so_subtly_strange wrote:
mostly i am right handed, but i have a bit a complex relationship to say i am 100% right handed. in my right hand i hold my writing instrument as a left handers are known to, two fingers opposite the thumb, and my hand lying on the writing surface or nearly on. I recall early in elementary school that teachers tried to correct this and teach me to write correctly.
However my hand writing is not good. it has improved little from the 3rd grade, and probably was subpar at that point. i write in all capital case to make things a little more legible. However i can draw fairly well with my right hand and i know i definitely cannot with my left.
however there are somethings i do better with my left. I noticed quite some time ago if i am to through a ball up and down in the air i can do this easier with my left. A couple years ago i also found that if i throw overhand from left it looks significantly less 'girly' / otherwise strange & ineffective. This was actually pointed out to me by some friends were trying to teach me how to throw, something my father failed to do (not his fault, my motor skills).
my mother said that up until i started to learn to write that it was unclear what was my dominant hand, and even for sometime as i was learning to right before i settle on my right, which as i mentioned the quality of which looks very much like someone who has taught themselves to write with their nondominant hand.
I also am left eye dominant, and therefore can shoot a gun more accurately with my left hand and left eye aiming
You are the first person I have met who writes the same way I do. I can actually write with my left hand too, but both are equally messy. I normally use my right hand because that's how I am used to. I am also left eye dominant which causes me to be less accurate with guns.
I've been trying to rehabilitate my left hand by using it to write and draw more.
09 Aug 2013, 5:29 pm
