My friend, who is right handed, didn’t get why I was so excited for my new scissors. Then she put the left handed scissors in her right hand and finally understood why I hate cutting things lol She couldn’t believe I went so long cutting with wrong handed scissors. I couldn’t believe it either!

Yeah, using left handed scissors right handed or vice versa is definitely not the most fun experience lol :3

Ohhh! That makes way more sense. I always used right handed scissors in my left hand and it caused some pretty bad pain. Left handed scissors made for left hands in left hands feels much better.

Oh yeah, I use right handed scissors with the right hand for clarity :3

But I've also not used left handed scissors since 2nd grade, so maybe I'd find them more comfortable as an adult, who knows

I was felt the same way until I recently bought a pair of brand new sharp left handed scissors. My hand no longer hurts because I’m not squeezing the handles awkwardly to make them work. I’ll never go back!

My partner is also left handed but cuts with right handed scissors in his right hand.

Double upvote!!!! I just found this out a few weeks ago. Over 59 years on this planet and never knew scissors were specific to one hand or the other. I'm a bit ambidextrous and tried using right handed scissors in my left hand for the first time recently and was confused why they weren't cutting. Lo and behold they magically started working after I switched to my right hand!

For same-handed scissors, your thumb goes in the handle for the blade that is further from your palm, while for opposite-handed scissors your thumb goes in the handle for the blade that is closer to your palm.

The ergonomic assumption is that you'll use your fingers to lock one blade in place, then use the ball of your thumb to apply a pressure away from your palm to the handle of the other blade. Because of the hinge in the middle of the scissors, this pushes the thumb's blade towards your palm as you close the scissors.

Thus for same-handed scissors the blades are pushed together, while for opposite-handed scissors they are pushed apart. Being pushed apart can form a gap that paper can fold into, or can combine with the resistance of the paper to make a gap that the paper folds into as you start cutting.

To use opposite-handed scissors, push the blades together. For example by closing the thumb blade using pressure from the pad of the thumb instead of the ball while keeping the finger blade fixed. Or, my favorite, using my thumb to keep the thumb blade fixed while closing my fingers and applying pressure away from my palm with them.

Funny thing despite being left handed I prefer right handed scissors :3 I used left handed ones for a year in primary cause my mom got me some, but I hated them so much I went back to the right handed ones next year

How sinister!

lol sounds about right for a kid!

It took me a while to retrain myself into using the scissors correctly, but now that’s all I use

Hahaha ahhh much better

I grabbed an image from Pinterest so I did not have to upload one. Here is from Wescott's site:

Observe the community icon.

Nevermind, I am stupid.

Check again?

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My wife got me some lefty hair scissors for cutting my son’s hair. Took a few tries but I started to get the hang of it right before he got old enough to not like me cutting his hair.

I also learned how to cut with right handed scissors in my left hand, just have to squeeze the blades differently. I would end up with pain in my fingers doing that until I recently purchased a pair of proper lefty scissors. Now I can cut things pain free. Total game changer!

My left handed partner is like you, he just learned to cut righty. He won’t use my lefty scissors lol

Once again Ned Flanders gets completely ignored and he started the whole movement! /s

It’s not the view obscuring that’s really the problem, though it is a side effect. It’s the pressure exerted while squeezing that only works for the correct hand in scissors.

If you can figure out how to contort your fingers to squeeze the blades together enough, you can use the wrong scissors, but I just learned how to cut righty because I could never find good lefty scissors as a kid. Same reason I used the mouse righty.

By the way: The view of the line is going to be obscured cutting curves in the direction of the cutting hand no matter the side.

Ironically the preview image are right handed scissors for me

My eldest is a lefty and her brother writes left-handed, having learned by watching her. He does everything else righty instinctively, but if asked he thinks he is lefty.

You're not wrong, and the ways around it are awkward, but they exist. Personally, I'll often flip the point towards the wrist of the hand holding it and cut from the opposite side of my body, but I'm basically ambi-dextrous anyways.

Only 9 hours of today are for you.

These are my favorite lefty scissors. https://westcottbrand.com/products/westcott-16935-lefty-heavy-duty-carbotitanium-8-straight-scissors-16935-parent