Being a left hander is not easy as one is certainly a minority. Only11% of the world's population is left-handed. Lot of social stigma has been attached to it. Words like, lefty, southpaw, goofy are used as slangs. In some societies using your left hand to do chores esp. religious rituals is considered demeaning. Children, who begin to use their left hand automatically for writing, eating etc., are often forced to use their right hand.
As one grows it becomes difficult to use things like, scissors, can openers, peelers, PC mouse etc. which are made for right-handers. People refuse to shake hands and even to take things from a left hand. So I guess, quite few of us start using right hand too and thus become ambidextrous like me. They were certain things like, a peeler or scissors, I was forced to use it with right hand as there were no left-handed peelers and scicssors back then. I have even experienced cases like, were shop-keepers have refused to take money from me. ''I don't take it from left hand'' has often been said to me and my reply has been ''I am a left hander, now take it or leave it.'' At the university I found it difficult to use a folding-chair with tablet as they are again made for right handers.
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| Folding-Chair with Tablet |
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| Left-Handed (left) Right-Handed (right) |
It is now due to lot of awareness that products like, scissors, can openers etc. are even made for left handers. We are just asking the majority to be sensitive towards us and not call us ''confused'' etc. and understand that this happens naturally. Like you didn't ask to be right-handed, similarly we didn't ask to be left-handed.
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I like left-handed people, especially, since this group seems to have an above-average quota of high-achievers :)
Thought provoking indeed Gauri... u also left out golf as a friend of mine always has to travel with his kit as he never finds a lefty kit. My father is a lefty and I know the pain personally though he turned out to be extremely intelligent and smart among his siblings...loved the way u structured ur subject :) easy and interesting to read ... Keep up the good work .
I went trough the same things :) it has been difficult being left hander! but I got use to all of the stuff for right hand :) maybe I can not use some kind of stuff for left hander :)
but you caught very good point about left handedness! :)
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