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Thursday, April 04, 2024

Yeah I Know

Is it real or are they faking it and do we just chose to be? No I am not talking about being trans but rather left-handed.

11 Struggles That Only Left-Handed People Understand
Being left-handed can be hazardous to your health but it's great if you're running for president.
The complexities behind living left-handed
By Tod Perry
April 2, 2024

For the past 42 years, August 13 has been International Left-handers Day. It was first observed by Dean R. Campbell, founder of the Lefthanders International, Inc., to celebrate their uniqueness and highlight the health and educational issues they face.

It's also a day to honor left-handed people who overcame their struggles to achieve great things, including: Bill Gates, Marie Curie, Oprah Winfrey, Babe Ruth, Napoleon Bonaparte, Leonardo da Vinci and Jimi Hendrix. As well as the long list of left-handed presidents that have graced the oval office since the dawn of the 20th century: James Garfield, Herbert Hoover, Harry Truman, Gerald Ford, Ronald Reagan, George H.W. Bush, Bill Clinton, and Barack Obama.

At Easter dinner at a friend’s house I chose a seat so my elbow wouldn’t be poking my neighbor. Some of the difficulties we face are…

1. Scissors
2. Ink

Oh boy, the times that the nuns slapped my hand for smudging the ink!

10. Dinner tables
Left-handed people aren't free to sit wherever they like at the dinner table. They have to find a spot where they're not bumping elbows with the person sitting next to them. Which means they're sometimes stuck sitting next to the person no one wants to eat beside.
11. Spiral notebooks

Yup, my work around is use the notebook upside down.

So what does being left handed has to do about being trans?

Well somehow people don’t doubt your are left-handed even through there is no medically known reason why people are left-handed. But they never think you chose to be left handed, even through when you say you’re trans they think that it is a choice because there is no medically known reason why we are trans.

2 comments:

Anonymous4/4/24, 1:27 PM
My mother's companion always used to make jokes about me being left handed. For his generation it was a code word for Queer.
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Connie4/4/24, 2:56 PM
Dyslexia and left-handedness are often related, as well. There's no known reason for either, nor their correlation. I'm sure that you've spent your whole life working around more than the average person could ever conceive!
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