hm... i'm too blind to see through a camera lense... hence i like digital cameras. i think being left handed has made me wierd... and i think i have a permanent graphite stain on my left hand from a lifetime of writing the silly english way... i should pick up arabic. oh... and it comes in handy for baseball and sword fighting :)

New here! {waves}

I'm not even sure how I ended up on this page. I have a horrible sense of direction, and the birds ate the breadcrumbs I'd dropped to lead me back from where I had started (which, at this point, slips my mind).

You confuse me, Leon. I thought that the left hemisphere of the brain was the more analytical, logical, and language-based side, leaving us lefties to be more visual, lyrical, and artistic than our right-handed counterparts. But as mentioned above, I have a horrible sense of direction.

I love being left-handed because it makes me feel a bit "special". (I am the only left-hander in my immediate family.) I have noticed that there is significantly high percentage of left-handed people among engineers and actuaries, both of which I have been in previous lifetimes. (By "significantly", I mean higher than the 10-15% that is observed in the general population.)

I understand that I can't claim that I am ambidextrous, but I am of mixed handedness, with left hand dominant. Left-handed tasks include writing, eating, buttering bread...hmm, I can't think of any other *strictly* left-handed tasks. With either hand, I throw, use a computer mouse (left-handed at work and right-handed at home), toss a Frisbee, use a vegetable peeler, and pour my drinks. Only with my right hand do I use scissors, knives, and toothbrushes...and, um, engage in cybersex. (Oops, wrong tribe.) Oh, I can type with one hand. It helps that the most commonly used letters are on the left side of the keyboard. <grin>

I have wondered if people of mixed handedness have brains that are somehow wired differently than those of people who are exclusively left- or right-handed. I have exceptionally strong analytical skills and equally strong language skills. More than once during the early years of my career, I was informed, "You write very well for an [engineer, actuary]."

In other news, I am right-footed, right-eyed, and left-eared.

.. my right hand has lessen mobility.

IM so bad at math its not funny, but logic is a breeze. Music is wonderful for dancing, but I cant play an instrument. Languages are easy to learn, but I got a D in biology...


I use scissors with my right hand. Everything else, lefty.

Thanks you all for contributing, some great thoughts, observations. so, logic, math, language skills seem to be enhanced, or at least popular with lefties...

Yes, hooray for fountain pens, and worf processors, no one (including myself sometimes) can read my scribbles either.

i also have, and still do, confuse right and left, but not in the directional sense, but in language, like I'll say "go right" when I really mean go left. may be because my left is right. or I'm just right being left = )