You should see how I write. The old curled wrist. People gape so much I should charge them to see it.
I read somewhere that lefties who write that way were meant to be right-handers but suffered some kind of brain damage in utero. Lefties who write "normally" -- like righties, only the opposite hand -- are genetically left-handed.
I'm what you call a "pathological" left-hander.
To my fellow southpaws I suggest THE LEFT-HANDER SYNDROME, by Stanley Coren. It's discomfiting, to say the least.
My theory on the curly-handed writers was that in the first grade or kindergarten when the teacher said to tilt your paper to the left, that’s exactly what lefties did. And the only way a leftie can write on the lines of a left-tilted paper is backhanded. But then that’s just my right-brained theory.
Of course my paper tilted to the right and I was occasionally the target of cheaters in school. Once, in college, a professor told me he thought he had identified a cheater who constantly targeted me (I was a fairly good student) so he asked me to mark the multiple-choice test off one (if the answer was A, I was to mark B, etc.). He assured me he would grade my exam by hand rather than by computer. After the exam, I asked the professor whether his strategy worked. He just smiled.