Post AtxuzeYN3d20vNRb84 by vi_zzyzx@mstdn.social
 (DIR) More posts by vi_zzyzx@mstdn.social
 (DIR) Post #AtxuzdI1kuMd0On212 by simon_brooke@mastodon.scot
       2025-05-10T20:35:37Z
       
       0 likes, 0 repeats
       
       This is interesting. It's at the core of my childhood trauma that at school I was forced to write with my right hand. The consequence is that I now write with extreme difficulty, but always left handed.Tonight a friend challenged me to try writing with my right hand, and see what happened...It felt extraordinarily unnatural, but you can actually read it.#ActuallyAutistic#Dyslexic
       
 (DIR) Post #AtxuzeYN3d20vNRb84 by vi_zzyzx@mstdn.social
       2025-05-10T20:44:42Z
       
       0 likes, 0 repeats
       
       @simon_brooke I lucked out and did get to only write with my left hand, but oh the freedom when I got to start writing cursive so I could speed up and stop breaking pencils. I hated the mess I made with pens that didn’t dry quickly enough in school though 🫠🫠🫠 my printing is a mess, but I write pretty cursive. …that no one under 35 can read
       
 (DIR) Post #Atxuzfdj1CuOIGxO76 by simon_brooke@mastodon.scot
       2025-05-10T20:45:56Z
       
       0 likes, 0 repeats
       
       @vi_zzyzx I cannot write cursive with either hand.
       
 (DIR) Post #AtxuzgZVYN85BTzXBA by vi_zzyzx@mstdn.social
       2025-05-10T20:49:32Z
       
       0 likes, 0 repeats
       
       @simon_brooke I lucked out and had a really sharp first grade teacher who explained “you can go fast, just keep going” when she taught me cursive. And then in college I found a book on left handed cursive and learned some more techniques on how to keep my hand out of the ink. >_> honestly with most western languages it’s worth it more to write/draw right handed so the edge of your hand don’t end up a horrid mess. I’d leave paisley prints of graphite if I wasn’t careful as a kid 🫣
       
 (DIR) Post #AtxuzhWM1aCW7zWWu0 by screwtape@mastodon.sdf.org
       2025-05-10T21:05:05Z
       
       0 likes, 1 repeats
       
       @simon_brooke As a young child I remember (indirectly, now) getting confused about which way the book opens and the words go when I was learning to write, the teacher explaining to me that one homework was a reflection of what was meant to have happened. Ways children would-have-wrote except for their schooling would be some interesting psychology.@vi_zzyzx