Just curious

[popcornbird]

Very much right-handed.

I have a question..............how do left-handed people handle a computer mouse? Do you keep the mouse to the left of the keyboard?

[jaqi]

This is a cool topic!

I'm left-handed, but I can do most things to some extent with either hand--I practiced writing with my right and it's OK. 'Course I have horrible handwriting either way, the English language was made to be written by righties, I think! One thing we tried when I was learning penmanship was to write slanted backwards, but it didn't make any sense to me. So I just write, or rather scrawl, normally.

I can't eat with my right hand, the fork shakes too much. (My hands aren't perfectly steady to begin with--which I hope I can work past enough to become a vet!)

I agree with the table problem, I look for left corners. And those right-handed school seats are annoying, I have a biology class where there's one left-handed desk at each row in the ampitheater, and I have to make sure I get one on test days or I look like I'm cheating of the person to my right...

As for things I do with only my right hand, violin--but nobody does that left-handed that I know of. And I also mouse with my right hand most naturally because that's how I learned.

[Kfamr]

I'm right-handed.

Originally posted by popcornbird


I have a question..............how do left-handed people handle a computer mouse? Do you keep the mouse to the left of the keyboard?

Left-Handed Mouse.

[neko1]

Since the hubby's right handed, we keep the mouse on the right side of the keyboard so I have to reach over the keyboard to use it.

[Vermontcat]

I'm a lefty and my husband is a lefty and one of my son's is a lefty too.
My oldest brother is a lefty too, So that's 3 out of 5 lefties in my house now and 2 out of 6 when I was a kid.

Karen, you are right about more artists being left-handed.
Usually lefties are about 10 per cent of the population but in my college art classes the ratio was 50/50!
Two of my favorite artists are lefties, Da Vinci and Michelangelo.
Here is a link showing other famous lefties, scroll down it's a long list.
Famous lefties

[Cincy'sMom]

About the only thing I can do left handed is hit a softball...but I still do that better right handed

[Dogz]

I am right handed.

My mom is left handed, and she learned to use a right-handed mouse. She was thinking about getting a left-handed mouse, but she just learned to use the one we had.

[Aspen and Misty]

I'm both. I've had on - off tendinitous (SP) in my right shoulder for 2 years now. Dureing this time I taught myself to write, eat and everything else left handed, I acctually can write pretty good to!! BUT, I favor my right hand, if I have a choice, I use my right.


Ash

[Tonya]

I use the mouse right handed. Another random fact...I don't know if it's cause I am left handed, or because I am wierd...but when I browse a magazine, I look at it from back to front.

My handwriting is horrible. It looks like a 6 year old boy's writing. lol. My boss teases me because when he first got me on his crew, he expected to be able to tell my writing because I'm the only girl. But I actually almost have the worst handwriting out of all the guys.

[jenluckenbach]

Originally posted by Tonya
I look at it from back to front.

I do too (and I am right handed) LOL

[Amber]

Righty

[Kfamr]

Originally posted by Tonya
I use the mouse right handed. Another random fact...I don't know if it's cause I am left handed, or because I am wierd...but when I browse a magazine, I look at it from back to front.

I do that too. I don't know why.... i'm curious now though, sinc other people do it too. Gosh, we can figure out why other animals do things, yet we can't even figure out our own species. lol

[CountryWolf07]

I'm a righty.. can't write with my left..

[Felicia's Mom]

Posted earlier about being a lefty. I thought of some things I am better at with my right hand. I have not done any of them for many years.

1. Bowling- if I used my left hand, the ball usually went in the gutter. With my right hand it didn't.

2. Shooting a rifle or pistol.

3. Archery

You need to aim for all of all of those.

[ILoveMyAbbyGirl]

Originally posted by popcornbird
Very much right-handed.

I have a question..............how do left-handed people handle a computer mouse? Do you keep the mouse to the left of the keyboard?

I grew up doing everything with my right hand except write, cuz I'm a lefty. I use normal scissors, normal notebooks, etc. But those desks ARE a problem! I use the mouse on the right side... you just come accustomed to doing things the "normal" way... I throw, bat, pitch, etc. with my right. I didn't WANT to be different, so I got used to doing things with my left. But writing in notebooks is hard!