Left Handed Writers?

When it comes to typing on the keyboard does being left or right handed matter? Will being left-handed be forgotten now that we don’t write in long hand very often? I’ve even seen people who think writing long hand will one day become a forgotten/ lost skill.

My Mother is a leftie. Her Mother (my Grandmother) was born a leftie but had her hand smacked with a ruler at school until she wrote with her right hand. I was once married to a leftie too.

I write with my right hand but tend to eat with my left. Does that make me ambidextrous? I don’t think so, just a little backwards. But, I do think there is more to being left or right handed than which hand you hold your pen.

Varieties of left-handed writing

Left-Handers Day August 13th

• The Left-Handed Liberation Society
• Association of Left-Handers
• The European’s Lefthander Page
• LeftOvers: Canadian Lefthanders Page
• Facebook: Secret Society of Lefthanded People
• Flickr: Left Hand
• Flickr: Left Handed Society
• Flickr: United Lefties of Flickr
• Flickr: Left Handed Photographers
• Lefthand Siders
• The Left-Handed Page
• Anything Left Handed
• Being Left Handed.com
• Lefty’s
• Left-Handed Portal
• Left-Handed Forum
• The Lefthanded Universe
• Scoop.It: Left-Handed
• Wikipedia: Left-handedness

The Sinister Shop: Left-Handed Items for Left-Handed People – Canadian shop selling for left handers and studying lefties since 1975.