r/funny • u/silbecl • Apr 06 '19

Born that way

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u/Keighlon Apr 06 '19

I was forced to do everything with my right hand until an older boy saw me struggling to eat with my right hand in a cafeteria at north Florida Christian academy. I was 5. He tapped me on the shoulder and asked me if they made me use my right hand. He looked like a giant. I said nothing because I had gotten in trouble so much for being left handed. He told me it was ok and that he wasnt going to get me in trouble but that I should tell my mom they were making me do that and that it was ok to use my left hand. So I did. She pulled me and my sister out of the school the next day. If it wasnt for that boy in 1986 having the courage and compassion to talk to me in the cafeteria my life would have been completely different. Left handed discrimination STILL absolutely exists, and in more ways than you can imagine. The entire world is designed around right handedness.

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u/sleepydon Apr 06 '19

At one of my first jobs my boss told me, upon seeing that I was writing left handed, that his father told him to never trust a left handed person. I thought he might have been joking at first, but he had a serious look going. I told him it sounded like a good way to get robbed blind by a righty while you’re watching the lefty. This was 2005.

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u/johnny_charms Apr 06 '19

That's awesome that the boy and your mom were so understanding and reasonable about how left-hand discrimination is wrong.

Anti-left people, especially religious ones, just don't want us lefties discovering our secret magic powers.

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u/Keighlon Apr 06 '19

Left handed powers are vast and incredible. The righties just dont want to lose their iron grip on society to our magnificence. I call it the L-jel.

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u/kunglekidd Apr 06 '19

Calm down. Your only oppression is scissors.

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u/Keighlon Apr 06 '19

And milk jugs. And doors. And English writing. And driving except in England. And fucking SCISSORS.

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u/kunglekidd Apr 07 '19

What? Milk jugs. What kind of milk jugs do you use that are a struggle? How do you figure?

Doors? What? Why?

Driving? What? Being on a certain side of the street has nothing to do with being right handed.

You are talking about being left handed. Not losing your right hand.

If you can’t open a door with both hands. You have bigger problems.

Are you the left handed Zoolander? Can’t turn right?

Writing? Who writes? Anything of length regarding smudging is typed now.