13 Things That All Lefties Know Too Well
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13 Things That All Lefties Know Too Well

... At least we're the creative ones.

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13 Things That All Lefties Know Too Well
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I am blessed enough to say that I help make up the world's 10% of left-handed people. With a population percentage so small, we lefties need to stick together. We have quite a variety of the most random issues that the righties out there would have no idea were even problems. But, I know every lefty who reads this will definitely have some sort of story to relate to each one. Here are 13 things that all of us lucky left-handed humans are far too familiar with.

1. We will always smear our handwriting.

This also causes our hands to be covered in silver as we smear the handwriting on our page. Also known as the 'silver surfer syndrome', this is something that every lefty has experienced. We can't write a single essay without having a hand covered in silver pencil lead or pen ink. Then we have to walk around looking like we just shoved out hand into a silver pile of dirt.

2. We have to arrive early to every lecture to find that one left-handed desk.

There's nothing worse than trying to take notes on a desk that's only covering the right side of your body.

3. Scissors are the devil.

Do I even need to explain this one?

4. Coffee mugs are out to get us.

Seriously though, we can never show off our cute mugs because we have to hold them backward.

5. We can't write around people without them asking if we're left-handed.

... No, we just write with the wrong hand.

6. Fishing feels impossible.

Unless we go out and hunt down a left-handed fishing pole, I promise that we will never catch a fish.

7. We can't scoop our own ice cream.

Honestly, sometimes I just scoop my ice cream with a regular spoon, because trying to use an ice cream scoop seems like something only God can accomplish.

8. We fought over who got the left-handed glove in gym class.

9. I don't understand why using a knife seems to be so difficult, but I can't cut my steak for the life of me.

10. Can openers ruin our lives.

11. One word: notebooks.

I can't take notes in class without my hand digging into the spirals... the design structure of them is just rude. It's just like how we smear our handwriting, when I write in a spiral notebook, my hand ends up getting covered in spiral marks.

12. We never know which hand to use when shaking someone's hand.

Literally, I know there's a rule of which hand you use to shake somebody's hand, but every single time I go to greet somebody I put out my left hand and end up doing that awkward 'which hand do I use?' dance.

13. What can I say? Not only are we more creative, but we also have the neatest handwriting.

Although us lefties have a lot of issues, we do tap into the right side of our brain more than the righties (the brain is "cross-wired"). The right side of the brain is the creative side. I also don't know a single left-handed person who doesn't have pretty handwriting. It's like we were just born to be neat hand-writers.

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