it is true that there are toos just simply not made for leftys. but we learn to adapt. and in the long run were not that diferent. in school i never understood why it was so hard to cut along the lines. or why i would always end up with so many smudges on my paper when id write. i later found out why and simply adapted. the only thing that gave me the hardest trouble were the scisors. but what i simply did was while still using left hand, id start cuting from the righte to the left. or in other words counter clock wise if say i had to cut something round. yes my hand would sometimes get in the way but i got used to it. until this day if u look at my note book u will see that i have to write from the back pages to the front so that the notebook coils dont get in my way. but at the end of the day i dont regret being lefty. it gives you somehting to stand out from the rest of the people. and it gives you the uper hand if anyone ever wants to wrestle with their laft hand.

that explains while my bread does that also i always get fussed at if im cutting tomatoes and stuff cause i cut them towards me. but you guys forgot how awful it is to use a weed whacker. i always forget to use it right handed until i whack my leg once or twice. the direction the string turns just doesn't mix well with lefties especially near a fence. ouch. lol

Well the problem i have is that im Left Handed, but i cut with my right hand, and in school i was given Left-Handed Scissors and i couldent use them, so i used to get told i was Right Handed, but when i started to write id use my Left hand.

I left Secondary School last year and now i have relsied i can Cut and Write at the same time, id say that was a good thing?

It is barbarous and murderous to force a lefty to be righty because at long and short,they are violating their real decision to use the hand of their preference.The teachers tried to force my dad Miguel Morales to use the right hand when he was writing in the blackboard,hitting him with a 32 inches long rule.Even if they forced him to use the right,he refused.In my case,even though I am a natural righty,I wanted sometimes to try to use the left because I considered the right hand was a piece of cake,and sometimes when I wanted to use the left,I was scolded and forced to stay righty and I couldn't have the guts to put them in their place.

I know this won't pertain to most on this page but thought i would share. I have been a left handed drummer for 35 years. This means setting up my drums the opposite of a righty. It mat sound like no big deal but my career has dwindled to nothing but teaching because it is very difficult to sit in with other musicians to show my school. To be honest, with a degree in music it has, been a little more then just a hobby. Yet it has been a handicap to get known. And at this stage of my life it would be quite difficult to accommodate a normal righty setup. Just another example of the challenges that really do still exist in a time when every other handicap under the sun needs to be considered. Power to the lefties! Thanks for listening

My 6 year old son is the only left handed person in our entire family. We don't even know any others. I want to make things as easy as I can for him so I would really appreciate being told what I need to get both for school and at home. I never even thought about the difficulties untilhe tried to practice writing on a chalkboard and erased as he wrote. Thanks!

When I was a child I had nuns for teachers that hit your hand with a ruler if you tried to use your left hand. I adapted, however, it was wrong. I have 2 left handed children and 2 left handed grandchildren. I have never let anyone try to change them.

Let him be left-handed!! There is nothing wrong with being left handed. I would ask the school to stop immediately.

My 4 year old son is in kindergarten and is left handed. His teachers are trying to make him use his right hand for writing. Is this right? I believe they should just leave him alone. Please advice.

I had no option in my everyday life than to adapt myself to use right-handed scissors,tin openers, etc.I continue being extremely left-handed,but now I can use both hands in many things.