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bestcee

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Are you left or right handed?

I'm a righty, living with 2 lefties.

However, I did use my left as a kid to write, and I still do better at sports the left way instead of right. My son? He plays tball the right way, like his coach.
 
I'm a righty. But my left is where I carry stuff because it is stronger. Sometimes I practice writing with my left hand in case something happens to my right. :giggle

When my daughter was a sophomore, she couldn't think of the word for ambidextrous, so she said "bi-handule" and we use that term all of the time. Kennedy seems to be bi-handule. :) He can write with both hands, but now mostly uses his right. But he kicks with his left and tries to bat left.
 
Righty. My younger daughter and my brother are lefties. I can't do squat with my left hand! All those years of piano lessons and I still can't play with my left hand worth a flip.
 
jk703 said:
I'm ambidextrous, but use my right hand daily and for most things. I can also write upside down and in cursive with both hands. Weird.
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Jenn, you are so talented, and here is yet another one. I'm envious. As a teacher, I would set a goal to improve my handwriting every year (right handed) but now I'm retired and have given up improving it. Now, when I make a shopping list, my husband will go over every item because my writing is soooooooooo bad.
 
lol! Carol, I don't know if I'd call that a talent! :giggle Plus, it's not terribly near or messy, unless I want it to be. If I'm writing script, super fast, I use a sort of pared down writing (mostly removing vowels).

I think as a teacher, you have learned to read upside down... I just happened to notice I could write it upside down once when talking with teacher friends in college.
 
We are all righties here, though my brother is a lefty and my mom is ambidextrous.
 
left handed!! but thanks to crappy left hand scissors, I cut right handed. Since so much of life is right hand-centric, I think my right side is stronger than my left side would be if I was right handed. I'm kind of clumsy, but I read an article somewhere (on the internet so it must be true) that left handed peeps have more accidents because there are so many things in our houses and worlds that were designed for righties that we aren't as coordinated with them and it leads to more accidents.
 
I'm a lefty but both my girls and hubby are righties. The only other person in my family that was a lefty was my aunt but she was forced to learn to right with her right hand as a child.
 
We're all righties here. In fact, I cannot think of one person in the whole extended family that is a lefty. Hmmm, weird.
 
I come from a family of right handed people and married two right-handed men who also came from right-handed stock. However, my 2nd son is ambidextrous and with the guitar he could switch back and forth with no preference. He was like me when young and was fluent in many languages and is now a chef. Switching back and forth from either side of the brain seems to be the ability with this sort of thing.

btw, I did a paper in college on being left handed and gravitating to right brain jobs. I was visiting the Navy Test Pilot School in Southern Maryland a lot for my job and on a visit to one of the classes I asked the professor how many of his students were left handed. He looked surprised but said that when they set up the classrooms each year, they finally realized they needed almost all left handed desks! Being a pilot was normally a course filled with right handed students but those who wanted to TEST those new airplanes were almost always left handed! At this point, they were all men so we wondered if that would be different as more women entered this field.

fwiw, almost any man I've known who was left handed - and I started checking after writing this paper - was also blue eyed. And no, not the reverse at all.
 
I'm a righty- but my Mom (and MIL) are leftys. I remember my mom had a book all about things that were made for right handed people & it was crazy! Things I hadn't even though of- like dish soap bottles- the groove for your RIGHT hand has the label forward-but if you pick it up with your left hand, it's backwards. There was a whole bunch of things like that that I just didn't think about! ;)
 
I'm a righty, as are all my kids. DH is a lefty. The biggest problem we encounter is going anywhere to eat that is slightly crowded. If any of us sit to his left, we are always bumping elbows.
 
cookingmylife said:
I come from a family of right handed people and married two right-handed men who also came from right-handed stock. However, my 2nd son is ambidextrous and with the guitar he could switch back and forth with no preference. He was like me when young and was fluent in many languages and is now a chef. Switching back and forth from either side of the brain seems to be the ability with this sort of thing.

btw, I did a paper in college on being left handed and gravitating to right brain jobs. I was visiting the Navy Test Pilot School in Southern Maryland a lot for my job and on a visit to one of the classes I asked the professor how many of his students were left handed. He looked surprised but said that when they set up the classrooms each year, they finally realized they needed almost all left handed desks! Being a pilot was normally a course filled with right handed students but those who wanted to TEST those new airplanes were almost always left handed! At this point, they were all men so we wondered if that would be different as more women entered this field.

fwiw, almost any man I've known who was left handed - and I started checking after writing this paper - was also blue eyed. And no, not the reverse at all.
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hey...your son.... does he have a girl friend?
Sarita speaks , reads and writes English,m Portuguese & Spanish, plus she is an excellent cook, talented in many other ways.... LOL they would get on well !!!!

I'm right hand but Andy, Sarita's dad was left handed, forced in school to use the right but his guitar was left handed....
I can do some stuff with my left but not much...even for driving here in the Uk I got an automatic as using a gear thing with the left is just weird LOL
 
We're all right-handed here but I do use my left hand for a lot of non-writing activities.
 
I'm a righty living with 3 other righties. I do have a couple nieces and nephews who are lefties. But we are all very much righties.
 
enjoyyourpix said:
left handed!! but thanks to crappy left hand scissors, I cut right handed. Since so much of life is right hand-centric, I think my right side is stronger than my left side would be if I was right handed. I'm kind of clumsy, but I read an article somewhere (on the internet so it must be true) that left handed peeps have more accidents because there are so many things in our houses and worlds that were designed for righties that we aren't as coordinated with them and it leads to more accidents.
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This is my daughter Bianca.
 
I'm right handed, but my single-mother who raised me is a lefty. So, there are a lot of things I do strangely. when most people supinate, I pronate. Like, when most people grab something their thumb goes up & out. When I grab something my thumb goes inward & down until my wrist is upside down with my palm up. My husband calls it the velociraptor grab, and I happen to be short with t-rex arms. Even as a teenager, my grandpa cut my meat for me. It would take me a long time since everything I did was backwards. I've cooked so much as an adult, that I no longer have that problem.
 
We are a family of righties. My middle son broke his right arm when he was a year and a half and he has thrown and shot a ball lefty since. My husband tried to "correct" that at first since he thought it was caused by having the broken arm, which it most likely was, but I told him to just leave him be - he would do what was most comfortable for him and be just fine. And he has :) My youngest son kicks a ball lefty, which has surprised me, but it works for him! Both of my parents are lefties and my FIL is as well, so I blame them :)
 
cookingmylife said:
fwiw, almost any man I've known who was left handed - and I started checking after writing this paper - was also blue eyed. And no, not the reverse at all.
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That's v interesting. I'm right-handed, but my brother is left handed, he has blue eyes. My other half also is left-handed with blue eyes, although he plays sport right-handed. My son also blue eyed, favours his right hand, but could be ambidextrous as he sometimes switches hands when writing (more so when he was younger).
 
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