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

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I am right handed and hold my pencil in a very contorted looking grip. It was actually one of the things mentioned by the psychologist which led to my dianosis.

I also hold it in the wrong way, and too tightly I think. When I was little I never got the correct way to hold it, now I do, but don't bother learning it anymore as it feels really uncomfortable and unusual to hold the pen the right way and I can't write properly that way. Holding it wrongly all the time as I do my hand may start aching sooner than other's when writing and I often end up with ink or the color of the pen on my hand as I'm writing (making me look like a first-grader lol), but my handwriting is still fairly legible.
Oh, it's also been commented on that I hold the spoon in the wrong way and that I tie my shoes in an unusual way, what that means I still don't know though.

what is the correct way to hold it?I hold it between my thumb and middle finger,with the index finger on top.I cant even imagine holding it any other way.My hand writing is illegible when I am writing fast or for myself...I tend to have some words in cursive,some in print and it slants up por down hill if I dont have lines.Some of the letters also slant both right and left.

When I am going slow,it can be very neat,almost type written looking.I read a theory that when aspies "write neat" it is more like they are "drawing" the letters.

Anyone else have problems with getting really bad calluses on the bottom knuckle of their middle fingers....it use to drive me nuts.It was very ugly and rough and I would chew on it to try and smooth it down to "normal" because I thought kids would make fun of me,(like anyone but me would notice,lol)Maybe it was from gripping to hard?I do tend to do that with most "tools".

I laughed when I read about the "caveman holds"

I've always held my pen in a version of the "caveman"; I've tried to revert to something resembling the orthodox hold but it still looks like I'm clenching the pen.

I am ambidextrous, I can write with either hand, although i am neater with my right. Which is weird because it is more comftable to write with my left, I hold my pen far to tight and get cramp, But im lucky im ambidextrous cos when i get cramp in one hand I just switch to the other. I cant use cutelry right handed though, in fact I find it very hard to use a knife and fork at the same time. I also have problems tying my shoe laces.

I have hyperextensible fingers as well
I usually put my thumb on top of the pen when I write though

i have flexi fingers and flexi wrists...

i can touch the a good bit of my fingers and blade edge of my palm down to my wrists (wll depending on angle)... my wrists look scary especially since i have slender wrists.

I just took this pic of my hand, writing. As you can see my index finger is totally concave, unlike most peoples, and my thumb wraps round the pen.

Oh my god that's hideous!! !!

And my arm is so hairy!! !