Lefty or Righty?

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Lefty, or Righty?

Lefty	15%	[ 36 ]
Lefty	15%	[ 36 ]
Righty	25%	[ 61 ]
Righty	27%	[ 65 ]
No hands. :( [How are you typing?!]	0%	[ 1 ]
No hands. :( [How are you typing?!]	0%	[ 1 ]
...Yes. [AKA: Ambidextrous]	9%	[ 22 ]
...Yes. [AKA: Ambidextrous]	9%	[ 22 ]

Total votes : 244

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09 Jun 2012, 5:23 am

EstherJ wrote:

Ha! I'm Jewish and mixed-handed. Pretty much ambidextrous. It helps to write Hebrew with my left hand though, since it goes the opposite direction. :wink:

I write with my right hand like a lefty writes, and I can do everything else equally with both hands. When I ride my horse, I have been told the left side of my body is stronger. Weird.

not weird, but certainly gifted in general.

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09 Jun 2012, 5:31 am

i shoot equally poorly with my left or right hand. :roll:

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09 Jun 2012, 12:23 pm

I'm a righty, but I can use the mouse with my left hand quite well. My father is lefty, and he sure has pronounced Aspie traits. He was taught in school not to use his left hand for writing by methods that are no more acceptable even here in this part of the world.

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09 Jun 2012, 12:42 pm

I'm an "extreme righty."

I can't do squat with my left hand.

I can't even type with my left hand. I type only with my right (I'm the fastest "hunt-n-peck" typer you've ever seen!!).

My left side in general doesn't seem to be hooked-up properly.

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09 Jun 2012, 1:52 pm

I answered Righty because that's my "natural" hand, but when I was a kid I started to train myself to write also with the left because 1) it's boring to write with always the same hand ( :lol: ) and 2) the world would collapse if I hurt myself and I weren't able to write.

It did turn out very handy :lol:

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09 Jun 2012, 1:58 pm

It appears that more people have voted right-handed. I've always been right-handed, can't write with my life hand. The only thing I can do with either hand is use a fork or spoon, but I've actually found out that a lot of people who I know can use either hand to use a spoon or fork with too, so I don't go claiming that's to do with my AS.

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09 Jun 2012, 5:49 pm

I am considered a righty, but I think I am actually more ambidextrious. I did not realize this until I was older though, that many of the things I did growing up were with the "wrong" hand (if I was truly a righty). I can also write quite well with my left hand, although I am a lot slower than when I use my right hand because I am not used to it yet.

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09 Jun 2012, 5:58 pm

Niniel wrote:

I am a lefty, but I do some things with my right hand, like using a computer mouse.

Same here. I do a lot of things right-handed, but mainly because that's how I was taught to do them and I'm not good at reversing instructions in my mind. Still I'm definitely left-handed.

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09 Jun 2012, 10:56 pm

I'm a Aspie and I'm right handed.

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10 Jun 2012, 5:59 am

I'm righty, I can barely do anything with my left hand

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10 Jun 2012, 6:33 am

I'm a lefty but I'm somewhat balanced.

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10 Jun 2012, 5:45 pm

I'm an Aspie and I'm left handed.

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10 Jun 2012, 7:14 pm

Mostly right handed. I do some things left handed, but mostly right handed.

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10 Jun 2012, 7:27 pm

I am left-handed (NT but dyslexic) and so is DS (Aspie). Seeing as lefthanded people make up roughly 10% of the population, It seems that aspies may be disproportionately high (according to this poll)

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10 Jun 2012, 8:22 pm

Can we make this a left-handed pride thread?

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10 Jun 2012, 9:49 pm

Lefty with everything except scissors...and the computer mouse from time to time when I'm trying to write while simultaneously working on the computer.

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