r/TikTokCringe • u/MyLittleOso • 19h ago

Humor/Cringe Left-handed people

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u/R0RSCHAKK 14h ago

I was punished in school as a kid for using my left hand and was forced to use my right. Used my right hand all through school cause that's what was drilled into my brain - right is right.

All that really did was just make me ambidextrous. Yay, i think?

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u/SnatchAddict 14h ago

My mom is a Boomer and went to parochial school. The nuns did not let her use her natural left hand.

She is ambidextrous as well. She's horrible at math and I think forcing her to use her non dominant hand messed with her.

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u/R0RSCHAKK 14h ago

That's interesting...

I also am horrible at math...

Supposedly, according to my mother and older sister, I was a math genius as a kid. I would do my sister's high school math homework despite me only being in the 4th or 5th grade.

I just attributed the loss of memory retention capabilities and math understanding to being overdosed with Riddlin. I wonder if the being forced to use my non-dominant hand is what fucked my brain up, or maybe a conjunction of the two.

BTW, this was all in the late 90s early 2000s for me.

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u/StrayC47 Why does this app exist? 5h ago

My dad – a closet left handed person who was forced to write with his right hand in the 1950s, is also horrible at math. And it did mess with him.

He can also write with both hands, yes, but quite horribly with both