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[Neil]

On Sat, 18 Oct 1997, Gordie Anderson wrote:

> Why is it that every single time someone sees you writing they
> automatically exclaim, "Oh my God, you're left-hand!" no i'm not, you
> putz, i'm just experimenting for the day. what is it with people? Are we
> so strange? WHY CAN'T WE ALL JUST GET ALONG??????
> By the way, no one else in my family is left handed. Does anyone know
> why I've been cursed (blessed?) with "inky pinkies" (feel free to use
> that) when there's no obvious connection?
> I throw, kick and bat right handed but do everything else (eg. eat,
> write) with my left. Does this make me ambidextrous??
>
> CHRIS
>
As to your first point, I have had plenty of these "are you lefthanded?"
questions but they never seem all that rude, eg. the last time time the
subject has a lefthanded son and the time before they wrote in Hebrew
which goes the other way and people sometimes switch hands to write it
lefthanded apparently.

As to the second, no. You, like me are not ambidextrous, you would need
to be able to do everything equally well with either hand to be truly
ambidextrous. I can do some things with either hand but usually favour
one or the other.

Neil

[cknu...@sunflowr.usd.edu]

On Sat, 18 Oct 1997, Gordie Anderson wrote:

> Why is it that every single time someone sees you writing they
> automatically exclaim, "Oh my God, you're left-hand!" no i'm not, you
> putz, i'm just experimenting for the day. what is it with people? Are we
> so strange? WHY CAN'T WE ALL JUST GET ALONG??????
> By the way, no one else in my family is left handed. Does anyone know
> why I've been cursed (blessed?) with "inky pinkies" (feel free to use
> that) when there's no obvious connection?
> I throw, kick and bat right handed but do everything else (eg. eat,
> write) with my left. Does this make me ambidextrous??
>
> CHRIS
>

Genetics (sp?). There was someone in your family, probably a lot of
people who where left handed and the gen (sp?) was passed down to you.
Check your family history and see if someone was left handed. It could
have been a great grandfather or farther back. Same way as if say a kid
has blue eyes and both parents have brown. It was passed down. Your
parents had the gen that would make them left handed, but there wasn't
enough. Same for you, just that there was enough. Now your kids might be
right handed. Or they could be left. Or if you have 3. 2 right, 1 left.
Hope this helps. I am trying to remember what I was tought in Biology
class.

Sean

[David A. Hardin]

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Gordie Anderson wrote:

> Why is it that every single time someone sees you writing they
> automatically exclaim, "Oh my God, you're left-hand!" no i'm not, you
> putz, i'm just experimenting for the day. what is it with people? Are
> we
> so strange? WHY CAN'T WE ALL JUST GET ALONG??????
> By the way, no one else in my family is left handed. Does anyone know
> why I've been cursed (blessed?) with "inky pinkies" (feel free to use
> that) when there's no obvious connection?
> I throw, kick and bat right handed but do everything else (eg. eat,
> write) with my left. Does this make me ambidextrous??
>
> CHRIS

Hi Gordie & all Lefties

It's me again. In my opinion, it not only makes you ambidextrous, but
it makes you one hell of an adaptable person. I grew up the same way.
I write left-handed, and eat mostly left-handed. Most athleted skills
are performed right-handed. I figured out when I was about 14 the
reason why "I was screwed up" like that, as some would have us to
believe. Let's face it, we grew up in a right handed world! When you
started to learn to do things, other than eating and writing, who taught
you these skills? Some right-handed "righteous" person that never once
would consider that there was any other way to do things but
right-handed. I'm right, am I not. We learn the "right" way because
that is how we are shown and we learn much by immitation.

At age fourteen, I taught myself to throw a football left-handed. I
found that in a very short time I could throw it farther that way, it
took lots of time for the accuracy to come. It really confuses others
while your playing. I would begin by throwing lefty, which meant that I
would roll out to the left side of the field usually to throw. Then, I
would roll right, the defense would think it was a running play, and I
would burn a right-handed bullet to my receiver.

I later began relearning everthing the real "right way," which is to say
the left-handed way. I became truly "ambi" in most things I do.

So if you hear that left-handed people are smarter than righties,
believe it. I would dare any rightie to attempt to learn to do anything
left handed, except eat, with any amount of efficiency.

David of Khan

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[bree...@ncs.gov]

> I throw, kick and bat right handed but do everything else (eg. eat,
> write) with my left. Does this make me ambidextrous??
>>>>

Maybe you are ambisinstrous! <g>