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Actually, I'm right-handed. It's a strange thing to me that we have an inborn preference that is not easy to change.
My father was born left handed and his aunt forced him to become right-handed. He's dead now but he had lots of problems in life and I wonder if that was a root cause.
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I'm VERY right-handed (can't do much of anything with my left) but when I was in 5th grade I broke my right arm and had to write lefthanded for six weeks. I got fairly good at it, and my grades actually went up because the teachers gave me the benefit of the doubt -- is that a 6 or an 8? Is that an A or an O? They just assumed that it was whatever it was supposed to be so I did very well in spelling and math!
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I'm right handed but when I was in school and get bored I'd play around practicing with my left hand, I can write my name fairly legible, but its not something I do much of now.
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No, but thought I'd hang out at a Beatles concert on the outside chance I might come up with something inspiring.
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With my talented left hand, I'm off to stir up some cornbread and gumbo to celebrate what I hope is Bo's win on AI tonight. Edited to acknowledge Carrie's win, who sings like a lefty.
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I'm right-handed, but somewhat ambidextrous. My cousin was really ambidextrous--she wrote with her right hand and did china painting with her left hand, and that's really detailed work!
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I'm a rightie. My dad's a leftie. His mom is truly ambidextrous. During WWII, she was in the RAF. She sat in the War Room of the French Resistance Command (located in the same building as the RAF Command). She sent code that was placed in front of her out by telegraph with her left hand while she wrote down telegraphed code as it came in over her earphones with her right.
My husband is also a rightie; no lefties in his family. My daughter has shown a decided preference for her left hand over her right since she was about 7 months old. I think she will probably be either a leftie or ambidextrous.
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Righty but my dad is a leftie. He was bitterly dissapointed when all of his kids were righties.
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Neither DH nor I are, but at least one of our daughters is. My mom is. Five of my brother's 6 kids are, even though he and his wife are both righties.
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Righty. Husband and older daughter are also right-handed. Younger daughter is left-handed and showed that tendency well before one year of age. So, KQ, you are probably right in your belief that your daughter will be left-handed (or ambidextrous).
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I am right handed, I write with my right hand but can do many things with my left hand, though it would be stretching it a bit to say I was ambidextrous.
My sons are all right handed, my daughter is left handed, when she was in nursery school I went to collect her early one day and caught the teacher trying to force her to use her right hand, I suggested to the teacher that perhaps kids are just 'born left handed' and no amount of force would change them, I think she got the message and my daughter is still left handed.
As she grew up she used to find it hysterical that people made money out of selling left handed gadgets as she found those made for normal, oops I mean right handed people just as easy to use Posts: 4584 | Registered: Feb 2005
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I write and throw left handed, but otherwise I am fairly ambidextrous (I can eat with my knife or fork in either hand, and I am equally bad golfing left-handed or right-handed ). I think lefties have to be ambidextrous to a certain extent living in a righty dominated world.
It's nice that they have made more accommodations for lefties than they did in the past, but one thing I really don't care for are those left-handed desks they have in some classrooms. I adapted long ago to the right handed desks. Those lefty desks are just weird.
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(Meaning I'm a little of both). I write left-handed, and do most everything else right-handed, which includes using scissors, but can do some things with both hands, including crocheting and eating. I bat right-handed and golf left, but I'm not good at either sport, because neither swing feels "natural," so I'm a somewhat confused lefty.
I apply my makeup using both hands, including mascara. I once marveled as I watched a friend apply her mascara using only her right hand, as she awkwardly held her hand upside down to apply it to her left eye.
My grandfather is the only other lefty in the family and he grew up with similar ambidexterity. His grade school teacher forced him to write right-handed.
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It's weird for my family because we have an abnormally high number of lefties including an uncle, aunt, brother, and 3 nephews (not to mention myself - but alas, I just did!).
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I'm a righty, husband is a lefty. Three of our kids are rightiess and my oldest daughter is a lefty who married a lefty. Does that mean all their kids will be lefties?
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It does seem to have some genetic basis, but I don't know whether it's recessive, multi-factoral, or linked to something else. I know that 10% of the general population are lefties, but that in some families, the concentration is higher. I'd say it's a good chance some of your grandkids will be lefties, but I can't even give you numbers on that, and it's almost certain at least one will be a rightie, although each time you have a kid, it's luck of the genetic draw, not influenced by what other children of the same parents have ended up with.
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OO-KK. Looks like you've met your match, Aardie. Now, be a nice boy and hand over your t-shirt. < Reluctantly offers Ennui the shirt off his back.> Nice fit, Ennui. It says, "I AM THE BOSS OF EVERYBODY. I MAKE ALL THE RULES."
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