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What is your dominant hand?

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AnneofAlamo

AnneofAlamo

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The crochet thread of @GlazeFamily3 got me pondering the left and rights and ambidextrous folks here?

I am right handed and will put my spoon in my eye if I try and eat with my other hand.
We have 9 peeps in our family and 5 are lefties!
Most of the lefties use their mouse on the puter with right hand.
I have identical twins, one left, one rightie! crazy.

So, I'm nosy.
What are YOU?
 
My whole family -- my mom, my dad, my sister, my brother, my husband, and my three kids -- are all right-handed. I'm pretty sure my grandma was right handed and my husband's parents and his brother are right-handed too. The only left-handed person I can think of at the moment is one co-worker. I think maybe one of my aunts (by marriage) was left-handed too.

Despite such lack of personal experience with left-handedness, I think it's perfectly normal natural variation and I hate those stories I've heard of people being smacked or otherwise forced to switch to right-handedness. :(
 
Two of my four siblings are lefties and my grandson is a leftie too. All of them can use their non dominant hand much more than me; they are much more ambidextrous.:clap Of course they are forced to do so in our right-handed world.
 
I'm a rightie. The only thing I can do with my left hand is type, otherwise it is not good for much of anything but back up lol. DH is a leftie, but uses the computer mouse with his right.
 
michelepixels said:
My whole family -- my mom, my dad, my sister, my brother, my husband, and my three kids -- are all right-handed. I'm pretty sure my grandma was right handed and my husband's parents and his brother are right-handed too. The only left-handed person I can think of at the moment is one co-worker. I think maybe one of my aunts (by marriage) was left-handed too.

Despite such lack of personal experience with left-handedness, I think it's perfectly normal natural variation and I hate those stories I've heard of people being smacked or otherwise forced to switch to right-handedness. :(
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My mother's side were Right handed (her parents and her 2 sisters and brother) My Dad's family- His parents were right handed and he was right handed but his sister and his brother both left handed. I remember the stories of the forcing for righthandness... my MIL and BIL as well as DH left.. his sister and father right.. interesting.. I think some were forced to be right in some cases as more things are made for right handed people.. scissors, and coffee mugs with photos on one side of the mug.. my MIL would be so annoyed as she always looked at the blank side of a coffee mug! There was a left handed store that she loved and would by all the left items... like a special pair of scissors and of course a mug :) interesting though re lefties.. the biggest thing when we go out to dinner with another couple hubby sits on the end on the side of the table where his left arm will not poke someone while eating :)
 
I'm ambidextrous, but was forced to be right handed at school (which angered my parents). My dad's a leftie, and my mum's right handed. So anything my dad taught me I tend towards using my left hand for, and visa versa with things my mum taught me. Because of what they did to me at school I tend to use my right hand more for fine motor skills. My rebellion was to do everything left handed at home, so larger motor skills and heavy work I tend to do with my left hand.

I switch hands on the computer when my wrist or hand gets tired, much to the children's annoyance as I switch the mouse buttons over when I do that too.

I got a job due to being ambi. I was helping with the catering for a budget wedding, and peeling potatoes. When my right hand got tired I switched to my left. The guy doing the same task in the next sink threw his peeler down in disgust and stomped off. He came back a few moments later and apologised, explaining he wished he could do that his hand hurt too. I don't think he would have spoken to me otherwise, his wife was in charge of the catering. He was a builder in need of a site engineer but couldn't pay the going rate for one. I was a fresh engineering graduate who couldn't get a job due to lack of experience. He hired me immediately on a no notice period contract, so I didn't have to give notice to go on job interviews and could take on a better paid job straight away when one was available.

TJ and her brother are right handed, like their dad. Joy takes after me.
 
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Right.
I am always noticing lefties on TV shows and movies. I think there is a higher percentage of artistic people who are lefties. My DH’s best golf buddy is a leftie. Even HE thinks golfing left-handed just doesn’t look right. I love Phil Michelson and Bubba Watson (golfers) but always feel like they’d do better if they golfed right-handed! LOL Our son-in-law is a leftie, and passed that gene along to one of his (6) children. Typing is about the only thing I do well with my left hand, although when eating I will often do the European (?) way...cut my food, then lift it to my mouth with my left hand instead of the American way of switching the fork to the right hand.
 
SharLamb said:
Right.
although when eating I will often do the European (?) way...cut my food, then lift it to my mouth with my left hand instead of the American way of switching the fork to the right hand.
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I didn't know you switched hands during eating like that in America.
 
Sad to say that most Americans now seem to not need forks, as so many of our meals are eaten on the run...in the car...so many hand-held foods. I see the younger generation clueless when it comes to table manners.
 
I am right handed but any watches or jewellery goes on my left. It does make telling the time a bit of a pain as I have no useable sight in my left eye but it’s easier to write and use a mouse without something on my dominant hand.

I vaguely remember when I was young I might have been either left handed or ambidextrous for some things though.
 
My mom is the only right-hander in my family of origin- my dad, brother and I are all lefties. My dad is almost completely ambidextrous- he was a nurse anaesthetist before he retired and used to chart his cases in duplicate at the same time (one with each hand.) My brother is in the Army and he shoots right-handedly and does everything else with his left. My husband and all 3 of my kids are right-handed. My MIL thinks lefthandedness is sinful (which has been fun for me!) I use the computer mouse with my right hand and write on blackboards right-handed. My grandmother taught me to crochet as a child and I just sat facing her and mirrored what she was doing, so I guess I crochet left-handedly? I do try to sit on the end of a table when eating so I don't bump into anyone else.
 
A bunch of right-handed people here but.... my son kicks with his left leg for soccer, I can only open jars with my left hand.
 
I thought this post was going to be about which side of the bed we sleep on. After the top sheet thread.

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Right when facing the bed, but when we sleep in other places, hotel rooms etc, my side is always closer to the loo.

When it comes to which hand is dominant, hubby is a leftie, but the kids and I are all...
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Had a lot of fun with that.
Thanks Anne.
 
My husband and I are both righties. So is our daughter. Our son is a leftie for the most part but he bats like a rightie and uses a mouse like a rightie.

My husband's mom and uncle were lefties.
 
I'm a leftie but can do a lot of things also with my right. When I use a mouse, I can use either the right or left hand. Handling utensils and writing, I use my left hand.
 
I'm ambidextrous. I was a leftie until I was in pre-school... then they made me write with my right hand. I wear watches on my right hand, and do multiple things with either hand like eating, or brushing my teeth.

I can write with both hands - normal way, or upside down or upside down and in script. It's weird. My right is definitely better, but my left is pretty good!

Both kids and hubby are righties.
 
I'm use my left hand for pretty much everything and I eat European style as that's where I grew up. Hubby and both my girls are right handed, although my dad's sister was left handed. She was forced to use her right hand when she went to school but thankfully schools were a bit more progressive by the time I attended.
 
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