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

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I've been told that i hold a pencil funny when i write. I have crappier than crappy handwriting too... and i'm a lefty... but w/e

do you think you hold a pencil funny when you write?

Pencils and pens. Everyone has commented on it since I was a kid. I would always look at it and wonder what they were talking about! I'm not a lefty, but I am ambidextrous.

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.

People have told me I hold my pen weird. I don't think it matters that much though because my handwriting is fine (apart from my lecture notes which are a scribbled mess)

I hold them near the tip, and grip as though they are trying to get away.

I think I mentioned it around here once, but YEAH, I held my pen/pencil wierd. I forget exactly how, but teachers commented on it, etc... I had a tutor because my classes sometimes had tasks where we had to write stories, etc... and frankly I didn't like anything I wrote. The tutor didn't do anything but offer some minor suggestions, and say that it WAS good enough. 8-( Anyway, one thing she did was try every trick in the book to get me to hold the pen/pencil "right"!

BTW I can do ok with my left, so with a little work I could be ambidextrous, but I favor my RIGHT! My mother was the same way, but favored her left.

BTW there are TWO "proper" ways to write with your left, but one with the right. The two "proper" ways with the left are one that MIRRORS the right but pushes the implement away from the hand, and one that twists the hand around to emulate the right, and pulls the implement towards the hand. When I tried to write with my left, I used the mirror approach. Moving the implement past the hands reach is, I think, harder though, so I didn't pursue it that much. Maybe if I learn arabic I'll do that, as arabic would make left handed writing easier!

Steve

Sure do. I have since I was little. I also used to hold my fork and spoon wrong, but I made my hand hold it the "right" way, which kind of rewired my brain to hold it "right." I still occasionally hold it the wrong way.

To me who really cares if you hold it the "wrong" way? You're still getting the task done right? My grandma would really irritate me because she would get mad because I wasn't holding my spoon the "right" way.

I've always written with my pencil or pen almost vertical to the paper. My fourth grade teacher gave me a plastic guide which would slip over a pencil and force it to be held with a "normal" slant, and I tried using it for a while, but it never felt natural and it made my handwriting atrocious. (My writing is entirely legible as long as I use my preferred grip.)

I have the lefty "hook," which means I basically write with my hand curved in an upside down J shape. I once talked to another guy that had it, and he told me we write that way so we see what we're writing as we go, and not smudge the ink or whatever. Sometime last year I started writing the "normal" way and my handwriting improved immensely, but my writing was heavily slanted to the left. As of now I alternate between the two.

I need to move to the middle east, where the writing system is lefty friendly.

Oh dear, I'm going to have to watch how other people hold their knives and forks, now...

I hold a pencil very strangely, for a couple of reasons - first, I'm naturally lefthanded, but was forced to write right-handed (such enlightened times!) and consequently have never been able to write well. Second, our teacher had the most ridiculous, convoluted way of explaining how to hold a pencil - something about a certain finger in the 'drivers seat' and another one somewhere else... I could never figure it out. Why nobody actually showed me, rather than trying to explain in words, I don't know.

Where the 'normal' grip is to hold the pencil between thumb and forefinger, I hold it betwen thumb and ring finger, with the index and middle fingers resting on top. I've got a funny rough patch on my ring finger from holding it like that.

yes i do. i always have. im ambidextrous. i hold it the wrong way in both. they are equally messy in manuscript. the right looks very pretty in cursive,the left is just ok. i can write backwards with the same speed in both.the right hand does have a very strange/pretty manuscript where the letters are very close together,almost connected.thats it.im done here.

When learning to write I gripped the pencil with my whole hand (left handed here), i.e., a fist with the pencil held within it (it seemed logical to me). I was "corrected" by using one of those uh...polygonal thingees that slipped over the pencil. It took me awhile to learn to write "normally".

I cannot remember anyone else in my class having a similar problem.

All these years, I've been holding the pencil in my mouth while moving the paper with my hands. I feel like a doofus.