Yes, and my beard. I think I do like 99.9% of all the hand things with my dominant hand, but I'll find myself using the left on just the most odd, random tasks without even thinking about it. It's entirely possible I'm an alien and do not know it.
Yep same. Also knives and forks I've always done the right handed way. Apart from chopsticks. Remember one time in drafting class and discovering the technical pen in my right hand. Freaked out a little bit.
You’re not the only one but in the 1970’s when desktop computers were becoming the norm we didn’t have the choice.
The world is unfair to us lefties. Can’t even get a left-handed emoji.😢
Same here. As a kid I taught myself to send Morse code via radio with my right hand to prevent repeatedly picking up and putting down the pencil in my left hand.
My Italian father-in-law told me kids weren’t permitted to write with their left hands back in the day. Sinistra = 👿
I'm left handed and only write, eat, brush my teeth and use a mouse with my left hand-- I can play a little pool left handed but mostly I do all but the above activities right handed.
Me too! But it's because like so many things the devices were designed for righty's. The buttons on the mouse are all oriented for the right hand...the curve is designed for righty's so I learned that way. It's great because it leaves my dominant hand free to do other things while mousing!
The problem there is that you also need your right hand for the numeric keyboard, or you have your keyboard the other way round? So I'm right-handed but mouse with my left hand.
I only write with my left. I do everything else with my right hand. My left hand is stupid and constantly drops things and gets in the way.
I often wonder why it decided to be my penmanship’s boss.
Same. I write left handed, but do a lot of things right handed.
I am guessing it's because most of the people teaching me as I was growing up, were right handed?
It’s fascinating stuff. I self-taught to use chopsticks 🥢 in both hands back in the day so I can keep using the computer mouse while slurping down noodles 🍜🤣🤷♂️
I'm right-handed and use the mouse with my left.
The issue I'm going to have is when my old Logitech trackman marble mouse dies, I haven't seen anything similar.
I've seen a couple of "new" ones advertised for between $350-$890 for what should be ~$49. 😡
I want Logitech to bring them back. 😭😭
I can relate to that. Playing tennis served with the left arm and played ground strokes with the right. Used to get into a bit of trouble sometimes if the return of serve came back really quickly. Ambidextrous though in performing lots of tasks though which is a bonus.
I wonder how common that is for left-handed people to have a degree of ambidexterity. I'm a leftie too and I use a mouse right handed, throw right handed and play guitar right handed, though I think the latter is just because left handed guitars are so expensive unless you Hendrix them.
Mum was left handed. Back in the 40's. She was forced to write and do other things right handed. So she was fully ambidextrous.
Dad was right handed, but played golf left handed.
I'm also right handed. Mum taught me how to tie a tie. So I knot a tie with my left hand, rather than my right.
I luckily just missed that, but I grew up in a Catholic family and heard stories about how they'd try and force left handed children to write right-handed, which absolutely helped my confidence as a seven year old /s
Weird really. But they were hung up on flowery script, diction, grammar, posture and rote learning in those days. My mum had beautiful handwriting, learnt Latin, French, German and memorised Shakespeare, etc and that was in high school 🤷🏼
Yes they trained kids by whacking them on the knuckles.
I do most things left-handed, but can use a mouse with either hand, and do a bunch of other things right handed because that’s the way things
work, for example, scissors.
I remember being asked to use some at primary school. They had these yellow and green handles and they were just the absolute worst. They felt like I was cutting upside-down.
Still better than that "left handed handwriting" pen I had once which felt like it would dislocate my index finder.
I don't remember being corrected in reception, but I do vividly remember swapping hands halfway through a page because I'd been taught to write a different way than was natural.
Eventually I settled down to having terrible smudged handwriting instead.
I'm right handed but left eye dominant. So have to use a camera built for right handed people but using my left eye - touch screen had to be disabled because my nose makes it do random things!
I'm ambidexterous. I do things with either hand well. I can set up my mouse to use it on the left hand and use that. In fact, I had to do that for a while because of a broken hand.
You live in a right handed world. I love seeing the frustration of right handers when they go to use my mouse and demand change. 😂 I’ve adapted righty! Learn! 😂😂😂
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One-hand-right (everything else)
Universal balance maintained.
The world is unfair to us lefties. Can’t even get a left-handed emoji.😢
My Italian father-in-law told me kids weren’t permitted to write with their left hands back in the day. Sinistra = 👿
I often wonder why it decided to be my penmanship’s boss.
I am pretty well ambidextrous because I force myself to use my right hand. I teach the useless appendage to obey!
I use a track pad with both hands.
“Even though mealworms look like worms, they have six, jointed legs like adult beetles (worms don't have legs).
No arms.
Mealworm larvae are yellow & have 13 body segments—a head, three thoracic segments, & nine abdominal segments.
I am guessing it's because most of the people teaching me as I was growing up, were right handed?
The issue I'm going to have is when my old Logitech trackman marble mouse dies, I haven't seen anything similar.
I've seen a couple of "new" ones advertised for between $350-$890 for what should be ~$49. 😡
I want Logitech to bring them back. 😭😭
My nose runs and my feet smell
Dad was right handed, but played golf left handed.
I'm also right handed. Mum taught me how to tie a tie. So I knot a tie with my left hand, rather than my right.
I have an adult child who is left handed.
Yes they trained kids by whacking them on the knuckles.
I use a right handed mouse, golf and bat right-handed etc. so I think lefty ambidexterity is quite common; a sign of our brilliance! 😀
And honestly, the only reason I learned to play right handed was because right handed guitars were easier and far cheaper to find.
I’m pretty ambidextrous when it comes to tennis (awful whichever arm I’m using)
work, for example, scissors.
Still better than that "left handed handwriting" pen I had once which felt like it would dislocate my index finder.
Was pulled out of RC kindy when the nuns tried to 'correct' me. Props to mum for that.
I don't remember being corrected in reception, but I do vividly remember swapping hands halfway through a page because I'd been taught to write a different way than was natural.
Eventually I settled down to having terrible smudged handwriting instead.
Things I do with my right hand: pretty much everything else!
I do sometimes wonder how much of it came from necessity, i.e. no left-handed implements or if I was actually meant to be right handed. 🤷🏻♀️