[Lynx-lynx]

As a left hander I've had to try to learn two methods for doing most physical things all my life, because the bulk of people who 'show' me how to do something are right handed.

So, if it's a skill whereby one needs to close one of their eyes in order to take aim, or view through something, then yep they tell me I have to close my left eye.

In order to use a power tool, or ordinary tool, they only show me the right handed method and application. Same goes for painting or any darn thing else!

So, when I was young I used to just go along with it, because a lot of the time it didn't dawn on me to speak out. I learnt from a very early age to be quite ambidextrous, except for certain things like throwing and writing.

But the real problems started to arise when I couldn't understand why, when using a firearm I could get inside the bull but not the dead bull. Seven years into having been instructed on how to use a firearm I realised that I had the wrong eye closed. Yep, I should have been closing my right eye, and leaning slightly weighted to my left side because I was using a two handed grip for pistol shooting. And then guess what - I got the dead bull each time I fired (well often enough anyway considering all the practice that I'd had.) (Meanwhile however I'd still been winning the clay pigeon shoots with my left eye closed - amazing but true!)

Another member of my family was not so capable as to be ambidextrous and suffered from ostracism all his life because he wasn't 'handy' with tools or activities that required clear written speech - yep, he'd been brutalised by his teachers from pre school onwards because he wrote with his 'left' hand and he developed dyslexia. (His knuckles were hit by a ruler each time he used his left hand.)

So for those people who genuinely can't determine their left hand from their right hand, and I've known a few who were quite desperate not to let others know that this was the case, I have empathy with you and wonder if among other things you are naturally left handed but didn't realise it.

It's an apparent non sequitur, but it would be interesting to hear from those that are affected.