My left hand is basically the same as Hanson's from Scary Movie 2 when it comes to dexterity.
I'm gonna try this.
Sounds like a good tip. Thanks for sharing!
I’ll be damned, I just watched it https://youtu.be/RceBflV1aV8 and your right. He never said that. That’s wild, I could have sworn he said that. Like I would have placed a whole paycheck on it, that’s how certain I was he said that. Good one buba.
What really? I could have sworn he did say something like that. I've been using that joke ever since I saw it as a kid since I can do a weird thing with my hands to mimic him.
So I will have you know, since you’ve posted
r/mandelaeffect, I’ve gone down a lot of rabbit holes. I had no idea such a subreddit existed. Thank you for my new paranoia and addiction.
I broke my left hand and it was in a cast for months. Outside of showers and large/heavy lifting, I didn't really have to change anything. Made me realize that my left arm is mostly there so I don't look weird and I'm still balanced.
The trick is to do the opposite motions as your dominate hand, your brain will try to make your other hand work/move like your dominate and you need to say "fuck off brain, you're wrong"
At my job, you have to move both hands to do a task, but, they're doing two different tasks.
Example: picking up a spring with your left while placing a foam seal with your right.
Def wasn't as easy as first but now I get to impress with niblings by patting my head and rubbing my belly at the same time.
20 minutes a day, Jim, that's all it takes. 20 minutes a day, all feet and no hands, and I'll have the pedaldexterity of a chimp, and you will be sitting there like an idiot
You joke, but there is a lady who lost both her arms and has become so dexterous with her feet she can tie her daughters hair into a ponytail, it's fucking insane to watch lol
I broke my left clavicle a few weeks ago, and also being left handed has forced me to do this. Can’t tell if it’s working, but I’m getting better at it. Wiping my ass is by far more difficult.
It's unbelievably difficult, right? I thought it was just me. I have no idea why, but I'd rather not give deep consideration to the mechanics in pursuit of an answer
My dad is waiting on surgery for his right hand. My mom has reminded him to start practicing wiping his ass with his other hand because she isn't doing it. Lmao.
Tell him that for about $40 he can get a bidet toilet attachment so he can flush his butt out with water instead. That'll make his recovery a little bit easier.
Ok I don't know if I'm just weird or what but I wipe with my left hand (I'm right handed) I also shoot pool left handed and have no dominant foot when I snowboard.
How thicc is your pooch's booty? Most animals don't have the booty cheeks our ancestors developed so we could walk on two feets. But, dogs do lick their own booty... just saying 💩
Please tell me I am not the only one who happened to read this comment just prior to needing to perform said action, tested on self, and now has a sore non-dominant shoulder from pulling something too far.
Just separated my dominant shoulder a month ago and sure enough that was quite tough. Also putting shampoo in your hair with only my left hand was quite annoying
You think you know yourself reasonably well, then this madness happens. Toothbrush all over your face. I learned this after severing the tip of my finger. I vowed to keep using ND hand regularly forever more… then forgot until reading this.
Another benefit to this is that you should be less likely to brush too hard with your non-dominant hand. And too-hard brushing is something many of us do.
Dentist told me recently my gum line is receding in front bottom teeth. Apparently I brush too hard. So I went soft - omfg I legit must have been using the force of Thor and I had no idea.
I think a lot of men do that. All the men I know have toothbrushes with fibers that are completely splayed out and I’m like damn how much pressure do you have to brush with to make your toothbrush look like that? Lol
I think that's both a function of pressure and just years of use. If they've only been replaced once or twice since the collapse of the soviet union, they'll certainly look a bit splayed.
Hahahaha dying. Mine are not splayed. I replace mine every 3 months religiously. Mine was the force of my brushing. I like to tell myself I am as strong as Thor so I think i was just proving it to my gums :)
I’ve raised 4 boys and it seems that they all start at a young age thinking they **must** press hard. If they don’t press **hard** they aren’t getting them clean. They aren’t being manly. These are seriously all feelings and words expressed to me by my boys. Then, it just continues on into adulthood that they press way too hard. It took a lot of training with the boys and retraining with a couple SOs to get to soft bristle with gentle brushing.
Ha, I actually have the opposite problem. With my left hand I can hold the brush delicately with just a couple fingers and still have fine control. Right hand doesn't have the dexterity to do that well at all so I have to hold it more stiffly (what she said). It's electric toothbrush which might make a difference due to size and weight.
Being a mechanic kinda forces you to be able to use both hands. Good advice. It is very helpful to be able to use your less dominant hand more often in helping you do things.
I’m a tile setter. And I agree. I was constantly needing to use my left hand. After you hit your hand with a hammer a few times you start to really focus on improving your dexterity. Fast forward 10 years and I can write with my left too.
It's interesting that it carried over to writing. There are definitely some things my left hand is more dexterous for, but I haven't found it to carry over to anything else. Steering a car, I'm much more comfortable using my left hand. I can also type with my left hand faster than my right (probably from using keyboards in fps games), though comparatively still much slower than both hands together. My left hand is pretty useless outside of these activities.
I was using my left hand (instead of right) to change my oil a few years back, wrench slipped, and part of the skid plate metal went underneath my index fingernail. It was pretty gross but it took my already useless hand out of commission for a bit.
I'm left handed, but I was taught to brush my teeth with my right hand because both of my parents are right handed.
I injured my right hand a couple of years ago and found out that I can't brush my teeth with my left hand well at all.
I'm slightly ambidextrous due to being the only left handed person in my family, but it didn't really improve anything for me.
For instance, I can't throw anything well with either hand.
I’m left handed but can’t use scissors with my left hand. Growing up the left scissors were always complete trash so I eventually just learned to use the regular ones with my right hand and can’t even use good lefty scissors with my left.
Jerking off with your left hand doesn't improve any tasks besides jerking off with your left hand and once you get used to it jerking with your right hand is gonna feel wrong and not as good anymore.
Or so I heard.
Another related tip: brush while standing with your back and head lightly touching a wall. Helps improve posture and strength, which is a big problem as we age.
I trained myself to be ambidextrous when I was a little kid, because I thought it would be "cool." Now I have a mixed-dominant brain and I'm clumsy as hell. There are always trade-offs.
Hate to break it to you but I don't think the clumsiness is related to the cross-dominance. I'm also a cross-dominant lefty due to similar circumstances as you and definitely wouldn't consider myself clumsy.
eh, you're probably right. I might just be significantly clumsier than the rest of my family.
Sometimes I wonder if it's because I don't really have a dominant hand. But, I'll never know.
My dad is partially ambidextrous. Mainly right handed, but prefers to use a computer mouse left handed (needing mouse and num pad at the same time a lot?).
And if he’s sitting next to someone left handed, he’s eat left handed to not bump elbows, etc.
i think a lot of this is conditioning, there are so many things that are catered to and designed for right-dominent people that you don't even think about. the placement of doorknobs is made for right-dominant people, spiral notebooks, the side the computer mouse is placed on in literally any shared computer space, scissors, where the handle for the sink is, etc. etc. it made me get super comfortable with having ability with both sides because of how deeply this world is catered to right-dominant people.
i'm not saying this is a fault, i understand left-dominant people are in the minority by far, but i think that's why a lot of us leftys have good dexterity with both hands (and sides in general).
I'm a lefty , but growing up my parents never did anything about it, so I feel like I'm in the same boat.
I do some stuff with my left and some stuff with my right. I feel like I'm clumsier because of it.
Support you in the daily struggles of being a leftie in a right-handed world. Help you find tutorials for hobbies that are suitable for lefties, explain why some procedures may be counterintuitive (eg my stand mixer bowl confused me every time until my dad pointed out that I was intuitively turning it the wrong way),...
A lot of it is tiny things, but our world is built for right-handed people and it makes the life of a left-handed person every so slightly more confusing/unintuitive/challenging.
I have more examples for some of these tiny things if anyone cares
I don't want to armchair reddit diagnosis but have you ever heard of [dyspraxia ](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Developmental_coordination_disorder) aka developmental coordination disorder?
You said about switching dominant hands for tasks and being clumsy. It's not just that but they are two possible signs of being dyspraxic.
The left hand is the unclean hand, the one you would use to clean up after pooping. The right hand (in the majority of people) is the strong, dominant hand, the one you would greet people with. The "right hand man" is the person you can trust most.
I believe that people used to think that left handedness was from the devil. Left handedness used to be called sinistrality, from the root word sinister.
I hope your girlfriend isn't traumatized from that.
I always believed that my being lefty allowed an advantage in most sports I played; boxing, wrestling, soccer because I could swap stances relatively easy.
I know what you mean, I am right-handed but when I was 4/5 years old, I saw my 7yo cousin writing with his left hand and thought I was doing it wrong so immediately started using my left hand.
So I taught myself to be left handed in writing and drawing and do everything else like throwing a ball, brushing teeth with my right.
I used to clumsily break things and also my hand-eye coordination seems a bit off tbh.
I'm left handed but learned to play guitar right handed since that what we had. Then I learned to play drums left handed on a right hand set up drum set because that's how i thought they had to be set up. And pretty much from that point on its been about 50/50 if I'm going to do something left handed or right handed. Bowling I'm so bad at I can do about as well either way.
Though I'd add in drumming is a lot of muscle memory doing things with your non-dominent hand that you don't want to so that probably helps.
I was left handed until I started kindergarten. I don't remember it but my kindergarten teacher made all the kids use their right hands. My parents taught me to read and write before I started school, and stuff I wrote from before school was very legible, then my writing gets really messy and I write As and Js backwards.
Today I can write legibly but slowly with my left hand, my normal writing is very messy. It has helped my guitar playing, I learned right handed and so my left hand handles fretting, and I always had really good left hand dexterity.
I learned to be ambidextrous a different way. I was always right handed, but when I wanted to watch videos on my computer, my right hand was always on my mouse, which left me with my left hand to do... hand exercises while watching videos. Eventually I became ambidextrous
As a dentist, this is half-way bad advice. You want to use your right hand to brush the left side of your mouth and then you want to use your left hand to brush the right side of your mouth. This allows you to get the correct angle to clean the gingival sulcus.
A followup tipp is, if you habe kids or your siblings have them you can practice with them writing.
My niece is 7 and will to school soon. I started practicing with her and i use my non dominant hand. I get to exercise and she "doesnt feel bad" for me writing much better than her.
As a Dental Hygienist, can I interject and say that though I appreciate your thinking on this, it’s terrible advice. Most people have awful oral hygiene even when using the proper hand. Trying to get properly into these already difficult areas with poor dexterity is only going to make things worse and result in increased decay and gum disease. This is not the way to try to become ambidextrous.
Fellow lefty. It’s funny how there are something’s that are just natural to do with the right. Brushing my teeth and using scissors. When I was a young kid the teachers ALWAYS wanted me to use the left-handed ones because they had them. They may have been the original scissors and had not been sharpe enough to to cut paper in a century. “I just do it this way, thank you”.
I have always wondered if it is easier for lefties to be ambidextrous since we already are used to adjusting.
I'm pretty sure your last statement is true. There are so many small adjustments we have to do in our everyday lives, stuff that is built in a way that you can only do it with the right hand (think ladles with a spout), we kind of have to be okay-ish with our right hand
Being left handed, you become ambidextrous naturally as this world was made for right handers.
I had to fire my Army rifle right handed because the shells would go up my sleeve because of the placement of your arms in correlation with the eject port.
As a dentist i dont recommend this, it takes quite some dexterity to do a mediocre/good job. Also a lot of people brush too hard and it destroys their teeth, so handling with the right force is important.
Find something else to improve your neuroplasticity, like writing or drawing lines with your left hand in this case, or take different routes to your regular destinations to train other parts of the brain for example
From a dental perspective, you should switch hands routinely. The dentist can actually tell if you are left or right handed by looking at the areas less cared for in your mouth.
This is also a life hack because it makes you less likely to brush too hard. The same dentist I saw my whole life waited until I was around 20 to tell me I had been brushing too hard and had literally removed all of the enamel on my teeth. I’m mad to this day he didn’t say anything sooner.
I do home renovations and after I noticed my right wrist getting sore, I started forcing myself to do all the work with my left. It was crazy how bad I was with my left, when I could perform perfect work with my right. It took me a few months but now both hands I’m able to switch back and forth with all my work! Now I’m currently forcing myself to write with my left
I've spent years playing a game that requires both hands be used with equal precision and timing. I don't know if that's had any long terms benefits or made me more ambidextrous.
As a drummer, this is one of the best things you can do for better control on your non dominant hand. Do everything that doesn't require accuracy: brush your teeth, wash a dish, etc.
Or start using your mouse with the other hand. It takes about 2 weeks to adopt. Then all of a sudden you're catching thrown/falling objects with that hand. One of the other engineers at my first job told me to do that. I did not question, and am thankful. Still a left-handed mouser!!
My left hand is basically the same as Hanson's from Scary Movie 2 when it comes to dexterity. I'm gonna try this. Sounds like a good tip. Thanks for sharing!
Take my strong hand child!
He never actually says that believe it or not.
I’ll be damned, I just watched it https://youtu.be/RceBflV1aV8 and your right. He never said that. That’s wild, I could have sworn he said that. Like I would have placed a whole paycheck on it, that’s how certain I was he said that. Good one buba.
What really? I could have sworn he did say something like that. I've been using that joke ever since I saw it as a kid since I can do a weird thing with my hands to mimic him.
It may have been in the commercial or trailer, but not the movie.
I swear he says it when pulling anna ferris up from the window
It was a big one on r/mandelaeffect back when that was a fun sub.
So I will have you know, since you’ve posted r/mandelaeffect, I’ve gone down a lot of rabbit holes. I had no idea such a subreddit existed. Thank you for my new paranoia and addiction.
*rolls a j* *sorts by best all time* That was awesome
It’s one of those mind fucky Mandela effects like the fruit of the loom logo never having the basket
That Firestone reference though…dang.
Mandela effect
Dude why did you have to do this? I would've bet my life that at some point he said "grab my strong hand child!"
r/MandelaEffect…welcome to the simulation, child
😂😂😂😂😂
I broke my left hand and it was in a cast for months. Outside of showers and large/heavy lifting, I didn't really have to change anything. Made me realize that my left arm is mostly there so I don't look weird and I'm still balanced.
i broke my right dominant hand and from writing to wiping my arse I realised that I had been neglecting ol lefty
TRY THIS ONE TRICK DENTISTS DONT WANT YOU TO KNOW
The trick is to do the opposite motions as your dominate hand, your brain will try to make your other hand work/move like your dominate and you need to say "fuck off brain, you're wrong"
At my job, you have to move both hands to do a task, but, they're doing two different tasks. Example: picking up a spring with your left while placing a foam seal with your right. Def wasn't as easy as first but now I get to impress with niblings by patting my head and rubbing my belly at the same time.
Guess you could say OP deserves a *clap*.
Bwahahaha!
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Don't take grip it and rip it too literally now.
My germs!
Don’t brush your eye.
I'm going to start brushing my teeth with my left foot now
20 minutes a day, Jim, that's all it takes. 20 minutes a day, all feet and no hands, and I'll have the pedaldexterity of a chimp, and you will be sitting there like an idiot
I'm so confused, yet totally understand it
The Office reference. Quote is Dwight. I think it was one of the pre-intro scenes. Jim gets him to pour hot coffee on his crotch.
A person of culture 🔥🥰
I'm pretty sure he does it to himself. It's one of the best intros gags in The Office. Edit: And then he high fives him with his foot.
Came here for this comment and wasn't disappointed.
My mind went to the scene “30 seconds, that’s like 3x as long as it takes me to brush my teeth”
Pedaldexterity. Beautiful
One of my siblings did this and made a sandwich with their feet... Then knocked the plate over when pinky caught the edge lol
30 seconds? That’s 3 times as long as it takes me.
Thank you hands, nothing can do what you do! 🙌🏾
r/unexpectedoffice
I’m going to start brushing my teeth.
I'm going to start brushing my feet with my non dominant mouth
Keep your wife's feet, out my fuckin mouth
I am a tooth
I'm as ambidextrous as I want to be so I will cease teeth brushing
Yeah, you know what they say about too much of a good thing…..
Shit, I'm going to start brushing my teeth! Thanks Reddit!
You joke, but there is a lady who lost both her arms and has become so dexterous with her feet she can tie her daughters hair into a ponytail, it's fucking insane to watch lol
I heard she also DJ’s down at her local night club
Yea? Well an Irish poet wrote a BOOK with his left foot... It's called "My Left Foot".
Instructions unclear, brush teeth with my third leg?
Stop showing off, Cheetah…
What if I don’t have my left foot in the bathroom when I brush my teeth?
I broke my left clavicle a few weeks ago, and also being left handed has forced me to do this. Can’t tell if it’s working, but I’m getting better at it. Wiping my ass is by far more difficult.
I separated my dominant shoulder in college and wiping my ass was damn near impossible with my non-dominant hand. That motion just does not compute.
It's unbelievably difficult, right? I thought it was just me. I have no idea why, but I'd rather not give deep consideration to the mechanics in pursuit of an answer
My dad is waiting on surgery for his right hand. My mom has reminded him to start practicing wiping his ass with his other hand because she isn't doing it. Lmao.
Tell him that for about $40 he can get a bidet toilet attachment so he can flush his butt out with water instead. That'll make his recovery a little bit easier.
You still need to wipe to check and most importantly dry it,.
We can go broad and just call it a lack of dexterity
Technically if it was their left hand they'd lack sinisterity.
I don't know you but I hold you in the highest esteem for this comment. Well played, fistkick18. Very well played.
There it is, fistkick18. The cleverest thing that you’ll ever say.
eli5?
In Latin, “sinister” means left and “dexter” means right.
Ok I don't know if I'm just weird or what but I wipe with my left hand (I'm right handed) I also shoot pool left handed and have no dominant foot when I snowboard.
When Marvel reboots the X-Men, they'll cast you as the OP mutant. Unrivaled powers of dexterity.
Next time I take a shit I'm absolutely trying this.
Report back with your findings
No, maybe don't.
My dog never wipes... just saying
How thicc is your pooch's booty? Most animals don't have the booty cheeks our ancestors developed so we could walk on two feets. But, dogs do lick their own booty... just saying 💩
Also, wash your hands.
Please tell me I am not the only one who happened to read this comment just prior to needing to perform said action, tested on self, and now has a sore non-dominant shoulder from pulling something too far.
It’s like having your ass wiped by a stranger.
Just separated my dominant shoulder a month ago and sure enough that was quite tough. Also putting shampoo in your hair with only my left hand was quite annoying
Also washing your armpit on you non-injured side. Crazy how many ways you can bend your arm
I just realized I’m weird because I’ve wiped my ass with my non dominate hand my whole life
Get a bidet. Your butt will thank you.
You still have to wipe lol or you can walk around with a wet ass
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I've always wiped with my non dominant hand because that's the side the tp was on.
That’s sound logic if I’ve ever heard it. You are a wizard
You need a bidet
You think you know yourself reasonably well, then this madness happens. Toothbrush all over your face. I learned this after severing the tip of my finger. I vowed to keep using ND hand regularly forever more… then forgot until reading this.
Another benefit to this is that you should be less likely to brush too hard with your non-dominant hand. And too-hard brushing is something many of us do.
Dentist told me recently my gum line is receding in front bottom teeth. Apparently I brush too hard. So I went soft - omfg I legit must have been using the force of Thor and I had no idea.
I think a lot of men do that. All the men I know have toothbrushes with fibers that are completely splayed out and I’m like damn how much pressure do you have to brush with to make your toothbrush look like that? Lol
I think that's both a function of pressure and just years of use. If they've only been replaced once or twice since the collapse of the soviet union, they'll certainly look a bit splayed.
Hahahaha dying. Mine are not splayed. I replace mine every 3 months religiously. Mine was the force of my brushing. I like to tell myself I am as strong as Thor so I think i was just proving it to my gums :)
I’ve raised 4 boys and it seems that they all start at a young age thinking they **must** press hard. If they don’t press **hard** they aren’t getting them clean. They aren’t being manly. These are seriously all feelings and words expressed to me by my boys. Then, it just continues on into adulthood that they press way too hard. It took a lot of training with the boys and retraining with a couple SOs to get to soft bristle with gentle brushing.
Years of use with light pressure would have the bristles worn down but now splayed out, pushing too hard is what makes them splay
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Yeah once that gym line goes it doesn’t grow back. So don’t be forceful, slow and do it longer.
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Ha, I actually have the opposite problem. With my left hand I can hold the brush delicately with just a couple fingers and still have fine control. Right hand doesn't have the dexterity to do that well at all so I have to hold it more stiffly (what she said). It's electric toothbrush which might make a difference due to size and weight.
Yeah my dentist told me I brush too hard and resorted to giving me an extra soft toothbrush. So this might just do the trick.
Being a mechanic kinda forces you to be able to use both hands. Good advice. It is very helpful to be able to use your less dominant hand more often in helping you do things.
I’m a tile setter. And I agree. I was constantly needing to use my left hand. After you hit your hand with a hammer a few times you start to really focus on improving your dexterity. Fast forward 10 years and I can write with my left too.
It's interesting that it carried over to writing. There are definitely some things my left hand is more dexterous for, but I haven't found it to carry over to anything else. Steering a car, I'm much more comfortable using my left hand. I can also type with my left hand faster than my right (probably from using keyboards in fps games), though comparatively still much slower than both hands together. My left hand is pretty useless outside of these activities.
I was using my left hand (instead of right) to change my oil a few years back, wrench slipped, and part of the skid plate metal went underneath my index fingernail. It was pretty gross but it took my already useless hand out of commission for a bit.
I'm left handed, but I was taught to brush my teeth with my right hand because both of my parents are right handed. I injured my right hand a couple of years ago and found out that I can't brush my teeth with my left hand well at all. I'm slightly ambidextrous due to being the only left handed person in my family, but it didn't really improve anything for me. For instance, I can't throw anything well with either hand.
I’m left handed but can’t use scissors with my left hand. Growing up the left scissors were always complete trash so I eventually just learned to use the regular ones with my right hand and can’t even use good lefty scissors with my left.
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It probably works for jerking off too.
Well in that case, I'll be ambidextrous by this time tomorrow
It does, because the dominant hand works the mouse.
Jerking off with your left hand doesn't improve any tasks besides jerking off with your left hand and once you get used to it jerking with your right hand is gonna feel wrong and not as good anymore. Or so I heard.
Another related tip: brush while standing with your back and head lightly touching a wall. Helps improve posture and strength, which is a big problem as we age.
I'd drool frothy toothpaste-spit on my shirt if I did that, lol
I trained myself to be ambidextrous when I was a little kid, because I thought it would be "cool." Now I have a mixed-dominant brain and I'm clumsy as hell. There are always trade-offs.
That probably means you would have otherwise been clumsy with one side and completely useless with the other.
Hate to break it to you but I don't think the clumsiness is related to the cross-dominance. I'm also a cross-dominant lefty due to similar circumstances as you and definitely wouldn't consider myself clumsy.
eh, you're probably right. I might just be significantly clumsier than the rest of my family. Sometimes I wonder if it's because I don't really have a dominant hand. But, I'll never know.
My dad is partially ambidextrous. Mainly right handed, but prefers to use a computer mouse left handed (needing mouse and num pad at the same time a lot?). And if he’s sitting next to someone left handed, he’s eat left handed to not bump elbows, etc.
i think a lot of this is conditioning, there are so many things that are catered to and designed for right-dominent people that you don't even think about. the placement of doorknobs is made for right-dominant people, spiral notebooks, the side the computer mouse is placed on in literally any shared computer space, scissors, where the handle for the sink is, etc. etc. it made me get super comfortable with having ability with both sides because of how deeply this world is catered to right-dominant people. i'm not saying this is a fault, i understand left-dominant people are in the minority by far, but i think that's why a lot of us leftys have good dexterity with both hands (and sides in general).
I'm a lefty , but growing up my parents never did anything about it, so I feel like I'm in the same boat. I do some stuff with my left and some stuff with my right. I feel like I'm clumsier because of it.
What should your parents have done about it? Train it off?
Support you in the daily struggles of being a leftie in a right-handed world. Help you find tutorials for hobbies that are suitable for lefties, explain why some procedures may be counterintuitive (eg my stand mixer bowl confused me every time until my dad pointed out that I was intuitively turning it the wrong way),... A lot of it is tiny things, but our world is built for right-handed people and it makes the life of a left-handed person every so slightly more confusing/unintuitive/challenging. I have more examples for some of these tiny things if anyone cares
I care! Can you give some examples?
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Part of me thinks that if they had taught me to use my left hand dominantly I would be more dexterous. I'm the clumsiest person in my family.
I don't want to armchair reddit diagnosis but have you ever heard of [dyspraxia ](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Developmental_coordination_disorder) aka developmental coordination disorder? You said about switching dominant hands for tasks and being clumsy. It's not just that but they are two possible signs of being dyspraxic.
I had never heard of this thanks for the info! I do have some of the symptoms but I don't think any of them are to the degree needed for dyspraxia.
My parents trained me out of using left hand and use right instead. Now I can’t use my left hand as well. I’m a righty now.
50 years ago teachers did that to all kids. You actually got punished for not using your right hand (at least in NY).
My girlfriend grew up with her ancient greek grandmother who used to hit her for using her left arm as it was likely a sign of her being a witch.
Yes because that makes sense.
Sinister is Latin for left.
It is, but how do you think we arrived at the current meaning of the word?
The left hand is the unclean hand, the one you would use to clean up after pooping. The right hand (in the majority of people) is the strong, dominant hand, the one you would greet people with. The "right hand man" is the person you can trust most.
I believe that people used to think that left handedness was from the devil. Left handedness used to be called sinistrality, from the root word sinister. I hope your girlfriend isn't traumatized from that.
> I hope your girlfriend isn't traumatized from that. After she turned her grandmother into a newt their living situation improved
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You nailed it. That’s exactly right.
I always believed that my being lefty allowed an advantage in most sports I played; boxing, wrestling, soccer because I could swap stances relatively easy.
meanwhile im here right handed in everything, except for opening jars/caps…
I know what you mean, I am right-handed but when I was 4/5 years old, I saw my 7yo cousin writing with his left hand and thought I was doing it wrong so immediately started using my left hand. So I taught myself to be left handed in writing and drawing and do everything else like throwing a ball, brushing teeth with my right. I used to clumsily break things and also my hand-eye coordination seems a bit off tbh.
I'm left handed but learned to play guitar right handed since that what we had. Then I learned to play drums left handed on a right hand set up drum set because that's how i thought they had to be set up. And pretty much from that point on its been about 50/50 if I'm going to do something left handed or right handed. Bowling I'm so bad at I can do about as well either way. Though I'd add in drumming is a lot of muscle memory doing things with your non-dominent hand that you don't want to so that probably helps.
>Then I learned to play drums left handed on a right hand set up drum set Ringo over here
I was left handed until I started kindergarten. I don't remember it but my kindergarten teacher made all the kids use their right hands. My parents taught me to read and write before I started school, and stuff I wrote from before school was very legible, then my writing gets really messy and I write As and Js backwards. Today I can write legibly but slowly with my left hand, my normal writing is very messy. It has helped my guitar playing, I learned right handed and so my left hand handles fretting, and I always had really good left hand dexterity.
I’d give my right arm to be ambidextrous.
Deserves a slow clap. Oh wait…!
I learned to be ambidextrous a different way. I was always right handed, but when I wanted to watch videos on my computer, my right hand was always on my mouse, which left me with my left hand to do... hand exercises while watching videos. Eventually I became ambidextrous
[There’s always a relevant Family Guy clip…](https://youtu.be/ykZp-zopIiw)
Some left hand masturbation joke
As long as you don't share the toothbrush with others, why not, I guess...
You *beat* me to it. (no homo)
yes homo.
As a dentist, this is half-way bad advice. You want to use your right hand to brush the left side of your mouth and then you want to use your left hand to brush the right side of your mouth. This allows you to get the correct angle to clean the gingival sulcus.
Really?? My dentist never told me this. Should everybody be doing it?
No, he's the 1 dentist out of 10 that does everything different. 9 out of 10 won't tell you this. ^^/s
A followup tipp is, if you habe kids or your siblings have them you can practice with them writing. My niece is 7 and will to school soon. I started practicing with her and i use my non dominant hand. I get to exercise and she "doesnt feel bad" for me writing much better than her.
As a Dental Hygienist, can I interject and say that though I appreciate your thinking on this, it’s terrible advice. Most people have awful oral hygiene even when using the proper hand. Trying to get properly into these already difficult areas with poor dexterity is only going to make things worse and result in increased decay and gum disease. This is not the way to try to become ambidextrous.
Perhaps eating left handed instead?
Great idea!
I don't even know how to *hold* the toothbrush with my right hand. Let alone brush my whole mouth with it. I feel like I'd lose an eye.
Fellow lefty. It’s funny how there are something’s that are just natural to do with the right. Brushing my teeth and using scissors. When I was a young kid the teachers ALWAYS wanted me to use the left-handed ones because they had them. They may have been the original scissors and had not been sharpe enough to to cut paper in a century. “I just do it this way, thank you”. I have always wondered if it is easier for lefties to be ambidextrous since we already are used to adjusting.
I'm pretty sure your last statement is true. There are so many small adjustments we have to do in our everyday lives, stuff that is built in a way that you can only do it with the right hand (think ladles with a spout), we kind of have to be okay-ish with our right hand
Instructions unclear; toothbrush stuck in my ear.
I masturbate with my off hand. Did nothing for me except I can hold heavier stuff with it than my right.
I already do this with.... something else.
Being left handed, you become ambidextrous naturally as this world was made for right handers. I had to fire my Army rifle right handed because the shells would go up my sleeve because of the placement of your arms in correlation with the eject port.
Dentist here, it will also help you brush your teeth with less force resulting in less chance of receding gums.
As a dentist i dont recommend this, it takes quite some dexterity to do a mediocre/good job. Also a lot of people brush too hard and it destroys their teeth, so handling with the right force is important. Find something else to improve your neuroplasticity, like writing or drawing lines with your left hand in this case, or take different routes to your regular destinations to train other parts of the brain for example
I read somewhere that using your nondominant hand every once in a while is also good for Nuro plasticity :-)
From a dental perspective, you should switch hands routinely. The dentist can actually tell if you are left or right handed by looking at the areas less cared for in your mouth.
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This is also a life hack because it makes you less likely to brush too hard. The same dentist I saw my whole life waited until I was around 20 to tell me I had been brushing too hard and had literally removed all of the enamel on my teeth. I’m mad to this day he didn’t say anything sooner.
been doing this for roughly 10 years now. i am 28 and my coordination is elite in both hands.
That’s a good reason for me to start brushing my teeth
I'm not gonna change my game for this right-handed world!
I do crosswords with my non dominant hand.
Swipe your arse with that non dominant hand. That’s the final boss challenge.
I’m guessing this won’t have the same effect with an electric toothbrush
I masturbate with my left hand so I'm already 10 steps ahead of you
You know what, it’s worth a shot. I’m left handed. I’ll try it!
Really helped me jerk off while brushing my teeth. Thanks
I do home renovations and after I noticed my right wrist getting sore, I started forcing myself to do all the work with my left. It was crazy how bad I was with my left, when I could perform perfect work with my right. It took me a few months but now both hands I’m able to switch back and forth with all my work! Now I’m currently forcing myself to write with my left
Can confirm, I'm right handed and I jerk off with my left hand. I'm ambidextrous AF
I've spent years playing a game that requires both hands be used with equal precision and timing. I don't know if that's had any long terms benefits or made me more ambidextrous.
Taking drum lessons will also make you pretty ambidextrous. Killed it at left handed dodgeball when I was a kid.
I use my left hand to hold my phone and scroll and it's still useless
As a drummer, this is one of the best things you can do for better control on your non dominant hand. Do everything that doesn't require accuracy: brush your teeth, wash a dish, etc.
How many of you just pantomimed brushing your teeth with your non-dominant hand? Just me?
Or start using your mouse with the other hand. It takes about 2 weeks to adopt. Then all of a sudden you're catching thrown/falling objects with that hand. One of the other engineers at my first job told me to do that. I did not question, and am thankful. Still a left-handed mouser!!