Who here is left-handed?

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I'm left..

Right for everything. Except flipping through books and magazines. So I end up flipping from back to front... That's less confusing with a magazine.

Depends what I'm doing. Right handed for big things like writing, left for a lot of smaller things.

I've worked in group homes taking care of intellectually disabled adults for 10 years, and before that I worked for 2 summers at a camp for physically disabled kids (pardon the word disabled... what's the politically correct word this week?). I was a camper myself at that camp for 6 summers because I have a mild case of spina bifida, so I saw a lot of different kids there over the years. What I've noticed both at camp and in the agency I work for now is that there's a much higher incidence of left handedness among those people compared to the general population - usually between 1/3 and 1/2. We did this poll on another aspie forum too and the results were similar to my observations... seems to be a normal occurance when the brain/nervous system's wiring is different from the norm. Another thing I've noticed is that when there's CP or something where only one side of the body is affected, usually it's the right side and the left side is the unaffected one.

i used to go to a support group for young gay / bisexual people and there was a very high occurance of left-handedness there too. in fact, the left-handed people out-numbered the right-handed people.

Me too. My right hand is practically useless...

I'm right-handed.

Same here. It's the right hand that needs to be on the mouse!

ON another note, it is fascinating that this thread suggests a correlation between AS and left-handedness.

I'm left handed too.

I'd give my right hand to be ambidextrous.

*snorts in an amused manner*

Whoa same here...

Me but i was forced to write with my right hand. So now im a kind of unnatural ambidextrous

The thread title encourages lefties like myself to come in thus skewing the results, vastly skewing them.

I guess I'm sort of ambidexterous. My right side is far stronger, but I have more control over the left. For example baseball: If I bat left handed, I can call my shot Babe Ruth style, but it won't make it past the pitcher's mound. Right handed I can hit it out of the park, but there's no telling which direction it will go.

In everyday practicality, writing-left hand, opening jars-right hand.

Sorry, gotta say it:
I write with my left, so I'm left with my right.

Probably left handed.

I had to use one of those triangular things teachers put on your pencil in grade school. In first or second grade a teacher asked me if I was left handed, I answered no.....I don't know why.....I had no grasp of what was being asked of me. I think I just wanted to be like everyone else.

I've always writen with my right hand. I have a VERY ridged hold and press rather hard on the writing surface. My hand also kinda curles around like a left handed person. I reverted to writing in standard print in late highschool (it's easier for me).

My left hand is my strongest hand though. Allways open jars with it, etc, etc.
While in highschool, I was bored in history class so I taught myself to write with my left hand.
My grip is much more natural and relaxed.

I still write with my right hand today though.

You really skewed the poll given the topic.

/right-handed, no-winged