anyone else ambidextrous?

[monkey68]

I think I'm ambidextrous, is anyone else? I started writing with my right hand, but when I hurt my wrist back in August, I had to wear a cast for a while, and then surgery, and I couldn't use my right hand, so I started writing with my left, and realized that I can actually write pretty well with my left hand, and it's actually neater than my right hand. When I played sports, I never had any problem switching from one hand to another. I remember getting yelled at in gym class when we played softball because first, i would bat right handed, but then the next time, I would bat left handed. I just never noticed.

Now, I tend to take notes starting with my right hand, but when it gets tired, I switch to my left. Last year, when I was in anatomy, I started cutting with my left hand just naturally, it was actually useful to be able to use both hands because I could get into these awkward places which would normally be rather difficult if you were only using one hand as dominant. I think it's pretty cool being ambidextrous. Some people think I'm absolutely nuts, but most people think it's a cool trait to have.

 

[Kath2003]

I'm aquadextrous - I can turn the bath taps on with my toes.

 

[DawnCt1]

It depends on the tasks. Some things, like writing forward left to right, I can only do with my right hand. Writing in a mirror image, right to left, I can only do with my left hand. Other things I can do with both.

 

[mjkacmom]

No, but some of my kids have cross dominance, so they're pretty good with both hands. Dd12 is lefty, but does all sports righty, ds11 is righty, but does all sports lefty, and ds6 is right, but does some sports lefty.

 

[N&B'smom]

My DD5 uses both hands to write and color. She sometimes starts a letter with one hand and then switches to the other one to finish it. Thankfully she doesn't do that as much anymore. But she can write neatly using both hands.

She even colors with both hands at the same time. It's kind of weird.

 

[Kath2003]

I find it easier to write 'backwards' with my left hand - like mirror-writing. Anyone else find that?

 

[shirleyb]

Most lefties are forced to be somewhat ambidextrous, due to lack of left handed implements.

For instance, I use right handed scissors, bat right handed, golf right handed, even though I do raquet sports and bowl left handed.

 

[Micca]

I can eat & drink with either hand

 

[PaulaSB12]

Normal writing I can do either right or left handed. Mirror writing or writing backwards and upside down (I got bored) only left handed.

 

[elizke]

DS eats left-handed, and mouses at the computer left-handed, quite precisely (as in drawing computer pictures with the mouse. etc.)

But he writes right handed. I tried when he was younger to nudge him to write with the left, since he was already set in his ways using the left for eating and computer mousing. But he just couldn't do it, and kept switching back to the right hand, and now he cannot switch for any of the tasks. I just find it so strange.

And I think to be truly ambidextrous, as in able to use either one for things like writing, would be extremely useful!

 

[elizke]

Having trouble with board slowness and accidentally double posted. Carry on....

 

[C.Ann]

I write left-handed, but do most everything else right-handed.. I remember trying to learn how to crochet - and all of the directions were for right-handed people - so I had no choice but to learn how to crochet with my right hand..

 

[swandiverpatt]

I was born a leftie -- but broke my left arm when I was almost 3 years old. In a cast, things went to my right hand. So, I do write and paint (like art/paint) with my right hand, but some chores are definitely left-handed: cutting with a knife, mouse, can opener, keys for doors, shooting a gun. Painting walls and shooting on Buzz Lightyear or Toy Storia Mania (especially TSM) is a swap-off chore. I shoot with the left, then the right, then back again. Miniature golf is usually left-handed, but I can swap off to right at times.

My grandmother tried to teach me how to tat (make lace) when I was around 10-12, but I couldn't follow her because that would have been a left-handed chore for me.

My handwriting with my right hand is very, very poor ... but it's not any better with my left hand.

 

[GeorgeG]

I do most things easily with other hand, but I guess I'm considered a righty. I tend to do many things left-handed without thinking about it, sometimes to the point people have assumed I'm left-handed. I write with my right hand, but can get by a little with my left, possibly better if I worked at it.

 

[DawnCt1]

I find it easier to write 'backwards' with my left hand - like mirror-writing. Anyone else find that?

Yes, I can write backwards perfectly with my left hand. Same signature as forward writing. I cannot do it with my right hand.

 

[Diva of Dragons]

I'm aquadextrous - I can turn the bath taps on with my toes.

Me too!!

Count me as another forced ambi! I was mostly right handed until I was 5, when I broke my right arm. I mostly switched to my left, until I was 9 and broke my left one. After that, I used both but mostly my right, until I was 17. I was in a bad car accident and demolished my right wrist. I only ever gained back about 80% use of it, so many things are strictly lefty.

I write with my right but can write with my left. I usually eat with my left, otherwise the food falls off the fork! LOL!!