Facts About Lefties

Honesely Sea, I have been told I was by everyone all my life but, I happen to be a little of both and I'm not ambidextrous. I write with my left hand, probably do more with my right and a few things with both, so not really one or the other, I've tried taking test to determine exactly. some come out more right handed, but I can't write with the my right hand at all and I can't cut using scissors with my left hand. So, I don't know depends on which test I take. LOL

If that sound confusing, think how I've felt all these years. :turnaround: When I pick up a pen or pencil people are always exclaiming oh so you are a lefty, uh, no not really.

An no, just because one writes with their left hand doesn't mean they are left handed, they may just be some other sort of freak. :D
 
You're lucky April! I write and do just about everything with my right hand. Sometimes I attempt to use my left, but it feels so awkward and unnatural, that I soon just go with the right. I think it's great to be able to do some things with both!
 
My mother was left handed, and I am right handed. People are always asking me why I do so many things "backwards" -- it's what happens when a left handed person teaches a right handed person how to do something (like tie a bow or crochet or a zillion other things).
 
I am totally left handed, I have had to fund people to teach me how to knit and crochet and they shriek with laughter at how I hold the hook or the needles. I broke my right wrist a few years back and it made very little difference to my ability to do things.
 
I am left-handed, as is my elder son.
i was one of the first generations who were allowed to write using their left hands, rather than being forced to use their right.
 
I am right handed but do do some things as a left handed..
Mostly right handed though......

I have developed how to eat with either hand.. I also find the food tastes the same regardless which hand I use....
 
Vivjen said:
I am left-handed, as is my elder son.
i was one of the first generations who were allowed to write using their left hands, rather than being forced to use their right.
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That's interesting to me because I was raised in a family of 9 brothers and sisters and I can remember my mother insisting that her little ones use the right hand. If a child reached for something with his left hand, she would put it in his right hand. Same with eating utensils. Switch the spoon from the left hand to the right.
My Grandparents were from "the old country" ... mother's family Hungarian immigrants. Father's Italian. Wonder if that had something to do with their "beliefs."
Mom would say it's because it's a right handed world.
I wonder if that caused my brain damage lol.
 
Just to clear something up, when I say using opposite hand for other things, it's not just that I am using either one out of choice in that case, I not able use a scissor with my left and I can't write with my right hand, but I can throw a ball with either hand, not well mind you, not one ever wanted me on their sports teams, but just the same with with either. In other words, detectives would be thrown off if I were the culprit in the crime, speaking of sinister that is. :grin: They'd say the crime was done by a rightie and all who know me would be professing, but, but, she's a leftie. ;)
 
I've always been right-handed. I've always had severe "math anxiety" and I have a very hard time memorizing numbers, especially phone numbers. Just for kicks, I once went to a palm reader in New Orleans and one of the first things he said to me was, "If you would learn to use your left hand, your math anxiety would go away." Out of the clear blue sky. I know these so-called psychics go on a fishing expedition to see what they can scare up, but that was a little weird to start out with. I'm a little too old to be changing horses in midstream, so to speak, but I wonder, I wonder....
 
Jackie22 said:
My mom is left handed as is my daughter...There is an old saying that it skips a generation????
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My mother used her left hand more than her right, but was forced to write with her right hand as a child. My son is the same except that he chose to write with his right hand, but does most everything left-handed. I am purely highhanded, but I've been told after testing, that I am left-brained, and that explains the fact that I'm an artist, and am musical (but terrible at math, and not at all articulate when I speak).
 
mymusic said:
My mother used her left hand more than her right, but was forced to write with her right hand as a child. My son is the same except that he chose to write with his right hand, but does most everything left-handed. I am purely highhanded, but I've been told after testing, that I am left-brained, and that explains the fact that I'm an artist, and am musical (but terrible at math, and not at all articulate when I speak).
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I've taken several of those test, I use both sides of my brain equally according to some of the test any given day, I think it will just depend for me.
 
Both myself and my wife are left handed, but we both use all the objects designed for right handlers. My daughter bought me a left handed oven mitt, a nice novelty but someday I'd like a pair of left handed scissors. :)
 

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