Would You Judge Me Over Table Manners?

[TheShellBeach]

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

I have always done this. I am not left-handed and have lost count of the number of people who have asked me if I am. It just feels easier for me. DH is the same.

Seriously - would you judge me and think I had bad table manners over this? AIBU to think people should use their cutlery whichever way round is comfortable?

No sensible rational person gets as over stimulated by other people's use of cutlery as some on here.
In the real world I think the very worst that could happen is someone might think 'Oh, I didn't realise Shell was left handed! Oh, she's not? Oh right...' and that would only be if it were a particularly slow day for table chat.
Maybe once upon a time such things mattered to the aspiring middle classes, but the world's moved on. Behaviours change, and its recognised now that there are all different types of ways of doing things, and what is impolite varies between cultures and generations. Also that the greatest social faux pas of all is to sneer and assume superiority over people who do things that don't matter differently.
Provided you don't exclusively dine with uptight, judgemental, socially aspirational little Britishers, I'd say you'll be fine.

Something completely normal is not bad manners

Both my son and I eat like this, as well as eating with our mouths closed, not slopping and not putting our elbows on the table.

I think people that can't eat properly

But eating with your knife in your left hand and fork in your right hand isn't classed as "people who can't eat properly" by most (sensible) people

People who think that left handers can't eat properly shouldn't eat with other people.

Or the weirdly over invested in cutlery people could eat by themselves, thus avoiding the risk of becoming over excited?

You however are very overinvested in your right to eat like a pig.

And I am over invested in challenging weird posters who think that eating with your knife in your left hand = eating like a pig.

It isn't eating with cutlery in the "wrong" hand. It is eating with cutlery in the other hand. This is the 21st century, not the 19th century.

Are you superstitious @ClydeFrog?

Table manners are an excuse for people to feel superior. I have bad lip incompetence - I have a hard time keeping lips sealed constantly when chewing. I'm sure I've been and will continually be negatively judged. I look very strained my passport photo. I've just learned to suck it up.

I used to have a hard time chewing with my mouth shut because of my teeth, I did try.* *Teeth are fixed now though.

Some people are nothing but snobs. It's no wonder I prefer to eat alone.