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Sometimes I see dogs that have never interacted before get super excited seeing each other across the street and I’m like “Man, what must it be like to be that psyched seeing a total stranger?” and then I remember “Wait. I’m left-handed. That’s exactly how we react to noticing another lefty”

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Today’s left-handed character is Luciana from Win or Lose

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Do you think someone is born with natural left handed abilities, or is it a result of continuously using and practicing left handed behavior?

-a fellow southpaw

Well, none of us are born with good fine motor skills, but science points toward it being something in the brain that causes us to gravitate to one hand or the other (or both). I made a post about a year ago on the higher incidence of left-handedness among those with autism and ADHD in comparison to the general population. And then we develop fine motor skills with that hand the same way right-handed people do (just with the occasional adjustment made). Of course, there was a time when left-handed people were forced to do things right-handed, but it wasn’t very successful (to say nothing of the psychological damage it often did). I come from an all right-handed immediate family, so there was no external influence pushing me toward being left-handed; my brain just told me that out of my two hands, I should start using the left, and from there I got better and better at it

Aforementioned post: https://www.tumblr.com/leftycharacters/724424376330633216/july-is-disability-pride-month-so-to-end-it-off?source=share

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Today's left-handed character is Tom from Win or Lose

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Fox Point’s Own Gemma Hopper with the shout-out to Sandy Koufax, my dad’s childhood hero and namesake of my little boy

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Today’s left-handed (well, left-pawed) character is Lefty from Diamond in the Desert

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Today's left-handed character is Taylor from Win or Lose

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Today's left-handed character is this unnamed character from Win or Lose

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Today's left-handed character is Kyo Kasahara from Blue Box

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Today's left-handed character is Theodora "Teddy" Ann Sweet from Hannah, Divided

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I thought this might interest you. It's from the Andersen fairytale "The Nightingale". It describes an item he treasured: "In rank it stood first from the left, for the Emperor gave preeminence to the left side because of the heart. Even an Emperor's heart is on the left."

Huh. Interesting. I love the way Hans Christian Andersen writes

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Today’s left-handed character is the left-handed knight from Chewkz’s YouTube short “Being Left-Handed in Medieval Times”

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Rewatching the episode this character is from and man, it really is just my favorite episode. Prominently features one of my first fictional crushes, has this great moment that I have to rewatch at least three times when it happens, and after so many mysteries use left-handed-ness as “Oh but wait the killer is left-handed!”, it’s so refreshing to have something do the opposite. Shoutout to Ace Attorney for also tending to avert the usual

Anyway spoilers with SA mention trigger warning:

In this episode a nun is found having been raped and killed. There’s blood on the left side of her robe but no wound, indicating that the blood came from whoever assaulted her. Sweet golden retriever man Brother Oswin (the aforementioned crush) had gotten stabbed by some brigands, which along with having been holed away with the then-alive nun in a shed and shouting some seemingly incriminating things in a state of fever (actually just his guilt over feeling attracted to her when he’s a monk), is looking not so innocent. Meanwhile, the betrothed of Lady Ermina also claims to have fought and been wounded by these brigands during a raid on his home, but as we later learn, he had in fact abandoned all his servants and the younger brother of Ermina. Ermina then rejected him and stabbed him when he attempted to take her by force. All of which comes to the realization that in order for the blood to get on the nun’s left-side, the assailant must have been wounded on the right, and therefore by a left-handed person. The brigand is right-handed; Ermina is southpaw. So yeah, instead of “The killer is left-handed” we get “The killer was rightfully stabbed by a lefty before he went on to do his vile deed (a vile deed which he had already attempted on the person who stabbed him. Yeah, this dude is a POS).” As if being left-handed in the Middle Ages wasn’t already pretty brave in and of itself, Ermina is just a plain badass and a good big sister. Proud to have her rep us

Today's left-handed character is Ermina Hugonin from Cadfael

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Hi! I just found this blog and I think it's really neat, it's nice to see characters that are left-handed like me in media :0 Thank you for showcasing them here :D

Here's a suggestion too: Goro Akechi from Persona 5 is left-handed!

Thank you. I’ll consider that one. Gotta do some research on his character

And you are welcome 🤗

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Me when I notice a character writing with their left hand

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Today's left-handed character is Gemma Hopper from Fox Point's Own Gemma Hopper

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Today’s left-handed character is Terryman from Kinnikuman