Who thought this would be easy? It's a heavy weight
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selkie, in continuance of a conversation:
I do not know if I am showing off at something that is trivial for everyone else, but it really was hard for me to learn to write by hand the first time; it feels like a neurological revolution that it is merely aggravating the second.
selkie, in continuance of a conversation:
I do not know if I am showing off at something that is trivial for everyone else, but it really was hard for me to learn to write by hand the first time; it feels like a neurological revolution that it is merely aggravating the second.
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Decades of wrestling with my hardwiring pays off!
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and I *know* I've discussed handwriting difficulties with other people.
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Thank you! It was acquired with dedication.
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I don't normally have reason to demonstrate it outside of signatures! I have in the past sent letters and cards to people. It just became so much more difficult to visit the post office during a pandemic.
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I find typing very ponderous; I mostly peck at the keyboard with my right forefinger with some help from the left. It requires a lot of attention, too much at times. Conversely I've got a callous/pad on my right middle finger from forty-something of years of pens. People assume I injured the finger, then get surprised by the reason. Cut me open and you'll find the word ANALOGUE running through me like the letters in a stick of rock.
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Thank you!
It doesn't surprise me you're ambidextrous, but for some reason I assumed you were predominantly left-handed. Don't ask me why.
It would have been familial: my father was originally left-handed (he had polio as a child and was re-trained as a righty, which made him for years what he described as ambiklutzy), his father was ambidextrous but predominantly left-handed, his brothers were a mix of the same. I've been ambidextrous with things like tools my entire life, but I didn't think it counted because I couldn't write with both hands, and, well. I favor my left hand in typing. My mother and both of her parents were right-handed. We're not actually sure about my brother who is left-eye dominant, extremely adept with tools with both hands, and kind of can't write with either.
I find typing very ponderous; I mostly peck at the keyboard with my right forefinger with some help from the left.
I could type by age eight because it was so much easier than writing by hand. Thank God I lived in a house of multiple typewriters and toaster Macs.
Conversely I've got a callous/pad on my right middle finger from forty-something of years of pens. People assume I injured the finger, then get surprised by the reason. Cut me open and you'll find the word ANALOGUE running through me like the letters in a stick of rock.
Aw. I used to have a pencil callus during the school year. It would always fade over the summer and then build up again once the semester started. I kind of miss it. (I also hold pens and pencils funny, but since it doesn't prevent me writing with them, I don't care.)
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Oh yes! I'm left handed and constantly want to do it! :o)
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That's interesting! I had been assuming it was because my left hand was trying to replicate the motions my brain had learned right-handed in a more comfortable direction. But you have always written left-handed and always want to mirror-write?
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If you are left handed, right to left makes perfect sense
Leonardo was left handed and he mirror wrote constantly.
There is also a connection, it seems, between left handedness and being trans- the incidence of left handedness among trans people is much higher than average.
I'm also synaesthetic, but whether that is connected is more than I know. :o)
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Ha! I can sort of see that.
I struggle to write right-handed, never mind with my non-dominant hand, so just getting something legible impresses me, never mind as neat as this is.
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With terrible typesetting, of course.
I struggle to write right-handed, never mind with my non-dominant hand, so just getting something legible impresses me, never mind as neat as this is.
Thank you. I had very dysfunctional handwriting until about seventh grade.
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It's funny how your handwriting has been the same streamlined and very classicist-apropos thing for oh, about twenty years unchanged. Ennit?
Love.
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I like it. I'm glad to know it settled into itself. Your handwriting looks as I recognize it, too, capital letters and ligatures and all.
I never learned to write more than a careful and mechanical cursive, but fortunately I can read it, so that centuries of human communication are not lost to me.
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Wait, do you think you could get the left-slant from someone who mostly handwrote Yiddish? Then it's the proper slant and -- argh.
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For writing, partly connected printing (not true cursive by letterforms) is easy for my right in general; my left can handle tidy whiteboard/chalkboard writing because it's as though one draws the letters, which uses a different part of the brain, but I've never practiced writing on paper with my left and the results are messy. I am very definitely left-footed, however, alongside my right-handed writing, and when we had little track/field units in middle school phys ed, I had to pretend being left-handed to get the correct running-block setup for sprints and be able to stand in the correct line for high jump.
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That would make sense to me, all spectra considered.
I got accidentally taught a mix of fork and knife styles because my parents use them differently and as a result sort of switch back and forth without thinking about it.
I wonder whether it's coincidental that the tendency lines up with the crap joints' heritability.
I have no idea, although my brother and my father are also data points in that direction.
I am very definitely left-footed, however, alongside my right-handed writing, and when we had little track/field units in middle school phys ed, I had to pretend being left-handed to get the correct running-block setup for sprints and be able to stand in the correct line for high jump.
That's really neat. Do you have any idea which is your dominant eye?
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I think it's my right.
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I couldn't write legible cursive until most of the way through the fourth grade, and they used to penalize one for printing, which I could do pretty well, but it was considered just a young child's precursor to cursive and made them impatient.
I still don't know what the issue was; maybe just some delayed fine-motor control thing.
P.
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Thank you!
I still don't know what the issue was; maybe just some delayed fine-motor control thing.
Sounds normal to me. I was taught cursive in elementary school, but it never took except for my signature and a couple of ligatures.
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I was surprised by that! I don't know how identifiable it would be without the side-by-side comparison, but it doesn't look not like my handwriting to me.
I wonder if I've tended to strongly enhance my right hand's dominance due to using it for fine-motor-control tasks so much (drawing and writing more or less constantly) throughout my adolescence, so the difference is really pronounced now.
I don't see why you couldn't have specialized your motor skills like that. You might also just be really right-handed. Some people are.
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My appalling sprawling script suddenly became minute and rather neat (though not as elegant as yours) in college. For years, I used a fine fountain pen and wrote two or three lines to the notebook ruling. Somewhere I have handwritten notes for Moonwise. I clung to my manual typewriter until the 90s: I needed the clamor, the slam of the carriage, and the ding!
I like your serpentine "g."
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I'd had been shocked if it had rewired you, but glad to see the evidence anyway. I didn't realize phones came in dominant hands. Can you lefty it?
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Aha! I'd already figured out how to flip my Solitaire. And I've just now realized that I can turn pages with my left thumb. That control is hiding under "Margins Advance," so I missed it.
Nine
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Hooray!
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I'm also impressed that you can write so similarly with either hand. I recall a Batman comic explaining that Bruce Wayne wrote with his right hand, but Batman with his left, so the handwriting would be different. And below is a picture of two samples of Lord Nelson's handwriting, who was naturally right-handed. The image on the right is of a letter he wrote in 1793. Four years later, he lost his right arm in battle. On the left is an image of a letter wrote in 1804.
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Thank you! I think of your handwriting as very neat. I wonder if
I recall a Batman comic explaining that Bruce Wayne wrote with his right hand, but Batman with his left, so the handwriting would be different.
I mean, it would be different, but he might have to work to make it both legible and unconnectable.
And below is a picture of two samples of Lord Nelson's handwriting, who was naturally right-handed. The image on the right is of a letter he wrote in 1793. Four years later, he lost his right arm in battle. On the left is an image of a letter wrote in 1804.
That's awesome.