Random autoimmune disorders seem to run in my family, but nobody has the same ones. Grandma has alopecia, mom has Hashimoto’s, I suffer from random bouts of autoimmune urticaria. It’s a blast. Sometimes your immune system is just weird and awful. :(

I was a lefty fencer! It helped so much... I fenced in high school and was very good - I missed the Jr Olympics by one round - but the other people on the team were so insufferable that I quit... it is a huge life regret of mine. I basically left the potential for college scholarships, etc. behind because it wasn’t…

My instructor and normal sparring partner in high school was alefty, so when I got to college I became *the* guy to face left-handed opponents.
I’m convinced I was better at facing southpaws than right-handed fencers.

I think also that people just don’t understand what being gluten-free actually means. They think it’s just cutting out bread or whatever, and that’s actually not what it is.

One of my friends fenced foil briefly in high school. He wasn’t particularly good, but dominated due to his height (he was 6'4"); it was like those US fighter planes with the missiles that can attack enemy planes from such a great distance that the enemy planes are destroyed before their radar even picks up the…

Ugh, I hated lefties in competitions. I had none on my team, so they always tore me apart.

Another lefty here! The ONLY reason I won matches was due to my “sinister” abilities. :)

At low levels it is, mostly because people don’t have experience against lefties, but the lefty has a ton of experience against righties. There’s no inherent benefit to being a lefty once your competition gets past that though.

If you’re fighting against righties, absolutely. Most fencing training is about getting around the other person’s arm, and it’s a lot harder to get at someone’s body to hit them if your arms are on the same side. The downside is that you get really used to fencing righties, so when you come up against another lefty,…

My kid does fencing, horseback riding, and occasionally archery. We've joked that we are setting him up to be a perfect 18th century lord. Or a Mongol warrior.

OUCH!!! When I was fencing, a fellow fencer came in to practice one day all excited because she had gotten both nipples pierced. That was the day I fleched and hit her right in the piercing - she was out the rest of the night and I believe took out the piercings. Body piercings and fencing don’t mix. I also hit a guy…

It can be - it really depends on your opponents experience. A righty who has never fenced a lefty will definitely be at a disadvantage, but a righty with a teammate or friend who fences lefty and can practice against them will generally be ok.

I fenced on an intramural team in college! I was pretty bad, but it was so much fun that I didn’t care.

Imma need Giorgio Avola to explain it to me.

Fencing’s SO MY JAM. Took a class on it for my college phys ed requirement with a maestro who was at the 84 Olympics and was hooked.

Being the only lefty was my only advantage!

Shoulder or chin length curly. Roseanna Roseannadanna, Please.

There are SO many people (trained professionals!!) who think they can do “ANY” hair type just because they’re trained professionals. Here’s news. You can’t.

As a veteran I am absolutely opposed to/ horrified by the idea of compulsory patriotism. And all the fucking flag worship is just gross.

It’s absolutely indoctrination. Teach children at a young age, and you’ve got ‘em supposedly for life. I have no doubt there’s a reason it’s a thing in elementary schools and not, say, part of the weekly team meeting at work.