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Your writting position?

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Not about being left-handed or right-handed, just about your hand position when writting.
 
I've been told throughout my life that I hold the pen/pencil 'wrong' and that why my handwriting is almost illegible. In grade school when the various teachers corrected the position of the pencil in my hand, I couldn't write at all.

The position I use for writing is natural for me, and the 'correct' position is actually uncomfortable, and non-functional. Oh well.

However, when I make the occasional attempt to write left handed, I do hold the pen 'correctly', but as I am not naturally left handed, my penmanship with that hand is just as illegible as my right handed writing.

I also do not have my fingers in the 'correct' position for typing on a keyboard. Oh well, as well.

Oh, by the way, I also hold chopsticks 'wrong', but I can still eat with them.
 
My hand position is like this:
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Yeah, that's how all those grade school teachers told me to hold the thing, and would put my hand in that position around the pencil, and then wonder why I couldn't make any sort of meaningful mark on the paper.

And I still can't.

Like I said, my left handed writing position is reasonably close to that.

At best, I'd describe my right handed grip as something an arthritic zombie would try to scrawl across a page with using the thumb and first two fingers on his half clawed hand around one of those super sized crayons.
 
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