Mastodawn

myrmepropagandist 14h ago

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

Poll ends at Mar 29 at 9:41pm.

sonja

@futurebird left handed here. my 2nd grade teacher told me that they were going to hold me back a year unless my handwriting improved. ever since then, i hate thinking about having to physically write things out.

myrmepropagandist 14h ago

@emily_rugburn

This is very bad IMO. It's a nonsense reason to hold a kid back. I think many schools have replaced cursive units with touch typing which is also very useful. Though neither of these things is always taught in the most thoughtful way.

@futurebird it was the mid 80's 🤷 i was the only left handed kid in my whole
class...im not sure how that happened.

my sister, who is a couple of years older than me and far more left handed than i am, has impeccable penmanship because she was threatened with the same thing at the same age (although i didnt find out about that until decades later) 🤷

@futurebird whats ironical about all of this is that my ex was in essentially the same school system as i was close to the same time, and no one ever harped on them about their handwriting. and its fucking chicken scratch.

all i can think of is that girls need good penmanship, boys do not. 🤮

Farticle Accelerator🇨🇦10h ago

@emily_rugburn @futurebird I received an award at grade six “graduation” ceremonies for most improved handwriting. (Circa 1979)

It was because I was no longer required to use cursive and switched to printing.

Within the past decade I made a conscious effort to relearn cursive.

I don’t write often but I do like my current cursive better than my printing.

@emily_rugburn
I was in my first year, with a Presbyterian teacher who held tightly on to the belief left handedness was of the devil. The 70s.
@futurebird

@hypostase @futurebird my mom is now ambidextrous because the public school system in the 50's forced all kids to learn to write with their right hands. my mom told me she would get hit with a ruler by the teacher if she used her left hand. 🤷

myrmepropagandist 14h ago

@emily_rugburn @hypostase

My dad is left handed and has horrible block print writing. Well... OK it's not that bad, you can always read it but there are no cases.

I know too many left handed people who really struggled with writing. My dad also went through the trying to force him to use his right hand nonsense.

@emily_rugburn
Same, more or less. I can't write with the left, but each hand plays its part and I do do a lot of things backwards.
@futurebird

sonja 13h ago

@hypostase i had this problem with writing backwards early on. i think i was just mirroring right handed people...

i explained to someone that my left hand can do very intricate things and my right hand can only make gross movements...that being said, i cannot do things with my left hand that i do with my right (and obvs vise versa).

kit 13h ago

@emily_rugburn
My fine motor coordination isn't great in either, but the left is probably naturally better. What you say makes perfect sense.

sonja 13h ago

@hypostase well...the other thing is the degree in which someone is left handed...

@emily_rugburn
Also I'm really sorry that happened to you, it really sucks.
@futurebird

@hypostase @futurebird hopefully it doesnt happen anymore