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I THINK YOUR HUSBAND AS READ THAT EINSTEIN WAS LEFT HANDED ALSO VINCENT VAN GOGH AND A LOT OF FAMOUS PEOPLE I AM ALSO LEFT HANDED SO HIS MY HUSBAND AND SECOND YOUNGEST SON ALL MY DADS BROTHERS AND SISTERS FIRST BORN WERE LEFT HANDED HOW UNUSUALL IS THAT .

My son just turned 5. His school reading age assessment classed him as having a reading age of over 9 years. He wears us out! And he is left handed. My father is something of a mad inventor. Didn't get much education but has taught himself to do just about everything - including building a freezer from scraps, making working model traction engines etc. We never had anything new as kids - all our presents were home made. I didn't appreciate the cleverness at the time, but I do now. Oh, and he's also left handed. The rest of us are right handed and no geniuses.

I am left handed and so is my hubby, our children are both right handed, my hubby can however use his right hand as efficiently as his left but wrrites left handed. Me unfortunately can only use my left hand for most things , writing, sewing, opening or holding utensils in kitchen. One mean teacher in infants told me i had to learn right handed as left wasnt right, well it slowed me down, i couldnt do things right handed as the strength wasnt there or coordination, mum met teacher and needless to say teacher agreed to let me be left. I always say and do things backwards, we are usually more creative, thats because we have to live in a right handed world.

I am left handed my father was left handed and my mum was left handed because she had to be her right arm was paralysed I cut paint sew and write left handed I eat right handed when I am ironing I change hands and when I used to play tennis I served with my left hand and then played right handed My daughter who is righthanded for all things except eating then she is lefthanded when I was in infant school I used to get in trouble when the teacher said put up the hand you write with IN sewing lessons in junior school when the teacher was walking round to inspect your work I used to turn mine upside down so it matched everyone else's and then turn it back so I could sew left handed Bren

Norah Get him to take a Mensa test. I was trained as a counsellor and one of the things I learnt early on was to seriously doubt those who considered themselves brighter than average. Conversely, those who considered themselves to be stupid were usually deluding themselves. Its what other people find that counts. If a Cro-Magnon from 40 thousand years ago could be dressed in today's garb and sat on a train, no one would notice anything unusual about him - except maybe the smell. Len

Hello Len Yes, tried it out on 'hubby'...........I think he's saying he's a descendant of the few left handed Cro-Magnons - who were the genius's of their day!!! Norah in Hampshire

Hello Len Yes, tried it out on 'hubby'...........I think he's saying he's a descendant of the few left handed Cro-Magnons - who were the genius's of their day!!! Norah in Hampshire

Norah Have you tried the "Neanderthall" theory out on hubby yet ? Len

I'm left handed and write lefthanded, but it was the bane of my life at school cos when i would write anything down my hand would be smudging all my previous work! Although i will pick up a piece of paper with my left hand i would use the scissors with my right..and cannot use scissors with my left. I recently found a shop that specialises in left handed goods. Darren (Nuneaton)

Hi all, Did you know that being left handed is classed as being in league with the devil? The Italian for left is sinistra - where we get the word sinister from. I always was a little devil and hope that I still am!!! I am left handed but I count money with my right (which is what I do for a living) and I knit right handedly.(?0 I, too, had my left hand tied behind my back when I was a child - a throwback from the sinister bit probably. Jan from Gravesend, Kent.

I too am ambidextrous

Norah,, Having read some of your messages,,, I quite agree,,!!

And Hello Claire in Lincs. Just goes to show what a load of fun rubbish can be sometimes. Norah in Hampshire

Hi Bill in Oz So if I see a chap with a dark ring round his right eye toting a shotgun when I visit Aussie, that will be you will it? Norah in cold Hampshire

I know some very intelligent people who are right handed and also some left handed people who arent,,,so it just goes to show that its a load of rubbish,!

As I do most things left handed, I hope I'm not left eyed too, because I have no sight in that eye. Is that why I can't find most of my ancestors?!?

Dyslexic kids are unfortunate in that in the past so many teachers did not and would not recognise the condition. My family is riddled with school teachers and I have to say that some of them are not the brightest. In some respects dyslexics are exceedingly gifted, particularly with abstract concepts. I know several who have graduated. Len

Hello Bill in Oz Might be bumping into you next year - coming over for a visit!!! However, back to the nitty-gritty. I'm one of the 95% who is right-footed, meaning that when I give Tom a kick, it's with the right foot; however how do I find out if I'm left or right-eyed?????? My one peculiar form of ambidextrousness??? is that when trying new shoes on (oh I do lovvvvvvvve shoes) I always try the left one on first!!! Norah in Hampshire

So Jay, does that mean that all our ambidextrous friends out there (and there are a lot of them) have got their pathways crossed....Hmm....that explains a lot of the craziness on these boards doesn't it. So............does that mean that as an old 'common right-hander' I might be one of the saner ones? Norah in Hampshire....rofalol!!!!!!!!!!!!

Don't want to upset the apple cart lol, but I've watched a programme and there isn't such a thing as ambidestrous. You may be good at using both hands BUT you are either left or right handed. All to do with the brain! It talked about actually not encouraging children to use both hands. The brain needs to form pathways and connections.