who here is left-handed or right-handed or ambidextrous?

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Definitely ambidextrous! I started out definitely a rightie, but using my left hand also felt natural, so I became more ambidextrous the older I've become. How's that for interesting? (by the way, My dad was a leftie, and my mom is a rightie)

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An Asperger's man who has Autism Spectrum Disorder level 1- mild, with a sprinkling of Synesthesia.

I have no problems with that right wrist; paradoxically, I've had problems with the LEFT wrist since age 15.

I like Chocolate

Also: Raspberry with piece of chocolate.

I'm mystified at how there's so relatively few aspie lefties

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.

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'm not sinister ...........

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I shoot a pistol left handed, so I guess that makes me such.

You can exchange "shoot a pistol" with writing, painting, throwing, and whatnot for me (kicking a ball too). I shoot rifles and bows left handed. I drink left handed. I pick things up left handed. Skateboard lefty.

I'm strongly left handed.

I think the only right handed thing I do exclusively would be batting/swinging. I use the computer mouse with my right hand, but I can use it left handed too (I guess ambidextrous there).

have you ever had a serious injury to either your right or left arm/wrist/hand?

I just ask that question to see if there is anybody here with my experience with that. feels better to have company. the handedness thing is at least in part a mysterious mixture of nature and nurture. glad to see more lefties are filtering in.