How do scissors “know” what hand you’re holding them in?

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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’m lefty and I can only use right handed scissors in my right hand and can’t use left handed ones at all. Just feels wrong. Writing is probably one of the only things I do left handed because I’ve simply grown up in a right handed world and learnt to use those items first

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