My tweets

[lollardfish]

• Sun, 15:13: RT @phillyprof03: University Presidents Are Laughing All the Way to the Bank While the People Who Work for Them Are on Food Stamps http://t…
• Sun, 15:21: I have stopped reading Jacobin. MT @sarahkendzior: On rape threat controversy, an essay I never wanted to write: http://t.co/gfWw1eHz6g
• Sun, 15:26: Must read - Thomas Frank's long read on the 1200% rise on college inflation. Culture, politics, economics, more. http://t.co/VBRu9IJECg
• Sun, 15:42: RT @conradhackett: % change in # of College administrators 369% Adjuncts 286% Tenure line faculty 23% 1975/6-2011 http://t.co/GKN82i4paE ht…
• Sun, 15:53: ICYMI - a roundup of my blog posts from the week. Handwriting. Dissertations. Fatherhood. Disability and language. http://t.co/gvxmvswKJ6
• Sun, 16:26: Academics of the Internet. Do you have an online tenure/promotion document that talks about public engagement? Thank you!
• Sun, 21:42: O Ye Academics: Do you have an online tenure/promotion document that talks about public engagement? #crowdsourcing Thank you!!
• Sun, 21:54: I am #crowdsourcing promotion/tenure norms on public engagement or maybe community service/activity. What does your institution do?
• Sun, 21:55: #StopAbleismBecause I shouldn't have to teach my son to fear the police (and neither should anyone else). http://t.co/8uxQ6cNsFD
• Sun, 22:04: #StopAbleismBecause the vast majority of people shot by police have mental illness. http://t.co/TQx2hbqAHr

• Sun, 22:05: #StopAbleismBecause you are at most only temporarily able bodied. You might need disability rights someday. http://t.co/0q6qrQLHaK
• Sun, 22:14: #StopAbleismBecause when the NYPD shot at mentally ill man running, they charged him for their shooting bystanders. http://t.co/E0ezO4CH2w
• Sun, 23:23: RT @connorpwright: .@heatherurehere Interesting that the hashtag is happening at the same time as the 60 Minutes segment on shooters and me…
• Mon, 00:34: Shall I compare thee to a summer's day? Too hot and humid and I'm already ready for fall. #TrueShakespeare
• Mon, 00:34: Shall I compare thee to a summer's day? In England? Seriously, it's been raining since March. #TrueShakespeare
• Mon, 00:35: Alright, back to work. :)
• Mon, 02:34: RT @lowsell: #StopAbleismBecause most activism revolves around ableist terminology. 'Speak up,' 'stand up,' 'stop the silence,' 'do somethi…
• Mon, 03:14: RT @think_inclusive: BREAKING NEWS: Think Inclusive Is Expanding! - #iechat #spedchat http://t.co/ab6KsLZsEe
• Mon, 03:15: RT @BhasChat: #StopAbleismBecause college instructors have told me that they'd rather not be burdened by having someone with my condition i…
• Mon, 03:59: RT @CameronConaway: What Should I Do When a Child With Down Syndrome Hurts My Kid? - http://t.co/UUzTp25FG6 via @Lollardfish

• Mon, 04:23: RT @G_P_R_: ... and just because there are better ways to help disabled people doesnt mean you cant stop using oppreasive language. #stopab…

Comments

[pameladean]

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.

Pamela

[lollardfish.livejournal.com]

Thank you Pamela. And that comment would be welcome anywhere. :) I'm glad my tweets aren't annoying since I tweet so much in any given day.

I just think there's an assumption that brain development is consistent in the "save handwriting" voice. What they are really saying is that in a certain kind of typical brain, handwriting has the following positive effects on memory and comprehension. Which is fine, except that there are so few actually typical brains.