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minus-squaremods_are_assholes@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up9arrow-down1·4 months agoU.S. same here, my mother’s teachers AND my grandmother beat her regularly with a ruler if she tried writing with her natural dominant hand. Was so cursed it followed her the rest of her life and even after she was living on her own she wouldn’t use her left hand for writing. The year she passed away she told me about it with tears in her eyes, it stuck with her for 70 years.
U.S. same here, my mother’s teachers AND my grandmother beat her regularly with a ruler if she tried writing with her natural dominant hand.
Was so cursed it followed her the rest of her life and even after she was living on her own she wouldn’t use her left hand for writing.
The year she passed away she told me about it with tears in her eyes, it stuck with her for 70 years.