[RBStealth]

Aye, sinistral one here!

[brivette]

my daughter is left handed, I’m not.

[henkster]

I’m left-handed and I can tell you my pitch perception was pretty good for balls low around the knees and high on the outer part of the plate. The high outside pitch was usually an opposite field double down the line while the low pitch went a long way to deep right center field.

I had no perception of the fastball high and tight.

[sayfer bullets]

Don’t trust righty...

[wally_bert]

Being a left handed person, I got to experience extra tender mercies from the educational system trying to convert me. School was miserable.

I can believe the rest of the stats.

[jaydubya2]

[Gamecock]

I can’t make a move with my left hand. Can’t go left.

[afraidfortherepublic]

I am married to a left hander and mother to another and grandmother to several (about 5) including a 2 year old who hasn’t quite decided yet and a switch hitting baseball player.

A long time ago I noticed that my husband and I have totally different “takes” on how to approach a multifaceted task — order of steps, etc. This used to drive me crazy, but now I just accept it.

This trait really came to the fore when I was part of a quilting guild. At our meetings, we’d sit around a quilt frame and sew, after we’d shared new patterns and methods with each other. There were several women who used to trade seats with others so that their left elbows were at the ends of the frame. I noticed that those were the women who (on their own) had developed innovative ways to miter a corner, or to assemble a square or a quilt top. Those women were the most creative members and most of them eventually published books on their methods.

One of my left handers has perfect pitch, but so does one of my right handers.

[Red Badger]

Left Handed Presidents since 1923:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Handedness_of_Presidents_of_the_United_States

[smoothsailing]

#LeftHandsMatter

[SpaceBar]

Left-pawed dogs are believed to have keener senses of smell and to exhibit superior task performance behavior.

[mass55th]

I’m left-handed. My oldest sister was left-handed. Both my sons are right-handed.

[Liberty Valance]

My wife and I were both left-handed. I write, throw, shoot and play drums left-handed but I bat, golf and play guitar and violin right-handed. Is that weird or a usual occurance?

[Drew68]

NPR had a recent story on left-handedness and went on to describe all the ways that left-handed people are evolutionarily disadvantaged.

So why does left-handedness survive?

Well, it seemed that one area where left-handed people excelled was combat. A left-handed soldier winning a sword fight got to reproduce his left-handed genes.

[RegulatorCountry]

Broke a finger in 5th grade, had to try to write left-handed while it healed. Caught myself numerous times trying to write backwards, just mirror image, don’t know what was up with that, it was odd. In adulthood, there are a few tasks that work better for me with my left hand, but my right hand predominates.

[Resolute Conservative]

To make my move on the couch I had to be on the right of my date. I can’t go right...

[GregoTX]

I had to pay twice as much for my left handed coffee cup.

[Tennessee Nana]

I’m a lefty..one of those “mixed hand preference”, in which they will switch off between hands for common tasks (switch hitters).

at school I wrote with both hands, and played softball holding the bat both directions..I kicked football with my right foot and have never had a problem with a right handed mouse etc..

I grew up learning to do things right handed where I could..My mother never told me I was “different” so I never thougt I was..

I was the only left handed in a right handed family but that didn’t stop my mother from teaching her “disabled” daughter the same things the siblings were able to do..

I learned to sew on Mom’s 1939 treadle Singer just like my sisters and made all my own clothes from early high school on..

My mother taught me to knit by turning her knitting needles around and knitting backwards so I did knit differently ..but I do knit, something left handers don’t normally do..

My only failure was in penmanship..I had nobody to show me how to hold a pencil/pen and my handwriting has always been shoddy at best..My mother had a beautiful hand and my sisters were good too..

although they endeavored to get my left hand to produce even graceful letters, they didn’t succeed...My right hand never felt comfortable in writing but the results were not that much worse than my more natural feeling left..I taught myself to write right handed although it did feel weird..

I click both lots of fingers and wink with both eyes..and I’m just as comfortable holding a tea cup in either hand (pinkies up)...

and I’m creative etc and musical and all te other wonderful attributes of the fortunate left hander..

Insanity ??? that’s just a dirty lie from jealous righties

:)

[Gandalf_The_Gray]

60% of left-handers, the people who have a higher proportion of perfect pitch, have “mixed hand preference”, in which they will switch off between hands for common tasks (switch hitters).

I have a different theory regarding ambidexterity. People who use tools often find themselves working in a space that doesn't allow them to use their dominant hand. Over time they learn to use their other hand with the same dexterity as their normally dominant hand.

If you watch welders, painters, paper hangers, iron workers, and similar you will see them display their talents using screwdrivers, socket wrenches, and power tools with ease while using either hand to get the job done.

Regards,
GtG

PS I have always held that I am ambidextrous, that is equally clumsy with either hand...