I used to think of myself as being left handed, because I write left handed and use it for all of my dexterity. However, I also do things right handed, and do a lot of power movement right handed. Its called "Cross-Dominance(or mixed laterality) , and is considered rare. I'm surprised so many here are addressing this. But take heart, people with cross-dominance are usually smarter, and more imaginative. But we have more depression on the negative side. I just thought I would chime in here on something that has been on my mind for decades. :D

Me, too! I actually do more things with my right hand than I do with my left, but I write and eat with my left.

Make it two, Michel. I do throw left and bowl left, but shoot pool right, use scissors and mouse right and used to play guitar right. I am a bit of a sketch artist and I tend to draw right, but when I am shading I unconsciously shift the pencil back and forth depending on the angle and placement of the page.

I write and use scissors and the computer mouse with my right hand, but I eat, serve food and (would) play guitar left-handed.

My husband does this too! He considers himself to be partly ambidextrous.

I am ambidextrous. Except writing and drawing. :D

here's another

Now you have met two. I work the exact same way. Write, draw, throw lefty. Everything else right.

I'm the same as well

I am also like that I use to call it "Not fully ambidextrous" (my own word). I write/ paint/ ... with my left hand but do everything else with my right. I play tennis on the right,due to that I have more muscle on this side and do all my sports with it. I play guitar with my right because I didn't wanted to buy a special guitar. I use mouse on the right (but trackpad with the left ... weird). I used to think that when I was little I started to write with my left hand but I wasn't supposed to do that and maybe my handwriting would'nt be so bad if I wrote with the right.

I'm like this! And my uncle is the opposite, right handed but uses his left to play sports and music :o

I eat and write with my left, throw with my right, bat with my left, scissors and all else is done with my right.

Same here! I'm lefty for fine motor (writing, drawing, eating, and other precise detail) but righty for everything else (scissors, mouse, sports, etc).

Same here!

I'm a lefty and the same. I write, paint, eat with my left hand and do most other things with my right hand. I cut with my right hand, use a right handed mouse, etc. Lefties have to adapt in a right handed world.

Same with me... I can't use mouse with left hand. I do right.. I remember aa kid I use to use both hands for writing. Later, I stopped using right hand... Rest I m pro with fork n knife with left hand..

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Same here

some reason could be that some of the left- handed people were trained (in schools, by parents...) to do stuff with right hand and not with left hand, so it caused that they are trained to be right handed, but they prefer write with right hand

That's exactly the case with me, too.. I hold a pen or pencil w/ my. Left hand but literally Any thing else I use my right hand...

Meet another Michel, I put it down to, "things I have done naturally, i.e. picked up a pencil, thrown (or kicked) a ball, I do left handed. BUT things I have been shown how to do, i.e. sew, knit, use scissors etc, I do with my right hand. I have done them in the same way that I've been shown...right handed!

There are many like that! It is called being ambidextrous! Not that unusual to be able to use both hands!

I understood we are not 100% left or right-handed. Anyone could be 90-10%, 80-40% etc. Anyway, what about those who write Arabic or Hebrew? : they ARE a big amount of people out there

I actually do the same. I can relate to alot of these things - but ultimately I only write with my left hand. Everything else is done right handed.

I'm a lefty who plays the guitar as a right hander, and do a lot of things with my right hand. I am sure many, many lefties are like this.

Well, you've met me in cyberspace now! We ar both probably almost ambidextrous.

Naw I'm the exact same 🤣🤣🤣🤣

That's crazy, I'm the same way!

I do the same . I even played golf right handed but tennis left handed. I think we have adapted to a right hand world out of necessity. I even bought left hand scissors. Problem is , the blade is on the other side . So instead of cutting to the left of the line , you have to retrain yourself to cut to the right of the line .

Michael M. Prins---you are ambidextrous, as am I. It's a wonderful gift.

Now you know of two. Like you I draw and write with my left hand, but use scissors and move mouse with right hand. I also iron with right hand.

If you are truly left-handed and do things only with your left like guitar then I think you're a special unicorn. Seriously, I've tried.

I'm the same way. I cant use scissors or a mouse with my left, even though I'm a lefty. I guess we've been conditioned.

played golf R/H , GUITAR R/H , MOUSE - R/H

I write and draw left handed but everything else I adapted to right. I always thought most left handed people were like this

This is exactly me!!!

I use scissors in my right hand too and the same with the mouse

I'm exactly the same as you...it's because we had to adapt to a right handed world. When I was learning to use scissors as a child there were no left handed ones at home so I had no choice but to learn to use the right handed ones.

I think it is because being left handed, so many things were not accessible for us, so we compensated by learning to use our (wrong - right hand) just so we could complete the project.

My husband writes left handed, but everything else he has learned to do right handed.

I am exactly like that. I write with my left hand but do most other things with my right hand. I guess we just had to learn to live in a right hand world

Wow! It seems that there are a lot more of us than I thought!! I'm right-handed but I do a lot of things with my left hand. I can even write and it's more legible than many people using their "good" hand! :D

Hey me too.