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[swatkat]

Five Eight Things You Should Never Do When You Encounter Someone Who Writes With Their Left Hand:

1. Ask them if they write with their left hand.

2. Ask them if they *really* write with their left hand.

3. Ask them why they write with their left hand.

4. Ask them how they write with their left hand.

5. Ask them how they write with their left hand and still manage to have a pretty writing.

6. Make them write with their right hand, and look surprised when they fail to hold the pen properly.

7. Stare.

8. Call another person and proceed to discuss this quaint new thing while the left-handed person in question is writing a really important examination.

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[catsma.livejournal.com]

My first school was a Catholic school run by nuns. Yeah, I know I'm Anglican but this was the only decent school on the island so I went there. Those nuns were holy terrors with their rulers and bamboo canes across the knuckles, let me tell you.

Anyway, when I started writing and it became obvious that I was a leftie (I took after both my parents but was the only kid out of 6 who was a leftie), the nuns started trying to force me to write righthanded. Keep in mind this was the early 60's and nuns could do whatever they wanted..LOL...and so I had all kinds of problems with this. My father got wind of it and went down to the principal's office and raised all kinds of hell about it with the result that they left me alone. I did have to learn how to write well just like all the kids but didn't wind up semi ambidextrous like my father. He went to school in Catholic Boston and was forced to write right handed, along with getting beat up by all the litte Irish Catholic boys as he was Scots Protestant and very outnumbered. To the end of his life, he despised the Kennedy's as a result...LOL