If you’re a lefty like me, are you more frustrated that it is a right hander’s world? Or do you like the feeling of being different?
I like that I’m different for being left handed, and I wonder if righties wish they were different, or if they are glad that they’re not different?
I only eat/cook and write left handed - I'm right handed for everything else so I'm perhaps not typical. Eating as a lefty can be problematic because I always grab the wrong drinking glass. However I eat European style with my knife in my right hand and I don't need to switch hands with my fork - I enjoy that.
Not sure if full lefties have this issue but I often have directional issues with right/left commands. I will often turn the opposite direction from the commanded direction. This was really tough while I was training for Marshall Arts. It also happens if someone is directing me while driving and I often have to ask several times to be sure I'm going to turn in the correct direction. People think this is charming but I don't.
Other than that it's hard to find a good/affordable Japanese left handed knife. First world problems I assume. Plus some mobile software is primarily right handed and isn't easy to use if you're holding your phone or tablet with your left hand.
However, there are a number of things that I take for granted because I'm a righty (scissors, camera shutter accessible to my right hand, ink not smudging, can openers, etc) and I think I would've been frustrated as a lefty.
If I think about it, I _kind of_ wish he'd just let me stay left-handed. It was like a slightly "quirky" trait was trained out of me, which I think would've been cool to keep. But it's not a big deal, and I have no strong feelings either way.
Around the same time, I was playing a lot of video games and got Carpal Tunnel Syndrome, so I started using the mouse with the left hand. I can't draw well with the left hand on say in MS Paint, otherwise I got pretty comfortable with it.
Nowadays, it's easy to customize devices like mouse, keyboard, etc.. to be either right-handed or left-handed dominant and so it's an easy adjustment for me.
Overall it has probably helped my programming as I had been thinking outside the box for longer than the righties.