#mixed handed

[ganrikineko]

I have curiosity

Answer this according to the hand you use for everyday activities such as eating, brushing teeth, writing/drawing, etc.

If you use one hand for all these tasks, chose that hand you use.

If you use a different hand for each different task, then chose mixed handed.

If you can perform each of these tasks equally as well with either hand, then chose ambidextrous.

If you genuinely have no clue, then idk what to do for you.

**Please don't pick according to what you use for sports or whatnot, since not everyone does sports lol**

Now, pick one plz

Left handed

Right handed

Mixed handed

Ambidextrous

I have no idea

Voting ended onMay 8, 2023

I hope those directions were clear enough. I spent 10 years deleting and rewriting them.

Thank you to anyone who polled

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[cherrycokexoxox]

Okay this is driving me crazy.

What qualifies as being left-handed vs. being mixed handed?

I'm only asking because everyone has always told me that I'm left handed, but I noticed that I only do certain tasks with my left hand.

I'm pretty sure the only things I consistently do with my left hand, is write, eat and wash the dishes.

Everything else I use my right hand or even sometimes switch hands without noticing it right away.

So...do you only have to do a few things with your left hand to be left handed?

Idk, I'm curious.

[toomanyhobbiesandthisisoneofthem]

SnippetsOfMyLife-- Mixed-Handedness

I consider myself to be mixed-handed. I can’t be absolutely certain about this-- I’ve never actually asked a doctor about it or anything-- but I looked up what it means when you do some things with one hand and some things with the other, and “mixed-handed/cross-dominance” is what I came up with, so. 

I usually say I’m left-handed because I use my left for more things than my right and it’s simpler to just say “I’m left handed” than to say “I’m mixed handed and use my left hand for fine-tune movements and my right hand for larger, stronger movements that require aiming”, but cross-dominance makes the most sense when describing what I actually experience in day-to-day life.

All that to say...

TFW you pick up your pencil/fork with the wrong hand, and have to switch your stuff around so you can actually write/eat properly. :P

[konwasie]

teaching myself to write with my left hand so far: for some reason my brain defaulted to the handwriting they taught us in elementary school

literally looks like a 3rd grader's handwriting

[konwasie]

i am cross-dominant (neither right-handed, left-handed, nor ambidextrous; with some tasks my right hand is dominant, with other tasks it's my left hand) and during a neurology seminar i got told by a lecturer (a neurologist) that i might actually be left handed and, uh, peer pressured/influenced into right-handed writing? i see some premises that would support that, but i also feel like my brain might have been (and still is) undecided on which side it prefers, and very plastic and susceptible to changing sides. the truth is probably somewhere in between, or both could be true at the same time.

this is all so interesting to me

[this-is-my-main-i-follow-from]

Lefties, ambidextrous, & mixed handed ppl only:

do you consider playing a right-handed instrument a form of mixed handedness?

yes, if you are lefthanded playing right, that's inherently mixed

it is a mixed handed action but does not make the leftie mixed

it counts towards mixedhandedness if they have another right hand dominant too

no bc it's only ONE thing

no bc you're using both hands anyway

Voting ended onJun 4

[konwasie]

it's quite probable that as a small child i masked a little too much to the point of almost making myself right handed lol

[konwasie]

today we practiced doing lumbar punctures on medical dummies. i tried it with both hands and it felt better and more stable with left. i felt like i could use my entire arm to support the hand better, while with the right hand the rest of my arm feels awkward.

it's like that when using a neurological hammer as well. so while my right hand (or maybe just fingers?) is more precise, the entire arm is not well coordinated. my left arm is good with the subtleties of movements involving my wrist, elbow, and shoulder. another example that just came to my mind is flicking the thermometer - always with my left hand, as a very specific wrist movement is required.