From right-handed to left-handed

I learned a long time ago from a medical doctor that everyone has a dominant side which includes hand, foot and eye. If you are right-handed, your right eye is dominant and your right foot is also, unless you have a mixed-dominant gene. In that case, you would be dyslexic. My sister was dyslexic. When she was 14 and I was 11, we learned that our father had muscular dystrophy so we went to Johns Hopkins Hospital to be tested. They tested us for everything under the sun, or at least it seemed that way. One of the tests was this dominance test. The doctor poked a small hole in the middle of a piece of paper, handed it to us and told us to bring it up slowly to our eye, all the while keeping an object sitting on his desk in view through the hole. We automatically bring it up to our dominant eye. He then crumpled up the paper and threw it at us, telling us to catch it with one hand. The hand that automatically reaches for the paper is the dominant hand. Then, he threw the paper at our feet and told us to kick it with one foot. The foot we used was our dominant foot. I am left-side dominant. (Left hand, foot and eye dominant.) My sister had mixed-dominance (left hand, left eye and right foot dominant) which accounted for her dyslexia. I'd think that you should have not much trouble at all using your left hand as you use your right IF you are truly left-side dominant or at least have a left hand dominance. Oh, just so you know, I cannot use my right hand for anything I use my left hand for. I've tried writing with my right hand but that was a huge failure. My right hand is 100% my left hand's assistant, nothing more.

When I pass things out, I use my left hand, and when I snowboard, I snowboard from my left (goofy feet). But, I'm right handed. I tried practicing writing left hand a few years back, I still sometimes do try but it never improves. If you use your right hand, you work your left brain and the opposite goes for the other side. It's good to keep them both exercised and balanced.

That's entirely up to you. I'm just the opposite. I went from being right handed to left. It all started when I was very young. I had became deathly sick with spinal meningitis. I even fell into a coma. When I recovered I preferred using my left hand. I've been a lefty ever since. None of my teachers ever forced me to learn to write with my right hand. However, my sister tried to teach me back when we were in grade school. She even learned how to write with her left hand just to show me that it could be done. Unfortunately, I just couldn't seem to get the hang of it. Even now when I try I have a heck of a time! LOL Oh well, at least I can write well with my left hand. And that's all that really matters. Happy mylotting!

That used to be a common practice, teaching a left handed child to use their right, but I didn't know that it was still being done any more. Now that you've gotten so used to using your right hand, I don't know if you can relearn using your left. But it would be interesting to see.

If you were born left-handed, maybe you could try doing things with it. Aside from doing what you are naturally supposed to, you might be able to learn new skills associated with the right hemisphere of the brain which controls the left side of the body. Give it a try. I'm a right-handed person but sometimes, I could do stuff with my left hand too. When playing catch, I'm better at catching with my left hand than my right. I also tried practicing writing with my left hand. When I was a kid, I always wanted to be ambidextrous so that when I needed to do some writing at home, I could write with my left hand and eat snacks with my right hand, lol. But then again, it's cool being able to have skills with both hands.

hi, learning something new is better for enhancing our ability, i am a right-handed person but i can use my left hand also, but not really good unlike with my right hand. but practice could make it better right.

It would help and also it depends on how good you write, barring any injury. It also depends on what hand is stronger. For instance, I am a lefty and I am also ambidextrous in that I can also lift things with my right hand and also play the piano with both hands. There is probably one way to find if you are truly a leftie. Most right handed people find it harder to learn to play the bass section of a piano then the right hand. By the way, all the righties try to think that if us lefties had an accident that immediately our right hand can take over. Not so easy. I have a bad wrist due to an injury in my left hand and when I tried to write with my right, well it was worse then a doctor.s.

my daughter is 13 and has always been left handed. we did nothing to stop her either. i think we were right to do so.

My brother is the same way. He writes and holds his fork with his right hand, but he plays sports and does things like that with his left. You can try to learn to do things with your left if you want. It couldn't hurt anything. Did you know that people who are left-handed are such because their brains are wired a little differently? It's pretty interesting stuff. If you haven't heard of it before, looking it up might be interesting to you. Well no matter what you do, good luck. :)

My dad always suspected he was born lefty, but he was raised righty. There are just too many things he is better with on his left side. I guess it was not good to be lefty in the old days, in the Japanese culture anyway - and perhaps many other cultures. Being right handed was "the right way". I was born lefty and have always been lefty. However, there are things I do with my right hand (like using the mouse) simply because it's just always situated that way. With practice, you CAN use your left hand - if you choose to do it anyway. I figure skate, and I jump and spin like lefties . . . I try to do it in the "righty" direction, but it doesn't feel like second nature.

I think I am a bit like you. Although a lot of the things I do naturally, throw, shoot pool, etc., I am left handed, I consider myself right-handed because I was taught that way in school when I was little. I think the school I was in back then didn't have much room to be creative, or find out kid's natural tendencies.

I have the same story. I was born left-handed and there is an old belief in my family that left-handed brings misfortune so they trained me to be right-handed. Well I think they are wrong about that belief since right-handed never brings me fortune. hehehehe.

Don't know about that! The word 'sinister' comes from left-handedness. It certainly is strange that the left-handed people that I have observed, including my daughter, are actually capable of using both hands equally well. They simply choose one hand for one particular task. Now I am right-handed, and my left hand is just useless! I may be dexterous, but ambidextrous - no way!

If you are indeed born to be left handed and just trained to be right handed by your parents , then you could probably very well learn how to write and do things using your left hand. Left handed persons are said to be very artistic and talented persons. I noticed that to be true from among my left handed friends.