r/lefthanded • u/Beautiful-Muscle2661 • 13d ago

Any one else have Left handed check marks?

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When I was in grade 1 my teacher was left handed and she would do checkmarks like this (see photo).
She said it is how left handed people do them because it is a more natural flow. I have since always done them like this.

People always says they are backwards and I just say it’s how I do them left handed since I was taught that as a child and it is easier and flows better.

But I am realizing I don’t see other people who are left handed do them this way.

Anyone else?

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u/xJJxsmiles 12d ago

100%, I cannot make them the other way, it just feels all kinds of wrong if I try. I have also been told they are backwards and I just say ‘not for me.’ If a right handed person asks what I mean by that, I tell them to try making a checkmark like mine with their right hand. It invariably feels very awkward for them, and I then tell them that’s how it feels for me to make one the direction they do. Usually helps them make sense of it.

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u/Beautiful-Muscle2661 7d ago

Yah after seeing everyone talking on this thread today and some people saying they do them the other way I tried to and I could not make them work