Thread: Are you left handed?

Originally Posted by LegalEagle

I'm a freak:

Left-handed: write, use a fork, brush my teeth, shoot a rifle/shotgun
Right-handed: throw, swing a golf club/tennis racket/baseball bat, shoot a handgun, kick (right-footed)

Most importantly, I shave with both hands, and I don't prefer one over the other. I've been equally comfortable with both since day one.

I'm the same way

Left-handed: throw, eat, write, shoot a rifle, box
Right-handed: throw a frisbee, play tennis, bat, shoot handguns

Are we just mixed up or what?

I shave with both.

Jordan

Hi
I'am 60 and naturaly left handed but the good "sisters" (the nuns) would wrap my left hand with rulers or pointer sticks whenever I tried to write with it. I remember when I started writing doing the bottom par of rows of "5" and putting the top line with my left hand, same with the "T".
Now I write with my right hand but can hardly re-read my self, it's that bad.

I can shoot handguns both hands but rifle left side. I could play hocket righty, baseball lefty, golf lefty. I paint lefty but I do the rake rifhty. People how don't know me thing I'm righty until I start to do minute thing. I right righty but I draw lefty, things like that

I must say that lefties are more creative people, more artistic, more sensitive...and for those reasons we will live 9 years less then righties.

BTW all polar bears are lefties.

Jacques
Laval, Quebec

ambidextrous here. was entirely right handed until I had a bad car wreck a few years ago and partially severed my right pointer and middle fingers. after having my right hand out of commission for an entire summer (a summer where i worked 40 hours a week and did school 12 hours a week) I found that I could do everything left handed without a problem.

I use both hands equally whilst shaving; I have no idea how you could shave with only one hand.

Originally Posted by LX_Emergency

Lefthanded. I love it. I always had the advantage in fencing because most of my attakcs came from a side that people weren't used to parrying.

Haven't fenced in years though. Still don't mind being a lefty.

Damn lefty fencers! Just being left handed gives you oddjobs such an advantage

I am most definitely right handed, though I find that I can be ambidextrous when I need to be.

Originally Posted by Hooper

You may find that, like learning a foreign language, you will always have an "accent" . However, a truly ambidextrous person will achieve equal dexterity in a similar setting. YMMV

Good point. I'll admit my left hand works with an accent, but it's a domestic accent rather than a foreign one. So though there is a difference in appearance and/or method, the results cannot be improved upon by the other hand! Maybe ambidexterity is learned best as a child

Originally Posted by RichZ

I am right handed currently. When I was a small tot I was left handed but my grandmother told my mom it was the mark of the devil. Soooo every time I picked something up with my left mom smacked it, didn't take long for me to become a righty. My sister was also born lefty but mom didn't listen to granny by then so she is still lefty. Her hand writting is much neater than mine so just goes to show. My son is also a lefty.

Oh so that explains the commando thing eh? All that smacking around.

Righty by birth, ambidextrous by training. I notice a significant difference in the way I see colors when I switch from writing right handed to writing left handed, so whenever I need to do something artistic or dealing with colors etc. I'll do some intricate task with my left hand for a while to shift brain activity a little to the right. Try it sometime, weird feeling at first.

Originally Posted by Russel Baldridge

Righty by birth, ambidextrous by training. I notice a significant difference in the way I see colors when I switch from writing right handed to writing left handed, so whenever I need to do something artistic or dealing with colors etc. I'll do some intricate task with my left hand for a while to shift brain activity a little to the right. Try it sometime, weird feeling at first.

Seriously?

Sinister and love it. The only thing I do right handed is Fence Japanese style.

Originally Posted by Quick Orange

Seriously?

Yep, colors are more intense, shapes become more prominent than they were previously and I notice positive and negative spaces more so than the actual objects that are creating those spaces. It's not a profound effect, just an observable difference.

But I am an extremely left brained person, so forcing myself to do something with the right side makes the transition a noticeable one, might not happen for everybody.