I can eat “properly” with a fork in my left and knife in my right or the other way around and that didn’t take any effort to learn I just could do it.
I’m also a pretty good marksman with either hand/stance.
I kind of prefer using my left hand for drinks or eating snacks, but that is likely due to me working/gaming on my computer while doing so.
When I’d play baseball I preferred throwing lefty, but that was a long time ago and I definitely default to my right hand for most things nowadays. Or whatever hand is free.
Like on the bus if the nearest handhold is on my right, I’ll hold it with my right, and then like switch my phone to my left pocket so I can reach it with my left hand easily if I want to scroll memes or text etc. while my right hand is busy.
I will say that I tried drawing with my left hand not so long ago and for the rest of the day I kept getting tripped up, like my mind couldn’t decide what hand to use to open doors or grab things so I’d get up to do something and then freeze up lol. Weird stuff
My drawing did kind of just improve from that one try though because yesterday I decided to try again and I was much more capable of drawing precisely. Still a little shaky but not too bad.
Oh and a few of my family members definitely are preferential for different hands in different tasks, and oddly enough I think tennis is one of them. I know there are more but I can’t remember which other ones they’ve mentioned. Skateboarding with non dominant leg is one but I think that’s a common thing.
Also I really just hate writing with my left hand because everything smudges, and I’m not at the level of DeVinci where I can just flat out write in reverse lol
BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today 6 days ago
A lot of people have mixed-handedness, to varying degrees. I am 100% right-handed, except that I write with my left. I can’t do anything else left-handed, and I can’t write or draw right-handed. People see me writing and call me a a Lefty, but I’m really not, I just write Lefty.