Off topic side story:
Weirdest situation I've encountered as a lefty was when my family moved to Switzerland for a couple years when I was nine (1961). I went to a public school and at that time they had an hour of penmanship every day, using steel tip pens and inkwells. Because of that, everyone learned to write right handed. First they tried making me use my right hand, but quickly gave up on that. Then I was allowed to use my left hand, but was still expected to use pen & ink and form my letters exactly the way the rightys did. Talk about a mess! I just smeared everything across the page. The final solution was the teacher getting special permission from school officials to let me be the only kid in the school system to use a ball point pen. I still had to make the letters look like I was using my right hand though! Aside from that, it was a wonderful experience living there. The Swiss people are polite and formally cordial to strangers, but once they realized that we just wanted to fit in, we became like family and got to see how great the community was. The other American families we knew went to private schools and kept to themselves and really missed out on a lot of great experiences.