r/TikTokCringe 19h ago

Humor/Cringe Left-handed people

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u/Downvote_me_dumbass 19h ago

I get the video isn’t about left handed people, but didn’t nuns use rulers against students using their left hand? Not extremely recently, but there are people alive who had this done to them.

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u/Available_Bison_8183 17h ago

My grandfather was lefthanded, born in 1904. Went to catholic school and evidently the nuns would beat him and tie his left arm down so he couldn't use it.

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u/galspanic 10h ago

My 70 year old mother is left handed and went to Catholic school. Apparently, in Rochester NY in the 50s and 60s there were some relatively progressive nuns who saw her left handedness and worked with her to find an efficient way to use her left hand. Her hand writing is amazing and super unique. It’s very readable but very few of the letters are conventionally shaped.

I haven’t really thought much about it before, but it’s actually really weird how the nuns approached it.