slo’s WEDNESDAY 3/26 poll - Right Hand🤚🏻, Left Hand 🖐🏻 or Both 🙌🏻

[slo]

I thought of this topic when I was at Disney Springs a few weeks ago, because there’s a very small store for left handed people. I bought something from this store years ago when my step-dad was still with us, because he was left handed. I don’t remember what it was, but I remember he enjoyed the gift. Outside of my step-dad, there’s no one else in my family that is left handed. I do have a few friends that are lefties. In case you’re wondering why some people are righty and some are lefties, it’s because of your brain. Below is a little explanation…..



This doesn’t talk about being ambidextrous, which means you can use both hands equally. I think most of us can get by using our opposite hand, but it’s an effort - that doesn’t count as ambidextrous. Only 1% of people are ambidextrous.

Let’s find out where our brains are dominant - I’m going to guess the majority of DISers are left brain dominant.

Are you right handed, left handed or ambidextrous?
For those that are righties or lefties - can you use your opposite hand if you had to?
(multiple choice(



For Me……I am a right handed person and I am able to clumsily use my left hand if needed. Luckily, I haven’t had a reason to use my left hand for many many years, and hopefully it stays that way.

 

[Kitty 34]

I'm right handed. DH is left handed.

At my age; not sure how organized the brain is anymore.

 

[WDWEPCOT]

Right hand but i’ve had to use my left hand at a job because they can only put my calculator or my left hand could get to it not my right so I learned to 10 key with my left hand long before I learn to do it with my right I can write with either hand I can open jars better with my left hand than my right but I think that has more to do with the fact that I have a injury that affects my right arm more than it affects my left but if I broke my right wrist I’d have a little bit of issues but I think I can get by the hardest thing to me would be brushing my teeth I have never been able to do that with my left hand I mean I can do it just not very well I’d get the job done but it would be a really messy situation we won’t discuss other matters

 

[Kathryn Merteuil]

I am right handed no doubt at all. I have tried to use my my left hand for writing and stuff, just for the sake of seeing how good I was at doing it. It took to much effort to write that way, and the writing looks awful.

 

[Dan Murphy]

Right handed here. I can't use my left hand for tasks that are right handed for me. As an assist, like holding a jar with left while right unscrews a cap, yes. But as an assist only.

 

[ronandannette]

I am extremely left-brain dominant in my skills and temperament and it definitely shows up in my dexterity. Right handed, of course, and when required to use my left, it’s very clumsy. I have to consciously think about using it; concentrate even, and for a very fine motor skill I sometimes even have to be looking at it to make it do exactly what I want.

 

[BlueStarryHat]

I'm left-handed. Extremely clumsy when forced to use my right hand for anything.

I crochet a lot, and since most patterns are created with right-handed people in mind I sometimes can't do ones with words or letters because without left-handed instructions they turn out backwards. I work left to right instead of right to left.

 

[CynBeth]

I am right handed not sure if I could do things with the other hand have only tried writing which is not good. My DH is left handed.

 

[unrequited23]

I'm right handed but can use chopsticks, crochet and print left handed. I've also heard that I tie my shoes left handed. My mom was a leftie who had to switch (parochial school in the early '60's) and my youngest wrote with his right hand until he decided to switch to the left when he was 5.

 

[jo-jo]

I'm sure I have used my left hand for some things, but not that I think on. Not writing for sure, but some chores like vacuuming , pick up book with right, shelf it with left. So I guess not a task that has fine tuned actions.

 

[Micca]

Right-handed but I don't struggle to use my left hand. I can't write with my left hand, but I can hardly write with my right hand any longer (out of practice!) Fun note: DDs are twins--one righty and one lefty!

 

[Wood Nymph]

Right hand but i’ve had to use my left hand at a job because they can only put my calculator or my left hand could get to it not my right so I learned to 10 key with my left hand long before I learn to do it with my right

I am right handed but learned to use my left hand to control the computer mouse at work. My desk was set up in a way that made it a lot more efficient if I put the mouse on the left and the calculator on my right. I got very good at using the mouse with my left hand.

My husband is left-handed to write but can do most things right-handed. And then our youngest grandson inherited the same ability.

 

[soccerdad72]

Right handed in most things. For some reason, however, my natural swing (e.g. athletics) has always been left handed, so as a kid, when I played baseball, I threw right and batted left. No idea why.

 

[WDWEPCOT]

Yeah it’s crazy I can left-hand is my calculator better than my right it freaks people out at work when I do that but that’s how I had to do it at my first job so that’s how I learned to do it!! it’s nice to be able to do stuff like that isn’t it??

 

[disneydreamer1980]

I’m right handed but my oldest DD is ambidextrous. When she was learning how to write she would switch between her right and left hands frequently and the teachers told her to just use her right hand because the switching was making her write slower. So because of that she generally writes with her right hand but can equally use both. When I try to write with my left hand it looks like a two year old did it lol.

 

[Jeannie]

I'm right handed for everything except using a bat and golfing!

 

[fla4fun]

I don’t know that I would describe myself as fully ambidextrous but there are certain tasks I can only do left handed and certain tasks I can only do right handed and certain tasks I can do easily with either hand. I write better with my left hand. I can only use scissors in my right hand, even if they are left-handed scissors. I crochet and knit right handed, but do needlework left handed. I use my computer mouse with either hand but have the buttons set up for my left hand. I can pour things from one bottle into another with either hand. I apply makeup equally well with either hand. I don’t think about which hand I am using. I just use whatever feels natural for the task at hand.

My dad and I both ate left handed and my mom and sister both ate right handed, which worked out well for not bumping elbows at the table.

 

[BrianL]

I am right-handed, but I can do certian things pretty okay with my left hand. I credit playing video games for that!

 

[Kooks and Bay Bay]

I'm left handed in a right handed world so there are certain things I do with one and certain things I do with the other.

Things like writing and brushing my teeth I used my left.
But things like opening doors, picking something up, eating, using scissors I use my right.
When I was young and educators realized I was left handed they attempted to force me to do everything with my left but I cannot for the life of me use scissors or a fork with my left.
I also broke my left arm when I was in 3rd grade so I did write some with my right and I still can but it looks awful.

 

[NannyBeBe]

I am right-handed. Thankfully, we no longer force kids to write with their right hand, as they did when I was in school.
When I worked with kindergartners, we often saw new kids switching hands because they had never used one hand over the other, as in drawing or coloring, because they spent most of their time on video games. At lunchtime, I would go to the lunch room and watch the child eat and observe which hand they ate with. In every case, the child ate with one hand more than the other and then we could encourage them to write with that hand.