#handedness

[incognitopolls]

How do you remember which side is left and which is right?

Make an L shape with both hands, left is in the correct reading direction

Another hand shape or gesture

A mnemonic (e.g. "right's the one you write with, left's the one that's left")

Imagine myself in a specific place or orientation

Imagine myself doing a specific activity

Another way

I don't need a special trick, I just know which one is which

I don't have a special trick, I simply DON'T know which one is which

Voting ended onMar 2, 2025

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[mendedrum]

Stanley Pines' Writing Hand

Bottomless Pit - Left and Right

Little Dipper - Right

A Tale of Two Stans - Left and Right

CONCLUSION

Stan is both Left and Right Handed. He is Ambidextrous

[edit]

Here are my other findings

Ford Pines: Ambidextrous

Dipper Pines: Predominantly Right-Handed

Mabel Pines: Ambidextrous

Fiddleford Mcgucket: Ambidextrous

[thejakeformerlyknownasprince]

I wonder if yeerks could have natural inclinations for being right or left "handed" for lack of a better term for a slug creature? Like a yeerk lefty in a right-handed host making their host seem suddenly ambidextrous (as a possible tell for an animorph paying enough attention).

So I tried to search for info on whether invertebrates show any evidence of bilateral symmetry variations (i.e. a preference for one side or the other) and my rabbit hole mostly contained lots of stuff on how invertebrate bilateral symmetry can be used to explain human bilateral symmetry. Which, sure, I get it, scientific articles are written by humans and we have a preference for our own.

But it seems like someone has got to have checked whether at least some kind of invertebrate has a preference for one set of feelers/antennae/legs over the other. Without all the studies that train ants or roaches to veer left or veer right, but let them go one of two ways and see if they prefer one over the other.

Anyone know if this question has been investigated, and if so how to find it? I know yeerks are imaginary and not real sea slugs, but asking whether sea slugs show asymmetrical dominance seems like the right first step.

[augmentedpolls]

Are you autistic? What’s your handedness?

I’m autistic (professionally diagnosed) and right handed

I’m autistic (professionally diagnosed) and left handed

I’m autistic (professionally diagnosed) and ambidextrous

I’m autistic (self diagnosed or suspecting) and right handed

I’m autistic (self diagnosed or suspecting) and left handed

I’m autistic (self diagnosed or suspecting) and ambidextrous

I’m allistic and right handed

I’m allistic and left handed

I’m allistic and ambidextrous

Results

Voting ended onJul 5, 2025

[sonicjustbecause]

How much do you care what is the dominant hand of your or any character?

A lot. Every character is unique from design, personality and the way they move.

Not really much, honestly.

Voting ended onAug 13, 2025

[houndswillneverlie]

Handedness poll because I’m curious

Are you left or right hand dominant?

Left

Right

Ambidextrous

I’m bald/nuance

Voting ended onDec 5, 2025

[i-am-a-radioactive-paperclip]

This is to settle an ongoing debate between me and my sister.

I write with my right hand, but I do mostly everything else with my left hand. I eat, open doors, brush my teeth, comb my hair, cut things, and basically do every other thing with my left hand. It makes a heck ton of things harder to do, but that's the way I've always done it. I can also write with my left hand, but not at a good speed. It is only slightly less neat than my handwriting with my right hand.

So, would you say that I'm right handed or left handed?

Right handed

Left Handed

Ambidextrous

Voting ended onSep 14, 2025

[grumpyoldsnake]

Sate my general curiosity?

I can legibly write…

With my dominant hand only

With both my dominant and non-dominant hand (minimal practice)

With both my dominant and non-dominant hand (because I’ve practiced)

I write not only legibly but *neatly* with both hands (minimal practice)

I write not only legibly but also *neatly* with both hands (because practice)

Other / see results

Voting ended onDec 16, 2023

“Legibly” here means letters are discernible and you can reliably read the results, with only moderate context-aided guesswork; even if lines are shaky and malformed. Neatly means that it might be a different appearance than your dominant hand, but that it is comparable in legibility and line confidence.