If I write with my left hand but do everything else with my right (can't do it any other way so not ambidextrous) what hand does that make me?
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i would say your ambidextrous. I mean because you use both of your hands. And one is not more dominant than the other. I am about the same as you and everyone says I am ambidextrous.
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I would say it is a very particular kind of left handedness.
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You are a lefty. You think with your right mind. Stick your finger out and point at something, then close one eye. are you left eyed or right eyed? probably your left eye lines up with your finger. and in case you didnt know it, all polar bears are left handed.
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if you write with your left hand you are left handed. I am the same way. I write left but I can't kick a ball with my left foot or if i were to punch someone in the face (lol) i'd use my right arm. You're a lefty.
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Actually, the same thing happened to me. When I was in kidergarten, I wrote with my left hand, but because of the position of the desks, my elbow kept hitting the elbow of the person next to me (who was right-handed). So, I just tried to use my right hand to write, I learned how to do it that way, and now I write with my right hand, even though I do everthing else with my left. I don't know if that actually makes you right-handed. Maybe ambidextrous, or mixed-handed.
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No matter which hand you write with if your dominant hand is your left hand i.e. you do almost all other things like chopping, sewing, opening doors, or even use your left hand to open doors etc more than your right hand than you are left handed no matter which hand you right with. There are lots out there just like you. Me included.Though now I can write with both my hands :)
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Dont know about the writing but: I am right handed but I eat left handed i.e. with my fork in my right hand....it is said that people who do that were taught to eat with a spoon only for too long.
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Many years ago there was an old wives tale that said that being born left handed was a sign of less intelligence. Of course there is no truth in this, but parents would force their children to use their right hand to hide the fact that people would look at them as less intelligent. For the most part people do not go by this false tale and allow their children to use whatever hand they were meant to use. The sad part is some people still believe this to be true and will continue to force their children to use their right hand. And then you have parents who want their children to have both and will make them work both equally.
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Yes..sometimes in trying to switch the dominant hand, stuttering is the result. It is easier in the world if you are right-handed..at least that was the thinking years ago. You need tools that are for left-handed people..appliances need to be modified/adjusted..being ambidextrous, I think, would be great..if one hand is hurt, you've always got the other one to fall back on! :)
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Everyone has a "dominant" hand, regardless of what they've been taught. Years ago, it was thought (and maybe some folks still think) that being left-handed was a sign of less intelligence, and also that the left hand was unlucky because the Devil sat at the left hand of God before being cast out. Your dominant hand is genetic. I've heard that being forced to use the "wrong" hand can cause issues like stuttering among other things. I still remember one year in elementary school, our class pictures were of us sitting at desks, holding a pencil and paper. All kids were made to pose right-handed, even if they weren't. My parents were pissed off because they made my left-handed brother pose right-handed.
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Yes, and it is not uncommon.
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It happened all the time years ago. My great-aunt were literally beaten until they started writing right handed. My one great aunt said she was hit so hard across the left hand with a ruler that she couldn't write with it afterwards. I am the same as you. Except for writing, I do everything right handed. I think that may be because there are so few tools designed for left handed use.
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My dad was a lefty, and when he saw me starting out the same way he switched me over to use my right hand, for the same reasons mentioned by Talim. It was hard but i was young and malleable and I made the change. It didn't affect me at all, except when I hide in the bushes at night, naked and drooling, and when anyone intrudes on my territory I leap out and bite them on the ass (left cheek).
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Yep. I've seen it. My step daughter writes left handed and does lots of things right handed.. No one pressured her except the makers of tools and instruments for right handed people.
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It is probably more easily explained as your simply being ambidextrous. I am ambidextrous, but write only with my right-hand. It's a 50-50 shot on most anything else. For example, I am just as likely to catch a tossed ball with my left hand as with my right. It would only depend whether the ball fell to the left or right of center -- the rest is reflexive. Look at it as being a blessing rather than a curse. ;-)
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You are ambidextrous if you naturally do most things as well with the right had as the left. You are cross lateral if you are right handed but left footed (or the other way around!). Both are excellent markers for a flexible (more creative, more tactical) way of thinking, because both indicate that neither side of the brain became fixed and specialised; that both hemispheres communicate and cooperate for some tasks in a way that doesn't happen for the adult majority. However being cross lateral can be a strong indicator of dyslexia because the two conditions can sometimes go hand in hand. Dyslexia never hits people of below average intelligence, it seems. Plenty of children were pressured and trained to use their right hand when they wanted to use their left because for a long time left handed kids were singled out, so parents would do what they could to help their children 'be normal', as they saw it. I believe my brother writes with his right hand but holds his knife and fork 'left handed' and yes I've always thought it was just a normal variation.
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Most definately. The case I know of, however, was rather sad. An old fashioned father, believing it was wrong for his daughter to be left-handed (as was the case amongst some in previous generations) forced her to write with her right hand. It put her off schooling for life.
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My father is ambidextrous, he can do anything with either hand with ease. This comes naturally for him. My husband was naturally left-handed, his mother and the school system forced him to use his right hand. He uses his right for most things, but feels comfortable doing things with his left.
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Yes, in the generation before mine, left-handed people were routinely changed to right-handed by training them to use their right hands
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i write with my left but im predominantly right handed i really do only write with my left i think its just what i found normal to do when i was a kid in school we would have p.e and had to play rounders i bat and threw the ball right handed i am right footed but when writing needs to be done its left lol
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