Facts About Lefties

I'm left handed. I once read that a left handed person does well with math, music and most of the arts. I don't feel that I have much talent in any of those areas. I do a lot with my right hand, but not detailed work such as writing and eating.
 

Shalimar said:
AprilT, I think it is the same for me. How are you re sense of direction? My son, also a leftie wins prizes at orienteering, me I get lost in my own mind!
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Most times I can't tell left from right, but I can read maps pretty good, over all poor sense of direction unless, reading it. When someone says your right hand, I'm likely to lift my left.
 
charlotta said:
I'm left handed. I once read that a left handed person does well with math, music and most of the arts. I don't feel that I have much talent in any of those areas. I do a lot with my right hand, but not detailed work such as writing and eating.
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Not the case with me, sadly. I'm good at figuring shhhhtuff out though. ;)
 
I am right handed. Mr Oakapple is right handed too, but plays golf and cricket the left handed way, our son is exactly the same.
One of our grandsons is totally left handed.
 
Both my husband and I are right handed but our son is left handed.
He writes and eats with his left hand but uses his right a lot too.
I never tried to make him write with his right hand, that to me would be mean because
it was second nature for him to write with his left.
He did well in school and now has his own business and is smarter than his parents. :)
 
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AprilT said:
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
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April! Are you my twin? I eat and write with my left hand. I sew, bowl, iron, use scissors...everything else...with my right hand. And I'm not ambidextrous.

Maybe we're blessed...we use both sides of our brains:)
 
GeorgiaXplant said:
April! Are you my twin? I eat and write with my left hand. I sew, bowl, iron, use scissors...everything else...with my right hand. And I'm not ambidextrous.

Maybe we're blessed...we use both sides of our brains:)
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:) There really is a name for it, I read about it once, but, wasn't able to find the material yesterday, but am having better luck today. Just simply mixed-handedness or in one article cross dominance. I'll see if I can find the article again. BB in a few.
 
Hmmmm, well it don't really matter does it? Left or right? As long as we can what we have to do. I never thought it was a big deal. We are who we are by the Grace of God.
 
lovemylittleboy said:
Hmmmm, well it don't really matter does it? Left or right? As long as we can what we have to do. I never thought it was a big deal. We are who we are by the Grace of God.
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It's really not a big deal, I'm sure, to anyone, just having conversation, it's what people do on forums, especially those discussing the topic matter brought up in a thread. Nothing to spaz out about, just a fun topic for some that don't take it all that serious, but find it interesting nonetheless.
 
Funny, when I lived in Germany I was apparently an oddity. For one thing, at age 40 I had braces on my teeth at a time over there when it was unusual to see youngsters with braces. And then I was left-handed. Clerks in stores always gave me a second look because of the braces and always commented that I was a "southpaw". Heck, no, they were all northpaws!

Cross dominance. That makes me feel speshul:)

Edited to add: It could be that the reason I eat with my left hand has nothing to do with left-handedness. My grandparents were all right-handed, but they used their left hands when eating. I think it's something that came with them to America; my parents and aunts and uncles used their left hands when eating, too. One aunt was actually ambidextrous. As far as I know, I'm the only one of the grandchildren who's left-handed and also the only one who uses the left hand when eating. How curious.
 
According to [right-handed] neurologists, left-handedness is the result of brain damage. More about handedness.

I don't care what they say, I had fun playing slo-pitch softball, as I bat both left and right-handed. I would get up to bat, with the bat over my right shoulder and as the fielding team got situated, I would then shift into left-batting mode. That would cause the other team to scramble into fielding positions for a lefty. :cool:
 
tnthomas said:
According to [right-handed] neurologists, left-handedness is the result of brain damage. More about handedness.

I don't care what they say, I had fun playing slo-pitch softball, as I bat both left and right-handed. I would get up to bat, with the bat over my right shoulder and as the fielding team got situated, I would then shift into left-batting mode. That would cause the other team to scramble into fielding positions for a lefty. :cool:
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LOL! Sounds like a quack doctor, I'm sure he was part of the burning of women during the Salem witch hunt. :D
 
"Everyone is born left-handed. They remain that way until they commit their first sin. There are very few of us left!!" :D

As others on this thread, I write and eat left-handed. Everything else is either right-handed or ambidestrous. I play golf, bowl, throw a ball right handed. When I used to hunt quite a bit, I'd shoot right-handed or left-handed... didn't make any difference. Pound nails just as well with either hand.

So, I've spend the past 68 years trying to figure out "which-handed" I really am!!!! :>)
 
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