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On the other hand, it might also be that normal righties are more inclined to consider themselves ambidextrous when they can do minor activities with the left hand, however badly compared to the left hand.

*Lunatic*, n.
One whose delusions are out of fashion.
by DoDo on Mon Dec 8th, 2008 at 02:58:28 AM EST
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Er, compared to the right hand, I meant.

*Lunatic*, n.
One whose delusions are out of fashion.
by DoDo on Mon Dec 8th, 2008 at 03:15:09 AM EST
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Speaking of that, what exactly do we mean by ambidextrous?

I can't write with my left hand.  I try occasionally, and can't.  I even practiced once, just to see.  I don't like cutting with my left hand either, and I've never tried to learn.

But I nonetheless use my left hand quite a bit, more than a lot of other people I know.  Yet I've never considered myself really ambidextrous.

by Zwackus on Mon Dec 8th, 2008 at 05:02:13 AM EST
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I guess that there is a loose saeparation of high-level manipulative activities and low-level ones. I.e. you could do the latter with your secondary hand even in parallel while doing the former with the primary one.

However, there is one high-level activity most people do with their second hand: wiping their asses. Some scientists speculate that this is the actual origin of one-handedness; i.e. those of our ancestors who got the genetic predisposition to touch food etc. with their clean hands got sick less often and had more offspring...

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One whose delusions are out of fashion.

by DoDo on Tue Dec 9th, 2008 at 03:54:45 AM EST
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