Because of their old beliefs? Was that why they didn't allow me to use my left-hand as it is a bad thing?

the italian word for 'left' is sinister. I ahve some weird thing going on myself where i have a left handed golf stroke and am completely right handed in every other way - when i think of throwing a punch my whole mentality seems to work through the left side of my body although i would auto use my right had. surely a great deal of damage was caused by forcing lefties ( the gaelic word is ciotog, pronounced 'ki:towg') to use their wrong side.

nothing rong whith it they just thot so because so few wright left handed

There's nothing wrong with southpaws (left-handed folks) or Mother Nature wouldn't have made so many of them! It is wrong of teachers and others to diss you 'cause you're left-handed. Unfortunately, the Latin word for left is "sinister"...and people tend to associate that with "evil". Yes, it's a stupid superstition - but people can be incredibly stupid. Ignore the ones who diss ya because you're left-handed. By the way - former President George W. Bush is left-handed, and President Obama is left-handed. You're in good company!

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I thought this practice died out years ago! My mother is in her 40's, my grandfather in his 80's - when they were are school, although they were naturally left-handed, were forced to write with their right - when I say forced, I literally mean it. My mother had her left hand tied to her chair, my grandfather was rapped on the knucles with a ruler if he tried to go for his pen with his left. It was seen in those days that being left-handed was the sign of the devil and witchcraft (this was up to the bloody 1970's!) - when you consider that "Sinister" is your left, and "Dexter" is your right - there's a lot of negative left-handed connotations. Thankfully by the time my brother and I went to school (brother left handed, and me an ambi) this didn't happen, though that said, it was a ***** for me to try and tell my left from my right until I was about 7. When you think about how many great people were left-handed, such as Leonardo Da Vinci, Alexander the Great, Buzz Aldrin, Michelangelo, Julius Caesar, Winston Churchill (Hitler was right handed!), Albert Einstein etc - all you southpaws are in good company! But still, in these days, trying to get people to write right handed? Bah!

Because you're different and they are afraid of you! o_0 joke aside, the majority of people are right handed so it's probably not normal to write with a left hand. Hence, why they want you to wright with right. who cares what other people say.

wow, reading this makes me wonder if you went to school at all! over 12% of the world's population (whether educated or not) are predominantly left handed. Yes, back in the dark ages they assumed that being left handed was 'sinister' but that all changed when the demographics proved that being left handed is not really out of the ordinary. Most left-handed people are very creative, (living in a right handed world forces lefties to adapt) and if you watch TV, you will notice that almost all actors who have to write will use the left hand. (Maybe it's easier for the camera angles? dunno). Some have hypothesised that lefties use more of the right brain, but this has not really been proven. Anyway, just celebrate the way you are made and go back to school.LOL (but seriously, your English betrays the fact that you really didn't like school at all...are you ADHD?)