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Being Ambidextrous.
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Heya
I know this might sound stupid, but is there anyway that i can learn to become ambidextrous?
Thanks!
I know this might sound stupid, but is there anyway that i can learn to become ambidextrous?
Thanks!
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I think if you can go through the effort of using your other hand more (particularly on precision tasks) it can make you more ambidextrous (maybe).
I did that! I wrote half the page with my left hand, swapped over to the right mid-page! I had a ribbon tied round my right hand to 'remind' me of the 'correct' hand to use :eek:
So I rebelled and used my left hand...now I wish I'd kept up with both because I can only write neatly very slowly in my left hand! I suppose it's just about practice.
Oooh... sinister!
Ouch! I bet ten weeks seems like an eternity when you're eight!
Good luck, with some effort and patience you'll be able to write fairly well with your other hand!
Yeah, I wrote with one hand till it got tired, then swapped over. It's odd how teachers always seem to encourage kids writing with both hands to use the right. What does it matter which one you favour..?
Needless to say I broke it a week before the summer holidays, so spent the entire summer holiday in plaster, bored rigid while everyone else was outside! :rolleyes:
I don't think teachers encourage children to use any particular hand anymore. I work in a nursery school and we don't push them to hold a brush or pencil in the right hand. We just take note of those who do use their left hand or use both to see if they naturally change.
I am now ambidextrous but still favour my left hand for most things.....
Man she was a NASTY woman :mad:
Snap - and my mum had it beaten out of her when she was at school in Ireland. I also broke my left arm when I was about 6, so had to learn to write with my right hand and as a consequence of all the above, my handwriting is dreadful.
Sinister.
Sorry, you're right - I should have used "seemed" rather than "seem". This was back in the late 70's and I would have gathered things had changed since then.
i am but it's just by chance i would have thought. i write with my left and do everything with my right. i can also write with my right but chose the left as im more comfortable.
it's all to do with the side's of your brain that are used to implement certain activities
Being serious though I used to be as a kid and over the years (nearly 26) i've become a bit of both. I eat, use scissors, use a mouse wear my watch etc right handed but I write, use the phone left handed. I also seem to favour my left side too, like putting my left foor first when walking or chewing food on my left side first werid but hey thats me lol
It's fine. Actually, I was 'strongly encouraged' to use my right hand at nursery school in the early 90s. Except for writing, I'd still rather use my left hand e.g. for my watch.
I get that from time to time.
It's strange, because I've always been labelled as a left hander all my life, just because I write with my left (but I write like a right-hander, i.e. not like Barack Obama).
The reality is I'm ambi. I write left handed, bounce a ball with my left, throw with my left but thats about it. Everything else is right-handed; eating, racquet games and shooting to name a few.
Cheers,
Jeff
p.s. Just thought, there is one another left handed activity!
For anything apart from writing though I can use either hand. I think most lefties can just from the fact they they have had to.
Saying that though, I don't get on with items that are specifically made for left handed people, like left handed computer mice or tin openers. I find it easier to use a normal one.