40 Pics That Reveal The Horrors Of Being Left-Handed
For those of you who don't now, Sunday August 13th is International Left-Handers Day, so in homage to lefties everywhere, Bored Panda has compiled this list of annoying problems that all left-handers face on a daily basis.
If you're left-handed then you're probably aware that, whether you like it or not, this is a right-handed world. From scissors and desks to ring binders and ice-cream scoopers, everything seems to be designed with the righties in mind, which isn't really surprising when you realize that around 90% of the world's population is right-handed.
Still, there's a pretty impressive list of lefties crammed into that remaining 10%. Did you know that Leonardo Da Vinci, Michelangelo, Aristotle and Julius Caesar were all left-handed for instance? And let's not forget Albert Einstein, Neil Armstrong, Winston Churchill, Bill Gates, and Barack Obama. And Jimi Hendrix. And Kurt Cobain. And Paul McCartney. And David Bowie, Charlie Chaplin, Robert de Niro, Angelina Jolie, Keanu Reeves, Bruce Willis, Tom Cruise, and Jon Stewart, plus a whole bunch of other people we don't have the space to write about. If we haven't made our point yet then what we're trying to say is that, although left-handed people might be in the minority, that doesn't make them any less awesome, and some of the world's most important contributions have in fact come from left-handers.
Despite this however, non-righties have had a pretty hard time throughout history. The word "left" is derived from the Anglo-Saxon word "lyft", meaning "weak", and the word "sinister" actually derives from the Latin word meaning "left". Left-handers were also thought to consort with the devil, and being left-handed was sometimes considered proof that a woman was a witch and should therefore be persecuted or even executed! Fortunately those days are long gone though, and the only things left-handers have to worry about these days are using a can opener without making a mess, and trying to write without getting ink all over the side of their hand. Scroll down to see some other problems that the modern leftie has to face. Can you relate? Then let us know in the comments below and don't forget to vote. Happy International Left-Handers Day everybody!
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"Are you left handed?" and "How can you write like that?" Are sometimes a bit in the same percentages.
And then when you say you're lefthanded, they just don't know what to say anymore
Less demand = Less production = higher cost per piece
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They are great scissors and last for a long time. The smart thing to do is buy them on sale.
i was given many many moons ago a pair of left handed scissors all the way from England to coober Pedy, I loved them so much, and finally I could cut straight, they went missing, but I don't mind 'cause I know the person who took them needed them more than me.
I’ve run into this as a left handed drummer.... double lefty pedals are like $100 more than the right handed version if they even make a lefty one
If you knew ANYTHING about manufacturing...... you’d know the machine that makes these would need recalibration just to create 0.1% for freaks
It is like that for everything and is super hard to find left handed anything. Not fund for lefties like me as it is always really expensive if you want the left handed stuff but if you don't get it than it hurts really bad and makes it really difficult to use stuff if you use the right handed stuff. That is also why most lefties are better at using their right hands than right handers with there left because we have to get use to it. Most left handed scissors and other every day office used things that are meant for right handed people are at least 6-10$ American dollars more expensive for lefties.
And I bet they just have a left hand grip not reversed blades. Though I hope to be proved wrong.
I've used right-handed scissors so long, I don't even know how to use a left-handed pair.
Unfortunately, they probably had to build an entire new machine at the factory to make left-handed ones. So that's what they charged you for. It sucks, and it's not right. They should've allowed that their budget when they started.
But if they don’t sell as much. Why don’t they have less machines? Then the price would be the same. Or do they only have one assembly line for the right handed scissors? I don’t know how much is needed for scissors.
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Bought some for my granddaughter when she was in maybe kindergarten. Teacher took them away, end of lefty scissors. :(
Did you intervene to get your/her property back?! Do they understand what theft means? My father would have had her carpeted in the principal's office. A teacher of mine once appropriated - & then lost - a little pocket dictionary of ours & she got roasted for it.
Load More Replies... ..... seriously? no. because they require specialized tooling for w/e parts happen to be different than the right-handed pair. this 'specialized' tooling (if it's just the molded plastic bits, then it's just a different mold) will cost the same as the normal tooling, but produce much fewer units (because demand is lower). therefore, the cost per unit is higher. they pass that cost on to you, the consumer (because they're trying to make a profit).
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Fiskars has scissors for lefties also. So its shops fault that they dont sell em
Kyse ei ollut siitä, vaan kuvassahan on myynnissä sekä oikeakätiset että vasenkätiset sakset jälkimmäisten ollessa kalliimmat -> siitä johtuen kuvateksti "discrimination".
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Can we just take a moment to admire that solid straight line she erased?
Ooh you've never seen a left handed person in all your life? Do you get this surprised like this every time you see a left handed person use their left hand to write? Cause I still get grown people who are like this...
For everyone who uses a drawing tablet I advice to try to make it as easy as possible. I have 4 buttons and a ring. The buttons I linked to the functions: Undo (CTRL+Z), redo (Shift+CTRL+Z), brush (B), eraser (E). And for the rocker ring I did this: Brush size increase ( [ key), brush size decrease ( ] key), zoom in (CTRL + =), zoom out (CTRL + - And now everything goes a lot more easily for me personally. Maybe this will work for you too. rm-ip-tab-...1ea14a.jpg 
I have this problem too, but I'm right handed. So, needless to say, I don't know how to properly use a can opener. I've even broken a few. :/
Helps being a lefty on the tennis court... can be quite off putting to opponents who are more used to playing against right handers (even for other lefties!)
Do you poor lefties know that Jewish write and read from right to left? Think about all those poor right-handed Jews!
As a mother of a left handed kid, I've felt the same way, trying to use her lefty scissors :)
Me as a right-hander always thought, the designs are for the others, not for me (Because I already know whats on my mug so the design would cheerish the others). Having it on "my side" keeps confusing me a little bit...
Is it a thing where people only lift cups with their dominant hand, I subconsciously alternate between the two
I think the reason for this is because it would be really cool to meet someone who is ambidextrous? That's my guess anyway.
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The strange thing with me is: I am left-handed with writing and drawing, but everything else (using scissors, playing guitar, using the mouse) I'm doing with my right hand. I have only met one other person in my life who has exactly this same thing.
I used to think of myself as being left handed, because I write left handed and use it for all of my dexterity. However, I also do things right handed, and do a lot of power movement right handed. Its called "Cross-Dominance(or mixed laterality) , and is considered rare. I'm surprised so many here are addressing this. But take heart, people with cross-dominance are usually smarter, and more imaginative. But we have more depression on the negative side. I just thought I would chime in here on something that has been on my mind for decades. :D
Yeah you kinda described me tbh... there are things that I do with my left hand that I can't do with my right hand, and I could even write decently with my left hand when I was younger.
That's actually quite fascinating, John! I'll keep the word "Cross-Dominance" in mind, since that's probably a perfect word for this type of behaviour of writing and using the "dominant" hand in general. I agree with you on that I also had no idea that this many had a similar situation, either for themselves of people they know in real life. But it's pretty nice to know that there are still more out there :)
Add me to this list as well. It depends on what I am doing whether I am Left or Right handed or Ambidextrous.
I just thought of it as adapting to a right handed world. I write, eat, dress, cook, and do a few other things lefty. But scissors, bowling, batting, catching, throwing, etc. I do with my right. Good to know there is a word for it.
I too am left handed for writing and painting. I crochet left handed but knit right handed. I use a knife and scissors right handed . I suffered discrimination at school but have made it through 58 years as a leftie.
Can confirm. I'm as creative and imaginative as...um like the most imaginative thing possible. Yeah.
Me, too! I actually do more things with my right hand than I do with my left, but I write and eat with my left.
Make it two, Michel. I do throw left and bowl left, but shoot pool right, use scissors and mouse right and used to play guitar right. I am a bit of a sketch artist and I tend to draw right, but when I am shading I unconsciously shift the pencil back and forth depending on the angle and placement of the page.
There's a left and right way to shoot pool???? No wonder I always sucked at pool...only righties tried to teach me. I feel cheated
I write and use scissors and the computer mouse with my right hand, but I eat, serve food and (would) play guitar left-handed.
My husband does this too! He considers himself to be partly ambidextrous.
I am ambidextrous. Except writing and drawing. :D
here's another
Now you have met two. I work the exact same way. Write, draw, throw lefty. Everything else right.
I'm the same as well
I am also like that I use to call it "Not fully ambidextrous" (my own word). I write/ paint/ ... with my left hand but do everything else with my right. I play tennis on the right,due to that I have more muscle on this side and do all my sports with it. I play guitar with my right because I didn't wanted to buy a special guitar. I use mouse on the right (but trackpad with the left ... weird). I used to think that when I was little I started to write with my left hand but I wasn't supposed to do that and maybe my handwriting would'nt be so bad if I wrote with the right.
I'm like this! And my uncle is the opposite, right handed but uses his left to play sports and music :o
I eat and write with my left, throw with my right, bat with my left, scissors and all else is done with my right.
Same here! I'm lefty for fine motor (writing, drawing, eating, and other precise detail) but righty for everything else (scissors, mouse, sports, etc).
Same here!
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Same here
some reason could be that some of the left- handed people were trained (in schools, by parents...) to do stuff with right hand and not with left hand, so it caused that they are trained to be right handed, but they prefer write with right hand
That's exactly the case with me, too.. I hold a pen or pencil w/ my. Left hand but literally Any thing else I use my right hand...
Meet another Michel, I put it down to, "things I have done naturally, i.e. picked up a pencil, thrown (or kicked) a ball, I do left handed. BUT things I have been shown how to do, i.e. sew, knit, use scissors etc, I do with my right hand. I have done them in the same way that I've been shown...right handed!
There are many like that! It is called being ambidextrous! Not that unusual to be able to use both hands!
I understood we are not 100% left or right-handed. Anyone could be 90-10%, 80-40% etc. Anyway, what about those who write Arabic or Hebrew? : they ARE a big amount of people out there
I actually do the same. I can relate to alot of these things - but ultimately I only write with my left hand. Everything else is done right handed.
I'm a lefty who plays the guitar as a right hander, and do a lot of things with my right hand. I am sure many, many lefties are like this.
Well, you've met me in cyberspace now! We ar both probably almost ambidextrous.
Naw I'm the exact same 🤣🤣🤣🤣
That's crazy, I'm the same way!
I do the same . I even played golf right handed but tennis left handed. I think we have adapted to a right hand world out of necessity. I even bought left hand scissors. Problem is , the blade is on the other side . So instead of cutting to the left of the line , you have to retrain yourself to cut to the right of the line .
Michael M. Prins---you are ambidextrous, as am I. It's a wonderful gift.
Now you know of two. Like you I draw and write with my left hand, but use scissors and move mouse with right hand. I also iron with right hand.
If you are truly left-handed and do things only with your left like guitar then I think you're a special unicorn. Seriously, I've tried.
I'm the same way. I cant use scissors or a mouse with my left, even though I'm a lefty. I guess we've been conditioned.
played golf R/H , GUITAR R/H , MOUSE - R/H
I write and draw left handed but everything else I adapted to right. I always thought most left handed people were like this
This is exactly me!!!
I use scissors in my right hand too and the same with the mouse
I'm exactly the same as you...it's because we had to adapt to a right handed world. When I was learning to use scissors as a child there were no left handed ones at home so I had no choice but to learn to use the right handed ones.
I think it is because being left handed, so many things were not accessible for us, so we compensated by learning to use our (wrong - right hand) just so we could complete the project.
My husband writes left handed, but everything else he has learned to do right handed.
I am exactly like that. I write with my left hand but do most other things with my right hand. I guess we just had to learn to live in a right hand world
Wow! It seems that there are a lot more of us than I thought!! I'm right-handed but I do a lot of things with my left hand. I can even write and it's more legible than many people using their "good" hand! :D
Hey me too.
I am similar to that, I eat, draw, write, scoop etc. with my left hand but I do sports or computer related things with my right hand
That's me too. Write, eat brush my teeth left. All sports are right handed. Even scissors are right.
came here for content, but y'all just whine about everything
What was that then ???
"Right" privilege. Haha
Thanks! :)
You want content? Maybe this: https://steamedup.wordpress.com/2015/05/18/chopsticks-screwdrivers-and-majority-privilege/
Ged, it might be true, but you are not disabled. So get over it. I refuse to have sympathy.
You know what? I'm a lefty and I don't think about it. It's a first-world problem and I have so many other legitimate hurdles in life--
I'm left-handed and I think these people have very easy lives if this is the worst problem they have.
But these were never supposed to proclaim as their biggest problems rather just some annoyances. Like we all have in our daily lives.
It's supposed to be humour. Lighten up.
I think social media would be a totally different place if people talked about their real problems.
As a left-hander myself, let me just say: what an incredibly trivial list of horrors. Inconveniences, some of them, but minor ones. Such drama queenery.
I think you and Marissa are supposed to understand it's all in fun. Plus, I don't know any lefty who is not super-proud of being a lefty.
Aside from the coffee cup issue I thought this post was just a bunch of sniveling, woe is me, bs. I'm a left handed person who learned to be efficient with both hands. What's so hard about a can opener? or a faucet? get a quick dry pen and tighten it up when it feels loose. I've got all of you beat on the rare factor, I'm a lefty with blue eyes and type O- blood. :P lol
and what if right handed people refused to flush their toilet or open their car door because they had to use their left hand? what about refrigerators with the handle on the right, or any door with the handle on the right? and the hot water faucet on a split set up?
I'm right-handed and really have never been weird about someone being left-handed. It's not a big deal and it doesn't make you special.
we right-handed people have that notebook rings problem too....in the other 50% of the pages...
One time I came home from music and asked my parents "Why aren't there left handed Orchestras?"
I think that all those products featured are rather discriminating indeed, did you know that around 10% of the human population is left-handed? Can't understand why they don't bear this in mind when manufacturing new products and stuff. Despite that, plus all the problems I have in my every day routine as a left-handed person, I'm proud to be a bit different and I'm sure all fellow "lefties" feel the same way. :)
Just a couple of these, I can see as problems for people who are right handed also. But it made me realize that I write and use scissors with my right hand, but I eat and do everything else with my left, is anyone else like that?
I use the computer mouse with my right hand, I got the worst "Paint" drawings at school.
I am naturally right handed but when I was young I injured my right hand and could not use it for two weeks so I taught myself to be ambidextrous (yes, I was a strange child). Now I confuse my colleagues because I use the computer mouse with my left hand. I also use a knife and fork like a left handed person. And I use both hands interchangeably for many things. I also cannot tell left from right easily.
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I am left-handed, but I can use my right hand to use the mouse, eat, drink, use scissors. Basically anything that was bothersome to do left-handed (except write), I learned to do right-handed. I think is pretty common for lefties.
My favorite sport when waiting for my wife is asking if they have a left- handed sewing machine or Chainsaw, depending on the store.
I'm glad I at least don't have this problem. I have many others though.
Most of this is baloney. We left-handers have ways we adapt, such as using a ruler upside down, no biggie. I bought some stuff for left handers once and couldn't use them I was so used to the adapting. Except for scissors, gotta have left handed scissors
I was a lefty as a kid but had a 1st grade teacher that made me do everything right handed. I ended up left eye dominate but mostly right handed. Ended up having to wear a patch over my left eye to make the right eye dominate. I still (I'm 62 yo) do things either just left handed or either. Always kind of surprises me when I realize I'm eating, Or using a hammer or shooting left handed.
Did I really get to the last page and see a shoe ad that said to start the school year off on the right foot?? FU Famous Footwear. Can't even look at funny stuff about lefties without more lefty discrimination, lol.
Work on a turning maschine as a left hander or use a bread or meat sliceing maschine.! Nearly impossible..We always have to use the stump side of a knife and the is NO way of using a fish knife or a butter knife... I could go on forever...
hey some of the problems we come across too, right handed people... like those parts from notebooks while writing, they come in our way too, at some point.. let's not overreact about things like this... i do things with my left hand as well, like eating at times and is not the end of the world
No one mentioned cameras. I take pictures upside down and then need to rotate each pic in my files