Should I have been left handed??

Question

I have taken a few tests (found online) and most lead me to believe I should have been left handed. Are there any other sources I can look into?

I took a couple test in HS and they also pointed to the left. (*grin*)

Anyone else have this problem? How did you solve it?

I'm 25 and it's always bugged me that my teachers could have "trained" me all wrong.

Answer 1

as an ambidextrous teacher i've had lots of information and experience in knowing about left and right handedness.
first of all, i can use my left hand for certain things only, and my right hand is my 'main' hand now because i've been trained this way since birth (when my granny who was a bit superstitious about left handedness used to hold my left hand and force me to feed with my right, and eventually to use my right hand) because i was really left-handed. now i never knew all this but one day, in high school, i was bored, i took out a scrap piece of paper and started practising to write with my left hand, pretty much like one does in primary school when you first start to read/write (although i could do both before i went to school, my left-handed cousin had taught me).
i went through weeks doing this practise thing and one day my dad saw me doing it at home, he asked what i was doing, i said, i just feel interested in being able to write with both hands. my dad then went on to explain that as a kid i used to go ballistic when my granny forced me to become right-handed, because he lived under her roof, he felt it not his place to disagree with her approach, although he was frustrated in knowing that i am really left-handed. i'm more right handed now than left handed but i can write with both equally well, well nearly, but definitely legibly with either.
The thing i've learnt at university and ongoing training is that left handed people exercise the right hand side of their brain more and right handed people the left side of the brain. the right hand side of the brain is said to control your artistic side, and the other side, the one of reason and logic. some people are multi-functional and generally have higher iq's than say, someone who is simply used to using one hand alone. i'm a part time artist, i write and have published poems too, i do think my ambidextrous approach has had a hand in it (pun definitely intended!). if you are left handed and you have an instinct telling you so (like i have had) then exercise it and see if it nurtures whatever it is inside your brain that needs reawakening! have fun! Wisdom.

Answer 2

Try this little exercise to ascertain, wether or not you are a 'left' or 'right' brain hemisphere dominant person;
Hold your arms out in front of you, and let your hands clasp naturally together interlocking your fingers, look at the position of your thumbs, if your left thumb is on the top of your right thumb, the chances are, is that you are a right hemisphere dominant person, and you are naturally left handed. If it is the other way around then you are left hemisphere dominant, and as such a right handed person.
It should also be noted that left and right hemisphere dominance fluctuates throughout the day, so at times you may be more right than left, or vice versa.

Answer 3

Do want you want to do quit blaming others. Come tomorrow 20 people will say you're crazy, will you go to mental institute and say my parents were wrong? that they should have left you there 25 years ago? left handed or right makes no difference

Answer 4

im left handed(yaaaaayy!) and i love it.but how did ur teachers teach u wrong?u could always practice using ur left hand when writing to strengthen it.the sooner done the better!good luck!
sincerely,
a lefty.

Answer 5

You should use the hand that seems most natural to use

Answer 6

if you use your right hand then you are right handed and it is no big deal. it has no effect on learning.

Answer 7

you could be ambidextrous! i am! IT MAKES ME BETTER THAN NON-AMBIDEXTROUS PEOPLE! and those with allergies.