Can you write in cursive?
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Regardless if it's cursive or not, do you like your handwriting?
@futurebird I’m old enough that I took hand drafting courses and my hand writing is in all capitals and has weird artifacts like crossed 7s and slashed zeros.
I like it perfectly fine…Except that I frequently find myself teaching young children and then it looks foreign and incorrect.
So I try to write “correctly” and it looks like a second grader wrote it.
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@futurebird I was successful in concealing the fact that I could read cursive from my parents for almost a year. Much useful intelligence was gained.
Eventually slipped up in front of Mom, but it was useful for a while.@jmax @futurebird I could read upside down and found out a few things that way
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Regardless if it's cursive or not, do you like your handwriting?
My handwriting is borderline illegible but at least Microsoft can't use my spiral notebooks to train its Copilot models.
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Regardless if it's cursive or not, do you like your handwriting?
While able to write cursive, I have very bad penmanship, probably due to the fact that I tried to mimic my left-handed sister when learning to write - I can't write with my left hand.
My mom thought I was just playing with my siblings but didn't notice it until I was able to read, and I never really corrected my writing.
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@futurebird My handwriting somehow evolved into an idiosyncratic mix of some cursive letters and some print, often depending on where the letters are in a word? So I chose "technically yes, but I don't" because that seemed the closest (I can write full on cursive, but it's not my default).
@SRLevine @futurebird There are handwriting styles based exactly on that for ease and efficiency.
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Regardless if it's cursive or not, do you like your handwriting?
@futurebird@sauropods.win I've got classic dyslexia handwriting: it's gibberish and angry scribbles. I think i understand the process and what shapes I'm supposed to use but it's not practical.
My writing is always a disaster.
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@jmax @futurebird I could read upside down and found out a few things that way
@geonz @futurebird Oh, yes. I have worked as a consultant, and reading upside down is an essential meeting skill.
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Can you write in cursive?
@futurebird I learned it. I painstakingly worked on improving my penmanship and that was good for my fine motor skills.
But I had teachers in 6th grade who were militant about submitting papers in cursive, because "that's how adults communicate", not this computer fad.
I can't think of a single instance in my adult life I've written anything in cursive. I don't even sign my name in cursive.
Calligraphy is an art and I respect it as a skill, but no, it's not how I communicate as an adult.
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I'm a huge fan of cursive but was never forced to use it. I think that might be the problem.
@futurebird @jiub I think fine motor skills are an issue too, *but* where I taught folks w/ learning disabilities, *everybody* learned cursive -- but we were friendly about it -- for lots of researched reasons. Some hated it but most appreciated -- esp if they had horrible writng -- that it was a lot easier to read your own writing when you could see where words ended and new ones started. IT was the 1990s though. Everybody also learned keyboarding.
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Regardless if it's cursive or not, do you like your handwriting?
@futurebird My handwriting has always been awful.
Was very jealous when my cousins went to live in france and had their cursive corrected. There were school classes for international students. -
@geonz @futurebird Oh, yes. I have worked as a consultant, and reading upside down is an essential meeting skill.
As a tutor and teaching I've learned to write upside down (eg I can write so you can read it when I'm sitting face to face with you. )
I'm a little flattered by how much it freaks people out. But it's not hard. Just imagine your wrist is extra flexible and you are writing right side up.
I can't do mirror writing and that makes me sad... but someday I'll learn.
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As a tutor and teaching I've learned to write upside down (eg I can write so you can read it when I'm sitting face to face with you. )
I'm a little flattered by how much it freaks people out. But it's not hard. Just imagine your wrist is extra flexible and you are writing right side up.
I can't do mirror writing and that makes me sad... but someday I'll learn.
@futurebird It’s not much different than how you learned to write upside down. I taught myself to write backwards with my left hand back in high school. But I can only do it in cursive!
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Can you write in cursive?
I never wrote in cursive when I was young, when that was considered weird. Now I am starting to again.
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Can you write in cursive?
@futurebird Yes, and it’s like the only way I handwrite
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Regardless if it's cursive or not, do you like your handwriting?
@futurebird Other — I like to write by hand, it’s my preferred writing method by far, but my handwriting is kinda ugly
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@futurebird It’s not much different than how you learned to write upside down. I taught myself to write backwards with my left hand back in high school. But I can only do it in cursive!
@superflippy @futurebird I can write and read braille upside down which is necessary for a braille teacher. Also when you write braille with a slate and stylus you are writing it backward because you are literally punching every hole out from behind. I can sign my name in cursive, but if I'm going to write print letters, they are not in cursive and I have to remember how the lines go and often I write them backwards or upside down because I forget which way they point. Also my handwriting looks like that of a particularly hyper six-year-old. I can read raised print such as the numbers on a credit card with my fingertips but writing is harder because I don't do it but once every few years.
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Can you write in cursive?
@futurebird I don't have the education to be a doctor but I have the handwriting.
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As a tutor and teaching I've learned to write upside down (eg I can write so you can read it when I'm sitting face to face with you. )
I'm a little flattered by how much it freaks people out. But it's not hard. Just imagine your wrist is extra flexible and you are writing right side up.
I can't do mirror writing and that makes me sad... but someday I'll learn.
@futurebird @jmax Yes, I learned that too. I *think* I could do mirror writing too. I sort of visualize what it should look like and trace what I "see."
Now, I can't (I don't think ) do *cursive* upside down. -
Can you write in cursive?
@futurebird needs more options:
yes, definitely, for sure!
yes but I don’t do all the letters exactly right
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@futurebird It’s not much different than how you learned to write upside down. I taught myself to write backwards with my left hand back in high school. But I can only do it in cursive!
@superflippy @futurebird Yeah... ok... now to the real thing: can you write with both hands independently at the same time?
I certainly cannot. 
