The Left-Handers Club was formed in 1990 aiming to keep members in touch with developments, make their views known to manufacturers and others, provide a help & advice line, to promote research into left-handedness and development of new left-handed items.
Since its formation the Club has gone from strength to strength with members all over the world and is highly regarded as the foremost pressure group and advice centre on all aspects of left-handedness with over 140,000 members from all over the world.
The Club is completely free to join and members receive:
- Our monthly newsletter with reports on the latest research, practical issues, products and successes by famous left-handers
- Membership certificate
- Backwards calendar
- Early access to new left-handed products and regular member discounts
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Am proud to be a left-hander. Love to know there is a club for us.
My 1st grade teacher beat my left hand saying “You will not be the devil’s child!” Also 1st day of school. It changed a 7 yr. old black girls life.
Still holding a grudge!!!! I Love being a lefty! I’m Unique!
You make me proud to be a lefty
I’m proud to be left-handed person cause I’m unique from the surrounding.(crazy, intelligent, creative)
when I draw, eat, write, playing piano I use my left hand also i’m perfect in this all
Hi I’m a lefty my wife is a lefty so is my daughter.
I was happy to find this! Even when very young, family members only gave me things in my right hand. They wouldn’t teach me anything, such as sewing, unless I used my right hand.. My mother didn’t even want me to say I was left-handed. I was forced to write right-handed, by her and my 3rd-grade teacher. They told me it would make me right-handed. I didn’t want to be, bit I didn’t have a choice. They were wrong. Doctors would always tell me I was left-footed, left-eared and left-eyed. They didn’t believe I was right-handed. I was confused.
About 36 years later, at my workplace, a Ph.D. psychometrician did an inservice for our office. He gave us several tests, so we could choose a few to use with students. This guy spoke to me privately about my scores. He diagnosed me as left-handed, right-brain dominant, dyslexic and high spatial., He told me I was the only lefty he’d ever met working in education. So most teachers don’t understand lefty students. They force many to learn phonics. I’m curious — were you forced to learn phonics?
The school of one grandson diagnosed him the same as I am, but made him learn phonics. He learned to sound out words, but I’m not so sure about reading. The odd thing is that he was adopted. What are the odds he’d land in a family with a member just like him? No lefty kid or visual learner, should ever be forced to learn phonics. It never made sense to me, even in college when I learned to teach it. I was thankful I learned to read before I was four. I never would have learned to read in school, since mine used phonics. Both my sons learned to read early the same way. I did not teach them in any formal way. But in my ed classes, I realized the way I learned was actually a teaching method.
Of the other 7 grandkids, some inherited lefty traits but are right-handed, especially the kids of my jazz musician son.
He is a puzzle who used his left hand a lot when very young, but gradually gravitated to the right. He was also ADHD. Several years ago, he suddenly started remodeling the family house. No one had ever taught him the skills, so he must be high-spatial. I didn’t know what that meant when I was diagnosed, but I was the one who put the Christmas toys together and I’ve put a lot of furniture together. One of his sons is just like me, but right handed. He’s right-brain dominant, and read early. He thinks like me too, only in images.
Most people don’t know HOW we think. I have never thought in words, only in colored images and music too. I have visualized a lot of things in different colors, like days of the week.Some music seems in colors too. My thoughts are entertaining, but never helpful when I lose something. Most lefties I know think the same, but are confused about that. I think many of us add words to our thoughts, but that’s not the same as thinking in words. Logic requires words, so until we learn to read, we can’t understand logic. It isn’t natural. One thing I can’t understand is that I hate tests, yet somehow have gotten high scores on IQ tests. It makes me nervous.
I’m left handed I don’t care what anyone says about it
Am proud to be a left hander.I can do almost everything with my left hand except playing football with my left leg.I remember being beaten up with my teacher to use right hand,but thank God I overcome it.Am happy to find and join friends of my own kind
I was fortunate as a left handed to not have to hook
I was able to keep my paper positioned correct for me.
Me too. Not sure why teachers just didn’t turn the page for other left handers. My sister, who is also left handed, does the hook thing. Looks weird when I watch her write. But she has great handwriting.
It isn’t fair really. Writing…scissors. Sheet metal work is so unfair in my HVAC work. People couldn’t understand my trouble with cutting sheet metal! But at least I have 2 hands. I’m extremely amazing. I make over 40 an hour. I’m extremely artistic. Having a left handed hunting rifle confuses me with my AK 47 and AR 15 guns that were never made and never will be made left handed. Other than that I think being left handed is kinda cool and special.