Leftie or Rightie

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Are you left handed or right handed and what effect does it have on you?

I am ambidextrous, what do you mean by effect?

I'm a little ambidextreuos as well. I might have been a leftie as child but then forced to be a rightie, it's not quite clear.

Depends what I'm doing - rightie for bigger things like writing, leftie for a lot of smaller things. I'm not sure what you mean by effect - I don't think about it a whole lot so I guess there's no significant effect?

Righty by hands, lefty by politics.

I'm left-handed but right-wing libertarian by political orientation.

Righty-tighty,Lefty-Loosey

for a moment there i thought you were talking politics. i was ready to burn all righties.

yeah im basically right-handed. but biologically i supposedly was partly lefthanded, hence a somewhat problematic motoric

Rightie

No

with my left hand being dominent in things, it was soo bad that in school years (k-12) the guidance or administration would pick my classes on what hand the door was.

they always put me in classes with left handed outswinging doors. (knob on right on push side) i didnt think to ask until last iep meeting in may 2002 and i told of my observation. the responce, we were just making classes easier to enter and exit since you are left handed. (not kidding)

im a lefty and the only thing i can do right handed is use scissors.... cause seriously, who has lefty scissor? O.o?

Mainly right-handed. However, for some odd reason, it seems more naturual to pick up cups with my left hand. Hmmm...Odd, much?

I wonder if gates have anything to do with that. Okay, I'll go hide now.

This poll was posted to The Haven, so I need to inject a little emo to make it fit:

I am a left-handed SOB
In a right-handed dream
With the can opener I plea
And it makes me want to scream.

The right-handed majority
All smiles and superiority
They just don't care
And so nobody knows the burden I bear

ANGST! ANGST! ANGST!
MOMMY! I WANNA GO HOME!
(But you can't. Because the road ahead. That's life.)

I'm left-handed. It's annoying, especially with video games. 10% of the population is supposadely left-handed, yet whenever someone sees me with my corded mouse on my laptop, they always ask "Oh, you're left-handed?" No. Of course not. If I was left-handed, why would I be using my left hand to move my mouse...

Then there's game default controls. People are always talking about this thrilling WASD control set (where those keys move) for first-person shooters, but I really don't see what's so great about it. It gives you no room whatsoever on the left side to have access to a decent number of keys for reaching stuff, yet everyone wets their pants over it. All the first-person shooters have this on by default, and because I'm left-handed, I have to erase the entire control set and customize my own. For example, in goldsrc (Half-life 1 engine) games, I use the following:

MOUSE1 - Primary Attack
MOUSE2 - Secondary Attack
MOUSE3 - Reload
Mouse Wheel - Switch Weapons

IJKL - Move
O - Last Used Weapon
N - Use
M - Flashlight
; - Walk
' - Jump
SPACE - Duck
U - Swim Up
Y - Swim Down
P - Quick Save
[ - Quick Load
\ - Show Scores
ENTER - Chat
T - Team Chat
RSHIFT - Use Voice Communication
,.]\HBG - Any special controls for a specific mod, like the buy key in CS for example.

I'm quite happy with my control set. However, it could easily be inverted for right-handers and provide the same advantages, so being left-handed certainly isn't helpful in any way. Then there's the fact that if I ever need to know how to do something in a game, during a lan party for example, the following ensues:

"How do I change my character in this dumb game?"

- "C"

"No, I mean what's the name of the command that does it, I'll bind it to something."

- "C"

"Dude, I'm left-handed, I can't use the default controls..."

- "C!! ! C!! !" It's f*****g C!! !"

"For God's sake will you just tell me the command..."

- <Other guy sighs, and gets up from his chair like I don't speak English>

- "Look, it's C, watch" <presses C key for me, nothing happens>

- "Huh? Wha...." <presses C several times in frantic succession with no results>

"What the f**k is the name of the command?"

- <stunned> "ummm, charswap I think. Try binding that..."

That's happened so many damn times I'm sick of it. Why is it so difficult to deal with left-handers? We're not that rare. I'm so bloody tired of not being able to use the short-corded pens at the banks to sign stuff, or to deal with the fact that I had to spend 3 years to find a mouse with more than 3 buttons that wasn't all curved and slanted for righties so I couldn't use it. At public computers at the collect and libraries, all the mouse cords are bolted in so I can't move them to the left side even temporarily. Some video games, like Ragnarok, don't even have customizable keys, so I can't play them at all. It's sad that just because my other claw is the big one, that I end up with a second disability because society is too stupid to compensate for a really simple thing that affects a 10th of humanity. Oh well, I suppose it could be worse. Least I don't have to worry about getting beaten for using my left hand on the baseless assumption that it's because of demons...