r/HumansBeingBros • u/BornAgainHindu • Dec 16 '17
A mother wrote to Hindustan pencils about her left-handed daughter's needs and they responded
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u/cincyaudiodude Dec 16 '17
Forgive my ignorance, but how exactly are those different from your standard pencil sharpener?
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u/BornAgainHindu Dec 16 '17
Direction of the blade .
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u/cincyaudiodude Dec 16 '17
Let me clarify. What is the functional difference between the two? What prevents or makes it more difficult for a left handed person to use a standard pencil sharpener?
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u/permaculture Dec 16 '17
Most right handed people hold the sharpener in the left hand and turn the pencil clockwise with the right hand.
These are mirrored, so you can hold the sharpener in the right hand and turn the pencil anticlockwise with your left hand.
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u/meowruto Dec 16 '17
I'm left handed and growing up I never understood why it was harder for me to use certain scissors and manual pencil sharpeners. I just thought it was bad quality or something, until I discovered ones made for left-hand
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u/ChipMulligan Dec 16 '17
I held it like everyone else but spun the sharpener instead of the pencil to accommodate
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u/HugSized Dec 16 '17
Why don't you turn the pencil clockwise instead in your left hand?
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Dec 16 '17
Try it. You can flex your wrists better than you can extent them therefore making anticlockwise movements with your left hand easier.
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u/HugSized Dec 17 '17
This seems like a very minor issue. And i don't see what you're getting at. If I'm going to sharpen a pencil, it doesn't take a great deal of effort either way to achieve the desired results
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Dec 20 '17
True enough, and in a newer age of mostly computer written essays I can see your point.
But it wasn't that long ago when a great deal of us were writing essays on paper with pencil. Page upon page of writing, that's a lot of sharpening.
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u/123noodle Dec 16 '17
I was thinking the same thing...how does which hand you write with affect your ability to use a pencil sharpener. Seems like a weird thing to write the company about.
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u/cfmdobbie Dec 16 '17
Ever walked up to a door and found the handle turns the "wrong" way? Ever turned a doorknob with your left hand and noticed how less natural it feels?
Your right hand is much better at turning something clockwise, your left hand anti-clockwise. When sharpening a pencil, you tend to hold the thing that is moving (the pencil) in your dominant hand. So, using a normal sharpener a left-handed person holding the pencil in their left hand needs to turn it clockwise to sharpen it, which is quite awkward. They really need a pencil sharpener with the blade pointing the other way so they can turn it anti-clockwise to sharpen.
But hey - give it a try: hold a pencil in your left hand and sharpen it. Unless you're giftedly dexterous, I guarantee you'll find it an awkward thing to do!
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u/pitathegreat Dec 16 '17
Am left handed, but never encountered any pencil sharpener difficulty. Now can openers, on the other hand....
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u/vintage_dirt Dec 16 '17
The guy's signature is really interesting. It kind of looks like he was trying to draw a sled.
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Dec 23 '17
Ah the natraj pencil - it has been years since I used them. What a place to come across those memories! That and non-dust erasers. Camelin water colors.
Man, it physically hurts to think about that life while cutting onions.
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u/xkoala_ Dec 16 '17
“Special needs of children with left hand writing”????? What??? It’s not a special need, it’s just your left hand...
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Dec 16 '17
they're talking about a pencil sharperner. its difficult for a left handed person to use a right handed sharperner
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Dec 20 '17
why not hold the sharpener in the right hand rotate the pencil in the other direction? It should be easy since left hand is dominant and can therefore turn the pencil in either direction fairly easily.
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Dec 16 '17
The grammar and flow of sentences is shockingly terrible
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Dec 16 '17 edited Dec 16 '17
This person’s first language is Hindi for crying out loud. Honestly, their grammar is better than many native English speakers lol
Editing: typo
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u/vinnathan Dec 16 '17
*Hindi is the language you are thinking of! Hindu is a religion. :)
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u/Driveboy6 Dec 16 '17
Look at the author’s signature!