Did(Do) you hold your pencil funny when you write?

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My hands are large and ungainly. Accuracy only comes when I intensely concentrate. I have trouble holding a pencil right for some reason.

It always confused me...since i was little I always had the best handwriting in the class...but the teacher's kept insisting that my pencil grip needed to be fixed.

On a related topic, whoever invented those little polygonal foamy grips was evil.

...hm...now that I look, I hold the spoon the same way i hold a pencil...just at a different angle. (the vertical approach has a very low success rate.)

I hold pens and pencils weirdly. One person commented that I hold it kind of like how you'd hold a stylus or something. I've tried holding it the regular way, especially when my hand starts to cramp up (I usually hold it very tightly), but I don't feel like I have as much control.

I do, in fact. People have told me I hold the pencil "like a lefty" (I write with my right hand) teachers have tried to show me how to hold it "properly" but I just *can't* do it, I don't just find it uncomfortable, I find it unbearable. I want to scratch at the skin between all of my fingers when they make me hold a writing implement that way.

When I was a kid I could never remember the proper way of holding a spoon versus holding a pencil. As a result, I held and still hold a pencil unlike anybody else I know.

I was actually told by my mom years ago that I wasn't holding it right, but I'm not really sure what the "right" way is. I do get kind of cramped if I'm writing for a long time, but then I hardly ever do that, since 99.9% of the time anything major I just type on a computer anyway.

I'm right handed, but seem to have better use of my left hand than most right handed people. I can use a mouse with my left hand almost as well as my right-pretty much identically. For the heck of it I've tried writing with my left hand some lately, just to see if I could. I can, but I have to write really slowly and kind of concentrate on it.

I was told by my mom that she always thought I was right handed, but did notice I'd do some things with my left hand instead. And apparently when I was a baby I'd eat with my right hand, until I was given a spoon. Then I'd clutch the spoon in my right hand, and continue eating with my left

Yes I do hold a pen weirdly. I'm right-handed though. I can't write for long without getting cramp in my hand. I always fell behind in school when notes were being dictated and had to borrow someone else's work to copy out later. My writing's terrible.

My writing's always been pretty scruffy, but I think that's less down to the way I hold my pen (although that can feel quite uncomfortable after a while), and more down to the fact that I have such poor control over my fine motor functions. I've never been able to be really tidy with my handwriting

Because western languages are usually left to right, top to down often lefties slant away from themselves and push their wrist away. You don't have to do this but you risk smudging the ink if you don't. Right hand doesn't really have this problem but would have in Arabic/Hebrew.

I tend to hold my knife differently. My family always laugh how I hold salad servers.

I never really had a specific handwriting. It changed. Then I sort of picked one. In the UK they always wanted you to write in fountain pen. But I prefer pencil/biro for a lot of things. I never really understood the point of cursive. I don't find it more legible. It is better to write in a more naturally way where some of the things could be joined up, just not ridiculous. I like interesting looking hand writing.

Yes, I do! I hold it near the tip almost to the point where my fingers are touching the paper. When I went to private school as a child I was yelled at.
When I do it my handwriting is nice. When I don't my handwriting is terrible.

I hold it the way you're supposed to hold it. I used to hold it differently till I was six and the teachers had to keep teaching me how to hold it properly. I used to hold it like how I hold onto things.

Every time i'm writing i hold it different way.
My mother spent a lot of time teaching my how to hold it properly (she thought it was the cause of my dysgraphia - but it wasn't) but i just don't like it, and it's usulally unpleasant in general to hold a pen for me.
I also change my hands while writing and i'm sometimes drawing with both handes at the same time.

I'm a right-handed writer... and my pencil grip is natural except that I hold it too high so I wouldn't have to bend my thumb to move the pencil... (because it doesn't like bending)

About eating utensils, I can hold a spoon correctly left-handed if I'm ONLY eating with a spoon. If I try to eat with a spoon and fork, or fork and knife I clutch them in my hands... my parents tried to teach me the correct way when I was 11 but I never learnt it so they have given up as long as I manage to eat neatly... and I DO.

I also used to hold my mouse awkardly until I was 12, but that was probably because I use it left-handed and I didn't know you could switch the buttons... I used to put my hand far to the left so I could hold the left button with my index finger and moved my hand to click the right button... but EVERY other people I know, left-handed or right-handed put their whole hand on the mouse and use their middle fingers if the buttons are reversed.

i think i hold pencils to tight, when i write. i dont know why