I get to use the meme i recently saved 😂 https://preview.redd.it/q9r1zlqwc3rc1.jpeg?width=1290&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=ae452913ebc6008453ad67a613e447892609da13

ill give you this one, well done

As a lefty, shut up and take my upvote 😂

If you upvoted with you4 left hand, you can take it back 😒 Only joking 🥺

Now she has orange on her hands!

I write with my left but use my right for a lot of other things, I feel pretty 50/50 at times. I believe they also use their right to upvote

The up and down votes are on the right of the screen. It's a righty would 😭

I‘m in this picture and I don’t like it.

Same 🫠

I quit using pencils in like 5th grade because of this shit. My math teacher hated me but I straghit up refused.

Damn bro, didn't have to call me out like that :(

im not a lefty and my hands end up worse than that, is it a problem?

same, i've been told i write like i'm left handed

Are you sure you aren't left handers? It seems like you aren't doing too well with the right.  I'm a left hander, not trying to offend. Consider joining our team. We are more likely to be president and go insane. Even chances of both. 

Same. I can't use magic markers because of it

:(

This happens to me constantly and I’m not even left handed.

I would wash my hands but it won't come off anyways

Arabs and Israelis are immune to this

Lord this was me in primary school

I am right handed, but i get this too

Never thought I'd see my entire school life summed up in a meme...

i feel your pain, but man at least it’s not graphite. that shit smears everywhere

the school cleaning ladies hate me, the whole desk is blue

How do you manage that ? Lol I'm left handed as well, and we used to take exams with fountain pens instead of ballpoint ones, lot more spillage. I understand the pain of ending up with you hand blue (not that much of an issue to wash btw) but the whole desk ? The worst thing would be not being able to have a clean handwriting, the rest is highly manageable

i got a limited amount of time, and i get distracted a lot so i start writing rly fast and my hand just smears the blue ink everywhere lmao

The ADHD curse got you too, huh?

I like you. Take this: 🥈

i want you W-what?

aww, when is the marriage happening?

It happened. In lieu of flowers send brenda more life

i missed the wedding!?

yeapp, and dyslexia

lmao for me my adhd monkey brane disassembles the pen and blows out the ink and gives the desk a whole new color (I am one of the reasons the school never gives ballpoint pens during exams)

Bro's all kinds of handicapped 🤣

I am seeing a trend with lefthanded people and adhd.

I literally manage to drift off or not be able to get myself to start in exams... BRO HOW?!??!

yesterday i was writing english paper, with 20 minutes left i was thinking if it would be more efficient to run and take a break or to walk constantly, idk i still havent figured it out

I would get distracted and have 5 minutes left and have to sprint. But it would kinda work out

always works out (rarely does)

Indeed 😞

Change the pen you use. Get something with a fast drying ink. Not gel pens and absolutely no Pilot G2's

Consider using fast drying ink instead of gel ink. This ones on you brother. In also left handed and I don’t have this problem at all cuz I make sure my pens are good

Imagine after art lessons 🙃 Was learning to use charcoal and stuff and I had to keep washing my hand

i just took basic drawing and holy shit man i looked like id been used as a chimney brush after every class

try fingerless gloves!

Righty here. How does left handedness put you at a disadvantage in art class? Did the art require left to right?

Graphite is the worst for me. After class its all over my hand

We are all so glad for the digital age. This brings back so many terrible memories, especially of having your hand over those stupid rings with binders and stuff. You’d have ink ánd ring impressions!

Ohhh the days of working with graphite in art class. The entire side on my hand would be dark grey by the end.

Yeah graphite was crazy. The whole paper was smudged.

Yeah, and I'm a lefty whose hobby is drawing... Pain is real. I use a small piece of paper under my hand to prevent smearing

They make gloves that prevent smearing

I have one, for my tablet. And for drawing a piece of paper works fine

I had to use "erasable" pens in elementary school, my sweaty left hand just erased all my work as I wrote.

Or fountain pens. They're rather expensive to love, and don't love you back...

and render half your writing unusable in the process. ever accidentally stamp your hand with a word you’d just written?

I literally hate drawing because of that. Or writing. I sometimes wish to write Arabic just to not have to deal with that.

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This! I've been using this glove whenever I work with graphite for my sketches. It definitely helps a lot with that, so it could be pretty good for blue ink as well.

I never knew this existed....i really needed this(I'm a lefty as well)

I got one and is great , also helps with sensory issues ( I hate the feeling of *dry* paper on my hand)

I assume this is a universal one as in for both left and right?

i'm not left-handed, but had sweaty palms, typically used a piece of paper for the same purpse

This looks cool, I was gonna suggest a pice of tape for the duration of the test 😂

Would've been useful for me 10 years ago.

Why on *EARTH* would they have a model picture of this thing being worn on the right hand?

An artist glove might help! :) The kind you use to make digital art.

If you don't want to spend money you could cut a pair of gloves to have the same shape as an artist glove!

OP, Don’t lie…you were giving Papa Smurf a good time ! 💀

shh, don't expose my secrets like that

I heard nothing.

You indeed heard nothing

Yes, yes.

Did you see anything?


no 👍 what mean? 👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍

I heard it was like a bag of sand

Man this was my moment, my last username was papasmurf until Reddit wouldn't log me in and also wouldn't send me a password reset so I lost the whole account. Damn you Reddit, you ruined my moment!

you had the perfect opportunity

> **hole** account 🥺🥵

Welllll at least now you can Mario people

Both things can be true!

I needed this laugh this morning!

I wonder if he ever took an oral exam.

Get some wet wipes or medical alcohol + cotton swab. Takes the ink right off 😉

Hairspray will work too. I've even used it to get ink out of fabric.

Rubbing (isopropyl) alcohol works better and it won't make you sticky.

Hand sanitiser removes pen ink like its nothing.

I've been told I write like I'm left-handed despite being right-hand dominant. This happens to me all the time with pencils, too.

I’m kind of like this. I’m left handed but I write about as well with my left hand as most right handed people do. My right hand barely knows it’s connected to my brain.

The issue of writing left handed is simply that we can’t see why we are writing the same way that right handed people can, at least in the western world. We write from left to right, which means that for right handed people, their hand is almost never in the way of seeing what they write allowing them to write in a more natural shape in the wrist. There is no such thing for left handed people. We often times adapt a writing style that puts our hand above the text or possibly even below it (I’ve not seen this but it’s possible) in order for us to see what we write. We also tend to drag our hands across the paper as we write while ink is still wet, which leads to transference and smudging. I work in Japan and a few of my colleagues are also left handed native Japanese. It’s interesting to note that they have similar tendencies in their own language, but I must admit I haven’t really paid much attention yet to how they write kanji, but it does now peak my curiosity.

I just sat down to see how I write - I tend to rest my wrist below where I’m writing and the side of my hand (pinkie side) tends to come in contact with the paper. But fortunately my hand doesn’t touch where I’ve already written. It’s odd to think about how you hold a pen… I can never quite know what’s being a Leftie and what’s the dyspraxia but hand writing is quite painful.

My mom was a lefty, and she did, as you describe, develop a method where her hand was curved above her text. I loved to watch her write, it was so oddly graceful. Her handwriting was beautiful, too.

Ahh, the good old claw method

Do you write backwards?

Someone else does this! I also tend to clutch the pen/pencil near the bottom. Makes for fine control -- when writing small; my handwriting is barely legible.

Fellow left hander and always had to suffer through the pencil lead on my hand during test or writing papers.

pencils are worse yeah

I'm right handed and this shit still happens to me

Yep. At the end of the day it’s all about the angles and if you’ve got the time to properly align/shift them. This could be resolved multiple ways just by changing how you place your hand. And as a right handed person this also happens to me if I’m tired or lazy and just don’t write at the correct angle and rest my hand on the page instead of picking it up. Just like when I walk and occasionally drag my feet. Not as noticeable unless I’m worn out. They just aren’t corrected on it early on because so many people used to just say stop using that hand and switch. Rather than teach them some angles for the opposite side.

HOW

What do you mean how? The ink is still wet, my hand is still against the page.

below the ink...? it's not like left handers where they go over what they wrote... anyways god bless you i wish you the best with your ink hands

Idk how you're writing but my hand is not below the ink when i write

Yes it is, think about it for 2 seconds, your hand is still going to be over the words you wrote on the previous line. You act like this never happens, you're so dead wrong its insane.

wow a bit aggressive but ok inky hands. i've never had this problem, but i do get the pencil indent

Just write in Hebrew, problem solved.

Arabic works too

What colour pen would you prefer 😅

a very sparkly pink, i feel like that would be worse to clean, getting payback everyway i can

The people who clean aren't the ones forcing you to write that way

Any color ink does that my friend😮‍💨😣

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They both bake you look bruised AF tho

You say that as if looking like you gave Papa Smurf a handie is a bad thing?

I’m writing with black rn and it’s not doing that, and it never really has so it must be a brand thing ig

Flash back to high school when "erasable" pens showed up. Just this past week I found a fountain pen that doesn't do this to my hand. Science!!!

I 'member that. That was a curious thing when it started happening to me. Never happened before. When it started to happen, I thought, what..what kind of freakshow is this? I then realized, I, unlike 90 percent of the world, would no longer be able to participate in this marvelous magnificent newfangled technological breakthrough of pen writing. Oh well, life goes on Indy. There is the proof!

The world is not designed for lefties…. Spiral bound notebooks were the bane of my existence.

Flip em over and write from the back / upside down on paper. Spiral is no longer in the way.

I mean, you’re not wrong, but teachers wouldn’t accept my work that way. I was stuck doing it the “correct” way.

Why do your fingers look like tentacles from this angle

rotate the paper 90 degrees, and learn to write top to bottom, instead of left to right.

The Jimi Hendrix way

I don't flip mine that far but I do tilt it so the corner is pointing at me. Never had ink/graphite smears since i starting doing that in the 90s

Just write with the right hand duh.

Just because you’re left handed doesn’t mean you need to hook your hand over the top of the pen. Lots of left handed people write with their hand below the writing line.

Came here to say this. Lefty here and never had this problem

I used to when I was in school. But it annoyed me more and more as I got older, so I changed my grip. Took a few weeks to get used to it but now it feels completely normal.

I had that issue when younger but figured out a way to avoid smearing ink or graphite all over my hand. I lift my hand so it doesn't drag along the paper and use one of the fingers not holding the pen to use it as pivot and to rest all of the hand's weight on it. Works like a charm.

Turn the paper or notebook 45 degrees to the right and it gets even easier to write without getting ink on your hand

I'm right handed and I still hold my pen so the tip is above my hand. Feels really weird for it to be sideways.

Yeah I'm left handed and don't have this problem.

Lol try being an art student

YES I hate this shit. Spiral Notebooks are irritating too

Skills issue, brah… I’m left handed and am perfectly capable of writing without getting ink on myself… Edit to Add: If you imagine a piece of paper portrait in front of you, and taking the top of the page you’re writing on being pointed at 12 o’clock, if you twist it to point at 2 instead (or maybe between 2 and 3) you can write on a slant with zero issues… it beggars belief that so many southpaws don’t know this…

I just lift my hand off the paper slightly and hold pen a bit away from end.

When I was a kid we used something called blotting paper. It was used for this very reason, so ink didn't go on your hands. A small square of it under the hand so it can still slide about, but providing a barrier between the side of the hand and the paper that's actually been written on. The truth is, just a small square of any bit of paper will do the trick.

The upside of being a lefty is we can use a computer mouse and write at the same time. But yeh, fuck everything else. Righty elitist a-holes.

You know, we can do that to... we just have to put the mouse on the left...... Edit.... yeah, every right handed dude on here knows what I really meant

Just turn your paper on an angle slightly and bish bash bosh.. no ink on your hand, and quite possibly neater handwriting (if applicable).

Am right handed and I write better with my paper rotated

OP, I'm a fellow left-hander and I have had this happen more times than I can count.

As a left handed, this is more than mildly. I fucking hated it. Taking notes got ink all over me

Finally, something actually mildly infuriating.

Nice model o mouse

thank youu, but close, its the model D, i tried both before buying and the model D felt nicer to hold,

Ah. 🥹

Does black wash off easier? No. Learn to write without dragging your hand. Source: been a lefty for 40 years

Left handed people everywhere still wishing actual Ned Flanders would open a chain of Leftoriums


i lied about the reason why my hand is blue, in reality i had intense sex with them guys

So you're telling me that after all these years I'm now finding out that this is only a left handed thing??? I thought even righty's had this issue 😭

They do in countries that write from right to left. Muslim and far east..

I'm not trying to be an ass I promise. I just simply wanted to say that as a right-handed person, this happens to me sometimes, too. That being said, I know how shitty it is to feel like the world is made for someone else because my boss is also left-handed, and every time he has to use my computer he starts fussing about how my things are impossible to use, and how right-handed people get everything easier. My advice is to start training yourself to be ambidextrous or to stretch your fingers out more when writing so that your hand isn't quiet resting on your freshly written lines. It sounds funny but I have to do that when I sketch some times because of this reason. Training yourself to be ambidextrous takes a little bit to get used to and lots of practice, but it can be done pretty easily.

You 🤝 right-handed people who write in RTL languages

Hahahah I friking relate to this

I FEEL YOU SO MUCH BRO, but normally it just comes off with a quick hand rinse for me so.

I don’t understand what being left-handed has to do with this

My husband has run into this while drawing. He's got a wash cloth that some how protects his hand without smudging his work.

Why’d 🤚 factor into it?

I thought your arm had abs lol

Ink dissolves in alcohol, try hand sanitizer!

Need a quick dry pen, or learn to overwrite/underwrite

Are you allowed to use your own pens? Pentel Energel RTX pens and Zebra Sarasa Dry pens are both very fast drying inks and as a lefty I never have a problem smudging them. They both make pens with blue inks.

Look up artist gloves. They are thin gloves that only cover the ring and little finger and are designed specifically to prevent your hand from smearing. Or just buy some cheap gloves and cut off everything but the cuff and those two fingers.

I’ve found that hand sanitizer takes off pen and marker very easily. My school has dispensers in every room since Covid and the foaming hand sanitizer works anytime I get ink on my hands from drawing, writing, etc.

Easy fix. Just stop going to school.

i like the way you think

You’re going places kid

not school, but im going places

🤣

WOOOOO LEFT HANDED PPL IN THE HOUSEW

In Germany they force you to write with an INK PEN. I've never seen one before i came here. Now imagine how much fun I had? Thx god it was not important later on

I DIDNT SEE THE WHOLE IMAGE YET AS I SCROLLED DOWN AND I THOUGHT THIS WAS YOUR ASS SOMEHOW

Just start a revolution

Maybe expel that demon in you then boy

Serves you right ya damed lefty

I don't get why you feel like you have to lie here. Just admit you bruised your hand doing secret karate. There's no need to be humble.

This, I feel to my very core.

There is a lotion called “glove in a bottle”. I use it when I’m working with some inks and dyes.

I literally just thought your hands were just ripped as fuck and had no idea what the actual post was until i saw the words at the top of the picture

Im also left handed. Just don’t slide your hand on the paper. Raise it a little bit. You can do it.

i don't get why left handers complain about this even though as a right handed person i experience the same thing! you're not special, this isn't limited to left handers

isopropyl alcohol! as once a daycare worker i had so many alcohol swabs in my purse if i ever had stubborn pen marks or paint stains that didn’t come off in the first wash of hands… they are so helpful!

I'm a righty, but could you use an extra sheet of paper between your hand and what you are writing on?

I am a lefty and i write with blue pen. The colour doesn't matter buddy it's the type. Use ball pen. It never spreads on my hands

I know this pain man

It is not our fault you are left handed!

Lefty here—I mean no offense by this, but simply washing your hand gets the ink off. It’s really not a pain. 🤷‍♂️

Crybaby

That's what you get, weirdo! /s

Have you tried… lifting your hand? 😂

Imagine wasting time, energy, and server storage just to whine about a little ink getting on you instead of washing it off like everyone else. This generation is truly desperate to be noticed.

and you wasted your time complaining about this generation, what does that say about you grandpa

Rubbing alcohol?! 🤷🏻‍♂️

Its still less, im a lefty but because of my habit i curl my wrist and write unlike right handed people. So everything is same like yours but 4 -5 shades darker

i always get this every time I write with any pen so it's normal