When looking at a person, everyone seems to be the same, human beings, with the few characteristics of race, age, and body stature as differences. One anomaly that most people do not think about is the hand used to write with. The times I have observed most people's dominant hand, it has been their right. According to Scientific America about 15% of the Earth's population is left handed . Being left-handed comes with difficulties and is a minority most do not consider.

Being left-handed can be more difficult than most people understand. For construction workers, electricians, plumbers, etc., finding tools that are meant for being used by a dominant left hand can be aggravating. In a tool store, for every 20 to 25 right-handed tools in stock, there could be only one to two left-handed tools. Another tool not necessarily occupational that provides difficulty fro the left-handed is the can opener. Its difficulty comes from the fact that it is not ambidextrous and can only be used by the right hand.

Something equally as hard for those who are left-handed to accomplish is starting a car. At the point of starting the car the driver who is dominant on their left is faced with the challenge of remembering to use their right hand instead of their left. This can be difficult due to the ignitions' placement on the right side of the steering wheel. In an LA Times article on a study of whether left-handed people die younger than the right-handed, it stated "...two psychologists found that male and female left-handers were much more likely to die as a result of industrial or vehicular accidents,... The researchers attributed much of the dramatic increase in accidental deaths to the fact that most machines are designed for right-handers." Due to most people being right-handed, it is very costly and time-consuming to make machines just for the left-handed. This gives left-handed people the only option of working the machines not produced for them.

When going to school, even the desks are manufactured for the right extremities. The writing spaces of desks start at the back of the right side, stem up in front of the person, and then cover the whole front of the person. this creates and arduous challenge for those dominant on their left side. People that write with their left hand turn their paper to the right so it is easily accessible for the hand, however removing the necessary stability provided by the sides of the desk. Items that are necessary for school such as binders and notebooks also cause havoc for the left-handed because the rings are placed so that they wouldn't affect the right-handed.

With being left-handed comes with great difficulty. Tasks that require tools or even operating machinery can become dangerous because they not made to for their dominant hand. Although being left-handed is not entirely rare it is often not thought of as much when meeting a person as other physical attributes