Righty, lefty, ambidextrous?

[Klayfish]

So I volunteered to help coach DS12s' lacrosse team this year. One of the things we're working on teaching the kids is to be able to catch and shoot with both hands. It's a riot watching them try to play left handed. I know in general 10% of the population is left handed. But how does the DIS world measure up. So what are you? Right, left or ambi? If you're completely right or left, have you ever tried to or been forced to use the other hand?

I remember growing up being left handed. It was considered uncommon and schools tried to change it. I refused to write with my right hand and they eventually gave up. I also remember putting a folded piece of paper under my left hand when I wrote with a pencil, so I didn't get it all over the side of my hand. Knock on wood, never been "forced" to use my right hand due to injury to the left. Had to rely on one leg or the other due to surgery on both of them, but not that big of a deal. Overall, I guess I'd qualify as ambidextrous.

Left handed: write, throw a ball, eat (I think...I use the fork with my left, knife with right).

Right handed: play sports (baseball, hockey, lacrosse), right leg dominant, juggle one handed. I "can" throw right handed and do writing, not great, but I can do it. I never played lacrosse as a kid, so now that I'm trying to help coach, I tried to throw left handed, and it's silly bad.

 

[sonnyjane]

I'm right-handed for sure. My left hand is useless. I don't even like holding my phone up to my ear with my left hand.

 

[wenrob]

I'm a lefty. When I was a kid they didn't make things for left/ambi so I had to learn a lot of things with my right like using scissors, catching a ball with a glove, bowling etc. My Dad drew the line in uh, *colorful* terms when my kindergarten teacher insisted on forcing me to use my right hand for writing. My hand was always covered in ink and my arm tired from those stupid desks. I don't write upside down like a lot of lefties do. I do most everything with my left now but I still use scissors in my right hand. I get teased quite a bit for doing things backwards like holding playing cards and crochet (my front would be a right handed person's back.) I struggle with placing a ruler correctly or turning a can opener properly and can't read a map to save my life. I've tried to train my brain the "right way" but it doesn't work.

Youngest DD is a lefty. Does everything with her left except throw a ball, a frisbee or Wii bowling. For whatever reason she uses her right and struggles big time with it. I've asked her several times why she doesn't just use her left and she says her right just wants to do it.

My grandfather was a lefty who taught himself to be ambi. Many stories of him cleaning up in marble games as a street kid by starting of with his right then taking bets on using his left.

 

[wenrob]

I'm right-handed for sure. My left hand is useless. I don't even like holding my phone up to my ear with my left hand.

I can only talk on the phone from my left side. Even a really long conversation I can't switch. I also can only wink with my left eye and I'm a "left eye shooter" when in comes to looking through a viewfinder. Nothing wrong with my right eye/ear but they feel weak even though they're not.

 

[Tasha228]

I can do everything with both hands EXCEPT write/draw/color and use scissors. I can not use scissors with my left hand and I can only write with my left hand. So primarily a lefty. Ds is as well.

 

[emmybee]

I am so right-handed, it's not even funny. My left is hand is practically useless. I remember my middle school teacher who was able to write beautifully and in mirror-image with both hands. Definitely a cool trick!

 

[Neesy228]

I'm a lefty to write...but I do a lot of things with my right hand (scissors, can opener, throwing a ball etc) because: 1. I didn't have other options growing up. (I was given a pair of left handed scissors when I was a teen and I just couldn't figure them out after years of "normal" scissors.) and 2. I always just did whatever felt comfortable and thankfully no one stopped me.

Remember those erasable pens? Those things were the bane of my existence in middle and high school. My hand was constantly covered in ink.

All three of my children are right handed, so they laughed when I tried to teach them to tie shoes and things like that which were "backwards" to them.

 

[E&Cmom]

I write with my left . I also eat with my left and most likely thow a ball with but it has been awhile. I use scissors with my right. This always amazes me since at school thry always gave me lefty scissors and then complained of my lack of coordiation cutting. How was this missed that I cut with my right? As an adult, this still bugs me. I can use either hands for the phone and use my right when using a mouse.

 

[NFLDERS]

DH worked in the steel industry as an industrial electrician. He is ambidextrous, and the guys liked to watch him work. They thought him too handy! Sorry, I couldn't resist, when I'm sleep deprived, having watched the Super Bowl in it's entirety; I get like this.

I'm right handed.

 

[PrincessShmoo]

So I volunteered to help coach DS12s' lacrosse team this year. One of the things we're working on teaching the kids is to be able to catch and shoot with both hands. It's a riot watching them try to play left handed. I know in general 10% of the population is left handed. But how does the DIS world measure up. So what are you? Right, left or ambi? If you're completely right or left, have you ever tried to or been forced to use the other hand?

I remember growing up being left handed. It was considered uncommon and schools tried to change it. I refused to write with my right hand and they eventually gave up. I also remember putting a folded piece of paper under my left hand when I wrote with a pencil, so I didn't get it all over the side of my hand. Knock on wood, never been "forced" to use my right hand due to injury to the left. Had to rely on one leg or the other due to surgery on both of them, but not that big of a deal. Overall, I guess I'd qualify as ambidextrous.

Left handed: write, throw a ball, eat (I think...I use the fork with my left, knife with right).

Right handed: play sports (baseball, hockey, lacrosse), right leg dominant, juggle one handed. I "can" throw right handed and do writing, not great, but I can do it. I never played lacrosse as a kid, so now that I'm trying to help coach, I tried to throw left handed, and it's silly bad.

There's no "other" option. I'm primarily right handed. But I do some things left handed. Not because I forced myself to learn them left handed, that's just how I learned to do them naturally.

 

[Sanchez]

So I volunteered to help coach DS12s' lacrosse team this year. One of the things we're working on teaching the kids is to be able to catch and shoot with both hands. It's a riot watching them try to play left handed. I know in general 10% of the population is left handed. But how does the DIS world measure up. So what are you? Right, left or ambi? If you're completely right or left, have you ever tried to or been forced to use the other hand?

I remember growing up being left handed. It was considered uncommon and schools tried to change it. I refused to write with my right hand and they eventually gave up. I also remember putting a folded piece of paper under my left hand when I wrote with a pencil, so I didn't get it all over the side of my hand. Knock on wood, never been "forced" to use my right hand due to injury to the left. Had to rely on one leg or the other due to surgery on both of them, but not that big of a deal. Overall, I guess I'd qualify as ambidextrous.

Left handed: write, throw a ball, eat (I think...I use the fork with my left, knife with right).

Right handed: play sports (baseball, hockey, lacrosse), right leg dominant, juggle one handed. I "can" throw right handed and do writing, not great, but I can do it. I never played lacrosse as a kid, so now that I'm trying to help coach, I tried to throw left handed, and it's silly bad.

What you describe is cross-dominance - dominant hand for different things. Ambidextrous is the ability to use the right and left hands equally well.

I can write with both hands (probably not equally) but do certain things left handed and certain things right handed. I throw a ball right handed but cannot do so left handed. I am left hand dominant in lacrosse. Bowl left handed. Hockey left handed. Golf right handed. Eat left handed.

 

[piglet1979]

I am both for the most part. When I was younger I didn't know what hand to the pencil in so the teacher always said right. I write better with my right but can right decent with my left. I played soccer and I am very much left footed.

I always thought my daughter was right handed until recently. She writes right handed but has told me that she cuts with her left. When she knits it is left handed.

 

[kimblebee]

I am right handed for sure, but, because I'm deaf in my right ear, I hold the phone with my left hand up to my left ear.

I have learned to do a lot of basic things (clumsily) with my left hand only because at times my right side is useless due to ms.

 

[Cannot_Wait_4Disney]

I write with my left . I also eat with my left and most likely thow a ball with but it has been awhile. I use scissors with my right. This always amazes me since at school thry always gave me lefty scissors and then complained of my lack of coordiation cutting. How was this missed that I cut with my right? As an adult, this still bugs me. I can use either hands for the phone and use my right when using a mouse.

It wasn't you. It was the cheap school model left handed scissors. The alterations in the school models were just cosmetic. They were not indeed true left handed scissors. Thus the pressure produced by a left handed squeezing action served to separate the blade edges and they didn't work. A true left handed scissor will work with the left hand. Too bad most teachers thought there was something wrong with the lefties. No. It was the scissors. They were left handed in appearance only.

 

[scrappydew]

I write and eat with my right. Have to throw a ball or frisbee or bat with my left dominant. I also can't stand to wear anything on my right wrist; any watches or bracelets have to be on my left.

 

[soccerdad72]

Righty for the most part, although when I played baseball, I threw right and batted left. No idea why?

The only thing I do now left handed is putt in golf. I have right handed club except for my putter. Confuses the heck out of pro shops when I rent clubs on vacation.

 

[PollyannaMom]

I'm right handed, but have learned to do a few things with my left.

My brother is ambidextrous.

 

[PollyannaMom]

I read somewhere that it's good brain exercise to occasionally do common things (like brushing your teeth) with the "wrong" hand.

 

[Micca]

Right-handed but can do a few things with my left. Fortunately I'm alcodextrous (drink with either hand.)

 

[Gumbo4x4]

I'm right handed & can do only a handful of things equally with the left.

DD16 & my dad are both left-handed and do numerous things right handed (golf, shooting, guitar) just because being lefty is inconvenient. DD does throw righty, but writes lefty.