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Location: Austin TX USA
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Location: Austin TX USA
Posted:
I'm left-handed, but your right-handed description is a much better fit for me.
I'm left-handed, but your right-handed description is a much better fit for me.
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Location: Baltimore, MD USA
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Right-handers, uber alles!
-prote, a chronic sufferer of GLHS (Gimpy Left Hand Syndrome)
Right-handers, uber alles!
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Location: San Francisco, CA, USA
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Location: San Francisco, CA, USA
Posted:
Given an either/or question, I tend to go "Both!". I'm pretty much ambidextrous. My right hand gets a little more use in some situations, just because the world is set up to assume right-handedness. (So I was taught to write right-handed in school, but can write with my left hand anyway if I feel like it. It's not quite as good, because it hasn't had as much practice and drilling -- but at this point, I write pretty pathetically with either hand, because I spend so much time typing!)Things like poi, fencing, and so on, I do just as well with either hand.And I'm kind of in-between the descriptions of the two types, as well. When I hang around with artistic types, they find me too cerebral and logical, but when I hang around with engineers and techies, I come off as much more artistic and intuitive.I tend to split the difference, no matter what.
Given an either/or question, I tend to go "Both!". I'm pretty much ambidextrous. My right hand gets a little more use in some situations, just because the world is set up to assume right-handedness. (So I was taught to write right-handed in school, but can write with my left hand anyway if I feel like it. It's not quite as good, because it hasn't had as much practice and drilling -- but at this point, I write pretty pathetically with either hand, because I spend so much time typing!)Things like poi, fencing, and so on, I do just as well with either hand.And I'm kind of in-between the descriptions of the two types, as well. When I hang around with artistic types, they find me too cerebral and logical, but when I hang around with engineers and techies, I come off as much more artistic and intuitive.I tend to split the difference, no matter what.
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Location: Manchester
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Location: Manchester
Posted:
i'm right handed (completely)but i fit the description for both.where did you get the quotes???
i'm right handed (completely)but i fit the description for both.where did you get the quotes???
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Location: Dacula, GA, USA
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Location: Dacula, GA, USA
Posted:
You rock Malcolm. I though I was the only person alive who wrote left handed, but did everything else right handed. My left hand is basically useless unless I'm swinging or shooting pool. When I was growing up and starting playing baseball all the neighborhood kids told me to turn around to bat (righthanded) so it just kind of stuck.
You rock Malcolm. I though I was the only person alive who wrote left handed, but did everything else right handed. My left hand is basically useless unless I'm swinging or shooting pool. When I was growing up and starting playing baseball all the neighborhood kids told me to turn around to bat (righthanded) so it just kind of stuck.
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Location: NY, USA
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Location: NY, USA
Posted:
definately think that I use both, but quite the interesting question. it would be really cool to find out how many of the proffesional people fit into those descriptions.------------------Care of other people's approval and you become their prisoner.Live fully, Rave wholly.Fluid are the movements of my strings...
definately think that I use both, but quite the interesting question. it would be really cool to find out how many of the proffesional people fit into those descriptions.------------------Care of other people's approval and you become their prisoner.Live fully, Rave wholly.Fluid are the movements of my strings...
Care of other people's approval and you become their prisoner.Live fully, Rave wholly.Fluid are the movements of my strings...
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Location: WNY, USA
the henna lady
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Location: WNY, USA
Posted:
Depends on what I am doing...I use both...and I fit into both descriptions which is why I can be so business minded about Pyromorph sometimes and a1so do the creative stuff as we11. I think it a1so goes with that 1ibra dua1ity I am supposed to have. Either way, it works for me! ------------------Pele Higher, higher burning fire...making music like a choir...
Depends on what I am doing...I use both...and I fit into both descriptions which is why I can be so business minded about Pyromorph sometimes and a1so do the creative stuff as we11. I think it a1so goes with that 1ibra dua1ity I am supposed to have. Either way, it works for me! ------------------Pele Higher, higher burning fire...making music like a choir...
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Location: sidney, bc, canada
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Location: sidney, bc, canada
Posted:
im ambedextrous so what am i?????huh???? what am i????am i a patern seeker or a logical guy????so what am i mr moderater malcolm in your oppinion???(funny thing is im in between actually)
im ambedextrous so what am i?????huh???? what am i????am i a patern seeker or a logical guy????so what am i mr moderater malcolm in your oppinion???(funny thing is im in between actually)
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I'm right-handed and left-footed (so in gymnastics/hurdles etc I always take off from my left foot, I found left-leg splits much easier and I find turning right when horse-riding to be really awkward).On the other hand, I felt much more comfortable playing guitar left-handed (until I was "taught" how to do it "properly") and I've broken so many bones in my left arm/shoulder that it's not really surprising that it's a bit lazy and stiff compared to my right.I'm also flying to Africa in 7 hours which is completely irrelevent to this post but is mindbogglingly exciting for me. I will be taking both arms and legs with me and I hope to return with the same number of each, attached in the same places that they are now.BestestNoods
I'm right-handed and left-footed (so in gymnastics/hurdles etc I always take off from my left foot, I found left-leg splits much easier and I find turning right when horse-riding to be really awkward).On the other hand, I felt much more comfortable playing guitar left-handed (until I was "taught" how to do it "properly") and I've broken so many bones in my left arm/shoulder that it's not really surprising that it's a bit lazy and stiff compared to my right.I'm also flying to Africa in 7 hours which is completely irrelevent to this post but is mindbogglingly exciting for me. I will be taking both arms and legs with me and I hope to return with the same number of each, attached in the same places that they are now.BestestNoods
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Posted:
It is possible (and very normal) for people to display traits of the opposite handedness, for example I am left handed. My Dad is also left handed (it's genetic) but he displays traits much more vividly than I do - he uses his left hand as a right-handed person uses their right whereas I was re-trained in infant school to use my right.
It's all to do with which side of your brain is more dominant (right side for creativity and left side for logic and reasoning) and as we know, the left hemisphere controls the right hand side of our bodies.
A simple test to find out which side of the brain is dominant is hold out your left index finger in front of you (arm straight) and aim at something in the distance. Now close one eye keeping your finger where it is. Swap eyes and whichever eye the finger stays on target and doesn't jump, you are that eye dominant ergo that-handed.
So if you're left-eye dominant, you're left-handed.
Geddit? Gottit? Good
It is possible (and very normal) for people to display traits of the opposite handedness, for example I am left handed. My Dad is also left handed (it's genetic) but he displays traits much more vividly than I do - he uses his left hand as a right-handed person uses their right whereas I was re-trained in infant school to use my right.
It's all to do with which side of your brain is more dominant (right side for creativity and left side for logic and reasoning) and as we know, the left hemisphere controls the right hand side of our bodies.
A simple test to find out which side of the brain is dominant is hold out your left index finger in front of you (arm straight) and aim at something in the distance. Now close one eye keeping your finger where it is. Swap eyes and whichever eye the finger stays on target and doesn't jump, you are that eye dominant ergo that-handed.
So if you're left-eye dominant, you're left-handed.
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chemical attraction
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Location: Ilkeston, Derbyshire, England
chemical attraction
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Location: Ilkeston, Derbyshire, England
Posted:
my grandad is right handed,my gran is left handed,my mum is also left handed and i am right handed.
i am righr foot dominated and also my right eye is dominant.
my grandad is right handed,my gran is left handed,my mum is also left handed and i am right handed.
i am righr foot dominated and also my right eye is dominant.
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So the right-handed gene is dominant in your family?
Did everyone look at you funny when you tested the eyes? Luckily there's only one other guy in my office right now (probably looking up porn) so I re-tested myself - dunno why, it's not like it's gonna change
So the right-handed gene is dominant in your family?
Did everyone look at you funny when you tested the eyes? Luckily there's only one other guy in my office right now (probably looking up porn) so I re-tested myself - dunno why, it's not like it's gonna change
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Liquid Cow
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Location: High Wycombe, England
Liquid Cow
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Location: High Wycombe, England
Posted:
That's not quite true - I'm left handed (as are both my parents), but right eye dominant.
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So if you're left-eye dominant, you're left-handed.
That's not quite true - I'm left handed (as are both my parents), but right eye dominant.
But there's no sense crying over every mistake. You just keep on trying till you run out of cake.
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Location: Farnham Ahoy, United Kingdom
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Location: Farnham Ahoy, United Kingdom
Posted:
left handed and proud of it!!!
left handed and proud of it!!!
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Location: Portland Oregon USA
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Location: Portland Oregon USA
Posted:
The only thing that I do exclusively with my right hand is write. But when I practice, the writing from the left hand actually looks good!
I'm going to say both.
The only thing that I do exclusively with my right hand is write. But when I practice, the writing from the left hand actually looks good!
I'm going to say both.
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Location: Hastings, United Kingdom
Carpal \'Tunnel
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Location: Hastings, United Kingdom
Posted:
Right handed
I'm pretty naff at doing anything with my left hand.
Right handed
I'm pretty naff at doing anything with my left hand.
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Location: Bristol, United Kingdom
Pooh-Bah
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Location: Bristol, United Kingdom
Posted:
I'm right handed but because my wrists are crap (I haven't been able to write more than a sentence without being in agony with my right hand since i was 14) I taught myself to be ambidextrous so i could swap between the two!- definately helps to prevent Gimpy-Left-Hand-Syndrome!
I'm right handed but because my wrists are crap (I haven't been able to write more than a sentence without being in agony with my right hand since i was 14) I taught myself to be ambidextrous so i could swap between the two!- definately helps to prevent Gimpy-Left-Hand-Syndrome!
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Posted:
I learnt that eye thing at junior school...I am predominantly right sided but fairly dexterous....I am very definately left eye dominant and used to eat left handed as a child, I find most things are easiest right handed but find the odd thing i can do with my left hand that I just can't grasp with my right (excuse the pun)
I learnt that eye thing at junior school...I am predominantly right sided but fairly dexterous....I am very definately left eye dominant and used to eat left handed as a child, I find most things are easiest right handed but find the odd thing i can do with my left hand that I just can't grasp with my right (excuse the pun)
A couple of balls short of a full cascade... or maybe a few cards short of a deck... we'll see how this all fans out.
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Location: Brighton, United Kingdom
fluffy mess
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Location: Brighton, United Kingdom
Posted:
It depends for me too. I write right handed, and have re-trained myself to eat right-handed although I used to eat left handed, and play flute left-handed. I find that there is more skill in my right hand and more power in my left, so depending on what i'm doing, I use the best hand for the job.
Funny thing is too, I surf with my left leg forward, yet my stance for kickboxing is right-foot forward.
It depends for me too. I write right handed, and have re-trained myself to eat right-handed although I used to eat left handed, and play flute left-handed. I find that there is more skill in my right hand and more power in my left, so depending on what i'm doing, I use the best hand for the job.
Funny thing is too, I surf with my left leg forward, yet my stance for kickboxing is right-foot forward.
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Location: In your head. (Tasmania, Australia)
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Location: In your head. (Tasmania, Australia)
Posted:
im left handed....i cant do ANYTHHING with my right....im a total unco when it comes to anything that i have to do with my right hand.....i just cant do a thing with my right.....
but having said that i think its interesting that i cant live without my music or art which makes me a typical lefty but i need things to be logical as well, i tend to do step by step things as well....
so i have the traits of both....
im left handed....i cant do ANYTHHING with my right....im a total unco when it comes to anything that i have to do with my right hand.....i just cant do a thing with my right.....
but having said that i think its interesting that i cant live without my music or art which makes me a typical lefty but i need things to be logical as well, i tend to do step by step things as well....
so i have the traits of both....
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Location: Lake District UK
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Posted:
righty but the rest of my family are left???
righty but the rest of my family are left???
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Posted:
Slightly off topic, but I read a study once by some French sociologist who believed that societies which insisted on people being right hand dominant were actually hindering the development of the right-hand side of the brain and some of it's associated creative/emotional functions.(which corresponds to left side of body). Think he was arguing that our brains wouln't be left- or right- side dominant if we learnt to do everything equally on each side.
It's a pretty old study though, so I'm not convinced he's right, but it's an interesting theory.
Slightly off topic, but I read a study once by some French sociologist who believed that societies which insisted on people being right hand dominant were actually hindering the development of the right-hand side of the brain and some of it's associated creative/emotional functions.(which corresponds to left side of body). Think he was arguing that our brains wouln't be left- or right- side dominant if we learnt to do everything equally on each side.
It's a pretty old study though, so I'm not convinced he's right, but it's an interesting theory.
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I am a bit ambidextrous, although technically I suppose a bit more left handed...I write, draw, do archery and throw knives(overhanded at least) wih my left hand....On the other hand (heh heh
)I tend to do loads of other stuf with my right hand. i.e. play guitar, play drums, use scissors, and bat...As far as spinning goes, my friend who showed me some basics, Buki Kyo, told me that I spin with my left hand more dominent....
I heard once on NPR that societies with more left handed people tend to be a bit more violent....what that means I don't know, I can't remember....
I am a bit ambidextrous, although technically I suppose a bit more left handed...I write, draw, do archery and throw knives(overhanded at least) wih my left hand....On the other hand (heh heh
)I tend to do loads of other stuf with my right hand. i.e. play guitar, play drums, use scissors, and bat...As far as spinning goes, my friend who showed me some basics, Buki Kyo, told me that I spin with my left hand more dominent....I heard once on NPR that societies with more left handed people tend to be a bit more violent....what that means I don't know, I can't remember....
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i'm a righty! the rest of my family is too...but my dad used to be a lefty! his school teachers used to whack him across the knuckles when he wrote left handed to force him to become right handed...which explains his terrible hard to read handwriting now!!
i'm a righty!
the rest of my family is too...but my dad used to be a lefty! his school teachers used to whack him across the knuckles when he wrote left handed to force him to become right handed...which explains his terrible hard to read handwriting now!! do not meddle in the affairs of dragons, for you are crunchy and good to eat!
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Location: The countryside, Australia
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Location: The countryside, Australia
Posted:
I'm a righty too
I'm a righty too
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Posted:
im one of those "wierd" types.........
a lefty for writing and picking my nose , a righty for most other things 
whats that word - ambidextrous or summit
im one of those "wierd" types.........
a lefty for writing and picking my nose
, a righty for most other things whats that word - ambidextrous or summit
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That's what happened to me, although I was verbally beaten rather than actually hit. I remember playing sports very well; for about six months of "re-conditioning", if you threw a ball at me, I wouldn't know which hand to catch with so often ended up with a ball in the face
Now I use both hands for different things (I can open a bra with one of either hand )
Written by: gita
i'm a righty!
That's what happened to me, although I was verbally beaten rather than actually hit. I remember playing sports very well; for about six months of "re-conditioning", if you threw a ball at me, I wouldn't know which hand to catch with so often ended up with a ball in the face
Now I use both hands for different things (I can open a bra with one of either hand
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Scientist of Fortune
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Location: Edinburgh
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Location: Edinburgh
Posted:
Left handed myself. But everyone knows that all these personality profiles based on something so trivial is a bunch of right-handed stupidity.
Left handed myself. But everyone knows that all these personality profiles based on something so trivial is a bunch of right-handed stupidity.
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Location: warwickshire
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come on you no how thats gonna turn out, right handed obviously, cause were just the best
come on you no how thats gonna turn out, right handed obviously, cause were just the best
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...curiously lost
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Location: at my PC....obviously!, United Kingdom
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Right handed and sighted personally........
Right handed and sighted personally........
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