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To The Right-Handed Humans From The Southpaws

It's about time we start talking about these issues to each other.

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To The Right-Handed Humans From The Southpaws
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In a world where we are so divided, it's about time I spoke up about the issues. The real issues. The struggles of someone who works with the left in a world built for those on the right. So here is my letter to those of you who don't seem to understand the problems of left-handed people when everything is set up for right-handed persons.

It all began with softball when I was young. Try finding a left handed mitt, I promise it'll take you a while in a little league situation. I felt ostracized for my difference in hand choice, but really, it's just my nature. I never wanted to bat left-handed either; it was far too dangerous a choice. I mean, come on. All those pitchers who throw outside balls would have destroyed my rib cage. You never know how easy you have it until you start to see things from my point of view.

School proved challenging as well. All the desks, except for the occasional weird one in the back corner, were right-handed. For anyone else who prefers a left-handed writing style, you'll know what kind of agony this is. Nowhere to properly rest your arm, nothing to hold it up, forced to just let it dangle. Notebooks proved equally as problematic. Metal rings aren't exactly soft on the side of your hand. Don't even get me started on having to hand-write things and experience the smudging of ink or graphite alongside the nice color-change of my pinky and hand. But go ahead, just continue to see things from your view, I know it's easier to look the other way when faced with these injustices.

The way society caters to you right-handers is just absurd. We're not "special snowflakes," we're just trying to speak up about our problems. We're not asking the whole world to become left-handed, we just want some acceptance. It shouldn't be weird to be like this, or looked at as something to single us out for. We just want recognition and some consideration. So try to think about things from a different point of view, it just might be a chance to expand your views.

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