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06 Wednesday Dec 2017

Posted by sulis303 in family, food, health, life, loss, nature, Photography, technology, Uncategorized

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action, big girl pants, impact, key, left-handed, leftie, mirror, sling, transpose, widow

the other day I wrote about being a leftie…

the rental car I’m driving has the most interesting key…

there is a button on the top left of it to open and close the metal part of the key, like a switchblade…

it is made for a right handed person…

when I try to open it, using my left hand, it opens and closes into my fingers, so doesn’t actually work…

such a little thing, but what a pain…

yesterday we were practicing putting slings on one another during our First Aid Training and I was feeling a bit under the weather… which meant I couldn’t transpose all of the actions quickly… lefties must mirror everything that we see and if you aren’t paying close attention it can be difficult…

eventually I got the sling on correctly…

little things can have an amazing impact… whatever they are, lol…

handedness…

05 Tuesday Jan 2016

Posted by sulis303 in family, health, life, technology, Uncategorized

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big girl pants, family, handedness, left-handed, leftie, negative, research, Wikipedia

had an interesting conversation about handedness…

recently someone noticed that I am left-handed, lol…

  

George and I were left-handed although both our girls are right-handed…

I watched my grandsons carefully as they began grabbing things, hoping that one might be left-handed… so wanted to be able to teach someone some of the tricks to getting through life as a leftie…

didn’t happen… and really I don’t want to make any of their lives more difficult…

did a bit of research and came across this Wikipedia definition of handedness…

  

  

some of the information also reminded me of the negative connotations regarding lefties…

we talked about how writing is more difficult as your hand goes over the written words… not so bad now, but when ink took a while to dry, the page might end up completely smudged…

most utensils are designed for right-handed people… have learned to adapt over the years and to use the right-handed items… still don’t find left-handed scissors at all comfortable… 

there are certainly more items made recently to be usable for lefties… you just have to look at each item to see if it works for you…

the one thing I’ve learned over the years is how to adapt… all the time… 

everything I have learned has involved mirroring what was being shown to me… always most difficult with sports, lol…

  

my son-in-law brought me this magnet a while ago, lol…

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