Anyone else ambisinister?

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Is anyone else here ambisinister? (both hands as skilled as a right hander's left) If so, what's your experience with it?

I think some ambisinister people don't even realize they are. They just think they have really bad handwriting because that's them

I know that as a small child, I began doing things with my right hand because that's what everyone else was doing most tasks with, and since forks and pencils felt unnatural in both hands, I just went with the right hand. I therefore favor my right hand, even though I am not right handed.

Through practice and use, things get easier, but some things are never easy. On the plus side, it teaches you patience and problem solving skills. On the down side, it can make you kind of irritable sometimes.

mostly i am right handed, but i have a bit a complex relationship to say i am 100% right handed. in my right hand i hold my writing instrument as a left handers are known to, two fingers opposite the thumb, and my hand lying on the writing surface or nearly on. I recall early in elementary school that teachers tried to correct this and teach me to write correctly.
However my hand writing is not good. it has improved little from the 3rd grade, and probably was subpar at that point. i write in all capital case to make things a little more legible. However i can draw fairly well with my right hand and i know i definitely cannot with my left.

however there are somethings i do better with my left. I noticed quite some time ago if i am to through a ball up and down in the air i can do this easier with my left. A couple years ago i also found that if i throw overhand from left it looks significantly less 'girly' / otherwise strange & ineffective. This was actually pointed out to me by some friends were trying to teach me how to throw, something my father failed to do (not his fault, my motor skills).

my mother said that up until i started to learn to write that it was unclear what was my dominant hand, and even for sometime as i was learning to right before i settle on my right, which as i mentioned the quality of which looks very much like someone who has taught themselves to write with their nondominant hand.

I also am left eye dominant, and therefore can shoot a gun more accurately with my left hand and left eye aiming

I'm right handed, but I think all can become ambisinister with practice, my mother did, but I'm more interested in learning to use my feet.

I am left handed, but can do many things with my right hand too. Some almost or as good as, with my left hand. I got better at right handedness after driving my mother's Plymouth Duster for a while. The car is long gone now, but the gear shift lever was mounted in the console between the seats, so it had to be used with the right hand. Not long after the car was sold I suddenly discovered I was holding and carrying full cups of liquid with my right hand, without thinking about it, and without a problem. Ever since then I have been able to do a lot with my right hand that I hadn't been able to do before. However, I still write with my left hand. My writing is good, but tends to be a little bigger than many other adults. This is probably due to minor hand motor skills problems that I have always had.

I wonder what the stats are on spectrum handedness, and ambidextrousness. I have three NT siblings. We are two each of male and female. One of each gender is lefty. Both parents were right handed. My father is NT and my mother had untreated mental health issues.

As for being ambi-left, I like being somewhat two-handed, except I do occasionally get confused as to which hand to use.

Remember, we on the spectrum are all:

A Different Drummer

If a man does not keep pace with his companions,
Perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer.
Let him step to the music which he hears,
However measured, or far away.

--Henry David Thoreau

I'm NVLD, but pretty definitively right handed. Right foot kicking, too.

I'm a bit ambidextrous. I can't write with my left hand, but other than that, I can do pretty much everything with both hands (such as using keys, cutting my nails or pouring drinks).

At the same time, I'm very clumsy. But I think that's mostly because I can't multitask and can't coordinate my hands and feet very well. When I'm working with my hands, I have to fully focus on them. I can cut my own hair without any problems, but when I'm walking while holding a mug, I might drop it because I focus too much on my feet It's really weird. I don't drive a car because of my coordination problems (and my slow reaction speed).

I'm completely left-handed. My right hand has NO power or ability. The only things I do that can be seen as "right-handed" are because I can't grip anything with my right hand. For instance, while dealing cards, I deal with my right, but only because I can't HOLD the cards in my right with any grip. Same reason why I open a jar/bottle with my right hand (gripping the jar/bottle with my left) and use a knife in my right (when cutting meat with a knife and fork) because I could never hold down the meat with a fork in the right hand. My right hand is useless. I think the only thing I do easier with my right hand is use a computer mouse, and that's only because they're FITTED for a right hand's placement.

i'm indeed ambisinister (although i didn't hear the term before i saw this thread).
a few things i prefer my right hand for; things like writing, using a mouse,using scissors and putting butter on my bread, trough a combination of training and the fact that those objects are so ergonomically right-handed that it becomes nearly inpossible to use them left-handed.

my right hand is the hand i usually prefer, indeed becouse i chose that one from seeing everyone using it, and becouse of that, it's slightly stronger and more dexterous in most tasks, but i have token it on myself to retrain my left hand, preferring that one if i can.
i have already reached the point that almost everything i do, i do with the most convinient hand judging on orientation (what i have in the other hand, which hand is closer, if someone/thing is blocking one of my hands/arms...), and for things like cutting my meat, i actually prefer my left hand over my right one now; confuses the heck out my my housemates

Its funny because I never really knew about this until I read it on a different thread, but I think I might relate.

I write with my left hand, and I think that it is because my family wanted me to be left handed (creativity and all that goofy stuff) yet I am a rather logical person. my handwriting is horrible... often new things that I've never done before I have to pick which hand works better before I can even begin to try to feel less awkward at doing it (I can be a bit of a klutz at time but I somewhat hide it from the outside world)

I write, hold a fork, swing a baseball bat (very poorly), use spray cans/bottles, and sometimes reach left hadedly
I throw, swing a golf club (poorly also), brush teeth, and other times reach right handedly

As for handwriting... I never had a comfortable position to hold a pencil/pen... I type whenever possible and can actually type at... we'll rate it at a lot of words per minute since tests vary (usually over 60) and typing from my thoughts (over 80 if my thoughts flow consistently) is a completely different speed.

girl - 16 here.
i am ambisinister and it's the worst! i do kick boxing and my coach thinks jumping is great and i just can't do it!
he thinks i am stupid and keeps yelling at me everyday. i am great at kick boxing and all but i just can't synchronize my hands
he makes me cry almost every week and doesn't believe when i tell him i'm ambilevous, because he's seen me writing with my right hand eat with my left. these are after years of practise and irritation. i hate the fact that my hands are useless and he keeps on reminding me. any way to improve myself?

I am left-handed, but my handwriting looks like a 5 year old's. However, I am not ambisinister because my righty writing is much worse.
I always write with my left hand.
The strange thing is, though, I have just as much discomfort with both hands.

Eberry once in awhile, I wake up in morning and find myself eggsperiencing something like ambisinister.

I am right-handed for writing (lefty for throwing), and I sometimes wake up with right hand weakness, and my handwriting is really bad, and my right hand feels bad for doing eberrything, and the effect usually lasts for the day, with fading intensity from morning to night, and the next day, I wake up, and eberrything is back to right-handed normal.