When I was three years old and in Junior Kindergarten I tended to favour my left hand over my right. I'm not sure if I wrote with my left hand, but I know that I did a number of things with it, such as using scissors. Our classroom didn't have left-handed scissors and using the regular ones was difficult and even a bit painful. I'm not sure if it was because of this, but for some reason my teacher strongly encouraged me to become entirely right handed. I don't think there was anything sinister [ha - get it? sinister?] about this as it *is* a lot easier to be right-handed. However, I continued to do most sporting activities left handed as those types of things are easy enough to accommodate.
After watching American Dad on Sunday I thought that sometime this week would be a good opportunity to try out something I've had on my list for quite some time. Today I was left-handed all day. This was actually quite enlightening as well as very difficult. I've heard that left-handed people are far more accident prone [which is scary for me as I'm super accident prone] and I can see why. Everything is designed for right-handed people - cars, kettles, subway turnstiles...I guess that lefties just get used to it and make their own adjustments. In addition to motor control being a problem, general hand/arm strength on the left side is so much weaker as well. I was carrying a shopping bag home and relying entirely upon my left side was much more of a strain. Even things like stirring up some yogurt or sour cream was very difficult - the food got all over the place and I didn't do a good job of stirring. I made perogies for dinner, but had to eventually go back to my right hand to flip them after having been splattered a bit from the oil. Safety first kid!
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