Lauren Rodgers

Instructor C. Douglass
UWRT 1101
15 September 2015
Literacy Narrative
Being left-handed has always come with challenges for me.
According to statistics, approximately one third of all the people in the
world are left-handed.

Being left-handed is not worse than being

right-handed but it does come with writing challenges that righthanders do no comprehend.
First, lets start off with the ever-present tie-dye of ink left on the
side of your left pinky. Wither pen or pencil, there are always smears
left behind.

Another writing object left-handers hate are three ring

binders or spiral notebooks. Our hands are always awkwardly touching

the rings before we can reach the left-edge of the margin.

Left-

handers also have the unfortunate problem with a lot of the desks in
college. Most have movable writing surfaces that attack to the right
side of the chair, uncomfortably leaving our writing hand pretty much
off the test, not supported and floating in the air. Although these are
considered uncomfortable situations, they do have solutions.
Some of the solutions that I have found helpful since beginning
to write with my left hand is to life the back of my hand up to avoid
smudging and colliding with the spirals or rings. I also find it helpful to
tilt my paper so that I avoid the rings. As for the desk, I am still trying
to figure that out.
I have been left-handed my whole life and I knew that I was
always special and different because of it. I was the only left-handed
person in my preschool class when we learned to write. I was always
proud of being left-handed and made it work so that I would not have
to deal with the downsides or being left-handed.