Natl. Handwriting Day 1/23 - On cursive writing

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CBS News Story, 'The Lost Art of Writing in Cursive' - 3 minute 30 second clip. The 1min, 55sec. to 2min, 05sec. part of clip is quite interesting, and beneficial in value. (LINK)

Does anybody draw parallels of cursive handwriting to old-school writing in corresponding to penpals?

LINK: https://www.cbsnews.com/video/the-lost- ... n-cursive/

I abandoned using cursive pretty much as soon as they were done teaching it.

I have no use for it and at that age it was a matter of 'everything worth reading is written in print'.

I got roundly criticized and punished by my parents for having horrible handwriting (it was gorse than an MD). It’s part of the reason I bought a computer.

Remember, dysgraphia and autism can be intertwined.

Cursive is nice and elegant.….when it is possible for a person to write cursive elegantly.

My cursive is indecipherable….so I use block letters.

I've been doing a lot of cursive writing lately...

Yep. I still hear about it to this day.

Of course my parents don't know or understand autism.

Exactly this for me.

Even whilst at school, I found it easier to adopt a neat blockier way of writing, simply because I'd prefer to be able to re-read what I've wrote, which in turn helps me properly process things.

I'd seen another child's handwriting on a noticeboard on their work, when I was about 7-8, and aspired to copy that. 2 decades on, and it's still more or less the same.

I'd often get chides about it by teachers (especially with the letter 'k'), but I simply wouldn't care. This was even before I properly knew about my Autism, so - back then - I was still trying to adapt and find ways to make life easier for me, even if I didn't know why at the time.

In Secondary School, I was either told by my peers that my handwriting was "Neat...for a boy's", or simply "You write like a girl". Because, well...this was the 2000's after all.

My kid has to use cursive writing at school. but I find they don't carry this on whilst at home. My approach is simply "If it's neat, and I can read it, why does it matter that every letter doesn't join up?"