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balaam
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Originally posted by Moo:
I used to have a lot of trouble with right and left until I hit on a tactic. I imagine closing my hand on a doorknob. I always reach for doorknobs with my right hand, so that solves the problem.
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If I'm told to turn left I look at my hands, the left one has the wedding ring.
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Chocoholic
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Who uses which shoulder for bags? I use my left but think most people use the right.
I'm right handed but do do quite a few things either with both or my left, like cooking (I only realised this when we got saucepans that had a little thing to pour on the side) and ironing, again I only realised this when I found I had the ironing board the other way round to most people.
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Pigwidgeon
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Originally posted by balaam:
If I'm told to turn left I look at my hands, the left one has the wedding ring.
I used to do that -- but can't since getting divorced.
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Originally posted by Chocoholic:
Who uses which shoulder for bags? I use my left but think most people use the right.
Most right-handed people I know (self included) use the left, freeing the right hand for other stuff.
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Leorning Cniht
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Originally posted by Pigwidgeon:
Most right-handed people I know (self included) use the left, freeing the right hand for other stuff.
I'm right-handed, and generally carry a small backpack or similar slung over my right shoulder. I naturally pick up the bag with my right hand, and the shoulder is where it goes. Once the bag is on the shoulder, my right hand is no longer engaged, and is free to go about its business.
If I were to wear women's handbags, I imagine I would use my left shoulder for the reason you give.
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saysay
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Originally posted by Lamb Chopped:
Left handed, but pretty ambidextrous due to a broken wrist in childhood and natural perversity. So I can write legibly with either hand (though right handed is jerky looking). More fun, I can write the same thing simultaneously with both hands, either with both going the same (normal) direction, or with one writing the normal direction and the other writing backward (right to left) at the same time. I can do this simultaneously in cursive, which makes for a fun party trick! Requires no thought at all (shut up, you, I know what you're thinking)
I'm you and claim my £5.
Well, nearly. I'm not sure about the success of simultaneous cursive. I broke my left wrist at 16 and did a set of exams right-handed. Left-handed for writing, but otherwise largely right-handed.
And apparently you are both mirror images of me. Not sure I can do the simultaneous writing in cursive. And I tend to favor the right for writing, though not for eating, which causes some cultural conflict.
But people learned early on that if they were a passenger giving me directions they should either hit the dashboard or the passenger's side window, since telling me to turn right or left frequently resulted in my turning in the direction they didn't want me to turn.
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Mere Nick
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Originally posted by Sioni Sais:
'Cross dominant' is notable in bat & ball sports, especially those in which when both hands grip the bat (eg cricket and baseball). There are plenty of cricketers who throw and bowl with the right arm but bat left-handed (ie with their left shoulder towards the bowler), because batting is done side-on and their left eye is dominant.
You are are right-handed batter in baseball if your left shoulder is toward the pitcher. Why is it different in cricket?
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moonlitdoor
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Right handed batting means the same in cricket as in baseball. I think that is a typing error by Sioni Sais.
Does anyone know why some people have trouble telling right from left ? It's hard for me to imagine, as to me it is as instinctive as knowing up from down.
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saysay
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Originally posted by moonlitdoor:
Does anyone know why some people have trouble telling right from left ? It's hard for me to imagine, as to me it is as instinctive as knowing up from down.
Well, not being strongly dominant in terms of which hand you use seems to be my problem. It's very easy for me to do simultaneous mirror writing (writing with one hand in one direction while writing in the opposite direction with the other hand). Which means that some of the tricks they give you for telling your right from your left (like looking down to see which hand forms an L) don't work for me.
I have always tended to favor my right leg to kick with, so if I imagine I'm playing a game of kickball and see which leg I automatically kick with I can sometimes get it right.
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Sioni Sais
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Originally posted by moonlitdoor:
Right handed batting means the same in cricket as in baseball. I think that is a typing error by Sioni Sais.
Well spotted, my error. Thanks for reading!
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Left right confusion is very common in dyslexia - and holding hands up to look at the L made doesn't help them at all. (Letter reversal or rotation, such as b/d, 6/9, p/q, b/d/q/p, 2/5 is also common.) I suspect that not knowing which is clockwise or anticlockwise might cause the problems with reading analogue clocks. Testing students, one of the tests is checking for which hand, eye and foot dominates as they often vary.
The brain wiring that goes with dyslexia often goes with good spatial awareness and the ability to visualise in 3D from 2D, and being able to visualise the rotation of that shape, or see how it would move in time from diagrams. Which is why dyslexics can make good motor mechanics, engineers or architects. It's lovely showing them what they can do, if they've got this ability, because stuck in school with the emphasis on literacy they feel stupid and showing them things they can do but which none of the teachers mentions they can't but if you start the conversation it becomes obvious that this is unusual.
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Piglet
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Originally posted by Chocoholic:
Who uses which shoulder for bags?
Left, always, and like you I'm right-handed but do several things with my left. It seems to me that if a bag isn't symmetrical, its design looks as if it's meant to be worn on the right, which is a pain.
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Sioni Sais
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Originally posted by Piglet:
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Originally posted by Chocoholic:
Who uses which shoulder for bags?
Left, always, and like you I'm right-handed but do several things with my left. It seems to me that if a bag isn't symmetrical, its design looks as if it's meant to be worn on the right, which is a pain.
Makes sense. Isn't it easier to use your right hand to get things out of a bag over the left shoulder?
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Nenya
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Originally posted by Sioni Sais:
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Originally posted by Piglet:
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Originally posted by Chocoholic:
Who uses which shoulder for bags?
Left, always, and like you I'm right-handed but do several things with my left. It seems to me that if a bag isn't symmetrical, its design looks as if it's meant to be worn on the right, which is a pain.
Makes sense. Isn't it easier to use your right hand to get things out of a bag over the left shoulder?
I'm left handed and no longer use shoulder bags because I've knackered my right shoulder through years of carrying book bags as a student, and handbags, on it. ![[Roll Eyes]](rolleyes.gif)
Similar logic applies to which hip you hold a small child on if you pick one up - the less dominant side, to free the dominant hand for doing other things. My youngest seemed to live on my hip for about 18 months when he was little - I became pretty adept at doing things one-handed.
Nen - a tad nostalgic for the days when her kids were small enough to be picked up.
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Ariel
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Originally posted by Nenya:
I'm left handed and no longer use shoulder bags because I've knackered my right shoulder through years of carrying book bags as a student, and handbags, on it.
When I did that I switched to using the other side. By the time that side went out of action, the previous side was recovered enough to use again - but by then I'd learnt not to cram so much heavy stuff into my bag.
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moonlitdoor
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I'd love to see that mirror writing with both hands simultaneously that Saysay describes. It's a pity that can't be demonstrated over the internet.
I could never do that, but I am not strongly dominated by one side. My left hand is more dexterous but the right hand is stronger. But the sense of right and left doesn't require me to look at anything or think about doing anything. If I lie with my eyes shut, it's clear to me which is the left side of my body and which the right in the same way that I know which end of my body my head is on and which end the feet are on.
I had always supposed this was true for most people, but am now wondering.
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saysay
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Same here. Only I started doing it in print and never tested whether or not I could do it in cursive.
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Piglet
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Originally posted by Sioni Sais:
... Isn't it easier to use your right hand to get things out of a bag over the left shoulder?
Not necessarily - I tend to grab the strap with my right hand, and undo zips, catches or whatever and rummage with my left, as the bag's still basically on my left side (or at least left-of-centre).
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