Traveler

I don't consider myself ambidextrous because there is nothing I can do equally well with my right and left hands (or feet). But Lainey's definition seems to be the ability to do some things with the right and others with the left. I fit that description.

I do almost everything with my left appendages. I use my right hand for scissors and computer mice. Anything that requires me to swing with both arms, such as swinging a bat or club or chopping wood, I do right handled. For everything else I use my left.

The only thing I've ever intentionally switched is the computer mouse. When they first started appearing I used my left hand. This made it hard to use other people's computers. Then contoured mice appeared, and they were all for righties. I bit the bullet, and forced myself to switch.

Legal Bill

A friend of mine broke his dominant arm when we were kids. He had a cast for months. He could barely scribble at first. By the time they removed it, his hadwriting with his minor arm was excellent.

PanteraKitty

My wife is aquadexterous. She can adjust the bathtub faucet with either foot.

Matt_in_VA

I am not sure anyone besides me "got it"

Matt_in_VA

As a left handed person I find that fascinating. Do you not do anything including using scissors with your right hand? Do you have left handed scissors? Do you have a left handed ruler for measuring?

No doubt that many right handed members of Vintage are scratching their heads wondering what in hell I am referring too right about now?

Matt_in_VA

Comments like this one makes me think that there is a reward for being left handed in a right handed world. I can use both hands to eat.

Matt_in_VA

I find it interesting that you should mention that you deal cards left handed? On the "other hand" I contribute the fact that I never really learned to play card games was because I am left handed. When one fans the cards as a left handed person naturally would one cannot see any of the numbers (right handed people are always dumb founded when they learn this).

On the other hand, as a left handed person I take slight offense to the term "Ambidextrous" as it is derived from the Latin terms of Ambi meaning both and dextrous meaning two right hands. I beg to differ. I have a functional left hand.

With that stated and out of the way. In the interest of disclosure I guess that I should point out that I must be a confused individual. I do do certain things in a right handed fashion. Some out of necessity such as use scissors. On the other hand I bat a ball right handed and play drums right handed? So I guess that I am cross hemisphered? As I have pointed out in the past if the opposite side of one' brain controls the other side of one's body than only left handed people are in their "right minds"

RedY2KS2k

As I mentioned earlier, I trashed my right shoulder a couple of years ago. I was surprised how quickly I learned to eat, comb hair, etc. with my left hand.

The increased agility in the left hand disappeared quickly after I regained use of the right arm,

NNY S2k

I'm a righty but eat mostly lefty.

MsPerky

I believe it, too. I write left handed, but do other things right handed, and still others with either hand.