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In 1989 a we undertook a major survey of our customers to determine their degree of left-handedness and allow them to put their views and experiences. From the enormous response to this Survey, it became clear that many left-handers wanted a forum to discuss aspects of left-handedness on a continuing basis.
To meet this need, the Left-Handers Club was formed in 1990. The Left-Handers Club aims to keep members in touch with developments, make their views known to manufacturers and others, provide a help and advice line, to promote research into left-handedness and development of new left-handed items.
Since its formation the Club has gone from strength to strength with members all over the world and is highly regarded as the foremost pressure group and advice centre on all aspects of left-handedness. Most notably, campaigns by the Left-Handers Club have been responsible for:
- The modification of potentially dangerous hand-held power tools by a major manufacturer
- The introduction of left-handed cheque books by all major banks in the U.K.
- The production of the only training video for teachers & parents of left-handed children to show the best way to assist them in attaining the vital basic skills of handwriting, cutting etc. without difficulty or discomfort.
On 13th August 1992 the Club launched International Left-Handers Day, an annual event when left-handers everywhere can celebrate their sinistrality and increase public awareness of the advantages and disadvantages of being left-handed. This event is now celebrated worldwide, and in the U.K. alone there were over 20 regional events to mark the day in 2001- including left-v-right sports matches, a left-handed tea party, pubs using left-handed corkscrews where patrons drank and played pub games with the left hand only, and nationwide “Lefty Zones” where left-handers creativity, adaptability and sporting prowess were celebrated, whilst right-handers were encouraged to try out everyday left-handed objects to see just how awkward it can feel using the wrong equipment!
These events have contributed more than anything else to the general awareness of the difficulties and frustrations left-handers experience in everyday life, and have successfully led to improved product design and greater consideration of our needs by the right-handed majority – although there is still a long way to go!!
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Wishing you all delayed Happy Left Handers Day!!!!!!
Hi I write by left hand.
I normally prefer my left hand when chat online.
But I play cricket with right hand.
I am a right hand batsman and left arm medium pace bowler.
What an awesome site to have discovered. I had my left hand tied with a ribbon to my chair in my first year at primary school. My father, being a “Molly Dooker”, as is lovingly known by righties in Australia, soon straightened that out. In my family, 3 out of 6 are lefties and proud. What percentage of the world are left dominated?, I love this site. I can’t wait to fill my kitchen with my left user friendly eqipment and watch them “look awkward”. I hated having to remove the paper from my lever arch folder at school, what a real pain in the neck that was, I used to turn the folder around and write towards the arch. My teachers weren’t very happy about it but they never understood unless they were left handed too.
well, I have difficulty with my cash register at work.. I work at Macy’s and the alpha pads are on the right and I have to cross over keyboard with my left hand to enter hundreds of numbers every day. Also, the slot for scanning the barcodes of charge cards runs from right to left and the scanning gun is in the way when I scan it left to right. The locks on the bathroom stall doors go from right to left…Most toilet paper rolls are placed on the right of the seat….I drive as well going in reverse as I do driving forwards…I can write words from right to left almost perfectly….(mirror image)….the dishwasher in my home is on the right of the sink…..difficult to load….calculators geared for rightys. I have adapted to certain tasks merely because right handed people trained me, Examples are ironing, I golf right handed, I hit a ball with my right hand and I use scissors with my right hand. I love this site..OHHH…and one last thing….I got horrible grades in shorthand in high school because the symbols flowed right to left and I smeared my ink and when I made each word it felt jerky and uncomfortable….
editing last post….the shorthand symbols flowed left to right…
IM LEFT FOOTED TOO – GREAT TO SEE THAT WERE BEING CATERED FOR IN A COMMON RIGHT HANDED WORLD.
Great idea