Left Handed Knitting in a Right Handed World

I knit a pair of socks and I think that they turned out pretty good. I have never knitted a pair of socks before although I knew how to do it. I have made plenty of things knitting in the round and did not doubt my ability to make socks I had just never done it before.
Well I knitted along with no problem until I came to the end of the toe and I had to do something that I now consider to be created just to torture me. The Kitchener stitch.
I am not only a self taught knitter, but I am left handed. This is something that has given me a few problems. I often have to remind myself that when I see instructions that talk about stitches on the right hand needle, that is the left hand needle for me. When in doubt I have found a few use full videos on YouTube that have helped quite a bit. But for some reason I have not found any left handed Kitchener stitch instructions.
I tried to reverse things and do it all left handed but it came out looking rather sloppy. So on the second sock I decided to try holding the tapestry needle in my right hand and doing it just like the right handed instructions show.
After wielding the needle a little uncomfortably with my right hand and having to force myself not to use my left hand to grab it, I completed the sock and it looked no different. I looks light years different from the picture in the instructions.
So I think that the problem lies with me. Maybe I need to practice. Or may I will just have to stick with toe up socks instead of heel down socks. Or maybe I will just never knit socks again. And while this statement might meet with shock to most other knitters out there, I can think of more enjoyable and useful things to knit. All because of the Kitchener stitch. I hate it.