Left handed, Right handed or ambidextrous?

[Fuzz]

[Philostopher]

1. Okay -- I'm right-handed.

But first, I'm about 60% ambidextrous. I played piano as a kid, and can type somewhere in the vicinity of 90 wpm. And on top of that, I've known more lefties in my lifetime than is within reasonable tolerances. What's that worth, at the end of the day?

[Brucey]

2. My left hand is completely worthless, and just hangs on the side of my

body as a kind of dead conjoined twin. My right side does everything.

[southerngirlwriter]

3. Funny (in a sad way) story about this....

I was born left-handed, but my mother and my first-grade teacher decided that it was deviant to be left-handed (evidently, my atheist second cousin was left-handed -- I wish I was kidding) so they switched me. Put a rubber band on my right wrist and if they caught me using my left they'd snap it to remind me.

LOOOOONG time later, Deb Price's column (she's a nationally syndicated gay columnist) appeared in a local alternative rag I had lying around the house. My mother read it. In it, Deb commented on left-handedness -- something to the effect that being gay is just different, sort of like being left-handed, and also mentioned that, statisically, gays are more likely to BE left-handed.

My mother spent the next month saying how glad she was that she had made me "be normal."

I'm right handed for the most part, but when I am using my hands in conversation, I find I naturally use the left more. I also carry things in my left hand more, but I print with my right hand. I guess that makes me sort of ambidextrous....I guess.

Anyway.....I enjoyed the humor of "backward night" in the Lounge. Happy Halloween, y'all.

[LTR]

4. Right for writing

left for jerkin'

[CanuckAmok]

5. same here...

was born a southpaw, but educated for a few years in the UK, where lefties are forced to sit on their left hands to encourage writing with the right.

Luckily, I didn't attend a boarding school ;) ...

[Lydia Leftcoast]

6. Left-handed for writing and eating

But I "mouse," use scissors, knit, and play the violin right-handed.

BTW, left-handedness is supposed to be part of a constellation that includes speech difficulties but also foreign language ability, musical ability, math ability, and allergies. Well, I stammer under stress but learn foreign languages easily, I have musical ability, and I have lots of allergies--but only average math ability. I feel cheated.

[Booger]

7. born lefty

back in the 70's, they still tried to force you to learn how to write with your right.
So, my handwringing is done with my left, and is horrible. Thank you world for trying to assimilate me.

However, I swing a bat right handed, and have no idea how that happened.

[Loco_moco]

8. Sad, but true...

I was born a lefty, but my father believed it to be "deviant" and he did everything he could to make me a "righty". This usually meant a knuckle to my forehead or a stab with his fork at mealtimes if I forgot and got caught using my left hand.

This continued until we moved in with my grandmother and she became aware of what was happening. She forced my dad to stop it and let me be myself. He did, but I always felt a resentment from him towards me that was not necessary...

Now I write and do most things left handed, but I throw, bat, golf and do some other things right handed. I thank you for this poll and you other posters for sharing your personal experiences, I always thought I was alone in this...

peace;
rob

[jus_the_facts]

9. I write and eat left handed but do everything else with my right....

....can't belive all these stories about being forced to write right handed...because my teacher taught me to turn my paper towards my left hand so I wouldn't write with my wrist hooked like most other lefies do...and I'm sooooo glad of that as it sure makes a dramatic improvement in penmanship from my observations of other people who learned the other way.:)

[Hogarth]

10. From Merriam Webster ...

... a definition of the word sinister:

4 a : of, relating to, or situated to the left or on the left side of something; especially : being or relating to the side of a heraldic shield at the left of the person bearing it b : of ill omen by reason of being on the left.

Hmmm....

[jus_the_facts]

11. guess in the 1400's they went by suspsion mostly....

....or maybe I AM sinister...MUAHAHAHAHA!! :evilgrin:

[Hogarth]

12. No one ever expects ...

... the Spanish Inquisition!