Dexter or Sinister?

[elmwood]

I have always identified as being right handed.

I am now starting to question this belief.

I have developed arthritis but only in my left hand which struck me as a little strange as I would have thought that, logically, it would be my so called dominant hand that got the more use and would therefore succumb to arthritis. Over the past couple of

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[sartorias]

Totally left, as is spouse. But daughter is ambidextrous. She ate left until she was around eight, then switched. It startled us considerably, because our entire house was oriented left.

[elmwood]

T having opted to write with his right, has always insisted on eating left.

He probably comes by this honestly - his ambi tendency - as both grandfathers trained themselves to be ambidextrous, albeit for different reasons. Spouse's father was an opthalmic surgeon and found it easier to operate if he could use both hands. My dad was a bomb disposal guy and wanted to be able to use either hand if the bomb he was working on was positioned awkwardly.

[elmwood]

You got me thinking about the can opener. I hold the two arms with my right hand, and turn the key with my left. It doesn't make a mess at all. I do eat right handed, i.e knife in right hand, but I wonder if that is just training as I can do it the other way around, but prefer not to do so. No injury ever to the left hand.

[elmwood]

I will have to test the resident teen on can opening skills. I don't believe he has ever opened one with a can opener. The only things he eats from a tin is baked beans and he only likes ones made in Britain which come with a pop tab top.

[quiller77]

I'm right-handed but was taught to play baseball and hockey by my older brother and sister, both left-handed. I hold the bat/stick like a lefty. I think I tend to ambidextrous because, like you, I can write slowly with my left hand.

Odd that sinister means evil, but there is a TV show (which I've never watched) about a serial killer named Dexter. Did the writers purposely call him that with the ancient right=good thing in mind?