It's our 575th post and it's all about...
Celebrating World Left Handers Day*.Why this day, when we routinely ignore many other Days? Well, both halves of PTSD happens to belong to the left-handed part of the world's population.
I'm not sure how it was here in the Land of the Free but, in Thailand, left-handedness wasn't common. Wait! Maybe I was even oppressed. Yes, that sounds about right. I had to free myself from right handed oppression so it's a day of freedom we're celebrating. We should just rename it Freedom from Oppression Day.
* Despite the tone of my post, not all of us lefties go about composing left-handers laments like this bloke did. We have better things to do--like adapt ourselves to using turnstiles which are clearly geared towards the right-handers of the world. That's banal oppression in action right there.
posted by Priya @ 11:08 PM
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My father was left-handed and the monks at the school he attended trained him to use his right hand (I think by use of a cast) because being left-handed in Thailand is bad. Or something. So bad on you, Priya! Ha ha ha ha aha ha ah ha aha!!
Though we know now that forcing a child to go against their instinctual nature actually leads to pervasive, adverse repercussions. Which may explain my father's obsessive need for new electronics and continual criticism of my handwriting.
Wow...this gent has too much time on his hand. LOL
my dad was also left-handed here in the U.S., but catholic school rid him of the devil slapping him with a ruler everytime he attempted to write with the hand of the devil...so they said, and now dad is ambidexterous. LOL Serves them right.
my brother is left-handed...thankfully for him that is still the case
They tried to train me to be right-handed (and I can sill write with it, even if it takes me longer) but apparently the conditioning didn't take. I can't imagine why. I'm usually so easygoing and not at all stubborn.
NO not at all!
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