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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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6 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

This just made me think of being tall, and getting all those 'What is the weather like up there' queries from smarty pants short people.

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Michel M. Prins
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6 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

"Are you left handed?" and "How can you write like that?" Are sometimes a bit in the same percentages.

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6 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Again, right handers are not spared the silver (and blue, when you use a pen) surfer syndrome.

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Daria B
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6 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

The notebook rings problem, I'd just turn the notebook upside down, because I don't care.

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Michel M. Prins
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6 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

And then when you say you're lefthanded, they just don't know what to say anymore

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Daria B
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6 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

We right handers get our pencils and pens on the side of our hands too. Yeah, no one's afe.

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Michelle Mendoza
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6 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

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...

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My Least Favorite Everyday Torture Device

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6 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

My classmates have the annoying habit to ignore my warnings about my left-hand scissors and how uncomfortable they would be for them. Two seconds later they come to me and say that I really ought to buy a better scissor, because mine's completely useless and doesn't work... This moment when you feel like you are the only one in the room who has more brain cells that teeth.

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Sara Otterstätter
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6 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Funny thing. I, as a left hander, can't operate scissors for left handers. My mum went to great lengths to get me a pair of left hander scissors. I use my right hand for scissors. Naturally.

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Rhonda Pfeffer
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6 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Yes, but we baby boomers learned on right handed everything! We can't use left handed scissors - we learned to adapt!

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victor kamau
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5 months ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Some may need to, like teachers and Engineering students. Also, the fact that you have one in the house gives you a lot of peace

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Tea
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6 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I'm left handed, but for some reason I can't use left-handed scissors. Well I can if I have to, but I find them uncomfortable.. ??

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Rick Coppage
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6 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

You can't just change the handle the blades need to be reversed as well to make scissors left handed.

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Aiden Gregg
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6 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Safety scissors are ambidextrous. Why don't they make craft scissors like that? download-5...1bf31f.jpg download-599052d1bf31f.jpg

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Adrian Hammersmith
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6 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Because they are weak & designed not to cut anything? When I was at school the blades had a gap about 1/4" wide between them. Impossible to cut spongecake, let alone paper.

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Renee Quiett
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6 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

In kindergarten they searched the whole school for lefty scissors for me. Turns out I cut with my right hand. Lol

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Andrea Miller Blum
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6 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Imagine being a teacher as I am and attempting to cut EVERYTHING for a PK CLASSROOM from Bulletin Boards to worksheets. Ugh! Don't even get me started on how difficult it is to teach CURSIVE to right handed students when you are left handed!

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Stuw R
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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

scissors used to be ambidextrous, then it was decided to make then super-ergonomic for the right-hand

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Karen Williams
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4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I’m left handed, but I cut better with my right hand, except for intricate stuff.

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Jolie Engelbrecht
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4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I have had to use the right handed ones my whole life...the first time I tried left handed scissors it was so weird that I don't even bother now

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Fairsher
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4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I am left handed yet do everything other than write with my right hand and catch a baseball and throw with my left hand, so I suck at baseball!!

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Freya Fluharty
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4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

When I was young (I'm 55), I didn't understand why I'd get deep, painful indentations in my hand and why using scissors hurt me and not my friends. I suspect I'll never enjoy using them.

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Patricia Doughty
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5 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Used right handed scissors for so many years that special LH ones don't work for me because the tensions between handle and blades is all wrong, my hand and muscles have compensated and twist the blades!

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Ramona Buckley
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5 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Try being a left handed barber. The left handed shears were way expensive so, I learned to use the “normal” ones. Hello arthritis.

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Irene Chávez
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5 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I was born in a house of left-handed (mom and uncles) and they had left-handed scissors. I had to learn to use them! I know how hard it is to use something with the other hand. On the other hand (lol) I developed a lot of skills with my left hand and now I am happy to be able to use them both for many many things :) I adore left-handed people, it reminds me of home.

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Valerie Benchetrit
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5 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I’m left handed and ordinary scissors never bothered me but oh! Kitchen scissors were a night mare. When I married forty years ago my mother discovered some left handed kitchen scissors in Boots. She bought some for me and they were a dream. Still are! Still have them and still going strong!

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WhiteFox
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6 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

just turn it around the other way. that what i always do

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TC
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6 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I never understood why they HAVE to be shaped for right-handed.

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Anita Holleufer
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6 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I'm ambidextrous. Their somethings I can do right-handed only. And there are things that I can only do left-handed. Cutting hair I do right-handed. Thank God! Otherwise I'd be screwed. My career was a stylist.

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Isabel Care
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6 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I have both types of scissors as I am ambisinister. (equally clumsy with both hands)

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6 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

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6 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

No problem here ... If you learn to push the blades together. In fact: I couldn't work with leftie scissors if my life depended on it

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6 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

All left handed scissors I have ever found on the extremely rare occasion, like have to go to a specialty craft store to find some, have literally been a minimum 6-10$ more expensive than the exact same ones for right handed people. And that is for the c**p ones. You get good left handed sewing or craft scissors and it will be at least 20-40$ more.

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6 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I hate it. Left handed scissors are so hard to find. Then once you find them they're like $5 more expansive

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Sue Cowley
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6 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

It's a common misconception that it's only the shape of the handle which make scissors left handed, when it's also the arrangement of the blades. With right handed scissors a left hander can't see where the blade is cutting. When I first used proper left handed scissors I couldn't work out why I wasn't cutting accurately until I realised that all my life I'd had to adapt my position to see where the right handed blade was cutting. Once I learned to hold and look at them normally I was fine.

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Jessica Hepler
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6 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Yes lefty scissors exist . No I won't carry them around with me and no they don't have them in the place that I need to use scissors

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Dawn Matthey
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6 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I have never had a problem with scissors or a lot of these things. Maybe the ring binder would be my worst along with those desks.

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Erin welch
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6 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I WAS ALWAYS MORE COMFORTABLE USING MY RIGHT HAND IN MOST EVERYTHING I DID, BUT I COULDN'T/CAN'T WRITE RIGHT FOR NOTHIN'!

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6 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I HAVE ALWAYS USED SCISSORS RIGHT HANDED FOR SOME REASON MY RIGHT SIDE WAS ALWAYS MY BEST SIDE WHEN I PLAYED SPORTS GROWING UP PLAYING A MUSICAL INSTRUMENT, EVERYTHING! BUT I NEVER COULD WTITE RIGHT HANDED FOR THE LIFE OF ME!

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Cheryl Hansen
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6 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Maybe why I actually cut right but all other fine motor skill are right handed

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Marysia Jawłowska
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6 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I don't get it, sorry. Most of the scissors I'm using are symmetrical anyway.

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Moriah Tamburello
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6 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Yes yes, thank you Einstein. But sometimes you go somewhere that doesn't have lefty scissors and, surprise surprise, you don't carry yours around with you. -_-

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Moriah Tamburello
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6 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Yes yes, thank you Einstein. But sometimes you find yourself in a place where there are no lefty scissors because, surprise surprise, you don't carry yours around with you -_-

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LeAnne Westbrook
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6 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Or you learn to use regular scissors because kindergarden didnt have enough leftie scissors. I guess I lucked out.

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6 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I have those for lefties. For ME! ME! ME! sorry... frustration... :p

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6 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Those are not worth buying anyway. They don't cut into hard frozen ice cream well enough. Use the scoop/dipper kind or the wide-spoon variety; I have the latter.

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6 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

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 rm-ip-tab-default-598ffc81ea14a.jpg

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6 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I'm right handed and I'm currently scrolling with my left thumb! Just being lazy!

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6 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

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. :/

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6 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

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!)

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Maybe He Was Clever... Nope. Just Didn't Want To Get His Hand Dirty

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Šimon Špaček
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6 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Do you poor lefties know that Jewish write and read from right to left? Think about all those poor right-handed Jews!

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6 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

As a mother of a left handed kid, I've felt the same way, trying to use her lefty scissors :)

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6 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

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...

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6 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Is it a thing where people only lift cups with their dominant hand, I subconsciously alternate between the two

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6 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

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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