This was my recurring nightmare for four hellish years...
Being a southpaw in a small rural school with a teacher that was convinced I could be “trained” to use my right hand caused me to detest penmanship lessons.
Sometimes I’d go home with a hand that looked like I was wearing a catcher’s mitt because every time she saw me trying to sneak the pencil into my left hand, she’s smack it with a long ruler.
(I still hate that woman).
Learning how to type in seventh grade saved my life. I still have the most atrocious handwriting you have ever seen, but put me in front of a keyboard and my mind soars free.
Other than the ruler slaps, we have a very similar background on penmanship. Mine is subpar doctor at best.
Typing was one of the best classes I took in HS. Auto Mechanics was the other.
This was my recurring nightmare for four hellish years...
Here’s the trick to writing left handed. Most teachers never understood that merely tilting the paper would eliminate all the upside down contortionist wrist thing. Ok, so teacher angled your paper with the top at 11 o’clock. That’s backwards for lefties. Lefties should angle their paper with the top at 1 o’clock. Viola! No more upside down wrists and hardly anyone will notice you’re not a rightie.
Hey, we lefties have it better anyway. Food! Look at table settings. The fork is set on the left of the plate so no crossing over with the right hand and dragging your sleeve through the gravy. The knife is set on the right of the plate so, again, no sleeves in your food or dropped utensils with righties having to switch hands to cut their food. Also, glasses are on the right so they can easily be picked up with the empty hand.