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 am left handed. I write/draw/paint with left but can do a lot of other things with my right hand. Have never been able to use left handed scissors, I use any hand to eat. What I really struggle with is door knobs. I have to really think about which way I need to turn it. Not sure if that’s because I’m left handed though…

I can use a computer mouse right-handed if I have to. & hold knife when eating. That's it. I've worked in Arts for many years and lots of people I know are left-handed.

I eat right handed, I use scissors with my right hand.

I use a computer mouse RH so that I can use a pen with my left. Most other day to day activities I've adapted to RH use. Cutting food (not as part of a meal) is still LH but a game changer has been to find decent double sided serrated knives.

There is still a RH bias in general, even now - eg one of the family cars has an internal boot handle on the right hand side only, the other has one on each side.

Proud fourth generation leftie here!

I'm left handed. I had to use right handed scissors. The only things I do left handed are iron (rarely) and write. I tend to use my left hand as a leading hand when playing the drums as well. My teacher told me I wasn't normal and had to practice writing with my right hand every night when I was about 9. My mum, a left handed went mad.

I'm ambidextrous. I do write left handed, but I suspect that's because my mum (a left hander) taught me. I can pick stuff up and start using it in either hand without really noticing, pens and utensils. My left arm is weaker, after a shoulder injury but it wasn't before that. I can knit and crochet either way, and never play a backhand in tennis 😆

It causes problems because I don't have a dominant hand, I struggle to tell the difference between left and right. I do drive but it took me ages to pass, because I had to learn spatially where I needed to be.

I have one strongly right handed child and one strong left hander.

I'm left handed and like you, use scissors in my right hand. I have always found that strange as I'm so dominantly left handed.