I joined an ambidextrous group but it didn't feel right so I left

If the right side brain controls the left hand, does that mean then that all the left handed people are in their right minds?

that was the best ending to a ted talk I've ever seen

My left-handed dad taught me a lot of things as a child, so I picked up a lot of his characteristics. I call myself ambidextrous, but not exactly. There are some activities I do better with one side over the other & vice-versa. I've had an injury to my left shoulder & that has really crippled me. I also mouse with my left. I'm a neuroscientist & this has always fascinated me. Although science is my game, I'm pretty right-brained.

The one that got me was folding my arms - I just COULDNT do it the other way!

Being left handed I don’t think I’ve ever given a handshake or high five with my left hand

My grandmother told me she was born left handed but in school they would force her (in not so good ways) to use her right hand.

Seeing my left handed mum struggles with certain stuff Makes me so grateful that she taught me how to use my right hand

My granddaughter was born without the left side of her brain due to a brain injury in utero. She has defied a lot of odds. She's not typical but don't count her out. Language Is tough. But she communicates. Total miracle. The neurologist call it neuroplasticity. I think we've only tipped the iceberg on what we know about the brain And how adaptable it really is. My granddaughter diagnosis is Cerebral palsy. She has been going to therapy unit since she was an infant. I think it worth noting. That other children with the same diagnosis with both sides of the brain don't do well as her. It's really a head scratcher. Thanks for the info.

Wink: Interchangeable, Raised Eyebrows: Both, Cupping ear: Interchangeable, Phone to Ear: Right, Environmental Sound: Usually whichever direction it's in (or where I think instinctively), Counting my fingers: Right Resting on Hips: Usually, don't (don't feel comfortable), Scratching back: Right, Clasping my hand: Right holds left For the putting hands together and folding arms: Found it easy, without having to think, to put them together the opposite way (first time, right thumb over left and right arm over left) Pointing and closing eyes: Pointed with right, doesn't move with right eye I write with my left and I used to be ambidextrous but now only use my left for writing but decently, I can use both hands for other things such as catching, throwing, reaching (whichever hand is closest to the object I'm picking up). What does this mean? I'm confused more with life...

I'm glad I wasn't so strongly left-lateralized that I experienced any difficulties as a leftie. Maybe I just got used to being in a right-handed world but really I never noticed any persecution for being left-handed. It was just a neat trivia fact that so few people wrote with their left hand to me. The way I like to think of my hands is that my left is the smart one that does smart/tricky stuff like writing, while my right hand does strong stuff like bouncing a ball or other athletic stuff.

I used to have a friend who was left handed but used to believe that he was right handed. So , he had a problem with handwriting and he was actually surprised when other kids in the school wrote with right hand easily. He used to be very introverted because of his bad handwriting and it also effected his grades . One day when other kids jokingly asked him to write with his left hand , as they thought it would be more worse , but he took it seriously and started practicing to write with his left hand and he was actually good at it. His handwriting changed and his personality too , it is stunning how small things can effect people a lot , many people don't even believe in his story but it is true . Now he is a District Football player and he want to play for India one day.

I wrote a paper back in 1992 on left-handed discrimination. It touched on all of these points. I should have pursued that further and taken a different career path. Maybe the next time around.

During practicing skating 20 years ago I had to start practicing turning left as effectively as I was naturally doing right. After about 5 years i became aware I could eat as well with my left hand as I did right. So it made me realize I could write almost as well left handed. Anyway very interesting. Came naturally by concentrating left so much.

So informative! This lefty is giving you a left handed high five!

I'm so lucky as a left hand I was always protected by my dad and big brother against the bullies. Before I started school, my aunties would mock me to "encourage" me to use my right hand but my dad told them where to get off. In school, an older male classmate bullied me for being left handed and my brother came to my rescue.

He was lucky, I got hit every time I used my left hand till I finally gave in and started using my right hand. But as a teenager, my left hand suddenly started taking back its dominance as I randomly started eating with it and everything. If I am totally unconsciously starting to right something I do it with my left hand.

i love to be ambidextrous! shooting left hand and writing by right hand

I always switch positions when I clasp my hands. It’s like an OCD thing for me. The length I clasp my hand a certain way, I have to do the opposite way an equal amount of time

I'm cross dominant, my handedness was tested when I was young because there is a strong correlation with learning difficulties and cross dominance, both of my hands have the same reaction times and I vary my hand depending on the task. I'm not true ambidextrous, as I'll favour one hand depending. I also don't have a dominant eye as they switch from time to time. I believe I am close to 50/50 in my brain usage, give or take a few points. I probably use the right slightly more as I use it to write with but my left arm feels naturally stronger. What I've always wanted to find out is, if there is a correlation between handedness and use of inverted controls on computer games?

Epic finish!!

This is absolutely amazing, I’m right handed but 90% of what he was saying to do I was using my left hand or my left ear. Also I guess I’m left eyed dominant 🙂

I'm a stone lefty, I trained myself to shake hands with my right hand.

1. Idk, I rarely wink, I don't have preferences for winking, I don't like winking, it feels weird... 2. Left, Right, Both 3. Depends on which side the person I'm talking to (I don't cup my hand), for talking in the phone call I prefer using my left ear... (probably because it can hear better?), but now I'm thinking about it, I think nowadays I kinda prefer the right ear (probably because now my left hearing getting worse than my right?) 4. I use my left hand first (closed all the finger, then opening it one by one from the thumb to the pinky), then continue using the right hand (or using the right hand for counting the tens decimal place) 5. Both... (with the thumb pointing to the front) 6. Mostly left for the bottom part (below the shoulder), right for the upper part (above the shoulder) 7. Left hand holding right hand (standard for marching) 8. Left on top without thinking, don't have to watch myself to do it the other way, just have to conscious about it... 9. The same way as you do... The other way around is confusing... 10. I don't understand... 11. Right on top...

This is fascinating

The term goofy-footed in snowboarding, skateboarding, surfing and everything to do with sports in that area actually originates from one episode in an old Mickey Mouse cartoon, where Goofy is seen surfing with his right foot forward, left foot back. This eventually caught on as a name for a right-foot forward person on a board, so thanks Goofy, for that.

Well, I'm lefty and I learn most of the right handed tools naturally. Like I have no issue using scissors or mouse, I eat with my right hand (if it is needed to use a fork or spoon, or a pizza I use mostly left hand) Throwing, writing, picking up stuff or brushing teeth with the right hand is a weird thing, for me to do.

I completely flip flop between the left and right. I am also, I believe slightly hypermobile not related just interesting. Anyway I didn't find that weird until I started archery and I couldn't hit the target because I am both right and left dominant. And now I have started to notice.

I write with my right but use my left for pretty much everything else.

I use my right hand only for writing and eating . Throw - left handed Bowl - left handed Cricket - left handed Kick - left handed Left eye dominant Right eared Hence I'm cross dominant

Such a clever and interactive TedEx. My mom is left-handed, I'm left-handed and so is my partner.

I went to a catholic school , in kindergarten I was "corrected" from using my left hand , when beginning to learn how to write. Overall I believe it had a massive impact, or shifting , on who I was to become. I actually did not think on it much , I grew up thinking I was weaker as I was using my non dominant hand much more, when working out ,my right arm would tire more and my shoulder would give out. I thought couldn't throw a good punch for the longest time cause I'd always use my non dominant hand. I still to the day am right handed , though some what ambidextrous, it definitely has opened my eyes to letting children be pioneers of thier own bodies , as far as deciding what hand feels more natural to use. I'm not including all the whining, but I wish I had been left alone. No pun intended.

If you're left-footed (like I am), you had to adapt to right-footed setups: 1) when you're driving (the gas pedal is on the right), and 2) playing a piano (the sustain pedal is on the right). Whenever possible, I put foot pedals on the left; it feels correct to me that way.

I have trained myself to be ambidextrous and I write with my left hand mainly, but in a notebook I write with my left hand on the left side and the right hand on the right side.

I’m naturally right handed but about 18 months ago I practiced doing 1 handed texting with my LEFT hand when I was sat on the sofa incase I dropped my phone & now I always use my left hand even when I’m out walking around but still can handle it just as good with my right hand, I've also started picking up my cup of tea & drinks with my left hand, one weird thing is I've ALWAYS held my Knife & Fork the left handed way round & until my mid teens I wore my watch the left handed way round but I made a challenge for myself to see how long I could go wearing it the right handed way round but EVENTUALLY I got so used to it that I always wear it the right handed way round now but it doesn’t feel weird on the original arm I wore it on, I might actually try going back to the arm I originally wore it on, I’ve even been practicing writing with my left hand, first I practiced the full alphabet in lower case & capitals & now I’ve began practicing writing sentences in joined up writing with my left hand & it’s neater & it doesn’t take as long as it did when I first started practicing writing with my left hand

I do everything right handed except opening a pop (soda) bottle. I have always held with my right and twisted with my left rather than the other way. I'm also left eyed and I have to shoot a gun backwards. I have though trained myself to write with my left only to help when I really need it. I try to work with it so that I could use it if I really needed to. I play guitar now so that is also working my left hand and I used to play clarinet. With clarinet the fingers you move or typically use more are the ones with your left hand. So in a way I'm slightly flexible with it. But I'm very fascinated by left handedness and I like to talk to people about it

I love this so much because I'm all mixed up. I write with my right hand but eat and do sports(footy) with my left side. But then again, I throw with my right hand which makes basketball impossible for me lmao

I was always extremely right handed. I even cut with my right hand and then pass over the fork to the right to eat. However I do not understand these issues. If I want to do something with the left I can do that just fine or with a little practice. I can use scissors, a mouse, and I can support with my right and do the action with my left, and use my left if it's just closer to an object. Writing/brushing teeth is a little harder, or tying your shoe laces ''upside down.'' (I can do it but it took several tries.) If I do it right handed I open with right over the left, pass with right thumb between two fingers and go under. Set up the right loop over the left thumb.Curl left over the loop. Pass with left thumb to right thumb and index finger. Pull. I did not realize there were all these little motions until I tried to open with the left hand and curl the right over the loop! I do believe the motions with both hands are the most difficult and interesting. Do more people feel this way? Can it have something to do with lefthandedness in the family or is it just practice?

I write with my left hand, play guitar and drums with my left and also play hockey and golf with my left but play baseball with my right. I throw with my right too and I’m right footed.

I write with my right hand I golf Lefty I play hockey Lefty I play tennis Righty I shoot pool Righty I use knives and eat Righty I throw Lefty I bat Lefty I use a computer mouse Righty I use scissors Righty I kick (soccer) Lefty I shoot cross-eye dominant, with my right hand I bowl Lefty

This entire video made sense.

Thank you very nut!

"Long life is in her right hand, riches and honor in her left." - Proverbs 3:16.

I am profoundly right handed for tasks which require a very high degree of fine motor control, such as drawing or handwriting. But for other tasks, well, perhaps not so much...

I'm cross dominant and I'm happy for it 🤗

This topic, like Gaul, and just about everything else, can be divided into three parts!

This is so interesting and I'm glad I watched it!

Converting to left handed was the most biblical decision of my life. I was a beast when I played ball back in the day.

I do all auditory things with my right ear, write right handed, count starting on my left hand, wave with my left, reach/grab with my left, swipe tablets/phones with my left (incidentally, e-signature with my left), left hand/arm holds/crosses right, play sports right, eat left. lol The brain is fascinating.

I guess I can use both of them!

One day they will realize that left handedness, right hemisphere dominance evolved for speciation events.

My teacher tried that and my mother told her that God created me perfect the I was: left handed.

I'm cross dominant, meaning I write with my left-hand, and favor mostly everything else with my right hand. I can't perform tasks equally with both hands or switch between the two, so it isn't ambidexterity. I always have a hard time answering people who ask about my handedness, it always just leads to some convoluted explanation that ends up at "I don't really know? Both? But not really?" Because handedness is typically determined by which hand you write with, I'd be considered left-handed, but writing is basically the only thing I use my left-hand for, so it gets very confusing. I've just resorted to telling people I'm cross dominant and going through with that whole spiel.

Man I love this, wish my mom was here to show this to. She was left handed, so is my brother and his son, and so is my sister. I'm southpaw in stance for fighting and goofy footed but right handed. I tried to be a lefty cuz I wanted to be like my mom and broke all four of my fingers on my right hand one summer so had a cast lol

This was fun

Same for Ringo Starr on drums

i did everything inconsistently, stitching between right and left.

not sure what it all means but very interesting.

I'm ambidextrous, until I was 6 I actually had trouble crossing the midline. Now I'm basically right handed when it comes to writing, it feels natural to write with both but my handwriting when writing with left is at the level of a 1st grader. Pretty much everything else (apart from typing on a smartphone) I use both hands equally well, though right probably bit more often. I still default to using my left hand if something is on my left side rather than crossing the midline.

Favouring one hand over the other for certain tasks is called cross domince and occurs if my sources are correct in less than 1% of the population

friggin got me with the clap

The eye part was interesting, my left eye used to be my dominant one but I had to cover it with an eyepatch for a year to treat my strabismus, and since then my right eye has been my dominant one.

I was born left-handed but my grandmother trained me to use my right hand instead because she thought being left-handed meant bad luck

I write with my right, throw with my right, shoot the basketball with my left, dribble with my right, for a lot of little things like drinking and carrying bags, etc i use my left as well as my right (this one's kinda intentional), i kick with my right leg, and jump from my left leg. I think my wiring is a little messed up 😂

I liked this but I feel like something was missing from this presentation.

Hi I'm a 47 yr old male that was diagnosed with ADHD right away. My girlfriend asked me to see a doctor about. Ever since I've been on Addrell, Zoloft, nurrotten 😁 sorry about the spelling I'm in a rush this morning. Anyway I feel like I'm alone sometimes and feel I'm the only one that has this. I'm doing better in the fact that I'm better to myself feel better about myself and I'm getting things done at slower more focused . The thought of doing anything especially if I knew I have a chance to fail, my anxiety kicks in and nothing gets done.

What I am supposed to be if I combine my two hands? but only one for each thing. For example, I use my right hand for sports(hitting, kicking, etc.), using the mouse, scissors.

I’m mostly right handed . Chores , sports , lots of things . I can sew, use a cup, spoon and paint large areas in a piece of art with both .?I write left handed my fraternal twin bro is exactly the same . My mum was totally left handed . My dad right . One bro is like me and my twin bro . I’m a special needs helper in a main stream school . Most of my peers are left handed too. Nearly all.

I’m abidextrious, but I’m far more comfortable with my left hand.

I never had much trouble with right-handed desks in school, but those _scissors_ ... egad. Especially in lower grades, the classroom scissors were so badly worn and loose it was difficult to make them cut properly at all, right or left handed didn't even matter.

Every good educated early education teacher (in Poland) know it all and more :)

I was always right handed, i learned writing etc with my right hand BUT 2 months ago or so, i picked up a pen with my left han and started writing with it as a joke, turns out, I feel kind of more comfy that way. I trained my handwriting since it was bad and now i can write with my left hand a generally started using it in everyday life

I use both my hands. But I'm still right main because how I learned. Had use my left lot more dew to hurting my right. Now I can use both hand on everything but writing.

Basketball spinning, baseball and hockey are great for making someone ambidextrous

forget 1963 i experienced this bias at preschool in 2003

The dominant eye one is weird because my left eye is dominant but has worse eyesight! “Worse” meaning more nearsighted.. so I guess that can be better depending on how u look at it

That guys neck is jacked.

Yes

I write with my right hand but I use my left foot. What am I supposed to understand?

At tennis practice, my teacher would tell all the students to do a fore-hand. Of course, since everyone in class was right-handed except me, it was their fore-hand and my back-hand. When I do a fore-hand, it's their back-hand. And at school, there were only right-handed desks, and they only provided right-handed scissors. As a kid, I always wondered why the seats were only for right-handed people, why the scissors they provided in school were all right-handed, and why the teacher couldn't just remember to feed me the ball from the left side and feed the ball from the right side so all the kids in tennis (including me) would do a fore-hand, and why they can't have little tables for both left and right-handed kids (although there comes the issue of left-handed people bumping arms with the right-handed people), and for their to be right and left-handed scissors for all the kids to use so nobody, no matter their handedness, would be uncomfortable. But then one day, in 7th grade, when I was doing my math homework in my textbook, the question went something like: "According to a recent study, 1 in every 85 people are left-handed. If that's true, how many percent of the population's left-handed?" or something. I was _VERY_ shocked to see that problem and so, the next day, I looked it up on google to see if it was true. It said "approximately 10% of the human population is left-handed, and 90% is right-handed." And so, the question I asked myself, why all the left-handed people had to go through unnecessary discomfort, (the right-handed scissors are straight up PAINFUL to use, though) all of it was finally answered. It was because we are rare. (why we live shorter lives, according to a study, is actually because of all the discomfort we go through, but dunno if that's true) So if you're left-handed, be proud. (We also have a whole day to ourselves, it's on August 13th, btw 👍🏼)

I do everything right handed except for sports, which I do completely left handed. Unless it’s a racquet sport, which I do right handed. There is absolutely no overlap between the activities. I throw like a grandma right handed and write like a two year old left handed.

I write with my left hand, use scissors with my right hand, put my hands together and the left thumb is on top, hold a microphone with my left, kick a ball with my left, i throw a ball with my left hand, I use a mouse with my right hand, play the ukulele and guitar with my right hand and cross my left leg over my right leg when I’m sitting, so my dominant side is my left and I prefer my left side. XD This was an interesting video😊👍

This just shows me I’m ambidextrous as I’ve know this for awhile now. I write with my right hand but do most things with my left. If someone tells me to turn right while driving my brain automatically has me turn Left

I'm proud to be ambidextrous because my left hand/right brain hemisphere become stronger as my right hand does!

I have always been able to write upside down and backward and mirror the same on the right. I’ve always had no trouble reading upside down . Is this common with left handed people?

PREACH

I'm naturally left handed but my parents switched it to the right because being left handed is bad. And based on psychology switching is a bad thing, but for me it isn't. It made me the way I am now and I love it. Love who you are now. Everything happens for a reason. May God bless you all.🙏

I'm right sided but I find out when I tried my left it just got activated in less than a week both my leg and hand what does that show was I left side before

Had trouble w/ Algebra. Found that I had to do it in a different way. Almost like translating a foreign language. Though I was always good w/ Geometry, and Trig. Lefthanders alway love graph paper.

i wrote with my left hand up until i was about 7, and then switched to my right hand. I can write with both hands now, because i retrained my left hand. I do everything else, (eat, brush my teeth, hold my phone, do sport stuff, etc) w/ my left hand, so i think i would considert myself left handed

I just found out recently that i used to been ambidextrous fluently. But then i started using my right hand forgot about my left. Now im doing my left again and now im cool again lol

When cutting your right hand nails, you have to hold the nail clipper with your left hand. You have no other choice unless somebody else do it for you

I write with my right hand and I cut somthing with knife I use left hans. What am I?

Right handed here‼️🤚🏽💪🏾

i ride goofy and people who ride "normal" are so odd, i can't ride switch for anything

I'm confused. I write with my right hand, but can use my left if I want to. I eat right-handed, which is simply good manners where I come from. I play snooker left handed, as I do archery and throw a frisbee. I can switch from right to left whilst batting in softball. I pitch off my right foot, which is -- apparently -- unusual for a right-handed pitcher (it gives one heck of a spin!). I play golf right-handed, but putt left. I open doors and jars left. And my right hand does not know my PIN number. Oh, and my watch is on my right wrist. Someone explain that mess!

"Left out" doesn't refer to the left (vs right) side. This is left as in the past tense of to leave. Leave out. Left out. "Out in left field" refers to the fact that that's where you put the least skilled player in baseball because, since most batters bat right, very few pop fly balls are going to left field. If most batters batted left, right field would be the dumping ground.

what should i do if i use right hand for writing for my whole life but it seems my left hand is dominent?

I related to this too much😭

I’m primarily left-handed, or mixed handed I guess? And recently I’ve discovered I can do some of the activities I’ve been using my dominant hand for with my right as well.. for those activities I still default to my left subconsciously, but slowly, I’ve subconsciously been defaulting to my right... is there a name fir that? Or is it called mixed-handed? Does being half-ambidextrous mixed-handed exist???