I noticed on the thread about renaming our Social Chat there were two of us who admitted that we were blessed to be southpaws. Just curious how many of us are lefties, righties or ambidextrous.

im right handed. But my son is left handed. Have no clue where that came from,but its not fun tring to teach a 5 year old to write his name. any tips on that one.
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I have a daughter who is left handed when the whole rest of the family is right handed. I've no idea where her's came from either.

There weren't any right handed/left handed problems in her early years, but I must admit I came unglued when I tried to teach my daughter how to knit! I failed miserably!

The only tips I remember is to use a mirror. .......that way they see what we're doing in the exact opposite. (I still failed with the knitting thing)


Edit: While we're on this, I think it'd be interesting to find out if you get most of your symptoms on your dominant or non dominant side?

I'm right handed, and most of my exacerbations have affected my left side. Not all, but most.

Lefty brother here too! It would wreak havoc at the dinner table when we were kids! He ALWAYS won, cuz he was bigger

I'm right

I'm a lefty as is my DH. Our DD is a righty. I guess two lefts can make a right!

I'm right handed. (and my right side is more effected by the MS than my left)

My granddad was left handed as is my husband and one of his brothers. All three of my kids are right handed.

My husband only uses his left hand to write and his right hand for everything else. Probably due to his dad trying to make him use his right hand when he was a kid.

am one of the weirdo Ambidextrous people...

Ambidexterous...

I write, knit and crochet right handed. I can write with my left hand, but it looks a lot shakier than what my right hand does. I have crummy handwriting with both hands anyways.

Other than that, I can pretty much use both hands for everything else, except for one thing that's only done in the bathroom...for that I use the right hand.

In first grade, I can remember my first grade teacher making me use my right hand instead of the left. She gave me a pencil with a big plastic triangle around it and everytime I tried to use that pencil in my left hand, she'd come over and make me use the right. Second grade teacher did the same thing, but she wasnt so nice about it. Sister Nasty-Nun always yelled at me for using my left hand and would pretty much embarass me and the other lefties in the class. So, that's probably why I use the right hand for writing.

I'm one of admitted soutpaws

Both my parents are righties. They were driven nuts to teach me how to tie my shoes. I had to learn myself.

The lefty DNA strand is down from my father's side. His mother and aunt were ambidextrous.

My husband is a rightie. Ah, but our son is a lefty.

I always find it fun to people-watch in the mall and identify the lefties.

We write differently and think differently. We're cool that way

cheers!!

Niko

add me to the weird group, can throw hit kick write with either right or left