Do you ever use your opposite hand?

I used to do that sometimes just for fun, then later on as my hand got tired from long hours with the mouse, I did it for a few minutes at a time. I should try to use my left hand more. Heaven knows my brain needs waking up!

My daughter was born left handed but my mother insisted she use her right hand all the time and she is now right handed. I use my left occasionally if I am in a situation where I need to do something. I will have to try it more often now that I know that it will help the brain. I can use all the help I can get. Challenging the brain.

not really I am clumsy using my right hand, I would be a mess trying to use the other one

I am right-handed. However, in order to work efficiently,I use the mouse with my left hand. Others may think it odd, but I get used to it anyway. Now I prefer to use the mouse with my left hand and then I can still use my right hand to write. Namely I can do different things at the same time. I love China

Jasmine's dad is left handed so right from the start of being online I used the mouse left handed. I've not done that now for years though, of course. I don't do a whole lot with my left hand but I should learn how to, especially with my wrist, elbow and shoulder pain on the right. I do need to wake up my brain though....and the rest of me too LOL Marsha

I am left-handed, the only one in my family, and when we got out first computer, it was too much trouble to switch the mouse from right-hand to left-hand, so it stayed right-handed. Though I do most things with my left hand, I doubt I could use a mouse with it now. So this means my brain is awaken??? Mmmmm Hehehehe....

I am right handed but some thing I do better left handed I have my mouse set upleft handed every one puts it back right if they use it and doing mouse right handed to me is acward. I shoot left handed how left handed and Handle horses left handed. But this sort of come natrual as was more comfortable using left hand on certain things But writing eatting got to be right handed lololol

Actually, I can write fairly well with my left hand even though my right hand is strongly dominant. My older brother taught me the word "ambidextrous" when I was 7 or 8 years old and that is when I started teaching myself to write with either hand. I did that until my mum caught me and made me stop. Grrr. So when I was a young adult, a friend got a broken arm and I saw how hard it was for her to try to feed herself, much less write, and I decided to go back to practicing trying to become ambidextrous again. That is something to do while waiting at an airport or some kind of appointment if there is nothing to read, for example. I'm not fast at it, but my left handed penmanship is certainly legible.

Your Dad sounds like a very determined fellow. My Dad, when he was alive, had messed up so many fingers on each hand, he could use like two on one hand and three on the other, but I never noticed until I tried to teadh him sign language. I type and normally hit the space bar right handed. But since cleaning the key board, the space bar only works on the left side. Just switching that one thumb was a challenge.

If I do use my opposite hand for things I don't really notice it. I make sure to do a couple of extra reps with my left arm when I work out because obviously the left will be weaker than the right because I use the right more often. I do like to load my left up with grocery bags though and leave my right hand free to open doors and stuff. I realized when I sprained my right ankle and could not put any weight on it how weak my left leg actually is, now I do extra reps on that leg as well. While I can hop easily on my right leg it is not as easy on my left.

i'm left handed but can do certain things with my right, such as working a manual can opener which are mostly made for right handed people but i found it very simple and natural i can also write my name right handed but only by printing it. As far as eating is concerned i can use a fork or spoon but it feels very awkward and not easy at all. The shame of it is, many products are made for right handed people so unless you learn how to use your non dominate hand, it can be very frustrating.

I was thinking of making a similar discussion. I just found out that I cannot crochet with my left hand. I have an afghan (bed sized) about half done.. I'm right handed and can crochet like the wind... but left handed I can't even hold the crochet hook right and can't steady the yarn to make my stitches... I tried and tried and my right brain which controls my left hand is stupid.. it can't learn how to crochet at all! It's like I've never known how to do it.. yet I change to my dominant hand it I am like the wind.

thats interesting to hear using the non dominant hand will wake up the brain. I am right handed and can write only with the right hand but do some homsehold chores like dusting with the left hand sometimes as I find it much more comfortable. When my mother saw me do something like this she regularly threw a fit. LOL

I am also right hand person but one of my friend is left hand and she do every work other than eating form left hand. I cant do any work from left hand yes this will be challenge for me also work start in left hand.

I have tried, but there are some things I can't do - not sure about mousing - the roomie hurt herself and while she's left handed, she's always moused right - our geek loaned her a trackball to use with her left hand, and she said it was hard - and not just because her hand already hurt...

This i find weird with myself because i am left handed, so i write using my left hand,draw using pencil with my left hand but when it comes to brushes and painting, i can switch hands, i could paint using my right hand and do some strokes with my right hand. When it comes to eating, i do have my spoon on my right hand, unlike other left handed where they also need to switch.. when it comes to work like pulling stuff, or throwing a ball, i find myself using my right hand too instead of my left hand. But when it comes to badmintons, i use my left hand.. so i guess i could switch.

I was left handed but the nuns at school saw to it that I used my right hand for everything. Thanks to the nuns,I have become ambidextrous. Certain things I still do with my left hand - stitching (which I rarely do now), chopping and cutting,Playing table tennis and/or badminton and quite a few other activities.

I don't know if switching hands would help avoid Alzheimer. I am right handed, but when eating I often use left hand. I believe that we should be able to use both hands for any emergency. I am now trying to write with left hand.

Perhaps there is something in what they said.In fact ,left brain is in charge of language centre,mathematics,etc;right brain is in charge of thinking in terms of images,music ,etc.My son is kind of left hander ,so he is bad at mathematics, because using left hand can wake up right brain and vice versa.If only people were ambidextrous.However people are born using either left hand or right hand,which is often caused by some genetic factor.

GardenGerty I think among other advantages it would be good to learn to use both hands in case you break an arm or are forced in anyway to use the opposite non-dominate hand/arm. Good to know it helps with mental health too