Is there anybody else who SHOULD'VE been left handed, but wound up a righty? [View All]

[eyepaddle]

Fortunately, I wasn't bullied out of a natural preference by misguided parents or teachers. I was a little slow in developing hand/eye coordination and didn't really exhibit any preference between hands until the second or thrid grade. In fact, when I worked at the board I would start with my left hand, and switch to my right hand rather than work across my body.

I remember talking with classmates and since everybody else said they were right handed, I did too. It took me a while to figure out a way to remember which hand was which (my left eye sees significantly better than my right).

Actually rather than force me to use my "wrong" hand my mom and dad always just let me do whatever I chose to, but my mom has maintained her belief that I should've been a lefty. It does seem that I do a lot tasks that I don't think much about with my left (shaving, eating, brushing teeth, ironing etc.)

Curiousity finally got the best of me this last week--I decided to see if I could learn to write with my left hand! I know that's sounds kind of bizarre, but I LOATHE an unsatisfied curiosity! While It still feels a "different" and I don't have the speed that I do with my right, after only four days I have pretty legible left hand script--even throwing with my left has had a pretty steep learning curve. As of now, the left hand can't cope with "oddities" as well as the right (such as writing on a tablet balanced on my knee an so on) but I think that is just a matter of practice.

Has anybody else ever tried anything like this?

Oh yeah, for the record I have less than no chance of trying to learn to play guitar left-handed, it's taken me 23 years of work to get where I am now, and I ain't starting back up that mountain! :)

edited to fix a hysterical typo!