Which Hand Are You??

[Racoon]

Are you Left-handed, or Right-handed? or Ambidexterous?

 

Statistically, Left-handers account for about 10% of population

 

Is it Genetic? Pre-dispositionally Hard-wired? or merely Learned?

Does it make a difference?

 

I am Left-handed, so I realize that I DO think a little differently than most people. I think there is a difference.( but that may just be my neurosis :friday: )

 

Heres an almost Certain Gaurantee!: You/People will wear your/their watch on their opposite arm! Its a dead giveaway.:shrug:

 

Just wondering your thoughts, if any??

[Racoon]

heres another one of my Pseudo-Psychological theories: :hihi:

Feel free to Shoot it Down, if it is inaccurate :)

 

I think people Wipe with their Opposite hand...

I do. And I wonder why? is it reinforced/repetitve behavior?

or subconscience ?

Some cultures (like Islamic cultures) view Waving your Left hand as a sign of disrespect, as it is the hand people Wipe with; As a result of Most people being Right-handed?

 

You might think, "eewww", But it is something We All Do - Everyday!

Natural and Biological stuff! :hihi: w/ cultural significance...

 

Hoping none are offended,

and for more opinions and insight...

[jambone]

Racoon,yes this is a topic which does not surface to often.I was myself forced to use my left hand in early grade school.I believe some genius wrote something to the effect that I was left handed on a report somewhere and it was cast in stone.In reality I am right handed, though today I write with my left hand,indeed writing is the only thing I do with my left hand.

 

This oddity makes me some what unsual for I can write with my left hand while doing calculations on a computer with my right.I have not read much on the topic but I would assume that this would create neural pathways that otherwise would not exist.I think it rather a limit aberation,it does not appear to serve us lefties to function on any higher level.Is there any reseach on this that has been done? I wonder if they still do that to some kids in school today,I mean force them into a preferances they are not suited for. Jambone

[InfiniteNow]

My dominant hand is my foot... wiping requires a bit more flexibility and balance like this though... :)

[Racoon]

My dominant hand is my foot... wiping requires a bit more flexibility and balance like this though... :)

 

That would be a sight to behold...:hihi:

Have you seen the movie "My Left Foot" IN?

Amazing!

 

My American-Indian name is "Southpaw Wipes with Leaves" :hihi:

[Jay-qu]

Right handed but left footed.. I wear my watch on my left and any other braclets - mainly because my right hand is what i use for everything, it is just easier if i dont have something around my wrist that may inhibit it.

[Guest chendoh]

Are you Left-handed, or Right-handed? or Ambidexterous?

Left-handed, Ambidextrous, but if it's occupied, I use my right to help.

Is it Genetic? Pre-dispositionally Hard-wired? or merely Learned?

I believe it is a combination of all three, in varying degrees.

Does it make a difference?

Only in my writing, I can write with my right, but it doesn't flourish like the Spellman method.

I am Left-handed, so I realize that I DO think a little differently than most people. I think there is a difference.( but that may just be my neurosis :))

Then we all have your neurosis. Like jambone, I too was forced to write RH. circa.1956. Kudos to my Mom for stopping the teacher. The teacher wanted me to conform to the rest of the class, but my Mother noticed early on that I was LH and didn't want that to change, Mom was RH, Dad was pure ambidextrous.

Heres an almost Certain Gaurantee!: You/People will wear your/their watch on their opposite arm! Its a dead giveaway.

I did to, until age 9, then I noticed I could tell time by events around me…Sun/star position, train sounds, bird/animal sightings/migration, when jets would fly overhead…did you notice the quiet after 9/11?……another way is how one answers the phone, LH=L ear, RH=R ear, unless your like me I was born deaf on my right ear, so I've always been L=Le, but I will change hands when the L gets tired. If they're both tired, it's time to get off the line. There are all kinds of ways to tell time with out a timepiece. Where's Turtle? :hihi:

 

I think people Wipe with their Opposite hand...

I do. And I wonder why? is it reinforced/repetitve behavior?

or subconscience ?

Not me I'm L=L, maybe it has to do with my birth defect :hihi: Again, I believe it is a combination of all three, in varying degrees.

[TheBigDog]

Right handed but left footed.. I wear my watch on my left and any other braclets - mainly because my right hand is what i use for everything, it is just easier if i dont have something around my wrist that may inhibit it.

We are twins on this J. I am right handed, but played left midfield, left wing, left defense in soccer. I force myself to use my left hand for things, although writing is most difficult. You never know when you might suddenly lose a limb, and I don't want to be unprepared.

 

Bill

[Queso]

I Am Right Handed.

[Wondering]

heres another one of my Pseudo-Psychological theories: :hihi:

Feel free to Shoot it Down, if it is inaccurate :hihi:

 

I think people Wipe with their Opposite hand...

I do. And I wonder why? is it reinforced/repetitve behavior?

or subconscience ?

Some cultures (like Islamic cultures) view Waving your Left hand as a sign of disrespect, as it is the hand people Wipe with; As a result of Most people being Right-handed?

 

You might think, "eewww", But it is something We All Do - Everyday!

Natural and Biological stuff! :) w/ cultural significance...

 

Hoping none are offended,

and for more opinions and insight...

 

Thats really weird... Isn't it easier to wipe with your dominant hand.. and um... more accurate n stuff.. lol. Honestly, I would find it really hard to wipe with my left hand. gross subject and I can't believe i'm replying to this post but..... oh well

[Celeste]

Right hand for writing. Left for everything else. Always thought I was the odd girl out. Glad to see I have company in the playing fields, even if I have to share it with the men. :hihi:

[Tormod]

Left handed, left legged. Watch on right arm, wipe with left. I play guitar the right-hand way, though... :computer:

 

But I do indeed think it makes a difference.

[ughaibu]

The business of wiping with the left hand is for cultures in which people eat by (right) hand, no cutlery.

[Pyrotex]

I was born right-handed.

Polio put me in a wheelchair, making it advantageous to learn how to do any and everything with either hand. And so I became ambidextrous.

The test?

I can deal cards equally well with either hand.

My handwriting on a black- (or white-) board is equally nice with either hand.

I often eat left handed if I need my right for something else.

With pencil and paper, I write right handed. However, I can write left handed, but in MIRROR writing!!!

 

I wash BOTH hands frequently. :confused:

[GAHD]

ambi, i wright right-handed because of the problems with smudging when i go leftie, i wipe whichever way the toilet paper dispesor is on (the left in my house...)

 

I learned to be(or that i was?) ambi sometime in elementary, when a buddy of mine busted his hand i decided to show him that writing lefty wassn't as hard as he was making out to be...stupid smudges. came in handy for art later though, made drawing easyer when you can just switch hands as you move to differnt strokes.

 

Now a days I find the practical use mainly lies in being able to hammer a nail in accurately using either hand to hold the nail or handle.

 

I always switched the sides my watch was on when it made me uncomfortable on that arm, most notably with the calculator watch i used in late elementary and early middleschool.

 

The true test is using chopstics in both hands at once :tongue:

[Buffy]

I'm right-handed, but with lots of exceptions: In steering I favor my left hand, but I've always had trouble with right-drive cars because I can't get used to the stick on the left. When I was a kid, I played some softball, and was a rightie catching (center field), but I switch-hit batting (it went farther as a leftie).

 

I also cut with my *left* hand which drives people in Europe (esp the UK) *nuts* because I take away the fun of blasting the silly Americans who switch that fork back and forth between hands, and it looks so much more polite that I never have to shovel the food onto a fork (upside down :phones: ) in my left hand...

 

Rightbidexterously,

Buffy

[Amber]

I'm right-handed, I find it more comfortable to write with my right hand. I can write with my left hand, but not very well.