I Am Both Left Handed And Right Handed

I'm not ambidextrous, but I'm left and right handed depending on what it is I'm doing. I write left handedly, so when people ask I always say I'm left handed.
I use a knife and fork right handedly, but I use a spoon and fork left handedly. I remember at junior school, the dinner ladies always made sure we used knives and forks properly, so I suspect that's why I use them right handedly. When we were eating puddings, they were busy clearing away the dinner things so didn't correct us.
I brush my hair and clean my teeth mostly left handedly. I played hockey right handedly, netball right handed but I fire a shotgun left handed.

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suzieb · 70-79, F

@Melies I think in those days, people didn't really understand it. I know at school dinner time, one of the dinner ladies used to make me hold my knife and fork "correctly" with the fork in my left and knife in the right which to me was back to front. Every day she'd make me swap hands and stand over me, so in the end I got used to it. I still eat that way even now.
But, I still eat my desert left handed.
By the time we started eating our desert, she would be too busy tidying away the dinner plates so I could eat my desert how I wanted.
Thinking about it, I do most things with my left.