Right, Left, or Ambidextrous?

Heidi mentioned in another thread that she's very right-hand dominant, which struck a chord with me as I am too, so much so that I tried ONCE to drive a straight stick car and then gave it up as a bad job as I simply cannot steer with my left hand in order to shift with my right.

Apparently 10-15% of the population is left handed, but what's the percentage here? Anybody really truly ambidextrous? Man, I wish I was sometimes! Keying on a keyboard is as close as I get!

Cindy

I am right handed. I have one daughter who is a leftie & when she was young, because everything was make for right handed kids, she had a rough start. She overcame it & now is a success in business.

Hi Cindy,

I am right handed by training, but do most other things left handed. My left leg is stronger and I lead with my left in most things. My mom says I probably was supposed to be a leftie, but ended up being trained in a right handed world. I know I am mixed up but comon..

Guess you already know my answer.

Very much right handed.

I am right handed, but do a few things left handed. I started out as a left hander but was made to use my right hand when in school. My daughter is left handed and hopefully will not be forced into using her right hand when she starts school.

I am ambidextrous, but still use my right hand more as that is the "norm". I can write with my left hand, although not quite as nice as my right because I never use it. As far as everything else, I'm in the middle as far as which side is my strongest side in what.

Right

Leftie here

Totally right handed.

I'm always right... opps I mean I'm a rightie!!!!!!!!! LOL

I write with my left hand, cut with my right. I lead with my right foot but reach with my left hand. My left eye is stronger.

In first grade when it was becoming obvious that I was becoming a lefty, my superstitious grandmother told my parents they had to bind my hand to teach me to use the right hand. She said it was the Devil hand and I wasn't to use it. So I was using my left hand in school, coming home and being bound and relearning to use my right hand to write. When the teacher asked why I was switching the pencil from left to right and back again, I told her about the wrapping. She contacted my parents and they stopped the binding.

You want to have a laugh...try watching me tie my shoes. I look like I'm 3 yrs old.

I'm right handed, but quite capable of steering with my left and shifting with my right at the same time...

When i was a baby i used my left hand, then i fell into a burning stump and had to start using my right and it stuck with me.

RIGHT!

Ambie here... write with right since mom forbide me to use my left .... I eat with my left and some tell me that is not proper??

Righty here, although I do a number of tasks with my left hand!

Interesting, it looks like the ratio is pretty much following what it's said it should be, although it also looks like you ambidextrous folks mostly learned that from being left-handed to begin with and then being forced to use your right in a "right-handed" world.

Sharky, I suspect folks are telling you it's not "right" because if you were sitting at a table the majority of which is going to be right-handed you'll be bumping elbows. Also in formal dinner settings, the silverware is set for right-handers (not that I've ever been to a formal dinner *sigh*.)

Cindy

I'm a righty. But one of my four kids is a lefty. It took a while to figure out with him, because he kept switching from one hand to the other when he colored pictures. But I suspected he was a lefty who was trying to color like everyone else. Finally, he started using his left hand for the detail work! Then I knew. He was about 2-1/2 y/o.

My brother is a righty who doesn't remember being switched, but he does everything else left!