Ambi, me. I tend to write with my left hand. I eat right-handed, knit right-handed. I fence left-handed. I can fence right-handed, but holding the foil in the left hand gives a subtle advantage against right-handed opponents. When faced with a new activity I have to try it both ways to see what works best for me. I enjoy this because it freaks people out.

I am ambidextrous. I am in my 80's, and I still give wrong directions to others, telling them to look right when it's actually left. With one righty parent and one lefty parent who was forced to use the right hand, I also have one righty and one lefty child.  My lefty child prefers the left side for fine movements, and I am the opposite, mostly due to social pressures. Both my lefty child and I rank high in spacial relationships, but my two lefty relatives and I are all three of us writers with some talent.

I am mostly right handed. But it drove my mother crazy that I ironed left handed. I married a left handed man. One day when hitting golf balls I joked, let me try your club.  I never could hit very far. I was suddenly hitting twice as far and longer.
Next time I was bowling I thought I would try again, as I was also bad at it. Three strikes in a row.  
But I cannot write with the left hand.
Our children were almost five before we knew which way they were going.

I’m left-handed and my grandmother tried to get my parents to stop my left-handed and become right handed. My sister also is left-handed. They tried the same with her, but we’re both still lefties.

I’m female, left handed. Rh negative and blue green eyes with central heterochromia golden centers. All uncommon traits but I’ll bet there are at least a million people like me.

I am left handed!! I am a painter, writer and social activist!
It easy to write in HEBREW!

Righty-ambi. Lefty grandpa, Mom, child, grandchild, great grandchild all lefty. Write ambi, paint, ambi, tie shoes lefty, math left to right, read English left to right, speak Latin, English, Spanish. Artist-mathematician-writer-computer programmer-logician. As a math department chair all my math teachers were dual specialists math/artists, / math/engineers, math/robotics guy, math/musician, math/architect, math/linguist, math drama/poetry/film. I worked with a very talented group of math teachers who volunteered to offer after school enrichment classes for the kids. A great group of dedicated guys. The enrichment classes were all out of school, all not part of the school budget, all paid for out of my teacher's pockets because thanks to standardized testing all the subjects not tested were no longer offered at the school. No drama/no music/no art/no ceramics/ no film / no acting./ no choir/no dance /no building trades/ no engineering and I had to fight tooth and nail to teach computer science. My mother went to Catholic school in 1930s and was not allowed to write left handed, she was a wonderful artist, and story teller.

As a lefty, I found that when competing in MMA and boxing matches, it did give me a slight advantage. It would throw off opponents when my stance was a mirror image of theirs, instead of the opposite.

I’m left handed yet do a lot of things right handed.  I say my left hand is used for soft, lite work, for fine detail as an artist, for precise work.  Yet my right hand does all the heavy work.  Lifting things, bending things, hammering, and only the right hand can use scissors. Which even I find strange.  I even bought left handed scissors but my left hand could not cut a thing?  If when doing art work I have a tight area to work in, sculpturing,  I simple switch hands, left to right.  I make a mess of writing right handed, that’s a job only for the left hand.  Think if you grow up in a right handed world, you generally learn to use both hands.  Right handed people don’t get that special chance.

When I was air art school (in 1977), some students from another school came to our school,  to do a study for their psychology thesis. They gave many of us a form with 10 questions (I remember one was, "Which foot leads when you step off a curb?). Then they chose a selection of us to take a 2 hr. test that included spatial puzzles, audio tests (does this series of notes sound the same as the last, or different?), repeating a series of numbers backwards, some interesting and complicated timed puzzles that we weren't meant to finish, just see how far we could get. I think they paid us $20 for our time, but  I would  have done it just for fun! They got back to us with our results later. I always thought I was totally left-handed/right-brained, but I actually turned out to be 13% left-brained! (33% to -33% was ambidextrous, Zero being totally ambidextrous). My friend tested 100% left-handed! I thought that was incredible. I would really have loved to have been a fly on the wall when she took the test!  My eyes are Hazel, I write and draw with my left hand, did archery with my left, golfed with either (I discovered this when I inherited a set of left-handed clubs), and paint walls with both. I can hand sew and embroider with either hand. I taught myself to knit right-handed, so teachers could teach me techniques later, but when I took up crochet, I switched from tensioning my yarn with my right hand, to my left, and then switched from English to Continental Knitting, so I could tension my yarn for that with my left, too (knitters will know what I'm referring to). Then I learned to knit backwards, and now I knit with both hands simultaneously (well, on alternating rows, anyway).

This is a terrific narrative. I think the artwork is beautiful tool

Left handed ambi here with dark green eyes. Writing, eating, arts and fine work also left. Heavy work, scissors and reaching tends to be right handed. Feels very balanced 💚

I'm left-handed ambi. I found out from my brother that he and my dad are/were naturally left-handed. My dad grew up in a village in Italy, and he was forcibly made to be right-handed. They sometimes tied his left arm to his body when he was a kid (the left is the devil's side and all that). And when my brother was a baby/toddler, my dad would roll a ball to him lightly slap away his left hand if he reached for the ball. Not sure why he didn't do the same with me when I came along, but I do remember him complaining about me being left-handed until I got an Outstanding + in penmanship.

I was born left handed but being extremely shy it made me feel too different from my classmates.  My mother being a teacher knew what could happen at school and had told my teacher not to try to change my hand usage for writing.  I didn’t know this as I was five or six at the time.  I changed my writing to  my right hand on my own.  I do still write with my right hand but can play pool and even 10 key left handed.  I have a cousin who is ambidextrous.  My parents were both right handed and I am pretty sure hers were as well.  I can’t remember for sure about her siblings.  She was one of four.  I think one of them was also left handed but they were a lot older than me and I never remember paying attention to what hand they used, I just remember talking to the one cousin about her being ambidextrous.

I am female, and an artist. I have been left handed for most of my life. I had hand surgery on my left hand. At the time I was live streaming making my art. I started using my right hand because I didn’t want to take time off from streaming. So I was able to use my right hand while my left hand was recuperating. Now I can use both hands to draw, paint, and write at the same time! My Dad was left handed and was forced to be right handed.

Both of my parents and my brother are left-handed, sister is right-handed.  My mother and I (female) are mostly ambidextrous.  We four (ambi/lefty) all chose careers in engineering and accounting.  I pick up other languages easily.

A lot of teachers could not teach children to write left-handed so they made them use their right hand. I personally know this as it occurred in our family

I’m right handed, and I have two children who are also right handed. My eldest son, however, is left handed and I noticed his thinking process has always been different from me our my other two children. (FYI his father was also right handed).

Excellent explanation of the left-handed and right-handed--searching for the right word here--orientation? Well done!

I am a retired teacher.  I didn’t realize I was left footed left eyed and did many things as a lefty.untili was in my thirties I open bottles hold a baby push and pull doors using my left hand left  and yet write sew knit eat  cut with my right hand.  I’m in my 80s and find myself I awakward situation s on occasion.i walk on the left side causing all kinds of problems. Stairs hallways  street. Where I sit stand and can cause problems when I drive if I’m not paying attention.  I also notice  my slant when I write can be off even though I’m using my right hand.all this was discovered by me through out my lifetime. No one has pointed it out.