Eli5: Why is it almost impossible to use scissors with your less dexterous hand, especially for cutting items such as plastics and rubber?

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Eli5: Why is it almost impossible to use scissors with your less dexterous hand, especially for cutting items such as plastics and rubber?

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Just jumping in to say: my sister is a lefty, in our part of Ireland that’s called a “ciotóg”. Pronounced like “kith-oh-gh”… well, that’s my best approximation of it.

It’s a fantastic sounding word in Irish. In our parish, a ciotóg baby was considered good luck. I was a little jealous of the attention she got.

My sister still bitches about scissors tho.