Out of curiosity I would like to see the distribution of preferred hand in relation to GID.

For those who may not know ambidextrous means you use either hand with no real preference for one or the other .

EDIT:  I changed my vote to ambidextrous, since I don't have an exclusive preference for either hand, although I'm more used to using the right hand.

For the poll I chose MtF, although I am essentially fairly androgynous.

Alas, me.  I seem to be in the middle of everything.

Ok, I see this poll came from the post of naugthy on another place, and is very interesting to me, since im kinda ambidextrous.

From time to time my hands switch and I start using one more than the other, but I am currently writing lefty with my rigth hand, hahahaha

I cast my stone in the southpaw direction as I identify more as southpaw than ambidextrous, though I try to keep able.

I voted right-handed MtF. However, it might be noted that in many cases, especially the older generation , like me, that children essentially picked up hand movements observing a parent and "mirrored" that. i.e. using the opposite hand.

In Kentucky, and elsewhere as I recall a child using their left hand when beginning school was re-taught by teachers, and that included hand smacks with rulers, harsh comments, ridicule by adults and the other students, repetitive writing exercises, or whatever it might take - to train the child to use the right hand because so many things are created for a right-handed person. It was believed "back then" by doctors that left-handed people were not as smart as the left-handed people. So there was a stigma attached to make sure a child used the right hand.

Myself, I started out in school as a left-hand writer.

Hand use is a funny thing.  In most cases, especially when younger, I would use either hand for most anything, including writing, just depended on the position I was in regarding what I wanted to do,but the right hand was always preferred when I was concious of it and these days it is almost, not completely, a habit.

One thing I noticed years ago, people who are dominant left handed seem to be more creative and artistic then the dominant right handed variety.  At least that was the observation I made of people I knew well.

Terri

Quote from: Terri-Gene on June 11, 2005, 09:09:31 PM
... One thing I noticed years ago, people who are dominant left handed seem to be more creative and artistic then the dominant right handed variety.  At least that was the observation I made of people I knew well.

Terri

I seem to recalling reading a comment by a few doctors some years back studying the effect of forcing children to use the "other" hand. They seem to concur that it actually causes a child to halt their learning temporarily and feel bad that they were not doing things like the other children. Then supposedly later on the child would catch up. But they seemed to feel that the lefties were on average smarter.

I wonder if that is actually the person is shunned as being different and therefore tends to read more being alone? That happens quite often with "T" children. The others tend to play physical games, the "T" child tends to feel more awkward and so reads and studies more? :-/

I don't know about any studies, it just seemed that people who were dominantly left handed seemed more adept at things like poetry, art and music and such.

I do understand what you mean by reading and study though, as that was very much me in school.  I was reading far beyond required or expected material at very young ages.  As life progressed though I find I read less and less, probably because of the lack of sufficient uninfringed upon time, and I hate so much to put a good book down once started, often completing a work before putting it down, even if it takes a day or two to do so.

I was quite desperate for companionship in gradeschool years.  I just didn't fit in no matter where I went among people.  I spent most of my time when not reading or studying taking long walks in the foothills and deserts seeing and watching nature at work.  I lived on the outskirt fringes of the city or small nevada towns situated in the moutains and deserts.  It was easy to just be alone when tuned in to the natural environment and I would pretend I belonged there as my ancistors did, but I was always a city kid with country roots.

Terri

For me, essentially no friendships because I was awkward and uncomfortable rough housing. The last child born in the family with 10 years seperating myself and the next child. The nearest neighbor was too far to visit or me them. A Farm, work to do, even for a child toddling, I was expected to do something; even if it were picking up dropped corn as it was shelled and collected for the chickens. School was the pits because the community parents said untrue things and their children carried the crap to school and ensured it grew worst every day for me.

I was reading pretty much before the first grade from hiding myself in comic books relatives gave to the older siblings. I could outspell an eight grader before the end of first grade and do some impressive multiplication tables before the end of the second grade. Got that foolishness beat out of me though. Because I wasn't among the popular families in the community; i.e. with money to grease the palms to get the things that could be had I was pushed farther back. Gotta love a school system that teaches piano music to the kids with money. The others were told to sit in the back of the room and clap to encourage the child beating the keyboard and couldn't care less.

Art was fantastic. Bring your own sheet of paper and pencil and draw whatever you could on that (1) sheet of paper. The same children receiving piano lessons were taken aside to another room so we wouldn't cause distractions. Heavens, we might ask a question. :-/ I remember one of the better artist students in my class, having drawn a horse. Not bad really. The teacher had the child stand up and let the "good" students critique it. By the time they were finished he was in tears, and became so backward he didn't draw again.

This is getting off hand of the poll and I get angry every time I remember some things. Sorry about that. My apologies to everyone.

Anger over things that have happened is natural Jamie and I know I don't want much to reflect on yesteryear either, I'm hoping it will just someday be stored away in the locker with so much of what once was.  Opening old drawers and boxes can be a pain, and you are right, drifting and all that and bad for me also right now.  Anyway, thank you for some character insights.

Terri

I said left handed, though thats not entirely true.  I write with my left hand... and do more delocate work with my left hand but over all im semi ambedextrious.  I play drums right handed style and for work I have no troubble adapting to use right handed tools *shrugs*
according to my parrents I allways did have to be difficult and diffrent 

When I was young the school teachers didn't like you to be left handed.  They forced me to use my right hand, but even to today, I prefer my left hand for most things.

Sarah

I'm right handed but I think I see more left handed people these days because its more accepted.

Hers  >

Quote from: Leigh on September 01, 2005, 09:17:14 PM
Hers  >

Ha...ha..ha...ha..  LOL  LOL 


tinkerbell

P.S.  When I read the title of the thread..I asked myself "what in the world are they asking now?"  Thankfully it wasn't what I thought....yeah..I'm paranoid...by the way, I am right handed.

a left handed FTM TS

right handed FTM TS

The most sinister one.