Ciotóg, claw hand, wrong hand – historically left-handedness was seen as a curse. The word “left” has long been associated with wrongness or deviance –as leftness derives from the Latin word “sinister ...

I am a left-hander. Like most people in this category, my parents initially saw me as different and encouraged me to become right-handed. However, they soon accepted that this was simply who I was.

I have a superiority complex about being left-handed. Butting desk-mates’ elbows at school and hooking my arm around spiral notebooks was frustrating as a child, but people’s genuinely pleasant ...

Today is International Left-Handers Day, when all things ‘southpaw’ are celebrated. Its mission is for people to rejoice in their left-handedness and to “raise awareness of the frustrations of living ...