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Question

I started life as a right handed person. Then I had to learn to do things left handed. We'll leave the why out for now.

Has anyone else out there changed from one to the other? If so, how did it go?

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Answer 1

I've never done it, but I suppose it's possible to do. How else would people who get a hand amputated get along? Good night!

Answer 2

I know of a friend who is absolutely obsessed with training his left hand. Says it will develop his other side of the brain too. I don't know about that though. I have tried to write with my left hand. I can write pretty well on my left and some have even said my left-hand handwriting is better than their right-hand. I still prefer using my right-hand though. You probably injured your right hand and now you have to use your left to do everything. By the time you've fully recovered your right-hand you would be ambidextrous. Congratulations then!

Answer 3

Yes. I have. I started using my left hand when I was young. My mother thinks it "opens " my mind, thereby making me smarter, having backed up by chinese historical texts. However, because I see everyone else using right hand, I tried to blend in and practice writing with right hand a lot more than left. I hold chopsticks with my right hand. Except when mother is around and forces me to use left. That's what made me ambedixtrous.
In badminton, I must use my left. That's the only way I can hit the birdie.
So right: writing, chopsticks... Left: badminton, chopsticks...
People became mystical of it.
It takes time and effort to "change" hands, but I was successful.

Answer 4

It was common practice 70 years ago to change a child's handedness. Studies and discussion with people who had this done to them show that it was no good for them. The dominate side of your brain and your handedness go together. Usually the hand you use to eat is your dominate one and it is the other side of your brain that you use.
People can be right eyed, left footed, and right handed. Some learning problems are caused by this mixed dominance.

Answer 5

I have read that right handed people live an average of 9 years longer than left handed people, that may be something to consider if you are trying to change by choice.

Answer 6

Yes, unlike you i started life as a left handed person. in my early ages i used to eat with my left hand, my parents noticed this and beated me up to a right handed person. Now when i am quite big i don't find any problem writing with the right hand. although it was bit difficult for them but they were determined to make me a right handed person. This proves that "hardwork never goes unrewarded". It's not try try till you succeed, It's try try till you die.

Answer 7

Yes. When My mother was a child she was born Left handed. Back then they thought that was evil or something so forbade her to use her left hand so she learned to use her right. Now shes ambidextrous but she Mainly uses her left.

Answer 8

My older sister broke her left arm and had to start using her right arm... It wasn't easy for her since lefty's seem to do some things backwards. In time you will get the hang of using your left arm. What's nice is that when you can use your right arm again, if you continue to use your left arm to you can say you are ambedextious. Hope this helps you some.

Answer 9

I was born left handed, but my grandmother thought it would be bad for me to be that way so she told my parents to make me use my right hand. now i can do both and my penmanship is really bad. so how did it go you ask? well im right handed so i say it went ok, but i still have bad hand writing with both hands

Answer 10

I eat with my right hand and write with my left i switch hands all the time depending on what i am doing. i have done this since i was little