Yup, I’m a southpaw too. It’s only natural that such a trait is found in intelligent and creative people like us…
That’s 'cos we get to use the OTHER side of our brains!
Howdy to my fellow deprogrammerinos.
Yeah, did the Catholic school dance, got trained off the Devil’s Hand. As a result I:
Write: right, terribly sloppy handwriting
Throw sport-related objects: right, but only as well as Chuck Knoblauch
Bat: left (more for the obvious advantage against righties than anything else-- was never much with the glove but made for a great clutch pinch hitter)
Bowl: left, but almost as good with the right
Shoot pool: left
Hockey stick: left
No idea what this makes me. I do agree with the reading-things-upside-down tip-- I can actually write upside-down fairly legibly. It comes in handy when trying to write on the back page of a spiral-bound notebook and don’t want to get those marks on your arm.
Well, that’s it for me. Hi.
Dragonlady
Interesting statistic that especially when you think that the overwhelming majority of dyslexics are male and left-handed.
I wonder if there is some connection that could have something to do with the early foetus.
All foetus’ start off female and then develop into male so maybe some part of that process also affects handedness too.
Extremely left handed. When eating with a knife and fork I have to keep switching them so that the one being used is in my left hand.
I am completely ambidextrous with a computer mouse, however.
I’m lefthanded, left-footed, my left eye is the dominant eye…I mouse with my right hand, but that’s because it’s something dumb that my ‘off’ hand can manage while my left hand is on the keyboard, writing, or whatever. In other words, I mouse righty because I’m lefty every which way.
Being lefty was never a handicap before the computer age. And it still wouldn’t be, if anyone made a keyboard with the number pad over on the left. (Has anyone seen one?)
I can’t even imagine how difficult it would be to use the number pad with my left hand. Mouse and number pad to the right, gives my poor little underused right hand something to do, and leaves the left hand available to do all the real work.
::shudder:: I’m all conditioned and brainwashed and able to function in a right-handed world. Don’t go changing things around to accommodate me, I’ll just end up screwing everything up.
Lefty! Left handed, left-leg / left-eye dominant. It took me until age 10 before I figured out how to use a can opener right handed. I do use a mouse right-handed, mostly because that’s how I learned. I think I also deal cards righthanded. thats about it.
Left-handed, the only thing I do w/ the right hand is wrestle the bald-headed champ.
My grandpa used to say he was ambiphibuous - he could drink with either hand.
Strongly left-handed, but generally adaptable in this #^%*%* right-handed world.
PS: Fountain pens suck! Yay, for biros. 
Write left
Bat right
Golf left (when I took golf lessons, the instructor told me to swing right, then left, then told me to never touch a right-hand club again)
Mouse, left, but with the keys set up righty
Here.
Yep, I can read upsidedown too.
I can also read “mirror image writing” like Da Vinci.
I write quite well in either form also.
Left on!
I don’t hold the pen with a “hook”, though; I hold the pen (or pencil) about a quarter inch from the tip end with the tips of three fingers, and only my fingers move when I write. (Well, OK, the whole arm gradually glides left to write as I go, too).
Forgot to add : I can read upside down. Also backwards. Had many a fun game reading billboards (backwards) on car trips as a child.
Another lefty checking in! I’m the only left in my family though. I don’t even think I have a cousin who’s a lefty. I do lots of things with either hand though.
Write - Left
Bat - Left
Throw - Right
Eat - Left
Cut with scissors - right
Brush teeth - Left
Comb hair - Left
Hold cigarette - Left
Hold Glass - Left
I think my son will be a lefty too. He’s only 10 months old but he grabs everything with his left hand first… I hope he is a lefty so I’m not the only one in my family anymore!
I am so completely left handed, is frightening. My right hand might as well be removed.
My middle son is a lefty too.
I think leftys are more creative.
Very thuroughly left handed. Write left (no hook, just a lovely smudge on my pinky if forced to use pencil), kick and throw left, deal left, often find myself switching fork and knife back and forth so that used one is in left hand. Can read upside down and backwards reasonably easily. Can write passably with my right hand, though. Also mouse and play guitar right handed.
My younger daughter (25 yrs) is a lefty too. Unmodified, unlike her dad.
I don’t know if she’s artistic, but she is a nut. 
Just like her dad.
Peace,
mangeorge (Proud Papa)
Reporting with the Bend Sinister here.
As is one of my twin daughters.