“Are you left-handed?” asks the intake form for a potential new psychiatrist.
1. Yes.
2. This question is hilarious.
3. PLEASE TELL ME THINGS ABOUT SCIENCE AND LEFT-HANDEDNESS. Excuse the caps – I’m genuinely interested.
4. I enjoy my left-handed/ambidextrous qualities. I’ll take your drugs, but changing my handedness is non-negotiable, pal!
I understand the idea behind the questions, but they are phrased strangely, yes?
Sidenote: I am genuinely disappointed in the human race for the forced conversion from left to right-handedness. Sure, using scissors and writing in binders is easier for those right-handers; sure, I’m still not sure if I bowl left-handed or right; sure, I don’t have a tennis backhand, instead simply switch the racket between hands…BUT who can fluently mirror-write like Leonardo DaVinci…this kid. I blame nuns for the whole thing.
Thank you, goodnight, WordPress. Night two without sleep AIDS – I may or may not be getting squirrelly. Thank you for indulging in my nonsense.
maddsuspicions
/ December 20, 2012Hi that is interesting! My nan was a left hander as well, apparently at school they used to tell them off when they wrote with their left hand, so they had to learn to write with their right hand instead. I was quite shocked when I heard that at first!
anxietyadventures
/ December 20, 2012That is just the worst that she was made to switch. Left-handers are great!
MBC
/ December 20, 2012We all know the most important childhood question is “Did your mom pack yucky stuff for your lunch”…….
MBC
/ December 20, 2012I’m sorry….”And did you use your right or left hand to eat your lunch?”…..
anxietyadventures
/ December 20, 2012What of those who eat with the left and drink with the right? We’re the real crazy ones.
MBC
/ December 20, 2012Touche…….May our lunacy run freely through fields of lilies and unicorns!
Lunch Sketch
/ December 20, 2012I’m right handed. But was chatting with my aunty tonight. She was forced in school to use her right hand instead of her natural left. She is ambidextrous and her party tricks are saying the alphabet backwards fast and mirror writing.
Interested … do you have difficulty in quickly determining left and right. She does and thinks it is related to being ambidextrous.
daylily2011
/ December 20, 2012The way those statements are phrased is odd! And who cares if you are left-handed?
anxietyadventures
/ December 20, 2012I might actually ask. Maybe he has some articles I can read!
prideinmadness
/ December 20, 2012I’m a leftie and love it!
anxietyadventures
/ December 20, 2012Woo hoo! Lefties unite!
mm172001
/ December 20, 2012I was a leftie, converted at a young age by my parents “because it’s easier to live in a right-handed world.” I get my right and left mixed up when given or giving directions. I mini-golf left handed and do a lot of my ASL signs left-dominant.
anxietyadventures
/ December 21, 2012Really? Are you angry that you were converted? I’d be super angry.
mm172001
/ December 21, 2012It’s frustrating especially with directions. I’m upset that my parents felt the need to control that and everything else in my life. I think that some of the stuff I’ve learned would have taken much less time had I learned it was okay to do it with my natural hand.
anxietyadventures
/ December 22, 2012Makes sense. Makes sense.
mm172001
/ December 20, 2012btw: my psychiatrist is left-handed