• Madzielle@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    Tbf, if they didn’t show him writing with his right hand, this would all be acceptable.

    I write with my left hand, but play guitar right handed, pitch a baseball right handed, do basically everything right handed, except usung my left to write and do knife work in the kitchen.

    Left handed folks are often ambidextrous.

    Not to mention he’s religious and back a number of years, you weren’t allowed to be left handed, so maybe that is why he writes with his right hand in the scene, and maybe why it’s such a liberation for him to come out as left handed? Idk

    • Pandantic [they/them]@midwest.social
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      Left handed folks are often ambidextrous.Not to mention he’s religious and back a number of years, you weren’t allowed to be left handed, so maybe that is why he writes with his right hand in the scene

      I had a teacher in high school who wrote poorly with both hands, he explained, because he went to a catholic school where they slapped his left hand with a ruler when wrote with it.

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        Yep, same situation for me. “Ambidextrous” roughly means “two right hands,” so I like to joke that I’m ambisinistral - I’ve got two left hands.

    • ColeSloth@discuss.tchncs.de
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      You sound like you’re right handed and just happen to write with your left. Lol

      But really, your “definition” wouldn’t be ambidextrous. That’s for people who can do most tasks pretty much equally with either hand.

      You would be known as “cross dominant”. That’s where you’re better with one hand or the other, depending on what task it is.

      I’m a fairly standard lefty myself, Im able to do most things pretty well with my right hand, but mostly always best with my left.

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      Technically you are mixed-handed as you use one hand mainly for particular actions, just different hands. Ambidexterity is being able to do anything equally well with either hand.

    • Grass@sh.itjust.works
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      I’m right handed for writing but I prefer left for a lot of stuff. I ride primarily left forward on skateboard and snowboard. Throughout my childhood years everyone fucking hated my lefty hockey stick especially since the three lefties played right handed. Some games they forced me to either play right hand or sit out too.