Are you right handed, left handed , or both, I am right handed

[debm55]

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[LoisB]

1. Right.

[debm55]

2. Thank you LoisB

[rsdsharp]

3. I'm, what's the word? Ambivalent.

[debm55]

5. okay

[rsdsharp]

8. Amphibious?

[unblock]

28. The word is ambidextrous, which basically means both right hands, which is exactly the wrong word for it

[debm55]

44. Thank you unblock

[rsdsharp]

47. No shit. I give up on attempts at humor.

[Probatim]

57. I was amused. Would have been my response if you hadn't beaten me to it.

I'm a Catholic school lefty - the nuns in grades 2-6 tried to beat it out of me.

To this day, fine motor skills (e.g., eating, writing, brushing my gum holes, etc.) are done left-handed. Gross motor skills (e.g., throwing, batting, swinging a golf club, etc.) are done right-handed.

What's even weirder, is that I shoot a rifle left-handed but I shoot a bow right-handed. It's like my dominant eye switches for the bow.

On Edit - my grandmother could put a pen in each hand and write the same sentence with both hands at the same time. Only one of the hands was doing a mirror image of the other. So basically, she'd right the same word forward and backward at the same time.

[rsdsharp]

60. Thanks. Brooks Robinson was like you. He was totally left handed except throwing and batting.

I can shoot a hand gun right handed because I can move it to use my dominant left eye. That doesn’t work with a rifle. Oddly, I never had a problem shooting a bow right handed.

[Probatim]

61. He was quite a few years older than me but the nuns I had were all in their 200s - so maybe they taught him too...

I've tried off and on to shoot a bow with my left hand and it's even more difficult than trying to throw with my left hand. None of the muscles know what to do. It's quite comical.

[DiamondShark]

63. Curious on computer mouse and gamepad sticks.

I can use a mouse left or right handed, most times it's right handed. But gamepad analog sticks I can't control at all with my right hand.

[Probatim]

98. Mouse and game controllers are both right handed.

You'd think that would fall into the "fine motor skills" cohort, but nope.

[NotANeocon]

107. Always thought

it should be bidexterous or omnidexterous

[WheelWalker]

4. Right handed, left footed, right eyed

[debm55]

6. thank you

[lapfog_1]

7. Right handed, except for sports

my dad was left handed... so baseball, tennis, golf ( especially golf ), I learned and played left handed.

I'm afraid I was never very good at sports ( except for track ).

[debm55]

10. Thank you lapfog_1

[OldBaldy1701E]

67. Same.

I batted with either hand. I could play tennis with either hand. In any other way, I am very right handed.

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

9. It is actually quite rare for someone to be absolutely, totally,

100% either right or left handed. Most of us do at least some things with the other hand.

Here's something intriguing about handedness: Everyone has noticed that some lefties write "normally", and others hook when they write. It turns out that the hooking or not hooking has to do with which side of the brain is running which side of the body, and no, it's not always the left brain running the right side or the opposite. Those who hook (if I'm recalling this correctly) have the left side of the brain running the left side of the body.

It's also the case, although extremely rare, that a rightie will have the right side of the brain running the right side of the body, and that person will hook when they write. After I read that book I took a closer look at my son (otherwise known here as My Son The Astronomer) is a strong rightie who hooks when he writes.

[debm55]

12. Thank you for your interesting post, PoindexterOdlethorpe Very helpful

[if..fish..had..wings]

11. Right handed but

when I was a teen I spent an entire summer using only my left hand (preparing for old age when I might lose my ability to use my right hand) and so there are many things I can do quite easily with my left hand even though I am not ambidextrous.
To this day I eat with my left hand. I can play ping-pong either way. And so on...

Additionally, I can do lots of things with only one hand, very useful.

[debm55]

13. Very unique, Thank you,

[CanonRay]

14. Definitely left handed

But I can do many things righty, such as mouse. I used to switch hit in baseball too.

[debm55]

15. Thank you CanonRay

[North Shore Chicago]

16. I am in my right mind.

So therefore, I am left handed.

[debm55]

17. okay

[Foolacious]

18. I'm strongly right-handed, but both my kids are lefties....

while their mother is strongly right-handed.

[debm55]

24. Thank you Foolacious. That's different

[chowmama]

19. Ambi-nondextrous

I'm what happens when a left-handed person is forced to be right-handed as a child. Even had the 'we'll tie your left hand behind your back if we have to' threat, although they never did.

What can I say, it was the fifties. Left-handed was seen as a disability and nobody, including my parents, my teachers, and every other authority, was going to let a kid grow up disabled if it could be avoided. My handwriting is illegible unless I print, and even then it's problematic.

Now I sometimes do things LH on purpose, just because I can. Only writing, knitting and things with machines that are designed to be only for right-handers are exempt. And using both hands can really be convenient in a rushed lab.

[debm55]

25. I am so glad that parents and teachers, just let let it be and not force it. otherwise, Thank you and much love, debbie

[chouchou]

20. Left.

[debm55]

35. Thank you chouchou

[Upthevibe]

21. debm55 ..............

I'm another one of those folks whose parents wanted her to write with her right hand even though I'm probably a lefty. My parents even had me go to school early while in elementary school and a teacher came in early to help me with my penmanship. To this day my handwriting is AWFUL! I truly think my parents thought things would be easier for me if I was right-handed so no hard feelings....

Now, I eat with my left hand and do some other things as well (I can't control my mouse with my right hand). Occasionally I'll write with my left hand.

[debm55]

34. Upthevibe, i am sorry that happened to you.I guess at the time that was what it was, But it wasn't anything wrong with

you, Love Debm

[ProfessorGAC]

22. Right Handed

But because of piano & guitar, I'm reasonably deft with my left hand.
I still doubt I could write well with my left hand & it would be really awkward to throw left handed except for a short underhand toss.
I could dribble well with either hand when I played basketball, though.

[debm55]

29. Thank you ProfessorGAC

[sanatanadharma]

23. I have a dominant hand and a smart hand

I have a dominant hand and a smart hand. The dominant hand is never right and the smart hand doesn't reach out to grab hot handles or punch people.

[debm55]

26. Thank you sanatanadharma

[BOSSHOG]

27. Left Handed, BUT

I do crossword puzzles with my right hand. Medical folks say it is a good way to exercise part of the brain which is seldom used. Good for old folks.

[debm55]

41. Thank you BOSSHOG, I will have to try that

[BOSSHOG]

46. It can be aggravating

And borderline illegible. I’ve been doing it for several months. My writing is getting better. And it does take concentration, I guess that’s a good thing.

[PJMcK]

30. Left foot

Can’t dance.

Used to be right-handed but with computers, what difference does it make?

(wink)

[debm55]

39. Thank you PJMck

[Clash City Rocker]

31. As a kid, I used my left hand more

That was the sixties, when parents actually worried about that sort of thing. But my parents left me alone, and I gradually switched to my right hand. I still do a lot with my left hand, though.

[debm55]

38. That's good that your parents let you be

[Opbrg]

32. Left handed

Both my parents were left handed and only 2 of us out of 5 kids ended up left handed.

[debm55]

37. Thank you Opbrg,

[ZDU]

33. right

right

[debm55]

36. Thank you ZDU

[Charlie Chapulin]

40. A little of both

I shoot a long gun and draw a bow lefty. I shoot a pistol and write righty. I swung a bat and threw righty (shoulders are trashed now). I rode a skateboard and a snowboard goofy - another lefty thing. And I could throw darts with either hand.
Just a crazy, mixed up kid.

[debm55]

42. Thank you Charlie Chapulin, You are not a crazy mixed up kid. You are a unique person,

[buzzycrumbhunger]

43. I recall being steered into right-handedness in grade school...

My brothers and son are all lefties and I guess I didn’t fight it because everything they wrote was smeared, which would have made calligraphy really difficult for me, but there are things that are just too awkward and I have to do them left-handed, like work a keypad, dial a phone, and I used to study by taking notes with my right hand and highlighting my textbooks with my left, which was pretty handy.

[debm55]

45. buzzycrumbhunger, I am so sorry that happened to you, I am glad things worked out for you.

[True Dough]

48. I am generally

left-hand dominant, but everyone who knows me calls me underhanded. Any idea why that would be, deb?

[debm55]

52. I'm sorry I don;t,

[True Dough]

59. See this post

for somewhat of an explanation...

https://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1018&pid=2089888

[Enter stage left]

49. Right handed, BUT, I just had the second surgery on my right wrist in 11 years...

So I'm rapidly learning to be left handed.

I have zero motion in my right wrist, it is solid from my elbow to my fingers.

My fault, decades of abuse doing the things I loved. I wouldn't change what I did, I enjoyed it too much.

Tennis, karate, volleyball and racquetball. You have to use the wrist for all of them.

[debm55]

53. Sorry, Enter stage left

[Enter stage left]

58. Like I said, don't be sorry for me.

If I could do it again, I would. I'm 79 now and enjoyed it those sports for about 70+ years.

I'll take that over not doing them in any life I can live.

[The Blue Flower]

50. Both

I write with my left hand; play guitar and sports with my right. I paint in oils and can use either hand when my arm gets tired. In high school, I tried doing my homework with my right hand for a week. By the end of the week, I was stammering, which made sense when I learned that the part of the brain controlling handwriting is the language center. The stammering stopped when I went back to writing lefthanded. My writing was pretty poor using my right hand.

[debm55]

54. I am sorry, But you do what you have to for you

[49jim]

51. I'm left handed....

My late wife was left handed, our oldest son is left handed and two of four grandchildren are left handed.

[debm55]

55. Wow You are unique and blessed, So sorry about you wife

[Clouds Passing]

56. Right handed naturally

Taught myself to do many things with left hand too

[debm55]

69. Thank you Clouds Passing

[aka-chmeee]

62. Mostly lefty, throw right /nt

[debm55]

70. Thank you, aka-chmese

[Emile]

64. Right

[debm55]

71. Thank you Emile

[no_hypocrisy]

65. Born left-handed.

Kindergarten. My teacher freaked because I used BOTH hands to write my name on the chalkboard.

With her Psychology 101 textbook on her lap, she convinced my mother I had to be converted to use my right hand.

I found writing and using scissors to be unwieldy with the hand attached to the red ribbon on my wrist.

I got used to it incrementally.

About 25 years ago, my mother confessed to the conspiracy. Of course, I was dismayed and angry. But not helpless. I chose to "take back" my left hand.

Well, not entirely. I'm now ambidextrous. I open doors with my left hand. I go up and down stairs using the left railing. I eat with my left hand. And yeah, I still write with my right hand, BUT, I *can* write with my left hand (backwards like DaVinci and forward).

[debm55]

72. Sorry that happened to you, no-hypocrisy

[TommieMommy]

66. Right 🖐️

[debm55]

73. Thank you TommieMommy

[justaprogressive]

68. R handed

but as a long-term guitarist my left hand is pretty darn adept!

[debm55]

74. Thank you justaprogressive

[AllaN01Bear]

75. mostly right. mom wanted me to be left, so , will say ambi here .

[debm55]

76. Thank you AllaN01Bear

[Sanity Claws]

77. Reminds of an old saying

I'd give my right arm to be ambidextrous.

[debm55]

79. Hahah. Thank you Sanity Claws

[catbyte]

78. I'm naturally right-handed, but I learned to write with my left after I broke my left wrist

in an unfortunate ice skating mishap when I was 8. The doctor said it would help with the strength in my left hand. I can still do it, but I almost always use my right hand. Except I'm a better bowler if I use my left hand and I play guitar like I'm left-handed. Go figure, lol.

[debm55]

80. Thank you very much, catbyte

[Srkdqltr]

81. Im right handed. Husband and both kids are left handed.

As with a lot of left handers they can use their right for a lot of things.

[Ocelot II]

82. I'm ambisinistrous.

Can't do much with either hand.

[debm55]

87. Thank you Ocelot II

[Rocknation]

83. Technically, I am ambidextrous (the medical term for both)

But I consider myself to be "naturally" left-handed because that is the hand with which I perform my most vital activities: eating, drinking, writing. Everything else I do right-handedly, including throwing and playing guitar.


Rocknation

[debm55]

88. Thank you very much, Rocknation

[marble falls]

84. Just plain handy.

[debm55]

89. Thank you marble falls

[OLDMDDEM]

85. Right handed

[debm55]

90. Thank you OLDMDDEM

[Gaytano70]

86. Rightie

[debm55]

91. Thank you Gaytano70

[coprolite]

92. Everyone is born right handed,

only the gifted overcome it.

I'm left handed

[debm55]

93. Hahaha Thank you coprolite

[NEOH]

94. Both...nt.

[debm55]

95. Thank you NEOH

[NEOH]

110. You're so welcome debm55!!

…And thank you so much too!! 😊

[area51]

96. Right-handed,

but my optometrist noted that my left eye is dominant, and believes I was originally left-handed.

[debm55]

97. Thank you area51

[City Lights]

99. I am right-handed. nt

[debm55]

100. Thank you City Lights

[Aussie105]

101. A fun exercise!

Grab a pen in each hand.

Write something with your dominant hand, do it slowly while looking at what that hand is writing.
Tell your brain that the non-dominant hand should copy and follow every movement.

Practice that a lot.

It does funny things to the inside of your head (non technical explanation)

I call it . . . transferring fine movement motor skills from one hemisphere of the brain to the other.

I'm left handed, but slowly learning to be a right hand writer. (For no particular need)

[debm55]

103. Thank you Aussie105 Will give it a try

[Farmgirl1961]

102. Right-handed for writing, throwing, doing cartwheels

Left-handed for using scissors and cutting my nails. When I was younger, for some reason I fantasized about being ambidextrous and spent time practicing writing with my left-hand. So, I can manage writing, throwing and evening doing cartwheels with my left side, but it's definitely my weaker side.

[debm55]

105. That's great Farmgirl1961. Congratulations.

[hauckeye]

104. Left handed, only one in my immediate family

[debm55]

106. Thank you haucheye. That is different.

[Elessar Zappa]

108. Right handed, left footed!

[debm55]

112. Thank you Elesar Zappa.

[Mad_Dem_X]

109. I'm a proud Lefty!

In both senses of the word.

[debm55]

111. Thank you Mad_Dem_X