What are you?

[Guest]

Why is it the more you think about things the weirder your habits seem. If I have a knife and fork - the knife is in my right hand. If I am being very elegant and shovelling food in my face the fork then goes in my right hand

[Lumpy]

I am right handed although I can type with both index fingers equally.

My Grandma could write with both hands and the writing was always the same. I tried for years as a kid to do that and my left handed attempts never became anything other than scrawl. Hey Ho

[Florence Fennel]

Did you know that medieval spiral stone staircases always went upwards in a clockwise direction....to stop the right handed enemy advancing from below from having room to swing their swords!

Not a lot of people know that

Jay-ell did

[Bren In Pots]

I was left handed until I started school and was made to write with my right hand, it caused all sorts of problem the one I remember most was stuttering that stayed with me for a long time. I now use my right hand writing and my trackball mouse but everything else is left handed.

[Thelma Sanders]

I'm right handed my son appears to be right handed, but there's a problem with that designation for him
. As a child he was clumsy, couldn't hop or copy letters correctly at development checks, so was investigated.

It seems that everything he does goes from one side of the brain and then to the other 'til it decides which side (hand or foot etc) to use. He has 'mixed dominance' (he's not ambidextrous) it also explains his dyslexia, apparently.

https://www.brainbalancecenters.com/...pmental-delay/

[vixylix]

I am left handed, but do do quite a lot of things right handed - I think that's mostly because at school they tried to force everyone to be right handed... I don't know if they do that any more?!

[Small pumpkin]

I'm right handed but eat the 'wrong' way so I'm told. (Knife in left hand fork in right.)

My Grandad got me to try using my knife and fork that way round once when I was quite young. He thought it would be better for me, being left handed. I nearly tuck my bl@@dy eye out with the fork

[Small pumpkin]

I am left handed, but do do quite a lot of things right handed - I think that's mostly because at school they tried to force everyone to be right handed... I don't know if they do that any more?!

They didn't force me to use my right hand at school ( and I'm knocking on a bit now 44 ). So I don't think they do. Well I hope not!

[Jay22]

Right handed here but do a lot of things with my left hand!

[Miss Mousetrousers]

I'm left-handed (as in sinistral or going anti-clockwise) but can write reasonably with my right hand when I broke my wrist in grammar school. My mum was ambidextrous (a combination of sinistral and dextral as in right or going clockwise) and wrote many letters to soldiers during WW2 and I still have a newspaper cutting saying that when her left hand tired, she used her other hand. Nicos - what a great piece of info about spiral staircases! Maybe it explains the word "widdershins" meaning being unlucky because you are "going against the natural way."

[JusPotterinTim]

I only write left handed, drink left handed, but most other things I do right handed, like eating with a knife and fork, using scissors, rackets/bats etc.

The way I go about creating things is sometimes a bit out there and I hone in on something that works, sometimes I work a bit illogicallly but I make an idea work in a roundabout way. I think this absence of always being totally logical is a left handed trait, and is sometimes called creativity, genius, (or being a nutter ) Well that makes me feel better about things anyway!

[Greenleaves]

Right handed but left footed, started as a right footer but playing No1 at rugby my left became dominate

[Mitzi]

I'm sinister. And left handed.

[bramble]

I am totally lefthanded. I do everything with my left hand. When I was going to,school I was constantly slapped and made to write with my right hand. Then I was slapped for bad writing. To this day I still do everything with my left hand including writing.
My daughter is also lefthanded as is one of my sisters.

[Small pumpkin]

I knew I wasn't the only normal person on the vine . I still thought there would be a few more lefties.