Dyspraxic Adults

I'm a lefty for most things, but I can only use scissors with my right hand also I'm a switch hitter in baseball (which I do play rather poorly.)

Hehe, this is always an amusing question to answer.

Well I'm not fully left or right handed, but I'm definitely not ambidextrous. For a given activity, I am either left or right handed and am unable to use the other hand. Is this common among dyspraxics? I guess it must be, since the question is on here. I don't remember having ever switched hands though, my handedness appears to be fixed.

Left hand
Handwriting.
Using a spoon.
My piano teacher told me I was more dominant with the left hand when playing.

Right hand
Using a knife and fork.
Using scissors.
Bowling.

This was a pain at school because everyone naturally reasoned that if I wrote with my left hand, that meant I was left handed. So the treachers made me use left handed scissors and it was frustrating because I couldn't do it and I felt like an idiot. Very upsetting.

Recently I was playing pool very badly with my mates and was completely unable to figure out which hand to use. I played pool such a long long time ago (11/12 years ago maybe?) that I had forgotten which hand I used then and I was equally rubbish and uncomfortable with both hands! Over about an hour I decided it was better to hold the cue with one hand rather than the other but now I've forgotten which hand that was!

I wonder if a dyspraxic brain can 'forget' which hand it's supposed to use if you go for a long time without doing the activity? I know I often lose information but that tends to be organisational stuff rather than physical things.

EDIT: Just remembered, my mum told me that she doesn't remember me being confused about which hand to use as a kid, She says when I started scribbling I always used the left hand.

Now then, I have a firm memory of being forced to use a knife and fork right handed, because my parents told me it was better for restaurants and that. I vividly remember crying because I wanted to use them left handed. However, neither of my parents remember this and I know I do have a problem with falsely remembering things, even though I remember tham very well. So there is a lot of uncertainty there.

I put not so simple because I only ever try to open bottles with my left hand but I am right handed for most things, I haven't noticed much else for left but then I am not very observant

I was almost completely right-handed until part-way through high school when an accident in chemistry class did something to the muscles in my right thumb which meant it wouldn't bend so I learned to do alot of stuff left handed. My thumb works now but I still switch quite happily between hands, though I have always written with my right.