PhysAssist
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As I mentioned, I'm left handed, but right eye dominant.
When someone handed me a cap pistol as a little tyke, I just put it in my right hand and aimed. It was natural as could be. They handed me a crayon, and I grabbed it with my left hand. Again, whatever feels natural. I shoot rifle and shotgun right handed, too. I bat at baseball left handed. Golf left handed. Anything with a swing is left handed. I use a fork left handed, which to me is weird, because its aiming. And of course, I use my dinner knife with my right. But I have to carve a turkey or roast with the knife in my left hand. I fillet fish left handed. I hammer left handed, and I use an an ax left handed. I can use a hatchet or machete with either hand. I use scissors right handed (I think that's aiming), and hand tree pruners right or left (but they are made for righties). I cast a fishing pole left handed and real with my right hand. I hold a telephone left handed. I use the TV remote right handed (probably because its aiming). I reach for doorknobs right handed, but use keys with either hand. I keep my pocket knife in my left pocket and my keys in my right. Wallet is on my left side. Cell phone is on my right side and I operate it right handed, but toss it in my left hand to talk. I crank my ice fishing auger with my left hand. I pull start engines with either. I shift my car with my right hand, too.I use the computer mouse with either hand and actually switch it from side-to-side about once a month to avoid wrist injury (but I don't swap the mouse buttons from right to left handed).
The thing I have the hardest time with is archery. I hold the bow in my right hand and draw the string left handed, but since I'm right eye dominant, I suck at it! Can't hit squat in a hurry. :laughing:
My dad was right-handed. Mom was left. 5 siblings from oldest to me were right, ambidextrous, left, right, left (me). So three righties, three lefties, and one ambidextrous. We had a specific seating order at the dinner table to avoid elbows, too.
My dad and I were the lefties in our house, and out numbered by my mom, older sister, and baby brother.
We loved holidays with family dinners at my dad's only sister's house- She was completely ambidextrous [and a very much valued secretary at her bank because she could copy or write 2 copies of the same document at the same, one with each hand.]
She married a right handed fellow, and the had 7 kids- 1 right handed and 6 left handed- so when we had dinners with them, the lefties finally had parity, if not always the upper hand [depending on who else was there].
