Handedness and Kilts

**Eujeankilt** · 21st February 06, 07:15 PM

Right-handed, right eye dominant and right-footed, but not two right feet.

Dale

**UmAnOnion** · 21st February 06, 07:54 PM

Originally Posted by Hamish

Right-handed - and proud of it! Additionally, I am probably this country's most level-headed, rational, ordinary and with-it eccentric one is likely to meet. Isn't life good?!

you forgot to add FASHIONABLE to that list Hamish

**NewKilt** · 21st February 06, 08:09 PM

I'm a lefty, but trained myself to use the computer mouse with my right hand so I could use the mouse and write at the same time. Also, use my right hand for eating utencils. Before I became disabled I was able to play golf terribly with either left-handed or right-handed clubs - Fore!!

Darrell

**Manu** · 21st February 06, 08:17 PM

Originally Posted by Blu (Ontario)

I am also right handed. I think I read somewhere that right handedness is a requirement for traditional kilt makers. I wonder if the trait of handedness is found in animals. I think my cat might be right pawed. Can one be right handed and left footed?

I am riht handed and left footed. I always felt I was weird because of it growing up. All the other kids were right footed and I was the weird lefty playing football, but as I got older I changd my mind and now find it quite unique.

**bubba** · 21st February 06, 08:33 PM

Originally Posted by timber

Handedness (or pawed-ness) in animals has been demonstrated by researchers. They found that in most species it is split about 50-50 lefty to righty. In contrast, humans are are only about 10-12 percent left-handed.
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Left handedness is usually trained out of kids early on. Teachers tend to insist on learning to write right handed.

**GMan** · 21st February 06, 08:42 PM

What I am finding out by reading the responses is that we are all unique! Isn't that grand?

**GlassMan** · 21st February 06, 09:19 PM

Is it possible to be neither left or right handed? :confused: If you saw my handwriting you'd think that I wasn't comfortable using either hand. I do tend to use my right hand more for writing but it always slants to the left.

and when I'm working on stained glass or typing or drawing/painting, I use which ever hand is most convenient. So I guess I'm rather ambidextrous, except when it comes to handwriting. Then it's all chicken-scratch and hieroglyphics.

**James Martin** · 22nd February 06, 04:41 AM

Just to add my name to the statistics --- I was a left-handed kid, but got so sick of the problems of writing with the left hand that I taught myself to use the right during secondary school. It took a while, but eventually became natural and readable.
When I learnt Arabic, however, it was an assset to be able to write from right to left with the left hand -- even though, for religious reasons, very few Arabs use their LH.
Since I rarely write anything by hand any more, my left-handedness has resurfaced.

I'm amazed to read about so many people being "forced" into right-handedness at school. I wish my teachers had been so foresighted. As it was, they were all right-handed and quite incapable of giving me any assistance about how to write with my LH. At primary school, none ever suggested I use my RH or even show me the advantages. If they wanted me to write with my LH, they should have accepted my writing from R to L (backwards)

It annoys me that teachers should be so lax about teaching how to write correctly at school, whereas no-one ever suggests a pianist should play the theme with his LH and chords with RH. If a left-handed pianist can play like a RHer, why can a LH not learn to write like a RHer?

To get this slightly back on topic

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I recently acquired a kilt belt whose buckle has a picture that obliges me to thread it from R to L -- whereas I had always put my other belts on the other way.
(I mean I have to hold the pointed end in my RH to thread it into the buckle, held in the LH)
What do you all do?

Martin S

**Valencian Kilted** · 22nd February 06, 05:02 AM

Originally Posted by Iñaki

I am riht handed and left footed. I always felt I was weird because of it growing up. All the other kids were right footed and I was the weird lefty playing football, but as I got older I changd my mind and now find it quite unique.

Hey Iñaki, u must be proud of it, those who are used to football (soccer for the yanks) know that left-footed players are really well considered as they play much better on the left-side of the field, and can drive crazy the right footed defenders, in ur case, I would add that being right handed you can be a good player on both sides!

In my case, I am right handed, and extremely silly playing football. I am too big to move fastly, so I'm condemned to be one of those beastie defenders that use to leave pass to the opposite player or the ball, but never both at the same time!

¡Salud!

T O N O

P.D.: Por cierto, iñaki,... ¿de que equipo eres?, jejeje

**McRod** · 22nd February 06, 05:22 AM

Im right handed. but eat left handed and like GlassMan write slanted to the left.When dancing i am stronger on the left than the right. But then living on the bottom of the planet i suppose its like the water going down the plug hole, downunder its in the opposite direction to your end of the world,so who's screwd up, the north or the south, or all of us, or just me........!!!!!!! :confused: :confused: :confused: