Left-handedness?

Page 2 of 5 [ 65 posts ] Go to page Previous 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 Next

kip
Veteran
Veteran

Joined: 13 Mar 2007
Age: 37
Gender: Male
Posts: 1,166
Location: Somewhere out there...

14 Apr 2008, 4:29 pm

I was born lefty, but I had a teacher for 1st who apprently figured that leftys where... wrong. So she taught all of us to write with our right hands. So, I eat and cross my arms and all that like a lefty, but I write with my right hand.

And man is it sloppy. I tried writing with my left hand one day, and I could do just as well with it as I could my right, which has had years of training.

Tantybi
Veteran
Veteran

Joined: 5 Mar 2008
Age: 46
Gender: Female
Posts: 1,130
Location: Wonderland

14 Apr 2008, 5:27 pm

I'm left handed mainly....

Write...left
Throw...right
Bowl...right
Golf...either way
Shoot...right hand but left eye dominant
Hold my kid...left
carry something heavy...both
thumb wrestle best with...both
arm wrestle best...both
carry a tray when serving...left
smoke with and drink with...both, but prefer left

Lene
Veteran
Veteran

Joined: 27 Nov 2007
Age: 39
Gender: Female
Posts: 3,452
Location: East China Sea

14 Apr 2008, 6:07 pm

When I was very young I was ambidextrous- I just got into the habit of always using my right hand though. I've started practising with my left hand again though and my handwriting doesn't look that much different from normal (i.e. it's still illegible)

Rainbow-Squirrel
Veteran
Veteran

Joined: 26 Dec 2006
Age: 44
Gender: Male
Posts: 2,093
Location: Siena, Italy

14 Apr 2008, 6:11 pm

Right handed

Hector
Veteran
Veteran

Joined: 10 Mar 2008
Age: 38
Gender: Male
Posts: 2,493

14 Apr 2008, 6:13 pm

Right-handed

DejaQ
Veteran
Veteran

Joined: 17 Feb 2007
Age: 34
Gender: Male
Posts: 1,719
Location: The Silver Devastation

14 Apr 2008, 6:15 pm

I write with my left hand, but a lot of things I do right-handed.

gbollard
Veteran
Veteran

Joined: 5 Oct 2007
Age: 57
Gender: Male
Posts: 4,009
Location: Sydney, Australia

14 Apr 2008, 6:16 pm

Left handed.

_________________
Gavin.
http://life-with-aspergers.blogspot.com/

asperity
Pileated woodpecker

Joined: 3 Jul 2007
Age: 63
Gender: Female
Posts: 196

14 Apr 2008, 7:17 pm

kip wrote:

Same thing happened to me.

EvilOlive
Raven
Raven

Joined: 9 Apr 2008
Gender: Female
Posts: 106

14 Apr 2008, 7:43 pm

lefty....can do some things with either hand...

ToadOfSteel
Veteran
Veteran

Joined: 23 Sep 2007
Age: 37
Gender: Male
Posts: 6,157
Location: New Jersey

14 Apr 2008, 7:57 pm

Jeyradan wrote:

Right-handed for writing. Left-handed for catching. Right-handed for eating. Left-handed for ball dribbling.

It's not that I'm ambidextrous, exactly... I have one dominant hand for each task, it's just not the same hand for every task.

I got something similar... my left hand is more dominant for task that require precision (such as writing), while my right hand is more suited to tasks that need physical strength...

Liverbird
Supporting Member

Joined: 13 Jun 2007
Age: 55
Gender: Female
Posts: 1,119
Location: My heart belongs to Anfield

14 Apr 2008, 8:57 pm

I was a lefty until I went to school and then was forced to become a righty for writing. I do everything else lefty. My son is ambidextrous but also stronger on left side.

_________________
"All those things that you taught me to fear
I've got them in my garden now
And you're not welcome here" ---Poe

CockneyRebel
Veteran
Veteran

Joined: 17 Jul 2004
Age: 50
Gender: Male
Posts: 117,319
Location: In my little Olympic World of peace and love

14 Apr 2008, 9:54 pm

I'm left-handed.

_________________
The Family Enigma

Alaspi
Veteran
Veteran

Joined: 25 Mar 2008
Age: 40
Gender: Female
Posts: 893
Location: Seattle

15 Apr 2008, 1:14 am

It depends on which hand gets to the pencil first.

not just writing, but sometimes I'll find my right hand doing things that my left hand was doing just the day before...it's weird.