Left-handed experience

I actually learned how to use my left hand when I was bored. I just wanted to learn something new.

We all have to learn new skills all throughout our life. Why not learn how to use the left hand too?

Got 2 hands why not use both hands?

I thought of how people with disabilities learn how to cope. I can learn too.

My first tries at learning how to write left handed. I started out writing backwards. I managed to learn to write ledgible.

Writing left-handed come in real handy for when I had a workplace injury 15 years later. I couldn’t use my right hand for writing for six weeks. My writing was good enough to fill out required paperwork and sign my name on my check.

Later on I tried other things with my left hand. I found I was a natural at many things; even cutting with a knife.

This has helped me up to today; on the job, in cooking and baking. I have some difficulty using one hand for long periods of time, due all the hard work my hands have endured in factories. I cope by switching hands and I never slow down.

My son happened to be left-handed and I didn’t really notice. When I did realize he was struggling to write, I was thinking it might because he was being taught to write right-handed. To him it was probably backwards; just like I found out when I first tried to learn.

But he died before ever got the chance to find a way to help him.

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