Are you right handed, left handed, or ambidextrous?
Bonus Points: How has it affected your perspective on life?
Was left handed but due to crazy teachers beliefs that left handedness was evil I had to learn to use my right hand
That's really sad, but you're beyond that now and realize the value of your left!
Yeah I happy she did it now it's so useful
Left-handed from birth but can use both hands when doing some manual tasks, writing, typing, painting ( am an Artist btw,), etc, are done left-handed, the same using a knife and fork.
So often I wish that the world would take in a bit more notice that not EVERYONE is Right-Handed and make things just a bit easier for we Lefties.
I'm ambidextrous because of school. I grew up in the late 60's and teachers would force me to use my right hand. Of course, at home, I reverted to my left hand. On a funny side note; to this day I can only write on a chalkboard with my right hand, lol.
An interesting statistic is that left handed people are about twice as likely to be gay (measured per capita).
I happen to be gay, but right handed.
The left hand is controlled by the right side of the brain which is supposed to be the "creative" side. This might add to the stereotupe of gay persons beign more "creative", but I think that persons in creative fields like art, music, acting or other entertainment fields end up living lives which dont' allow much tiuem for family. I think that gay people just more easily fit the demands of creative professions are have more time to spend pursuing creative endeavors, because gays generally don't have kids and the family demands tht go with them.
So there is a higher % of left-handed gays compared to the % found in the general population? Then it stands to reason that it's not just a stereotype that more gays predominately use the right side of their brains. I'm confused; hope you are too.
This explains a lot
I may not have explained things very well. Some things as I explaihed them seem contradictory. I think that although a larger per capita percentage of gay people seem to be right brain dominant, which is the side of ht brain related to creativity, I also think it is a still a pretty small difference, and that because gays have much fewer kids and families they can spend a great deal more time pursuing artistic careers than those who have mor efamily commitments and that this secondary reason is more influential as to why so many gays achieve success in artistic fields. I hope that clarifies things.
Has had no effect.
Are you sure? Your 'like' button isn't working for me. Thumbs up.
Let me change that: In a social context built for right-handers, it taught me that the world was not built specifically for me and that I was going to have to (1) adapt my behavior, and (2) modify my world so that it fitted me. So, it made me more prone to improvise.
Learning to improvise is a pretty important survival skill.
Lefty by birth, but like most left handers I do use the other often. I could not check 2 boxes. This was probably set up by a right hander???!!!
I did include ambidextrous and other. How many hands do you have?
Lefties and proud! Only 9-11% of people are left handed.
This book is amazing, Left Handed Turn Around the World. I seriously suggest it.
Being left handed has taught me to look at things differently than most people. We live in a Right Handed world. I’ve had to make my way and change my ways, but I’ve made it this far. Lol. I just do most stuff backwards from you.
It's funny that most assume I'm right handed. Being left handed, how would you have set up the question?
I'm both..but I would've been left handed if I didn't break my arm when I was 2.5...
I had a friend in elementary school who broke her right hand in the fourth grade. She learned to write with her left, but it was awkward and a bit blocky. When she regained the use of her right hand, she again wrote with her right hand, but it resembled how she had learned to write with her left. I thought it was a significant study.
all machines are made for righties so I have to adapt. writing with a fountain pen is very smudgy