Is it normal that i'm left handed, but not completely?

I basically only write and hold a spoon exclusively with my left hand.I can do everything else with both and there are many things that I prefer doing with my right hand although I have no issue doing it with both.I noticed that I can also write with my right quite normally, but only if it's on something vertical and I guess it's because I hold a pen in a weird way that makes writing with right hand harder.

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  • CornedBeefAndCabbage

    It's quite normal since we live in a world where roughly 90% of the population is right handed. I've heard many lefties being able to do tasks with their right hand.
    I remember in grade school, one of my friends was a real ambidextrous. He would switch from his left to right hand quite often, though he prefered writing with his left. I never really gave it much thought back then, but I am quite envious now.

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  • Holzman_67

    if you cant write with your right all that is left is your left

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  • something_weird

    Not everyone is purely left or right handed. Mixed handedness is extremely common, I'm a mixed leftie who can do certain things only with my right hand.

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  • howaminotmyself

    I find this true of a lot of lefties. The world is mostly designed for right handers so you were likely taught to do things from a right handed perspective. And having your left hand be more dominant gave you the ability to things from both perspectives.

    I was raised by lefties and my older sister is a leftie but I am right handed. I can do many things equally with both sides because of it.

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  • woodchuckgra

    I was born in the 70s and back then it was common to switch lefties to eighties. As a result I am ambidextrous. I write with my right hand but eat with my left. Other tasks I barely pay attention to but if I think about it I do them with one hand or another with no decernable pattern.

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  • Shnaz

    Cut off your right hand.

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  • RomeoDeMontague

    Regardless of you being ambidextrous everyone has a dominant hand. You are left handed if you put stuff in your right hand and can not hold it correctly. Generally your body is programmed to favour one side of your body for these type of things. So a left hand person has issues holding with right hand since than they hold it funny. A person who is right handed cant use stuff made for left handers since.

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  • thegypsysailor

    No, I don't think it's normal at all. In fact it's quite rare. Ambidextrous people are very lucky.
    It was amazing to see my father, a surgeon, begin an incision with his left hand, flip the scalpel into the air, catch it in his right and continue cutting, barely missing a beat. He could pitch or bat on either side, giving him a huge advantage as a ball player.
    Me, I couldn't use my left hand were my life to depend upon it. A tad envious I was.
    Enjoy it, you've got it made in the shade.

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  • JBN

    I write and eat left handed, but throw and bowl right handed. I taught myself to use the mouse with either hand.

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  • suckonthis9

    The word is 'ambidextrous'.

    I am normally right-handed, but trained myself to do many things with my left hand (when I had broken bones in my right hand / wrist / arm), and I have retained much of this ambidextrous ability since.

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    • ♡Primadonna♡

      Isn't ambidextrous when you use both equally by nature?

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      • suckonthis9

        am·bi·dex·trous adjective \ˌam-bi-ˈdek-strəs\

        1: using both hands with equal ease

        2: unusually skillful : versatile

        3: characterized by duplicity : double-dealing

        Medical Definition of AMBIDEXTROUS

        : using both hands with equal ease

        Origin of AMBIDEXTROUS

        Late Latin ambidexter, from Latin ambi- + dexter right-hand — more at dexter
        First Known Use: 1646

        I used the term loosely, more in line with definition 2 (above).

        However, this term is in itself incorrectly termed, a gaffe, since the prefix ambi- means 'both', and dexter means 'right'. Humans do not have two right hands, just a usual genetic preference to use one hand more than the other.
        The correct terminology should probably be 'ambimanous'.

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        • suckistonism9

          Incorrect!

          Ambidextrousism means you're a leftist.

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          • suckonthis9

            Huh?

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            • suckistonism9

              Exactly.

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  • GoraIntoDesiGals

    I write left but use scissors or screwdrivers right.

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