Left- or right-handed?

pushylady

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Originally Posted by Alaynna

Me too...the only thing I do with my left hand is write and eat, which is actually nice, because I cut meat with my right hand so I don't have to switch utensils or hands to eat like most right handed people have to do...I also play sports with my right side.
I remember when I first came to North America how stunned I was that people here tend not to use both hands while eating. And they hardly ever set the table with a knife and fork. It's fork only for most things!

Enna, that's a frightening story. I'm so glad that you were able to find somebody to help you and you're back to full health now.

I've taught myself to be more ambidextrous because I've known 3 different people who've got really bad carpal tunnel and they all had to learn to use their left hand for thing a part of the physio. I don't want to strain my right hand, so I try to even out the load a little with my left.
 

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I'm very left-handed, and I'm also very right-brained so I go along well with what the research suggests. Theories are highly interesting to me as well as the arts.
 

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I'm right handed. I'm pretty much useless with my left hand, but I do open bottle caps with my left hand, while holding the bottle with my right.
 

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Originally Posted by Kumbulu

Mollidooka here. (That's Aussie slang for a left-hander.)
Must be a WA saying. I am a teacher in Queensland and I've never heard that term before!! It's cool and I'm going to introduce it at work!!
 

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Ambi here .. though very left brained..lol.. way off in left feild...
 

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A southpaw. I ruined half my wardrobe when I broke my left elbow a few years back. Eventually I learned not to eat anything that stained!
 

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I'm left-handed, and I think I fit the common assumptions pretty well.
 
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Even though I am right-handed I always wanted to be left-handed, it just looks cool to me, for some reason


There is a massive discrepancy between my right and left. I am considerably stronger, more coordinated, more flexible and more controlled with my right hand, foot etc... I should learn how to use the left more, because it only makes the unevenness of the whole thing worse.
 

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I'm mainly right-handed, but for tasks like painting [walls etc.], typing (when my right hand is busy or I'm phoning ...), playing...
and similar things I can use both hands which i think is cool and less of a strain for my right hand cause I sometimes feel it's rather hard on my right hand. Funnily enough my dad is a lefty but as a kid in school etc. he was forced to use his right hand and to this day he writes with his right hand, but for most other things he tends to use his left hand. He, too, can paint with both hands and my mum envies us cause she can't last as long as we can
 
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