I don’t mean Ambidextrous!

Yesterday I tried cutting a vegetable with the knife in my non-dominant hand and it was a weird and uncomfortable thing. I wonder if there are people who have that distinct discomfort of using your “bad” hand, but on both hands?

I don’t think it would fall under ambidexterity, because that kinda implies someone is comfortable with either hand, but could someone be uncomfortable with both?

  • nicerdicer@feddit.org
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    3 days ago

    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.

    • drathvedro@lemm.ee
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      2 days ago

      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.

    • HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      2 days ago

      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.

    • SirSamuel@lemmy.world
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      3 days ago

      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.