Haritosh Srivastav describes how explaining to his parents the emotional toll of growing up left-handed in a culture that stigmatized it led to reconciliation and understanding. After decades of feeling alienated and defensive, the conversation became transformative for all of them.
The outcome is, for the first ever time, I was able to get closely bonded with my parents. Means, yeah, means I'm able to make them understand, make them totally understand about how tough was my childhood. Because I am a natural left-hander, they always stood by, uh, say, what community chooses. In terms like using right hand is good, left hand is bad. And even parents were not able to stand close by me. I was not emotionally— I, I was not feeling emotionally belonging. So I was always being aggressive, defensive mode throughout my childhood. So it's been more than 3 decades since I born. I was able to convey them in a story, and I was able to make them understand where my parents really felt for the moment that they should have been with me during those times. I guess that's a game changer, not only for me, for my parents as well.
