02-21-2024, 02:05 AM
I type. I have since sophomore year in high school over fifty years ago.
See, I was left handed and in grade school we were given pens and pencils to write with and we were put in little desks that were made for right handed people. There was an arm rest to the right of the seat and students would slide in between the seat and the desk from the left.
This left no arm rest for left handed writers, only those who wrote with the right hands had that arm rest to steady their arms for writing. Got me so far? I'll go on.
Here in the west, we write on a piece of paper from the left to the right, right? Well this is fine for right handed people because they can write with a pen or pencil without their hands rubbing across the freshly written words. With pens, the ink smudged and with pencils the graphite smudged from hands rubbing across the text, making messy papers.
I was also tall which meant that I had to bend over or rather hunch over the desk which would make me run my hand higher on the desk assuring that it would rub through the written text. On top of that, the teachers of the time did not understand any of this and insisted that the only way to turn the paper on the desk to be written on was for a right handed person.
Hence, not only were my school papers always messy from the smudging, but the general legibility was way below par as well. Script writing was next to impossible so I tried printing which was better but took much longer causing much more time to finish papers and tests.
So, my first year in high school I took typing and have typed all the way though college and on into the present day. My retention is fine and I say screw hand writing.
See, I was left handed and in grade school we were given pens and pencils to write with and we were put in little desks that were made for right handed people. There was an arm rest to the right of the seat and students would slide in between the seat and the desk from the left.
This left no arm rest for left handed writers, only those who wrote with the right hands had that arm rest to steady their arms for writing. Got me so far? I'll go on.
Here in the west, we write on a piece of paper from the left to the right, right? Well this is fine for right handed people because they can write with a pen or pencil without their hands rubbing across the freshly written words. With pens, the ink smudged and with pencils the graphite smudged from hands rubbing across the text, making messy papers.
I was also tall which meant that I had to bend over or rather hunch over the desk which would make me run my hand higher on the desk assuring that it would rub through the written text. On top of that, the teachers of the time did not understand any of this and insisted that the only way to turn the paper on the desk to be written on was for a right handed person.
Hence, not only were my school papers always messy from the smudging, but the general legibility was way below par as well. Script writing was next to impossible so I tried printing which was better but took much longer causing much more time to finish papers and tests.
So, my first year in high school I took typing and have typed all the way though college and on into the present day. My retention is fine and I say screw hand writing.
