Left-Hander's Day, I Missed it by One Day
By Marsha
@MarshaMusselman (38865)
Midland, Michigan
August 14, 2016 10:50pm CST
I just heard at work tonight that yesterday, Saturday, August 13, 2016 was a day set aside for left-handed people, or left-handers. A girl at work saw me making notes with my left hand and mentioned this to me. I wasn't hear much yesterday, so I searched this site to see if Anna already wrote about this as she tends to write about specific days that are celebrated or remembered in different ways. Although I didn't see anything by her, Alice Henry did write a couple of posts recently about this.
I happened upon an article in the Washington Post which I'm linking here as it tells a story in poem about the problems us left-handers have had through the ages.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/comic-riffs/wp/2016/08/13/on-left-handers-day-a-new-bill-of-rights-or-lefts-for-aggrieved-southpaws/
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@LeaPea2417 (40032)
• Toccoa, Georgia
15 Aug 16
My husband and one of my sons are left handed.
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@hereandthere (45628)
• Philippines
15 Aug 16
there are people who write with their right because they were forced to in school, but do everything else with their left. i think it's cool because they get to use both left and right brains.
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@hereandthere (45628)
• Philippines
15 Aug 16
@MarshaMusselman left-handedness seems pretty dominant in your family.
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@MarshaMusselman (38865)
• Midland, Michigan
15 Aug 16
@hereandthere Not really. I'm the oldest of six kids and it was just me and my brother. My parent's both were right-hander's. In my family of four, it's just me and the one daughter, half of us. I don't know about the rest of the extended family as far as nieces and nephews.
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@MarshaMusselman (38865)
• Midland, Michigan
15 Aug 16
My mother tried to make me write with my right hand before I started school, but I just couldn't get it. By the time the next child was born that wanted to use mostly their left hand, I think she let them be. I think at least one of my siblings are also left-handed. I did learn to do a few things with my right hand, but found it's much easier trying primarily with one hand rather than with both.
One of my daughters is left-handed and the other one is right.
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@LadyDuck (502573)
• Italy
16 Aug 16
@MarshaMusselman When I have read your discussion I have checked. This day is celebrated since 1976 and it is supposed to be celebrated worldwide. I doubt that a lot of people know about this day.
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@MarshaMusselman (38865)
• Midland, Michigan
16 Aug 16
@LadyDuck I imagine you're right there, or should that be left? 
I'm left-handed and this is the first I've heard about it. I'll have to ask my co-worker how she heard if I remember that is.
I'm left-handed and this is the first I've heard about it. I'll have to ask my co-worker how she heard if I remember that is.1 person likes this
@MarshaMusselman (38865)
• Midland, Michigan
15 Aug 16
I doubt that anyone here celebrated that day either. In fact, I'm a leftie and I never heard about it until yesterday. I'm even wondering whether it just got its start this year or if it's been on the books for a while now.
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@MarshaMusselman (38865)
• Midland, Michigan
17 Aug 16
I'd think that most families have at least one or more people that write or do something with their left hands. I doubt that many families are exempt from this trait. Otherwise, it wouldn't be so well-known.
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@MarshaMusselman (38865)
• Midland, Michigan
17 Aug 16
Was the ruler provided by her parent's or by her teachers? My mom is the one tried to convince my right hand to work properly, but I know we had teachers, mostly nuns that tended to tap the hands of the boys in certain grades with their rulers. That wasn't over which hands they were using though, or at least not related to writing.
I have done a few things with my right hand, like learning how to bat or throw balls when playing the game with cousins. I found after a while it's much easier to get better at that and any related game if you stay with one hand and not switch back and forth.
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@just4him (323168)
• Green Bay, Wisconsin
21 Aug 16
@MarshaMusselman The nuns used the ruler on my aunt.
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@MarshaMusselman (38865)
• Midland, Michigan
21 Aug 16
@just4him Ahh, good guess, I guess on my part.
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@carexing25 (1822)
• Philippines
15 Aug 16
great! didn't expect us left-handers has a specific day.. i would have celebrated last Saturday..
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@MarshaMusselman (38865)
• Midland, Michigan
15 Aug 16
How would you have celebrated? It was just yesterday, you could have a belated day on Monday sort of like a belated birthday party or something, lol.
@MarshaMusselman (38865)
• Midland, Michigan
15 Aug 16
And why is that your special day, Bee? Was it your birthday?
@BelleStarr (61463)
• United States
16 Aug 16
two of my closest friends are lefties and so is my brother, my uncle and 3 of my grandkids. I am a latent leftie, I do some things with my left hand and others with my right , I know ambidextrous but I prefer my left for many things and actually, I have found at water class that I balance better with my left leg. .
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@CinnamonGrl (7086)
• Santa Fe, New Mexico
15 Aug 16
I think you should declare every day left hander's day. People should be required to give you at least one left handed mug or guitar or whatever you need every day.
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@MarshaMusselman (38865)
• Midland, Michigan
15 Aug 16
Does that mean you're left-handed too, Sue? I don't need to be given something every day or even every week for that matter. If we'd give everyone respect, that would be the main thing everyone needs.
@MarshaMusselman (38865)
• Midland, Michigan
15 Aug 16
Maybe it was a handicap in a different century, or ill thought of or something, but now with the internet I doubt children will be forced to write with the other hand again, or at least not as much as before.
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@cahaya1983 (11116)
• Malaysia
15 Aug 16
Back in school I used to think how tough it must be for left-handed students to write on the tablet arm chairs since most of them are designed for right-handed people.
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@MarshaMusselman (38865)
• Midland, Michigan
15 Aug 16
I never considered that before. I didn't have to use that type of desk and only began seeing them more after graduation. I'd not looked at them in relation to being left-handed.
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@crazyhorseladycx (39503)
• United States
15 Aug 16
i'm a lefty 'n my daughter's the same. i've ne'er worried 'bout such, though workin' 'n an office 's the only lefty did lead to some troubles...i jest adapted 's 'i've done all my life :)
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