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geodude96 asked:

This isn't as important as other diversity issues, but I think it'd be nice to see the occasional left-handed character in comics. I seem to remember noticing in Bryan Q. Miller's Batgirl book that Stephanie appeared to be left-handed on several occasions (such as holding a pencil in her left hand), but I have yet to re-read that run so I can point them out specifically. Like I said, not a big deal at all, but it'd be nice to see someone writing or throwing left-handed sometimes.

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gailsimone:

My son is a leftie. 

I know a lot of left-handed people have absolutely no problem mirroring things they learn from right-handed people. My son was not one of them. Everything anyone tried to teach him with their right hands was a disaster. He had an extraordinarily difficult time learning to use a pen and pencil, despite being able to read at highly advanced levels. We had to have my mother-in-law teach him how to tie shoes after he simply could not process the way we tried to teach him…she being a leftie herself, he learned with one quick demonstration. 

Saddest was when he was learning his katas for karate as an eight year old, he was completely baffled by which way to turn with each new move and it was very painful, very difficult for him to learn. It still crops up in small ways.

You’re right that as hands go, it’s not the most difficult one to be dealt, and he laughs about it now, but for a kid with severe social anxiety, it was very disheartening for him. 

I have in the past asked for characters to be left-hand-oriented, but in the hustle of creating monthly books, the message is sometimes forgotten or ignored. It’s a worthwhile idea, I will definitely give it some thought. Thanks!

I’m left-handed and I spent years writing check marks ‘backwards’ until I forced, in either 2nd or 3rd grade, to switch because… reasons. I’m a senior in high school and still have minor issues with handwriting because I was often forced into the standard right handed way of doing things. My problem is mostly with how fast I write. In order to compensate, I delete articles and stuff so I end up having really broken English in notes. Sometimes even in things I type I have this issue.

Sep. 16 2014
#left handed #representation #another example of forced conformity in the school system
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  1. mararhodus reblogged this from gailsimone
  2. geodude96 reblogged this from whoatheresara and added:
    That’s true, I completely forgot about Renner. Yeah, he’s definitely a lefty. I noticed it in Avengers too.
  3. whoatheresara reblogged this from geodude96 and added:
    I haven’t seen much Smallville, but Jeremy Renner/Hawkeye was left-hended in the Avengers, something not lost on my...
  4. unofficiallyloki reblogged this from gailsimone
  5. upallnightogetloki said: I’m very similar to your son in that way. I had a hard time learning things that everyone said it was so easy to learn, you just had to mirror it. It wasn’t like that for me. I had the hardest time playing trumpet- I couldn’t process using my right
  6. wolfsbanesego said: As the only leftie in my family, I had the same issue as your son. My grandma figured out the solution when she tried to teach me to knit: she stood in front of a mirror and I watched that as she explained!
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