Once while brushing my teeth, I wondered why I used my left hand when I write & eat with the right. Then I really started thinking about all the other things I do southpaw - from swinging a bat or racket to shaving (oddly, I throw a football w/ the left, but a baseball w/ the right).
According to Wik, "writing is not as precise an indicator of handedness as it might seem. A better determination of left-handedness results when the differentiation between an individual's major motor activities versus fine or small muscle motor activities is employed. Thus the applications of one's left-hand for eating, writing and similar fine motor activities would be differentiated from major motor activities such as throwing a ball or swinging a bat, etc."
I guess I can live w/ that explanation, though clearly, I am not an example of one who possesses manual ambidexterity, defined as 'the ability to utilize both hands equally well'. In my case, I can only use a certain hand depending on the task (e.g. I'd probably carve my face if I attempted to shave w/ my right).
However, I asked a few friends if they brushed their teeth w/ the same hand as they write with, and sure enough, after contemplating the utter randomness of such a query, all answered in the affirmative.
To go into the many theories concerning right- vs left-handed dexterity would be too much to digest right now...maybe I'm just manually-tweaked.
There is one other activity that I can only manage righty, but it's probably prudent to leave it at that. ;)
Ciao4Now.
Boyhowdy's fave songs from the 80's:
1. "You're the Best Thing" - Style Council
According to Wik, "writing is not as precise an indicator of handedness as it might seem. A better determination of left-handedness results when the differentiation between an individual's major motor activities versus fine or small muscle motor activities is employed. Thus the applications of one's left-hand for eating, writing and similar fine motor activities would be differentiated from major motor activities such as throwing a ball or swinging a bat, etc."
I guess I can live w/ that explanation, though clearly, I am not an example of one who possesses manual ambidexterity, defined as 'the ability to utilize both hands equally well'. In my case, I can only use a certain hand depending on the task (e.g. I'd probably carve my face if I attempted to shave w/ my right).
However, I asked a few friends if they brushed their teeth w/ the same hand as they write with, and sure enough, after contemplating the utter randomness of such a query, all answered in the affirmative.
To go into the many theories concerning right- vs left-handed dexterity would be too much to digest right now...maybe I'm just manually-tweaked.
There is one other activity that I can only manage righty, but it's probably prudent to leave it at that. ;)
Ciao4Now.
Boyhowdy's fave songs from the 80's:
1. "You're the Best Thing" - Style Council
2. "Poison Arrow" (extended version) - ABC
3. "New York, New York" - Nina Hagen
4. "Dear Prudence" - Siouxsie & the Banshees
5. "Oblivious" - Aztec Camera
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