being ambidextrous ... is it by training, or talent, or a gift?
@bongkarpasang (1377)
Indonesia
June 12, 2008 5:17am CST
Back then when I was still in junior high school, our Biology teacher was ambidextrous. He could write with both of left and right hands and both of his hands' writing were alike. LOL.
Now I'm wondering if I would find anyone like him nowadays, but I ever heard that someone wrote a blog showing his (her?) path to ambidextrous state. And I wonder if training our opposite dominant hand would have any bad effect for our brains? Any opinion from medical point of view?
I have also heard that a Japanese pop singer, HAMASAKI Ayumi is one of ambidextrous people. She could write well (even write calligraphy well) with both of her right and left hands. I ever read this on her profile mentioned at a certain site. 
And I wonder, being ambidextrous, is it by training, or talent, or a gift? :P out of my curiosity, I'm practicing writing with my left hand nowadays, well ... I was a changed baby (should have been left handed but my parents forced me to become right handed when they noticed it earlier).
I could write well on a blackboard (with chalk), but my handwriting was worse when I wrote on papers. Nowadays, as I practice my left hand, my handwriting gets better .... 
but I wonder if this would have bad side effects? my eyes had gotten bad effect for being forced to become right handed during these years.
please share what you know. happy myLotting! 
And I wonder, being ambidextrous, is it by training, or talent, or a gift? :P out of my curiosity, I'm practicing writing with my left hand nowadays, well ... I was a changed baby (should have been left handed but my parents forced me to become right handed when they noticed it earlier).
I could write well on a blackboard (with chalk), but my handwriting was worse when I wrote on papers. Nowadays, as I practice my left hand, my handwriting gets better ....
but I wonder if this would have bad side effects? my eyes had gotten bad effect for being forced to become right handed during these years.
please share what you know. happy myLotting! 1 response
@whiteheather39 (24403)
• United States
12 Jun 08
It is usually from training. There are is no evidence that forcing a child to use the right hand could cause any bad effects on the eyesight. Here is an interesting article:
There is no evidence at all that being right-handed is "better" than being left-handed. Left-handed people have to deal with certain frustrations (at crowded dinner parties when everyone has to sit close together, for example), but modern society has learned (or should have learned) to accept differences in handedness as we accept many other differences, to our overall benefit as a society.
There is an old belief that teaching a left-handed child to work with her right hand causes emotional disturbance, and perhaps bedwetting. More recent research suggests that it is not the matter of teaching the child to change hands so much as it is the harshness with which the teaching was done, relying on a lot of shaming and physical pain. Of course, that approach to teaching anything is likely to cause emotional distress.
http://www.drspock.com/faq/0,1511,7565,00.html
@bongkarpasang (1377)
• Indonesia
12 Jun 08
wow, thanks for the link of the question and answer. this is surely interesting, the expert has also provided links about handedness:
http://www.drspock.com/topic/0,1504,643,00.html
http://www.drspock.com/article/0,1510,5815,00.html
I questioned about my eyesight because I thought it was related with the dominant eye versus non dominant, and how the effect would be if we switched writing with opposite hand.
now I'm really interested in handedness ... thank you for informing about the source to dig!
