When you are born left handed, it is kind of like you are born into an exclusive club. When you run into other left-handed people, you always end up having the same conversation.

It goes a little like this: “Oh my gosh! Are you left handed too?” to which the other person replies, “Oh my god, yes!” For some reason, it is always a very exciting time. For the most part though, being a lefty is a little bit of a struggle.

1. Notebooks

The spirals dig into your arm and really mess up your writing flow. The smaller notebooks are tolerable but the five-subject ones are the devil of notebooks.

2. Pencils

Whenever you need to write anything down, even if it is the shortest of sentences, you will end up with lead on the side of your hand. Every. Single. Time.

3. Pen

Pens are almost worse than pencils. If you do not leave enough time for the ink to dry it smears on the page as well as all over the side of you hand.

4. Your fashion choices get judged.

“You’re supposed to wear your watch on your left.”

5. Scissors

The worst was when you were in elementary school and there were only two pairs of left handed scissors in the big bucket and three left handed kids in the class.

6. Desks

When there are only a few left-handed desks in a classroom and they are all filled with right-handed students.

7. The elbow bumps

Eating next to a right-handed person, sitting next to a right-handed person in class.

8. White boards and chalk boards

Do you have something to write up on the board? Nope, you don’t because it will disappear as you write anyway.

9. Binders

It is always a struggle when you have to fit your arm in between the rings and continue to adjust as you move down the page.

10. When people ask you how you write with your left hand.

11. Can openers

It starts out like this...

and ends up looking like this...

12. Constantly being told that you would die young because you were left-handed.

13. The pen on a chain at the bank.

It’s always on the right side. This becomes problematic because the chain always ends up right where you are trying to write.

Through it all though, we remain : The few, the proud, the left-handed.