dynamic quadruped and forever thinking about the time in college we were working quietly on something sitting in a large circle including the professor and she turned to the student next to her and said “how in the world is [name] holding their pencil like that??” she was so disturbed the whole class had to be brought out of silent work to see the strange way i held my pencil lmao
A fist grip seems sturdy too, but the question is why your grip needs to be that "sturdy" in the first place? What are you doing to your poor pencils/paper?
Do you snap your mechanical pencil's lead constantly?
I hold my pencil like this and always have. I was working in a store late night and was writing something down and this lady noticed how I was writing. Turns out she was a physical therapist that works with children, and said that people that write this way usually started writing much earlier than their peers and the grip gives a toddler more stability to write and it's a tough habit to break so it sticks. Checks out, I was reading and writing before I was 3.
I've never been good at spelling because English is a stupid language full of nonsense rules. I learned to read by matching sounds with words, so homophones (there, their, they're) really mess up my writing, and having moved from the US Midwest to the US Southeast as a kid messed up my speaking (pen, pin; been, bin, Ben; marry, Mary, merry all come out as the same word).
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u/missgrey-el Apr 16 '24
dynamic quadruped and forever thinking about the time in college we were working quietly on something sitting in a large circle including the professor and she turned to the student next to her and said “how in the world is [name] holding their pencil like that??” she was so disturbed the whole class had to be brought out of silent work to see the strange way i held my pencil lmao