write with, throw a ball?

I wrote this with my left hand; the first post with my right.

take you if you have us.

I taught myself to be ambidextrous due to numerous hand/thumb injuries as a kid. As an adult, the injuries and surgeries became more severe, so that childhood notion really paid off. The only thing I don't do well left-handed is calligraphy (hand drags through the ink).

have adapted to make your life the best it can be. Good for you

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because that's the hand I eat, drink and write with. But everything else I do righty, including playing guitar.


rocktivity

it is how i was taught and just stuck.
I always wanted to try reteaching myself to play left handed

As a left hander, it seems more natural for my more capable hand to be on the fretboard. With my right hand, I am fine fingerstyle, but I do struggle a little with a flat pick. I always wondered if I would do better with a flat pick if I played left handed. But for me, it is way too late to switch.

When my mother taught me to cook she made me use my right hand to cut up veggies, (said it made her nervous the other way). Also, I'm a right handed bowler, I bat right handed...etc.

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is play the guitar should of flipped it over

imagine me being the next Jimi!!!!

You jump in front of my car when you,
you know all the time
Ninety miles an hour, girl, is the speed I drive
You tell me it's alright, you don't mind a little pain
You say you just want me to take you for a drive

You're just like crosstown traffic
So hard to get through to you
Crosstown traffic
I don't need to run over you
Crosstown traffic
All you do is slow me down
And I'm tryin' to get on the other side of town

Oh what a life it would of been....

it depended on which hand held a marker...students enjoyed it, some said it was from being multiple personality,

I use scissors in my write hand, do archery right-handed, in softball threw and batted left handed.

I hold a knife in my right hand and a fork in the left, control microscope stage left handed.

Rake leaves, shovel, and use wrenches and pliers right handed.

I think I use the left for finer motor skill and my right for larger motions.

I can draw and write with ether hand; this surprises me but most people can't tell the difference.. I mostly use my right hand for writing and drawing but the left for steering bikes, scooters, and cars.

I bet you think it's the devil's hand. It's ok we can take the abuse in this right handed world LOL.

And so is this smilie:

my people!!!!

That's why they Callmecrazy

so right, I mean left ahh you know what I mean.

kidding

don't be MAD

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let me just say I did want to cause a division among the ranks. I was just curious to see if there were many lefties here and that's all. I tried to add some humor to the OP also. I would also be interested to see this type of thread posted on a right wing or far right wing message board. I'm just a humanist per say wondering why things are the way they are.

Thanks, MADem!

when the lefties take over we won't force you to switch hands. Remember we're the good guys

I sense the purge coming.

Good try though.

some lefties are more equal than others.... Joking please don't get mad, just having some fun with this

If so, I'm a southpaw too.

left hand dominate. If you lean left on political issues even better.

there is mix of political views here. Center, left, and right just like in life. See my post #143 if you need more insight why I posted this thread.

We have to put up with them, as in life like you say, but the majority here are left-leaning.

I'm not I agree... they should rule the world

The world needs right handed people (I'm a klutz). But the world would be better off without right winged people.

were, made of strong moral, ethical fiber! Committed to the cause. A sign of a true leftie.

Oh, wait, never mind. I was thinking of something else.

Anything else, I'm a righty.

But sometimes it is a handicap because everything is geared toward right-handed people. For one, as a kid in school, I had a hard time writing in a spiral notebook.

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I would have to take the paper out!




rocktivity

I write right handed, I throw a ball left handed, I swing a hammer right handed, a golf club left handed, and I shoot right handed. I lost my left eye about 20 years ago so I really have no choice about the shooting. It appears that I favor my right hand for the tasks that require precision and my left for those that demand strength.

I have 20-200 vision in my left eye do to amblyopia. I crossover to use my right eye while shooting like a lefty. Not to brag, but I'm a pretty good shot.

Being a righty or a lefty could be linked to variations in a network of genes that influence right or left asymmetries in the body and brain



By Natasha Geiling




For the left-handed people of the world, life isn’t easy. Throughout much of history, massive stigmas attached to left-handedness meant they were singled out as everything from unclean to witches. In Medieval times, writing with your left-hand was a surefire way to be accused of being possessed by the devil; after all, the devil himself was thought to be a lefty. The world has gotten progressively more accepting of left-handed folk, but there are still some undeniable bummers associated with a left-handed proclivity: desks and spiral notebooks pose a constant battle, scissors are all but impossible to use and–according to some studies–life-expectancy might be lower than for right-handed people.

What makes humanity’s bias against lefties all the more unfair is that left-handed people are born that way. In fact, scientists have speculated for years that a single gene could control a left-right preference in humans. Unfortunately, they just couldn’t pinpoint exactly where the gene might lie.

Now, in a paper published today in PLOS Genetics a group of researchers have identified a network of genes that relate to handedness in humans. What’s more, they’ve linked this preference to the development of asymmetry in the body and the brain.

In previous studies, the researchers observed that patients with dyslexia exhibited a correlation between the gene PCSK6 and handedness. Because every gene has two copies (known as alleles), every gene has two chances for mutation; what the researches found was that dyslexic patients with more variance in PCSK6–meaning that one or both of their PSCK6 alleles had mutated–were more likely to be right-handed.

The research team found this especially interesting, because they knew that PCSK6 was a gene directly associated with the development of left-right asymmetry in the body. They weren’t sure why this would present itself only in dyslexic patients, as dyslexia and handedness are not related. So the team expanded the study to include more than 2,600 people who don’t have dyslexia.

The study found that PCSK6 didn’t work alone in affecting handedness in the general population. Other genes, also responsible for creating left-right asymmetry in the body, were strongly associated with handedness. Like PCSK6, the effect that these genes have on handedness depends on how many mutations the alleles undergo. Each gene has the potential for mutation–the more mutations a person has in any one direction (toward right handedness or left handedness) the more likely they are to use that hand as their dominant hand, or so the researchers speculate.

The hypothesis is a logical response to a key question: If handedness is genetic and if right-handedness is such a dominant trait, why hasn’t left-handedness been forced out of the genetic pool? In reality, the research suggests that handedness could be more subtle than simple “dominant” or “recessive” traits–a whole host of genes might play significant roles.



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I read it probably close to 30 years ago. Very interesting. The author postulated that left-handedism is actually a birth defect. He gave the stats about lefties having had difficult births, leading to minor brain trauma causing left handedness.

Interesting theory.

I was born at a time when it was believed that a doc HAD to be in the delivery room, and since my mother's doc hadn't arrived at the hospital the nurses were holding her legs together to prevent me from entering the world too soon! Can't imagine that didn't cause some problems!!

My own ambi son was born in a single push. His first and second APGAR scores were the same, and when I expressed concern about it, the doctor explained that sometimes babies born too quickly are kind of "stunned," so maybe that could have caused a little trauma, too.

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it. I read that they now believe that estrogen levels maybe a factor also. My mother was 40 years old when she had me and did indeed have a difficult delivery. My siblings and parents are righties, and I don't believe any of my cousins are lefties. If we are all mistakes/mutates IMO it is a wonderful mistake to be.

Try to get hold of the book, if you can. It was such an interesting read. It was full of facts and statistics about lefthandedness.

Write and throw left handed. Also a lefty on guitar.

Bat, golf, hockey, kicking all done right handed (or right footed).

Which makes me a righty on most things but a lefty on others, like a cartwheel, for instance, or the leg I lead with. When I tried archery it was lefty.

My youngest is a lefty but uses her right hand for many things. Her choice. I gotta say, it is really scary to watch her cut vegetables or use scissors.

he was forced to go righty. He uses both hands well though. I bought a pair of left handed scissors to groom my Bedlington Terrier last year and now it feels so strange to use them.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bedlington_Terrier

I think personally it is cruel because it is based on a bias against left-handed people. You use whichever hand you are comfortable with and no one should try to change that.

and must be used that way to get the cutting edge of the blades to properly slide along each other. Similarly hand-held can openers are designed to be placed on the top of the can and turned by the right hand. Very difficult to operate otherwise.

Some things don't seem handed but have handed preferences... like piano music and piano keyboards the melody is on the right and the simpler rhythm accompaniment is played on the left. 5 string banjos are made with the shorter string so that it is played, often mostly as rhythm, by the thumb on the right hand...turning the banjo to be played left-handed puts the short string in a position where it can't be played with the left thumb, unlike guitars restringing doesn't solve the problem.

Some things -can- be used in a left-handed manner but have bad outcomes when they are... for example...

A skill-saw (essentially a hand held circular saw)...ejects sawdust to the right. If controlled by the left hand the user gets covered in saw dust.

The same is true of the M-16 rifle I was assigned in basic training. It ejects spent cartridges to the right. When fired in a left-handed manner from the shoulder the very hot cartridges tend to go down the neck of the shooters t-shirt.

Those are things that most righties aren't aware of.

and even how soldiers belts are meant to be worn...

Were left-handed. No?

YES!!!




rocktivity

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I was hoping no one would mention him. He was a union leader before he went nuts though.

Clinton and Perot were lefties.

I'm a lefty.

but George H.W. Bush, Reagan, Clinton, and Obama all are. I think Ford was too.

n/t

Everything else is right-handed.

I write with my right hand and do everything else as a lefty.

My mom was adamant I wasn't going to be a lefty and I still recall her many, many "corrections" when I was a child to force me into writing right handed.

10% of the population is said to be left-handed. I write with my left hand but use scissors and kitchen utensils with my right.

I wish I still had my left-handed manual can opener. It was a blast to see my right handed friends get so frustrated that they would tell me that there was something "wrong" with it as well my spatula, which was also made for lefties.

For all you naughty thinkers...

Lefty loosy, righty tighty, screw that, it should be the other way around.
Oh, and

you

it's all good, laughter is a wonderful thing.

Maybe twenty years ago or more, I controlled the mouse with my left hand, but I can not recall. If I did, I may have reset the mouse buttons for left-handed usage.

though I don't swap the buttons.

Can slice meat with left or right but can only chop and dice with left hand.
Scissors and opening jars - left hand.
Use computer mouse with right hand.
Artist; painting, drawing - left hand but can lay some colors down with the right hand. Writing is dominant left hand but can use right hand in a pinch.
Stir pots, use cooking utensils - left hand.
Bowling - right hand.
Swinging a bat........total confusion but can pitch better with right hand.
Zippers and buttons - right hand.
Wear my watch on right hand.
Raking leaves - left hand dominant.
Brush teeth with left hand.

I may be semi-ambidextrous if there is such a thing.

to my fellow lefties!!

you with us!

who are lefties and are in our right minds.

but both went to kindergarten during the time that they would break you of that (early 70's). I guess left handed scissors just cost too much

Luckily, my mother told the school that if they tried to make me change, "There would be Hell to pay!"
I hated the lefty scissors. They would try to force me to use them, but I couldn't cut with them.
I worked as a teacher's aide. I love the new scissors, that they have in schools. They work for both the left, and right handed.

I started school in 1961, and there was never any attempt to change my handedness! Good thing. I don't think it would have been possible.

Shoot right handed
Fish left handed
Golf right handed
Write LH
Bat LH or RH catch LH


Both my Kid are Right Handed...(like my DW)

and a few other things i wont mention.


write and throw with my right hand.

I write, eat, and shoot pool left- handed.

Write, eat, racket sports (tennis etc) = lefty

Throwing, batting = righty

Everything else = can do either way

I love handing my left-handed scissors to rightys and watch them fumble. I usually say "now you understand."

I move my mouse back and forth to avoid carpel tunnel. It also annoys others who use my computer.

I found it very easy to drive a right hand vehicle with a stick on the column and others couldn't while overseas in the Navy.

I still fumble with phones. I want to hold them in my left hand and then can't write at the same time. Also, I tried holding phones to my right ear and can't hear that way. Nothing wrong with my hearing though.

Don't know the actual stats, but it seemed like there were a lot of lefty engineers at work.

So was my mother, both of my sisters, an uncle, and a grandmother. Lefthanded runs in my family.
So do noses, this time of year...

Hockey, golf and guitar I'm left. I always cut with my left hand when I'm eating or carving a turkey or roast (but I chop with my right when I'm prepping/cooking). I write best with my right hand, but can manage decently with my left (found that out as a child, when I ended up with blisters all over my right palm from the playground bars, and couldn't hold a pencil so tried it with my left, and my teacher didn't even know). As a young kid, I actually caught a ball and threw with my left or right until my dad taught me to catch with my left so the family could share gloves, lol. I cannot switch hit, however. I bat right.

I come from a long line of both-handedness. My grandfather, father and brother bat left and shoot left (in hockey). However, my brother golfed right, played guitar right and was the unfortunate combination of right handed pitcher/left handed batter. My dad golfed cross-handed (probably should've golfed left, but bought right-handed clubs at a garage sale when he was learning LOL). I was more both handed then either of them. My grandfather chortled with glee when he saw me cutting my meat with my left hand. He was proud of being a lefty in baseball. He was disappointed to learn I bat right, lol.

But the both-handedness stops with me. I have the only great-grandchildren and all 4 of my kids are distinctly and completely right handed on everything. Not even a hint of left handedness with them. I think the first time they all picked up a crayon as toddlers, it was with their right hand, all of them.

I'm the only one in my known family who is, just a fluke I guess. It's a big help for my tennis game, I play mostly right handed but on balls hit way out to my left I'll flip the racquet to my left hand and return it. In softball I switched to lefty all the way.

I still remember Mrs. Nichols teaching us to write in first grade- she told us to try both hands, and see which one we liked best. I remember trying it both ways, and going through a serious experimentation and decision process. There was never any judgment or pressure to go right-handed. I remember, in that process, my dad saying, "He may turn out to be a lefty."

It took a certain amount of trust, support, and confidence to acknowledge that I was comfortable with my choice. I am thankful for that support.

I've never really felt that it was difficult to be functional in a right-handed world. The "poor lefties have life stacked against them" business is a bit overblown, in my experience.

So when people remark that I'm left-handed, my stock reply is, "Just like Obama!"

Carter and Chimpy were righties.

I'm left hand dominent but pretty much ambidextrous.

I can do nearly everything with both hands but I'm most comfortable with my left.

Unfortunately, I bat right handed. I coulda been my little league team's x-factor.

I write, eat, brush my teeth and do everything else that takes finesse with my left hand. With things that take strength, I tend to be ambidextrous. It's great for I mini golf, because I use whichever hand makes for a better shot.
One of the reasons I am a strong supporter of Gay rights, is because they make up about the same portion of the population as us lefties. We have been discriminated against too.
I attended cosmetology school. When it came time to learn hair cutting the director refused to teach me left handed. She insisted I do it right handed. I tried, but I just couldn't do it. I ended up dropping out. It was probably just as well, because I quickly realized that I didn't want to do hair everyday.

Have to do everything left-handed--writing, eating, sewing, combing and brushing, cutting, painting, etc., etc.

Only exception are some sports, i.e. had to learn baseball right-handed because there was nobody to teach me otherwise.

was the best idea I've had in years. Makes me all warm inside to know there are many of us hanging around DU.

to add Thursday, August 13 is Left Handers' Day 2015 my 50th birthday

my eye doctor swears that I was originally lefthanded, due to my left eye being dominant.

wonder how that worked out? Perhaps someone made you change or your eye doctor is a quack LMAO just having some fun! I have had a lazy left eye since birth, 20/200 vision but always been a lefty.

Although for anything athletic I tend to favor my right hand, which is a bit stronger (not that I'm very athletic to begin with).

I was always told that two wrongs don't make a right.

still laughing here though.

... for eating and writing. Right handed with a guitar, baseball bat or most anything else.

however when I play soccer, my dominant leg is the left leg. go figure.

Left winger and left handed.

Should make this into a poll.

I tried to make a poll month or so ago and I could not. But I had less posts back then. Just got used to posting without it. I've come out of my shell these last few as I'm sure people here have noticed. Many may want me back in that shell since I am very close to be being a spammer.

we researched it and we are the only lefties on either side for three generations.

THANKFULLY my older brother broke my parents.When we were young being leftie was taboo to many.My parents did their damndest to break my brother of being lefthanded and of course failed.
By the time I came along they were like....whatever

And the promoter of as extreme a brand of handism as I've ever seen.

was coming! I'm laughing so hard as I type. Makes me feel better both physically and mentally thank you.

I have one right-handed son and one ambidextrous. I couldn't teach the righty how to do anything the "right" way. Couldn't teach him how to hold scissors. To this day (and he is now 31) he holds a pen in a really weird way.

The ambi, however, is very adept.