Poll: Which hand do you use to write, eat, and draw?

Historian · 03-03-2011, 12:37 AM

Ambi. Can only write with right hand, but eat (fork and knife as well as chopsticks) with both, and can draw with both.

Jenni · 03-03-2011, 09:23 AM

I work at a left-handed store, and we have several books on left-handedness that I have been reading in fits and spurts during slower times of the day. One of these books mentioned that lefties can more easily read and write backwards and/or upside-down. I thought that was funny, because I started taking my notes backwards (mirror-image) when I was in college, mainly to help me focus on the information being presented when I was really bored. It was lots of fun until someone else wanted to borrow my notes ...

Historian · 03-03-2011, 09:54 AM

(03-03-2011 09:23 AM)Jenni Wrote: I thought that was funny, because I started taking my notes backwards (mirror-image) when I was in college, mainly to help me focus on the information being presented when I was really bored. It was lots of fun until someone else wanted to borrow my notes ...

I would think that would be when it would become the most fun...

Apathetic or whatever · 03-03-2011, 10:29 AM

(03-02-2011 10:25 AM)pastors wife Wrote:
(03-02-2011 10:14 AM)Apathetic or whatever Wrote: There is not an option for me in the poll. I am completely ambi. The only issue I have is that my handwriting looks like it came from different people instead of just different hands!

The third option says you use either one.

I think being ambidextrous is cool!

Hmmmm.........Apparently being able to write with either hand does not mean I can read. Confused

I can write upside down and backwards with either hand too. I used to do it to entertain myself during boring sermons while appearing to be taking extensive notes. Tongue

I was born naturally left-handed but my parents tried to force me to be a righty. So, I ended up being both. Or neither, depending on your point of view.
Some of my earliest memories are of getting in trouble while I was eating and not understanding why it was WRONG Angry

to eat with my left hand.

I have never really given it much consideration. I just write with whichever hand I feel like at the moment. Though I will say that switching hands while you are writing can confuse onlookers! I used to switch back and forth from left to right when I went bowling too. That was fun. It is also fun while playing darts.

Sometimes I forget that lesser mortals are cursed with a hand that they cannot use! Big Grin

Historian · 03-03-2011, 10:46 AM

Oh, and I should tell you that in China all left-handed children are forced to become right-handed. It's standard procedure. They do not value uniqueness. The unique is dangerous and not devoted to the group.

JessB · 03-03-2011, 11:14 AM

I only write with my left hand; I do everything else with my right hand/foot: eating, cooking, sports, shopping, etc. My right hand is dominant except for handwriting.

My older sister taught me the alphabet before I was school age and until I got trained out of it in Kindergarten, I wrote perfect mirror writing. It still comes easily to me to read and write backwards and upside down.

When I was in 2nd grade the school had a program where they tried to get some of us lefties to write with our right hand and some righties to write with their left hand. We were in A.C.E. and had a big "L" or "R" pinned in our cubicle. (Sorry for the fundy trigger there. Big Grin

) It didn't work and I'm not sure how they graded the handwriting papers during that time.

My husband is adamant that babies can be trained to be right-handed and insisted that whenever one of our babies reached with the left hand, that the object be put in the right hand. His reasoning is that most of the world is right-handed and caters to right-handed people. All the kiddos are right-handed but for one of them, I'm not sure if that is because of training or being born that way.

elfdream · 03-03-2011, 11:17 AM

I can remember it seemed to take forever to teach our oldest son how to tie his shoes. He just could not get it...until his left handed cousin showed him how. Blush

**LMcC** · 03-03-2011, 12:32 PM

(03-03-2011 11:14 AM)JessB Wrote: My husband is adamant that babies can be trained to be right-handed and insisted that whenever one of our babies reached with the left hand, that the object be put in the right hand. His reasoning is that most of the world is right-handed and caters to right-handed people. All the kiddos are right-handed but for one of them, I'm not sure if that is because of training or being born that way.

My older sister was forced to be right-handed. Left her with a nasty case of dyscalculia, so I don't recommend it. A British friend of mine was also forced to switch, and now her left and right are so scrambled that she got a special ear-piercing to help her keep her directions straight. Mercifully, I was born just late enough that the teachers got over the whole left-handed thing. My older nephew and I are perfectly happy being lefties.

Yes, the world caters to righties. Yes, a lot of left-handed products stink, especially those sorry excuses for scissors. Still not a good enough excuse to make me switch. Even DeQuervain's won't make me switch.

Apathetic or whatever · 03-03-2011, 03:43 PM

I agree that Lefties should be allowed to be Lefties. It does mix people up quite a bit. I know it has for me.

Poll: Which hand do you use to write, eat, and draw?
	I use my left for all three of those things.
	I use my right for all three of those things.
	I use either hand, or I only use my left for one or two of those things.
	Hands? Who needs hands? Feet are the new hands, dude.