Which are you? - Page 4

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Not at all. For decades, left handed people were forced by schools to use their right hand.

Then take what I've done. I've spent years making my left hand work as well as my right. The only thing I have left to finish is throwing and writing. I had to do this when 12 years ago I hurt my right shoulder. It never healed quite right and the large nerve in the shoulder slipped inside the socket and got pinched regularly. For 3-4 days after that my right arm didn't work very well. So I taught myself to be able to use my left hand well. I've gone through physical therapy and have gotten my shoulder working right now. But in no way has being forced to use my left hand driven me crazy.




So are you saying you were crazy before that, or are you just in denial?|||I think it's relatively simple to train the weak limb to approach the degree of coordination and dexterity of the strong limb for specific tasks. I'm a righty, but I broke my right arm twice in a short space of time and so spent about a year in a cast which made writing right-handed very difficult. I switched to left and sucked for a while, but eventually I got pretty comfortable with it. When the cast came off, I went back to right and my left sucks again. I was also forced to play my trumpet left handed and that has stuck with me to a greater extent, I think because the level of dexterity required is less than in writing. Also, when I was serious with soccer, I could kick a ball with equal power with my right or left, but since I haven't played seriously in a while, I've lost that ability.

Essentially, dexterity can be learned.|||Quote:








Don't believe me? try shooting a lefty bolt-action rifle. You will love the burning, hot shell that jumps in your face.




I have, but I move my face away from the bolt when I use a bolt action anyway. Semi-automatics would suck though.

Does anyone drive a stick shift in countries like Britain and Australia? That seems like it would be a nightmare.|||I write about as well with my right hand as most people would if they were blindfolded, gagged, and forced to write a life-shattering confession at gunpoint and in the freezing cold ... using their weaker hand.

You don't want to know how I write with my left hand. I was most fortunate to be born in a time period during or after the invention of typewriters. |||Right-handed. Along with the majority of people....|||Quote:








I have, but I move my face away from the bolt when I use a bolt action anyway. Semi-automatics would suck though.

Does anyone drive a stick shift in countries like Britain and Australia? That seems like it would be a nightmare.




It's not difficult. Even for right handed people to change gears with their left hand.|||Im mostly right handed, but i can use my left pretty well. I not saying well but ive considered batting left handed after teaching myself. I beat my mom at ping pong left handed vs her right handed but she isnt to good at ping pong. all in good fun! |||I'm part of the dexter master race. Woo-hoo, moral majority. I even do that traditionally left-handed task (you know what I'm talking about) right handed.

I had a hell of a time learning to use arcade and console game controls when I was young because they put the buttons on the right and the arrows/joystick on the left, the opposite of the PC keyboard. Seemed stupid to me, you need more dexterity to use movement keys than to press the fire button. Now I'm ambikeyboardous.

By the way, has anyone debunked that old thing about more sensitive people or people in the theatre being more left-handed than the rest of the population? Not to mention the thing about finger length being correlated to sexuality.

I also heard that Einstein was not only ambidextrous, but he used to impress people by starting writing on the blackboard with his left hand and seamlessly transferring the chalk to his right in mid-sentence. Don't know if it's true or not.


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Don't believe me? try shooting a lefty bolt-action rifle. You will love the burning, hot shell that jumps in your face.




Cheney should have used that as his excuse.


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My father was left-handed when he was young. His teachers and parents used to hit his left hand with a ruler if they caught him writing with his left hand. Something to do with the devil being in the left hand. He was forced to use his right hand and has done so ever since out of habit, consequently his writing is extremely messy whichever hand he uses.

Needless to say we are not in contact with his parents.




Wow, I didn't know people still bought into the whole "sinister" thing that recently. Messed up.


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Well, since my right hand has limited motion I'm left handed.

Ya know, I've heard that forcing someone to use their non-dominant hand can drive them crazy? Is that an urban legend? If my right hand wasn't deformed might I be right handed? Does that mean I haven't used my correct hand all these years? Am I crazy?




You have a deformed right hand? Was that from birth or was there an accident when you were a kid? Just curious.


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Does anyone drive a stick shift in countries like Britain and Australia? That seems like it would be a nightmare.




You mean a manual? Heaps of people do, it can't be that hard.|||Quote:








You have a deformed right hand? Was that from birth or was there an accident when you were a kid? Just curious.




Born with. It's not quite just the hand, from the elbow down is too small, and there's a dimple in the middle.|||Why would it be hard for someone to drive manual? and Dondrei, what DO you mean, because I seriously don't know.