Typing is another two-handed skill that served my lefty son well. We get 
nostalgic about cursive, but it didn't work for everyone.

> On Sep 25, 2025, at 5:43 PM, rvlemire--- via Lincoln 
> <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> 
> I did not see Eric Snyder's original Lincoln Talk submission but want to add 
> my thoughts about being left handed.  
> 
> I am a 89 year old lefty so have had vast experience being left handed.  My 
> mother did everything to teach me to be left handed in everything I learned.  
> I am fortunate that she taught me to write correctly. 
> 
> Looking back, however, I wish she had let me learn two handed things as a 
> 'righty'.  For example, I learned to knit right handed but it is a two handed 
> skill.  Left handed people learn to play the piano like the right handed.  
> So, please let the 'lefty' learn new two handed skills as if they are right 
> handed. I think they will be happy they did.
> 
> Virginia Lemire
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