Are you right handed, left handed or both? Me, I am right handed.

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[Tetrachloride]

1. i bat left handed

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3. Thank you Tetrachloride.

[niyad]

2. Ambi here!

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4. Thank you niyad. Where you always both?

[niyad]

5. Yes, I have been. Makes for some very interesting times.

[Mad_Dem_X]

6. Proud lefty here!

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7. Thank you Mad_Dem_X.

[CanonRay]

8. Lefty

But I can do a lot right handed. Not ambidextrous but taught myself.

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12. thank you CanonRay.

[hlthe2b]

9. I wish I were ambidextrous and I have tried. Some limited success with some movements/tasks, but

not truly capable.

Given the asymmetrical effects of osteoarthritis as we age, it would be good if everyone tried to be more ambidextrous--even if it doesn't come naturally...

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14. Thank you hIthe2b. Vet good suggestion.

[OLDMDDEM]

10. Right handed.

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15. Thank you OLDMDDEM.

[fargone]

11. I took a poll. Lean left

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16. Hahahahaha, thank you fargone,

[AllaN01Bear]

13. ambi here also. mom wanted me to be left . but i rebelled and am the way am.

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17. Thank you AllaN01Bear. Be proud to be the way you are.

[AllaN01Bear]

24. yeppers . friend of my had a bumper sticker. leftys have rights too!!!

[BigMin28]

18. Left handed

But can do alot of things with both, including writing. Was necessary to adapt. Broke my left wrist at 7, and again in my 40's.

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19. Thank you BigMin28.

[ravjav]

20. Kinda both...

I write with my left hand (no hooking) but I do everything else with my right hand.

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21. Thank you ravjav.

[ravjav]

27. YW. nt

[TommieMommy]

22. Right handed 👋

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23. Thank you TommieMommy.

[Elessar Zappa]

25. Right handed.

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But I’m left-footed which is kinda weird. I kick footballs and soccer balls with my left foot.

[3catwoman3]

42. Our older son is right-handed and left-footed.

Soccer coaches love left-footed players. Soccer goalies do not.

[33taw]

26. Write left, throw a ball/bat right, throw a frisbee - both.

[sdfernando]

28. I write with my right hand...however,

I do a lot of tasks with my left. I prefer my left hand for carrying items and usually grab things with my left hand 1st. Been told I hold my silverware incorrectly, apparently I'm not to dine with the Queen,..ahh...err...King....and did you know that 56% of the typing you do on a standard QWERTY keyboard falls on the fingers of the left hand?

So, although I am primarily right-handed, I am somewhat ambidextrous.

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30. Thank you very much sdferando, very interesting post

[lapfog_1]

29. right handed

but dad was left handed... so when I learned to play golf and baseball... I would "switch hit"... and I got pretty good at it too.

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32. Thank you very much ladfog_1 very interesting.

[CrispyQ]

31. My mother was left-handed & had the most beautiful penmanship even though she wrote practically upside-down.

My aunt was a leftie, too & she & my mom always got a corner seat at family events. Mom had this tee-shirt:

If the right side of the brain controls the left side of the body,
then only left-handers are in their right mind.

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34. thank you CrispyQ your mother was a very witty woman.

[Siwsan]

33. I guess I'm sort of ambidex

I write right handed but steer my car and use a computer mouse or touch pad left handed. Also use a potato peeler and eat left handed. I also tend to 'drift' to the left when I walk. When I was in boot camp I was the 'Port Side Recruit Petty Officer' and was a 'guide on' when we marched. The person behind me would 'pssst' when I started drifting.

My mom was left handed but the nuns tied her left hand down to force her to be right handed. She wrote right handed but there were still things she did left handed. I sometimes wonder if she 'trained' me to be right handed when I was very young.

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36. I hate what the nuns did to your mom. TY Siwsan. --it you are ambi. or were left handed at one time.Also I want to thank

you for all the work you do with the ferals. You, Siwsan are an angle on earth. Bless you.

[MoonlightHillFarm]

35. Lefty

I’m left handed, but bat and swing a golf club with my right. My brother was left handed, but his school made him change to right. When I came along a couple of years later, they stopped doing it and let me be left.

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38. TY MoonlightHillFarm It was cruel to do that to kids and I am glad they stopped it. Be proud to be lefthanded.

[Ziggysmom]

37. Another southpaw! But I can bat, bowl and golf both right and left handed. Can only

scribble lefty

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39. Thank you Ziggysmom. That is different. I would still consider you ambi. Be proud to be you. Love Debbie.

[sakabatou]

40. Righty

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48. Thank you sakabatou.

[3catwoman3]

41. All ADLs (activities of daily living) done with my right hand.

When I was a kid and could do cartwheels, I always went to the left. I'm now 73, so it's been some decades since I did a cartwheel, but I can remember the sensation. When I try to imagine doing one landing on my right hand first, it makes me feel like I would fall over even thinking about it.

When I get up out of a chair, I typically take the first step forward with my left foot.

Our older son is right-handed, but left-footed. Soccer coaches loved him for that.

[ProfessorGAC]

47. I Get Ya!

I was a good basketball player. One tactical advantage I had was that defenders always want to force a quick right-handed guy go to his left.
For some reason, my first instinct was always to go left. Have no idea why.
And, I always jumped off my left foot. Going to the basket & jumping off the right foot would feel very unnatural.

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49. What a great post. thank you 3 catwoman3. You post is very interesting and something I never thought of.

[Different Drummer]

43. I was ambidextrous as a young child, but my mom turned me into a righty.

So, I'm right-handed, but politically left.

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50. That is a good one Different Drummer. Thank you.

[LeftInTX]

44. Left! Hence my screen name..LOL

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51. HAHAHAHAHAHAH, oh you. Thank you LeftinTX.

[ailsagirl]

45. Two-thirds right, one-third left

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54. HAHAHA You are great. Thank you ailsagirl.

[ailsagirl]

58. It's true!! I have mixed dominance, though.

[ProfessorGAC]

46. Rightie

Obviously, I'm coordinated with my left fingers from piano & guitar.
But, I can't throw worth a darn left-handed. And, if I wrote left handed, I'm not sure it would be readable.
I'm a rightie all the way.

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55. Thank you ProfessorGAC.

[ms liberty]

52. I'm very lefthanded. My mother was ambidextrous.

She was adamant that no one try to force me to switch. It was pretty easy to accomplish because I was reading and writing by kindergarten

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56. Thank you ms liberty. That was terrible what teachers tried to do to make kids switch from left to right handed. People

who are left handed are geared that way. Shame on them.and good for your mother.

[Jamesm9164]

53. Not worth a darn with either.

But I try. Right handed but when I write folks think I am left handed. Confused - yup.

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57. Thank you Jamesm9164.

[Swede]

59. I'm right handed.

I recently got tendidnitus in my left elbow. Very, very painful to lift anything. I always thought my right hand did everything and my left kinda helped. It's amazing how much the left arm does in every day things.

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60. Thank you Swede.

[electric_blue68]

61. Very Left, some ambiness...

Write, draw, paint, throw, catch, use a knife (dinnerware, or exacto), bat, play guitar badly 😄 , crochet, minor sewing, sweep, use a ladle, etc with my left hand. Luckily in NYC, and possibly the time (late 1950's) no public school forced me to change. Phew!

Like, I can take down, and put things back up, and reach for etc with my right hand. Wipe a counter, but not as strongly as w my left arm/hand. Use a scissor a bit, but way better w my left, especially with precise cutting.

I actually learned to knit right handed bc it was hard to find instructions on left handed knitting when I wanted to learn.

When I was recovering from my left shoulder's ripped up rotator cuff, I tried drawing right handed. Interesting! Oh, you could tell I had Talent, but many of my medium, to longer lines were squiggly to various degrees!!! 😄 🤔 I should try again, see if there's any improvement.

I think I'm left footed, too.

So that's what this left-hander's life is like.
I think left-handeds are around 10% of the population.

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64. Thank you very much for your post ,electric_blue68, I didn't know you could be Left/right footed too.

[pansypoo53219]

62. right handed w/ambidextrous abilities.

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65. Thank you pansypoo53219

[OldBaldy1701E]

63. I am right handed.

But, I used to be able to bat and swing a tennis racket with either hand. I used to play guitar either way as well. (Not as good with my left hand doing the picking, but I can do it.)

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66. Thank you very much, OldBaldy1701E