Like Chris Th, I do some things lefty, some righty.

I write, use a fork, hit a softball with my left hand.

I use scissors, play tennis, and play the guitar right handed. I also use my right hand with my mouse.


When my youngest son played high school sports, there was a player who pitched in baseball with his left hand, but as a quarterback, threw the football with his right hand. He was definately possessed!

Write, Draw, and Mouse with my left hand. Everything else I do with the right.

Except for writing, I use my left hand as much as my right. I eat, peel fruit, and do sign language with my left. I play guitar right handed. I can write with my left, but not as well or as fast as with my right. People who use both hands equally or near equally are Ambodextrious and use both sides of their brain. It is said that so do Artists and Musicians!

This is very interesting.

I *have* a left hand. It's my coffee drinking hand. [Almost] everything else is righty.

How many of us are left handed here?

I'm not left handed here, or anywhere.....

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Another left handed over here

BX is an artist???   He never knew


I am lefty too

I'm left handed.
(My son is, too)

Einstein was left handed...

I'm left handed for everything, as was my father, his father and grandfather, except when I'm using scissors, my mouse and carving the roast....I also used to bowl left arm but bat right handed in cricket. Don't know about being any more artistic for it, though....unless writing can be included, cos I can't paint or draw to save my life.

When I was at school during the 50's and 60's the teachers were forever trying to get me writing right handed, and yes, I would frequently get a rap across the knuckles with a ruler or cane to get me writing with the other hand...that is until my father went to the school and put the fear of bejesus into 'em (and he did, literally). His theory was that if I'm naturally left handed, then it would be unnatural if I were forced into writing right handed. Dad also told them that he sent me to school to learn, not to bring it home, so thay had better not to give me any more homework as I had more than enough to do around the place as it was. As of that day I never got homework again...thanks dad!

Here's one for ya's! I have a nephew who can write equally well with both hands, but more than that he can simultaneously start at each end of the sentence and join it up in the middle to make perfect sense. Hows that for ambidextrous!


Another strange thing I inherited from my father, his father and several grandfathers before him, as did my brother, sister and most of my cousins on dad's side, is that the two toes next to the big toe are webbed on both feet. My children and grandchildren also have them, yet my sister, who does have them, did not pass it on to her children or grandchildren. How strange is that!

Sir Starkers, you sound like you are from Arkansas. Just kidding. Hey, I'm left handed too. And I can't write at all. Never could. The teachers did a real number on me. Not only do I curve my hand downward but I can't move it across the page so I just mamage a few letters and then everything collapses. Thank goodness for computers now and typewriters in the past.

Starkers, you sound like you are from Arkansas. The teachers did a real number on me.

So did mine, one in particular...which is why my father went to the school full of fire and brimstone, a dead-pan look on his face and the evil eye.....

One time I was writing with my left hand, as was instinctive and comfortable for me, when suddenly I was knocked unconscious by one of those wood/felt blackboard rubbers, thrown without warning at full pelt by a 6 foot 6 inch, 120lb plus teacher. By the time dad (5' 5", about 75lbs) was finished with him, I'll bet he only felt like 4' 6".

Arkansas, Arkansas?? Oh, isn't that where the original "Hills Have Eyes" was filmed, and those web-toed swamp creatures first started running amok? Nope, never heard of it...bin there neeether. But I came first a frog race once.

I have read the stories, well horrors of people trying to change you from what you are to what they think you should be. It is so sad to me. What is even sadder is that it will probably never end in time or in subjects. I would love to elaborate on this, but that is not what this thread is about.

6 foot 6 inch, 120lb plus teacher. By the time dad (5' 5", about 75lbs) was finished with him, I'll bet he only felt like 4' 6".

Sorry about this but I need to correct myself....the aforementioned weights should have been in kgs not lbs. Me sometimes finds converting the different measures so darned confusing...this was one of those times. Durrrr!