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Comment by KaiserPro

4 days ago

I fucking hate hand writing. It stems from a formally diagnosed issue (no not dyslexia.)

It held me back during school, Nobody could read my writing, therefore I was thick as shit. All my exams were hand written, so they needed to have my exams transcribed by someone who could read my writing. (I could dictate my answers, but that required a different "statement", and dictation was expensive so the local authority said no. [its also a very hard skill to pic up on your own])

For normal school work I had access to an emate 300 which was great, but it was down to me to learn to type at any speed.

I got mediocre grades.

Had my mum not been middle class and frankly karen like in pursuing all of the options, I'd probably be in jail right now.

That being said, had I not learnt to hand write, it would have fucked me even more, as my fine motor skills would have been non existent.

(I also now use a wacom tablet as my main pointing device, which is ironic.)