Are you a lefty or a righty?

i'm always right.

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Ambidextrous Here as well but Im all over the place because my dominant writing hand is Left but for sports its right. I just ping pong around! LOL

<--- righty for everything except dribbling a basketball and er, 'personal care' (i broke my R arm when i was 9 when we were learning basketball in PE and had to learn to do a couple of things w/ L).

my 8-y.o. cousin is a source of interest and concern for myself and the rest of my family: he's a natural lefty, but they taught him to write right-handed. he's a little sports stud (my ex got his baseball hooks in him, wants to turn him into the next mickey mantle) and has fantastic eye-hand coordination, bats lefty, hits well, plays soccer too. he doesn't seem to be doing well in school. :frown: doesn't like it, doesn't like to read, seems dyslexic, has difficulty with math, too. he's working with a tutor a couple of days a week. i'm wondering if there is any correlation between left-handedness and dyslexia...

I did a handedness test at uni in a neurobiology lecture.... I'm ambidextrous but neither hand is as dextrous as a handed person's dominant hand. Most people score more than 20 in their dominant hand and less than 10 in their non-dominant hand... I scored 14 with one hand and 15 with the other.

I don't have a dominant eye either. Even though I have keratoconus in one eye (so one eye has significantly better vision than the other), in terms of stereoscopic vision, neither eye is dominant. This, apparently, is the reason why I tend to walk into stuff like door frames.

skills that have to be practiced a lot, I pick one hand and practice with that hand, so certain skills I'm a lefty, others I'm a righty, some I'm equally good at either:

writing on paper: right hand is neater and faster
writing on something big like a whiteboard: no difference
typing: I touch type so use both hands together, before I learned to do that I'd one finger type with one hand and when it got tired switch to the other and was equally good with either.
guitar: righty.
golf and ice hockey: lefty
cricket: righty - but I should have been taught cricket left handed because I naturally grip a bat etc the left handed way, but my dad always corrected my grip rather than correcting my stance to a lefty stance
eating: equally good with either hand
judo: I could fight equally as comfortably left handed or right handed, and switched frequently during fights just to confuse my opponent.
arm wrestling: left arm is stronger
fencing: I couldn't do fencing at all because my natural inclination is to fight with both hands, and to switch hands as per the situation, and you can't do that in fencing. so sod fencing. I'll stick to forms of fighting that require two hands.

<--- righty for everything except dribbling a basketball and er, 'personal care' (i broke my R arm when i was 9 when we were learning basketball in PE and had to learn to do a couple of things w/ L).

my 8-y.o. cousin is a source of interest and concern for myself and the rest of my family: he's a natural lefty, but they taught him to write right-handed. he's a little sports stud (my ex got his baseball hooks in him, wants to turn him into the next mickey mantle) and has fantastic eye-hand coordination, bats lefty, hits well, plays soccer too. he doesn't seem to be doing well in school. :frown: doesn't like it, doesn't like to read, seems dyslexic, has difficulty with math, too. he's working with a tutor a couple of days a week. i'm wondering if there is any correlation between left-handedness and dyslexia...

there is, lefthandedness and ambidextrousness are more common in dyslexic people, and there's several different theories in neurobiology about why this is so. It seems to be related to the way both hemispheres of the brain work together. If he hasn't already been tested for dyslexia, he should be, given what you've written. And his school should let him write in his left hand if that's easier for him.

check what method the school is using to teach him reading. a pure phonics approach is usually better as dyslexic people tend to have a poor visual memory, so memorising words by what they look like (i.e. the sight words method) is usually a recipe for failure, i.e. they learn a certain number of sight words, then start getting ones that look similar confused. Phonics relies much less on visual memory and much more on learning how to read through the whole word, sound it out and blend the sounds. Also, dyslexic kids tend to have erratic eye movements that make reading very difficult... phonics (i.e. reading through the word from left to right) helps to train the eyes to move the right way. This approach helped me a lot and I've also worked with dyslexic kids to teach them literacy, and found phonics extremely beneficial for them as well. Note: of course there are many different factors involved so this may not be the case for every dyslexic child.

i'm wondering if there is any correlation between left-handedness and dyslexia...

there is, lefthandedness and ambidextrousness are more common in dyslexic people...

neandermagnon FTW! that's exactly what i was looking for, TYVM :flowerforyou: i was taught phonics 20+ yrs ago in my small (somewhat progressive) private school and it wasn't until much later i learned that not everyone is taught to read this way. i feel so lucky, and i'm a righty-reader.

Ambidextrous and was forced to use my right hand at Catholic school when I was a child because "it was wrong".
I shall conquer my true power soon enough! I don't even care if I leave an ink trail.

My left arm is just decoration. I barely ever use it.

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Ambidextrous -- write with my right and do everything else with left. .. Was actually forced to write with the right hand as a child .

I feel your pain

I'm left-handed but I use right-handed scissors. I used to eat with my knife in my left hand and fork in my right when I was a child, but my parents didn't think it was 'proper' and so I had to get used to using them the other way round.

I think every lefty does this.

Ugh... I wish... I remember being in school and having "left handed scissors". Yeah, they sucked. I still use right handed scissors with my left hand. I did spend extra money on a pair of really nice left handed sewing shears. Totally worth it

I use right handed scissors with my right hand bc right handed scissors half the time don't work with my left hand, and left handed scissors suck too. So I never cut a straight line, ever. I always have to fold under the cut edge when I wrap presents or it looks like a mangler cut it.

Righty but relatively ambidextrous. I can eat, use a mouse and even write (poorly) with my left hand.

My husband is also right handed. However ALL 3 of our children are left handed. Weird, huh?

Righty but there's a lot of things that I do left handed which is weird and confuses people. When I was learning to sail I was tying the boat off on a cleat and the instructor told me I did it wrong, then stopped, looked again and said I actually did it the "left handed" way.

I don't snow board but my sister gave me the "test" to see which foot you are and I'm goofy foot.

I can hit a baseball right or left handed.

Sometimes I wonder if I was "corrected" when I was in school and learning to write.

Righty for everything but snowboarding