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I'm naturally right handed, but due to an accident as a baby, I've done pretty much everything left handed.
I do occasionally freak opponents out at pool / badminton / tennis by switching hands.
I use the mouse left handed, and eat right handed (unless there is only a single utensil, in which case I use my left hand).
As for writing, I do that left handed, but hold the pen in the same way as 'most' right handed people, I don't curl my hand over the top or any of the other contortions people seem to do.
Gary
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I'm the same way, except I write left handed, but I throw a baseball right handed - and can't switch. However, some things, like tennis, I can play equally well with either hand.
I beleive it is known as hand variability and generally means your brain does not have a dominant hemisphere, but the two hemisperes trade off as needed to accomplish a given task.
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Right handed, but left with these:
- Eating
- High jump
- Goofy (skateboard, sandboard, etc)
- Starting in 100m (don't know what its called in english)
My dad says I'm just confused 
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ask u'r mom she knows for sure...
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I have a similar experience.
1) I write right handed.
2) I use the mouse with either hand but mostly right
3) I also eat and drink with either hand but favor the right.
4) I drive with either hand but favor the right.
5) When I played hockey I shot left handed
6) I throw with my right. I can throw left handed but it looks exactly like I "throw like a girl"
7) My left arm is and always been stronger than my right
8) And my left jab is a knockout too as it has saved my day a few times when I was younger.
I've tried writing with my left hand...not a chance...I can brealy write with my right hand...
I am exactly the same. I believe this is because I type everything and rarely ever write anything with pen and paper...
John
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John M. Drescher wrote:
I am exactly the same. I believe this is because I type everything and rarely ever write anything with pen and paper...
Had computers only been as prolific as today I may have done much better in school.
I always hated writing...which i've maybe done 2 times my whole life...I always resorted to printing...and now mostly always I type...
It's faster and more clear than any hand written or printed document. 
It's frustrating being a genius and living the life of a moron!!!
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How many lefties out there have experienced any sort of bias against their left-handedness?
The two people in my high school class who were voted 'worst handwriting' were forced by their parents to switch from writing left-handed to right-handed. It was painful to watch the girl write; she clamped the pencil between her thumb and index finger.
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:Hand up:
Writing from left to right with the left hand is delicate with an ink pen: the hand is going above the text just written, when the ink isn't dry enough. However, forcing a left-handed child to use his/her right hand instead seems barbaric to me.
Ther are many bias against left handed people: think to all the tools designed for right handed people, without mentionning keyboards and mouses.
It's perhaps the reason why left-handed people have an higher average IQ, because they have to work harder to adapt. It's also probably the reason why they have a shorter life expectancy, they have more accidents in unadapted environments.
these assertations come from controversial studies, I know. But since when trolling isn't allowed? 
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K(arl) wrote:
forcing a left-handed child to use his/her right hand instead seems barbaric to me
Indeed. In the girl's case, I think it was her father who forced her into it. He was domineering and overbearing. She didn't move out of her parents' house until he died, even though she was a practicing attorney and made more money than her parents combined. In the boy's case, I think it stemmed from simple superstition and ignorance on his parents' part.
K(arl) wrote:
these assertations come from controversial studies
Maybe so. I had an eye doctor who told me once that left-handed myopic (near-sighted) people were going to take over the world. The fact that we were both left-handed and myopic had nothing to do with it, of course  .
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In my limited experience, it seems to take a *lot* more practice for left-handed people to get to where they can write legibly. IMHO, they should be taught to type as early as possible.
"The time has come," the Walrus said,
"To talk of many things..."
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That's probably because they are taught to write by right-handed people, who generally aren't going to be able to completely handle the differences between left and right writing techniques.
Shog9 wrote:
IMHO, they should be taught to type as early as possible
Hmm. Doesn't that sort of evade the problem? It says "We can't deal with 13% of the population properly, so just have them type everything."
In your defense, with computers nearly ubiquitous in homes and schools, kids do a substantial amount of writing at the keyboard anyway.
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Speaking of watching the teachers...
I draft - meaning the old way of doing 'design' work like in archtichture - like a left-handed person even though I am right-handed, because my high school drafting teacher was left-handed. So I set up the table and hold the stencils and guides like a lefty but the pencils and pens are in my right hand.
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Your case reminds me my terrible childhood.
I am a leftty and my handwriting is bad. thats why i never writes when i can type.
but some text is writting from right to left, example is the arabic and chinese...( morden chinese is left to right anyway)
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I think the hand you write with tends to correlate with the hand you use for precision tasks, while you use the other for strength tasks. This works in my case (I write left-handed). If I have to exert a lot of effort (example: opening a jar with a stuck lid), I do it with my right hand. I usually turn door knobs and open doors with my right hand.
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Is it possible to be naturally ambidextrous, or is that a skill that must be learned? In other words, are some people born ambidextrous (like people are born left or right handed), or is it purely an acquired trait?
An expert is somebody who learns more and more about less and less, until he knows absolutely everything about nothing.
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yep it is!
i was born naturally ambidextrous, i can't remember exactly what happened but i went to a specialist (for some reason or another) and they told me to pick a hand and stick with it.
now my left hand is the agile one, but my right hand is the strongest.
coding is hard
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...according to the resuts so far. IT people are the same as everybody else.
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Left half of the brain controls the right half of the body and vice versa?!? I've heard it is like this....... 
best regards
Thomas
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Stanislaw Lem has a phantastic, marvelous and kind of almost Douglas-Adamsish SciFi story about that - "Der Flop" in German, "Peace on Earth" being the common english title.
we are here to help each other get through this thing, whatever it is Vonnegut jr.
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"The left brain controls logic and the right controls creativity": Is that sure?[^]
I thought that for left-handed people brain hemispheres were inverted...and they had also a convolution in addition 
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Handedness is also related to how the brain processes language. In the majority of people, all language processing is in the left hemisphere. Some people also have some processing happen in the right hemisphere. Here's the kicker, everyone who is left-handed has processing in the right hemisphere (though the converse is not true).
--Mike--
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Interesting indeed. Thanks for the links!
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That's what military intelligence does: fail. They should just drop the facade and call MI the "Department of 'Whoops!'" - Gary Brecher, aka The War Nerd
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The whole premise of this poll is flawed, with its assumption that left brain = logic and right brain = creativity (or vice versa!). This is one of those myths about our minds that sounds plausible but you can never mind any properly peer reviewed studies that give it credence.
Almost as bad as the myth that we only use 80 % of our brain capacity. If 80 % of your brain was not used you would be dead (or nearly so).
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