It was me said the stuff about cricket and tennis and art. I read it somewhere, and I think I've heard people say that on the TV. I read that left or right handedness isn't directly hereditary, but there is an inherited element.I Don't really understand that not being a scientist.

Wow, I never heard of left handed cheque books. I use the mouse right handed, but most everything else left handed and I'm left footed too. I'm also left wing politically. In fact, I'm left all over (lol)

Yeah, apparently left handers use the right part of the brain more - the creative side - and right handers use the left, more logical side.

But I do think logically..just sometimes after the moment has passed.

Maybe my family are freaks.. my Dad is the only left handed one and he is *totally* the logic person of the family.. all about the maths and numbers. The rest of us are right handed and all about the literature/drama/art/creativeness... meh.

My mum and brother are good with maths. Both right handed. So is my dad. But i'm good with numbers too.

So far, I think i'm the only left handed kid out of me, my bro, and cousins etc. Yet to find out what hand Kyle uses.

I'm right handed mostly but I do a lot of thing left handedly. Like playing cards, I have to have cards with numbers in all 4 corners so I can hold them and see numbers or else it just doesn't work for me. And with snowboarding, you're meant to use one foot forwards most of the time and rarely the other so that your feet can be angled and I have to have them both forwards or both angled outwards because I constantly switch sides. Which is apparently really weird. I'm just special.

I vaguely remember learning how to write when I was at my first school and they had to keep telling me to switch hands because I was doing it wrong so maybe I was meant to be left handed. No-one else in my family is as far as I know so I could just be making it up.

I'm ambidextrous. But in a weird way 'cause I can't do all the things I do with my left hand as well if I do it with my right hand and vice versa. So I write with my right hand (And I can actually write with my left hand), but I use my knife and fork like a left handed person and all that jazz. A teacher at my lower school once told me I was going to go to heck if I didn't start using my knife and fork properly. I hated her.

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Originally posted by Jude:
I'm right handed mostly but I do a lot of thing left handedly. Like playing cards, I have to have cards with numbers in all 4 corners so I can hold them and see numbers or else it just doesn't work for me.

Lol, I do that too only I never actually realised it was weird until someone pointed it out to me this christmas just gone when we were playing cards. All that time I couldn't see the numbers properly and it never even twigged to me that I hold the cards the wrong way round

I never noticed until one day we played with a set of cards that only had numbers in the right handed corners. Its such a hassle trying to hold the cards left handedly so you can see the numbers if its only numbered in 2 corners. I have to hold them at the top of the cards and fanned at the bottom, I can't move the cards if I hold them in my right hand, I always drop them and get in such a mess.

so now we all know how to beat Jude at a game of cards?

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Originally posted by monka:
i am left handed. don't worry clare being left handed has been nothing but a pain to me. sitting next to a righty at school and getting elbowed, never being able to use scissors properly, smudging ink everywhere when trying to write with a fountain pen, having to learn the violin right handed, even in cdt they stupid right handed vices. although apparently we do live longer!

I find all that difficult aswell another difficulty is using kitchen knives as the blades are designed for righties so i always endup with un even bread and anothers is writing on paper thats tied with metal spirals on the left

I guess we could always rotate the books we right in, so that our hand doesn't hit the binder or spiral thing, but then every other page will be upside down or something. But y'know..could be fun for people to try and read.

I always remember the ones who were left handed at school were always picked last in sports it was very rare they could bat well. It wasn't until we had a new teacher in games that was left handed and heexplained to us that people whoare left handed tend to struggle because they tend to be taught to bat by right hand people and its completely different style.

Within the out of school club I work in we have a number of children who are left handed and alot of them are ambidextrous. one little boy uses the mouse right handed and bats right handed.

And as for creative or logical, I'm neither.

I shave left leg first but pluck and put eyeshadow on my right eye first. I hold cards my left hand, I have serious trouble holding in my right even though I am right handed. I also carry bags on my left shoulder, I can't carry them on my right, they fall of all the time.

I hold cards in right hand, and strappy bags on my right. I can't carry kids on my left side. They'll just slip.

And i bat like a right handed person. And bowl with my right hand. And i catch with my right hand.

So..I dunno. I guess i mainly use my left hand for writing, and left foot for kicking.

Weird.

me and my sister are weirdos too -
i write right handed but eat left handed
she writes left handed but eats right handed!

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Originally posted by monkeydiva:
I always remember the ones who were left handed at school were always picked last in sports it was very rare they could bat well. It wasn't until we had a new teacher in games that was left handed and heexplained to us that people whoare left handed tend to struggle because they tend to be taught to bat by right hand people and its completely different style.

Within the out of school club I work in we have a number of children who are left handed and alot of them are ambidextrous. one little boy uses the mouse right handed and bats right handed.

Ah, finally a reason for why I was always picked last!!

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Ah, finally a reason for why I was always picked last!!

Ah but being left-handed was great for me in that respect. I was good at rounders and everyone always forgot to move round! My claim to fame is that I won the match for another school because well my school didn't want me!