Left Handed Superiority Thread

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I never understand why left handed guitars have you using your right hand to hold down the frets and your left hand to strum and vice versa. 90% of the articulation comes from holding down frets so I just play right handed guitars even though I'm left handed.
 
Lone MacReady II said:
Some things just turned right-handed from living in a right-handed world. I can use both hands for a mouse no issue, and I shoot a gun right-handed. Power tools etc. can be either or as well.
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I'm too stubborn for that. I used to remap the keyboard to use arrow keys but at some point I gave up and just stretch my fingers around to use WASD with my right hand.
 
Anyone else left-dominant when it comes to pretty much everything except for very specific cases where using your right hand/right dominant way "feels" better? Like I'm left handed, I write with my left, throw a ball left, etc. But when I play guitar, holding it the "right" way with my right hand doing the strumming and left doing the fretting feels better because my left hand is doing the more complex motion, and that's my dominant hand. Another one is shooting guns, I've always shot with my right hand, dunno why but feels correct to me. Using a mouse with my right hand also never felt weird.
 
Dan of Steel said:
Anyone else left-dominant when it comes to pretty much everything except for very specific cases where using your right hand/right dominant way "feels" better? Like I'm left handed, I write with my left, throw a ball left, etc. But when I play guitar, holding it the "right" way with my right hand doing the strumming and left doing the fretting feels better because my left hand is doing the more complex motion, and that's my dominant hand. Another one is shooting guns, I've always shot with my right hand, dunno why but feels correct to me. Using a mouse with my right hand also never felt weird.
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I think it is which hand you learned the task with becomes comfortable. I use a mouse with my right, and shoot a pistol with either left or right handed grip. But swinging a bat or a golf club right handed feels like the most awkward thing ever to me. Like it feels instinctually wrong.
 
My house is a left handed haven. My PC is set up for lefties (including left-facing cursors), I have lefty scissors, knives, tape measures and even a lefty can opener. I play (badly) lefty guitar. When I started dating my husband, I told him he had to adapt just like lefties have had to adapt to the right-handed world, and he was so game about that I knew I'd have to marry him.

As an American, I was astonished and pleased to find out how accommodating the UK and Europe are to left-handedness...there's a website called Anything Left-handed out of the UK where I've purchased many items that really transformed my life. Left-handed scissors...world-changing.
 
Joy Jay said:
I never understand why left handed guitars have you using your right hand to hold down the frets and your left hand to strum
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Honestly same. My right hand is genuinely retarded so it doesn't even have the articulation to manage the frets like the left one does
 
Joy Jay said:
I just play right handed guitars even though I'm left handed.
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Same. I got good a lot faster than my friends who started playing around the same time. Didn't waste time teaching my retarded hand to do smart hand things.

I do almost everything normally, the same way right-handed people do it, unless it requires a precise grip. Then my left hand has to do it.

My wife knew me for years before she noticed—I finally signed something in front of her—then she started paying attention and noticing that I do a bunch of little things "backwards." She enjoys pointing it out.
 
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