I’m left-handed and growing up, in school, there were never enough left handed scissors between myself and the maybe two other lefties in my class so I would often need to use right-handed scissors. But they would either not cut paper at all or kind of tear the paper, forcing me to switch to my right hand to get the scissors to cut smoothly.
Just yesterday I needed to trim a label and no matter how I angled the scissors, they would not cut the paper but they immediately did once I switched to my right hand. Thus, how do scissors “know” which hand you’re holding them in?
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I think back on the days in kindergarten where we were using those cheap scissors to cut things out of paper. I always failed badly, being a lefty. My understanding was that we’re pushing the blades apart with right-handed scissors, while left-handed scissors are crossed so we push the blades together. There are scissors which claim to be left-handed, but all they’ve done is make them comfortable ergonomically, while not switching the blades. The difference is obvious and dramatic once you get proper scissors.
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