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  • I'm a lefty, so is my aunt. Back in the day, no matter your religion/beliefs they tried to change us. My aunt went to a catholic school where the nuns would smack her left hand with a ruler whenever she tried to write.

  • chuck norris is ssad to be left-handed

  • My first grade teacher ostracized me at the blackboard and told me to put the chalk in my right hand and that I wasn't a lefty. Ha....I'm 49, and STILL a lefty and proud of it!!!! Hey...and like @bobcat395...a ginger too!!! Go US!!!!

  • Michelangelo Buonarroti was a lefty? I didn't know that?

  • I think people are stupid for punishing left-handed just because it looks different from the so-called normal right-handed people. If the left hand is a person's dominant hand to use things,then let them use it. Luckily for a left-handed like myself didn't have any punishments for that reason.

  • @bobcat395

    I'm for the lefty AND redhead revolution too!!! Go southpaws and Gingers!!!! And even better if your both :)

  • Yay! Lefties unite! I was persecuted too for being left handed by evil authority & stupid adults & Church people! Long live the underdog! Our day will come!

  • 2:48 "...to do what you know is right, and to not give in to any kind of authority that is blind and stupid..." Wise words from a man who knows something. I'm a natural southpaw, and when I hear stories like this I'm so grateful I grew up without having been challenged for being left handed.

  • Fifty one years ago In a public school I was punished over months, mentally and physically by a grade 5 teacher for my insistance on writing in the inverted left-handed position. That teacher sent his own son to four christian private schools. Both the father and son are dead now. That public school was prospect primary, Adelaide South Australia. The christian religion justified making scapegoats of anyone who was different until they were stopped. Ian K Pennack.

  • This is just how odd the human species is. Being punished for something that causes no harm whatsoever. It just goes to show that people in positions of authority often have a striking inability to reason things out logically. They just sell whatever garbage they've been told to, in order to maintain their nice comfortable little mindless clone society. *gasp* He's writing with his left hand!! Stop him!! He could spread freedom of thought!!

  • @Damienf77 does bitches are just some rasist hoes that fear whats different and unknown

  • I feel his pain. Looking back in history I heard that some were punished for being left-handed.

    But for you people who know a left-handed person, or ever seen anyone specially an adult telling them to write with their Right hand, stop them b/c they may turn dialexic/brain gets kinda messed up for reading or writing

  • @tyletk atlast someone i can relate to!!! i think the same way too the only reason why theres such a thing as dislexia!! its man made!! not a real mental thing this is mand made decies

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  • I feel sorry for all the people who were punished in the past for being left handed. And proud of their perseverence to continue writing with their left hand. In spite of all the tears. Left handers were are punished for doing things their way and that's why they should impose their way to the world; because they are so unique!!!! stay like that. Without lefthanders the world would be a horrible and unoriginal place!

  • All he wants is to get an education that he is entitiled to get. Just because of the arrogance of some jerk he suffers social stigma, stuttering and had to fight authority.

    So many left-handed people may have become president of the U.S. but they will never escape the social stigma a right-handed world throws at them.

  • I'm a leftie and i hate it with the things that i talk about to my friends they say i sound like a old man i was always behind in class and always the slowest at writing in the whole class in primary school but i was the best speller also which is weird.

  • I can emphatize with him .. Except my entire family and almost all people around me then were all right-handed. No one understood why I had to write with my left hand and they saw it as a "flaw." Even I did, at first, because everyone told me so. Until I realize the ignorance they had.

    I was so stubborn, thou. I didn't give in to any corrective methods they tried to put on me. Not even the punishments. What's so bad about being a leftie, anyways? We are a source of many great people. :P

  • Lol... cough-men xD

  • LEFTIES LETS UNITE AND RULE THE WORLD!

  • @NudoruRamen43 YESSSSSS

  • I would have taken my left hand and balled it up then shoved it in that Bitch's face!

  • My name is, my name is, my name is, Murry Cofman!

  • Aw. I feel sorry for him. That's horrible, and I know it used to happen to pretty much any left hander.

    My best friend's mom (who's Chinese) really wanted my friend to write with her right hand, but.. just gave up after a while.

    My parents were proud, if anything. XD

  • Cool story :)

    When I was in Kindergarten, my teacher put a pencil in the middle of everyones desk, and told us to pick them up. Only 2 kids (out of 32) picked up the pencil with their left hand.

    Only two people in my family are right-handed.

  • @BR0WNY0DA Hmm.

    Well let me tell you a few facts I myself have researched. I have been researching for a very long time now, and I have sought knowledge from all my left-handed, right-handed and ambidextrous friends (by the way I am already ambidextrous -_-). And it's true at one stage your brain will fight for dominance. There's left and right, it's either one or the other. Trust me. You're born for one side. I mean, you can use one hand, but it's not how you were created.

  • @1DPIKI You have to be more right-handed than left-handed, or more left-handed than right handed. You can have equal ability, but there's always one more you use than the other (natural preference). Pay attention to which hands you use all the time you're awake. If you just right with your left but your left is too weak for anything else, that wouldn't make a really good lefty. Remember your handedness is supposed to be genetic.

    You can only be a true lefty/righty if you're born like it.

  • @1DPIKI So I'm afraid you'll be nothing more than a righty wanting to be a lefty, I guess. @_@

    I'ma sorry, you're not as unique as me, who started off left, then went right.

    Good day. ;)

  • @1DPIKI Oh, correction from before. *write with your left

    Whoops.

    Sorry about the number of comments, too. :s

    By the way my right can do as much as my left does, I kinda go on and off a hand, at the moment I'm focusing on my left, after I wrote with my right for a few years.

  • what is the big deal with catholic's and not being left handed???i don't recall anything in the bible that states left handed is evil lol!

  • @BR0WNY0DA No just be right-handed you have to be born like it. Your brain will fight for dominance if you try being left-hander- it isn't right to do. Just continue being a COMMON, normal, non-special right-hander like the 9 out of 10 people in the world. LIVE WITH IT.

  • I'm extremely ambidextrious.

    I write and hold a fork, spoon and knife with my left hand. I do everything else with a right hand. But I feel proud that I'm the minority and not right handed.

  • left Handers shall rule the world!

  • aww thats mean making him writing with the wrong hand

  • I love being a leftie.

    <3

  • are we born to be left handed? or do we choose it after birth????

  • @savvy1954 Born.

  • That is one of the best stories of a left-hander I have ever heard.

  • Back when I was fixing to take the road test for my driver's license, I had to sign something that the cop/instructor handed me. He gave me the pen in my right hand, but I took it with my left hand...he asked what was wrong with my right hand and I told him that I was left handed and had always been. He didn't like that, and failed me in the road test for that...

  • @BSNFabricating What a fucking prick. Hope someone shoots him.

  • I write with my left hand but my right is my strong hand, and im right footed. does that qualify for left handed?

  • @TheJackal1916 Yes, it does. LEFT-HANDED. Hand. Not leg.

  • Leftys ROCK! We need a special holiday for Leftys. We may be left handed but were always right right!!

  • @caregvr4u36 theres a left handers day you know....

  • @caregvr4u36 Special holiday. August 13th.

  • you kno that most famous, smart and legendry people are lefthanded?

  • GREAT STORY I'VE EVER HEARD!!!

  • Thats ridiculous! I'm a lefty and that makes me angry to think that right handed people try to change us.

  • I have a problem of curling my arm around the pen cuz of the stupid right handers writing seats :((......i'm working to fix this

  • Good story

  • i'm lefty :)

  • haha if I wasnt a lefty I never would have met my husband.

  • i know when will people understand that left handedness is natural, i'm a lefty and never had a problem with it but i see people discriminating against us lefties and bagging us and i get angry

  • i waas born ambidextrous but i mostly write with my left :D but being left is awesome .

    LEFTIES OVERPOWER RIGHTIES :D

  • I LOVE BEING A LEFTIE!!! So are two of my brothers, so THERE!!

    WE ARE UNIQUE!! YEAH!!

  • i was originally a lefty but my mom made me a righty when i was about 6, i remember i had a hard time. i can now write with both hands but i cant play sports left handed. it sucks

  • God bless Southpaws.

    Thanks for the video.

  • my grandmother tried to make me a righty. now im semi-ambidextrous, most dominantly lefty tho of course :P

  • The same thing happened to me, but unfortunately it destroyed my confidence. It took about twenty years to regain my confidence. I can now do mirror writing as a consequence of the brain being retrained!

  • I am a righty and i am in the sixth grade and decided that i was bored using my right hand so now i use both.

  • I'm a leftie and it kicks ass!

  • me tooo!!

  • Damn, so interesting cus my mom and I had similar experiences. Back in the 30's my moms nose was broken by a teacher cus she wouldnt write as a righty.

    I was sent into the hall as a 4rd grader cus i was a lefty...Crazy shit but true!

  • I am left handed. My brain functions different from right handed people. i can mirror write perfectly, I actually Write my Signature backwards due to the fact the it's much easier that way. I also have a more artistic mind, somewhat abstract and Surreal. I am glad to be who I am.

  • well maybe thats y my sewing teacher in home ec always yelled at me because i couldnt sew

  • I'm right handed and I thank GOD for that

  • LOL yes you can control which hand you write with. I chose. I remember waking up one day in kindergarden and I felt the same writing with both hands. I picked the left and wrote from then on.

  • Hey us leftys are in the right mind!

  • Really? You are like the 96% of the rest of the world.. not unique.. just another copy. why are you proud?

  • I'm a lefty and HAPPY for it. I'm not proud because I had no control over being left handed and pride should be reserved for actual accomplishments, not matters of birth.

  • im a lefty and proud of it

  • Lots of people develop stuttering from having to switch hands.

  • im a leftie

  • im left handed and im proud

  • yea im proud of myself too

  • I hate people who discriminate lefties. They're just jealous. Left handed people are actually smarter than right handed people because the left side of your brain controls your knowledge and stuff.

  • I think you got it backwards...if you're left handed, you're right brain dominant!....ever wonder why most us are crazy!?...lol

  • same i hate people who always say lefties are thick and im left handed and i no thats not true.

  • I personally believe we are more artistic...i mean look it up, leonardo divinci, michaelangelo, etc.

  • actualy it controls the aristic side dumbass

  • When I first went to school my teacher forced me to use my right hand and so for many years I was a right handed person. Once, when I was 13 years old I fracture a finger on my right hand and because of that I decided to give a try using my left one, I was so surprised to see that I could straight away write the same as my right hand. It's amazing being able to write with both hands but still I can't forgive the teacher that forced me to change.

  • Hi.

    It was nice to hear your story . I'm 49 and when I was a kid in infant school (I think you call it kindergarten ), forgive me if I'm wrong I'm English , some teachers would try to make you use our right hand, happily they did not succeed and I enjoy drawing , painting and music , all with my left hand .

    Thanks and best wishes

    ozzy

  • too all my left handed brothers and sisters we will run the world soon

  • @nietzsche71 What? Dude! we've been running the world for a while now, right handers just don't know it yet hehe, we're out numbered 10 to 1 and yet left handers are present in a lot positions of power, sometimes even out number right handers there, take a look at the presidents of the us, a lot of them are left handed, the best ones i must say hehe, 4 out 5 of the last us presidents have been left handed, only the last bush wasn't, thank god for that

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  • @nietzsche71 YAY! all my friends think being left handed is weird, but we'll see whos weird when i rule the world!

  • @nietzsche71 I Too am waiting for the LEFTY REVOLUTION. But you better enjoy it while it last...because the REDHEADED REVOLUTION is just a few years later

  • @nietzsche71 yeeeeee lets go!

  • @nietzsche71 That's kinda scary lol but I'm with ya. Left-handed ftw.

  • @nietzsche71 we are running the world , look around!

  • love this!!

    i can relate deeply being switched to my right hand....

    i'm unique and special being a lefty and i would always be proud!

  • I'm proud to be left handed! We are the inventors of society. Among us are.....

    Babe Ruth (Baseball) Oscar De La Hoya (Boxing) Tom Cruise, Jimi Hendrix (one of the greatest guitarists) Phil Collins, Prince Charles as well as James Baldwin (Novelist) and these are just a few of the many.

    cheers to us!

  • JEBANY STARUCH

  • This happened to my mom..but she stayed a righty. I'm a lefty and proud of it =] No one ever forced me to switch..I dont write "hooked" and I have very neat handwriting, and am a very good artist. I don't understand why people discriminate against lefties..they're just jealous :p

    "if the left side of the brain controls the right side of the body, and the right side of the brain controls the left side of the body, then only left handed people are in their right mind."

  • I can write with both hands i dont know why

  • its cool to know you are left handed cause that makes you special, not only because you are the 10 percent of the population that can write with the left hand but also because writing left handed enhances your brain to be multi tasks and be more creative by using the right side of the brain

  • smart people are left handed like me and obama

  • Wow! Loved your story! I'm left-handed too, and when I was a kid people would tell me that left-handed people were dumb and that they are going to hell and burn. Of course, I looked at them like they had some mental problems and didn't believe it. Unfortunately, there are ignorant people who still believe that.

  • JEWISH GHETTO! LOL! oy vey, muthaf*cker! jk im not that biased my mom is jewish, but its funny thinking about a jewish ghetto...

  • i am 30% percent lefty handed

  • And my girlfriend's half pregnant

  • My Tutor use to try to make me write with my right hand, I hated it. I stayed a Lefty.

  • i get the stuttering problem too

  • I am left handed, and happy to be one. :)

    It doesn't really matter to me what hand I used; I love to write and draw. :)

  • i'm a lefty also.

  • i'm left handed

  • me too

  • Im left handed and play drums the right handed way. Guess im pretty good coz ive stuck at it for over a decade

  • my grandpa beat me into writing with my right hand, so now im ambidextrious. i kinda goin through the same stuff he went through.

  • ONCE MY GRANDAD TOLD ME TO WRITE A LETTER I START TO RIGHT A LETTER FOR HIM THEN ALL OF A SUDDEN HE SAID OH MY GOD WHY ARE YOU WRITING WITH UR LEFT HAND? I GOT ANGRY AND THREW THE PEN AT HIM AND STUCK UP A MIDDLE FINGER WITH MY LEFT HAND AND TOLD HIM TO RIGHT THE LETTER HIMSELF(based on a true story)

  • I can relate to that. I started school in the mid seventies in South Africa and was smacked on the hand every time I tried to right with my left.

    Because of that, these days I write with my right hand but do everything else like throwing a ball and playing guitar with my left hand.

    I too developed into a rebel as a result :)

  • In Old Netherlands, Left handed was a mental desease, if you couldnt write right - your left hand was tight to the back of your chair.

  • I'M LEFTY!!

  • wow im happy that i never was told to write with my right hand! i heard that stuttering happened often to people who were "retaught". great video !!! i could listen to that guys whole life story!!!

  • i'm lefty

  • Very interesting video. How horriable for him to be forced to use his other hand...I mean, what difference could it possiably make to the teacher??

  • lefty rules

  • lefties have gone passed all the rules.albert einstein...eveyone thought he was crazy,and that what he did made no sence...well he wasnt crazy,he was a genius.

  • have you guys or ladies ever wondered why the school system makes us "hence Makes Us"

    use our left hand cause they want us to be stupid and use our weak half of our brain.

    think about it im left handed and i know this im smart lol for real

  • there is this one time, in my biology lecture. my lecturer told the left handed people to raise their hands and he said " oh God..there's 5 of you! you guys are freaks!". the 5 of us were shocked,then one of us said to him "the way see it, you're the one who's a freak, sir. i don't think you want to be fired for discriminating others". LOL

    be proud lefties!

  • us leftys rule

  • I generally dont like Jews. But I like this old man. The world is a better place because of people like him. I want him to live longer.

  • Wait? What?

    You don't like Jews?

    Care to explain how?

    Your Comment has a double meaning in it.

    As such a discriminate state was those words, care to explain how and why? Discriminating against others makes no sense and yet you take pride in being a Black Rebel by your name and thus breaking through discrimination and opressions as us Jews have faced and you are disliking a whole group of people whom you have never met ALL of us?

  • us lefties rock *lefty fives 4 evrey1*

  • similar story with me....

    but I wasnt held back O_O

  • Thank you, Mr.JamesLArmstrong. It was very insightful. I too stutter at times and am embarrassed about it.

  • I too had problems with being left handed at my school and was teased for writing at a slant. To this day, people still ask me why I write sideways and I proudly reply: "Because I am left handed!"

  • it's so silly how people were like that back then, my grandma's brother was forced to be right-handed, when my dad was in school he actually got teased for being left-handed, and even nowadays I get people attemting to make fun of me for being a lefty.

  • teachers were just incompetent back then. some of the old ones today still are.

  • there are crazy teachers that want you to write with your right hand.mine did whatever she could to stop writing with my left hand but i was stronger than her.Only the old ladies from the countryside make a big thing about left handed persons.I guess they don't have anything to do but criticizing others. in my country there are not such things like scissors or pencils for left handed people but i can manage perfectly.

    i am proud to be left handed and so the right handed persons should be.

  • I DID NOT FINISH MY COMMENT. MINE IS THE 1 THAT SAID "2 B CON". ANYWAY, 4 U CHRISTIANS OUT THERE I THINK God is a lefty, cause he, in 1 story in the Bible he chose all of the LEFT handed soldiers 2 go 2 battle and i think because only 10% of the human population is a lefty and i am 1 of them. oh! but as i was saying, since they're is so few of them than rightys i think us leftys r SPECIAL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! LAST THING my grandma is also a lefty, so COUNT HER IN 2!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!­!!!!

  • i am a lefty and i would STILL shift 2 my left hand and not care what the teacher said cause 4 me, i bet that teacher WOULD NOT b able 2 read it . i am tellin you it would look like a righty writing with teir left FOOT!!!!! plus( OH YEAH MUST REMIND U, NOT THIS VIDEO !)BUT UM,Y ON EARTH would leftys b prosecuted, i mean THAT IS THE MOST ABSOULUTELY DUMBEST THING I'VE EVER HEARD!!!!!!!!!!!! By Ryan (P.S. ALL LEFTYS DO NOT B INTIMEDATED!!!!!!!!!!!!!) OH! 1 MOR THING LEFTYS R SPECIAL 2B CON

  • I can write backwards and I am left hand, they say that you can write backwards when you are a lefty

  • take comfort in knowing that lady is right and dead

  • LEFTIES ROCK NO DOUBT ABOUT IT

  • The good point i gave to you is the left hand-->

  • i am right handed and somehow wish i am left handed. i've been practising for some time now. i already know how to brush my teeth, bathe and use chopsticks with my left hand and i feel proud of it. i want to become ambidextrous one day, and i'm sure that day won't be too far away. you lefties should be proud about yourself. i will be one of you, some day.

  • i think its great that you want to become ambidexterous, but you should be proud about yourself whether you are left handed or not. Don't feel that left handed people are more special than you by virtue of their handedness.

  • i wanna be ambidextrous not because lefties are special, altho i do consider them unique, which is one of the reasons. but also think of it, it'll be so much easier to do things equally well with both your hands. and also i've heard that using your left hands stimulates your right brain.... cool, huh?

  • it would probly be esier if you keep your lead hand, think about it you've had years of practice with that one it will take you a long time to gain that, and this obssession(yeah, spelled that wrong) will consume your life.

    signed

    CONFUCIOUS

  • Just don't overdo it, if you try too hard you can get problems like the guy in the video (stuttering, etc) because going against your natural handedness confuses your brain.

  • "Sinistrals" who couldn't be bullied out of their left-handedness as children grew to have an incredible determination and also a lack of trust in authority and the system. The oppsite for the child that was changed. They broke them like a pony.

  • left handed people are smarter then right handed people. its because left handed use both sides of the brain and right handed people use one side of the brain

  • Are you a physicist?

    We all use our whole brain....just not to its fullest potential. Right handed people use both hemispheres of their brain.

    The left hemisphere controls Language, Math, and Logic.(amongst others)

    The Right controls Spatial, Visual Imagery, Music, and Facial recognition.(amongst others)

    You can't flat out say that right-handers use one portion of their brain. If you use your left hand, that makes you biased.

    A.

  • @actinggirl23 AGREE.and southpaws are talented as well.Einstein!!!!

  • @actinggirl23 stupid woman.....

  • only a right handed person would think of tying someones hand behind their back and writing with a hand that most people use and used ridicoulous leftys own right handers in practically every category

  • left handed people are unique.

  • Amen to that brother.  Fight the stubborn oppresion!

  • AUGEST 13TH IS LEFT HANDERS DAY

  • good for you, fightt the right handed oppression (we dont really need to now though) :-)

  • It used to be hard being left-handed. My grandmother had her left hand tied during elementary school so she learned to write right-handed and does everything else left-handed.

  • I'm left handed but what the fuck? You either are or you're not! Whats everyone getting worked up about? I dont get it.

  • i h8 right handers

  • no you don't

  • right on

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