Lefties--where are you

[Tri Girl]

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...

[solobiker]

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.

[DebW]

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.

[ridenread]

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.

[Skierchickie]

Seriously lefty in nearly everything. When I was a kid, my Dad told me I used a shovel and a broom right-handed (not even sure how there is a left or a right shoveling or sweeping). I use a mouse with the right, but probably because when computer mice came into my life, they were just always ON the right side. I don't switch the buttons or anything.

Don't you just hate pens at banks, etc, that are attached with a chain? ALWAYS on the wrong side, so the chain lies right where you're trying to write.

[Kano]

Don't you just hate pens at banks, etc, that are attached with a chain? ALWAYS on the wrong side, so the chain lies right where you're trying to write.

Never mind those pens on chains: what about those danged credit card things these days? They're IMPOSSIBLE!

And yeah, directionally challenged -- good thing I point the direction I mean when I tell someone that when I get off the lift at the top of the mountain that I'm going left! (I'm working really hard at just saying "that way" when I point!)

Karen in Boise

[marni]

like many others of my generation, I am the daughter of two lefties, but was forcibly trained out of it in school, so I write with my right hand but do nearly everything else left handed. It confuses my trainer who always wants me to start on the right side but perhaps he is dominantly right because he is a former Marine. As I get older, my handwriting deteriates more and more, so my children suggested that I revert to writing with my left hand. I tried that and it didn't work at all so now I am illegible in both hands.

One tip I read years ago said one way to keep your brain flexible is to do activities you normally do with your right hand, with your left. I tried reversing everything but nearly stabbed myself to death in the gums so I think I need to rethink that one.

marni

[artifactos]

I write left handed. I kick with better aim with my left foot. However, I use a mouse, scissors, knife, and throw with my right hand.

I've dated a couple lefties, but I'm dating a right-hander now. After 8 months, he is FINALLY remembering where to seat the two of us in relation to one another at a restaurant so we don't elbow each other.