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Are you left or right handed?
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True, natural ambidexterity is rather rare (around 1 in 100), and studies have also consistently shown the link between ambidexterity and mental health issues, and language problems (most commonly, autism and dyslexia.)
Most of you are referring to artificial or engineered ambidexterity, which is simply the ability to reproduce certain motor skills with one's non-dominant hand through repetition and practice. That is far more likely to happen to a natural left-hander (because we live in a right-handed world), but right-handers can also acquire that 'skill.' But that is the difference: it is an acquired skill, rather than an innate, genetic ability. People in this thread are pointing out that they use their mouse right-handed, or eat right-handed. Both are simply examples of the right-handed-world syndrome: mice are always positioned on the right, so you have become accustomed to it, and thus it feels natural. As to knives and forks, most children learn how to eat by copying their parents, and/or siblings. By the law of averages, they were probably right-handed, and so you eat right-handed as well.
(I'm naturally left handed. I use the mouse right-handed, eat right-handed, can write right-handed, and so on. But I am not naturally ambidextrous.)
Most of you are referring to artificial or engineered ambidexterity, which is simply the ability to reproduce certain motor skills with one's non-dominant hand through repetition and practice. That is far more likely to happen to a natural left-hander (because we live in a right-handed world), but right-handers can also acquire that 'skill.' But that is the difference: it is an acquired skill, rather than an innate, genetic ability. People in this thread are pointing out that they use their mouse right-handed, or eat right-handed. Both are simply examples of the right-handed-world syndrome: mice are always positioned on the right, so you have become accustomed to it, and thus it feels natural. As to knives and forks, most children learn how to eat by copying their parents, and/or siblings. By the law of averages, they were probably right-handed, and so you eat right-handed as well.
(I'm naturally left handed. I use the mouse right-handed, eat right-handed, can write right-handed, and so on. But I am not naturally ambidextrous.)
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What do you call people who pitch a softball (underhanded) while stepping into the pitch with the same side as the arm motion?
I'm both. Right handed for writing and golfing, left handed for throwing, bowling, batting, eating, drinking
You had me wondering, so I watched. Now I know better.
You may have noticed that the 'soft'-ball is not the size you might be familiar with.
It is between the soft-ball used for slow-pitch, and a hard-ball, and in the middle for mass as well.
It's good to see people are ignoring my note above regarding true ambidexterity, but in this instance perhaps hanerika is ambidextrous, given his spelling of 'right.'
You gave a pretty good definition for the acquired skill, but not so much for the "true" or "natural" variety.