myrmepropagandistCan you write in cursive?
| Yes, and often do! | |
| Technically, yes. But I don't. | |
| Only my name, so not really. | |
| Not at all |
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Regardless if it's cursive or not, do you like your handwriting?
| Yes! Love to write by hand in my own way. | |
| I have not ever thought about this? | |
| Always feel a little awkward about it. | |
| Other |
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Nazo@futurebird Again the left-handedness comes into play... It's harder to write in general, so my handwriting definitely suffers and feels awkward.
I really should just write backwards. 😆
Virginicus@nazokiyoubinbou @futurebird Same here, but I’m old enough that we weren’t allowed to write left-handed. They forced me to write with my weak hand and gave me bad grades in penmanship for years afterward.
@Virginicus @futurebird Oh I did have one teacher try very very hard to force me to write right-handed. She absolutely hated me with a passion. I guess somehow I didn't get at the time what a terrible person she was. When she first did it everyone else was watching a movie and I was forced to do handwriting lessons. But she didn't stand there over me, so I pretty much just watched the movie across the divider while pretending to do the lessons.
It's very weird to me that people actually treated being left-handed as actually evil.
KanaMauna@futurebird @Virginicus @nazokiyoubinbou
Apparently, I was left-handed until we started doing cursive writing in the third grade at which point I became right handed. I have no recollection of this switch and I assume I was following the teacher’s lead too literally.
@KanaMauna @futurebird @Virginicus Most probably. A lot of teachers really did do their best to force left-handed people to become right handed. It has actually been a thing for a long long time.
At least there's no trauma in it for you.
@nazokiyoubinbou @KanaMauna @Virginicus
And did we learn anything from what a huge failure that "education idea" was?
@nazokiyoubinbou @Virginicus @futurebird
And in the end I probably typed both-handed 100x more than I wrote. So the whole right-handed obsession was for…?
AstroMancer5G (she/her)@Virginicus
I wasn't allowed to write in cursive for most of elementary school (for a petty reason, too, we had to "finish the cursive practice book" first, like it was dangerous). I did it anyway, I just got in trouble a lot for it.
@nazokiyoubinbou @futurebird
I wasn't allowed to write in cursive for most of elementary school (for a petty reason, too, we had to "finish the cursive practice book" first, like it was dangerous). I did it anyway, I just got in trouble a lot for it.
@nazokiyoubinbou @futurebird
@AstroMancer5G @Virginicus @futurebird That's just... ... WHY???
Because if you learned too much of how to write in cursive it would... enable faking being a doctor?