When senior Amanda Lucas was a small child, she spent her days playing softball.  Some days, Lucas would forget her specially-made left-handed glove at home.  This made baseball practice extremely hard for her, and made those days seem much longer and more trying.

“I couldn’t do anything but batting practice because no one else was left-handed and had an extra glove,” said Lucas.

Lucas wasn’t the only one who seemed to be affected by playing baseball and being left-handed.

“Being left-handed always seemed to mess up a pitcher,” said senior Sawyer McDaniel.  “It usually meant I would get hit by the baseball.”

Senior MacKenzie Williams swells with pride as she is considered to be in the 10%.  In a sea of right-handed people, Williams stands against the odds.  There are 7 billion people in the world, and she was born with the ability to write left-handed.

Even though being left-handed is something unique and out-there, the struggles are real in this world where right-handed is dominant, and left-handedness is the unicorn, uncommon and unknown.

“Eating dinner next to someone who’s right-handed always causes our arms to run into each other,” said Williams.  “My grandfather refuses to sit by me at dinner because of it.”

Not only does being left-handed affect people around those who are left-handed, it also affects people individually.

“The struggles I have endured are larding how to use scissors right-handed, and occasionally cook right-handed because some utensils are right only; for example, a can opener,” said Lucas.  “Being left-handed still affects me today.  I have to slowly cut with scissors and write slower so I don’t get much ink on my hands.”

One of the common themes that left-handed people struggle with is writing.  Whether it’s from actually writing, to how one angles their paper, to the marker and pencil smudges left on their hands, the struggle is real.

“People make fun of me for turning my paper sideways to write,” said senior Ashley Alston.  “I can’t write on a straight, normal piece of paper.”

McDaniel elaborates on the issue of always having to write left-handed.

“I’m constantly having to clean my left hand because of the lead on my hand,” said McDaniel.  “Binders aren’t possible for me to write in.”

Though being left-handed has its flaws, it does have some perks.  Many famous people have made their way to the top and overcome the struggles of being left-handed.

“Some pros are being different or in the minority of a group of people,” said Lucas.

McDaniel agrees that being left-handed makes one different and gives out advice for those younger than him who truffle with being left-handed.'”Best thing you can do is embrace it and not change yourself because you are different,” said McDaniel.

Not only does being left-handed make people like Lucas feel unique and special, being left-handed also provides opportunities in the college realm.  There are scholarships given to people who are left-handed.

“I haven’t gotten a scholarship, but I’m going to look for one,” said Alston.

Being left-handed doesn’t make them superheroes or super villains.  They are just high school students making it in a right-handed world.

“Left handedness is like having an 11th finger,” said Williams.