One of the things that make my wife such a wonderfully unique person is that she's ambi-brained.
Her brain communicates freely between both hemispheres.
Basically, whatever she can do right handed, she can do left handed including shooting. It's kind of a cool ability for her to have and it's kinda cool to watch too.
Mostly she does stuff right handed 'cause it's just more convenient.
Anyway, the other day, we're sitting next to each other on the sofa and she's doing a Sudoku puzzle. She doesn't do "normal" puzzles. The ones she does are 16 by 16 grids and involve math or use letters instead of numbers and other things that make them very difficult.

Just for fun, I grabbed her hand so she couldn't write in her puzzle book. So she just grabs the pencil with her left hand and continues doing her puzzles left handed.
Dang, she thwarted me. I forgot 'bout her ambi-brain.

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Hoo-whee, did I ever misunderstand your subject line. I was trying to figure out why you'd want to talk about that here in public.

My dad was truly ambidextrous. He was sought out as a darts partner as after they trounced their opponents dad would say to them: "wanna get even?" "How about I play left-handed?" (Spider and fly stuff)

He also was a 6 handicapper and his bag held a mix of left-handed and right-handed clubs. There was rarely any trouble he couldn't get out of.

I am hopelessly right-handed. In '72 I had my right arm in a cast for 3 weeks. My handwriting looked like a seismograph after Caj's burrito battle.

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I'm also hopelessly right handed but I've had to learn to do some stuff lefty since my motor nerve condition started.

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That is a useful trait to have.

I'm just messed up. I do different things with each hand.

I write right handed.

I pole vaulted left handed

I bat right handed

I use a knife and fork left handed.

I started out doing some things left handed when I was a kid, but was trained to use my right. They say that this really messes a kid up to where he's a mixed up mess. If that's true it really explains things.

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I got into it BIG TIME with a former foreign coworker on this subject. Apparently in his country/society/family (never found out which) children growing up left handed was a non-starter. His new son was reaching for everything with his left hand, and my coworker (and I think his wife) were in the habit of slapping the child's hand away to "encourage" the kid to use his right. I told this guy three things:

1) NEVER do that in my presence

2) NEVER mention it again unless he fancied dealing with Nevada CPS.

3) I considered what he was doing child abuse.

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I remember my Aunt telling that, as a kid in school in the 1940's she was left handed and the teachers tried to "break her" of being left handed. Made her do everything right handed. Pretty barbaric in my opinion.
As for myself, I am right handed, can't do anything left handed but when I played football many moons ago, I was a left footed kicker, can't kick with my right leg. Not sure how weird that is.

I eat European fashion. When using a knife and fork, the knife never leaves my right (strong) hand. I don't cross stitch. Having been taught that early on I have never seen the need to change.

I figure the energy I have saved not switching implements for every bite has bought me at least a decade.

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My wife is strictly left handed. The only time she uses her right hand is when she hits me, when I usually deserve it.

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With my right hand, I can crush a Volkswagen. With my left hand, I can't pull up my zipper.

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Your wife being Italian extraction, she probably talks with her hands, as I do. My smart alec husband thinks he's funny when he sometimes holds both my hands while I'm talking, and it makes me stutter to a halt.

I like shooting gunfighter style SASS matches, being a natural lefty.

interesting topic. My younger brother lost the use of his right arm for a long while when he was in school. He found a way to write using his left hand but lost the ability to spell. His work around was to put the pencil in his right hand to remember the correct spelling then quickly write the word with his left.

I was apparently born left handed but I was taught by my parents and later my teachers to be right handed. My handwriting has always been horrible. A few years ago I took a police rifle course. We would do the exercises with a safe rifle and then go hot and fire ammo. We were doing a drill on safe where we would face away from the target then turn to face the target and engage it. The instructor asked if anyone was left handed. None of us were. When we did the drill I turned the opposite way of everyone else and pointed the muzzle of my rifle across the entire line of shooters. The instructor said to me that I was left handed. He said that I was obviously taught to be right handed. He moved me to the end of the line where my rifle would not engage everyone, problem solved.

About 21 years ago I was eating in a restaurant in a remote spot in NV with an American coworker. When we got up to pay an older couple were in front and the gentleman turned around and asked me in a thick East European accent, "You are European, yes?" I admitted same.

He nodded, "I know, you eat with both hands" and walked away nodding sagely.

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My grandson is a lefty. His dad told him they don't make left handed chain saws so learn to use it right handed. He does just fine.

My youngest daughter is mainly left-handed, but is also fairly ambidextrous. When she taught elementary school, she would impress/amuse/flummox her students by writing on the blackboard with both hands simultaneously.

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I'd give my right arm to be ambidextrous......

My wife, second son, and 3 of 6 grandkids are lefties! Along with my best friend and most people I associate with! They are all directionally impaired! You can't say turn right or left, and only one can you use North, East, South and West with. You have to use "this and that way" or they get lost.

My wife had 12 years of piano lessons, she can do many or most things right handed, but our kitchen is set up left handed! (that means I can't or shouldn't cook, right?)

The good: We go for walks and hold hands "off handed" so our dominate hands are always free! We would walk around a field at the farm, at dusk, and animals would jump out in front of us. We could both draw, and not muzzle sweep each other.

An odd good: My best friend's 1911's are set up for left hand and left eye, mine are the opposite. Picking up the wrong 1911, neither of us can hit anyway near a man sized target at 10 yards. So he can use one of mine in his right and one of his in his left and engage two slightly dispersed targets at the same time with both eyes open!

Ivan

Has anyone ever seen a left handed accordion? Are those that play one right handed or left handed? If you watch a good player, he will never look at the keys(of the right hand) yet a piano player looks at the keys most of the time! There are 120 buttons on the left hand of an accordion and the player can not see them!
How do they do that? PRACTICE! ! !

When I was in college (the first time) all the ROTC guys in
pistol club were learning to shoot with their off hand.
Most figured a trip to south east Asia was in their future right
after graduation.

I have trained myself to shoot pistol left-handed a bit.
Practice it almost every time I get to the range.

Also shoot AR-type rifles from the left shoulder now and
then. I have to shorten the sliding stock and close my right
eye but I can hit a few things with them while impersonating a
leftie.

My girlfriend thinks for me and her. Does this qualify for being ambi-brained?

I do not need Google, my wife knows everything.

The thing about lefties is they are all in their right minds...

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I'm ambi-sinister, meaning incompetent with both hands.

I'm left handed when it comes to eating, writing, shaving (when I still used a blade razor), and some other things requiring what passes for dexterity in my old age. But my right eye is my master eye. I shoot, throw, cast a lure, use a knife, etc., right handed.

Fortunately I was always able to paint walls and ceilings with either hand, and do a few other things with either.

As for interfering with Lisa's puzzle--dang, Wayne, haven't you learned by now that an ambidextrous Italian is the most dangerous kind?

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I am mostly ambidextrous, my handwriting on paper is mostly illegible with my right hand but otherwise i can use either hand equally well. Used to annoy the teachers when i would write on the chalkboard right handed then sit at my desk and write left handed.

Will an ambidextrous Italian talk twice as fast?

Yeah, because we only need half sentences. Now keep up.

Ruthie and my eldest daughter cannot speak without the use of their hands.

It's like watching semaphore.

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If I hold my Eyetie wife's hands she talks twice as loud.
She's not ambidextrous but she still catches me upside the head...

My wife talks loudly and with hand gestures, sometimes big hand gestures. It okay though, I've learned to duck.

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The thing is, the cat's get in on it also. They'll come over and nudge her arm while she writing in her puzzle book.
I tell her it's her own fault, she gives them treats when they do that to keep 'em busy for a while. It's like she's training them to do it.
She has told me, "go smoke a cigar," knowing that'll keep me busy for a while.

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