Is being left handed wrong?

I grew up not only being the oddball in my family, but also the oddball around me at school.  I am left handed.                                                          Growing up dealing with being left handed was rather tricky, especially considering that no one in my family is left handed, so learning basic things such as writing was tricky.                                 It's hard to believe that not even that long ago, people were being convicted and even killed for being left handed because they were seen as "evil" or "satanic".                                                               Even on TV shows the left handed portion of the population were put down.  One show i remember in particular is Rugrats, where they convinced the only left handed person on the show that he wasn't left handed, he was wrong handed...  Shortly after seeing that episode, my sister then started to say that I was wrong handed.. and still to this day she does it.

But there was a point in human nature where there was an acceptance of this difference.  People are no longer being killed for this, and though some places still convert lefties into right handed people (I was almost converted myself down south), but even accepting.  Though people are getting used to this, the world is still what I like to say "anti-left handed".  Even some of the class rooms at MCLA are like that, there are no lefty desks!!!  Though one and ten people are left handed, we still exist.

I got a book in the mail today about left handed people that is really interesting to me.  One thing that I read that completely fascinated me was "Being left handed in a right handed world can be frustrating, which may account for the fact that Jack the Ripper and the Boston Strangler were left handed" (The Left Hander's Handbook 12).                                                                                                                                                                                        So when was the point in time that lefties were accepted as "normal" people?  It often bugs me that things often are easily usable for left handed people.  I don't think people really realize how much of a challenge this is in every day life.  Even doors hate us left handers... it kinda sucks.

What are your views on the conversions of lefties and the executions?  Why do you think that left handed people were seen as "evil" or "satanic" way back when?

Fun fact:  I am related to the only survivor of the Salem Witch Trials, and she is the only lefty in my family aside from me that we would trace.  Do you think that I'm a witch then? (don't make me hex you) :D