Stolen valor

This shows abuse more than anything. He was likely forced to use his right hand growing up and has never fully recovered.

Spanked it right out of him..
- THAT GUY IS SPANKING WITH HIS LEFT HAND!
yeah my dad was a leftie forced to be a righty.
- I had a teacher in high school who was ambidextrous because of nun-based leftie abuse.

Tbf, if they didn't show him writing with his right hand, this would all be acceptable.

I write with my left hand, but play guitar right handed, pitch a baseball right handed, do basically everything right handed, except usung my left to write and do knife work in the kitchen.

Left handed folks are often ambidextrous.

Not to mention he's religious and back a number of years, you weren't allowed to be left handed, so maybe that is why he writes with his right hand in the scene, and maybe why it's such a liberation for him to come out as left handed? Idk

Left handed folks are often ambidextrous.
Pick a side already!
- You right-handers force us into this position!
  There's only one thing you use everyday that's made for the left hand and it's flushing the toilet!
  Think of how that feels!
- Most things cater to right-handedness, there isn't much of a choice 🤷‍♂️
Technically you are mixed-handed as you use one hand mainly for particular actions, just different hands. Ambidexterity is being able to do anything equally well with either hand.
- To be more exact, you are "criss-cross-applesauced" but it's a technical term.
- i prefer the term "ambisinister"
Left handed folks are often ambidextrous.Not to mention he's religious and back a number of years, you weren't allowed to be left handed, so maybe that is why he writes with his right hand in the scene
I had a teacher in high school who wrote poorly with both hands, he explained, because he went to a catholic school where they slapped his left hand with a ruler when wrote with it.
- Yep, same situation for me. "Ambidextrous" roughly means "two right hands," so I like to joke that I'm ambisinistral - I've got two left hands.
I'm right handed for writing but I prefer left for a lot of stuff. I ride primarily left forward on skateboard and snowboard. Throughout my childhood years everyone fucking hated my lefty hockey stick especially since the three lefties played right handed. Some games they forced me to either play right hand or sit out too.

Need Flanders is definitely old enough to have possibly been forced to work with his right hand, meaning that while his left is his dominant he was forced to use his right enough to be effectively ambidextrous.

Some left handed guitarists play right handed just because left handed guitars are much harder to find, or they just string it like Jimi Hendrix lol. I'm sure that's true of other tools and hobbies.
- a friend of mine learned how to play upside down as well so he could play any guitar. not to the degree he played lefties but it was still impressive
- Yep. My brother is left handed and he plays right handed because it's just easier to get a right handed guitar
I am cross dominant. I do somethings right handed, some things left handed, and there's a few things I can do with either. This blew the mind of every elementary school teacher I had until 4th grade because by then I had the vocabulary to explain myself.
For many years I only felt comfortable using right handed scissors in my left hand because my kindergarten teacher refused to give me a left handed pair since I write with my right hand. I argued with every adult that tried to teach me how to play baseball because I naturally line up lefty at the plate but I throw better right handed. Turns out I can bat switch but fuck them, they didn't know that.
- I'm righty for everything except specifically throwing a Frisbee. I just can't do it with my right hand, unless it's an overhand chuck. Makes disc golf a bitch because no matter how I throw, it usually breaks right from the spin.
- I remember being out to dinner with my family and my brother was joking with me about how I would have to struggle to cut up my food being left handed because how the seats were arranged. I just switched to my right and him and a couple other people were like.... What?.. I didn't even know that people used a specific hand for their utensils.
  We never had left handed stuff when I was in school so I guess I just learned on my own.
- I wonder how much of handedness is really "real". I'm sure there's a bit of a preference there, but a lot of it might be also training.
  For example, I started using my phone in my "off-hand" years ago to keep my "main-hand" free for other stuff. Turns out I do more on my phone than on my free hand, and now I'm much better with my "off-hand" with my phone than with my "main-hand".
My school did this to me in the 2000s :(
- Why :( ?
  We have a skill that most don't have. Give someone who's single hand dominant only, a steak. Watch as they constantly have to shuffle the silverware back and forth. Or go play like baseball or racquetball or tennis or badminton, etc. and just keep swapping the hand, it'll throw them off.

Boy, I really hope someone got fired for that blunder.

Or paddled.

A wizard did it.

A wizard spanked him.

i know plenty of lefty guitarists who play right handed guitars. they're cheaper, for one.

They are not actually, at least the dozen or so I looked at on Sweetwater before buying my leftie. They right-handed selection is better, but the price was the same.
- Huh, til. They were at the shop I looked at 30 years ago and the market has not changed I refuse to accept it.
I play guitar right handed because I was taught by a right handed person and those were the only guitars he had. Right privilege is real.
Just string a right handed guitar the wrong way

Whenever you notice something like that, a wizard did it.

You're welcome

And where exactly was he supposed to find a left-handed bowling ball? Huh? D'jever think of that?

Not sure if your serious but I'm a left handed bowler. You normally buy the bowling balls without holes, then have a shop measure your hand and how you throw and drill the holes to based on you.

When need was young, you weren't allowed to BE left handed, even if you were. They forced you to do things right handedly, so Ned learned to do the things he does with his right hand, but in his soul he is left handed, as he's always had to work really hard at learning things with his right. He wanted to change the world for the better.

His parents never would've done that. Wouldn't. Couldn't.
- While you are most definitely correct his parents wouldn't do that; schools back then absolutely did enforce that and he clearly did still go through school.

This rings true of my experience as a left handed person, which is more like being ambidextrous, at least for people who were born at the tail end of society tending to think you’re evil if born left handed.

He's finally out of the closet and open about who he is!

a couple years ago some friends on a community driven wargame community and I were engaging in a worldbuilding discussion, creating factions and armies and such for our world

I Said "Im going to have a leftist insurgency" and everyone groaned. "why do you have to make it political cant we just have silly scifi tropes

"Who said anything about politics, 95% of your units are holding their weapons in their right hand. this is a left handed faction"

them

It was Lego, by the way...

I love that their assumption was that their highly fractured society going to war with one another wasn't political. What do people think politics is?
- The original fracture in this society was a disagreement about whether socks and sandals is a fashion faux pas. Then someone brought up pineapple on pizza...

How sinister!

Maybe the camera is flipping the image like a mirror in the most inconvenient of times.

I'm right handed and play the guitar left handed...

Guitar makes a lot of sense to me either way. The really technical part is up on the frets.
- just one anecdote, but I'm solidly right handed and I'm quite comfortable fretting with my left hand. It's a challenge to learn guitar regardless of which hand. But I have absolutely nothing against folks making and playing left-handed instruments either, folks should go with what they want
Yeah left-handed stringed instruments are actually quite rare, and are only used when you can't use a right-handed one due to disability. You're using both hands to do different but coordinated movements, so being left- or right-handed doesn't make that big a difference.
I'm the opposite. Legato stuff is much easier.

I'm 70 years old, so maybe things have changed, but my left handed brother was FORCED to use his right hand for everything, as we were growing up. Apparently left handedness is a sign of the devil, or some such crap. As a result, he was effectively ambidextrous, as an adult.

Which country did you grow up in out of curiosity? They definitely did this in soviet union because it was more optimal to not have to design anything for minority of left handed people.
- I grew up in Australia, but my parents are Ukrainian, so this makes sense.

wizard do things

We lefty’s do things rightyandedly. Those kidney-shaped mouses weren’t left-hand friendly.

He was only ever sold right-handed pens his whole life.