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?

      • Successful_Try543@feddit.org
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        17 days ago

        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.

      • Zagorath@aussie.zone
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        17 days ago

        No, ambidexterity is comfort with both hands. Ambisinestrousness is discomfort with both hands.

  • WhiteOakBayou@lemmy.world
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    17 days ago

    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.

  • RBWells@lemmy.world
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    16 days ago

    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.