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  1. #1
    Join Date
    Feb 2005
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    Concord, MA
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    I am a righty (at least for writing), but I do mostly everything else lefty.
    Can only drink from the water bottle with my left hand.
    Clip out left side first. Get on bike from left side.
    Drink coffee and other beverages with left hand.
    Can kick a ball equally well with either foot.
    My left side is generally stronger. I have better vision in my left eye.
    I have a lot of difficulty cornering right on the bike, but left never has been an issue.
    I sleep on my left side, too.

    Think my laterality is messed up?

  2. #2
    Join Date
    Sep 2008
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    lefty. my dominant foot, hand and eye all left.
    I did learn to play the violin (not very well) with the "normal" position, righty.
    I married a lefty.
    we brought 2 right-handed children into the world. they were both traumatized like lefties are in normal families. They'd never used right handed scissors until they went to school..
    I think my right arm is pretty strong because I pack things with it while I do the fine motor skills with the left hand (like putting the key into the door)
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  3. #3
    Join Date
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    I'm fairly ambidextrous. I write with my right, and snowboard the "regular" way, but my left ear (phone) and my left eye are dominant. So when I took archery, I had to use the bow with my left hand. I'm more comfortable breathing on my left side while swimming, and I sleep on my left side.

    My dad's a leftie but he was forced to write with his right hand while growing up.

  4. #4
    Join Date
    Apr 2006
    Location
    where the wind comes sweeping down the plain
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    I'm a south paw, but am fairly ambidextrous. Really, I mostly do things with my right hand. I unclip on the right side, cut right handed, but do sports left handed (baseball, throwing, bowling, etc).

    I never really thought about it until you asked. Now I'm sitting here thinking about all the things I do and which side I do them with. Hmmm...
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    1983 Motobecane mixte (commuter/errand bike)
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  5. #5
    Join Date
    Jun 2005
    Location
    Colorado
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    It is kind of hard to tell what I am I write with my left hand and eat with my left hand. Strange thing is when I used to play baseball I would throw with my right and bat with my right but when I played tennnis I would be left handed. A lot of fine motor types of tasks I use my right hand and my right arm is stronger.

  6. #6
    Join Date
    Jan 2006
    Location
    Massachusetts
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    I'm left handed for fine-motor skills, right handed for gross-motor skill. Don't know what I am for some things. I can saw left or right, but generally hammer right. Throw a ball and bat right. Can mouse either way. Drink from water bottle in left hand. Unclip my right foot. Left eye dominant.
    Oil is good, grease is better.

    2007 Peter Mooney w/S&S couplers/Terry Butterfly
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    1980 Columbus Frame with 1970 Campy parts
    1954 Raleigh 3-speed/Brooks B72

  7. #7
    Join Date
    Jul 2008
    Location
    Southeastern MA
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    Another mixed dominance lefty here. I write and eat with my left hand, get on and off my bike from the left and do just about everything else with the right. Is it any wonder that I terribly directionally challenged and don't know my left from right without thinking about it.

 

 

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