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Ok, so my blog posting made me curious about which handedness most people are here. I haven't seen this poll posted, just curious, which is it for you?

I'm a right-hander, I hold my amazon warrior shield on the left ;P

i use my right for writing but my left hand for a lot of other things.
of course both hands are pretty equal in the typing stakes. Well, the left wins it a bit, but that is cos of the letters e s a d t and g.

I write right handed but do everything else with the left. I also have messy handwriting.

Amanda

P.S. I sit with a leg tucked under me a lot and I don't have short legs :)

I'm a lefty, however I learned to play stringed instruments right handed. My hand writing is not the most readable in the world  ::)

Z

I know that when I was in kindergarten and first grade I started using my left hand. The teacher said that I should use my right and told me to use my right that was also past on to my mom who enforced the issue as she told me that you wouldn't amount to much if you are a lefty. Nothing will fit.
Sheila

Quote from: Sheila on April 07, 2008, 01:40:01 PM
I know that when I was in kindergarten and first grade I started using my left hand. The teacher said that I should use my right and told me to use my right that was also past on to my mom who enforced the issue as she told me that you wouldn't amount to much if you are a lefty. Nothing will fit.
Sheila

I had a similar experience, except I would write with both hands equally.  My teacher eventually got irritated enough that she made me choose.  I picked my left.  Owing to a lack of lefty scissors in school, I now prefer my right hand for scissors and most other activities.  Activities like bowling are fun because I can't figure out which hand I'm supposed to use.  I suck equally with either.  :)

When I was younger I use to write with both hands, left hand for left side of the page and right for the other. When I got into school they told me that I had to use one so I picked my right.

I'm right handed, but left footed :)

Steph

I'm right-handed as well.  Bummer!  :P

tink :icon_chick:

Quote from: Tink on April 07, 2008, 08:28:49 PM
I'm right-handed as well.  Bummer!  :P

tink :icon_chick:

Me2

Quote from: Sheila on April 07, 2008, 01:40:01 PM
I know that when I was in kindergarten and first grade I started using my left hand. The teacher said that I should use my right and told me to use my right that was also past on to my mom who enforced the issue as she told me that you wouldn't amount to much if you are a lefty. Nothing will fit.
Sheila

I had a teacher try to do the same, but my parents raised holy hell and told her to leave me alone.

Quote from: Jessica L. on April 07, 2008, 04:29:03 PM
Owing to a lack of lefty scissors in school, I now prefer my right hand for scissors and most other activities. 

I have never found a pair of left-handed scissors that actually works.  They were all designed by right-handed people.

Quote from: Zythyra on April 07, 2008, 11:32:53 AM
I'm a lefty, however I learned to play stringed instruments right handed. My hand writing is not the most readable in the world  ::)

Z

Guitar, tennis, golf, bowling.  All of those I do right-handed.

I'm left-handed, I forgot to say that, lol. I always tell people that's why my handwriting is so bad :)

Quote from: Lisbeth on April 07, 2008, 10:13:05 PM

Quote from: Jessica L. on April 07, 2008, 04:29:03 PM
Owing to a lack of lefty scissors in school, I now prefer my right hand for scissors and most other activities. 

I have never found a pair of left-handed scissors that actually works.  They were all designed by right-handed people.

I can only use right handed scissors as well. Left handed scissors must have been manufactured by the people who make $500 hammers for the military >:D

Z

I am left handed, and like a few others, primary school tried to force me to use my right hand - until my mom got on their cases.

I primarily use my left hand for most stuff, even using scissors and the like. I can use the right though, and will switch between hands if it makes the angle easier or to not have to reach across my body. I'm also trying to teach myself to write with my left right hand ... but that's a bit of a challenge.

~Simone.

Quote from: Lisbeth on April 07, 2008, 10:13:05 PM

I have never found a pair of left-handed scissors that actually works.  They were all designed by right-handed people.

LOL! 

It's true.  I should mention that my handwriting is usually pretty nice.  By making it a little loopy, it looks like a girl's writing (even to me).  My only giveaway is that it's usually really small. 

Quote from: Zythyra on April 08, 2008, 07:05:28 AM

Quote from: Lisbeth on April 07, 2008, 10:13:05 PM

Quote from: Jessica L. on April 07, 2008, 04:29:03 PM
Owing to a lack of lefty scissors in school, I now prefer my right hand for scissors and most other activities. 

I have never found a pair of left-handed scissors that actually works.  They were all designed by right-handed people.

I can only use right handed scissors as well. Left handed scissors must have been manufactured by the people who make $500 hammers for the military >:D

Z

You have to understand how scissors work.  When you are using a pair of scissors, your thumb is pushing the handle away from your hand and your fingers are pulling it toward your hand.  This pressure transmitted through the pivot pushes the two blades together while you cut.  That's why the thumb blade goes past the pivot on the left and the finger blade on the right.  So-call "left-handed scissors" just reverse the shape of the handle, not the position of the blades.  The thumb blade is still on the left and the finger blade on the right, so when you use them left-handed the blades are forced apart instead of together, and they work like crap.

Quote from: Lisbeth on April 08, 2008, 01:21:31 PM

Quote from: Zythyra on April 08, 2008, 07:05:28 AM

Quote from: Lisbeth on April 07, 2008, 10:13:05 PM

Quote from: Jessica L. on April 07, 2008, 04:29:03 PM
Owing to a lack of lefty scissors in school, I now prefer my right hand for scissors and most other activities. 

I have never found a pair of left-handed scissors that actually works.  They were all designed by right-handed people.

I can only use right handed scissors as well. Left handed scissors must have been manufactured by the people who make $500 hammers for the military >:D

Z

You have to understand how scissors work.  When you are using a pair of scissors, your thumb is pushing the handle away from your hand and your fingers are pulling it toward your hand.  This pressure transmitted through the pivot pushes the two blades together while you cut.  That's why the thumb blade goes past the pivot on the left and the finger blade on the right.  So-call "left-handed scissors" just reverse the shape of the handle, not the position of the blades.  The thumb blade is still on the left and the finger blade on the right, so when you use them left-handed the blades are forced apart instead of together, and they work like crap.

You're both right.  Only a feat of such genius could be pulled off by the same people who can't make a hammer for less than $500. 

Quote from: Lisbeth on April 08, 2008, 01:21:31 PM
You have to understand how scissors work.  When you are using a pair of scissors, your thumb is pushing the handle away from your hand and your fingers are pulling it toward your hand.  This pressure transmitted through the pivot pushes the two blades together while you cut.  That's why the thumb blade goes past the pivot on the left and the finger blade on the right.  So-call "left-handed scissors" just reverse the shape of the handle, not the position of the blades.  The thumb blade is still on the left and the finger blade on the right, so when you use them left-handed the blades are forced apart instead of together, and they work like crap.

?!!!!!!  :o

That's not like any pair of lefty scissors I've ever seen. All the lefty scissors I saw in grade school were the mirror image of the righty scissors, that being the very definition of left-handed scissors. They worek great in a left hand and terrible in a right hand.

Any pair of right-handed scissors with the handles molded to fit in a left hand was designed by a moron.

Lefty for pretty much everything... including right handed scissors in my left hand.

Well, looks like there are a lot more lefties here than in the rest of the population. Granted it's a small sample, but we're still at about 33% as opposed to 11 or 12% in the general population. Hehe ... just goes to show, we really are touched by the evils of the left-hand path!

~Simone.

Im Ambidextrous however I write with my right hand!

Quote from: lady amarant on April 15, 2008, 02:52:10 AM
Well, looks like there are a lot more lefties here than in the rest of the population. Granted it's a small sample, but we're still at about 33% as opposed to 11 or 12% in the general population. Hehe ... just goes to show, we really are touched by the evils of the left-hand path!

~Simone.

Sampling error.
We need way more people.  :)

Quote from: Jessica L. on April 15, 2008, 10:28:15 AM

Quote from: lady amarant on April 15, 2008, 02:52:10 AM
Well, looks like there are a lot more lefties here than in the rest of the population. Granted it's a small sample, but we're still at about 33% as opposed to 11 or 12% in the general population. Hehe ... just goes to show, we really are touched by the evils of the left-hand path!

~Simone.

Sampling error.
We need way more people.  :)

I hear she's working on recruiting. ;)

Quote from: Jessica L. on April 07, 2008, 04:29:03 PM

Quote from: Sheila on April 07, 2008, 01:40:01 PM
I know that when I was in kindergarten and first grade I started using my left hand. The teacher said that I should use my right and told me to use my right that was also past on to my mom who enforced the issue as she told me that you wouldn't amount to much if you are a lefty. Nothing will fit.
Sheila

I had a similar experience, except I would write with both hands equally.  My teacher eventually got irritated enough that she made me choose.  I picked my left.  Owing to a lack of lefty scissors in school, I now prefer my right hand for scissors and most other activities.  Activities like bowling are fun because I can't figure out which hand I'm supposed to use.  I suck equally with either.  :)

same... kinda started out left handed... mom keep getting me to be right handed. test in kindergarten showed that i was ambidextrous... ended up growing up right handed.  started to take art seriously and was practicing drawing with my left hand to work the right side of my brain... mom saw me practicing  and reminded me of my early left handedness... she felt bad that she had encouraged me to be right handed. now i can use both equally as well, except for throwing things... lol.

i have noticed a difference with drawing as well. right handed is more technical, left is more creative..

voted: right

Left handed. My mom tried to make me write w/my right hand but it didnt happen :laugh:

Lefty for just about everything here, although I can do some things with my right, but not nearly as well

Anonymouse posted this link in another topic today about a study of index to ring
finger lengths. The study found MTF to be right handed 74% of the time and the
control group of males to be right handed in 95% of the cases.

http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/B6TBX-4H16P9S-1/2/ae91dff18b1b99385054e3bf971d47f9 (http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/B6TBX-4H16P9S-1/2/ae91dff18b1b99385054e3bf971d47f9)

Amanda

I'm a righty, which is unusual for me because I have some mental conditions which are strongly associated with left-handedness.

Well I write Right handed, but do most everything else left handed.  Ok I'm weird.

Beni

I dont know how meny of you know this but a few decades ago a common name for a left handed person was a, "South Paw."
I dont know about you but i like the sound of that name.

I'm right handed for writing, but pretty much ambidextrous for doing most things.  I've always had very neat writing, and never written like a guy.

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This is weird... I eat and write left handed, but with everything else I am right handed. My Dear Mother sat across from me to teach me to eat and write my name, and she can't tell her left from her right. She is right handed, so go figure! I have tried to eat with my right hand, and I drop the food. I have tried to write right handed, and it's so sloppy no one can read it.
Of course, Mom is the one that taught me to pee sitting down, so I blame her for me being Trans.

I'm left-handed for writing, but nothing else... except using a computer mouse.

But I'm actually really proud of my handwriting. One time someone looked at it who'd studied graphology, gave me a really quizzical look, and when I asked what was wrong he said that I should technically be a woman with the way I write.

I said nothing but smiled inwardly.

Quote from: Leiandra on June 13, 2008, 01:38:33 PM
I'm left-handed for writing, but nothing else... except using a computer mouse.

Similar for me, except that when I was programming Macs I had two machines, a Mac and a PC, and I used one hand for each mouse.

And that's a curious thing because when Ellie was here we went to a new GLBT bar called Innuendo.  When I went to the restroom, it looked so familiar that I started looking around.  I went and got her and told her, "When I worked in this building my desk was right there!"  And the Mac was on the left and the PC was on the right.

Both McCain and Obama are left handed.

Lefty here. I think my mom sorta tried to get me to use my right hand when I was little but being the perpetually stubborn person I am, she gave up.

I write and eat with my left hand, and sometimes do other things with it, but what I do varies and sometimes I switch it up. I tried writing with my right hand once and it turned out awful. I also tried inverting the button controls for the mouse and using it in my left hand but that was a failed attempt; I was just too used to the right hand use.

If I practiced long enough with some stuff I could probably become used to using my left hand for it, but I'd rather just leave things the way they were.

I'm right-handed, though I can do some things pretty well with my left hand. I've tried to get better at writing with the left but the result is usually quite messy.

I think Ambidextrous should have been included in the poll, since some people can use both equally well.

Ugh.

Ambidextrous.

But I voted right handed because I always start with the right, switch to the left.

Very much right handed.  My left is almost uselessly except for typing or carrying items.  My hand writing is very feminine and always have been.

Quote from: tekla on June 13, 2008, 01:49:51 PM
Both McCain and Obama are left handed.

That is scary because of the old saying, 'Left handed people are in their right mind'.
Janet

Well, in this year's primary I used my left hand to push the little toggles and the right to push the big button when I was finished voting.

I haven't decided yet whether or not to use that method for the general election or change it up a bit.

O well, still have a few months to work it out though.

Hey, great thread Meghan!! I'd never thought about which hand I vote with before!!

Nichole

Im right-handed but I can also write with my left hand.

I'm right handed.....not that it makes any difference as, most of the time, my writing is illegible and I'm ham-fisted. :)