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…?
@KanaMauna @Virginicus @futurebird Lol, the superstitions predate things like typing. Or, well, most of everything I guess.
@Virginicus @futurebird @nazokiyoubinbou Oh I know. I would just hope by the 70s education would be based on something better than auguries.
@KanaMauna @Virginicus @futurebird Ah, welcome to humanity. We're intelligent and capable of so much, yet still let some stupid superstition from possibly all the way back to prehistoric times tell us how to think and treat others.
The teacher who did this to me was doing so in the 90s even.
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?