Left handed in a right handed world

I use both but there is no option in the poll for me!! Am I being singled out LOL

My Grandma was left handed and was caned and told she was evil if she was caught using her left hand. My son is left handed and has had problems at school being taught to write incorrectly and has been given pens that smudge too easily. It is so much easier to get left handed equipment these days, on the internet, but why does it have to be so expensive.

I write with my left hand because mainly because it's neater. I have found that when I have to write or sign for something alot of equipmet is set up for right handed use. Our local post office has pens on both sides probably because one of the casiers is left handed and understands the difficultly.

I am an elderly lefty and can remember my school days. I was caned every time I tried to use my left hand to write, had my left hand tied behind my back, in an attempt to make me write and use my right hand to do things. They didnt win though, I won and when I left school at 14yr, I was still a staunch left hander.Throughout my working life I have found that I was needed more and more to help out the right handers that couldnt do the job. WE ARE VERY USEFUL!!

I'm Left handed, and for my whole school Life I had to use the mouse right handed, it slowed me down in IT exams, it slowed my work down, made my life a pain. but now I get to use my college mouse left handed and its so nice. (we couldn't get them set so the click worked the right way round for left handed users)

people lean over to use my computer or what ever and complain that its hard to use, what most of them don't appreciate is my whole world is like that the whole time, we only have right handed keyboards, and the mice are molded for right handers (well most of them) which is annoying too. nothing I can do though.

some of the computer mice don't have enough slack on the wire to put them to the left hand side with out unplugging them, untangling them and putting them to the left.

in the ILC (library/computer area) I finished using the computer, and of course the mouse was on the left hand side, and the cheeky employee said to me "are you going to put that mouse back so that the next person who wants to use it doesn't have to change it over" so I said to her "What makes you presume that the next user will be right handed, they could be left handed. also, why is the onus on me to make sure its easy for right handed people, and why don't right handed people have to change it over for me?" and then I walked out

and having to write with those ring binders so your hand gets in the way, irritating! and sizzors the bane of my life

Lefthanders have too much money. They will spend it where they will, too much of it, causing a general inflation for all the rest of us. Only today I went to a restarant for lunch, described as 'fashionable', one which was way out of town 55 miles away, where they charged us £60 for what was a meagre meal. They didn't even have a menu. All their food was cheapo "homemade", basically a feeble fish soup with hardly any protein. Even the wine was "domestic", not even bottled. The gipsy-band couldn't even sing in tune. Yuk! we were ripped off.

This restaurant didn't even have electric lights. And it had an outside loo.

I am not a lefthander. I earn my money with my right-hand.

I'm a lefty but can also use my right hand for basically everything including writing due to having broken my left arm a couple of years ago. (Now I'm ambidexterous, don't I feel special =P )

I've never had any problems using right-handed equipment, such as scissors... I cannot for the life of me use left handed scissors... I have to use right-handed ones in my LEFT hand! otherwise I cannot use them.. As for a computer mouse, I have never had a problem, but cannot use them in my left hand.

I think the only way to get over all of these things, which are, quite frankly, not that easy to adapt to, do not need to be altered for our comfort. If everything was made for both left and right-handers, we would end up producing far too many things that would never be bought, other than by the odd few people who are incapable of adapting.

In other words, get over it, it is the way it is and it'll never change. You were given two hands, and whether one is dominant over the other or not, you still have to use the other one regardless. I especially learnt that lesson when I broke my arm and was forced to use my right one for everything, although it took virtually no time for me to adapt. A day or two at most, and about a week to be able to write legibly.

Try using your right arm for everything, you'll soon have no reason to complain.

Geesh...so much right-handed anger.
I've never understood why people can't be more understanding. I am very left handed...I don't have much strength or dexterity with my right hand. I use a left handed mouse, and a left handed keyboard...I get all kinds of flack from everyone...but, no one wants to use my keyboard because it's too difficult for them...how come they don't realize my using a right handed keyboard is just as difficult for me?
A little understanding...of course no one wants to take anything away from people who overcome great obstacles...but, if you "righty's" tried doing things with your left hand instead of your right...you might understand how uncomfortable some mundane tasks can become.

I'm a ICT Tutor and we offer Internet Cafe sessions.

Until recently I selfishly never thought about my students being left handed, until I began to work in a centre that offers ICT courses to people that are, well lets say no so well off, or have disabilities of 'some' kind - whether physical or mental.

A lady of 72 joined my course, she was absolutely terrified of using the mouse because she simply could not control the mouse. She had been on loads of computer courses before but 'lost it' half way through because of the nmouse. What the tutors hadn't picked up was her left handedness. On top on that she had dspraxia too, so hand, eye co-ordination was against her too. I sat her down, showed her how to change the mouse over as well as the mouse buttons, explained the different types of mice available and she carried on through the course to complete it with ease.

In the end she used a laptop and a mouse pad instead of a mouse, but with it set up for left-handed. She was extremely grateful for the help and is going on to study further.

So why you sit there moaning about being left handed think about hpw hard it is with other difficulties too ontop and be grateful.

Try learning computers and the terminology too when you can't speak or have minimal comprehension of english...now that's a challenge.

I lost the use of my left arm from a motorcycle accident. Five days before my accident my fiance and I found out we were going to have our first child. I was in the hospitaI for four months and in the Intensive Care Unit for almost three months with a five percent chance of survival. I seen everybit of my sons life and did it with one hand, he is fifteen months. I am in school for bachelors in criminal justice. Nobody is going to feel sorry for you, so stop fealing sorry for yourself and deal with your losses and move on.

Did you know that nearly all anaesthetists are left handed, the anaesthetic machine is designed for a left handed person as is the laryngoscope. Thought you lefties might be interested!

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Being a lefty is simply Unique. =) i'm one too!

Hey you lefties! learn to write from back-to-front: begin at the ends of words. It won't smudge then.

The thing I hated most about being left-handed, is the smudges whenever I wrote. But recently, I got a new tool called SmudgeGuard. It was posted on the kk.org/cool tools. It got a good review, so I bought one. After I tried it, I was very impressed! I didn't get smudged at all!