All of my life I’ve been asked if I was left handed. I use my left hand more. However, I can’t write with it (ledgably). So, I am right handed. So, just wondering if anyone else is like this. Same for lefties who do everything else with their right hands.
I am right-handed yet I masturbate left-handed (and I always have done so). I have no idea why.
I’m left-handed, and there are only four things my right hand is better at than my left, so I think I’m pretty left-handed. However, since one of those four things is use a computer mouse, a lot of people I work with have expressed surprise that I’m not right-handed.
The only thing I do better right-handed than left is write. And that’s debatable… my handwriting is pretty much illegible no matter which hand I use. Even my own mother has asked if I’m sure I’m not left-handed.
Could be because your erection is slightly curved to the right.
Nope, that’s not it. It’s just the feel. My right hand feels awkward and wrong.
For a very long time I thought I was dominantly left-handed (my mother is a lefty) for everything but writing. I tied laces and knots like a lefty, I had a strong preference for buttoning and fastening things with my left hand, I even shot rifles and swung fly-fishing and softball left-handed.
Then when I was 16, I learned that my right eye was basically blind. So, really, it wasn’t that I was left-hand dominant, it was that I was left-eye dominant.
Oddly, even now with corrected vision, I still do all those things leftily, because it just feels more natural to me that way.
I’ve found that in myself, anything that I do with one hand (write, eat, etc.) is with my left. Two-handed tasks (throwing, something else, etc.) is with my right. Oddly enough, I can wield a hammer with either hand equally well.
I’m strongly left handed. Pretty much the only things I do right handed are things where the right handed tools are much better, especially using scissors.
But, because I do use scissors right handed, and I do use a right handed mouse, I’m pretty convinced that while I favor my left hand, I’m perfectly capable of learning to do things right handed. Playing the piano is a good example. Practice really does improve speed and agility.
As for the computer mouse, I’ve decided it’s the right handed people, using a mouse with their right hands, that are odd. By using a right handed mouse, it frees my left hand to either use a keyboard or a pencil.
almost exclusively left-handed. i golf and bat right-handed and had to learn to use scissors with my right hand because there WERE no left-handed scissors when i was little. but that that’s it.
I know a few right handed people who write with their left hand. My left hand, on its own, is mostly useless to me. I can bat well enough left-handed, but not golf. Is handedness hereditary? Not a single person in my entire extended family, that I know of, is left handed.
I am moderately right-handed. But my left hand is stronger and larger. I write with my right and do anything that requires dexterity with it, but anything that requires power, such as twisting a bottle top or turning a key in a tough lock is done with the left.
I’m also left-eyed. I notice it especially when I’m shaving my armpits. My left pit is always easy, with no nicks or missed spots. But my right pit is a hassle. For a while I thought it was because of my hand dominance, but I think it’s a sight issue. I cannot see well enough to get a nice shave under that arm. When I trim my hair, it’s the same thing. The left side is a breeze, but I have to contort my neck all strange-like when it’s time to do the right.
They (whoever “they” are) say your footedness is a better judge of your laterality than your handedness, which can be influenced by social pressures (like I was in nursery school). For a while I thought I was ambi-footed, but now I’m leaning more towards being moderately left-footed (the reverse of my handedness). I say this because almost all signs point to left-footedness (I step first with this foot, it’s points in the direction where I am heading, while the right goes slightly to the side; I have the sensation of my left leg doing all the work, while my right is just hanging on for the ride; I catch myself with my left when I fall foward). But my balance is much better on my right, and I tend to kick with it more than I do with the left. My toes are also more flexible on my right. They wiggle easily while the left toes move as a single unit. Given my left-handed tendencies as a small kid and my left-eyedness, it makes sense that my left-foot would be dominant. But technically, I’m cross-dominant.
Yay cross-dominants!
“I write with my right and do anything that requires dexterity with it, but anything that requires power, such as twisting a bottle top or turning a key in a tough lock is done with the left.”
That has to be pretty uncommon; being stronger and more powerful in your non-dominant hand. :eek:
One problem is that there’s no way to determine which hand is biologically dominant. Many people may end up with a seemingly dominant right hand because we build things for righties, and some people are forced into right-handness by irrational beliefs. I think it may be rarer to find an non-natural southpaw, but it could happen. I think I might have been left-handed, but after years of doing almost everything right handed, my right hand seems much stronger and more coordinated than the left (including the whole arm and shoulder). But when my right hand was in a case for over a month, I was forced to write with my left hand, and some people thought my left handed writing (just printing, I don’t do cursive) was more legible than my typical rightie style.
Boxing offers an interesting twist on handedness. Southpaws are problematic for other boxers to fight, both lefties and righties, because their stance and movements are mirror imaged. Most boxers are right handed, and boxers learn their techniques, and develop reactions based on that. Facing a left hander can be confusing, and dangerous. Joe Louis, usually considered the all time great among heavyweight champions was a converted southpaw, fighting from the right hand stance. Back in the 1930s, his managers felt he would not be able to get fights as a left hander. He was a formidable puncher with either hand, but using his dominant left hand as a lead was very effective (boxers lead with their left hand in a traditional stance). Other boxers have copied this style in recent years with some success, and occasionally some have gone the opposite way, converting to southpaw to gain the advantage of the unusual stance. In one of boxing’s greatest fights, Marco Antonio Barrera (rightie) defeated Prince Naseem Hamed (leftie) using almost only his left hand from a conventional right hand stance. This kept out of range of Hamed’s left handed power punches.
I don’t know common it is. I’m not thinking it’s too rare, especially among people who were “turned” to being righties as little kids. But I don’t know. I would think that simply using a limb more would make it stronger and bigger, but I suppose some asymmetries develop from early on, independent of your brain wiring.
I was once arm-wrestling with another woman. When we fighting with our right arms, you would have thought I wasn’t even trying. My poor arm just kept being knocked back like a feather, no matter how much I tried. But then we switched to the left. I still lost all the rounds, but my opponent had to actually strain. I laughed gleefully. This happened a couple of years ago. I had known about the size differences in my limbs, but I didn’t realize how much they differed in terms of sheer strength. So now I know if I’m ever in the ring with Mike Tyson, I gotta use my left hook, not my right. 
Well, it’s true for me. I am left-handed because I write with my left hand and showed left hand dominance in early childhood. My right hand/arm is much stronger though.
In general, though, unless you see me write, you would think I am right handed. Especially when I had a desk job. I use my mouse and ten-key right handed, but write with my left…it’s very useful for multitasking.
“The Stranger.” Me too, sometimes. But it can only be called that if it’s occasional.
Joe
Both my mother & grandmother were left-handed. I’m right-handed. But they taught me how to sew & iron “left-handily.” I still set my ironing board up the left-handed way, but use my right hand.
Sewing is like oragami gone wrong. I use my right hand, but go “backwards” (for me. Can’t go towards the right—I’ve tried it.) Which means that with every single stitch I then back stitch (repeat?) causing knots.
Needles to say, I don’t sew well.
I taught both my sons how to crochet. (Why not?) My older son is left-handed & I showed him how to do it w/o even thinking about it. ('Tho I crochet right-handed.)
I just wonder how many are Jehovah’s? Apparently they have some ecclesiastical mandate for being ambidextrous… beats the shit out of me? Maybe someone could cite the biblical justification?
Because you’re horny? 
As for myself, I eat and write with my right hand, but i can only catch and throw with my left.