Listen to this story being read by Chelsea McLaughlin here.
Hello, fellow lefties.
We don’t know each other, but we know each other’s struggles.
As a child, I was proud of the fact I held a pencil and wrote with my left hand. Other kids would say it looked ‘awkward’ or ‘uncomfortable’ and I’d be like, ‘whatever, man, I’m part of an exclusive 10 per cent of the population and you’re boring‘.
Then I’d glance down and notice my hand was fully black from my pinky finger down. Oh. Cool.
While being a lefty makes us unique, it also comes with a whole bunch of inconvenience.
Left-handedness is also known as “sinistrality” because left-handed people were once thought to be demons.
— Fact (@Fact) November 4, 2019
Top Comments
Spiral notebooks are a pain for everyone if you write on both sides of the paper. And do you really use your knife and fork in reverse if you're left-handed? Or are you talking about American table manners which mandate chopping everything up with one hand first and then shovelling it into your mouth with the opposing hand after swapping your utensils around?