I swear after reading the ER thread, I read this title as “Anyone here be ambidextrous?”
StG
Always was basically. There are some things I do better right handed but those are more because my right eye is far and away dominant and the universe is right-hand dominant - shoot, handle wrenches and things like that. And my writing is better right handed but that is from schools back in my day pushing the practice.
I was entirely right handed until I discovered (at around 16 or 17) how useless my left hand had become. I started forcing myself to use my left hand more. 12 years later, I can take notes legibly and at reasonable speed with my left hand, play some sports (squash, table tennis) and do everyday things like brushing, stirring, and cutting stuff with my left hand. Still not ambidextrous though. My right is definitely stronger. But if I had to put one hand in a cast, I could flip a coin for it.
My eight year old is mostly ambidextrous but she has preferred sides for different tasks. Just discovered she’s a leftie on guitar. She switches off when her hand gets tired of writing, but leans mostly on her right. Maybe it’ll straighten out when she’s older. She has autism but I don’t know if that’s related.
I’m a strange one.
I do most everything right handed (write, mouse, golf, etc.)
But…
I hit the baseball and throw LEFT handed. I can’t throw with my right to save my life…
I am another born lefty who was beat into being a righty. I write with my right hand, but do most stuff with my left. I really found out how much I used my left hand when I broke my left elbow last January, and was in a cast for weeks. Drove me batty.
Sort of, I’m right handed but I throw a frisbee with my left hand for some reason. And I can shoot pool with either hand. Writing with my left hand, not good.
I write and eat left handed and all sports I do right handed. I can use a mouse with both and periodically switch to avoid wrist problems.
I can do most activities – writing, drawing, eating, computer work, tool manipulation – equally well left or right handed. (I prefer writing left-handed, since it’s neater.) Activities that are dependent upon eye dominance, such as throwing, have to be done right-handed. When I was learning how to write, the crayon or pencil was always placed in my right hand, since it was assumed that I would be right-handed like my parents. I didn’t really try to switch hands until 9th grade, when I found myself in an incredibly dull class. I started writing left-handed to both slow myself down during in-class assignments and to give myself something interesting to do.
I have seen a home video of me receiving my first watch…I immediately tried to put it on my right arm. I know this isn’t true of all lefties though, so it probably doesn’t indicate anything. (I do wear my watch on my right arm now.)