Mirroring letters/mirror writing
Liverbird
Supporting Member

Joined: 13 Jun 2007
Age: 55
Gender: Female
Posts: 1,119
Location: My heart belongs to Anfield
How about a similar problem with writing. I write upside down. Not with the letters actually physically upside down, but evidently, I write them upside down. You are apparently supposed to start writing at the tops of letters, but I don't, I start on the bottom. I don't really understand it, because it never made sense to me to write them any other way. It's prolly a sensory issue.
_________________
"All those things that you taught me to fear
I've got them in my garden now
And you're not welcome here" ---Poe
Liverbird wrote:
How about a similar problem with writing. I write upside down. Not with the letters actually physically upside down, but evidently, I write them upside down. You are apparently supposed to start writing at the tops of letters, but I don't, I start on the bottom. I don't really understand it, because it never made sense to me to write them any other way. It's prolly a sensory issue.
Probably, because the reason to make children learn starting all letters at the top left is because it's Western starting point of writing. From left to right and from bottom to top. To avoid the kids getting confused on how to write letters and from which direction to which this is treated as a very important learning process today.
If you either feel more comfortable with this order reversed or even can only write like that, it's possible that this is because your perception works different than average. Either it still works unlike that of most others or it was just how your perceived things when you first learnt writing.
_________________
Autism + ADHD
______
The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it. Terry Pratchett
Similar Topics | |
---|---|
Reference letters but... |
04 May 2025, 2:04 am |
There are only 25 letters in the Christmas alphabet. |
08 Jul 2025, 3:10 pm |
Fantasy writing |
23 Jun 2025, 9:07 pm |
How to learn writing? |
Yesterday, 4:32 am |