Left handed?

Question

How come alot of people always think its VERY unusual for a left handed person to have good handwriting.
I'm left handed and my friends will always say Omg ur left handed i never knew that or you have such good hand writing for someone whos left handed?

Answer 1

I'm left hand and write like you perfect hand writing and everybody didnt know until i told them but the point is who cares if you write with left hand you are still you are its what inside that matters.

Answer 2

it usually depends on what language ur writting in. I'm a lefty and i can tellu that the reason people expect us to have bad hand writting is b/c when we write left to right english our hands go over what we write and can smear it if its pen or come off on ur hand if its pencil. some have bad writing b/c most teachers r righty and cant teach lefties right (oops i mean correctly) i dont happen to have bad hand writing, but when i write in hebrew (i take a hebrew class in school always best to learn ur languages), which goes from right to left i dont smear. personally i have pretty good hand writting but i still prefer to use the computor for typing
(i dont think that writing with my left hand is the work of the devil i think it makes me more unique than i already was)

Answer 3

Ha this is just weird cause I am left handed and my handwriting sucks. I am not joking cause I've had the same handwriting since I was 8yrs old. I do have some people that freak out just because I am left handed, and another thing is that my sister makes fun of me cause I know how to draw yet my handwriting sucks.^^

Answer 4

My mother is a "south paw" (lefty, left handed) and when she was little they tried to train her to write right handed. Her sister became ambidextrous because of it (able to write with both hands).

The reason people with Left Handedness are thought to have rotten penmanship is because they were taught by rotten teachers who didn't know how to teach a left handed person, or even that the student was left handed, so they tried to make them right handed writers. See below for my proof.

My mother is a strong woman and I don't think she let the school control how she wrote because she has very good penmanship. Still she does write in that arm bent around style--she was in a catholic school until High School, see my source below for why that mattered.

My penmanship is rotten, and it makes my mother very mad, because the school that taught me how to write cursive didn't teach me how to hold the pencil correctly, and no one could figure out why my handwriting was so bad until I got into HIGH SCHOOL. By then the pattern was set. I still tend to fall back to my old way of holding a pencil, so I always print block letters, I never write, except my signature, which is almost unreadable.

According to Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Left_handed#Inaccessibility_of_implements_and_skills
"Writing is difficult to learn for a left handed child if, as is usually the case, the writing teacher refuses to teach left-handed children in a way that is easy for them. This is because, when properly done, left handed writing is a mirror image to that of the right hander, making the learning process confusing for the left-handed student. The result is that the majority of left handed people write with their hand curled around the pen so that it can meet the paper at the same angle as the right hander, rather than simply tilt the paper the opposite way. Once this habit is formed, it is difficult to break. It is also a commonly held belief that the left hander curls his/her hand during writing to prevent dragging it through the still-wet ink. This is not true. The curled hand actually places the heel of the palm behind the writing, forcing the writer to lift it off the paper and making the grip even more awkward. When the left hand is held correctly, it is below the writing, just as with the right handed.

Until the latter part of the twentieth century, Roman Catholic nuns in American elementary schools (and possibly elsewhere, for example Dutch and German primary schools) would punish children for using their left hand to write, typically by slapping their left hand with a ruler if they attempted to pick up a pen with it. As late as the early 20th century, school teachers in the Netherlands would force right-handed writing (thus, ambidexterity) on left-handed writing children."

I many cultures it is considered impolite to use the left hand, in Catholic schools it was often considered the work of the devil!

Check out the section on how it affects the way people think, if you are left-handed or not.
In the "Disappearing" Left Handers there is some other disturbing news.

So be glad that you are a "South Paw" and have good penmanship, you are a very rare breed, and someone that did not conform in a way that would be wrong for you.

Oh, by the way I am a firm right handed person and I have a mild form of dyslexia.
According to Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dyslexia#Vision.2C_reading.2C_and_spelling
“People are often identified as dyslexic when their reading or writing problems cannot be explained by a lack of intellectual ability, inadequate instruction, or sensory problems such as poor eyesight.

The term dyslexia is also sometimes used to refer to the loss of reading ability following brain damage. This form of dyslexia is more often referred to as either acquired dyslexia or "Alexia". Dyslexia primarily impacts reading and writing abilities; however, other difficulties have been reported including deficits in processing spoken language[1] as well as non-language difficulties[2].”

So the reason why many left handed people may SEEM to be dyslexic is because they weren’t taught how to wirte properly in the first place and no one can figure out why they are having problems with their writing. More left handed people ARE NOT dyslexic, they are just given that label by the right hand world.

Answer 5

Most left handed people write in illegible, including myself. Lefty's hold the paper differently when writing. If you write neat it's weird only because the majority of us don't.

Answer 6

One of many reason is lefties push rather then drag the pen.
Plus they smear the palm across what was written.
There are also the type that write from the top so not to drag across the written words.
Have you noticed that most dislexic(sp) are lefthanded also?

Answer 7

Well usually people are right handed and good hand writers, so when left handed person goes and writes neater, they get jealous.

Answer 8

they just figure it would be harder for left handed people to write since it's harder for right handed people to write left handed. its really just as simple. im also left handed and have neat handwriting but my writing isnt pretty if i write right handedly lol.

Answer 9

i'm left handed, people always comment on my good hand writing, but i really hate how the ink or lead smudges onto my pinky finger!!! its annoying!!!!

Answer 10

I am left handed and sometimes cant read my own hand writing.... so you are Lucky