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become left handed.

When Magic Johnson was young he wanted to develop better ball handling skills with his left hand so he tied his right hand behind his back and dribbled the ball all over Lansing. So I guess the best way would be to do everything with your left hand. You can train your brain to adapt over a period of time.

I would however probably still stick to shaving with your right hand :D
 
I am left handed. The way that i can imagine that yo would do it would be to go back to basics and learn handwritting again with all of those exercises from years ago.

Practice makes perfect ;)
 
®îçhå®? said:
I am left handed. The way that i can imagine that yo would do it would be to go back to basics and learn handwritting again with all of those exercises from years ago.

Practice makes perfect ;)
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i agree. i'm a lefty too and you should start from basic 4-letter words. and use grade-school paper with the huge spaces! (i think it was made of recyling paper...) writing on that kind of paper will help with hand control and detail.
 
Just wondering WHY you'd want to do that in the first place? i used to think about how convenient it would be during long exams... my hand used to cramp up about 2 hours into it and it would have been great to give it a rest.

I don't think that anyone can BECOME left handed... (ie. prefer to use your left hand to do things)... but i think you can definitely train yourself to be able to.

People are just naturally predisposed to using one side of their body over another... it's not just handedness (ie. a right handed person will usually kick a soccerball with their right foot, etc.)

I've tried to write with my left hand before (i'm right handed) and it seems more natural to me for the left handed writing to come out as a mirror image of my right handed writing (ie. written backwards). you would think that it would take some thought to be able to write letters backwards... but it happens naturally... surprising really :rolleyes:


As an aside... I've been in bowling for 14 years and I've done well with it. A man I know, who was a very good bowler, had to get his arm amputated about 10 years ago. After enduring all the physical trauma associated with such an event he decided to get back into bowling... except the arm he lost was the arm he bowled with. He adapted, however, and was able to learn how to bowl just as well with his left arm, despite the obvious balance issues you woudl have with just one arm...

It's fascinating how adaptable humans can be.
 
Rokem said:
This may sound weird but I want to become left handed. Anybody want to give me hints, tips or anything they can think of. or give me their college thiesis paper on why this is impossible :rolleyes: .

I have been using my left hand for my mouse and writing all of today and i have muscles hurting in places i didn't even now their were muscles their.:eek:
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and you want to do this because..........
:confused:
 
jamone80 said:
i agree. i'm a lefty too and you should start from basic 4-letter words. and use grade-school paper with the huge spaces! (i think it was made of recyling paper...) writing on that kind of paper will help with hand control and detail.
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If it's frustrating enough, 4 letter words may be all he'll ever do. :D

The best I can do is to write backwards left-handed although it is useful in writing Japanese with a pen...no smudges.
 
hey...i've tried to train myself to become ambedextrious (sp?) before and it worked! for a few months i ate left handed which becomes surprisingly easy very quickly. try also brushing your teeth left handed which is pretty hard and practice writing. i can write my name perfectly left handed. before i did this, i looked up the psychological effects of trying to "become" left handed or ambedextrous - it supposedly unites the left and right sides of your brain - it's called hemispherical interconnectivity...supposedly leads to genius? i didn't quite get that far but i also read that someone in the process of trying to train to become ambidextrous could lead to stuttering. i read that and didn't believe it, but then it happened pretty often. it was amazing. i should get back into it again.
 
haleyvan said:
i didn't quite get that far but i also read that someone in the process of trying to train to become ambidextrous could lead to stuttering. i read that and didn't believe it, but then it happened pretty often. it was amazing. i should get back into it again.
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interesting.....i wonder if there are any ambidextruous stutterers out there? would chopping of one of their arms cure the stutter? something to think about :D :D
 
Warbrain said:
Now I'm an odd cat...

I write right-handed. I throw right-handed and I bat right-handed. However, when I fish (which hasn't been in years), I cast left handed. When I play hockey, I shoot left-handed. When I get the chance to shoot archery or rifle, I shoot left-eyed.

It's almost odd that I can't write left-handed, especially the way I switch off between everything.
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hehe I can associate. I write left handed, throw right handed, bat left handed. When I fish I cast left handed, when I play hockey I shoot right handed. As for shooting I'm left handed/eyed
 
jamone80 said:
interesting.....i wonder if there are any ambidextruous stutterers out there? would chopping of one of their arms cure the stutter? something to think about :D :D
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My mother changed me from left to right, and I was left with a stammer for years: yours is not a solution I'd care to try.
 
wow. lots of people had lots to say while i was gone. The pain in my left arm is gone and i now prefer to use my left hand when using a mouse. I had to turn the trackpad off becuase i noticed my self reaching for it.

I write to slow at school with my left and it looks pretty bad, if i speed up its unreadable. Also i have to learn how to write diffrent. I thought it would be the same movements but i was wrong.

I hope this leads to geniusness and not stut-t-err-ingg. :rolleyes:

ps: i want to learn how to do this becuase of long handwritten pappers, and i always thoughtn it would be cool.
 
Sometimes I think I was supposed to be left-handed. I took these tests that correlate to left-handedness and I was a lefty in all of them. I'm both creative and technical.

Most of all though, I'd like to be able to use my other hand to give the right hand a rest from...well...ahem...
 
my gran tried to get me out of using the left hand even when i was scribbling with a crayon - that old mentality of shame being associated with left-handedness.

i use my right hand for most other things but writing HAS to be with the left. funny observations though... you notice a lot of lefties doing computer courses at university (30% of our course intake were left handed)

even my little girl looks to be favoring the left hand, and i for one, am not going to be breaking out a ruler to get her out of the habit.

go lefties!
 
I'm left-handed but use my right-hand for using my mouse just b/c it's how... everyone does it.

Haha. It's weird stuff. :)

It would be hard to learn to be left-handed though I think...
 
I'm right-handed but I'm a bit like the OP in that I want to become more able to use my left hand. Mostly for drawing and painting-- I'm guessing some areas/angles will be easier to reach and draw w/ my left. Plus, it would be convenient in case anything happened to my right hand. :eek:
 
I'm a lefty but I golf right handed (haven't played in years, though) because my instructor refused to stock left-handed golf clubs. I can bowl with either right or left hand, but I suck equally either way. Same with throwing darts.

Only thing I can't do is archery or shooting right handed because I am left-eye dominant.
 
wow, i just thought left handed people had some difficuilty using right handed stuff. never knew that teachers, old people, parents actually forced, with or without pain, to use the right hand.

I think the diffrence between those of you who were being forced and retained your lefthandedness and my goal was that you were forced and i want to learn.

sidenote: I'm good enough on the mouse to play wow for a couple hours, and did some light photoshoping. I think i'll use the mouse to get my fine motor skills down, and then go back to my elemetary school for some of that paper... :rolleyes: . anyone know where i can buy that special paper, or if somebody could scan some in and post it, otherwise i'll just use 2 or 3 lines of my normal college rulled paper.
 
I used to be left handed until my teachers in China forced me to be a righty. Their reason being lefties can easily cheat off someone who is right handed. It doesn't go the other way because lefties are the minority. Damn China and their communist ways! It's such a dumb rule, why not just move the lefties to the last column of seats. Problem solved.

But I think being a lefty u run into some inconveniences such as mouse selection and ease of writing (smear).
 
Try to see if there are things which you can easily switch. E.g. using the remote control, using your ipod, punching calculators, answering the phone etc and then slowly move to higher skilled functions like writing.
 
I too am slightly ambidexterous. Left handed in everything but when it comes to heavy duty work then right handed. Golf is a mystery but suspect I would be better Left handed but for the cost of the clubs and won't be sure until I play a bit. - Expensive.

On the Mouse front (!) I got RSI a few years back and tought myself to be Mousebedexterous (c) It took two days of discipline then bingo, I now swap every month or so.

Good luck, it is great brain exercise. Now try training yourself to sleep on the other side of the bed!
 
I'm left handed but I play soccer with my right foot. I also use my right hand for the mouse... In my university days, our computer centre was all Windows 95, and each time I used a PeeCee there, I would change the mouse settings to switch the left- and right- buttons, and physically move the mouse to the left side of the keyboard. But the next time, it would be back to the right side again (and with the settings switched back too). Finally it got too much of a pain to keep switching the settings, so I started using my right hand for the mouse, and that is what I still do today (even though I now have my own computer). Using the mouse with my left hand now feels wierd... :eek:
 
I've always thought about being left handed, and after reading this thread, i decided im going to try it. Im 13, still developing, so i might have a better chance of aceiveing success then a full grown adult.

Why would I want to do this? I really don't know. maybe i just need a change. Just to see what it's like. in fact, let me switch the mouse over...
 
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