Right Handed or Left Handed

it would be interesting to know about your uncle--what makes him ambidextrous?

thats cool with you and your twin! I am fascinated. Probably helped you guys communicate even better as children. Even though my sister and I weren't twins her and I could easily communicate, and I think it has to do with being opposite like that. Together we are a great ball player, separately we both have different strengths but feed off each others strengths...it is cool.

Ha! yes I get it with the eating. Whenever we go to a restaurant my sister and my mom have to sit together otherwise it is too crowded to eat. Thanks for your post.

Hi Froggieslover, I can't imagine how difficult it might be to learn to be a different side when you are older. I know I am a coach for childrens baseball and it is much easier to teach at those ages then learn as an adult. Our brains seem to be locked in to what we do...not to say that it cannot be done. It is interesting as my husband and I are both right handed, but I grew up in a home with my mom and my sister being left handed. While my sister bats right she still is a left handed pitcher. I have caught for her all my life so it is interesting but I don't even notice the left-handedness with other pitchers, probably because I am so used to it. Whenever my coaches would say "okay guys you need to watch out because this pitcher is left handed...I didn't really get it...aren't we watching the ball anyway?" hee hee Anyways, my mom and her uncle are ambidextrous...quite fascinating actually. She can write her name at the same time with both hands, forwards and backwards. She can write with her right hand a sentence from left to right in mirror image and the other way as well. From end to start instead of start to finish... It is handy when decorating windows for Christmas or other holidays as she used to be the one to write on the windows at work so the customers would read merry christmas the right way on the outside but she would do it from the inside in mirror mode. Fascinating...thanks for your response

Its interesting you talk about this. My husbands father is left handed but they made him be right handed. I haven't really seen him since all this has come up but I think he does things--other than write-- predominently with his left. The school that my daughter goes to noticed she switched hands sometimes during writing and said to me that they think they should focus on her writing with her right hand. I told them no. I believe it doesn't really matter what hand she writes with. Until I have evidence that it may hinder her progress, I don't even want to chose a hand. I think she should. But ever since she was about 3 she has been very left hand dominant so if I had to choose a side I would choose left for her. Thanks for your post and happy mylotting.

hi Bounce58, Thanks for your response. The more i research on the subject it looks like right or left handedness is not really the same as right or left sidedness--as in sports. It also looks like ambidexterity tends to lean toward left hand dominant but not always. Thanks for your input :P