oldstuff28 
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I am right-handed and I am surprised at how many left-handed people there are now. Years ago, teachers would force kids to use their right hands and I think it frustrated a lot of lefties. When I was in school, the person with the best handwriting was a leftie.
Reply #1. Jul 09 10, 12:32 PM
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Deunan
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I use both but for different tasks. However, I can write with both my left and right hand and the writing looks the same.
Reply #2. Jul 09 10, 12:39 PM
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honeybee4
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I am sure that we had this topic before, but I can't find it anywhere. I write with my left hand since my stroke. It was totally hard to learn, but even though I can write with my right hand now, I still prefer my left hand.
Reply #3. Jul 09 10, 1:24 PM
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| Lochalsh
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My dad started out as left-handed, but his early teachers forced him to switch to the right. When he had his first stroke (at age 37), it affected his right side, and he could no longer make his original left-handedness work for him any longer.
My daughter's left-handed and is left-brained as well as right-brained. I'm very definitely right-handed and left-brained. She got all the bicameral luck.
Reply #4. Jul 09 10, 1:34 PM
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| Lochalsh
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Omit that "any longer." It should be filed with the Department of Redundancy Department.
Reply #5. Jul 09 10, 1:35 PM
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| insanity22186
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I, too was 'strongly' encouraged by my teachers to write with my right hand when I was in school. My parents went to talk with the school authorities and that 'encouragement' just went away. I never knew what was said. I also use both hands for different things - I eat and write with my left, but throw a bowling ball with my right hand.
Reply #6. Jul 09 10, 2:15 PM
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Jabberwok
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1/3 of my class of 32 is left-handed.
Must have been a sunspot or solar flare at the time of conception or something. :)
Reply #7. Jul 09 10, 2:29 PM
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| insanity22186
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When I worked (before I retired), there were 34 managers in my division and 22 of us were left handed. I thought that was an amazing ratio, but maybe not so much.
Reply #8. Jul 09 10, 5:06 PM
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Deunan
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When I played baseball, I threw with my right hand and batted with my left. It really messed with the pitcher.
Reply #9. Jul 09 10, 5:48 PM
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jolana
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I am ambidextrous. I write and cut with my right hand and I eat soup and draw with my left hand. I can write from left to right and from right to left with both hands. I can write upside down with both hands. On the other hand I can´t tell the left side side from the right side and when I look at the watch I read 9:15 as 2:45:)
Reply #10. Jul 09 10, 6:12 PM
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| callie_ross
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Ambidextrous. Started out left handed, so my grade school teacher said. Ended up Ambidextrous. Go figure!
Reply #11. Jul 10 10, 12:00 AM
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| Remtron
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I write with my left hand, but I would not say that I am left handed for everything. It just depends. For example, I am not a left handed person who has to swap their knife and fork to opposite hands, but I do have to use a spoon in my left hand rather than right. My sister is also left handed and in many places I have worked, left handed people have been in the majority.
Reply #12. Jul 10 10, 6:34 AM
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nmerr
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Right-handed for me. Always have been.
Reply #13. Jul 11 10, 12:05 AM
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| Dave1122
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I'm right handed,I've always heard that teachers used to force lefties to become right handed but never why.
Reply #14. Jul 11 10, 4:30 AM
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| insanity22186
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Daver, one of my early teachers told me that it wasn't "natural" to write with my left hand. I'll give her the benefit of doubt since that was over 60 years ago, but I never did understand what was unnatural about writing with one of the two hands that I was born with. I figured it would have been unnatural to write with my foot - though there are people in the world who have managed to accomplish that now. So, go figure! I still don't know what the big deal was.
Reply #15. Jul 11 10, 7:19 AM
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mhenson400
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Left handed. Thank You for asking.
Reply #16. Jul 11 10, 9:17 AM
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| Lochalsh
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The Latin for "left" is "sinistro," which gives us "sinister" in English. I think that historically there's been a nefarious connection between being of less-than-sterling character and using the "non-right" hand. Of course, that's just superstition.
My daughter is left-handed, and she's a gem!
Reply #17. Jul 11 10, 10:18 AM
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Shiningstar7
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I'm right handed. Everyone in my family is with the exception of my sister-in-law who is left handed and she can burn up a calculator! She's really fast.
Reply #18. Jul 12 10, 2:14 AM
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cubswin2323
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Right-handed. Both parents are southpaws. For a right-handed person, I'm fairly adroit with the left though.
Reply #19. Jul 13 10, 11:26 AM
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| lout62001
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I am right-handed all the way. I do all sports right-handed and can't figure out why some righthanders do their sports left-handed.
Reply #20. Jul 14 10, 9:36 AM
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