Comments by "Bill Kitchen" (@bill-2018) on "TED-Ed" channel.

  1. At junior school we used scissors and I had great difficulty using them. The paper folded in the blades. The teacher took them and cut the paper, gave them back to me saying there's nothing wrong with them. In later years I figured it out after I had bought left handed scissors. You unconsciously push the blades together with your thumb but I at about 6 years old was pushing them open. Left handed scissors have the blades on the other side. New right handed scissors work because they are not worn and loose at the screw holding the blades together. I did write with my left hand but not stupidly holding the pen like I see left handed people. I write with my hand beneath the pen not curled round like I have seen every other left handed person. I had an advantage in engineering. I saw right handed guys struggling trying to use a spanner in a tight corner with their right hand. They couldn't use their left hand. It didn't matter to me which hand I used. I couldn't imagine using a left handed can opener. I've grown up using a right handed one. My Mum was left handed.
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  2. So sad reading people being forced to use their right hand as a child. I never was at school in the 60's. I did learn to write below the words I was writing though. I've heard it comes from a time when your left hand was for toilet duties and therefore unclean. We shake hands with the right hand for that reason.
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