Can left hand users practice their right hand to use in everyday life and vice versa?
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I’m left-handed, but I play all sports right-handed because no one could teach how to play left-handed. I throw right-handed as well. Computer mouse with my right hand. Racket sports I can play almost equally well with both hands. I just serve better with my left hand. I am a house painter and can use a brush with both hands.
Absolutely! Keep in mind that you’re somewhat likely to really suck at it at first, but being able to ‘access’ your other hand can be a real plus in everyday life and a real major advantage in certain circumstances. So you persevere and it gets easier as your hand and brain learn to communicate better. Then when you need it, it’s there for you.
Imagine getting some serious damage to your dominant hand and having to use the other one for basic tasks like eating, brushing your teeth, & other personal care tasks. How much of a struggle do you want it to be? You’re already busted up, do you really need that secondary burden? Learning to do basic tasks with your non dominate hand can be a real and needed skill at times.
Back in the day (not that long ago) they used to beat left handed children until they learned to use their right hand. On a side note I broke my right arm (dominant arm) and had to use my left and can use it with pretty good dexterity 16 years later. So yes, it can be improved through practice.
Yes, with some caveats.
Ambidextrous and left handed people have higher incidences of reading disorders and PTSD than right handed people.
Its believed that the extra effort placed on the right brain during key development periods interferes with standard development.
Yep. Would recommend starting by using your opposite hand to brush your teeth.
I’m left handed but I can write with my right hand. It’s much slower, requires more concentration and my hand gets sore fast.
Yes you can, I started masturbating with my left hand & now I can do with my right hand. I call it “the universal” (I’m really proud of myself)
My girlfriend is left handed and was forced to be right handed. Her writing with her right hand absolutely sucks. I convinced her to embrace her left handedness and she is an artist. She is basically ambidextrous but not her writing.
I myself am left-handed. Once I met a Chinese girl who was also writing with her left on a paper, while sitting at her computer. I asked if she were left-handed too, I didn’t know you could write kanji with the left hand.
She said she wasn’t. She was right-handed. She had trained herself to write with her left hand, so that she could take notes and use her mouse/keyboard with her right (dominant) hand.
Somehow I always thought that it would have been easier to just learn to use the mouse with the left hand, would have taken less practice I’m sure. But I didn’t ask. Today I think se might have been trolling me and she was actually simply left-handed as myself and used the mouse with her right hand, same as I do.
Absolutely. I think it’s a bit of an internet-ism when you see the “struggles of left handed people” posts. We aren’t disabled but some things are totally designed upside down for us. With enough use and practice it’s not hard to use the right hand like anything in life. My mom forced the computer mouse into my right hand at a young age. I’m pretty ambidextrous with tools because of my dad and for different sports I use left or right just because it was comfortable and I worked on it.
Dad was born left-handed, but was trained to be right handed. He still does some things like bat left handed.
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