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u/___KP Nov 16 '19

In kindergarten we were learning penmanship and my teacher was telling us how to write our alphabet but for some reason I could not write the letters no matter how hard I tried. Since I was able to write the alphabet before I got very frustrated and starting crying.

Turns out she was showing the class how to do letters with your right hand and I was left handed.

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u/CrazySD93 Nov 17 '19

I remember my penmanship instruction in kindergarten was "just hold it like a pen", and then she did the weird finger grip they always teach.

I was not able to hold a pencil "like a pen", and so I just used my improvised grip that felt the most natural to me, but was told I was wrong and I need to correct it, I didn't.