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I am cross dominant. I do somethings right handed, some things left handed, and there's a few things I can do with either. This blew the mind of every elementary school teacher I had until 4th grade because by then I had the vocabulary to explain myself.
For many years I only felt comfortable using right handed scissors in my left hand because my kindergarten teacher refused to give me a left handed pair since I write with my right hand. I argued with every adult that tried to teach me how to play baseball because I naturally line up lefty at the plate but I throw better right handed. Turns out I can bat switch but fuck them, they didn't know that.
I remember being out to dinner with my family and my brother was joking with me about how I would have to struggle to cut up my food being left handed because how the seats were arranged. I just switched to my right and him and a couple other people were like.... What?.. I didn't even know that people used a specific hand for their utensils.
We never had left handed stuff when I was in school so I guess I just learned on my own.
Oddly, using a fork is something that only feels comfortable with my left hand. I can eat right handed but it feels off somehow.
I'm like that with putting my contacts in. For whatever reason I can do it right handed without any problem but when I use my left hand it's a shitshow.
I wonder how much of handedness is really "real". I'm sure there's a bit of a preference there, but a lot of it might be also training.
For example, I started using my phone in my "off-hand" years ago to keep my "main-hand" free for other stuff. Turns out I do more on my phone than on my free hand, and now I'm much better with my "off-hand" with my phone than with my "main-hand".
It certainly felt real to me growing up. No matter how much teachers would insist that I use scissors right handed, I just couldn't. That being said, with enough training and descipline you can certainly overcome that. As an adult, I can use scissors in either hand but not particularly well.
n=1 of course, but my dad was forced to write right-handed in school (early 60's and an old-school teacher for those days). The result was more punishment as no matter how he tried, he simply couldn't (and still cannot) write very readable with his right hand. So no, I don't think practice is enough to make somebody ambidextrous. Might work for some, but certainly not for everybody.
I always felt like a lot of sites and apps were made to be used left handed anyway. It seems like the controls are often on the left side. Maybe it's just that I primarily used reddit and now lemmy though.
I'm righty for everything except specifically throwing a Frisbee. I just can't do it with my right hand, unless it's an overhand chuck. Makes disc golf a bitch because no matter how I throw, it usually breaks right from the spin.
On some courses that's a big advantage. I always threw left and my dad always threw right, it was interesting how the geometry of the course could tilt our fortunes.