDk if you ever have to use a caliper but what about regular rulers or pipettes or thermometers?

[palominocorn]

I use calipers at home and those I default to lefty. Scissors I would do lefty except SCISSORS ARE ALL FUCKING RIGHT HANDED OH MY GOD AHHHHH.

Pipettes are basically "whichever is closest" unless I really need to be precise with the positioning, at which point I go lefty. Rulers I use righty because I normally have to mark with a pencil or something at the same time.

All of our thermometers are ingrained in the machine so I don't touch them lmao. I do tend to use the touchscreen with my left, unless I'm already pipetting or something with it. And while making salt solutions and stuff I kind of have to shift things around in both a lot so it's hard to say.

[yvannairie]

Dude, you have left-hand calipers? I'm so jealous, I prefer having a left-hand caliper on the lathe but right-handed ones on the mill, but left-handed calipers, especially digital ones, are really rare to come by :(

[palominocorn]

No, I (or my spouse, technically) have righty calipers that I insist on using lefty. This involves me reading upside down.

I did get lefty scissors for home use though and they are amazing.