If you're left handed...

[Sparklfairy]

Do you do anything right handed? I've realised at 34 I always use scissors right handed, probably because left handed scissors in school were a rarity and didn't work that well anyway, so I just got used to it.

I also eat right handed, knife in my right hand. Of course most people don't know it's the 'wrong' way for me.

My right hand is otherwise useless though, I'm very dominantly left handed. I can't even easily push the button to open the microwave with my right hand!

My grandmother was of the generation where left handedness was a sign of the devil (Irish Catholic) and it was trained out of her.

How useful (or useless) is non-dominant hand?

I'm left handed.

I can only use right handed scissors, but use them in the left hand. Obviously adapted to this when growing up.

I eat with the fork in left hand and knife in right hand.

I struggle with tennis / badminton - I serve with the racket in the right hand, but then swap over. I think I'm actually more comfortable with a racket in my right hand overall. Kicking a ball, I'd probably use my right leg more.

If I wasn't discouraged from writing with my left hand, I could classify myself left handed then, I can't cut up veg,iron,use knife with my right. I don't classify myself as either,it's other people when they see me cooking etc. According to stats one in 4 people are south paw. Very few people on the planet are ambidextrous,it doesn't just apply to your writing hand.

Oh and I'm fully ambidextrous for eye make up.

God I wish I was!

Eat right handed but would struggle with using my right for most things. I'm the world's worst cutter with either hand!

I use a computer mouse right handed cos that's how they were set up. I've tried a few times to do it left handed but it's weird.

I eat "correctly" so backwards but I think it makes more sense. Dominant hand does plate to mouth coordination. Other hand does cutting.

I use right handed scissors but I my left and I used to Morris dancing correctly so stick

I am left handed but I couldn't not for the life of me tell you what hand I would use scissors in without doing it but I use knife and fork like a regular right handed person would. Sports and musical instruments I would use left hand, it was a pain at school. Make-up application I use my left hand

The only real thing I struggle with is using a can opener or a corkscrew😅these things are beyond me.

I’m lefty and an ambidextrous depending on which parent taught me… left handed for frisbee, pool, darts (dad). Right handed chopping, ironing, racket sports (mum).
the thing the annoys me is when I’m on the tube I want to insert the ticket in my left hand but if you do this it opens the gate you are not standing in front of!

Oh you're right about the Tube and train stations. Man, it's a right handed world we live in!

I eat right handed using a knife and fork because an older dinner lady at infant school made me. No one realised that was why I was so slow. Everything else I do left-handed, including spoon and fork. I learned to use right handed scissors in my left hand and couldn't get on with left handed ones when given them in high school.

Lots of things these days aren't "handed" but every now and then there's a kettle you can't see the water gauge of if you're left handed or a electrical tool or device that's awkward because the cable and/or switches are on the wrong side instead of central.

Mugs and cups with a design inside invariably are for right handers as you don't see the design if you hold them in your left hand.

I've never had an issue writing and made sure when we were taught how to use a pen that I used the correct grip in my left hand. My hand is below the writing.

I'm the same, can you spread butter, pate or jam with your right?

I never noticed until I was on a date and ordered pate and became very self conscious of the knife and fork getting switched around trying to navigate biscuits, cheese, pate and salad 🥗 😅

Ah yes me!

I'm a curtain maker and I can sew with either hand which is useful. I'm better with my left but perfectly adequate with my right. I can cut with either too which is very helpful when dealing with large sizes of fabric over a huge table. Also fo ironing.

I play guitar the right handed way but not terribly accomplished.

And I do think of myself as awfully clever, I wonder how much of an advantage it is?

I can write with my right hand too. Its readable.

I eat, and use a touchpad/mouse right handed. I use a right handed scissors in my left hand, if you turn the scissors around, putting your thumb & finger in the opposite holes then they cut as normal.

I write with my left and do everything else with my right.

55 year old ADHD, dyslexic and possibly dyspraxic lefty here

I can mirror left and right and confuse myself

I normally use a computer mouse right handed, and if asked to 'right click' on a mouse that's on the left of the keyboard, I'll mirror what I'd do normally i.e. get it wrong

I use cutlery right handed, but can eat left handed as well, although I can use a spoon or fork more naturally in my left hand, I can use my right as well.

Driving lessons were a screeching nightmare as I will confuse left and right too easily.

I gave up in the end. I didn't have the time or the money to keep going

I’m like that.use pencil I left. Opening a jar lid? Hand that does turning is right

I’m left handed. My dc are one of each. Adults now
what was really apparent was the right hander always used exclusively their right hand from get go for most things. Even as small baby picking up toys, to grabbing at feeding spoon, then onto throwing then catching balls, wielding bats and swords 😱

I'm left handed

I eat with my fork in my left and uSe scissors with my right.

I use my mouse with my right.

I hold my brush in my left and hairdryer or straighteners with my right usually.

Tweezers with my left.

Can't think of anything else

I'm right handed but always use my left to lift saucepans. And thread needles. And to lift heavy bags.

I’m a leftie.

I do everything left handed. My right hand is so feeble.

Tin openers, corkscrews and scissors I just can’t do. I break tin openers because I must bend them or something. I can’t use anyone else’s veg peeler, I have to have a left handed one.

Apart from that I’m pretty normal. Tennis is my strength.

DH is left-handed but does most things, except writing and opening cans, in the right-handed way. DS (autistic) is also left-handed but is learning through mimicry and is picking up many right-handed traits by watching his classmates.

Sorry too Soon…continue
whilst leftie juggled between hands many many times and didn’t settle into a particular hand until older. He is way less consistent in using left hand for everything, than his brothers right hand use. As adult he does, like a lot of lefties including me, fine dexterity stuff with left, and strength theh with right.

I was born in 60s. There’s a lot of things do right handed and badly particularly around sport which I’m crap out - mainly because we didn’t have left handed bats and no teacher took time to show movements like tennis serves left handed. I wonder if PT teachers are more aware these days?
I will use cutlery even now, after 58 plus years, in either hand- I just randomly pick up based on where the knife has beEn put

I still use right handed scissors with my left hand- I find I can’t actually use left handed scissors now as the pressure sim used to putting onto blades in reverse make the LFT handed blades slide ( I’m talking proper lefties scissors where blades are switched not just handles) I sew a lot and invested in decent left handed scissors when I retired and found I couldn’t cut anyth8ng with h them 🤦‍♀️😱cost a bloody fortune too.

I do though use right hand for can openers and screw thread bottle openers - I just can’t use them left handedly

and I do have left handed screw driver these days - it’s called a rechargeable🤣🤣solved my problem!

Left handed and is (rightly) my dominant hand/side. This is particularly noticeable when weight training as my left hand grip is so much stronger.

Although I (now) have left-handed scissors, I Iearnt to use right-handed scissors with my left hand.

The correct way to eat is with the fork in the left hand and knife in the right, so was taught to use cutlery like this. Have never questioned it as being a left or right-handed thing, just an etiquette thing. The only time I hold a knife in my left hand is if I am buttering or cutting bread.

@Sugarfree23 if I'm spreading jam, butter etc it would be with my left hand, even if I was using a knife and fork, the knife would go into my left hand