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  I lived in Saudi in 1st-3rd grade. When I learned Arabic was written from right to left I wrote an entire assignment in English like that and my teacher called my parents and said they think I’m dyslexic.
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  I should learn Arabic just to never get ink on me ever again. >
  
  You know what's funny. I had a friend from Dubai who was left-handed, and they forced him to write right-handed to conform.
  The left hand in arabic culture is seen as 'dirty' (which I won't get into), and it's actually seen as rude to shake someone by their left hand or do certain tasks with your left hand >
  
  I totally agree that shaking hands using the left hand is considered rude and somehow lazy (as in the person doesn't care)
  but writing with the left is totally fine (they usually try to teach kids to use the right hand early on but if the kid couldn't in the space of a month or two then they'll stop trying) >
  
  My mom went NUTS when the teachers tried to force me to use my right hand. >
  
  How is your handwriting? Because I started using my left as a kid and my teacher had me use my right and turns out I’m actually right handed haha >
  
  my handwriting is terrible but ever since I got out of college I don't really write by hand too much...last time was to sign a receipt for my rent payment (REALLY wish they would let me pay online) >
  
  Who the hell does that anymore?  I literally live with my tenants (long-time roommates, I bought the house we were renting) and we STILL do online direct deposits. >
  
  Oh gosh, ink on the hand. Spiral notebooks just going to town on the bottom of your hand. Lots of fun lefty things. 
  Also, power tools are 100% made for right handed people lol >
  
  Can openers. Gear shifts. I even have a coffee cup with a beautiful swirly handle that I can’t use because it cuts into my left hand. >
  
  Gear shifts? Move to a literally any left side driving country, or drive a right hand drive, they are usually cooler imports anyway
  Computer mice are one though, I used the computer a lot for stuff when I broke my right hand and learned to be ambidextrous with everything, and could type pretty quickly with just the left (better then I could with both) but with any decent computer mouse it’s near impossible to use with just my left when I’m trying to write in a notebook or something >
  
  Having computer mice be right-handed is one of the few perks of being left-handed (at least when you have two working hands). Being able to use a computer and take hand-written notes or type at the same time is really helpful for office work. >
  
  Ya that’s true I guess, I got the writing fairly neatly but I had to concentrate and if i really concentrated it would be neater then my actual handwriting which was annoying >
  
  Went to a Hebrew school growing up. Hebrew was one of my favorite classes because I could write and not smudge my letters, while the rest of the class had to endure my hell that occurs in regular English writing >
  
  Writing in Hebrew as a righty, I never noticed any inconvenience of "getting dirty "or just being uncomfortable. Never noticed a difference at all. >
  
  Absolutely! 
  My left-handed third grader has lots of other issues, but since the language we write goes right-to-left, no smearing when hand-writing!
  An advantage that won't be so common when she's an adult and types 99% of everything she writes, but useful for elementary school! >
  
  Makes me wonder if they banned people from being left-handed like a lot of the European cultures. >
  
  An Egyptian friend of mine had his left handedness beat out of him by his dad and private school, in the states. He's not even ambidextrous now :(