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I was watching my two year old Great-Granddaughter "writing" today and noticed that she was using her left hand.  Later while eating, she grabbed the fork with her left hand clearing demonstrating to me that she will probably be left-handed.

This made me curious.   ??? 

What is there to be curious about?
The common theory is that the left side of the brain controls the right side of the body and vice versa,
therefore the kid is right brained.
Gerald

   My left handed friends say everyone is born left handed until they commit their first sin. :D

I am definitely ambidextrous. I can write forwards or backwards (legibly) with either hand.

Me too.
. . . .  but nobody can read what I wrote.

Fixed it.  :D

Which hand did you use?
;D

I eat, shot and right  right handed but bat a ball and swing a ax or large hammer with my left  ??? ??? my wife is also south pawed every thing left handed  :)

Quote from: Andries on April 16, 2017, 08:40:36 PM
Me too.
. . . .  but nobody can read what I wrote.

Same here, equally illegible with both hands.

Quote from: Andries on April 16, 2017, 08:58:10 PM
Which hand did you use?
;D

I used both thumbs on my stooopid phone. :D

I amphibious most of the time but I play golf right handed.

Goats have hooves, not hands.

Sounds like goats are good swimmers, too :)

They actually made me stay back a grade in school because my handwriting was so terrible.
Didn't help  :D

I have two sons, and one is a lefty.  Two out of five grandchildren are lefties (one boy and one girl), one in each boys families.   

My daughter is somewhat a lefty and somewhat ambidextrous. My nieces son is also. Good thing for him. Poor kid just found out he has cancer in his hand and will loose most of it.  :( He's a big time baseball player in school. Taking it all pretty hard.

Sorry to hear that Lee.  I'm right handed without a lick of ambidextrous in me, really hurts when wrenching or working in the shop  :-\.

We were all born left handed but only a few of us were smart enough to stay that way, That's my story and I'm sticking to it. :D I remember having to use a fountain pen in school, I poked holes in the paper because I was pushing not dragging it and smudged the ink with the heel of my hand. What a pain. My dad liked it though, I could drive nails in a corner he couldn't reach.
It's a good thing I can hunt and peck on a keyboard, I can't write legibly to save my life. My first teacher was constantly on my case. My grand mother told me she was a lefty but a willow switch across the knuckles in school taught her to conform.

I'm right handed but I can hammer with either nearly equally as well.  My son is right handed but holds his pencil more like a lefty - hooking his wrist around and writing from the top.  Looks odd, can't get him to hold it like anyone else.  When he is not in a hurry, his printing is spectacular - but normally worse than mine! :D

The question presumes hands. Trees, goats and groundhogs may take offense.



(I have missed this place and its barky inhabitants!)

This much I can say for sure my right hand hate's my left hand  >:( :o  :D

Lee sorry to hear about your neices son.

I am right handed but dad was always on me to learn to hammer and swing an axe both ways.  My left Andes brother taught me how to tie a neck tie, so that is how I do it.  I do have a daughter left handed and a son right handed.  It is a rough life for lefties!

I had a tough time in the military, I shot a rifle right handed but hand gun left. I have weak vision in my left eye which didn't help either. Drove the pistol range officer nuts, I couldn't operate the safety with my thumb so either switched hands or reached over with my right hand. My training period was short. :D

Am right handed but shoot left handed because no right eye.  also bat a ball left handed.  Every thing else right handed.  Also no debth perception.

I'm right handed but left eye dominant.  It's confusing  ;) ;D

I write with my left.

Almost everything else I can do with either hand - some a little better with the left, some a little better with the right. Whenever I played tennis or other racquet sport, I psyched out my opponent by running for a ball I couldn't catch and then switch hands with the paddle and scoop in for the return volley. It was always funny seeing their expression change from 'gotcha' to 'OMG'.

My step-dad said the sure test of handedness is the toilet paper test. I'll just lob that one out there, and leave it at that!  :D

One daughter left handed, one daughter ambidextrous, me, right.  Both their grandfathers were lefties, guess it skipped a generation.  Softball coach loved my ambi daughter, tell her to switch hands in the middle of the pitches. 

Wow, we are getting some interesting comments.   8)

More lefties and ambidextrous than there should be, statistically. I wonder if sawmilling draws them out of the woodwork. So to speak.

If you can consistently operate your sawmill hydraulics with your "other" hand.....you just might be a redneck
ambidextrous.   ;D

I'm so right handed it's like my left is just along for the ride sometimes  :D. Didn't help any when I had a tree land on me and crush my left wrist 17 years ago. I do my best to use my left but it's kinda futile.
You ambidextrous folks make me a bit jealous, definitely would make certain tasks easier.

I am left handed but right eye dominant. I played softball left handed but shoot right handed, my bow is right hand. My writing is awful. When I sit at a table I always try and sit all the way to the left.

Quote from: newoodguy78 on April 18, 2017, 09:07:33 PM
I'm so right handed it's like my left is just along for the ride sometimes  :D

😂😂😂 That's the same way I am, the left arm doesn't do much compared to the right.
     The opposite eye dominance phenomenon is fairly common, it's easy to spot when someone has shooting difficulties.

But then there is someone that if his "shooting" is off.....
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He puts on a purple skirt.  Made him so great that he made the "list".

Quote from: Weekend_Sawyer on April 19, 2017, 12:36:09 PM
When I sit at a table I always try and sit all the way to the left.

Growing up, our family has 7 kids.  To be able to sit 9 at the table, we had a big round redwood picnic table in our kitchen/dining room.  One sister was left handed.  There is no "left end" to sit at on a round table!  We had 5 two-seat benches around it.  So, she often had a bench to herself...

That is a real problem, no one wants to sit to my left at the dinner table. ;D At one place I worked, the boss' wife, the parts man and I were all lefties, it drove the boss nuts that the note book, the pen and calculator were to the left of the phone.

I am the "Black Sheep" in my family I'm right handed.  :D Mom, Dad, Brother, Aunt, Uncle, Grandparents all lefties.  But learned how to do a lot left handed. Broke my right twice the only thing that I can't do is write lefty.

I'm both for many things, but left handed given the choice.
The one thing that I absolutely cannot do right handed is throw something overhand. If it looks as awkward as it feels I'm sure it would make for some good entertainment for folks. :D

In regards to throwing things,  I am ambisinistrous.

I am having trouble pronouncing that but looked it up anyway. :D I have the same problem.

Wow guys, I learned (I think) a new word today and even read it's meaning.   smiley_dizzy

Anyway, I added it to the poll just for you.   :)

Everything is right in my world  :D

 :D :D

I seeds nobody is owning up to being all thumbs yet. :D

My cousin played ball at AU for a few years and can bat right and left handed.

I am right handed , throw right handed , bat left handed, play golf right handed, left eye dominant. Maybe that explains why I get dizzy when I stand up :)

I'm full fledged right. I have overslept my flight a few times though. I was left then.

Remember guys:

MEN <<< to the Left

WOMEN >>>> are always RIGHT !!!

Now that's funny   :D :D :D

Quote from: Holmes on April 24, 2017, 05:25:58 PM
I am right handed , throw right handed , bat left handed, play golf right handed, left eye dominant. Maybe that explains why I get dizzy when I stand up :)

I would be confused too. :D

I write left handed, throw right, shoot bow right, shoot gun left, hammer with either hand. Can run a chainsaw left or right just as easy ( when climbing or in the bucket this is necessary sometimes ).

Quote from: bill m on April 29, 2017, 08:37:39 PM
I write left handed, throw right, shoot bow right, shoot gun left, hammer with either hand. Can run a chainsaw left or right just as easy ( when climbing or in the bucket this is necessary sometimes ).

billm  My first wife was left handed so In totally understand you.. :)

I'm mostly left handed, try at times to hammer right but I've learned that should not be tried to start a nail or on finish work.
My dad was natural left but in the catholic school he attended the hit him over the back of his hand any time he used his left hand (in late 19 teens and early 19 twenties), this made him right handed. Later in life when he was hammering or writing if one hand got tried, he just switched hands. His writing was nearly identical with either hand.