I know it sounds like a silly question, but I could have been born left handed and There is no one left alive who would have known it for sure.
Let me explain. When I was about 5 or 6 I had a firework, a Roman candle I think, explode in my hand. It burnt my hand rather badly and I couldn't use it for a long while. When I went back to school with my hand unusable I expected to be excused writing. The teacher had other ideas. Just write with your other hand she said, everyone else is. This memory came back to me a few months back for some reason (I am 60). It suddenly occured to me that if everyone else was writing with 'the other hand' and most people are right handed, then they must have been using their right hands and it could have been my left hand that was damaged. I have used my right hand ever since, but I am not ambidextrous except for some things, and I eat as a left handed person. When I sit down to a meal that has the cutlery set out I swap the knife and fork over. I have tried eating as a right handed person and it is almost impossible. I can't write with my left hand, but I can use a hammer in either hand.
I went to see an Iridologist, someone who reads your condition by looking at your irises. She said that she could see I had damaged my left hand as a child. I remembered the accident and said no it was my right hand, believing I was always right handed. She looked again and repeated that she could see the damage was to my left hand. We left it at that! (no pun intended!)
I think there is a way of telling if you are a leftie or rightie by which foot you start to walk on. If it's the right foot then you are left handed etc. True or not?
Lee.
Let me explain. When I was about 5 or 6 I had a firework, a Roman candle I think, explode in my hand. It burnt my hand rather badly and I couldn't use it for a long while. When I went back to school with my hand unusable I expected to be excused writing. The teacher had other ideas. Just write with your other hand she said, everyone else is. This memory came back to me a few months back for some reason (I am 60). It suddenly occured to me that if everyone else was writing with 'the other hand' and most people are right handed, then they must have been using their right hands and it could have been my left hand that was damaged. I have used my right hand ever since, but I am not ambidextrous except for some things, and I eat as a left handed person. When I sit down to a meal that has the cutlery set out I swap the knife and fork over. I have tried eating as a right handed person and it is almost impossible. I can't write with my left hand, but I can use a hammer in either hand.
I went to see an Iridologist, someone who reads your condition by looking at your irises. She said that she could see I had damaged my left hand as a child. I remembered the accident and said no it was my right hand, believing I was always right handed. She looked again and repeated that she could see the damage was to my left hand. We left it at that! (no pun intended!)
I think there is a way of telling if you are a leftie or rightie by which foot you start to walk on. If it's the right foot then you are left handed etc. True or not?
Lee.