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25 Apr 2007, 8:21 pm

I had to have a special thing they strapped on my hand when I first began writing to keep me from braking the pencils or ripping the paper from too much pressure. As I got older I had special writing classes to get me to hold the pencil correctly and write legibly.


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25 Apr 2007, 10:16 pm

I just found out my father held his pen wrong, and by college had a big bump on one of his fingers from it. My mom thinks he had AS traits.



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26 Apr 2007, 9:00 am

Yes, I've been doing that for a very long time...Anyways, this has made my handwriting somewhat hard for most people to read but, I try to work on this though yet, maitain my individuality of my writing form remains intact.


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26 Apr 2007, 9:38 am

i hold pencil like with fist. they tell me holding it different but it hard other ways.



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26 Apr 2007, 10:14 am

Touretter wrote:
martin_nyc wrote:
Graelwyn wrote:
It took me a long time to learn how to hold a pen in the so-called 'correct' way instead of just clutching it. I still slip back into clutching it when writing sometimes too.


Ditto. I remember there were these triangular things into which you would insert a pencil or pen to help.
I have one of those. I used to hold my pencil with two fingers on top, instead of one.


I hold my pencil/pen with two fingers on top. I hold it between my thumb and my ring finger, so it's my ring finger which has a callous. The pencil is much closer to a ninety-degree angle (it's almost at ninety degrees) than it would be normally, and my hand cramps up pretty soon if I write too much, but it's the only way I feel like I have control while I'm writing. I think my hand cramps up because I hold it very tightly, and all of my fingers are bent at a 90 degree angle, including my thumb, which you don't get with the "correct" grip.