Quirks Meme

[gilda_elise]

Tagged by nakeisha

Ground Rules: The first player of this "game" starts with the topic "5 weird habits of yours" and people who get tagged need to write an LJ entry about their 5 quirks as well as state this rule clearly. In the end, you need to choose the next 5 people to be tagged and list their names.

This was really hard. I suppose you normally don't give a lot of thoughts to your own quirks.



1. Whenever I eat anything with distinct edges (sandwiches, pancakes, stuff like that,) I always eat the edges first. My mom does the same thing so maybe it's genetic.

2. My books, all 2100+ of them, are shelved by subject, then author, then date of publication. I like that better than by title.

3. Though left-handed, I cut with my right hand (that might have come from the nuns refusing to get left-handed scissors...work of the devil, you know.)

4. I like snakes. We had two gopher snakes in a 50 gal. aquarium in our living room for awhile.

5. I can't stand to have anything left out and I hate clutters. I can't get comfortable in a messy house. Anal comes to mind, lol.



Lots of people have already done this, so I tag whoever else would like to.

Comments

[st-crispins.livejournal.com]

Though left-handed, I cut with my right hand (that might have come from the nuns refusing to get left-handed scissors...work of the devil, you know.)

I'm left-handed but I use scissors in my right hand as well. Left handed scissors are rare (at least they were when I was a child). The nuns also tried to make me right-handed, but when I wrote with my right hand in kindergarten, my letters came out backwards. So, finally, my parents had to intervene.

I suspect trying to force a left-hander to go right handed had less to do with the devil then wanting us to conform to the norm.

To this day, I do some things right-handed, like blow my nose and work a mouse.

[gilda-elise.livejournal.com]

I'm left-handed but I use scissors in my right hand as well. Left handed scissors are rare (at least they were when I was a child).

So rare that, when I finally did discover a pair, I was unable to use them, lol.

The nuns also tried to make me right-handed, but when I wrote with my right hand in kindergarten, my letters came out backwards. So, finally, my parents had to intervene.

Yes, mine did, too. First, to allow me to use my left hand and then to allow me to place the paper in the direction I wanted.

I suspect trying to force a left-hander to go right handed had less to do with the devil then wanting us to conform to the norm.

Could be but that's taking conforming to a really strange level, forcing a five year old to do something they're clearly unable to do.

To this day, I do some things right-handed, like blow my nose and work a mouse.


I use my right hand for my mouse, too, but I think most right-handed people use their left so I think that's to be expected. I'm trying to think of anything else I do right handed and am coming up blank.

[st-crispins.livejournal.com]

Could be but that's taking conforming to a really strange level, forcing a five year old to do something they're clearly unable to do.

Actually, I hear it was pretty common in those days, even in public schools. Educators thought we left-handers would be at a disadvantage and also thought handedness was more malleable than it is.

My poor aunt, my mother's older sister, was born left-handed but was forced to go right as a school child. She stuttered all her life, possibly as a result.

In sports, I find I tend to be ambidextrously. I can throw a ball well with either hand. I tend to reach with my right hand as well, although I fenced left-handed which gave me a small advantage.

But in marching, I always step off with the wrong foot, I often get right and left confused when I'm trying to give directions, and I always have to sit at the corner at a crowded dinner table so as not to bump elbows with other people.

On the other hand, there's research that shows that left-handed folks are disportionately geniuses compared to the general population and I'm very proud to be a south paw.

[gilda-elise.livejournal.com]

My poor aunt, my mother's older sister, was born left-handed but was forced to go right as a school child. She stuttered all her life, possibly as a result.

Yes, I've heard things like that happened, which is why it seems so odd they would continue to do so just because they thought being left-handed was inconvenient.

In sports, I find I tend to be ambidextrously. I can throw a ball well with either hand. I tend to reach with my right hand as well, although I fenced left-handed which gave me a small advantage.

In sports, I was just bad with either hand. ;-)

But in marching, I always step off with the wrong foot, I often get right and left confused when I'm trying to give directions, and I always have to sit at the corner at a crowded dinner table so as not to bump elbows with other people.

Yes, there's that. Either at the end of the table or next to my brother-in-law who's also a leftie.

On the other hand, there's research that shows that left-handed folks are disportionately geniuses compared to the general population and I'm very proud to be a south paw.

Definitely. :-) I remember reading somewhere that only something like 10% of the population is left-handed and that only 10% of left-handers are female. Certainly makes us unique!