Happened to my mother. In the US, in the 30s.
Weird I’ve heard about this from so many countries, from Japan to almost every communist country.
UncleGrandPa@lemmy.world 7 months ago
iknowitwheniseeit@lemmynsfw.com 7 months ago
Happened to my wife’s mother in the Netherlands in the 1950s. She did everything left handed but wrote right handed.
By the 1970s this was over here, so I guess the southpaws were able to convert enough people to their godless ways. 😉
WhiskyTangoFoxtrot@lemmy.world 7 months ago
I guess the southpaws were able to convert enough people to their
godlesssinister ways.FTFY
UrPartnerInCrime@sh.itjust.works 7 months ago
It happened to me when I was a child in New York late 90s
echodot@feddit.uk 7 months ago
The US did it too for a while. The justification seems to have been something to do with left-handed versus right-handed brain processing or something like that. They were worried that they were going to get a generation of artists and poets and that no one would actually do anything industrial.
Also there’s something in the Bible about people having left hands being agents of the devil, although it seems to only be in certain editions.
jaemo@sh.itjust.works 7 months ago
This reminds me of one of my absolute fav talks on the left/right brain debate.
TonyTonyChopper@mander.xyz 7 months ago
the left hand is controlled by the right side of the brain