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I was forced to use my right hand for everything once I started elementary school. So I write, play guitar, and bowl with my right hand. But I also do all those things slightly better and more comfortably with my left hand.

Makes sense to me.

This is literally what a lot of the boomers were forced to learn to do. Lefties became ambidextrous or got called the devil in a not fun way.

Left handedness being seen as sinful fits the character, and the time in which the show was made. They make this reference of left handedness being looked down upon many times.

This is the problem with lefties - endless purity tests...

Practise thyself even in the things which thou despairest of accomplishing. For even the left hand, which is ineffectual for all other things for want of practice, holds the bridle more vigorously than the right hand; for it has been practised in this.

-Marcus Aurelius

You can be a left hand, right eye dominant shooter. It's all about what you practice. Ned probably grew up getting his knuckles rapped for using the devil's hand and just knows those skills better now.

Fun fact: "sinister" comes from the Latin for "left hand". Lefties are evil.

I'm "left-handed," but only because that's the hand I use to write. most other things I actually do right-handed. for me, things that use fine control, or a small tool, are easier with my left hand (e.g. using a pen, fork, toothbrush, fingering guitar strings, etc.), and things that are more large, broad motions or require strength (using a hammer, saw, baseball bat, lifting and throwing, strumming/plucking guitar strings) are easier with my right

I recall some of my teachers (boomer generation, I'm an old millennial) said they would get a sharp crack across the knuckles with a ruler should they dare to use their left hands with which to write. Seemed more common amongst the ones from Quebec.

Funny thing about guitar:

I am left handed. I play a standard guitar, neck in left hand. I have since the late 1900s. I've taught several right-handed people guitar, more than half of them want a "lefty" guitar to put the fretboard in their right. At least one was willing to try to play a normal guitar upside down, not restrung Jimi Hendrix style. So I'm not convinced we don't just have guitars backwards.

I made the transition from trumpet to french horn just fine as well.

Ned is a religious character. Coming out as left handed was a big deal.

Francine in American Dad did the same.

I was just talking to my mom about this, I used to be left handed. Then my teacher forced me to write right and slowly it became my dominant hand. Even though left handed feels better, I dont have the coordination or muscle memory to use it anymore. I feel like it really screwed up alot of my body coordination..

This proves nothing. Most left handed people are trained right handed by right handed people. I can do everything with both hands.

And god said, to Noah, "There's gonna be a floody floody"

I golf right and shoot right in hockey because I got my brother's hand me downs ( back when sticks didn't break every game). I play guitar right handed for a similar reason.

Possibly learned to use right, realised he was a lefty, can't be bothered to learn it with left

ah hell diddly ding dong crap

Look, let's just agree that while Ned isn't left handed, he has a right to be left handed.

I've always suspected I was born a left-hander but my parents forced righthandedness on me. Whether it was bowling, baseball, or golf I always naturally started doing it the lefty way until I was corrected. Hockey is the only thing I continued doing lefthanded.

His left hand is his smitin' hand, he uses it only when somebody needs a smite.

I played guitar and goalie in hockey right handed because that's what you can find used.

Ned is a sweet guy. He's probably ambi-dextrose. /s

Ambidextrous people are around as well (1% of the population).

Until I got nerve damage to my left hand, I used both hands equally. It was handy in school to swap out my writing hand when one got tired. Used to freak teachers out because my writing is significantly different for each hand.

One of my sisters is ambidextrous. My younger son is also ambidextrous. So I suspect it has a genetic link.

I'm right-handed, but will use my left hand for some things. Maybe Ned is the same, but in reverse. Especially with writing. Many left handed people do learn to write with their right hand because pushing the pen/pencil is harder than pulling it when writing left to right.

Pretty sure Ned is the Devil

Wizard did it