Just curious

[Logan]

I'm a lefty. Can't eat or write with my right hand, but do everything else with my right hand! My daughter and my husband are the exact same way! My father is the only true lefthanded person I know. He does everything with his left hand!!!

[Lissa]

I'm right handed, but my mom is left handed. I used to always watch her write because she curves her hand in toward her so much. In school they tried to get her to be right handed and it didn't work. Random fact: Whatever hand is your dominate, that is also your dominate foot, meaning you will always step off with that one, if you get pushed that is the one that you will stick out to regain balance. This is my wierd thing because I dance and was in marching band for so many years, I am opposite. Just a random note.

[tutebugs]

i can't vote...cuz I"m both handed. I write and eat with my right but that's about it...

[Karen]

I am right-handed, strongly so.

My mother was left-handed. Her handwriting was atrocious. There's a reason, though: When she started elementary school (in the 1930's), the teacher took the pen away from her left hand and forced her to try to write right-handed. She came home from school that first day in tears. My grandfather brought her to school the next day, and told them if they didn't let her write with her left hand, he would pull her out f public school. So they let her keep writing lefthanded, but NEVER tried to make her inprove her penmanship!!!! Just couldn't get their minds around the concept I guess, and the rest of us had to deal with it!

Paul is left-handed. He has very neat heandwriting.

I can write legibly left-handed. I just have to go slowly and concentrate more. When I was bored in school, I would practice writing lefty, just in case, like my friend Dawn, I ever fell and broke my right wrist. It is said to be a good exercise for your brain to do things with your nondominant hand!

I went to Mass College of Art, I am not sure the exact figures, but many many people were left-handed, it might have been 50/50.

[rg_girlca]

I find this interesting, cause in my family there are both right and left handed people.

My mom and dad, were both right handed.

I have four brothers and the oldest is left handed the other three, right handed.

I have two sisters, and again, the oldest is left handed and my other sister and I are right handed.

I find it interesting that my two older siblings are the only ones in the family that are left handed.

[davidpizzica]

I am right-handed. But I think Nikki & Daisy can use both!!

[Randi]

I was searching for an article about a company who did a test, having their employees use the left hand for the mouse for several months, but I couldn't find it right now. However, I found this:

Ambidextrous tendencies may mean better memory.

Having a close left-handed relative makes right-handers better at remembering events than those from exclusively right-handed families, new research suggests. There is a downside, however, as members of these ambidextrous families may be relatively impaired in their ability to recall facts.

According to the study, having a left-handed sibling or parent means the organisation of your brain is intermediate between a pure 'lefty' and a pure 'righty'.

Specifically, Stephen Christman and Ruth Propper at the University of Toledo, Ohio claim that people with 'lefties' in the family have a larger corpus callosum - the connection between the brain hemispheres. This makes you better at certain memory tasks, but worse at others, they believe.

Two types of memories are involved. Episodic memories are those with a context that is separate from the information itself - for example, where you parked your car or where you left your keys. Semantic memories on the other hand are things 'you just know', such as the dates of the First World War or the recipe for apple pie.

Filling the gaps

The researchers showed 180 right-handed subjects lists of words. Some of this group was asked to recall as many of the words as possible once the list had been taken away. This tests episodic memory because the subjects have to remember the words they were taught.

Others from the group were given fragments of words with a letter missing and asked to fill in the gaps. This semantic test simply relies on knowing how the correct word should be spelt. Subjects with close left-handed relatives did better at the first 'remember' task, but worse at the second 'know' task.

"The key difference is not whether you are right handed, but whether you are strongly or weakly handed," explains Christman.

It's from New Scientist, and here's a link to another article:

Seems that cats tend to be left pawed.

http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Acro.../lefthand.html

[ramanth]

I'm right handed.

Originally posted by Tonya
I was born left handed, but in Kindergarten, my teacher tried to make me right handed. So, I'm ambedextrious.

Same thing happened to my Aunt. She now has the most beautiful handwriting with either hand. *is jealous*

[CountryWolf07]

I'm right handed.

[CathyBogart]

Southpaw here, but I use scissors with my right. 0.o

[rizzy]

Thats whats really great about the computer!! I cant write with my left hand, I am right handed. BUT I can type with both hands just as good. I like to compare writing and doing things with the opposite hands. Oh, and interesting poll!

[BitsyNaceyDog]

I am completely 100% left handed. I even use the computer mouse with my left hand and
do 90% of my typing with my left only.

Oh yeah and I really hated those right handed desks in high school, too. And also, whenever the teacher would be showing us how to do something the right handed way and instead of showing the left handed person how to do it, they would just say "do it backwards" um, hello, that doesn't help!

At a dinner when people were close together, it was always my fault if my elbow hit the person next to me. Because of this, I was always given a seat on the end of the table. Even to this day I automatically go to one of those seats.

Me too on both those statements.

Most of left handed people I know have alright, but not great handwritting, me included.

Oh, and I hate it when people tell me I'm wrong handed.

[apcrs5122]

I'm right handed, but I've always wanted to be a lefty. My family is split directly in half...my mom and older sister are left handed, and my dad and I are righties

[Cataholic]

I am right handed, but, I guess not strongly so. I do write exclusively right handed, when I write at all...I am equally footed, though..and had better placement with my left foot than I did with my right, in soccer.

[QueenScoopalot]

Right handed here, but sure wish when "scooposis" hits that I was left handed!