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General Category => The Coffee Shop => Topic started by: dgman on January 02, 2011, 06:48:16 pm
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I am left handed. I find that most left handers I meet have some sort of creative outlet. Of course for me it is woodworking. Before that I was a musician for twenty years, and have always dabbled in crafts such as stained glass.
How many of you are left handed?
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I'm Right handed, hey Dgman what instrument did you play?
Mark
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Lefty here! And yes, I've pretty much always had some type creative outlet.
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Hey Mark, In school I played Clarinet, Base Clarinet and Tenor sax. Started playing Bass Guitar in my sophomore year. Played in rock bands for twenty years! Still have my "67" Fender Jazz Bass! Don't play anymore but my son plays Bass in a band now!
BTW, I played right handed!
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I am right handed but can use both hands when doing my woodcraft but nothing else, I find when doing work on the lathe it is a lot easier to be left and right handed
Jimbo
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Sounds like a 'generalization'!
I have two left-handed children and I (right-handed) am much more creative than they are...
Of course I helped create them so I might have left something out!
Played piano in grade school, trombone in High School and discovered GIRLS!
Thus ended my musical career!!!
~~~GB~~~
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I never played anything except the fool, but I would have loved to have been able to play a musical instrument but that is to late now
Jimbo
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I am a most of the time lefty. I am a natural lefty but learned to play baseball right handed, and bowl right handed. I do not play any instruments except the radio and where I live even that is hit and miss.
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I'm left handed too - but had to learn writing with right hand in school.
Therefor I'm able to do a lot of things with both hands - like using a hammer or scissors.
I think the way one scrolls curves depends on this, I like curves to the right more, they come much easier as left turns.
regards,
Torsten
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Ambidextrous here. Also play guitar and tenor saxophone. 8)
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I'd give my right arm to be ambidextrous!
::)
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Thanks Russ you just provided me with the word I was looking for. I am ambidextrous too. Played the tenor sax up till my second stroke, had to stop as my left hand is not fast enough and I cannot put enough pressure on the reed.
David
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I'd give my right arm to be ambidextrous!
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:D that would then automatically make you a left hander in my books Bill :P
David
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I am right -handed.
I use my plumbing tools which ever way will get the job done.
Shoot pool left-handed, more comfortable, but can do it right-handed too.
When I sing I hold the music with my right and turn with my left.
I eat with both...can't get it there fast enough!! ;D
I scroll with both. Though the left seems to be the guide hand and the right the finesse hand.
In love both hands are Roman but no fingers are Russian! ;)
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I am a righty, well except when I worked at the pillow factory. When I filled pillows and chair pads, I was always left handed and do not understand y. I tried doing the job right handed, but it never worked.
(I can also use my left hand for other things) OOOPPPSSS! did I say that?
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Another lefty! Most things are left handed, a few are either handed and golf is right handed.
Bill
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I'm a right hander ::)
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Actually, I have to say, after my 'problem' and rotator cuff surgery on the right side, I have learned to do many things in a left-handed manner that I thought I could never do!
The hardest for the first few months was eating!
And if you think about it you can probably figure out what the second hardest was! <bg>
After almost three years I have become 'somewhat' ambidextrous and certain things now just seem natural to do left handed. I even tried bowling and the switch was more of a problem for the movement of the feet than of the arm and hand.
So, OLD dogs CAN learn new tricks!
~~~GB~~~
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One thing about us left handers is most things are designed for right handers, and we have to adapt. In school, I didn't have a right handed baseball mitt so I had to adapt. Hand power tools are made for right handers so we have to adapt. Most of us left handers are ambidextrous!
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Not to burst anyone's bubble here, but to really be "ambidextrous" means to use either hand with equal ease. In other words, what you can do with one hand, can be done just as easily with the other. Most of us can do things with one hand or the other, but very few can use either to do the same thing. I write, throw, bat, golf and do most things that require dexterity with my left hand, however, as dgman was talking about, I've learned to adapt to doing a lot of things with my right hand, especially in situations where there is a particular "tool" for that task that's only available in a right handed version. This doesn't make me ambidextrous, it just makes me able to do some things left handed, and some right....like most people can. Yes there are some who can't use their non-dominant hand for much of anything other than a paperweight, but in reality, I think those people are as few and far between as the truly ambidextrous.
I'm just sayin' ;D
Forgive me for rambling
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Yeah yeah yeah, You were probably a bully in high school! ::)
Just Kidding Mainewoods! The point I was making is most left handers use their right hand more than right hander use their left hand.
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I'm a natural lefty but when I learn to do something by watching and imitating, I typically do it the way I was shown - usually right handed. If there is such a thing, I probably scroll right handed because I learned to do it by watching Steve's videos. The main difference is that he usually goes counterclockwise and I usually go clockwise. Go figure, lol.
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Hey Maine....,
My youngest son is 'truly' ambidextrous.
Throw him a ball and if he catches it with the left hand he will throw it back with that hand and vice versa.
He also will pick up a pen with either hand and start to write without thinking.
Have not seen him wipe, but I will bet that the hand used is determined by which side the TP is hanging from the wall!
~~~GB~~~
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The main difference is that he[right hand Steve] usually goes counterclockwise and I usually go clockwise.
*lol* seems to be a typical left hand working direction to scroll clockwise.
@ Mainewoods
You're right. Back in school i remember a girl who was able to write with both hands at the same time.
regards
Torsten
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Don't worry maine. You can't burst my bubble, just like you can't be "truly ambidextrous".
This doesn't make me ambidextrous, it just makes me able to do some things left handed, and some right.
I am one of the few and far between "truly ambidextrous" and we have a club. Sorry but you can't be a member of that either. Oh, your forgiven. 8)
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Hi Russ, can I join the club it's proberby to far for me to travel. Have done verything both hands just as far as I can remember. Have to us my r-hand more now as my left hand has lost strenght after my stroke, but really have to remind myself not to pick up a kettle with boiling water just because it's on my left.
So my bubble has not been burst either.
I wonder if being ambidextrous runs in families, my grandmother was and I have to cousins that are as well and so is my nephew.
David
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Serious Left-Hander here. God gave me a right hand to hold down paper and wood and scratch with. Yes, I am creative. Also a musician. Flute, sax, piano and guitar. Still play. My mom was a lefty and so is my brother and both of my kids. All creative.
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I'm glad nobody took offense to what I was trying to say (however poorly) ::). I envy those of you who are ambidextrous! There are so many situations where it would be awesome to be able to use my right hand. Unfortunately, I just don't have the dexterity in it to effectively do a lot of tasks.
dgman - I am in full agreement! Lefties do have to learn to do a lot of things right handed. Some of those things don't come easy. I remember my dad teaching me to use a chainsaw! :o That was scary trying to control something that dangerous that was made to be operated right handed! Got used to it after a while though.
Just to throw some more confusion into things....I'm lefted handed, right footed and right eyed!! How's that for mixed up!!!! :P
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My mom managed to find a left handed pencil sharpener back in the 60's. I still have it and it was great fun to watch my kid's friends try to sharpen a pencil with it.
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Are we trying to start a NAALH (National Association for the Advancement of Left Handers) chapter?
I'm a righty but, I hold no grudges against wrong handers.
Rog
That was meant to be funny. It is just a joke son, just a joke. I have a sick sense of humor.
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Hey Roger, It is said that the right side of the brain controls the left side of the body - therefore, left handers are the only ones in their right mind.
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Wow. This conversation has taken off. So I am guessing that us right handers are not right in the head? LMAO.
I loved that comment Julie.
Just look at my FB posts lately...you will notice I am not in my right mind these days. Trying to get over everything that happened the past couple months.
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Julie this is confusing to me being ambidextrous, I have to use all of my brain not only one side. So what does that make my? :P At least my grey cells get their work out daily.
David