Who thought this would be easy? It's a heavy weight

[sovay]

For 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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[sholio]

Oh, that's fascinating, how similar it looks, and yet slightly different! I tried it myself after you posted about it, and found that I really struggle with it - my left hand simply doesn't have the level of coordination to shape letters without great difficulty. 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.

[sovay]

Oh, that's fascinating, how similar it looks, and yet slightly different!

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.