Are you cross-dominant (a sort of ambidextrous)?

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My husband is. I know that poor motor skills are often seen in people on the spectrum. My husband writes with his right hand but he plays football with his left footand badminton with his left. He opens jars with his right hand. One of my daughters has the same thing. She seems to be right handed but she walks on the right hand side of the bike (which is the less preferred side when you're right-handed. When she was 6 she used both left and right hands but slowly came to choose the right hand for writing.
I think that it's the reason why her spatial awareness is not so good at the moment, because the brain might not process the information approaching the world from a consistent dominant angle (even the left or right eye usually has a dominance).

It might mean that this sort of brain takes longer to 'ripen' but eventually it could actually be an advantage. The cross-dominant child who is clumsy today, could eventually become unusually skilled in the future, precisely because they didn't choose one side to dominate. This is my supposition (but I'm no professional). What do you think?

I'm equally uncoordinated on either side. However I'm great at needlecrafts.

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yes I am. I write with the right, but my left eye (and ear) is dominant, so I had to learn to shoot with the left... they tell me it's not that uncommon for women. But then again, maybe they were just trying to be nice? I wouldn't know.....

I'm cross-dominant, but in my case I believe it was because I was born left-handed but conditioned to be right-handed by my parents when I was still a small child. I can't say if it's affected my spatial perception/coordination, though.

I write with my right hand, and I throw with my left hand. My feet are about equal for kicking like in soccer. I spin from left to right in the less common clockwise direction. I pick my nose with both hands at once. For other activities best done using two hands, I only use one, so I do the activities poorly.

I use my right hand to write with, and to use a hammer or screwdriver. But I tend to reach for things with my left hand, drive with my left hand, prefer to open doors with my left. I reversed the refrigerator door so I could use my left hand to open it.

My dad says I used my left hand to write with when I was little, but he claims that my grandfather told me not to and made me use my right hand. I think it's more likely my dad was the one who made me use my right hand.

I've always had trouble holding a pen. I have to grip it really hard to make my handwriting look neat. If I don't, it comes out so messy I can't even read my own writing. My teachers in elementary school tried to get me to hold a pencil more loosely, to no avail.

When I eat, my left hand is dominant for eating by hand, but my right hand for silverware. I usually write right-handed, but can with either hand forwards and backwards, so I write left handed when I want to think things through differently, and on rare days I will naturally pick up a pen to write with my left-hand without thinking about it. I learned how to fence left-handed. I play Western flutes with left hand on-top/closer, but Turkish ney with right hand on top.

So, yeah. Cross-dominance here. But I don't know that it really helps as far as coordination later on. I'm 38 now and still a klutz.

I write with my left hand but use scissors right handed. I throw left handed but play the cello and guitar right handed. The instruments though I think I play that way because that's the way the person teaching me played. They do feel more natural right handed though. That, and to play them lefty they would need to be restrung.

I must say that I always reffered to myself as to an ambidextrous person, however I might be cross dominant. I have my right hand and left leg more dominant than the other. However, it is possible that the dominance of my right hand was created during the time when I broke my left hand and could not properly use it for approximately two months. Also, at school I was trained as right handed; so my preference of right hand could be attributed to the fact that I was forced to use it more, so I'm really not sure. I might be slightly left handed but that is contradicted by the fact that when I was little, I used both hands in activities such as drawing, I tended to draw on left side of the paper by my left hand, and vice versa.

I'm right-handed and left-footed, always have been. I don't know if it is the reason that I'm so terrible at sports. I also have poor balance. I can draw alright and my writing is usually neat so long as I print. I don't know if there have been any advantages, but I also don't find it troublesome as I'm used to it.

I can do fine motor activities with both my hands (such as writing). I mostly use my right hand, though, and it feels more comfortable, but the left hand is an option.

Red Bull sponsored aspie surfer Jamie Obrien can switch stance while riding a surfboard, quite rare amongst surfers

I am cross-dominant. I write with my left hand but I play sports games with my right hand. I use both hands in tennis in fact. Sometimes my right hand does certain things better than my left.

I have always been very ambidextrous. My mom forced me to use my right hand growing up but after I left the house I have been using both hands in more or less equal proportion.

I can write with either hand. I was taught to write right handed, but if my right hand is occupied I will use the left one. Neither hand has good handwriting. I play stringed instruments right-handed, but that means the left hand is doing the fingering, and the right is doing the plucking/bowing/strumming etc. I am left-eye dominant, so I shoot left handed. My left hand is also slightly better at playing piano, although not by much.

I didn't even know this term existed. Yes, I am cross-dominant apparently lol! <scratches right ear with left foot>