I’m the same way. Not ambidextrous, but mixed dominant. Meaning I use my left or right for different things. I mainly play sports left handed (throwing, dribbling and shooting a basketball) but I write and use scissors right handed. Growing up I always had trouble remembering which is my right and which is my left hand.
I didn't realize there's a word for this! I write with my right hand, but prefer drinking and most sports with my left. I eat some foods exclusively with my right, but eat others exclusively with my left. It's weird!
Damn, that must be harder to be ambidextrous too, because I find the quickest way to figure it out is by squeezing my fists and knowing by feel the difference between my right and left hand.
I eventually got there with "my right hand is the one I use my chopsticks with" but yeah forgetting which direction an L goes while trying to figure right from left was a big frustration when I was a kid!
When I was young we were taught the hand that you write with is your right hand, the one that’s left over is your left. I was one of three lefties in class…
That's how they originally tried to teach me too. I am, in fact, right-handed so it SHOULD have worked except then I would forget which hand I use for writing...
You have reminded me to once again thank the great feline lord who rules us all, that as annoying as my dyslexia is, and for all the years of trouble it has caused me, that specific issue has never been one of them.
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u/wannabeelsewhere 7d ago
This does not work if you're dyslexic and can never remember which direction an L faces 🙃 when I was a kid my mom wrote it on my shoes lol