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I have to post this because all my life being left handed was not a real issue and I never thought twice about it until a couple weeks ago when I was in a job training and we had to do the physical portion of the non-violent crisis intervention techniques and I went to be in the role of the client in a move called strike , which is exactly what it means. I go at the person with my left hand and they had no clue what to do and said, "why are you using your left hand?" I nearly hit the floor and I had to explain the fact that I was left handed...der..right, so the rest of the group like panicked like I was contagious and needed to be quarentiened and everyone was like well can you use your right for this? *Face hit wall* I just said aloud, " um...uh..you do realize that there are going to be clients who are left handed too, right?" I said "if a client comes at you with their left hand are you going to, in the middle of a real attack ask that they use their right hand because you were caught off guard and can't do the move right?" I was like you guys realize that there are going to be other left handed people who may come at you?" than, even though we were told a few days prior to this that people who have had brain injuries, strokes, etc... will have a weaker side and they will start using the stronger side after this even if they were right handed their entire life they will start using the left if it's stronger it is now their dominant side. Right? Makes sense to me. They can have total paralysis on one side and have no choice. You would think people would understand the logic of me using my left in the exercises but nope, we did kicks and I used my left leg and again caught the people off guard and they are like well why you use your left leg! I said again, I'm not the only person who uses the left and I'm trying to explain the stuff and finally one person with a brain (a rec therapist intern) said..."because that's her dominant side"! They still acted like they didn't get it so I stopped trying to explain perhaps they will learn when a lefty teaches them in real life. Anyway, Here is some random left handed knowledge: http://m.huffpost.com/us/entry/2005864/slideshow/258741
