Can you write in cursive?

[emily_rugburn@lgbtqia.space]

@futurebird left handed here. my 2nd grade teacher told me that they were going to hold me back a year unless my handwriting improved. ever since then, i hate thinking about having to physically write things out.

[futurebird@sauropods.win]

@emily_rugburn

This is very bad IMO. It's a nonsense reason to hold a kid back. I think many schools have replaced cursive units with touch typing which is also very useful. Though neither of these things is always taught in the most thoughtful way.

[jiub@not.an.evilcyberhacker.net]

@futurebird@sauropods.win i hate cursive. i was forced to use it from about 3rd to 6th grade and it made me hate writing

once i was allowed to use block writing i switched back as soon as i could. tho my writing looks like crap

i think it's a huge waste of time to force kids to learn cursive

[wronglang@bayes.club]

@futurebird where is the "Can you only write cursive" category?

[literally@mstdn.party]

@futurebird my style of hand writing is mostly print letters but with some cursive ones thrown in occasionally, usually s. i like my handwriting ok when i’m not hurrying it, but it gets messy when i’m in a rush

[liferstate@mas.to]

@futurebird I don't know if I "like" my handwriting but I do have nonstandard ways of writing particular cursive letters, and over the years I've consciously changed the way I print certain letters. So it's very much "mine."

E.g. in 2nd or 3rd grade I thought the way lowercase a looked in the newspaper was way cooler than the letter as I'd been taught, so I switched.

[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.