animalcrackers wrote:
In between. Up until I broke my arm and dislocated my wrist (simultaneously) when I was 9 years old I may have been leaning more towards being a lefty....not sure. I remember it being very hard to adjust to being unable to use my left arm but that would have been the case no matter what my hand dominance, and I'm pretty sure I didn't have fully developed hand dominance when I was nine because of things like how I routinely switched hands when writing (one would get tired or sore in this one place where the pencil/pen rubbed against my knuckle, so I would switch and it was nothing to do so -- I could write equally with each hand). But I do remember that when the cast came off I was trying to do a lot with my left hand (single-handed tasks, I mean) and was very upset about how I still couldn't use it normally because my muscles had atrophied.
I hope you were able to get sufficient physical therapy on that arm.
animalcrackers wrote:
Now there are some things I do better with my left hand and others that I do better with my right, and things I do equally well with either hand. I'm not sure what the distribution is between left/right/equal dominance because I don't often pay attention to which hand I use for things unless I have a specific reason (which I usually don't) or it's pointed out to me. (e.g. I'm a left-handed knitter and I wear my watch on my right wrist, but I would not have known those things without someone noticing them and pointing them out to me; With the watch it was pointed out as an anomoly because I write with my right hand unless it's injured or otherwise unavailable and apparently most righties wear their watch on their left hand; With knitting it was just a happy accident based on observation of me trying to knit -- it was very helpful because I hadn't been able to learn despite trying over and over and over again for years and once I got lefty-appropriate instruction that changed very quickly).
I also wear my watch [youngsters ask me, "gee, what's a 'watch'?"
] on my left wrist also. in the army I had to shoot right-handed, but woulda shot leftie if they made rifles that were leftie].