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

Scissors are inherently either right-handed or left-handed by design. If you use right-handed scissors in your left hand the natural direction of the pressure your fingers exert will push the shears **away** from each other instead of pushing them together like in your right hand.

If you want to use scissors with your left hand you need to use left-handed scissors, whether or not the left hand is your dominant one matters little.