Lefty or Righty?

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Lefty and proud of it I have a theory that the idea of premature birth causing AS and left-handedness is interrelated (I've been told a lot of preemies are lefties because the right side of their brain develops faster or something). So, maybe it's not the AS causing the left-handedness, maybe it's the premature birth causing both.

I am a righty, but only because my first grade teacher made me write with it. Prior to that, I was ambidextrous. I can still do a fair amount with my left hand, though.

I use my right hand for fine motor skills like sewing stitches, writing and carving wood with exacto type knifes.
I use my left for turning wrenches, lifting, and where ever strength is needed.
I'm ambidextrous but consider my self right handed because that's what I use for delicate work.
When fighting I use my right more for upper cuts and jabs left for longer more powerful but slower punches.

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Your avatar is amazing. Little Prince plus Doctor Who? Win. So much win.

Anyways, that's probably a good thing. I can use my hands for lots of things depending on the situation. Like, I use right-handed scissors and throw a football with my right hand [I use my legs for throwing if that makes any sense, so I'm always pushing off on my left leg].

I don't think that AS is linked to premature birth though. Do you have anything that says it's linked?

Also, lefties are more likely to be geniuses, and I thought that preemies are more likely to have low IQs. I might be wrong. I dunno.

South paw here.

What does that mean?

Another figure of speech i never understood the origin of. It somehow means left handed.

When I was learning how to write I was a lefty but my teacher thought it would be better for me in the "long run" to be right handed. I am dominantly right handed now.

A left-handed individual may be known as a southpaw, particularly within sports in the United States. It is widely accepted that the term originates in baseball[13]. Ballparks are often designed so that the batter is facing east, in order that the afternoon or evening sun does not shine in his eyes. This means that left-handed pitchers are throwing from the south side. The first use of the term is credited to Finley Peter Dunne. However, the Oxford English Dictionary lists a non-baseball citation for "south paw", meaning a punch with the left hand, as early as 1848[14], just three years after the first organized baseball game.


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I am right-handed.

Right handed, left-eye dominant.

Do most things right handed. But when it comes to shooting photographs and firearms, I focus through the viewfinder and on the front sight and target with my left eye and shoot left-handed. If I were to take up archery, I'd have to shoot left-handed too.

Born lefty, but my mother changed me when I was a toddler. Now I write with my right hand (casted vote for Righty in poll), and not coincidentally perhaps cannot tell left from right without great effort!

speaking as a musician, would you say there were very many leftie musicians? just curious.

So far it's not so much an abundance of lefties as it is a lot of people who are not right-handed.

Still interesting.

Sure a great number of ambedextrous people here, must have
something to do with the Autism spectrum.
I can use both hands equaly, as well.
I have a hell of a time telling left from right.