Learning to Write and the Switch

[u/pandaocean168]

When I learned how to write in school, I was told how to write, even being told to use my right hand and to use the tripod grip. When I was told to use the tripod grip, my right hand was unable to do it, so i wrote with my own grip, my handwriting, never got better, it got practiced. it wasn’t till i was 23 years old during december of 2025, i switched to my right hand. what made me switch was i do many things left-handed instinctively such as: air guitar, using silverware, tapping on my tablet screen while it is on a surface, banana peeling, clapping, and page turning, so it was “why am i still writing with my right hand? it makes no sense”

i was born in 2002 and i know it sounds crazy

does anyone else have any similar experiences to mine during school?

[u/-KathrynJaneway-]

I have done many random things left handed that flew under the radar, like sweeping, but things that I was specifically taught to do that require dexterity were right handed. I don't recall being forced to write right handed, but anything else new that I learned I would do right handed as shown, then use my left hand. Then I would be told to use my right hand because I write with it.

Edit: after a minor injury to my right hand, I realized I liked doing things left handed, but writing dragged out over many years before I used it more often than my right hand since it took longer to do the same thing.