# Is it psysiologically possible to eliminate or switch hand dominance?

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**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [May 8, 2007, 2:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-it-psysiologically-possible-to-eliminate-or-switch-hand-dominance/403238 "2007-05-08T14:09:02Z")\
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**Author:** ![Sin\_Serially](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Sin\_Serially](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sin_Serially)\
**Post date:** [November 5, 2011, 9:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-it-psysiologically-possible-to-eliminate-or-switch-hand-dominance/403238/41 "2011-11-05T21:51:29Z")

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> [@Grestarian](#):
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> My mother was born a lefty (and passed it on to me). In Japan she was forced to learn everything right-handed. She said she learned to play tennis and ping-pong, but never learned a back-hand return because she would just switch hands and smack the ball fore-handed.

I play ping pong the same way - it can really mess with people. Tons of fun. And yes, I write left handed. I do most other things right handed though.

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