Any Left-Handers here?

[Berlepsch]

I am a dominantly left-handed person myself. My mother tells the story that when I was a toddler, I refused to pick up the spoon with my right hand, and used the left instead. Luckily my parents quickly gave up to train me to use the right hand instead.

Although I use my right hand to move the computer mouse (which I prefer, since I can use my left hand for quick typing on the keyboard), I do nearly all of the everyday work with the left. But when I have to use my right hand for some precision work, it is much easier for me to switch than it is for most right-handed people I know. I guess this is the effect of living in a rightie world.

I never fully accepted these "brain hemisphere" theories, mainly because it only really works for right handed people, leaving us lefties as something like freaks. And hearing a phrase like "shifted sinistral" in this context doesn't help either.

 

[Shaun.P]

I'm left handed too. I've often notice in lectures at University - if I look to the left and right of me, mostly everyone is right handed!

I'd use my left hand for using scissors and stuff, but I'd kick a ball with my right foot, and I use a mouse with my right hand. I think I use the mouse with the right hand because when I'm been growing up, all the computers have been setup like this.
Chopsticks/Fork would also be my left hand.