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What is your dominant hand?

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I am a right-handed person but when I was younger there were things that I did the way a left-handed person would do. I wanted to be a cheerleader so would practice with the other girls in my class. I always started (for example) a cartwheel differently than the other girls. They all did right hand down first, I did left. They were all right handed like me. It never dawned on me until a few years later when I knew someone that was left handed and a cheerleader and I saw how they did those moves... the same way I did.

At one time I could also write with my left hand although I was a lot slower at it and if I practiced, it looked pretty good. Mom saw me doing that and told me that as a toddler when I was learning to use eating utensils I always picked them up with my left hand instead of my right. And, when we were at my grandma's house, she instantly moved them to my right hand. She was an elementary teacher and was determined that I would not be left handed. My grandfather, her husband, had horrible writing because he was a left handed child that had their knuckles cracked to learn to write with his right hand. So she wanted me to learn to use the right hand from the start.

These days, it doesn't matter which hand I use, the writing is horrible! I also have more strength in my left hand these days due to shoulder surgery on my right side 15 years ago. I have lost strength on that side over the years. So there are some things I do now with my left hand just because of strength needed.
 
I'm right handed. My mom is a leftie and I admit it was funny to watch her use a computer mouse for the first time all those years ago. I showed her how to change a mouse so it was for a leftie but she still uses it with her right hand. She says it's easier than moving it/switching its properties. Shrug.

I'm not ambidextrous but I have had to use my left hand in art. I think it's a matter of practice for me but I would never say I'm very good at, say, writing with my left hand.
 
Righties in my family except one granddaughter is a leftie. No clue where that comes from but she is very dominant left.
 
I'm right-handed but there are a number of things I do using my left hand.
 
I'm right - handed, and so was my mom/dad. boyfriend is right-handed too.

I do everything with my right hand, specially after I suffered a bike crash years ago and I lost partially the movements of my left arm/hand.
so i scrap, type and use mouse basically with right hand.
before this, my dominant was the right hand also.
 
I am right-handed, can't do a thing with my left hand.
DH is ambidextrous. He started out being left-handed, but in school they forced him to switch. He eats left-handed, he throws a ball left-handed, he plays guitar right-handed, he writes right-handed.
 
Everyone in my immediate family is right handed, but my Mom is a leftie. I broke my right wrist once and my right collarbone twice as a kid and every time I'd have to try to do handwriting with my left hand and it was atrocious! You'd think after all the practice I'd get a bit better, but nope! (however my right handed handwriting is pretty awful too... so... there's that! :giggle )
 
Angela Toucan said:
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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What a great story!! Thanks for sharing. Amazing what neat things can be done with "deviant" traits! lol

I can shoot ( pool, gun, etc) with my left or right hand. And cut with both. I write right handed. Interestingly, I can tell if my day will be best spent creating by my handwriting in the morning. If it is pretty, then it is a right brain day and a go. If it is rough, then NO, it is a left brain day; which seems to be opposite of what I was taught in university courses regarding the brain:
The left side of the brain is responsible for controlling the right side of the body. It also performs tasks that have to do with logic, such as in science and mathematics. On the other hand, the right hemisphere coordinates the left side of the body, and performs tasks that have do with creativity and the arts.
 
I am right handed. In my siblings - two sisters and one brother, my brother is left handed with both our parents being right handed. My mother's sister was left handed and only one of her five children were left handed. It was my left handed Aunt who got me started on learning to crochet when I was a teenager.
None of my four grandchildren seem to be left handed but I have noticed the youngest, Andreas is capable of using either predominately.
 
I’m a rightie, but my son is ambidextrous. I had grandfathers on both sides of my family that were ambis, so I’m not surprised. It became a real challenge when he was in Tae Kwon Do, for his dominant hands and legs would be different for every move. They finally had to teach him to “do it this way”, then he was fine!
 
I can’t think of a single left-handed person in my whole family, and that includes cousins, aunts, uncles, even in-laws.
 
I write left handed.. but cut right.. I also use mouse with right, I eat with both... bat right handed and golf right handed
 
I'm right-handed, and I have 5 right-handed kiddos too. I'm not very functional with my left hand, but I have attempted at times to eat or write with my left hand for a fun exercise I guess LOL.
 
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