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I checked righty, but I do many things with my left hand. And, if push comes to shove (like when my right hand was all messed up) I can stamp left handed. Now cutting paper, strictly right handed~
I stamp, eat, write and throw left-handed. Everything else (cutting, batting, golfing, kicking, tennis - not that the I DO any of these!) is right-handed. And I wear my watch on my right hand.
__________________ Donna - Wife and Mom in Massachusetts
DH and I are both lefties and we have 2 right handed children--2 lefts make a right!
That's funny!
I'm totally a right handed. Can't do much with my left. I do have a right handed dd, a left-handed dd, and my son uses both. (all adopted)
I'm a lefty (My husband is too!) but I can do lots of things with either hand. I stamp and paint with both (I'm a fast painter!) and can use scissors with either hand but I can't write with my right hand. Most sports - right-handed. I wear my watch on my right hand.
It is funny to see how many people can use their left hand for things! My older brother is left handed, so anything that he taught me I do left handed.
I throw left handed.
I can catch with either left or right.
I shoot left handed. (this freaked my dh out when he and I first went shooting together! He thought this was TOTALLY wrong! heehee!)
I write right handed.
I can eat left or right.
I cut and chop strictly right handed ONLY.
I stamp right handed.
That's all I can think of right now. I have really good hand/eye coordination, and I don't know if it was nature or nurture. I had many years of violin and piano lessons, so I'm sure that contributed to my partial ambitexterity.
Wikipedia says that 10% of the population is left-handed (5.24% Male, 4.76% Female)
The poll currently has lefties running at 24%. (11/46)
It also stats that true ambidexterity is very rare - poll has it running at 15% (7/46)
Famous lefties:
American Politicians:
Bill Bradley
George H.W. Bush
Bill Clinton
Gerald Ford
Barney Frank
Benjamin Franklin
James Garfield
Herbert Hoover
John Kerry - Left-handed, but throws right-handed.
Gavin Newsom
H. Ross Perot - With Clinton and Bush, all three major 1992 U.S. presidential election candidates were left-handed.
Ronald Reagan - Converted to right-handedness in childhood.
Nelson Rockefeller
Hugh Scott
Harry S Truman - Converted to right-handedness in childhood.
World Leaders:
Bertie Ahern
Napoleon Bonaparte
Julius Caesar
David Cameron
Fidel Castro
Hugo Ch�vez
Joseph Estrada
Gandhi
Ahmed Tejan Kabbah
F.W. de Klerk
Lee Hsien Loong
Benjamin Netanyahu
Pol Pot
Tiberius - According to Suetonius in his De Vita Caesarum.
Artists:
Leonardo Da Vinci - According to Carmen Bambach's article |Leonardo, Left-handed Draftsman and Writer
Albrecht D�rer
M. C. Escher
Hans Holbein
Paul Klee
Michelangelo
Raphael
Arnold Roth
Ronald Searle
Other:
Henry Ford
Bill Gates
Alan Greenspan [citation needed] Plays golf left-handed. [3]
Matt Groening - His Simpsons characters Bart Simpson, Montgomery Burns, Ned Flanders and many others are all left handed. Flanders even runs a left-handed store, the Leftorium, and faces competition from two other left-handed stores, Leftopolis and the mega-chain Left-Mart.
I am mostly left handed but can function with my right hand. I can do almost anything with my right hand as well as my left but my natural preference is left handed.
I am pretty much a total left handed person. The only thing I do right handed is play golf - which is once in a blue moon.
I wish I could help with the scissors problem. I would love to find a good pair of left handed craft/rubber scissors. I can use the SU ones but using them in my left hand I can't get as close to the edge of the rubber as I would like. Also I know some of my decorative scissors I can't use because holding the paper with my right hand puts the paper on the wrong side. This probably does not make sense to most right handed people, but try it and you will see what I mean. I would love a solution.
__________________ Martha
"When you recover or discover something that nourishes your soul and brings joy, care enough about yourself to make room for it in your life." Jean Shinoda Bolen
DH and I are both definetely right handed, but we think our DS 3 1/2 is left handed. Anyone know at what age you can tell if a kid is going to be left or right handed?
DH and I are both definetely right handed, but we think our DS 3 1/2 is left handed. Anyone know at what age you can tell if a kid is going to be left or right handed?
Jeanette
I started noticing when she started feeding herself. I would even test her by putting her spoon on the right side but she would pick it up with her left. It's fun having a lefty!
Wikipedia says that 10% of the population is left-handed (5.24% Male, 4.76% Female)
The poll currently has lefties running at 24%. (11/46)
It also stats that true ambidexterity is very rare - poll has it running at 15% (7/46)
Famous lefties:
American Politicians:
Bill Bradley
George H.W. Bush
Bill Clinton
Gerald Ford
Barney Frank
Benjamin Franklin
James Garfield
Herbert Hoover
John Kerry - Left-handed, but throws right-handed.
Gavin Newsom
H. Ross Perot - With Clinton and Bush, all three major 1992 U.S. presidential election candidates were left-handed.
Ronald Reagan - Converted to right-handedness in childhood.
Nelson Rockefeller
Hugh Scott
Harry S Truman - Converted to right-handedness in childhood.
World Leaders:
Bertie Ahern
Napoleon Bonaparte
Julius Caesar
David Cameron
Fidel Castro
Hugo Ch�vez
Joseph Estrada
Gandhi
Ahmed Tejan Kabbah
F.W. de Klerk
Lee Hsien Loong
Benjamin Netanyahu
Pol Pot
Tiberius - According to Suetonius in his De Vita Caesarum.
Artists:
Leonardo Da Vinci - According to Carmen Bambach's article |Leonardo, Left-handed Draftsman and Writer
Albrecht D�rer
M. C. Escher
Hans Holbein
Paul Klee
Michelangelo
Raphael
Arnold Roth
Ronald Searle
Other:
Henry Ford
Bill Gates
Alan Greenspan [citation needed] Plays golf left-handed. [3]
Matt Groening - His Simpsons characters Bart Simpson, Montgomery Burns, Ned Flanders and many others are all left handed. Flanders even runs a left-handed store, the Leftorium, and faces competition from two other left-handed stores, Leftopolis and the mega-chain Left-Mart.
DH and I are both definetely right handed, but we think our DS 3 1/2 is left handed. Anyone know at what age you can tell if a kid is going to be left or right handed?
Jeanette
I KNOW my DD is a lefty she is quite active with markers and paint! I though that she would have been a righty being that I am lefty and I would hold her on my right hip so I had my left hand free- leaving her right hand free ~ clear as mud right? LOL
I write right handed (backwards too!) and can write left handed, however it's much slower. I can write the same word forward with the left hand and backwards with the right hand at the same time.
Left hand: chop sticks, bowling, throwing, catching (makes playing baseball difficult), kicking, and cutting with scissors.
Right hand: fork, knife, batting, golfing.
I can shoot pool either handed. And I can stamp with my left hand.
DH and I are both definetely right handed, but we think our DS 3 1/2 is left handed. Anyone know at what age you can tell if a kid is going to be left or right handed?
Jeanette
My dh and I are lefties and our DK's are righties. HeHe "2 lefties make righties"!! I think they start to show what hand they use when they start to reach for things or what hand they prefer to hold their spoon in and so on...
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I'm mostly righty, but can do alot with my left too. I broke my right wrist as a kid and my Dad taught me to use my left. I can color with my left and use the blender pen with my right, I can stamp right or left. I hammer better left handed than right handed too.
I like to eat left hand, but drives my DH nuts! He says you have to be right or left, not both!
I can also write my name with the pencil in my toes! Does that count?
Everyone in my family is right hand, except my baby brother and I? Go figure?
Karen
__________________ Karen
...My life is like a stroll on the beach...As near to the edge as I can go...Thoreau...
I am left handed, as is one of my sisters (and new downline!). The other 2 sisters and parents are right handed. My Mom's mother was left handed. I do just about everything with my left hand, except using a scissor and the mouse. I have to be careful showing techniques, especially the stamp-a-ma-jig, as it totally confuses people! 5 years ago I almost cut off the index finger on my left hand (long story, horse related) so I had to learn how to use my right. It was awful! When I was in high school I hurt my left knee, so I taught myself how to get on my horse from the right side. I haven't done it that way for a long time and don't even know if I could anymore. Too weird!
I voted lefty because I write/eat w/my left hand. BUT I can do most things w/both hands. I mostly stamp w/my left hand, but can use both if needed. When it comes to cutting, most sports and brushing my teeth I use w/my right hand. Seems to me I'm a little confused when it comes to the left/right handed thing.
Fun thread!!!!
I'm a lefty, but use scissors with my right hand, eat the "proper" way round and wear my watch on the left. However, my left wrist is currently strapped up (due, I think, to over-use of the mouse) and I'm using the mouse with my right hand... I'm getting better at it!
I did a similar poll here on SCS last year I think and there was, like in this poll, a surprisingly high number of lefties, compared to the statistics.
Is this because artistic people are more likely to be left-handed?
Or is it because left-handed people are more likely to take the poll because they want to make their vote count?
We'll never know, unless we can force ALL SCSers to take the poll!
Okay lefties - I have been in search of some GOOD left handed scissors. Can ya help a girl out?
I'm a lefty actually both.......growing up in parochial school---- those nuns tried but I stayed a lefty true and through.
As for scissors I use Fiskers, they seem to work great for the right or the left. Get 2 pair and a sharpened at Costco for $9 bucks. Now that's a deal!!!
The only thing I can do with my right hand is operate those 10-key calculators and hold myself up with my cane. LOL
Don't we all put our wristwatches and bracelets on the hand we do not use to write? If not, then I'm a righty for that as well.
Everything else, including playing the guitar (strumming up) is left.
Lisa - I think that when you do find a left handed scissor, it will seem strange because we've seen it the wrong way for so long. i've held those decorative scissor upside down; smaller hole in my thumb, getting blisters all the time to adjust to the "right" way.
I am a lefty and my mom is too.
However, I use scissors right-handed because when I was growing up I had problems squeezing all my fingers in the little round part on the handle for the right-handed person's thumb. :rolleyes:
I use knives in my left hand.
I play all sports (not very well - LoL) right-handed except for tennis and badminton, because that was how I was taught.
Watches and bracelets go on my right wrist because I hate that they get in the way on my left wrist.
I mouse with my left hand, but did not switch the right/left clicks.
I stamp, eat, write and throw left-handed. Everything else (cutting, batting, golfing, kicking, tennis - not that the I DO any of these!) is right-handed. And I wear my watch on my right hand.
Are you RIGHTY, LEFTY or BOTH?
Lefty!
