Any left handed people with AS?

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LOL

Great one

Still trying to figure out if my son is AS or HFA. Different professionals have differing opinions. My son is definitely left handed.

I am predominately right handed, [edited for content by sinsboldy] Never mind, hehehe.

This topic needs a poll, yet, I can see that if I made a poll before reading this thread, I would have not been able to categorize the questions properly.

I am going to create another thread with a poll, under the justification that the responses to this thread allows me to make a proper poll. Oh well. Here it goes!

another lefty. Type better with the right, but play guitar backwards and upside down...

I write and use a fork with my left, but everything else I do with my right, such as throwing, catching, using knives/scissors etc. I put this down to the fact that most things a designed for right handed people, so I learnt to use them.

It really used to annoy me in school how I'd always get given left handed scissors. I can't use those things at all. No matter how many times I asked for, or got myself a right handed pair, I'd still always be given left handed ones.

Left hander I be.

*Daniel rolls his eyes at his body's need to be different*

Well, I adapted to scissors easily. Since a lot of the time left handed scissors weren't available in the classrooms, I used right handed ones. All it takes is apply pressure as a right handed person did, but with your left hand. They work of course by pushing the blades together when you cut, and the design of them is so that they're pushed together when using your right hand. It isn't as comfortable as it could be doing it that way, but at least I could cut things.

What I dislike the most is writing. My hand gets pencil lead or ink on it all the time when writing.

I am left-handed.

I'm diagnosed with AS and I'm left handed but according to my mum, when I eat with a knife and fork I use them like I'm right handed, but that dosent seem logical at all to me coz I use my left hand for my fork... Anyway, the knife and fork thing is connected to dyspraxia which I know I have.

See ya...

Either ambidextrous or left-handed or right-handed and messed up.

Let's stick to unusual-handed!

I am left-handed.

I am the only one in my family that is left-handed....i am the intelligent one

Hm..Very left handed and left footed too. Strange thing is when I started to play the guitar, I did so the right way, and still do. I also shoot the normal way with rifles, but left handed when I use a pistol or revolver.

Yes and no on that.

Things I do with my left hand:
Write
Draw
forge signatures (yeah)...not since high school hall passes though
Carry trays (in serving)
Smoke cigarettes (pretty good with right hand too, but much more left hand dominant)
Carry my kids (always plop the child on left hip and use left arm before doing so with right side)
Eat

Things I do with my right easier:
Write on chalkboards/dry erase
Throw a ball
Bowl a ball
Shoot (although I'm left eye dominant, so there is some crossover action)
Remote Control (i.e. tv, etc.)
Type one handed
Punch (but my left is still pretty good, just not as dominant)
Light my cigarette (probably because I smoke with my left, but I can still operate a lighter with my left, but not a matchstick)
Brush my hair

Things I do equally well with both hands:
Paint
Golf
Bat
Blow dry my hair
Drop things and knock things over

I'm sure i could come up with more stupid examples of when I use my hand, but you see, I can't say I'm ambidextrious (spelling has got to be wrong on that) because I can't use both hands on everything, and I can't say I'm one or the other. I guess I'm all the above...Left handed, right handed, and ambidextrous.

I'm dyspraxic myself and I can't even use a knife.

You sound just like my husband. Guitars and Guns.

He plays metal mainly (gotta love those technical solos), and sometimes he goes through phases where his inspirations are John Pettrucci, Steve Vai, and Joe Satriani if I spelled that right. Other times, he's into Chaimara, Lamb of God, Killswitch Engage, if I'm even getting these right, and others I can't think of. I personally like rap and hip hop, but in his music preference, I prefer Steve Vai (only because he's so weird as well as good, and you know he's probably a good dad) and Dream Theater (classical sounds). We both also agree on the Trans Siberian Orchestra. I do have a little classical piano background, but I haven't really played in years.