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To: big truck

I can write BACKWARDS in cursive. I don’t know how or why I ever developed that, but I do. Probably in high school, I was pretty bored, so took notes backwards. A strange quirk, right?


13 posted on 03/09/2026 6:51:33 PM PDT by NEMDF
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To: NEMDF

Now you’re just bragging.😅


16 posted on 03/09/2026 6:56:59 PM PDT by big truck ("This space intentionally left blank.")
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To: NEMDF

“I can write BACKWARDS in cursive.”

I taught myself to do that when I was bored in college classes. Don’t think I could do it now.


48 posted on 03/09/2026 8:17:44 PM PDT by MayflowerMadam ( "Trouble knocked at the door, but, hearing laughter, hurried away". - B. Franklin)
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To: NEMDF

Cool


59 posted on 03/09/2026 9:39:24 PM PDT by combat_boots
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To: NEMDF

That’s called “mirror writing.” Look it up. My mother, who was also ambidextrous, could do cursive writing as fast backwards as she wrote forwards. And, when you held it up to a mirror, it looked exactly the same. Her grandfather had the same skill. He would send her letters written backward. She would hold them up to a mirror to read them. You have a special brain!

I learned cursive writing in fifth grade. I can still hear my old, battle axe of a teacher instructing us. We would follow her on our lined, yellow paper as she drew a circle repeatedly on the blackboard—”1, 2, 3, 4, capital M”, she would intone. I loved cursive writing and I won awards for penmanship in elementary school.

Some of the kids’ parents weren’t so sure. One at a PTA meeting asked why their children were learning “cursed” writing.


69 posted on 03/10/2026 7:08:13 AM PDT by PA Presbyterian (Never Surrender!)
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To: NEMDF

Lefthanders (like me) all seem to have the knack to do this.

Leonardo wrote all his notes in mirror script to keep them secret.


78 posted on 03/10/2026 7:12:25 PM PDT by decal (They won't stop, so they'll have to be stopped)
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To: NEMDF

I used to be able to do that. I haven’t written backwards in years. I only did it for my entertainment.


79 posted on 03/12/2026 5:24:10 AM PDT by NetAddicted (MAGA2024)
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