Handedness and Kilts

[GlassMan]

I tend to use mainly my right hand, so I guess I'm a righty, but that's more because as a child my mother insisted on my using my right hand.

In reality I tend to be just as comfortably left handed as I am right handed. And now that I walk with a cane, I use my left hand more and more (I get more support when my cane is in my right hand).

I guess that means I'm supposed to be ambidextrous. Although if you see my handwriting you may wonder if I'm actually using my feet!

[cloves]

I write and eat with my left hand and do everything else (golf, bat, throw, etc) with my right. Weird, huh?

nope! doesn't sound weird to me either. I write left, eat left, brush my teeth left, paint left. But throw right, shoot right, play guitar and drums right.
I wouldn't say I was ambidextrous though because I can't do any of my left stuff as a rightie.

Lefties are about 10% of the popultaion? That's interesting... so i'm 10% of a population that's already supposedly 10% of the poplulation??? wow...I must be extra special then.

[efer]

I'm definitely right-handed

[macsim]

I'm a rightie but I have off-handed tendencies.

[ByDand]

Normally ? I use my right hand but I talk with both hands so I guess I am bi-lingual or ambi-lingual :rolleyes:

[Josh_E]

Rightie all the way and all the time.

[Pleater]

do they make left-handed mice?

I think most mice are naturally right pawed, but they can learn to use their left if necessary.

You can change the function of the pc's mouse buttons as you wish, at least you can in Windows. Just go Start, Settings, Control panel, Mouse. Intelipoint will give you a miriad options, but plain vanilla Windows can mirror image the clicks.

As a leftie in a house of righties I normally use the mouse in my right hand because it was always there on the right, but when I am using the pc on my left (there are two set up side by side)and moving data between the two I use a mouse in each hand.

It does take a moment or two to get hand eye coordination.

It might be easier for British/European people to be more leftie, as we eat with the fork in the left hand and a spoon usually in the right, though that is not entirely dictated by custom - usually you can only spot a leftie if they take condiments, as most people shake salt or pepper, or use a small spoon in their dominant hand.

My right handed younger son uses his knife and fork swapped over, but it is not usually noticed or commented on all that much if it is. It is no big deal.

[Rex_Tremende]

Out of the responses so far, it looks like about one third of us are leftys, so maybe there is a correlation. Of course it could just be that leftys are more aware of handedness and are more likely to talk about it.

Weelllll....

You can't draw any conclusions or correlations from the data since this is a self-selected sample population, as you allude.

Nevertheless, getting back to your original thesis, I am also left-handed, and as a member of at least two outgroups, I am certain that my worldview has enabled me to wear the kilt when others wouldn't.

As for the mouse problem, I mouse left-handed, but without swapping the buttons (I click with my middle finger, and right-mouse-click with my index finger). I also designed my own cursors (a right-facing Welsh terrier, occasionally animated) to accommodate pointing with the left hand.

Besides writing and mousing, most everything else I do with my right hand.

Regards,
Rex in Cincinnati.

[Mattg]

Left handed and proud of it!!

[MacHummel]

I had to get in on this because I'm a lefty and a kiltmaker I will admit it was a little difficult at first everything is set up for righties but I developed a method and I feel I make a really great kilt. Us lefties are just as usful as you righties don't make us rebel we'll take and then what will you all do ? probably be forced to to use left handed product and we'll change the scissors to those relly bulky silly ones in primary school so stop the hate