Belly  +  442521 Wed, 14 Nov 07 03:51 PM Honestly, I'm not a lefty, I used my right hand to write most of the time but recently, I started to change. I want to start writing by left hand and moreover, to be ambidextrous. However, I don't know how to start properly, can anybody help me in order to master writing with left hand? And if my handwriting of the right hand is somewhat unintelligible, can my handwriting with left hand be more intelligible/ beautiful ? Belly Joined on Mon, Feb 19 2007 Regular Member 630

	Feebs11  +  442528 Wed, 14 Nov 07 04:10 PM I am left-handed, and at once time thought it would be useful to write right-handed. It was very hard work and left my brain in a fog! I had to give up. The actual handwriting was no more legible than my usual one.  If you are strongly handed, it is not at all easy to change [though people have done so following physical damage - the brain does seem able to adapt in these cases]. It is also noticeable that a left-handed person is more flexible in using their right hand than right-handers are in using their left hand. Feebs11 Joined on Thu, Nov 23 2006 UK Veteran Member 5,015

	Belly  +  442786 Thu, 15 Nov 07 06:16 AM So what about people who are ambidextrous? Not to mention those who are naturally born, what about others who gained skills through practice? I wonder if people hold pens in left hands as the same position and pose as in right hands? And how do you called people who are a) right handed b) left handed c) ambidextrous ? Belly

	Feebs11  +  442888 Thu, 15 Nov 07 12:11 PM How a person holds a pen depends on the way in which they are taught, and their own physical motility. You will instinctively try to hold something the same way in either hand [given that there is no physical deformity]. People who are ambidextrous generally use one or other hand to write with. There have been well documented cases of such people being able to write with both hands at once, but it is a rare skill. The ambidextrousness more generally shows in that they will use either hand as the dominant hand to do something. The terms you are using are what you call people. Feebs11

	Belly  +  442898 Thu, 15 Nov 07 12:36 PM I mean, people who are left handed called lefty, whereas right handed named righty, so how about ambidextrous? Belly

	bruno_ts  +  569679 Tue, 23 Sep 08 10:43 PM I'm right-handed, but I can do a thing with my left hand that I'll never do with my other hand... ... .. . scratch my right arm ^^ bruno_ts Joined on Thu, Aug 28 2008 Brazil Junior Member 81 _Sometimes my mind plays tricks on me.