Can you write in cursive?

[futurebird@sauropods.win]

@jiub

I'm a huge fan of cursive but was never forced to use it. I think that might be the problem.

[jdm2@boriken.social]

@futurebird I was shamed for having “bad” cursive penmanship. I dropped it as soon as it wasn’t a requirement anymore.

I don’t even think it was that bad.

[darth_hideout@mas.to]

@futurebird

In days of yore, when I was in college & travelers' checks roamed the earth, I met an American traveler my age in a Dublin hostel who was unable ever to sign his name the same way twice. Had issues. lol

[jiub@not.an.evilcyberhacker.net]

@futurebird@sauropods.win i'm sure i hate it more than i would if i wasn't forced to use it. for whatever reason i found it extremely hard to write cursive legibly enough for the teacher to accept, when i had ok handwriting before

and my school also used D'Nealian writing before cursive which probably didn't help lol

[hypostase@bsd.network]

@emily_rugburn
I was in my first year, with a Presbyterian teacher who held tightly on to the belief left handedness was of the devil. The 70s.
@futurebird

[srlevine@neuromatch.social]

@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).

[queenofnewyork@newsie.social]

@futurebird Yes, but I don't, because it comes out in Cyrillic ever since I studied Russian in college.

[emily_rugburn@lgbtqia.space]

@futurebird it was the mid 80's i was the only left handed kid in my whole
class...im not sure how that happened.

my sister, who is a couple of years older than me and far more left handed than i am, has impeccable penmanship because she was threatened with the same thing at the same age (although i didnt find out about that until decades later)

[hypostase@bsd.network]

@emily_rugburn
Also I'm really sorry that happened to you, it really sucks.
@futurebird

[rehana@mastodon.social]

@futurebird Other: it's fine, better than awkward but less than love.

[quoidian@mastodon.online]

@futurebird
None but pharmacists and doctors can read it, though.
Cursive with a fountain pen is a sensual pleasure, regardless.

[oneinterestingfact@mastodon.ie]

@futurebird

I had dreadful handwriting as a child. At secondary school they made me work to improve it. I don't think it was ever beautiful but it was regular and legible.
Then computers.
Now I find writing by hand a bit of a chore, I don't get enough practice. It's not degenerated to my eleven year old standard, yet. It could though if I don't take care to keep doing it.

[bright_helpings@mspsocial.net]

@futurebird "only my name, and my name is illegible."

(This hasn't gotten better since transition; i can write my old first name in cursive. But my new one is entirely composed of letters I'm bad at writing in cursive! With the possible exception of the i.)

[adriano@lile.cl]

@futurebird I can write cursive, but it comes out awful, because I haven't written like that in about 30 years. I do like my handwriting otherwise, even though its quality varies a lot depending on how tired I am.

[floreana@poliversity.it]

@futurebird
I write lowercase block instead of cursive. Been like that since university, I think. There was a time where I wrote cursive, though. Probably still remember how to, but it's been a while.

[emily_rugburn@lgbtqia.space]

@futurebird whats ironical about all of this is that my ex was in essentially the same school system as i was close to the same time, and no one ever harped on them about their handwriting. and its fucking chicken scratch.

all i can think of is that girls need good penmanship, boys do not. 🤮

[c_merriweather@social.linux.pizza]

@futurebird We had to learn cursive in school, but I found it easier to use printing if I wanted to remember what I was studying.

Some of my letters are connected, just for the speed of writing. People tell me my writing is quite legible, and I can take notes faster than I can type (on any keyboard).

I was that kid who almost flunked 9th grade typing class (on large mechanical typewriters), because I never got over 20 wpm without errors.

[pigeon_@tech.lgbt]

@futurebird I literally cannot physically use pens or pencils. I'm perfectly dextrous in other ways but that specific motion...

[emily_rugburn@lgbtqia.space]

@hypostase @futurebird my mom is now ambidextrous because the public school system in the 50's forced all kids to learn to write with their right hands. my mom told me she would get hit with a ruler by the teacher if she used her left hand.

[emily_rugburn@lgbtqia.space]

@hypostase @futurebird hopefully it doesnt happen anymore