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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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Michel M. Prins 7 years ago
"Are you left handed?" and "How can you write like that?" Are sometimes a bit in the same percentages.
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Michel M. Prins 7 years ago
And then when you say you're lefthanded, they just don't know what to say anymore
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Michel M. Prins 7 years ago
Can we just take a moment to admire that solid straight line she erased?
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Michelle Mendoza 7 years ago
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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Michel M. Prins 7 years ago
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 
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HauntedForests 7 years ago
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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Jane Van Balen 7 years ago
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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Šimon Špaček 7 years ago
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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Yasna Minkovska 7 years ago
As a mother of a left handed kid, I've felt the same way, trying to use her lefty scissors :)
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alexa pretchet 7 years ago
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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Sk123 ILP123 7 years ago
Is it a thing where people only lift cups with their dominant hand, I subconsciously alternate between the two
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Michel M. Prins 7 years ago
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.
John L 7 years ago
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
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Marissa Bradshaw 7 years ago
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--
Michel M. Prins 7 years ago
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.
John L 7 years ago
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
Load More Replies... Marissa Bradshaw 7 years ago
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--
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