Right, Left, or Ambidextrous?

im right handed,but due to a frozen sholder on right side,i had to use my left hand alot.now my arms almost healed im still useing mt left hand,although i cant write with my left hand.

I am naturally right handed but I found out last year that I am able to gear change and steer a left hand drive while on Holiday in Florida, so mabye a little of left but mostly right handed.

Sarah

Good question - I'm 48, and still haven't figured it out! My family figured I was a "southpaw", until I unluckily managed to break my left wrist twice within a few weeks at the age of 12. My elementary school teachers insisted that I write with my right hand, and my left-handed grandmother taught me to crochet, knit, tie shoelaces, etc, with my left hand. I've had chronic carpal tunnel syndrome for the past thirty years, and at the moment have three fractured (and splinted) fingers on my right hand. I favor my right hand for writing, and use my left hand to open bottle caps or hammer nails, etc.. When I type, I use the 10-finger system when both hands/wrists are healthy, but otherwise use either a left-hand or right-hand "5-finger system". I thus voted "ambidextrous"!

Primarily right handed, but I haven't discovered anything that I can't manage left handed, however clumsy, and there are a few things I prefer to do lefthanded -- such as peel carrots. I write lefthanded whenever I'm "helping" the cats, and it's easy enough that I'm pretty sure it wouldn't take long to whip it into shape if I needed to.

I'm a leftie there aer some things I can do with my right hand.. like I always surf the internet and go on here of course using my right hand, but thats because the mouse always was in my way if I used my left.

One thing that was annoying growing up.. two actually.. were scissors and notebooks. I could never cut with the scissors, which was a problem in science when we were disecting things... another things is that I used to get yelled at about having smudges on my paper when I was younger and writing, until my mother explained (and not very calmly either) that I was left handed and they should "just get the H*ll over it" I try to write on the right side with my left hand but the stupid spirals in the book get in my way, and the teachers never liked me to turn in a paper where the holes were on the right side. Which is stupid to me. Being left handed isnt unlucky or bad mannered. If people dont like me eating with my left hand, then I would consider the fact that I had already pointed myself out as rude, and try my best to burp and fart and make a big slob out of my self, just in spite.

I dont know why but it kind of annoys me when parents force kids to always use their right hands, even if tehy are left handed.

I am a righty but i can eat with my left too, and ride a horse, or do anything with a horse with either hand.....*chuckles* you learn real quik on a horsey do use whatever you got.

I write with my left hand, but that's about it. Most other things I do with my right hand.

Originally Posted by ScamperFarms

I am a righty but i can eat with my left too, and ride a horse, or do anything with a horse with either hand.....*chuckles* you learn real quik on a horsey do use whatever you got.

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Come to think of it ... that's one of the very few things I do left-handed! When I'm riding Western and neck-reining.

Cindy

I put in my working years at a rather staid and conservative Institution, and at one of our weekly staff meetings, one of the woman managers replied to the Directors question of whether she was left or right handed, "I'm ambidexterous", and I replied, in a serious tone, "Gosh, I'd give my right arm to be ambidexterous !".

Lots of coughing and throat clearing followed this comment, and the Director gave me a long, searching stare, but never said anything about it.

I was prepared to tell him that life doesn't HAVE to be so serious, there is always room for a smile, but he didn't give me the opportunity.

Leonard.

I am am right handed but my dad is ambidextrous he grew up back in the day when they though if you were left handed you were abnormal so they forced you to write with your right hand. You still can't read his handwrighting either way though.

For the most part, I'm right-handed. My boyfriend thinks I'm weird because I can use my mouse either right or left handed. At work, I use my right hand. At home, my computer is set up different and it's easier to use to mouse with my left hand.

100% right handed!

My left arm is so weak because I do nearly everything with my right hand/arm...

I'm a "south paw". I'm surprised at the poll results. I thought there'd be WAY more lefties than 5 on here! (Maybe not everyone took the poll?)

I do almost everything lefty....except cut w/ scissors. I think it was the peer pressure in elementary school. Remember those "lefty" scissors that had the green rubber handles? Well kids can be mean and if you had the "lefty" scissors you got picked on. "Look at Renee, she's got the snot green scissors! Booger girl!" LOL It's funny now, but not as a 6 year old kid it's not!

I agree with the gal who said....you don't even realize how difficult/awkward normal everday things to a right-hander are. Maybe that's why it took me years to learn to drive a stick! (Or maybe I just have bad hand-foot coordination.) And I guess it's not instinct for a "righty" to assess the seating arrangements before sitting down to eat with a crowd.

Just one last thing...."Right handed people use the left side of their brains. Left handed people use the right side of their brains. THEREFORE, left handed people are the only ones in their right minds!"

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---Renee (Poncho & Minou's meowmy)

Just have to add... I voted that I was right handed but I noticed that when it comes to driving, I'm ambidextrous. If I'm on the phone or drinking something, I'll drive with whichever hand I feel like... tho I think I prefer my left hand while driving.

I do most things right-handed except I use my right for cutting when I eat as it's stronger.

heheh I'm a leftie... well for most things. If I want to write with my right hand it has to be Da Vinci style and done backwards. That was kinda useful for diary entries Most things are made for right handers, though there is a store in London who cater strictly for lefties.... really useful to someone in the North of Scotland though!! Seems though that I managed to miss the toggle with my damned right handed mouse and voted for amidextrous instead of leftie. So there you go.... speaks volumes. For most things I jsut use whichever hand comes first.... though there are some activities where I am predominantly left handed.

oh and by the way B.O.M..... I'm glad I'm not the only person with that problem with notebooks! Personally i always preferred the notebooks that are all joined at the top of the page!

I'm right handed except when it comes to knitting strangely enough. Although unless I'm writing both hands are about equal. I just strongly prefer my right, that may be because it's what I'm used to using though.

I'm right handed.