• nocturne@slrpnk.netEnglish
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    11 months ago

    This shows abuse more than anything. He was likely forced to use his right hand growing up and has never fully recovered.

      • DarkCloud@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        11 months ago

        Yeah, that episode was basically making the point that he’s from a generation where being different was considered wrong, and abusive behavior corrections were an option.

        The boomers went through some stuff. Ned included.

        • yucandu@lemmy.worldEnglish
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          11 months ago

          I watched some movie set in the boomer era where a kid’s dad died suddenly, and at the open-casket funeral, he saw his dad’s dead body and screamed and ran, and all the adults just scolded him and yelled at him. On the day of his own father’s funeral.

          I asked my dad “is that how it was like for everyone back then?” and he said “yup”.

        • nocturne@slrpnk.netEnglish
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          11 months ago

          I am gen-X / xenial and I had a friend who, while in elementary school, was forcibly made right handed. One day when we were in our late 30s saw me doing something with my left hand and said that make so much sense and realized he was actually left-handed.

  • Madzielle@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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    11 months ago

    Tbf, if they didn’t show him writing with his right hand, this would all be acceptable.

    I write with my left hand, but play guitar right handed, pitch a baseball right handed, do basically everything right handed, except usung my left to write and do knife work in the kitchen.

    Left handed folks are often ambidextrous.

    Not to mention he’s religious and back a number of years, you weren’t allowed to be left handed, so maybe that is why he writes with his right hand in the scene, and maybe why it’s such a liberation for him to come out as left handed? Idk