"We are trained to use right handed, I guess." Nepal ko chhora, my mom actually beat/slapped my hands and tried making me a right-handed but to no avail. I landed up writing, playing and eating with left hand. Now! Is it taking the wind out of your sails as I’m saying “eating with left hand”? Or maybe Yuck! Eweee…or whatever? It is the most ridiculous response I get from people, sometimes. If I do everything that right handed people do with my left hand, what is so alarming if I EAT with it? Back in Nepal, in my fourth grade, my science teacher tried converting me into a right-handed. I still can’t believe that he actually assigned me to write a page from A to Z everyday with my right hand and I, helpless and equally confused, did it. But for some reasons I stopped later (thankfully!). But as I look back now, I only wonder, what was his problem? The Brahmin who always did the pujas in my house, told me (actually scornfully, how dare he?) that it was bad (like I’m going against the religion) and I needed to change it. And, worst of all, my mom agreed. I had no choice but to follow them and tried eating using spoon with my right hand. After a week, I was like wtf? It was an actual “wtf” case and I never bothered changing myself again. Will not. EVER! But most of the times, I have had people tell me that they find left-handed people cool, creative n others.…Perhaps it was only then that I was actually convinced that it was okay to be a left-handed else, I had already started considering myself a criminal. “The difficulty in reading” part in the research is still making me wonder though. I guess not :/ …the only time I wish I were a right-handed now is, when I am using Ms-paint and some art related work in the computer. Why can’t we have a left-handed mouse? :(