I have a right handed electric can opener my mom left me. It took me a while, but I learned how to use it. I point the handle away from me, put the can in with my right and push down on the handle with my left. It's annoying, but it works. I keep saying I'm gonna buy a left handed one...but I'm just too busy.
>How long'd it take her to learn how to tie her shoelaces ... or does she use velcro? I learned to tie my shoes when I was a kid, but I hardly ever wear shoes with laces. When I do buy shoes with laces, I like to take them out...then I usually take the laces, tie them together and play with them. :)
>What kind of pencil does she use to write/draw >with, if she draws -- different kinds leave >different smears on the edge of the hand. I usually write with a standard #2 pencil, and I really don't know how to draw very well, unless stick figures count. I don't know if you write like this, since I really don't know any other left=handed people, but I hunker over my paper and write with my forearm almost hugging the outside of the paper. Once, while I was at school, a teacher asked me to write an answer on our overhead projector with one of those dry erase type markers they use. I got about two words in before I realized I was erasing my own answer.
Q&A with Andrea Pt 2 :)
Date: 2001-10-09 04:58 pm (UTC)>How long'd it take her to learn how to tie her shoelaces ... or does she use velcro?
I learned to tie my shoes when I was a kid, but I hardly ever wear shoes with laces. When I do buy shoes with laces, I like to take them out...then I usually take the laces, tie them together and play with them. :)
>What kind of pencil does she use to write/draw >with, if she draws -- different kinds leave >different smears on the edge of the hand.
I usually write with a standard #2 pencil, and I really don't know how to draw very well, unless stick figures count. I don't know if you write like this, since I really don't know any other left=handed people, but I hunker over my paper and write with my forearm almost hugging the outside of the paper.
Once, while I was at school, a teacher asked me to write an answer on our overhead projector with one of those dry erase type markers they use. I got about two words in before I realized I was erasing my own answer.