Story 4. Which Hand Do You Use?
Nine out of ten people in the world are right-handed.
That means they use their right hands for doing things such as throwing, catching, and writing.
But not everyone is right-handed.
One person in ten is left-handed.
Being left-handed is not a big problem now.
But not so long ago, in Europe, left-handed people had terrible lives.
Everyone believed that left-handed people were evil.
If they were caught writing with their left hands, they could be killed.
Left-handed children were forced to write with their right hands.
They were often beaten until they stopped using their left hands.
No one wanted to marry left-handed people.
It was hard for them to get a job, and they often had no friends.
Today, it's still not easy being left-handed.
Most things in the world are designed for people who are right-handed.
But the way we think about being left-handed has changed.
We now know that left-handed kids are just normal kids who prefer using their left hand over their right to get things done.
