There's a word for it.
Ambisinister
https://www.dictionary.com/e/word-of-the-day/ambisinister-2021-08-13/
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Ahhh I just referred to myself as ambicrap! Thank you for this new word! :)
I'd have called it antidexterity
Looking at the origin:
ambi, Greek: both;
anti, Greek: against, opposed;
dexter, Latin: right, skilful, clever;
sinister, Latin: left, wrong, evil;
So sinister is already anti-dexter, the ambi just emphasises that this not-skilfulness applies to both hands. In German, calling somebody having "two left hands" means that they aren't skilful at all concerning handcrafting.
No, ambidexterity is comfort with both hands. Ambisinestrousness is discomfort with both hands.
They wrote antidexterity
Oh I missed that. That's clever.
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This is correct, but I prefer damnbidextrous, because I can't do a damn thing with either hand.
Interesting. The word for good with both is related to dextral or right-handed, and the word for bad with both comes from sinister or left-handed.
Well sinister is used to describe anything that's 'off'
Awesome, that's exactly what I was looking for! Thank you!!
And as an English expression for when you have a penchant for dropping things: "I have two left hands"
It's a very interesting question, and I can't speak to the science but I can speak to my personal experience.
Going back to childhood I always remember the adults insistence that I decide which is my handedness yet knowing intuitively that I could favor either side, and they each had an advantage.
I played left wing in hockey, only because there was never enough left-handed players, so I just pretended I was left-handed.
When I would play little league baseball, coaches would shout at me saying hey, don't you bat the other way?! To me I just naturally, almost randomly picked a side according to how I felt about the pitcher.
When I played snooker semi-professionally, I shot right handed, but not because my right arm had more finesse, but because my left arm was better at providing rock solid stability with fine control, and because my right eye is slightly stronger. In my life, I played perhaps 50 games of billiards left-handed, out of perhaps 20,000 games total. And I can pick up and play left-handed with ease... You would think I'd been shooting that way my whole life.
I use my right hand to write, but when I skateboard, I skate "goofy foot". When I destroyed my shoulder and it was a piece of meat hanging off my body for 6 months, I picked up a pen in my left hand and within 3 days I was writing at the same grace I could in grade 6! Within a month I was actually writing better than right-handed. It was still chicken scratch so I'm not sure what that's worth lol
I know that I am right-handed by choice because there's a difference in the knuckle/tendon of my left thumb. It makes it impossible to move from certain positions on the "circle" to others without first moving to a transitional spot. And I have more dexterity with my right for that reason alone.
I always wanted to play on P2 of the Street Fighter II cabinet.
Jessica Cox is a certified scuba diver, a light sport pilot, and I think it is safe to say she is without handedness.
What a cool person! Thanks for that link!
Are you asking whether there are clumsy people, and people who feel clumsy? Yes, yes there are.
I mean, depending on the task, I have felt this. There are sometimes things I can't figure out which hand to use because both feel wrong. Not often. Guitar feels like that for me.
I also read that as we get older, we become less "handed" and it's not because we become ambidextrous just less dextrous overall, the dominant hand loses dexterity.
I'm left handed, and the topic has come up with right handed people over the course of my life. Living in a world largely built for right handed people forces you to adopt some right handed habits. Wii Sports let you choose your handedness per activity which is helpful to a lot of us southpaws; we legitimately do some things the "right handed" way.
Guitar for example; when I started taking guitar lessons when I was 12, they handed me a normal guitar off the rack with the neck in my left hand and it was instantly comfortable. After a few lessons it came out that I am left handed and "Oh we have a left-handed guitar if you want to try it. Here." and it felt wrong. Meanwhile I would say just over half, say 54% of the right-handed people I've handed a guitar to went "oh no this isn't right" and wanted to play it the other way. So I'm convinced "normal" guitars are in fact left-handed.
Right handed people often report being strongly right handed and that doing things with their left hand is very difficult. "My right hand is a hand, my left hand is a clamp." I've heard very few left handed people report the same.
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I think those people would be labelled as clumsy or lacking motor skills. The brain is pretty good though so with experience it can almost always figure stuff out.
A version of what you are saying is called cross dominance. Where a person is "handed" but users different hands for different things. For example, I write right handed but play sports and shoot left handed. I use left handed scissors but right handed hammer, screwdriver. All of the things feel awkward with the wrong hand but that hand changes with the task.
right handed hammer, screwdriver.
A what now?
I've been a carpenter for over thirty years, but I've never heard of or seen such a thing, and I can't even imagine what one would look like. Hammers and screwdrivers are (generally) bilaterally symmetrical.
right handed hammer, screwdriver
Sounds like shit I’ve sent the new apprentice to go looking for when I need a break
[left] handed screwdriver
Vodka and grapefruit? I dunno.
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They are saying they personally use their right hand for the hammer and screwdriver, but used the handedness of the scissors instead of just saying their left hand.
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It's so hard to find left-handed hammers that I'm sure you just felt forced to do it the other way.
Life hack: Buy two hammers, and mark them with the letters L and R. This way you’ll know which is which.
Before I switched hands I'd just use the right handed one backwards if I couldn't find a lefty.
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Related to this, but also not really, is how I feel as a right handed person playing guitar.
I mean, sure, the right hand is doing some picking, but the left hand is up there doing all the clever stuff and the right hand has no idea how it manages to do any of it.
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I am right-handed, and I tought myself to use my mouse with the left hand when working on my laptop.
The reason for that is that I have a couch, where the ottomane (the "long" part where you can rest your legs on) is attached to the right side (referenced to my seating position), meaning that, when sitting on this side of the couch, the arm rest of the ottomane is to my right side which doesn't leave enough room to operate the mouse without obstruction.
The side left to me (where the rest of the couch is), is unobstructed and leaves enough room to place and operate the mouse there.
At first, it was hard to navigate with the non-domiant hand, and I used it for navigating within the web browser. The majority of mouse navigation in a browser is scrolling anyway.
After a just a few of weeks I noticed that handling the mouse with the left hand became more and more precisely. Now I use my left hand exclusively with the mouse. I even noticed that when doing stuff in Blender or Affinity for example, keyboard shortcuts are more accessible to me with the right hand when working with a laptop.
When at work however, I use the mouse with my dominant (right) hand, as the desk layout allows me to do that.
The reason for that is that is… The side left to me (where the rest of the couch is), is unobstructed and leaves enough room to place and operate the mouse there.
Suuuuuuuure buddy, your overly detailed explanation is very believable.
your overly detailed explanation is very believable
I hope so, that's why the explanation is so detailed.
People can get used to weirdest stuff. Like my former coworker who uses mouse upside down, like, fingertip grip on the buttons and cord under palm. Said he used to love playing aerial combat simulators, but couldn't get used to inverted controls, so he just flipped the mouse and learned to use it inverted for everything else. Havent played videogames in decades but it's still stuck to him. The only problem is that he was a CEO at tech company, but from a passerby perspective it always looked like it's his first time using a PC.
I'm a leftie and learned the computer right handed. Now I can take notes on the computer and on paper at the same time, don't have to set anything down. Pretty useful for data entry.
The closest I can think is someone who is ambidextrous but also dyspraxic.
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Me playing the piano when I've never played the piano
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