• khapyman@sopuli.xyz
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    7 months ago

    My father is a leftie and as a young child I found it cool that he could do stuff with left hand while I was only able to use my right.

    That inspired me to learn how to use both arms and that really has been a blessing - being ambidexterous is awesome. It was especially great when I finally learned to stick weld with my left hand. So many impossible corners are just corners now.

    To my knowing there’s round 5% of people that are totally left handed or totally right handed. Every one else, please learn to use your non dominant hand.

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      7 months ago

      Being ambidextrous is helpful if you break one arm. But if you break both arms you will have to ask your mom to help out.

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      7 months ago

      I broke my right shoulder some years ago (I’m right-handed) and for about a year I had to switch to playing disc golf lefty. Initially I was terrible but eventually I got the point where I could shoot around par left handed. Now my shoulder is healed but it’s useful to be able to pull out a lefty shot once in a while.

      The real challenge was driving my stick shift without using my right arm.

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        7 months ago

        Oof. I had to do that for a bit when I borked my wrist. It was probably foolish and stupid, but work isn’t going to pay me for not coming in. :(