Mixed/Cross Dominance

I thought many many people were mixed dominants. I'm not though. Is it really that much of an issue?

 

Where can I read up on your research?

I'm a mixed dominant. I'm a lefty but I shoot righty and my right eye is definately better than my left eye.

 

I think I'm a mixed dominant, but I never knew there was a term for it. I often do things with my left hand (I throw better, etc) but I'm a righty. And if someone talks to me I usually listen more with my left ear.

I was extremely clumsy as a child, too. Often dropped things, tripped over things, etc. But I'm not sure if that was a cross-dominance issue, or if I just grew faster than most my peers (until 5th grade, when everyone shot up over me!).

 

Although I am left handed (write with my left) I use my right arm and right leg for almost everything else.

However my left eye is the dominate eye but because of my right arm I shoot (rifles and pistols) with my left eye closed.

I am also pretty sure I hear better with my right ear as well.

 

That is really weird. I can't even imagine why it does that. You would probably have to wear an eyepatch for quite a while though for it to work, and you'd have to be careful about damaging your eye too.

It would also probably be very bad for your brain, to be honest. I know making people switch hands damages their brain.

 

I am right handed, and right footed. My eyes and ears are of equal strength (neither dominates).

 

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Interesting. My optometrist tells me that my eyes do not work together-the left eye is near sighted, and handles reading. The right eye is far-sighted, and handles distance, like for driving a car. I also have great difficulty distinguishing left and right. No difficulty with cardinal directions, though.

 

Interesting thread. I was born a righty but changed to a lefty at 12--a deliberate decision made for reasons only a 12-year-old could fathom. I've always been left eye dominant and that didn't change even after the stroke paralyzed much of the left side of my body. For years after the stroke I could smell nothing with my left nostril, so I guess I'm right nostril dominant...lol. That's changed some over the years, though my sense of smell is till somewhat impaired.

Another anomaly is that before the damage to the right hemisphere of my brain, I had the ability to visualize anything I'd heard or read; not a photographic memory, but a remarkable one and a great aid in law school. Since the damage to the temporal, parietal and frontal lobes in the right hemisphere, howevr, that sort of visualization is gone and my short-term memory became impaired as well.

 

I took the right brain/left brain test for a college course today and scored something like whole brain that leans right, I guess? I got 2112, so no areas of avoidance, just a slight right preference... Anyway, I have always been mostly ambidextrous. I can write left handed, but it takes a few minutes to get used to it, because I usually don't. My handwriting on both sides is terrible. My optometrist says I have a clear right preference, which has caused that eye to be slightly worse, but the gap is narrowing. Everything else is either way, though. I played soccer (defense, it came very naturally to me) in grade school and I always confused the goalie.

Anica, I'm sorry to hear about your stroke. How long ago was it?
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