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Which are you? Left or right-handed?

I'm left- handed when I write or eat, but everything else I do with my right hand.

right handed.

I'm right handed. 

Right handed, but had a "come to Jesus" week when I had surgery recently on my right hand...this may not be the forum to dicuss this, but do you know how awkward it is to go to the bathroom (I know you know what I mean!), with the OTHER hand?  I looked at my left hand and said, "Do I KNOW you?"  Anyway, I have since made it a personal mission to learn to use my left hand more often.  I read recently that doing small things like that (learning something COMPLETELY new) ensures that your brain remains at peak performance, delaying maladies like Alzheimer's.  I figure it's worth the shot. 

AnnEvanston says ...

mom2my2kids says ...

Which are you? Left or right-handed?

I'm left- handed when i write or eat, but everything else I do with my right hand.

Marie! I thought we were long lost sisters! This is totally me! Eat and write left - throw a ball, bat, name it - right!

Oh, wow, Ann. Isn't that something?  There are not a ton of us out here, so it's a pretty cool thing to "meet" someone else with the same characteristics.

Let me ask you something (veering off a little.) You're probably around my age right? (Oh Lord if I'm wrong please forgive me) I turned 40 this year. But a couple of years ago before we lost my FIL, we talked about lefties who grew up before it was the norm to make allowances for us such as left handed desks. I brought it up and said that as a lefty, all the school desks had the right arm rest, so those who were left-handed had to adapt with no kind of support for our left arm. He never realized that in all the years he'd been alive. So my question is do you fall into that particular time frame?

PLEASE forgive me if I'm off on the age thing.

Anyway cool to meet someone who is a bit "ambi"

Marie, you're so good to me!  Yes, I am out of the sling, and healing beautifully.  And trying to keep up the leftie thing.  Eating, drinking, writing have been humbling, but I am getting there (and in all honesty, I don't use my left hand for bathroom detail any more).  

Oh, wow, Ann. Isn't that something?  There are not a ton of us out here, so it's a pretty cool thing to "meet" someone else with the same characteristics.

Let me ask you something (veering off a little.) You're probably around my age right? (Oh Lord if I'm wrong please forgive me) I turned 40 this year. But a couple of years ago before we lost my FIL, we talked about lefties who grew up before it was the norm to make allowances for us such as left handed desks. I brought it up and said that as a lefty, all the school desks had the right arm rest, so those who were left-handed had to adapt with no kind of support for our left arm. He never realized that in all the years he'd been alive. So my question is do you fall into that particular time frame?

PLEASE forgive me if I'm off on the age thing.

Anyway cool to meet someone who is a bit "ambi"

Marie - you are right on - I will be 41 in 7 weeks! And oh yes I remember ALL of that! It has so changed! I remember learning to bat and holing my left hand in the wrong place because right handed people were teaching me. I remember using right handed scissors and getting blisters, I remember learning to open a bottle of wine with a professional cork screw and it doesn't work holding it in your left hand!

I'm left-handed for writing, eating, brushing my teeth, putting on makeup...The only things for which I am right-handed are when I use a computer mouse and when I use scissors.  I'm 39 and I, too, grew up with right-handed desks and no left-handed scissors.  Yes, that was awkward.  We lefties have become adaptive as a survival skill--yay us!  My boyfriend is left-handed, and he is the first left-handed man I've ever dated.  It's fun--we share lots of "lefty" stories.

Francesca

That's amazing, I have never heard of that many lefties in one family.  I always thought right-handed was more dominate.  My middle sister is left handed out of a family of 5.  I have 1 cousin who is left handed out of 11 grandchildren.  All the parents and grandparents are right-handed.

I am definately right-handed, but I have to say I always wanted to be left-handed. I have no idea why! It just seemed like such a cool thing to me. And a June mentioned earlier I too use my left hand for the telephone.

Gail

Sherrie, once again, through one of my posts, I am killing that "sweet" image, aren't I?  I never learned that skill in adopting a "too much information" screen, I guess.  Now you know... I am past the point where I can fix it!  XOXOX!

mom2my2kids says ...

Let me ask you something (veering off a little.) You're probably around my age right? (Oh Lord if I'm wrong please forgive me) I turned 40 this year. But a couple of years ago before we lost my FIL, we talked about lefties who grew up before it was the norm to make allowances for us such as left handed desks. I brought it up and said that as a lefty, all the school desks had the right arm rest, so those who were left-handed had to adapt with no kind of support for our left arm. He never realized that in all the years he'd been alive. So my question is do you fall into that particular time frame?

Marie, your post brought back memories. I'm older than both you and Ann but the school training definitely got me. I remember using my left hand for everything until I went to first grade where I was 'forced' to use my right hand to write.  Now I use both hands for almost everything except writing. Although I'm more comfortable using my left for most activities. My daughter is purely left handed. I think because her father is as well, she had no choice. LOL!

 Lefty!

I'm right handed, my son started out left handed but switched around 6.  My daughter is a lefty so far.  She is 5.

I can use both. I can also pick and pinch with my toes as well... but that is another story....