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[Neonivek]

I write my S's from the top, that's odd doctor Neon. I first trained writing in cursive [from a smelly tome] at a young age, where I learned I was better with my left than right at writing

Indeed that is very odd on you. Given that being left handed means that the first part of an S starts from the left side which would be the side you are writing from.

It is very telling of your schooling Mictlantecuhtli.

[Mictlantecuhtli]

I write my S's from the top, that's odd doctor Neon. I first trained writing in cursive [from a smelly tome] at a young age, where I learned I was better with my left than right at writing

Indeed that is very odd on you. Given that being left handed means that the first part of an S starts from the left side which would be the side you are writing from.

It is very telling of your schooling Mictlantecuhtli.

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It's very telling that you once again discuss such a subject with snark and silliness.

[Neonivek]

I was speaking very seriously... though I admit it is silly.

But what I meant Mictlantecuhtli is that you likely were taught how to write motion by motion.

[Doctus]

I'm right-handed and start "S" from the bottom.

[Neonivek]

I'm right-handed and start "S" from the bottom.

Very odd too. These are the only two exceptions I've seen out of the many people I've tested this on.

I'd also would like to know why these exceptions exist.

[penguinofhonor]

I'm left-handed and start them from the top.

[kaijyuu]

Right handed and start them from the top.

[MetalSlimeHunt]

I start from the middle because I'm an avant-garde nonconformist rebel.

[Neonivek]

Hmmm

The only other writing observation I ever made is that people who are right handed will start the lower case e from the center sometimes... or rather that people who are left handed will RARELY start from the center.

Simply because it is easier to extend then contract.

[penguinofhonor]

I'm left-handed, and I always draw it from the center. It's easy, sorta like an outward spiral.

[Corai]

I'm left-handed, and I always draw it from the center. It's easy, sorta like an outward spiral.

[Thecard]

It is possible to outright switch your dominant hand.

Uhh... I'm going to have to politely call bullshit on this.
As someone who's written with my right hand for 10 years, and my left hand for three months, I think I can say you're wrong about that.  My left hand is so much better than my right, I'm finally able to turn in hand-written essays (which I've never been able to do before).  As soon as I switched, my writing became legible.
It's actually really funny I didn't realize it.  More than half of the men in my family, including extended, are lefties.


Oh, and it's a lot easier to write from top-to-bottom, usually.  Or from the center, in the case of the 'e.'  It's really more a matter of friction than hand muscles.

[i2amroy]

A couple things that I could see influencing how you write your S's (boy that looks funny).
1)For the lefties starting at the top a lot of schools use books that teach you writing by copying. So they give you a starting arrow and then connect the dot's, similar to this:

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The result is that everyone learns how to write it the right handed way, regardless of their left-handedness.

2)As for the people starting at the bottom, my guess would be that you were either interested about how fast you could write or had problems getting your writing to be on the bottom line as a kid. Starting from the bottom both ensures that you end on the right side (which speeds your handwriting up) as well as ensuring that all of your letters rest on the same line and you never end up with an 'S' that looks like a 'Ç' because you ran out of room due to the large upper arc.

I'm left-handed, and I always draw it from the center. It's easy, sorta like an outward spiral.

You on the other hand obviously had none of those write 20 'S's in a minute competitions when you were learning to write, as your way takes two strokes of the pen instead of one, which would take much longer. You rebel you!

[MetalSlimeHunt]

It is more accurate to say that you can have your dominant hand suppressed by force. Plenty of stories out there about teachers who would beat the left hands of children until they became swollen to force them to use their right hand.

Suppressing hand dominance can actually cause serious mental illness and emotional scars that never really heal.

[Thecard]

It is more accurate to say that you can have your dominant hand suppressed by force. Plenty of stories out there about teachers who would beat the left hands of children until they became swollen to force them to use their right hand.

Suppressing hand dominance can actually cause serious mental illness and emotional scars that never really heal.

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Also, I have to say that it is harder to focus when you're using your non-dominant hand.  Not entirely sure why, but I've noticed that.