Left or Right

[jsonewald]

Here's the Wikipedia article on left handedness:

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Left_handed

[James Pickering]

Check out the links on left-handed handwriting at:

 

http://jp29.org/itbasics.htm

[BillTheEditor]

Nobody is ambidextrous?

[James Pickering]

Nobody is ambidextrous?

That is an interesting question, Bill -- I have not encountered anyone who could write proficiently with either hand (I have met a few individuals who were forced to write with their "un-natural" hand temporarily due to injury).

[Dawn]

I'm a lefty

 

Dawn

[johnr55]

My sister is ambidextrous, beautiful handwriting with either hand, I can't tell the difference.

[jsonewald]

I was curious about how FP users compare with the general population. Ambidextrous writers are a rare breed.

[FLZapped]

Nobody is ambidextrous?

Well, almost......

 

I'm pretty sure I was born left handed (My oldest son is a lefty), but as soon as my mom thought I should learn to write, she stuck a piece of chalk in my right hand......

 

So, I write and throw right-handed.

 

I pour liquids and I brush my teeth with a left-hand preference.

 

*shrug*

 

-Bruce

 

:roflmho:

[lisa]

I'm a lefty.

 

Think it's a bit strange that that wiki link says they are medical causes for lefthandedness. As if, just because more people are righthanded, there's automatically something wrong with lefthandedness. To me handedness is like eyecolour. I'd guess that there are more brown eyed people in the world than green eyed. And no one is looking for the medical cause of green eyedness!

[lisa]

Nobody is ambidextrous?

Well, almost......

 

I'm pretty sure I was born left handed (My oldest son is a lefty), but as soon as my mom thought I should learn to write, she stuck a piece of chalk in my right hand......

 

So, I write and throw right-handed.

 

I pour liquids and I brush my teeth with a left-hand preference.

 

*shrug*

 

-Bruce

 

:roflmho:

Well, try to write with your left. Then see how well others who do everything best with one hand can write with their other hand. If your lefthanded writing is better then you're probably right.

[FLZapped]

Nobody is ambidextrous?

Well, almost......

 

I'm pretty sure I was born left handed (My oldest son is a lefty), but as soon as my mom thought I should learn to write, she stuck a piece of chalk in my right hand......

 

So, I write and throw right-handed.

 

I pour liquids and I brush my teeth with a left-hand preference.

 

*shrug*

 

-Bruce

 

:roflmho:

Well, try to write with your left. Then see how well others who do everything best with one hand can write with their other hand. If your lefthanded writing is better then you're probably right.

EGADS! DO YOU KNOW WHAT YOU'RE ASKING! hahahhahahahhahaha

 

In general, I have never attempted to do so. A couple times when my right hand was full, I did, but it was a disaster. Like anything else, I would have to practice it, since I would essentiallyi be learning from scratch.

 

It's like playing the accordion. While my right hand is able to play on a piano, my left hand is lost because the accordion is not a chromatic layout for the left hand.

 

-Bruce

[lisa]

EGADS! DO YOU KNOW WHAT YOU'RE ASKING! hahahhahahahhahaha

Apparently not.

 

I thought you would be better at it if your lefthand is naturally better in motorical skills.

My sister is righthanded but must have some lefthanded genes. She writes with right but if you ask her to write with left she can do that almost just as pretty.

[James Pickering]

I'm a lefty.

 

Think it's a bit strange that that wiki link says they are medical causes for lefthandedness ..........

Although Wikipedia contains a great deal of useful information, you shouldn't ascribe a lot of weight to it -- it is, after all, a collaborative effort with input from the WWW community at large.

[Slush99]

looks like the number of lefties over here is 1/4 of the number of righties.

 

Right handed, here.

[Sonnet]

According to my mother, I did nearly everything with my left hand for the first 4-5 years of my life: eating, picking things up, etc. My parents figured I would be left-handed. But when I learned to write, I did it with my right hand and it's been that way ever since.

 

And before you all jump in, exclaiming that my teachers must have "forced" me to write with my right hand, that practice was long dead at my elementary school by the time I started kindergarten. So there.

[johnr55]

I wonder if anyone knows the method the military uses for retraining soldiers who have lost the use of their dominant hand. I can remember growing up with a WW II vet who lost his right arm and was retrained with the left. Remarkable for what he could do, including striking matches and lighting cigarettes with one hand! They're bound to have a method.

[lisa]

According to my mother, I did nearly everything with my left hand for the first 4-5 years of my life: eating, picking things up, etc. My parents figured I would be left-handed. But when I learned to write, I did it with my right hand and it's been that way ever since.

 

And before you all jump in, exclaiming that my teachers must have "forced" me to write with my right hand, that practice was long dead at my elementary school by the time I started kindergarten. So there.

I've read somewhere that handedness of kids change till the age 8.

[KateGladstone]

I can write almost as well with my left hand as with my right, but the poll didn't give any choices but an either/or "write right-handed" or "write left-handed."

 

Still, the reported 25% incidence of lefties here contrasts interestingly with the general population's reported incidence of 10% - 15% left-handedness.

 

I tried to find out what method the Armed Services use for re-training amputated righties to write left-handed (or the reverse, for that matter — training amputated lefties to write right-handed), but they wouldn't talk to me.

[RLTodd]

And before you all jump in, exclaiming that my teachers must have "forced" me to write with my right hand, that practice was long dead at my elementary school by the time I started kindergarten. So there.

When I was in elementary school in the 1950's we had "left hand" desks in California for those studends requiring same. Then about 1960 they started purchasing the wide table desks.

[Patrick Hand]

When I was in elementary school in the 1950's

 

Dang.... I went throught school in the 60's ... and we had wide desk.....But I kinda remember some of them still having ink wells in them............