Hi, David. I just wanted to say that I very much appreciate your posting your tweets, and your doing roundups of your posts, because I so often miss them, and they are so good.
I wrote a comment for your handwriting post, but couldn't quite feel it was really up to the level of the other ones, not to mention being rather late; so you are stuck with getting it here.
I'm not dyslexic, but handwriting caused me tears too. I was grades ahead in lots of things, but at kindergarten level, they said, in handwriting; as late as the sixth grade, they were still saying that; no doubt it was true. I could not do it. I could print. I can still print. I could not learn cursive by the Palmer method with all its squiggles and circles and "use your elbow, do it from your elbow!" What? It made no sense. To this day, my cursive, which I basically use when signing a check or writing in a big hurry, is just joined-up print. I cannot do those fancy capitals and or an m with three loops. I found it illogical and stupid and my hand would not do it. I hated it so much. I don't know if you got this with outright dyslexia, but I was always being impatiently told that I was too smart not to be able to do X, whatever X might be, certainly including writing gorgeous cursive after exercising my elbow. I was sorry to read that writing cursive has benefits, because I used to cheer silently every time I read anything about how nobody used it any longer.
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Date: 2014-06-09 05:07 pm (UTC)I wrote a comment for your handwriting post, but couldn't quite feel it was really up to the level of the other ones, not to mention being rather late; so you are stuck with getting it here.
I'm not dyslexic, but handwriting caused me tears too. I was grades ahead in lots of things, but at kindergarten level, they said, in handwriting; as late as the sixth grade, they were still saying that; no doubt it was true. I could not do it. I could print. I can still print. I could not learn cursive by the Palmer method with all its squiggles and circles and "use your elbow, do it from your elbow!" What? It made no sense. To this day, my cursive, which I basically use when signing a check or writing in a big hurry, is just joined-up print. I cannot do those fancy capitals and or an m with three loops. I found it illogical and stupid and my hand would not do it. I hated it so much. I don't know if you got this with outright dyslexia, but I was always being impatiently told that I was too smart not to be able to do X, whatever X might be, certainly including writing gorgeous cursive after exercising my elbow. I was sorry to read that writing cursive has benefits, because I used to cheer silently every time I read anything about how nobody used it any longer.
Pamela